After Ruthless broke through but before Ye Fan did, there was a stretch of time.
A team of three Weird Immortal Kings descended from the Soul River into the Boundary Sea and traveled to the deepest reaches of the Fallen Boundary Sea.
They had come with a mission, prepared even to sacrifice their lives.
The Weird Quasi-Immortal Emperors of the Soul River suspected that man might have returned. Under those circumstances, none of them dared descend into the Boundary Sea rashly.
The three Weird Immortal Kings had been sent ahead as scouts. They were already considered expendable.
They might die the moment they arrived.
Was treating three Immortal Kings as expendable too wasteful?
To the Weird Race, were three Immortal Kings many? Were they precious?
The answers went without saying. Everyone knew them.
When the three High Envoys arrived in the Boundary Sea, their first impression was of desolation—a weird, dark desolation.
Since Meng Chuan had killed the Weird Quasi-Immortal Emperors produced by the sacrifice, then offered the lives of three thousand Dark Kings as sacrificial offerings, the Weird Race in the Boundary Sea had naturally fallen into decline.
Vast stretches of territory had been reclaimed by the Primordial Boundary Sea. Once, the two sides had divided the realm between them, each holding roughly half, with the Weird Race perhaps holding a little more.
Now the Weird Race was in full retreat, its armor cast aside. It had lost more than half the territory it had occupied.
Yet with less ground to hold, its forces had become more concentrated, and its resistance much fiercer.
Ultimately, the Weird Race's ability to corrupt meant that unless an overwhelming force struck it, it was unlikely to be wiped out entirely.
The one now leading the Weird Race in the Boundary Sea, however, was