The battle never began.
More cultivators had appeared beneath the Rainbow Bridge.
Streaks of light flashed, and several figures landed behind Zi Ning. There were six in all, men and women alike, each radiating a formidable aura.
This sudden turn immediately made the Mist Lord lower his banners and still his drums, uncertainty flickering across his face.
Chen Lin swept his gaze over them.
He froze.
One of the six people behind the Purple Emperor was none other than Li Fuyao!
That woman actually had ties to the Purple Emperor. He truly had not expected that.
If that was the case...
Had everything she had done before, including her actions in the Inner World, been at the Purple Emperor's behest?
Li Fuyao saw Chen Lin too.
But she showed no reaction. Her expression remained calm, as though she were looking at a stranger.
An extraordinarily handsome man beside her, however, looked rather displeased upon seeing Chen Lin. There was even a faint trace of murderous intent.
Chen Lin's senses were exceptionally keen.
Even though the man did his best to suppress it, that intent shone like a beacon to him. Yet he did not seem to know the man.
He looked at the other four as well.
Three men and one woman, all complete strangers.
Yet all of them possessed eternal auras.
They were most likely hidden experts from the Primordial Era. With the Rainbow Bridge's influence increasingly weakening the World-Extinguishing Talisman's suppression, some eternals sealed away in ancient times were beginning to awaken.
They might also have been former subordinates of the Purple Emperor.
"Weren't you going to attack, Lord Mist Lord? Why haven't you begun?"
Liuyue looked at the Mist Lord and spoke indifferently.
"Hmph!"
The Mist Lord snorted without answering.
Although his true body had descended and