The Four Dark Heavenly Kings' cultivation had roughly kept pace with Wushi and Azure Emperor's.
Not long after Wushi and Azure Emperor had forced their way into a higher realm during their first battle against the Weird Quasi-Immortal Emperors, the Four Dark Heavenly Kings had also advanced to Quasi-Immortal Emperor one after another.
Their breakthroughs had delighted the powers in the Soul River and other such places for quite some time.
Counting those discovered in other Heavens, the Weird Race had gained nearly ten Quasi-Immortal Emperors in a short span.
In the past, an entire great era might pass without producing a single Quasi-Immortal Emperor. Now they were appearing one after another.
What the hell did you call a pleasant surprise?
The powers in the Soul River and elsewhere were overjoyed. Even their anger over the deaths of the Weird Quasi-Immortal Emperors sacrificed by the Boundary Sea had faded.
After all, those fallen emperors could be resurrected in the future, and the newcomers were powerful members of their race.
What was this? Their race was flourishing!
What did it mean to be favored by fortune? To be the race chosen by Heaven's Mandate? To be first among the Myriad Worlds!
The Four Dark Heavenly Kings had originally been meant to visit places like the Soul River. They might even have had the chance to enter the Holy Land for further cultivation.
The Holy Land was what ordinary living beings called the Calamity Land.
Just as the Demonic Cult would never call itself the Demonic Cult, preferring the Holy Cult instead, the Weird Race had no taste for calling its own headquarters the Calamity Land.
The name sounded ominous enough on its own.
For the time being, though, the Four Dark Heavenly Kings had turned down the opportunity.
As they put