Of course, after the defeat in Immortal Ancient times, some True Immortals had chosen to withdraw from the world, turning their domains into forbidden zones and ignoring all strife outside from then on.
In truth, many True Immortals and Quasi-Immortal Kings of the Longevity Families had once retreated or even sold out their comrades. Most, however, had their heads cut off by the surviving members of the Seven Kings.
In any case, the final battle of the Immortal Ancient Era had not only shattered the Primordial Ancient Realm into pieces; on the surface, the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths no longer had any immortals. They had all died.
Xiao Tian still remembered Shi Hao boarding an Immortal Dao warship within a dark fissure between worlds. A Cauldron Artifact refined from world stone stood aboard it, sealing thirty-two heads belonging to Quasi-Immortal Kings and True Immortals.
Perhaps every head represented an Immortal Dao family. How fiercely must the powers behind them have hated the Seven Kings of the Border Wasteland?
They probably refused to believe that all those people had suffered dark corrosion.
But had they really suffered dark corrosion?
The Longevity Families had originally colluded with Devilspawn and reached some sort of agreement. Perhaps their True Immortals would not have had to die and could have remained neutral forever.
As far as they were concerned, why should they care whether other living beings lived or died? All that mattered was that their Longevity Families endured as long as the world itself.
Yet even their immortals who had not died directly in battle had been declared corrupted by darkness by the Seven Kings and beheaded.
Or perhaps, in the Seven Kings' eyes, selling out the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths also meant being corrupted by darkness. Their brains had gone rotten,