"This... how could we leave you here alone to take the risk?" Zhou Xuan hesitated somewhat.
"It won't be difficult for me to hold them back, but if you don't leave and something happens, I might not make it back in time to save you. There are three children here—this isn't a joke." I spoke with some displeasure.
"Zhou Xuan, let's go." Li Poxiao hesitated briefly before agreeing with me.
Zhou Xuan and Li Poxiao immediately led Shao Zi and the two children back the other way, while I stayed where I was. In no more than two or three blinks, what had first appeared as two or three black specks gradually multiplied. In the end, a group of forty or fifty people arrived. Leading them were cultivators of the Bagua Realm and the Seven Stars Realm, while the Six Harmonies Realm cultivators formed the backbone and were the most numerous.
I swept my eyes over them. The Thunder Sea made up the largest group, roughly thirty percent, followed by the Deep Sea Ghosts and the ghost cultivators of Purgatory. There were even five or six monks dressed as people from Xiyuansi, along with some others in strange attire. I didn't know whether they were Rogue Cultivators, but their cultivation wasn't very high. Somehow, they had become something like an allied army.
When these people saw me standing here alone, they all froze.
"Xia... Ancestor Xia..." One of the Bagua Realm cultivators stepped forward. He wore a full suit of armor and held an ancient bronze sword. If it wasn't Long Jing, then who could it be?
After the battle at the Living Formation, he had fled back. I hadn't expected him to be so lively again now. I asked coldly, "Your Emperor Immortal Palace has been picked clean, yet