"What happened? How did we suddenly come under attack by the immortals?" The battle had already ended by the time I arrived, so Fu Tianxiao and Li Poxiao had not had time to explain. Now, while the old monster was amusing the child, I took the opportunity to ask them.
"I don't know. A bunch of immortals with black faces, as if we owed them money, started attacking us the moment they caught us. We really have no idea how we offended them! We had to take detours and flee for our lives, and it took a great deal of effort to shake them off. We never expected to run into three more groups along the way. And none of them were the same." Fu Tianxiao looked thoroughly down on his luck.
"The demonic path?" I asked.
"Yes, the demonic path! They wouldn't say a word when questioned. They just attacked as soon as they found us. Who knows where they came from!" Fu Tianxiao was utterly depressed, and his face was blank with confusion.
"Could they be corrupted immortals? How strong were they?" I asked.
"Not particularly strong, but there were a lot of them. Dozens came at a time, most of them at the Nine Tribulations realm. Occasionally, there would be one or two at the Tribulation Transcendence stage, but they were different from ordinary cultivators at that stage. They were incredibly fast, riding the wind and breaking through the waves, as if their feet never touched the ground! Of course, if they hadn't been like that, you probably wouldn't be seeing us now. I couldn't have held out that long either!" Fu Tianxiao hesitated as he spoke. Then he swept out a hand, and the smoke took shape, displaying the appearances he had recorded.
Before us stood