(The Immortal Emperor count bug in the previous chapters has been corrected.)
High Heaven, above the Hegemon Body Lineage.
Kunpeng Ancestor brought the remaining twenty percent of High Heaven's people, along with all the other Quasi-Immortal Emperors, here.
Without an Immortal Emperor-level powerhouse helping them, Quasi-Immortal Emperors could never escape an Immortal Emperor's grasp. Even if they escaped temporarily, the Immortal Emperor could deduce their location and pursue them once more.
Seeking refuge with Zhou Tong was the only thing they could do now.
They hoped Zhou Tong could lead the remaining people away, severing karma and concealing their auras.
Meanwhile, the three Immortal Emperors pursuing Kunpeng Ancestor advanced at an unhurried pace, without the slightest sense of tension or urgency. After all, they were merely hunting a group of Quasi-Immortal Emperors.
Precisely because their prey was so ordinary, they regarded it as a cat playing with mice.
More than that, hunting Quasi-Immortal Emperors allowed them to probe High Heaven's remaining contingencies. They wanted to see where these Quasi-Immortal Emperors would flee and whom they would seek help from.
They had not forgotten that the most crucial reason they had suddenly launched this grand sacrifice was that one of their number had been killed. Immortal Emperor Yu had been slain, in a manner that even the Weird Plateau could not revive. Their ancestor had been awakened because of it, so beyond the grand sacrifice, the most important matter was to uncover the cause of Yu's death.
Following these Immortal Emperors might bring some unexpected gains.
That was also why they had not rushed to act.
At this moment, the three of them followed Kunpeng Ancestor and the others to the skies above the Hegemon Body Lineage, a region they had never understood before.
In their understanding, this area had already