"Why haven't those three old bastards caught up yet? Don't tell me the number of Ghost Corpse Slaves here scared them off?" Qin Shaofeng sat cross-legged before the entrance to the four great mountains, gazing across the Starry Sky Abyss as he muttered to himself.
"They do not understand the small world well enough, nor do they have the means to escape it. According to the messages sent back by the descendants I left behind, they should be catching up soon—perhaps in a few more hours?"
"Are you sure?"
"My lord, you know my descendants are not very intelligent. The discrepancy should not be too great."
"Then I'll wait a few more hours."
Only Qin Shaofeng's final sentence was actually spoken aloud.
Everything before that had been an exchange with the Heavenly Void Worm King within his consciousness.
When he had lured the three old men over, he had appeared utterly unconcerned with whether the Alliance members lived or died.
In truth, that had merely been a facade he deliberately put on.
It was to prevent the three of them from turning back to deal with the Alliance.
Along the way, he had periodically released Heavenly Void Worms to remain behind and scout the situation.
The earliest Heavenly Void Worms he had taken in were now inside War Shadow, serving as part of Zhou Qing's strength.
The ones in his left arm were merely those he had later taken from Tian Xingluan.
Their numbers were indeed enormous.
Yet not a single one of them was of a particularly high grade.
Not to mention that, in the eyes of someone whose cultivation had truly entered the Divine Star Position, only the Heavenly Void Worm King that controlled the Emerald Dragon King was still somewhat passable.
Other than that, none of them