Just as those supreme beings had expected, that figure was fighting his way toward the Main Sacrificial Ground, venturing alone into that unfathomable place.
Heaven and earth lay deathly silent, without the slightest sound. The hazy land was shattered, covered in scars.
After an unknown length of time, a piece of floating soil slowly appeared, its entirety riddled with cracks, with even wisps of supreme true blood seeping out.
It quietly emerged from some inexplicable place, as though it had witnessed everything that had just happened, or awakened from endless ages.
Then the Ancient Underworld's Quasi-Immortal Emperor dragged his gravely wounded body out of a fissure in the void, bloodied and bedraggled.
Besides these two, four other monsters returned in succession, all wounded and dripping with blood, looking exceptionally miserable.
"He... didn't seem to be trying to slaughter us."
"Apparently, he had no such awareness. He merely... wanted to enter the Main Sacrificial Ground and stepped on us in passing without noticing."
"One unconscious step, and we lost four fellow Daoists!" The Soul River's Quasi-Immortal Emperor could not conceal the terror in his voice.
Had they not activated the Sacrificial Ground Runes within their blood in time, allowing them to temporarily escape the order of the Heavens and transcend reality for a moment,
they would probably have had their bodies and souls annihilated beneath that step, just like the other four Quasi-Immortal Emperors, without even remains left behind.
At this moment, different kinds of weird substance were escaping from all six Quasi-Immortal Emperors, as though certain ancient powers hidden within them had been awakened by that impact.
Dense gray substance seeped from some of their bodies, swirling around them like mist and smoke, faintly tracing mysterious patterns that seemed to contain some obscure, ancient laws.
On other Quasi-Immortal Emperors, a