# 1120
Chapter 1120
Chapter 1121: The Missing "Ark"
Upon hearing this answer, Lin Qiye and the others felt their hearts sink simultaneously.
The [Ark] was their ultimate objective for this journey, and it was also something of vital importance to Great Xia. If they couldn't bring the [Ark] back, not only would their trip be in vain, but it would also be difficult to explain to the Heavenly Lord.
"Missing? How could it be missing?" Lin Qiye asked in confusion. "Could you have remembered the wrong location?"
Michael shook his head. "Impossible. The [Ark] was far too important. It had always been kept by the Holy Sovereign's side, and even after the Holy Sovereign became the Moon, it was never moved. It was here."
He raised his head, surveying the shattered palace around him. Those furnace-like eyes narrowed slightly:
"This palace shouldn't be like this... Someone has been here."
"Wasn't this palace destroyed during your Heavenly Paradise and Hell war?"
"No. Although the divine battle back then was fierce, the flames of war never spread to the Holy Sovereign's dwelling. Before I went to the Moon to watch over the mortal world, it was still intact."
Beside him, An Qingyu frowned and crouched in a corner of the palace, picking up a few broken bricks. A gray light flickered in his eyes.
After a moment, he slowly stood up and nodded. "That's right. These fracture marks are very fresh. They should have been made within the past week."
One week...
Lin Qiye's gaze swept across the shattered palace. After a moment of contemplation, he reached out and gently pressed against the empty air.
A magnificent magic array unfolded before him.
The moment this magic array appeared, a hint of surprise flashed in Michael's eyes. He gazed at the magic array, his gaze seemingly tracing the spatial fluctuations of the summoning magic, searching for something.
The next instant, a shadow of black emerged from the magic array. On its brow, a crimson eye slowly opened.
"Nurse Unit 007, Black Pupil, at your service." Black Pupil bowed slightly and spoke politely.
"Use your ability to peer into the past. Who has been here this past week?" Lin Qiye said calmly.
Black Pupil's [Eye of Secrets] could probe the past and future of inanimate objects within a week, making it perfect for finding people or objects.
"Yes."
The crimson eye on Black Pupil's brow gazed upon the shattered palace before him. The black pupils flickered with mysterious light. In his vision, time in this palace began to rapidly rewind.
One day, two days, three days... six days, seven days.
During the first few days of rewinding, the palace remained a ruin with no change. But when Black Pupil's [Eye of Secrets] began to peer into the seventh day, something strange happened!
Within the reversed shadows of the palace ruins, Black Pupil vaguely glimpsed a figure standing atop the rubble. The figure seemed to sense something and turned his head, his gaze piercing through endless time and space to meet Black Pupil's eyes.
BANG—!!
Black Pupil's body was as if struck by an invisible sledgehammer, blasted backward dozens of meters, and crashed heavily onto the earth outside the palace ruins.
"Black Pupil?!"
The sudden change startled Lin Qiye. He rushed forward to help Black Pupil up. From that crimson eye, streams of black blood were flowing out.
"Hmm?" Michael seemed to sense something and sharply turned to gaze at the emptiness beside the high platform. Those furnace-like eyes narrowed slightly. "That aura..."
"Black Pupil, are you alright?" Lin Qiye gazed at Black Pupil's agonized, distorted shadow, his brow furrowed.
"I'm fine... just some backlash." Black Pupil closed that crimson eye, his voice deathly weak. "He saw me."
"Who?"
"The person standing here seven days ago... No, that wasn't a person. That was a deity." Black Pupil spoke with certainty. "I didn't see his appearance clearly, but judging from his aura, it's not power that an ordinary god could possess... That was a Supreme God! And on him was a revolting, evil aura."
Supreme God?
Lin Qiye's expression darkened at these words.
He turned to look at Michael, who was standing at the edge of the high platform, gazing at the emptiness before him in contemplation.
"He's right." Michael slowly spoke. "That aura just now could only come from a Supreme..."
"But how could another Supreme God enter Heaven?" Lin Qiye's confusion deepened. "Black Pupil said he carried an evil aura. Could someone like that even pass through the Pure Land of the Heart and enter Heaven?"
Michael contemplated for a moment, then shook his head and said:
"An evil god cannot enter Heaven. He must have entered through another route..."
Michael's gaze fell upon the horizon's end, upon the massive sword-shaped rift seeping deep crimson magma.
"He entered Heaven from Hell?" An Qingyu seemed to realize something.
"The boundary between Heaven and Hell was shattered during the divine wars of countless ages ago. As long as he first found the entrance to Hell, he could pass through Hell and reach Heaven. That is the only possibility."
"What do we do now?" Jiang Er floated in the air and asked.
Michael's eyes narrowed. All six wings behind him unfurled, nearly obscuring the dim sky entirely. His form lifted from the earth. Those golden eyes erupted with sun-like, dazzling, and scorching divine might!
A magnificent golden domain, like a storm, rapidly expanded outward from His center, instantly racing toward the heavens!
The terrifying divine might surged forth like a tide from that six-winged figure in the sky. The three of them were shaken to their cores. They could only forcibly brace themselves. Although Michael's target wasn't them, merely the scattered aftershocks had already pushed them to their limits.
"What is He doing?" An Qingyu, while resisting the Seraph's divine might, clenched his teeth and asked.
"It's the [Mortal Divine Realm]." Beneath this golden domain, even Lin Qiye, as the proxy, couldn't control the golden light that ignited in his eyes. "He's searching for that Supreme God..."
A moment later, Michael suspended in the air seemed to sense something. He slightly lowered his head, his gaze seemingly piercing through the void and falling upon the deepest depths of Hell.
"So he dares to hide here still..."
In those eyes full of blazing heat and majesty, a cold murderous intent flickered.
Those six sky-obscuring, spotless wings gently trembled in the air. His form flashed across the void and vanished from between Heaven and Earth.
The terrifying pressure vanished as Michael disappeared. Patches of residual golden light scattered in the air. Lin Qiye exhaled in relief.
An Qingyu wiped the sweat from his brow, glancing at the sky with lingering fear. "Where did He go?"
"He should be pursuing the Supreme God who stole the [Ark]." Lin Qiye pondered. "But which Supreme God would climb from Hell to Heaven to steal the [Ark]?"
Before Lin Qiye could finish speaking, the ground of Heaven beneath their feet suddenly began to violently shake!