Yuan Wangchen and Yuan Yiping had also sent avatars into the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos, but a loss was a loss. Especially once the divine soul within each avatar was completely extinguished, the cultivation of the true body would inevitably be affected.
Li Qingyun had stopped Li Zuo and A'li from killing them for two reasons. First, he did indeed bear some old affection for them. Second, there ultimately needed to be "survivors" to relay the situation here to the outside and draw in a second invasion of even greater momentum.
Although Yuan Wangchen and Yuan Yiping had likewise failed in their invasion, they could not deny that this "demon land" was indeed very weak. The strongest native cultivator was merely at the Great Perfection of the Shore Reaching Realm!
Based on Li Qingyun's conjectures about Outside Void Existences, the losses of this first wave had all been cannon fodder, no more than a drop in the ocean in their eyes. Moreover, no matter how many mayflies were lost, their value could never compare to the source essence of an entire cosmos, much less those three Saint statuses.
They were bound to take this bite!
Seeing that the natives had suddenly stopped attacking, Yuan Yiping and Yuan Wangchen were astonished, but they had no time to think further. They immediately peeled away their Dao Spirit divine fire, fled from their corpses with some true blood wrapped around them, and hurried toward the rift passage.
"This time, we were still too impulsive! We thought it was a heaven-sent opportunity, but who would have thought those above would set us up and use us as cannon fodder!"
"Yes, we should have waited until others had cleared the wilderness first before entering..."
As they fled, the two conversed, both feeling that this