At those words.
A deep look of helplessness appeared on the face of their ancestor, Chen Haotian.
"So that's how it was!"
"Alas!"
"Why did it have to come to this?"
A long sigh echoed across the peak.
Chen Haotian could not help feeling deeply moved that cultivators who had obtained Immortal Opportunity had suffered such inexplicable "backlash."
He felt sorrow.
Regret.
And a trace of... lingering fear.
Who could have imagined that the "supreme Immortal Opportunity" everyone longed for, fought over madly, and would crack skulls to seize...
Was actually a calamity?
It was a death warrant!
"Men die for wealth, and birds die for food..."
"The ancients' words were true to the last stroke..."
Still.
He was, after all, an ancestor at the Peak Quasi-Emperor Realm. What storms had he not weathered?
His composure was no ordinary thing.
In just a few breaths.
Chen Haotian suppressed his sorrow and regained his calm, grave bearing.
He looked at Chen Changqing thoughtfully and asked:
"Changqing, in your view, what should our Immortal Chen Family do next?"
"As I see it—"
"We can set the matter of Immortal Opportunity aside for now, but the Dark Forbidden Zone brings the Great Desolate Realm nothing but harm. Everyone has the right to destroy it!"
Chen Haotian's thinking was clear enough.
The Immortal Chen Family should take action first, while those Dark Forbidden Zones had only just appeared and had yet to gain a foothold, and wipe out every last being within them!
That would eliminate the threat for good!
He had three reasons.
First, after the calamity of "Immortal Opportunity," the Great Desolate Realm had lost many of its strongest cultivators. Its foundations were shaken, and its overall strength would inevitably plummet.
Aside from the Chen Family, few powers could likely stand against