Chapter 543: Disappearance of Archbishop Soft Breeze and the Holy Artifact!


    Around the same time that Xuan Hao set off from the Flying Sword Sect towards the Frozen Wastnd, space distorted visibly above the now destroyed mountain range where Archbishop Soft Breeze and the people from the church of the gue god had fought with each other .


    Stepping out from the space that had suddenly twisted and distorted above the mountain range, the Cardinal from the Order of the Sky God frowned as his vast divine sense instantly engulfed what was left of the mountain range that had been turned into rubble during the fight that took ce a few days earlier.


    "Looks like I''m tootea?|" Shaking his head as he found no traces of the holy artifact or Archbishop Soft Breeze inside the destroyed mountain range, the Cardinal from the Order of the Sky God did not stay around for long, as space soon began distorting around his body once again before he disappeared from the destroyed mountain range.


    Given that the Cardinal from the church of the gue god had already arrived before him and taken away the holy artifact that most likely contained the soul of Archbishop Soft Breeze, the Cardinal from the Order of the Sky God understood that there was not much he could do about it.


    As for the Azure Sky Kingdom that was about to fall under the church of the gue god, he did not really care too much, as it was not for him to deal with. The people under him were much more suited to deal with a small kingdom like the Azure Sky Kingdom. Wasting his time to do it himself was not really something he wanted to do.


    Even if his Order of the Sky God could not do it, the Followers of the Fire God, or the Cult of the Scarlet Moon, would most likely send someone over to do ita?|


    Swish~


    Arriving shortly after the Cardinal from the Order of the Sky God had left, an old man dressed like what could only be described as some sort of necromancer appeared in the sky above the destroyed mountain range.


    "Hm?! That brat actually arrived before me!? Looks like his spatial maniption has taken another step forwarda?| The Cardinal from the Order of the Sky God should not be too far off from his next tribtion!"


    Scanning through the mountain range simr to how the Cardinal from the Order of the Sky God had done it, the person could not help cursing to himself as he discovered the remnant aura left behind by the Cardinal from the Order of the Sky God.


    This person was none other than the Cardinal from the church of the gue god that the Cardinal from the Order of the Sky God had believed to have already arrived before him!


    "Haha?| Even with all those preparations in cea?|" Whispering this to himself as he understood just how much his church had lost, the necromancer like Cardinal could not help letting a regretful sigh escape from his lips.


    Everything would have been fine if they had sessfully managed to kill off Archbishop Soft Breeze and gotten their hands on the Transcendent Grade Artifact, he was carrying on hima?| But now, they had only managed to deal with a single Archbishop and had not gotten his hands on the Transcendent Grade Artifact!


    Not to mention, the Archbishop had not truly died, and his soul should still be alive ording to what his subordinates had told hima?|''


    "If I''m fast enough, I might still have time to stabilize the situation in the Sky Empire before the Followers of the Fire God and the Cult of the Scarlet Moon movesa?|" Muttering this to himself as he thought about his church current position at the border to the core region of the Sky Empire without his presence, the Cardinal from the church of the gue god did not bother wasting any more time in the Azure Sky Kingdom, as he directly used his spatial maniption to leave in a simr way the Cardinal from the Order of the Sky God had done.


    Like this, both the Cardinal from the Order of the Sky God and the church of the gue god left the Azure Sky Kingdom after not finding any signs of Archbishop Soft Breeze or the Transcendent Grade Holy Artifact that his soul had sought refuge inside of.


    In the end, none of them cared too much about a small kingdom like the Azure Sky Kingdom and didn''t waste too much time there.


    In their eyes, even if the Azure Sky Kingdom fell to the church of the gue god, it would not influence the situation in the core region of the Sky Empire!


    a?|


    "So, this is the Azure Sky Kingdom?" Not taking more than a few hours to pass through the territory that had belonged to the Raging me Sect in the past, Xuan Hao arrived at the old border that had existed between the Heavenly Sky Kingdom and the Azure Sky Kingdom before thetter copsed.


    The border was not much different from what Xuan Hao had expected, as soldiers belonging to the Azure Sky Kingdom could still be seen cleaning up the border area that had been gued by decades of war before the Azure Sky Kingdom had finally managed to push through this barrier and invade the Heavenly Sky Kingdom.


    Even after the battle hade to an end, there was still countless different traps and killing formations hidden across the now abandoned battlefield that needed to be cleaned up before it would be safe for ordinary mortals and weaker cultivators to pass through without fear of getting caught up in a random killing formation set up by one of the two sides in the past.


    "Hm?" Noticing something odd about the soldiers that were walking around the border busy cleaning the area up, Xuan Hao directly used his domain to iste one of the soldiers before knocking him out.


    Searching through the body of the unconscious soldier with his divine sense, Xuan Hao quickly discovered the reason why he had felt something odd when observing the soldiers cleaning up the abandoned border.


    "Divine energy from the church of the gue goda?|" Indeed, inside the dantian of the soldier who had just barely reached the Foundation Establishment Realm, Xuan Hao could clearly feel the same divine energy he had seen back when the gue invented by the church of the gue god first appeared inside the Heavenly Sky Kingdom!


    The difference between the divine energy he had seen back then and the divine energy currently inside the dantian of the soldier, was the fact that the green divine energy seemed to be aiding the solder''s cultivation. Helping him improve faster!


    Letting go of the soldier after having finished investigating the oddity he had felt, Xuan Hao soon came upon a small camp from the Azure Sky Kingdom where the soldiers cleaning up the abandoned border resided.


    Outside the soldiers from the Azure Sky Kingdom, Xuan Hao also very clearly saw a priest belonging to the church of the gue god present inside the camp. Investigating for a few minutes longer, he quickly realized that the priest was the one who injected the green divine energy into the soldiers to help their cultivation improve!


    "I did hear that the church of the gue god made a move to take control over the Azure Sky Kingdom, buta?| I didn''t expect it to be like this. Did they perhaps already sessfully take control of it?" Muttering this to himself as he thought about this, Xuan Hao could not help feeling a bit worried about the church of the gue god deciding to expand in the direction of his Flying Sword Sect. Hoping sincerely that one of the three big religious organisations of the Sky Empire would show up to stop this from happening.


    Whoosh~


    Not staying around the border area for too long after having investigated this, Xuan Hao resumed his journey towards the Frozen Wastnd. Even if he was worried about the church of the gue god might be up to after taking control of the Azure Sky Kingdom, he did not really have the time to look into it, as he still had to save Zhu Lian within three days'' time.


    a?|


    Finding himself at the border between the Azure Sky Kingdom and the Frozen Wastnd after flying through the Azure Sky Kingdom for half a day without stop, Xuan Hao could not help stopping to take in the scenery of the Frozen Wastnd.


    Completely different from any ce he had seen before, a magnificent frozen tundra spread out before him.


    If not for the fact that he only had a little over two days'' time left to find Zhu Lian inside the Frozen Wastnd, Xuan Hao felt like it would not be a bad idea to spend some time taking in the magnificent and beautiful scenery of the Frozen Wastnd.


    Especially given the fact that he had a feeling that his Ice Domain would improve way faster cultivating in an environment like the Frozen Wastnd!