Within the Heavenly River Chaos World.
Han Yi rose to his feet, the shock in his eyes refusing to fade.
"The Lost Cultivators have all become puppets—not one or two of them, but without exception."
"But how... how is that possible?"
How could cultivators who had reached the Eternal level be so easily bound by contract into puppets? Although Han Yi had advanced to the Emperor level, he had never laid hands on an Eternal. It was precisely because he knew how resolute the will of Eternal cultivators was that he had never tried to contract one.
Only upon reaching the Overlord level would he dare make a move against ordinary Eternals and Marquis-ranked Eternals, attempting to capture and contract them.
Yet according to the information he had received, among the cultivators who had returned from the Lost Outer Realm were not only Eternals—even Overlords had appeared.
This returned Overlord had entered the bounds of the Six Desires Starfall Zone and attacked one Chaos World after another, drawing the Formless Bone Court's Overlord and the master of the Forgotten River Ruins into action. Together, they had besieged and killed him.
During the battle, the two Overlords discovered that this returned Overlord's eyes were shut, his soul fluctuations as still as dead water. Compared with an ordinary Overlord, his strength was roughly thirty percent weaker.
Moreover, even at death's door, he had shown no intention of retreating.
If he had been a normal Overlord, then even when besieged by two other Overlords, should he ultimately fall, he would at least have taken one of them down with him and severely wounded the other.
Yet after killing this strange Overlord, the Formless Overlord and the Forgotten River Ruins Overlord had suffered only minor injuries, with no serious consequences.
Besides Overlords, many Lost