On Jinman Star, five Star Domain Treasure Ships glimmered as they rested on a vast, open plain. The Ye, Ximen, Gongsun, Situ, and Yang Families—the Five Great Immortal Clans—had gathered there. There were more than twenty Body Integration Cultivators alone, though no Mahayana cultivators. Ximen Laijun was among them.
"Just as we expected, the Devil Race has already fled. There isn't a single living person on all of Jinman Star," Ximen Laijun said with a frown.
Shi Yue had contacted him personally and told him that a Mahayana Stage member of the Devil Race had appeared on Jinman Star. Ximen Laijun had been ordered to go there and investigate.
Though they had no Mahayana cultivators, the Five Great Immortal Clans had been passed down for more than a hundred thousand years and possessed many unusual secret arts that let them fight cultivators of higher realms.
They had only discovered upon arriving on Jinman Star that there wasn't a single living person or creature anywhere on the planet. The entire Cultivation Star seemed like a dead world.
"That makes it even more likely that Jinman Star was one of the Devil Race's bases. By the way, Fellow Daoist Ximen, can you get in touch with Shi Yue? Ask him about it. We might be able to find some clues, and if we follow them, perhaps we can track down the Devil Race," Ye Xiaoxue suggested.
Ximen Laijun shook his head. "I already tried. I can't reach him. He's probably healing his injuries."
Even if Shi Yue had escaped a Mahayana Stage member of the Devil Race with his life, he must have been badly wounded.
"Forget it. Let's split up and search the area. Maybe we'll find some clues," Ximen Laijun suggested.
The Five Great Immortal Clans divided into five teams