Time flew like a white horse glimpsed through a crack, and two hundred thousand years passed.
Azure Moon Sea Region, Azure Moon Market.
In a secluded manor, Wang Chuanming, Fairy Qingmei, and a burly golden-robed man were sitting in a cyan stone pavilion, discussing something.
"A traitor? How did he suddenly betray us?"
Wang Chuanming was puzzled.
A Primordial Unity Golden Immortal in the Nether Palace had betrayed them. The higher-ups of the Nether Palace had noticed and issued a kill order.
"It wasn't sudden. He had been in contact with a Pseudo-Immortal before. At the time, he didn't know the Pseudo-Immortal's identity and helped him with quite a few things. He used his position to provide the Pseudo-Immortal with intelligence. After doing so many deals, he could no longer extricate himself. If Fairy Xu hadn't discovered him, we would definitely have suffered for it too."
The golden-robed man spoke.
Shen Shan was at the Late Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Stage. He had stayed in the Barren Immortal Domain for several million years and was also the person in charge of the Nether Palace's branch in the Barren Immortal Domain.
Chaos Beasts had highly ingenious methods for subverting Immortals. They usually had Pseudo-Immortals make contact first, asking Immortals to do some tasks within their abilities and offering a reward each time. After enough such exchanges, they would reveal their identities. By then, it was impossible for the Immortals to turn back. After all, they had indeed done many things for the Pseudo-Immortals. If ignorance could exempt them from punishment, there would be even more people claiming ignorance in the future.
If the head of a clan or the leader of a sect defected to the Chaos Beasts, the entire clan or sect would usually suffer. If it was merely a