The Devil Race Was Also Nourishment

The Devil Master clearly intended to seize this opportunity to kill Gu Yuanqing first. After all, a Chaos Heaven Immortal Level existence was enough to influence the overall situation.

The other immortal great cultivators of the Human Race were all hidden within forbidden grounds. Protected by those forbidden grounds, they were difficult to kill. Gu Yuanqing, however, was outside a forbidden ground, naturally making him the preferred target.

Even if a Chaos Heaven Immortal Level Cultivator was difficult to kill for good, severely wounding one would still weaken the Human Race.

As for Mu Tianheng, he intended to kill with a borrowed knife. When he intercepted the Guiji Forbidden Land, he had subtly forced it to charge in from Gu Yuanqing's direction.

For him, it killed two birds with one stone. Why not?

Gu Yuanqing saw through all of this as clearly as fire reflected in his eyes. Naturally, he would not comply with their wishes.

If the Primordial Divine Sect's defensive line had truly collapsed and the Exquisite Realm Domain might consequently be endangered, he would not have minded taking action. Yet the situation before him was clearly not that simple.

Everything earlier had happened suddenly, but since he had long been on guard, he could still spot certain clues. For instance, when chaos broke out, the Primordial Divine Sect's people appeared flustered, yet everything remained orderly. They had clearly prepared in advance. Moreover, as time passed, that panic had gradually vanished.

Outsiders might have thought the Primordial Divine Sect disciples remained calm in the face of danger, but in Gu Yuanqing's eyes, every part of it was suspicious.

Furthermore, as the Primordial Divine Sect's Chaos Heaven Cultivators originally stationed at the second defensive line retreated into the array platforms behind them, those platforms floating in the void shrank