Within the Fire Spirit Secret Realm, chaos energy was slowly settling, but the realm's essence had already stabilized, radiating the vast, weighty presence unique to a fifteenth-order low-grade plane.
Chen Fei hovered in the void at the secret realm's core. The pressure of the Early Stage Sovereign Realm flowed around him, still needing consolidation after his recent breakthrough, yet already as unfathomable as the sea.
His gaze calm, Chen Fei perceived clearly through layer upon layer of space that, outside the secret realm, the murderous Sovereign Realm auras of the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons, which had been poised to strike, actually began receding like the tide after a brief, deathly silence and a bout of tightly suppressed fury.
Then streaks of demonic light tore through the void, racing without a backward glance toward the depths of the Xuan Yu Realm, where demonic energy was thickest. In the blink of an eye, they vanished without a trace.
They left?
A flicker of genuine surprise crossed Chen Fei's eyes. He had thought that snatching food from the tiger's jaws like this would surely drive these Outer Realm Heavenly Demons into a humiliated rage, perhaps even sending their early-stage Sovereigns charging inside to fight him to the death.
Chen Fei had long prepared for that possibility. Although he had yet to master his newly acquired Sovereign power, his heaven-defying foundations gave him confidence that he could contend with any early-stage Sovereign in the secret realm's unique environment.
Yet these Heavenly Demon Sovereigns were so decisive? So cautious?
After a moment's thought, however, Chen Fei understood the crux of it. The Outer Realm Heavenly Demons were not alone here. Sovereign Realm experts from the cultivator and primordial demon side surrounded them as well.
If these early-stage Heavenly Demon Sovereigns truly dared to force their