"Hm?"
Just as everyone was discussing how to strike back at the Heavenly Demons, Gu Ding suddenly looked up in a certain direction. He then instructed the group, "I have something to take care of. Don't leave this Chaos World."
As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Ding vanished.
Everyone found it rather baffling. Only Elizabeth, who had already reached the Lord of Chaos realm, looked toward the direction Gu Ding had been staring at. Several Lords of Chaos stood in the void there.
Although the other members of the Gu Ding Pirate Crew could not sense those people's presence, they all realized that something had happened.
Gu Ding strolled through the void and looked at the newcomers. "Are you here for me?"
"You're the one who killed Pan, aren't you?" The white-bearded old man in the lead carefully studied Gu Ding. He discovered that Gu Ding was, like himself, a Fifth Order Lord of Chaos. "If I'm not mistaken, you should be a newly advanced Fifth Order Lord of Chaos from the Material Realm, right?"
"Your guess is correct. I did kill that fellow named Pan seven years ago, and I did advance to Fifth Order Lord of Chaos not long ago." Gu Ding admitted it frankly, but he still voiced his confusion. "How did you find me?"
"It was simple. In the years after Pan's death, we discovered that some of the Chaos Worlds under his control had begun shifting away from their original locations. However, a portion of them remained unmoved, so we guessed those were the parts you had not yet refined at the time. Thus, we selected some unrefined chaos, found several inconspicuous planets, and marked them. That way, whenever their locations shifted, we could sense it. Over the past two years, the planets we