"This... this Child of Earthly Fortune actually ran away?" A great emperor stared in disbelief.
"This makes no sense. Why would she give up even the chance to enter under our banner, only to choose three treasures?" Someone frowned.
"Perhaps she believed that once she seized a colored jade slip, she would be bound by the halo and fixed inside the crystal palace. Everyone around her meant her harm, so she chose to act this way." One emperor guessed.
No one spoke again. The three emperors and five great emperors fell into silence.
Ghost Continent's situation was far more complicated than Star Continent's.
Their high-ranking imperial expert, the Bone Emperor, had failed to evade in time within the Abyssal Sea Eye and was struck by the aftershock of the Saints' battle. He suffered severe injuries, and his combat strength had dropped greatly. He was still recuperating even now and had yet to fully recover.
Not only did the three emperors fight and guard against one another, but even among the five great emperors, there were tangled, irresolvable grudges and entanglements of love and hate. This was because most of Ghost Continent's imperial experts were ghost emperors and ghost sovereigns, resurrected through the Pool of Wine and Forest of Meat.
Thus, most of the eight great experts came from the other eight continents. They already had many old affairs from their previous lives, with countless grudges tangled between them. Only one or two had risen step by step from Ghost Continent's native human race.
On Star Continent, the three emperors and five great emperors had been nurtured locally. They shared the same camp and possessed an innate sense of belonging. With a supreme expert like the Wandering Emperor overseeing the whole situation, the overall state of affairs was very stable.
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