As the Demon Empress's Image, which the Heavenly King Hall had used as a conduit for power, gradually began to collapse, and his body started to disperse along with it, there was not the slightest trace of fear or worry in his eyes.
Even though Ancestor Realm experts had emerged among these humans—four of them, no less—he still did not stop what he was doing, nor did he panic because of it.
Because no matter how strong these four Ancestor Realm experts were, they had only just broken through. Otherwise, there would have been no need to give them the chance to open the rift. They could simply have wiped out all the alien demons still trapped within the prison that was Tianxuan Continent beforehand.
That would have given them ample time to raise their strength and resist the Emperor's advance and assault.
Yet they had not done so. It seemed more likely that they had lacked the confidence and certainty to wipe them out completely before, and only appeared now, giving off the impression of being forced into action.
Thus, there was a high probability that these people had only broken through to the Ancestor Realm shortly before making their move. By then, it had already been too late for them to stop it, which was why the current situation had arisen.
One could even boldly speculate that these Ancestor Realm experts had relied on external forces to attain their realm. Their actual combat power might not be strong at all, or perhaps they simply could not make too many moves. Otherwise, it would not have been too late for them to act just now!
Even if one took ten thousand steps back and assumed these Ancestor Realm experts had been waiting for them to act, waiting for the