"Give chase and bring Nalan Ye back to me no matter what!"
Gu Yuan's angry roar echoed through the dark underground river.
With all of those people, they had still managed to lose him. Not only had they failed to obtain the Emperor Grade Young Pill, but once Nalan Ye truly became an Emperor, the Ancient Clan would face enormous trouble!
"Yes, Patriarch!"
Several Gu Clan elders replied in low voices, though each of them wore a bitter expression. They had chased all the way here, running for who knew how many thousands of li. Who could know where Nalan Ye had actually swapped with a clone and slipped away?
With so much time having passed, the other party had probably fled this region long ago and hid God knows where. How were they supposed to find him?
Yet there was no choice; they had to search. If he could not be found, the future troubles would be endless!
Deep beneath the Central Plains.
It was thousands of zhang below the surface, with the surroundings entirely a dull red. That was the glow emitted by the rolling, flowing magma deep within the earth, accompanied by an incomparably scorching high temperature.
Nearby, inside a rock cave that had been cleared of the magma within, I lay on the ground like a dead dog, exhausted and heavily wounded with my physical body cracking inch by inch.
"Heh, hiding down here, Gu Yuan surely can't come over anymore..."
I smiled self-deprecatingly. Indeed, when it came to running away, all the Dou Sheng of the Dou Qi Continent combined could not match me.
Stealing into the underground river earlier was merely taking advantage of the harsh environment to secretly swap with a clone. As for my true body? It had silently slipped