At the sight of this, King Mu and the others seemed to understand something.
The Yellow Venerable and his companions clearly already knew these people well, which was why they had left them behind.
Those left behind either had no close ties to them or lacked firm faith in the Sacred Sect's great undertaking. Once defeated, they were bound to change allegiances.
The Yellow Venerable and his companions had all been outstanding talents tens of thousands of years ago. Given more time to develop at their leisure, they might have glimpsed the hope of true immortality and imperishability through the Sacred Sect's great undertaking, and thereby truly won over most of these people, making them willing to serve.
But now, everything had come to nothing. In the end, these people still had to seek refuge with the Heavenly Realms Alliance and Fang Qianyuan.
Still, leaving these people behind was not entirely useless. At the very least, even Fang Qianyuan had to deal with the matter in person.
Nearly thirty mighty experts-even if they had yet to fully recover their former cultivation or acquire powerful spirit creatures, their true strength could not be underestimated.
Once Fang Qianyuan and the others chose to stay and deal with them, they could no longer give chase. The Yellow Venerable and his companions would then have time to erase their tracks at leisure and use secret arts to conceal themselves completely.
This, too, was making full use of everyone, squeezing out their last shred of value.
"Taking in so many mighty Ancient Cultivators at once may bring turmoil to the Alliance, but we cannot simply leave mighty experts to their own devices..."
"This is an open stratagem, plain and simple!"
While King Mu and the others pondered this, Fang Qianyuan had already ordered a search