The Weird Race had plenty of Quasi-Immortal Emperors, but that did not mean beings of that level held a low position among them.
The Weird Race valued every Quasi-Immortal Emperor in its ranks. Each one had a chance to visit the Calamity Land.
Sure, we were evil, brutal, and terrifying. We loved slaughter and invading the Heavens, and every few Eras we destroyed worlds.
But we valued talent, too. We had a complete system for cultivating it.
Quasi-Immortal Emperors were the cutoff, though. Below them, Immortal Kings were little more than cabbages to the Weird Race—cannon fodder.
It was all too easy for the Weird Race to produce Immortal King-level members.
A little Weird Substance could create Immortal Kings in droves. Invading any of the Heavens would also bring an endless stream of fallen Immortal Kings.
Most Weird Immortal Kings were expendable. No one would shed a tear if they died.
Only Weird Immortal Kings directly under places like the Soul River, those who led wars against the Heavens, or outstanding ones like Heavenly King Uncrying and his companions received any real attention.
Of course, even if those Weird Immortal Kings held little status, no Weird Quasi-Immortal Emperor would casually send them to their deaths.
Perhaps because the same substance flowed through them all, they felt a strong sense of kinship.
True Weird Quasi-Immortal Emperors were different from the Boundary Sea's former Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors.
The difference was not in strength, but in how they saw themselves.
The Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors did not consider themselves part of the Weird Race. They were simply themselves. Even after their natures changed drastically, they saw nothing wrong with it.
It was merely a necessary sacrifice on the path to the Dao.
After all, the darkness that had once engulfed the Boundary Sea had