It had to be said that Shun was fortunate. Bao Qiong controlled the Six Yin Lords and several candidate cultivators like Jie Quan, while cultivators like Shun had their Fate Gates held by Jing, one of the Yin Lords.
Under normal circumstances, even after Yuan Jie had cracked it, helping Shun break free of the fate imposed upon him by Xuan Qiong would still have been difficult. But after Ze's death and before a new Yin Lord took his place, Yuan Jie could help Shun escape that control even from afar. There was no need to worry that Bao Qiong would discover the result and, in a fit of fury, trigger a divine ability that killed him. So long as the entire plan went smoothly, Shun's chances of surviving were not small...
In the 1,257,158th year, Chen Er, the Human Race prodigy you had once brought back from outside, became the first among the seven to break through into the Immortal King realm. It had taken only a little over a million years. Even among the Ye Family's direct lineage, who enjoyed every advantage in cultivation resources, such a breakthrough speed was extraordinarily fast.
Because Chen Er was not part of your Ye Family's direct lineage, you had not paid him any special attention. A few minor concealment formations were nowhere near enough to hide the celestial phenomenon of his breakthrough. Thus, when his phenomenon manifested, every Quasi-Emperor cultivator in Qingming Hetong Heaven turned to look. Even Li Yuanming, who had not been in Qingming Hetong Heaven for long, marveled that such a Small World, which had only recently entered an age of flourishing talent, could produce such a Flood Dragon.
As for Qingming Hetong Heaven's veteran Quasi-Emperors—Lu Wushuang, Li Yixian, Xuan Wei, and the others—they openly extended olive branches,