"Battle Emperor Yi, Sacred Emperor Tianhuang, Asura Emperor Beiming, Calamity Emperor Yuque—four supreme God Emperors who wielded top-tier Great Daos, attaining the Dao and becoming Emperors one after another. As expected of the Underworld. What fine methods they had."
"Under such a tremendous temptation as attaining the Dao and becoming Emperor, the fact that those top supreme God Emperors friendly with the Heavenly Court could hold fast to their hearts, refrain from stabbing our Heavenly Court in the back, and not join the Underworld—I would call that a miracle."
"A miscalculation. Had I known, after killing Emperor Lord Sheng Xi, I should have taken the chance to kill those four as well."
Chen Fan was not flustered upon hearing this. Instead, he smiled somewhat helplessly.
Back when he had killed Emperor Lord Sheng Xi, Battle Emperor Yi, Sacred Emperor Tianhuang, Asura Emperor Beiming, and Calamity Emperor Yuque, who had declared their allegiance to the Imperial Court, immediately announced their withdrawal from it. They apologized to the Heavenly Court and ceded vast territories to it. Each faction had basically retained only the single continent where its headquarters stood.
Moreover, those four fellows greatly feared death. After Emperor Lord Sheng Xi died, they left the Eternal Continent and fled far beyond the heavens. If Chen Fan had truly wanted to dig three feet into the ground to find them, it would merely have taken some effort.
But considering how they had apologized and ceded territory, and that their attitude had been fairly decent, he had spared them. Even so, they had never returned to the Eternal Continent.
Who would have thought that this time, those four fellows would not only all return to the Eternal Continent, but directly join the Underworld? They had taken over all the factions the Underworld had openly