Chapter 1462: Shang Xia’s Conclusion

In the main cabin on the large-scale Star Ship, Shang Xia entered seclusion after they started to travel through the sea of stars again. He quickly received reports from the chief of the Destiny Merchant Group about matters related to the Essence Xing World.

Speaking of which, Shang Xia hadn’t destroyed the Star Observatory that might have existed in the Chen Dynasty. He wanted to get rid of their Star Observatory to destroy any chances of them threatening the safety of the Heaven Observation Field.

It was a pity the situation changed abruptly. He was dragged into their conflict, and he managed to cause the Essence Xing World to suffer huge losses. However, he had to charge into the chaotic streams after being pursued by Sage Yu Tang, and he couldn’t deal with the Stargazer and Star Observatory.

Even though he knew that the Star Pirates that were disguised as merchants out there were probably in a state of panic, he didn’t give half a shit. He wasn’t worried they would pose a threat to him either.

He didn’t even bother laying down restrictions in the main cabin to deal with any accidents that might arise.

After a series of intense conflicts outside, the Star Ship regained its original calm. The merchant group started to travel to the Essence Hong World as per their original plan. Not a single person or ship left the fleet.

After several days, the Destiny Merchant Group ran into other ships or people escaping the Essence Xing World, but they didn’t reveal their fangs and took up their old job of robbing them. Instead, they simply asked about matters related to the Essence Xing World.

It was said that after the battle, the 3 dynasties’ cooperation ended and the Yu Dynasty did whatever the Chen Dynasty did in the past to suppress the factions in their territory. The experts of those factions made up the majority of those who had fled the Essence Xing World.

According to their original plan, after the Qi Dynasty Emperor entered the Martial Emptiness Realm, he would do the same.

However, that would have to wait. More than half the energy they saved during the passing of Qi Jing was lost, and the Qi Dynasty Emperor was also wounded after the battle with the Chen Dynasty Emperor. The Qi Dynasty Emperor entered seclusion right after the battle and no one knew his condition. At the same time, there were no signs of him attempting a breakthrough.

The Qi Dynasty started to withdraw their trips and from their original 9 continents of influence, they only retained 4.

The continents they gave up on showed signs of shrinking and it was said that someone stole a large amount of world origin that caused them to do so.

All the continents that the Qi Dynasty had given up on had surpassed the size of 17,000 miles and they were close to reaching a state of perfection in terms of an Essence World. However, all of them shrank and their size fell below 15,000 miles, allowing the newly established Wanyun Continent to quickly climb the ranks.

Other than the continents the Qi Dynasty had given up, the Chen Dynasty and Yu Dynasty also had close to 3 continents each that shrank. The only thing they could be thankful for was that those continents didn’t suffer as much as the 5 continents the Qi Dynasty gave up.

Information continued to pour in as Shang Xia heard that it wasn’t just a single person who had stolen world origin from the Essence Xing World. It was rumored that there was a group of experts working together, or even multiple groups.

𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

From their investigation, they determined that the theft started at the Dynasties Edge. However, the thief stole world origin from all 3 dynasties, not alarming any of them.

Next came the World Origin Source connected to the Tong Continent and the Qi Dynasty Dao Field. The actions of the culprit, or culprits, caused the failure of the dynasties’ operation.

The reason they believed that there were multiple people involved was because they didn’t believe that anyone had the ability to steal so much world origin alone.

Of course, they didn’t rule out the fact that the entire operation to steal world origin had been premeditated.

As the situation in the Essence Xing World eventually calmed down, many experts understood that the Essence Xing World suffered a huge blow. It wasn’t even a stretch to say that they regressed by more than 200 years because of the conflict. Be it the Chen Dynasty Emperor or Qi Dynasty Emperor, it would be difficult for them to break through to become Sages in the future.

After the battle, the Yu Dynasty attempted to suppress the factions in their territory like what the Chen Dynasty had done, but from a general standpoint, the other factions managed to buy some time to catch their breaths.

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In the main Star Ship of the Destiny Merchant Group, Shang Xia listened to the reports from their leader, Zhu Nang. He detected something strange and he sneered. “From what you’re saying... I have a feeling the Essence Xing World is about to birth another Sage...”

“Huh?” Zhu Nang stared at the reports he received on the Essence Xing World and looked at Shang Xia whose emotions he couldn’t see through and asked cautiously, “Lord, from what those people who escaped said, it would be difficult for the Essence Xing World to produce another Sage. However, you think that another will be produced soon... In that case, which emperor do you think it would be?”

Shang Xia stared at Zhu Nang with a smile that wasn’t really a smile and Zhu Nang quickly lowered his gaze with an obedient smile on his face.

Shang Xia didn’t plan on explaining himself.

Everyone might not know who the person or group who stole world origin from the Essence Xing World was, but how could Shang Xia not know?

From the amount of world origin he stole, he could even be sure how much the continents would shrink.

When he stole world origin in the Dynasties Edge, he took enough to fill the World Origin Source connected to a single continent.

The Chen Dynasty and the Yu Dynasty would definitely discover what he did now that the conflict had ended and they would definitely try to minimize the impact of his actions. From that point alone, it wasn’t surprising if 2 to 3 continents shrank a little.

Reports about them were normal, but the same couldn’t be said for the Qi Dynasty.

Other than the world origin he absorbed from the Dynasties Edge, he also took a third of the world origin from the Tong Continent. The rest had been directed at the Qi Dynasty Capital.

In other words, the losses the Qi Dynasty suffered were only slightly more than the other dynasties, but they chose to give up 5 continents that shrank significantly. It far surpassed the losses they suffered!

Where did all the world origin go then?

There can’t be someone else other than me stealing world origin, right?

Shang Xia came to the conclusion that there was only 1 other possibility and that was the fact that the Qi Dynasty Emperor was absorbing the rest of the world origin for himself!

For him to do that would mean that he would soon break through to become a Martial Emptiness Realm Sage!

After going through all the reports provided by Zhu Nang, Shang Xia was sure the Qi Dynasty Emperor was about to advance. Once that happened, the Essence Xing World would once again possess the combat strength of 3 Sages!