"Old Yang, what did you see?" Noticing the change in the old man's expression, someone walked over and asked.
Quasi-Emperor Yang Wenchang raised a hand and pointed. "Don't you think that dark figure aboard the Flying Boat bears far too much resemblance to the Realm Lord, both in aura and appearance?"
At those words, not only the man who had asked, but the other Quasi-Emperors also turned their gazes toward that figure.
"He really does look like him! Even his Emperor's Might is exactly the same."
"Could they be the same person?"
"But isn't the Realm Lord already dead? His Soul Lamp went out, and his Life Token shattered."
"How could mortals like us possibly comprehend a Great Emperor's power? Perhaps his trip to the Southern Region allowed the Realm Lord to comprehend the realm of true gods and enter the divine domain. How could mortal Soul Lamps and Life Tokens hope to reach such heights?"
Those words convinced quite a few of those present.
They, too, felt that Realm Lord Zhou Xiu could not have bitten the dust so easily.
Perhaps, just as the man had said, Zhou Xiu had not died at all, but had instead gained a tremendous opportunity and entered the Immortal Realm!
For them, that was undoubtedly good news.
"No!"
Just as everyone was persuading themselves to believe that explanation...
Yang Wenchang stepped forward and shattered their beautiful dream, taking a rolled-up Martial World Bulletin from his Spatial Ring and opening it.
His eyes moved up and down as he carefully compared and confirmed the details. Only then did he speak. "I think you've all guessed wrong. The emblems on those Flying Boats belong to the Tianyuan Holy Land of the Southern Region!"
"Perhaps the Realm Lord is using Flying Boats to bring the spoils