When Lu Yang hurried back to Heaven Gate Peak, he saw his senior sister gripping the Central Heaven Emperor by the throat with one hand and pounding his face with her fist.
The Central Heaven Emperor's head lolled to the side, and he went still.
"He's dead?!"
Lu Yang was stunned. When the Central Heaven Emperor had first appeared, he'd seemed like an emperor swallowing the world and sweeping across the eight directions. How had he suddenly wound up dead?
"Looks like it was only a clone."
Immortal Fairy studied the Central Heaven Emperor for a couple of moments.
"But it's still useful." Yun Zhi formed hand seals, activating some unknown spell. A red line appeared on the Central Heaven Emperor's clone, stretching toward some distant, unknown place.
"I'm going out for a bit."
His senior sister left them with those words and vanished, leaving only a phantom image behind.
"What was that?"
"Yun's girl is tracing causality backward, hoping to use this chance to figure out that person's location," Immortal Fairy explained. The clone had been controlled by the main body. Although the main body had cut off its connection with the clone immediately, there were still traces to follow.
An hour later, Yun Zhi returned, carrying three Central Heaven Emperors.
"Why are there so many?"
Lu Yang thought, What is this, a wholesale deal?
Yun Zhi set the Central Heaven Emperors down and shook her head regretfully. "He wasn't controlling this clone directly with his main body. Instead, he used his main body to control one clone, which then controlled another clone, and so on, until the final clone came to our sect."
"I tracked down three clones in a row, but the connection grew too faint after that. I couldn't trace it any further."
"Still, it wasn't