Chapter 1606: Chapter 1606: In A Dilemma

It didn't take long for Zen to gain quite a distance between him and the peddlers. After Letitia caught up to him, she covered her mouth and giggled at his side.

The passersby on both sides of the street all cast strange gazes in their direction, not knowing what exactly the couple was doing.

Only Geoffrey was extremely calm, still utterly focused on eating the snacks in his hands.

From this experience though, Zen had definitely learned his lesson. The next time he'd take his son out to have a little fun, he'd at least come prepared with a few silver coins beforehand.

Over the next few days, the three of them toured through several cities. Along the way, they'd even met a few warriors with low cultivation levels who cast greedy eyes on the beautiful Letitia, seemingly having evil thoughts about her. Geoffrey stood in front of his mother just in time, and the warriors were all scared away by Zen's aura.

Throughout the trip though, Zen had truly enjoyed a rare moment of joy.

It was a pity that the universe's current situation was still very dangerous. Otherwise, he'd have been more than willing to take a decade or two of time to accompany Geoffrey.

During the past few days, roars from the Roaring Tokens could often be heard booming throughout the universe.

Since the Sacred race had invaded the Evolutionary Universe, they used the Roaring Tokens to announce their feats every time they occupied a supreme world or killed a world lord. In this way, they suppressed the morale of the people living in this universe.

The said voices often rang in the people's ears, which was truly annoying, to say the least.

However, the content spoken through the Roaring Token today was actually aimed directly at Zen!

Upon hearing these words, Zen could do nothing but frown immediately.

At that time, the clouds condensed with the rolling blood mist above the Ultimate Immortal City had completely disappeared, and the sky had once again returned to its deep blue color.

The originally strong smell of blood had already faded quite a bit, and now, the stench seemed to give off a sweet and refreshing scent instead.

After the Blood Curse Array had been destroyed by Zen, tens of millions of mortals were driven out of the Ultimate Immortal City. To the Sacred race, killing these mortals wouldn't bring them any honor. Without the Blood Curse Array playing its role, their reckless slaughter of mortals would only cause them to be tainted with malicious auras.

They knew it would be better to leave these mortals run their own course.

The said mortals understood that they had just narrowly escaped death and were beginning to migrate to their individual hometowns. As long as they weren't tortured by the Sacred martial artists, they were quite resilient and were determined to overcome many difficulties in order to return home.

When they passed a hillside that was a hundred miles away from the Ultimate Immortal City, they discovered a huge crater that they had never seen before!

It was so huge that if one stood at the edge of the crater, it was almost impossible to see the bottom.

Once Zen had snuck into the fairy palace, he used the Teleportation Token to remove the fairy palace's node and disappeared right before Maha's eyes, causing him to feel enraged. ŔâꞐ𝘰ᛒÈṦ

Maha simply couldn't wrap his mind around the idea that Zen had such a miraculous ability. He didn't believe that Zen could stealthily disappear directly in front of two Sacred Supreme Lords!

This wasn't an ability that a world lord should possess! Even a Supreme Lord wouldn't have had the capacities to do that!

That was why, after Zen's disappearance, Maha firmly believed that Zen had used some form of concealment technique in order to hide himself underground.

“We'll find him, even we have to dig three feet under!” at the time, Maha shouted his order with confidence.

The Sacred race had, however, dug much more than just three feet into the ground. It was even possible to say that they had dug more than three thousand feet. The final result was obvious – Zen had miraculously disappeared, just like that!

After Zen had returned to the Evolutionary Universe, he had broken apart the Sacred race's Blood Curse Array. At the same time, he had humiliated Maha throughout the entire universe, which had destroyed the Sacred race's confidence,. After all that, he had escaped safely.

To Maha though, this was an unacceptable defeat!

Following such occurrence, Maha urgently gathered all of the Sacred Supreme Lords in the Evolutionary Universe and convened an emergency meeting.

For their invasion of Evolutionary Universe, the Sacred race didn't send out all of their forces. They only sent forty four Supreme Lords, Maha and a multitude of Godly Geniuses from the Sacred race, as well as tens of thousands of world lords.

From the overall situation, it was safe to assume that the Sacred race wasn't worried whatsoever.

When it came to overall strength, they knew they had the upper hand. With their absolute advantage, occupying the entire Evolutionary Universe would be a breeze to achieve.

In just three years, they had already taken up more than three thousand supreme worlds. Their current speed was already quite fast.

According to the Sacred race's plan, even if they'd spent three hundred years occupying these three thousand supreme worlds, this still wouldn't be considered slow.

Maha was the top Godly Genius, the leader of the Sacred race's expedition force. His strength might not be comparable to that of certain Supreme Lords, but he had the authority to command Supreme Lords. That was why Supreme Lord Noel and Supreme Lord Barrie were like his subordinates before Maha.

However, not all Supreme Lords were bossed around by him. “Maha!” someone shouted his name powerfully. “You actually let that human Godly Genius escape right in front of you! That's a grave dereliction of duty! And you know it!” The one speaking was Supreme Lord Denzel. He had the most seniority of all the Supreme Lords throughout the entire Sacred race, and he was a top-rank Supreme Lord.

When he heard that Maha had let the human Godly Genius escape, he simply questioned him right in the face, without showing any mercy.

