Ever since Su Bai had realized something was wrong with the First Immortal King, he had not been idle!
Among the imprints of past Space-Time, he had found the fifteen monstrous geniuses who had vanished for no apparent reason!
Every one of them had reached the Immortal Venerable Realm or even become a Half-Step King!
They had all been renowned throughout history, dazzling enough for Su Bai to find them quickly.
As for whether anyone below the Immortal Venerable Realm had met the same fate, or how many, Su Bai had not had time to search for them one by one.
And when he entered the heart of the Primordial Grand Hall, he made his move!
He had preserved traces of the auras from those gifted experts' bodies in advance!
The First Immortal King's Consciousness-Shard Doppelgangers had one distinctive trait!
Though their souls had been extinguished, their bodies retained some of their original characteristics!
That was how he had pinpointed the bodies' locations!
Just as he had expected, they were all in seclusion within the secret chambers at the heart of the Primordial Grand Hall!
And every last one had been refined into a Consciousness-Shard Doppelganger!
The moment everyone saw the true state of the fifteen, their shock and suspicion turned to bone-piercing cold and terror!
The fifteen were indeed "alive."
But not in the way anyone had imagined!
Their faces were expressionless, even faintly angry.
Their bodies were intact, stronger even than the records described, and flowed with the radiance of near-perfect Dao laws. Yet that radiance was cold and deathly still.
"No... he isn't Zi Teng anymore..."
Immortal Venerable Zihuang stared at Zi Teng, but he could not find the familiar look in his eyes!
Zi Teng was his most beloved child, the one who had risen