"Mm."
"Dozens in a single star domain."
"When we were in the Chaos Sea, the entire Eternal Dao Realm had only a little over a hundred."
Cangxuan opened his eyes and glanced at him.
"What are you getting at?"
"I'm saying we can't keep hiding like this," Hongchu said. "There were dozens today. Will they send someone from the Unity Realm next time?"
Cangxuan said nothing. He had considered that too.
The two of them had lost more than half their strength. Here, anyone could come along and trample them.
Hongchu looked at Cangxuan and said,
"Why don't we look for the other fellow Daoists?"
"Pangu, Taiyi, Taichu, and those hundred or so people from the Eternal Dao Realm. Even finding one would help."
"If we band together, anyone who wants to trample us will have to think twice."
Cangxuan was silent for a long time.
"The Primordial Universe is enormous. Where would you even look?"
Hongchu grinned.
"Isn't that simple? We're being hunted, so the others must be getting hunted too."
"We go wherever the most people are hunting someone."
"That's walking to our deaths." Cangxuan frowned.
"Right. To our deaths." Hongchu looked unconcerned.
"But if we're going to do that, we might as well pick the right place. Wherever the others are being hunted, Great Luo True Realm cultivators will be swarming in."
"Follow that lot, and we're bound to find them."
Cangxuan opened his mouth to argue, only to realize there was some sense in it.
He sighed and closed his eyes.
"Wait until I've stabilized my injuries."
"And then we leave?"
"Once they're stable, we'll see."
Hongchu chuckled. He closed his eyes too and began regulating his breathing.
Meanwhile, on the far side of this stretch of Chaos, a man in green robes was heading toward