On the other side.
The Qiankun Elders had also returned to Taichu Holy Land and gone to meet Profound Emperor.
Inside the grand hall, Profound Emperor looked at the Qiankun Elders with a beaming smile. "What about the Huanxian Fruit?"
He had already exhausted the Azure Emperor's avatar. The Qiankun Elders were Ninth-Rank, Second-Realm Immortal Emperors, after all. Surely no one should have been able to stop them from taking the Huanxian Fruit?
"W-We didn't get it..." Elder Gan swallowed and cautiously looked at Profound Emperor's beaming face.
"What?!" Profound Emperor's voice rose sharply. "I took care of the Azure Emperor's avatar, and you're telling me you still didn't get the Huanxian Fruit?"
Elder Kun forced a smile that looked worse than crying. "My lord Profound Emperor, it's not that we didn't want to obtain the Huanxian Fruit. It's just that the Azure Emperor didn't play fair. His true body rushed over the moment his avatar dissipated.
"I suspect that the Azure Emperor's true body was already near Huanxian Mountain, watching over his daughter. We just happened to run into him!"
"That's right, that's right." Elder Gan hurriedly nodded like a pecking chick. "If we had tried to seize it by force, the Azure Emperor would certainly have killed us. But the two of us still want to preserve these useful bodies so we can continue serving Your Excellency!"
Profound Emperor said, "Preserve your useful bodies? What use are you two, anyway? Forget about failing to obtain the Taiqing Spiritual Infusion Fruit—you can't even get a Huanxian Fruit? What do I need you for?!"
The Qiankun Elders turned pale with fright.
Although Profound Emperor was furious, he knew that the Qiankun Elders would never dare deceive him.
So what they had said was most likely true.
But how could the