"Stone statue?" Hua Yunfei pondered. "If the Ancient Spirit Universe Cluster truly used to be someone's cultivation ground, then having a stone statue here would make sense."
"Could the Ancient Spirit Universe Cluster have so many Overlords because of the owner of that stone statue?" An Ning speculated.
"If so, then the methods of the person behind this stone statue are anything but ordinary," Hua Yunfei said.
What kind of method could allow so many people to become Hegemon Grade beings within the Ancient Spirit Universe Cluster?
The more he thought about it, the more unimaginable it seemed.
"I can only think of one possibility, but upon closer thought, it seems unrelated. Perhaps I am overthinking it," Hua Yunfei said.
"What possibility?" An Ning and the Jue Ming Wan Xie Wheel looked over curiously.
Just as Hua Yunfei was about to speak, his gaze flickered. After sweeping his senses behind them, he transmitted, "Blood Old Freak has entered, along with the gray-robed man Thunderfire Immortal Venerable mentioned. He carries the aura of the Thirty-Three Heavens. He should be the Li Feiyu you mentioned, An Ning."
More people were arriving one after another from behind. Among them, two people entered one after the other, unnoticed by the Quasi-Hegemon Level experts guarding the place and without alerting the grand formation.
The first was a gray-haired middle-aged man with deeply sunken eye sockets, a hooked nose, thin lips, and a cold, vicious face.
He swept his gaze over the crowd, looking somewhat anxious. He turned back several times, and upon seeing the youth who had entered closely behind him, he hurriedly quickened his pace and squeezed deeper into the crowd.
"Heh heh."
The youth had red lips and white teeth. He followed unhurriedly behind the gray-haired middle-aged man, neither rushed nor impatient, a