Their original plan had been to possess the seven strongest among the seventeen, then use their identities to leave this place.
While possessing them, they would also gain their victims' abilities and resources.
Once outside, the eight of them could hide within the factions their hosts belonged to, seize resources, cultivate in the Martial Dao, and grow stronger.
When the eight of them had grown powerful enough, they would use a blood-path secret art to refine these bodies, combining their souls and flesh into one and becoming the Eight Absolutes Elder of old once more—perhaps even stronger.
With the Eight Absolutes Elder's former foundation in Venerable Tier martial arts, combined with the martial arts foundations of the eight hosts, their fusion would let them immediately prove themselves Venerables.
With such a wealth of martial arts foundations and cultivation resources, the reborn Eight Absolutes Elder might even break through the shackles one day, cross into the Ninth Realm, and become a true supreme ruler!
By then, the new Eight Absolutes Elder would be a peerless figure, inheriting the past and ushering in the future, comparable to the Great Jun Heavenly Emperor, Ji Tianjun!
The plan had been laid over such a long time. It had fooled Song Taichong, the entire Void Blade Sect, the Righteous Path of Qing Province, and even Lu Yang and the others, who were right there in the Void Soul Battlefield. It had seemed airtight from the start.
By the time everyone realized what was happening, it seemed too late.
And yet, this flawless plan had sprung a leak because of Dan Lingzi.
The plan had been perfect, and Dan Lingzi had indeed fallen for it. But his Soul Burning Secret Art had far exceeded the Eight Absolutes War Souls' expectations!
Man's plans could never outdo Heaven's.