Thus, the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord had most likely provoked those corpse demons at the Gods and Devils level beneath the Heavenly Corpse, drawing their pursuit. More likely than not, he had tried to steal a chicken only to lose the rice used to lure it, failing to achieve his intended goal.
Otherwise, if the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord had truly obtained the opportunity to cultivate to the Gods and Devils realm, he would not have come to contact a group of Celestial Human experts like them and dragged them into this Ancient Battlefield space to explore.
To put it bluntly, the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord's original intention had been to bring them inside and use their strength to accomplish his own objective.
He simply had not expected that, after entering the Ancient Battlefield space, spatial turbulence would arise and scatter them all in disarray.
Meng Zhao pondered for a moment, then turned his gaze to the breathtakingly beautiful, intensely domineering Aunt Hong. Who exactly was this person?
Could she have been one of those five Gods and Devils experts, also a corpse demon, only with such profound divine abilities that she had risen from the dead?
Meng Zhao's speculation sounded rather preposterous, yet upon careful consideration, it was not entirely impossible.
For one thing, Aunt Hong seemed to know far too much about the Heavenly Corpse Ancient City and the Heavenly Corpse. This was not something one could figure out after casually probing around once or twice. It was an enormous flaw.
Meng Zhao simply did not believe that anyone could learn of the Heavenly Corpse's existence, as well as the Flower of Hell's existence, without being killed by the Heavenly Corpse.
Unless they were one of the Heavenly Corpse's subordinates, one of its own people—or an enemy even