Maha indifferently looked at Supreme Lord Denzel. He didn't refute his words, though.

“The master of the Murphy Universe has urged his disciples to repeatedly emphasize that no one else in the Evolutionary Universe is important, except for the Godly Geniuses, and everyone should spare no effort to go all out and kill them! This is your negligence to let that Godly Genius go, and you should trust that I will send a message back to the Murphy Universe!” Supreme Lord Denzel said.

The master he spoke of was the creator of the Murphy Universe, Holy Murphy.

In fact, from a racial-interest perspective, the Sacred race didn't have a strong motive for invading the Evolutionary Universe at all.

The Murphy Universe was already so large, it was enough to hold the entire Sacred race. More so, there were still many supreme worlds within the Murphy Universe that the Sacred race had never occupied or even explored before.

Taking over the Evolutionary Universe wouldn't do the Sacred race any good.

The Sacred race was ultimately created by Murphy though, and Murphy was the father of their race. He wanted the Sacred race to break the Sighing Wall and take over the Evolutionary Universe. There was simply no reason for the Sacred race to refuse!

Before the Sighing Wall was opened, Murphy had sent a message through his disciples, saying that his primary goal was to occupy the entire Evolutionary Universe while his another goal was to kill all the Godly Geniuses.

If he could occupy the Evolutionary Universe, he knew he could kill Mike.

By killing the Godly Geniuses, he'd be capable of severing any remaining hope that Mike might be able to make his own comeback.

This was a common game between Holy Beings. As for the Sacred race, they didn't really comprehend what was going on. They didn't need to, either.

Maha just shrugged his shoulders and rose from his seat in a single motion. He sauntered to the front of Supreme Lord Denzel, and the sneer on his face became even more intense. “That day, you weren't too far away from the Seven Ultimate World! Seeing as you've called me negligent for letting Zen get away, then tell me, why didn't you personally make a move to catch him?!”

As Maha spoke, he let his tone blame everything on Supreme Lord Denzel.

How could Supreme Lord Denzel not recognize the meaning behind his words? Just as he was about to refute Maha, both Supreme Lord Noel and Supreme Lord Barrie spoke up at the same time instead, “That kid's treasure is definitely extraordinary. Even if we tried our very best, we still wouldn't be able to break that fairy palace! The fairy palace must be a treasure from the divine land!”

“Supreme Lord Denzel, it's easy for you to say that. But even if you had been there that day, I'm afraid you still wouldn't have been able to do anything!”

With both Supreme Lords supporting him, Maha once again shrugged his shoulders. “Of course he knew that he couldn't do anything. That's why he didn't step out that day.” Maha laughed obnoxiously. “But now, you actually want to report this to the master of the Murphy Universe. Supreme Lord Denzel, your Heavenly Destiny is very strong, but your trickery seems to be even more powerful.”

Maha, Supreme Lord Noel and Supreme Lord Barrie had obviously colluded with each other beforehand. As the three of them echoed with one another, together they muddied the waters and shirked a portion of the responsibilities onto Supreme Lord Denzel's shoulders.

Supreme Lord Denzel, on the other hand, had his own thoughts on the situation, of course.

He was one of the top 10 Supreme Lords of the Sacred race. After the Sighing Wall had been broken through, he felt as though he should have been named leader of this expedition team and come forth to attack. Never had he ever imagined that the leader position would be given to a child less than 100 years old!

It was only natural for him to perceive this as unfair.

Sacred race was not as united as it seemed. There were different branches inside the Sacred race. Supreme Lord Denzel had long since disliked Maha. It was just that the entire Sacred race was controlled by Maha's family - and Maha's father was also the number one Supreme Lord within the Murphy Universe.

Though extremely angry, Supreme Lord Denzel could only swallow his fury.

He'd finally found an opportunity and decided to report the matter directly to the master of the Murphy Universe. The master attached great importance to these ten Godly Geniuses of the Evolutionary Universe, it therefore wasn't a small sin for Maha to have let that Godly Genius Zen go.

But, just as he was about to go ahead and make things difficult for Maha, he was bitten by the boy. Supreme Lord Denzel was taken aback and felt quite depressed!

Maha indifferently stared at Supreme Lord Denzel, as if he didn't take him seriously at all. He turned around and his figure flashed as he sat down, looking around at all the Supreme Lords present. He rested his chin on his hand and said, “Everyone, we've gathered here today in order to find a solution, not to argue. In such a situation, what sort of brilliant plan might you have for dealing with this?”

It was true that the Sacred race had occupied over three thousand supreme worlds of the Humanity Alliance, but in reality, they had also been dragged into a quagmire.

If the Sacred race wanted to continue expanding toward the supreme worlds of the Thoughtless Minds, they would have to stabilize the supreme worlds that had already been seized, which was why they used the Blood Curse Array. This Blood Curse Array though, was very troublesome to employ and was also very expensive. It greatly slowed the speed of the Sacred race's expansion.

Currently, the three great human forces, the Celestial Position, the ogre race, as well as the small races had all declared war on the Sacred race. If the Sacred race didn't take any more steps forward, it would greatly affect their morale!

Thus, the Sacred race found themselves in a dilemma, to say the least.