"Holy crap!"
Xu Yi had barely caught his breath when he jumped in fright.
The underground cave stretched five zhang in every direction and already held more than twenty people. They sat in silence, all of them acting as though they hadn't noticed the commotion Xu Yi had made.
In an unfamiliar place among unfamiliar people, keeping a low profile was the best policy. Xu Yi followed the others' example, settling into a corner some distance from the cave entrance, then closed his eyes to rest.
Though he claimed to be resting, he actually kept his eyes wide open, releasing his perception to examine everyone present.
What he sensed made his heart turn cold. Of the more than twenty people in the cave, only three were Third Realm Human Immortals and five were Fourth Realm Human Immortals. The vast majority were Fifth Realm, and three were experts at the Human Immortal peak.
The so-called Human Immortal peak was a realm in which one had refined the Vacuum Five Elements but had yet to break through into the Earth Immortal Realm.
Only now did he believe Song Huanshan's words: not a single person who could enter—or dared to enter—the Imperial Decree Platform was an ordinary character.
After holding back for a while, Xu Yi could no longer ignore the hunger gnawing at his belly. Unlike other cultivators, he kept to regular mealtimes every day, as long as he wasn't refining a weapon or breaking through to a new realm.
He had been running for his life before fleeing into this place, and he was exhausted and famished. There was no other food here, so the huge basket of fruit he'd gone to such trouble to bring along finally came in handy.
He didn't care what anyone else thought. Nothing mattered more