The Altar the Four Great Evil Spirits had painstakingly constructed was utterly destroyed by a single Mountain River Seal from Li Yun. They were beside themselves with rage.
They all wished they could drag Li Yun out and slice him into a thousand pieces.
Moreover, Gui Teng had said that he had seen Li Yun, but Li Yun was far too strange. He must have mastered an exceptionally brilliant stealth technique. Unless they caught Li Yun first, even if they repaired the Altar, it might collapse again under another of his sneak attacks.
They had brought extra materials for constructing an Altar during this smuggling operation, but they could not possibly have brought much. At most, they had enough to rebuild it once.
If they repaired it only for Li Yun to ambush and destroy it again, they would truly be at a loss.
Without the Altar, they could not contact their respective clans.
The White Emperor Inner City was easy to enter but difficult to leave.
After all, this was not their own territory. The rules of the White Emperor Inner City were everywhere, and using loopholes to return to their clans would be exceedingly difficult.
That meant that unless their clans noticed something was wrong and proactively opened another passage to receive them, they would be trapped to death in the White Emperor Inner City.
And without successfully establishing the Altar and drawing down powerful forces from their clans to strike the rules of the White Emperor Inner City, even if their clans came to receive them voluntarily, they would need a long time to prepare. It could not be done without at least a hundred years.
Being trapped for a century in this empty White Emperor Inner City would be worse than simply killing them outright.
Thus—