"It's Elephant Kui Emperor!"
Fang Yun's heart sank to rock bottom. Elephant Kui Emperor was very young, a son of the Elephant Sage. His mother had borne nine elephants, yet he alone had survived. Other Demon Barbarians suspected that he had absorbed the strength of his eight siblings in the womb, so he had been named Kui, meaning the foremost, the first.
Even the finest members of the Elephant Clan his age were merely ordinary Great Demon Kings, but he had advanced to the Emperor Realm two years earlier. By rights, he was not a veteran emperor, but his astonishing talent meant that no one treated him as a newly advanced one anymore.
Elephant Kui Emperor's greatest feat had been wrestling a Blood-Body Giant Elephant of the Ancient Demon Clan without falling behind, which had sent his fame soaring.
Fang Yun rushed toward them at full speed, then activated a Great Scholar's powerful deductive abilities. Expending Sacred Qi and Withering Force, he identified the four Great Scholars in the Treasure Pavilion from their auras. Three were He Mingyuan, a Fifth Realm Literary Ancestor of the School of Historians; Yun Yangzhao, a Fourth Realm Great Scholar; and the Dumb Great Scholar Tian Songshi, whom he had not yet encountered in Burial Saint Valley.
Those three had all shared something close to life-and-death bonds with Fang Yun. The fourth, however, made him frown slightly: Nie Shoude.
Not long before, Wolf Abyss King had coerced Nie Shoude into betraying Fang Yun. Had Fang Yun not advanced to Great Scholar, he might well have been killed.
The four were combining their power into the Four Seas Realm. Watery light rippled through the entire corridor, and the Four Seas overlapped, forming a tremendous force that impeded Elephant Kui Emperor.
Fang Yun could tell that Elephant