Li Yun froze on the spot.
"You actually still dare come to me for compensation?"
"What are you thinking?"
Li Yun truly had not reacted in time. No matter what, he had never imagined that after these three fellows saw him take down the Nine-Colored Strange Flower with such ease, they would still dare demand compensation from him.
Xing Huang sneered. "Shouldn't you compensate us?"
"You and that woman clearly left Luankong Island halfway through, yet now you've run back again and easily taken down that Nine-Colored Immortal Emperor Flower."
"Isn't it obvious? Everything was your scheme."
"You deliberately spread the news of the Nine-Colored Immortal Emperor Flower to draw people here to seize the treasure, but in truth, you were using cultivators' lives to feed that Nine-Colored Immortal Emperor Flower. Count it yourself—how many Immortal Emperors were devoured by that Nine-Colored Immortal Emperor Flower from beginning to end?"
"Just for that alone, you ought to compensate us. Otherwise, can you bear such a massive weight of karma?"
Yu Huang also sneered. "That's right. So many people can't have died while you alone monopolize all the benefits. There's no such logic in this world."
"And don't think about threatening us!"
"We don't fall for that."
"That Nine-Colored Immortal Emperor Flower's strength was already infinitely close to that of an Immortal Sovereign. The only reason you could take it down was entirely because of that Secret Art just now that drew upon the might of the Immortal Gate."
"Don't think we can't tell. The price for using that kind of Secret Art isn't small, is it? Heh, you've already used it once. Can you still use it again?"
"Without that Secret Art, what are you going to use to threaten us?"
"The three of us are all Third Grade Immortal Emperors—one