Below their feet, vast mountains stretched endlessly, lush and verdant, like an infinite herd of elephants charging ceaselessly backward.
Yet atop the Upper Extreme Heavenly Eagle's back, Fang Yuan and the other Gu Immortals had no mood whatsoever to admire the magnificent landscape.
Their situation was extremely dire.
The entire Southern Border Righteous Path was trying to encircle and exterminate them. Perhaps other Rogue Cultivators and demonic path Gu Immortals were also lying in wait, watching to see whether there was anything to gain.
The Southern Border Righteous Path was already an opponent they could not contend against. Any Rank 8 Gu Immortal or Immortal Gu House could bring Fang Yuan and the others immense trouble and deadly peril.
However, beyond that, what worried the immortals even more was—Heavenly Court.
After Heavenly Court had swept away the Super Gu Formation, it had not remained behind.
Although Fang Yuan and the others did not know that Dragon Duke had needed to suppress You Hun's Main Body, Heavenly Court's withdrawal had not diminished its influence. Its desire to exterminate Fang Yuan and the others had never faded; instead, it was only growing ever fiercer.
Fang Yuan's judgment struck deep into everyone's hearts and won the unanimous agreement of Hei Lou Lan, Bai Ning Bing, and the others.
Putting themselves in Heavenly Court's place, they would never have let Fang Yuan's group go either. Aside from leaking intelligence to the Southern Border Righteous Path Gu Immortals and using them, Heavenly Court would certainly leave behind some hidden move to ensure nothing went wrong.
They simply did not know what that hidden move would be.
The unknown bred even greater pressure in their hearts.
Heavenly Court's hidden move was like a blade hanging above everyone's heads, and no one knew when it would suddenly