Upon learning that Trace-Shadow Tower was about to launch a full investigation into the Human Race and the Song Clan, Song Ankang did nothing else. At once, he packed his Bedside companions, children, and the several billion descendants around Kyoto and An City into the Myriad Tribulations World, then fled without a trace.
Having enslaved several hundred Saint Servants over the years, if this were exposed, he would likely become the target of public outrage. Even if it were not exposed, the news that the Human Race had silently advanced into a Fourth Grade Heaven Race, or even an Upper Three Ranks Super Race, would shake the entire Xuanhuang Continent and bring unimaginable danger to the Human Race and the Song Clan.
So it was better to flee at once, raise his cultivation realm to the level of a Second-Rank Dao Master first, and only then consider whether to show himself again.
With Song Ankang's current strength, ranked among the top hundred in the Xuanhuang Continent, even if he was no match for a Second-Rank Dao Master, hiding was still easy enough. The Chaos Plain was a natural hiding place.
Thus, Song Ankang immediately brought those around him to hide within a secret realm in the Chaos Plain. This place connected to an Exotic Space and was protected by a naturally formed cluster of quasi-Dao formations. After Song Ankang improved them, their power was enough to withstand several Second-Rank Dao Masters.
Song Ankang's true body hid here, while his four avatars scattered themselves through various deadly forbidden regions across the Central Plains.
Actually, there were five, but one had completely lost contact. Song Ankang did not even know of that avatar's existence. This was also one of the contingencies he had left behind.
Each of the four avatars possessed roughly