After Heavenly Emperor Lei Shan left, Fang Chen and the others immediately spoke through Spiritual Sense. "Senior Huo Li, do you think we can trust what Heavenly Emperor Lei Shan said?"
Ye Qingci, Ye Kong, the myna bird, and Yue Canglan all looked up at Great Emperor Huo Li.
Great Emperor Huo Li nodded and replied inwardly, "Much of what he said is probably true, but I can't guarantee that everything he just told us is. At least for now, we're safe, and he probably wasn't lying about being a Guide!"
Yue Canglan also sent a message. "As a Guide, he'll be rewarded for bringing us back to the Outer Heavens. We should be safe until he gets that reward. But right now, we're rather like piglets. Once he takes us back, he's bound to fetch a good price for us!"
"Sigh. We haven't even reached the Outer Heavens, and we've already become piglets!"
Ye Qingci couldn't help lamenting as well.
Great Emperor Huo Li smiled and sent a message to them all. "Heavenly Emperor Lei Shan is a Half-Immortal. Escaping from him now would be difficult, and there's no need for us to try. I feel that what he said is probably true. Let's wait until we reach the Outer Heavens before deciding anything!"
Fang Chen and the others nodded. They all knew the Land of Ending was dangerous. The Glazed True Immortal had also told them that, after they cultivated the Star Imprint, people from the Outer Heavens would intercept them on their way to the Land of Ending and take them to the Outer Heavens instead.
What was happening now was exactly as the Glazed True Immortal had said. They had entered the Path to Heaven, then been discovered by people from the Outer Heavens.
"Let's cultivate,"