"Greetings, Martial Immortal Lu Shan."
Those Sixth Order lives who had come previously, upon hearing Lu Hao's voice, bowed to him one after another.
"Martial Immortal? Is that what you call the current realm?"
"Yes."
"Then what is your business here?"
"Lately, the number of Black Shadows inside the world has been increasing, and their strength is also growing stronger. Therefore, we are worried that something might happen at the aperture, so we came to check."
"Martial Immortal Lu Shan has guarded this place for many years, so you must be somewhat exhausted. Why not let the likes of us come and take over?"
"You?"
Lu Shan's voice was filled with the clear implication of are you kidding me.
"Martial Immortal Lu Shan, what do you mean by this? We are all in the realm of Martial Immortal, why look down upon us like this?"
Lu Shan did not speak; his figure emerged directly from the passage.
Lu Shan looked at the dozen or so Sixth Order lives standing before him, among whom were demons and humans, except that not a single face was familiar—they had all been born after he had taken over the defense of this place.
Since these people showed such good intentions, he naturally would not refuse. Regardless of what kind of purpose the other party held, it happened that he also needed time to properly digest things and prepare for his final breakthrough.
For ten thousand years, he and his Phantom Beasts had always maintained a state of fusion. All the energy devoured by the God-Eating Rat was distributed by him to all the Phantom Beasts as well as himself, which resulted in the God-Eating Rat's progress being the same as all the other Phantom Beasts, failing to break through to the Seventh Order ahead