Starting as a Grandmaster, all of my cultivation techniques are at max level.

Suddenly, golden light shone brightly above the three sacred sites, turning the entire sky into a vast golden ocean.

Such an earth-shattering phenomenon naturally attracted the attention of countless disciples from the Three Holy Lands.

Those disciples who had been injured in the battle against the alien races and were healing themselves disregarded their injuries and stumbled out of the cave, looking up at the sky with uncontrollable joy on their faces.

"Golden light fills the sky!! This is an omen of the saint's return!!"

"It's the three patriarchs! The three patriarchs have returned!!"

"Thank God! The Mirage Realm is saved!!"

In an instant, the exclamations and kowtows from the three sacred sites rose and fell in waves.

Before everyone's eyes, the golden light that filled the sky came and went quickly, disappearing completely in just a few breaths.

Three figures slowly emerged from the void.

These three are the founders of the Three Sacred Lands, and are also three Sacred Realm beings well-known throughout the Mirage Cloud Realm.

At this moment, although there were no obvious external injuries on the three of them, a closer look would reveal that all three of them had a noticeably pale complexion.

In particular, Venerable Xuanwei had a faint gray mark between his eyebrows, which was obviously caused by some kind of extremely domineering law of the Great Dao.

The auras of the three of them were much weaker than when they were at their peak. The overwhelming and all-powerful pressure of the holy realm that should have been like the blazing sun in the sky now seemed somewhat lacking in strength.

Clearly, this time, being entangled by the combined forces of the Corpse Clan and the Stone Clan, two Saint Realm beings, they managed to force their opponents back, but at a considerable cost.

The three did not linger in front of the numerous disciples for long, merely glancing indifferently at the kneeling and kowtowing disciples of the Three Holy Lands below.

Venerable Xuanwei nodded slightly to the crowd, acknowledging the disciples' homage, and then the three of them disappeared from the spot.

The next moment, the three figures appeared in a secret realm within the Three Holy Lands.

As soon as the three of them sat down, Venerable Qian Yuan slammed his fist on the stone table in front of him.

His face was ashen, and the rage in his eyes blazed like fire.

"The three of us were actually outmaneuvered this time!! What a shrewd Aurora King! I never imagined he'd already have one foot in the Great Perfection of the Saint Realm!"

It turned out that when the Corpse King and the Stone King descended upon the Mirage Cloud Realm that day, the three of them immediately took action to confront them.

Unexpectedly, the Corpse King and the Stone King did not intend to fight them head-on. Instead, they used secret techniques to shift the battlefield layer by layer, dragging the three of them to the chaotic area where the border between humans and alien races met.

Of course, with their combined strength, the three of them were not afraid of two mere alien Saint Realm beings.

If they were to go all out and the three of them joined forces, they could very well save one of their lives.

After all, they are all at the mid-stage of the Saint Realm, and the inheritances they received can be said to come from the same lineage. The combined power of their attacks is not simply 1+1+1.

However, to the utter surprise of Venerable Qian Yuan and his companions, they had assumed that only the Corpse King and the Stone King, two of the eight kings of the alien race, would deal with them.

Just as the three of them were about to fight the other side...

The Aurora King, who had made the least appearance among the eight alien kings, actually emerged from the void!

Three against three!

They will still not be afraid, even if that Aurora King is forced to go to the front line.

However, the Aurora King's cultivation level was no longer the high-level Saint Realm they had known before, but rather he had one foot in the Great Perfection of the Saint Realm!

The moment their opponent made a move, the three of them could feel the pressure of being on the verge of collapse.

In other words, the three brothers immediately used a secret technique to forcibly burn their source energy, raising their cultivation to the high level of the Saint Realm in a short period of time. Only by working together could they barely withstand the Aurora King's ferocious attack.

Otherwise, any other Saint Realm being would likely have perished on the spot facing such a full-force attack.

At the last moment, Venerable Xuanwei relied on a drop of golden blood that the three of them had obtained when they traveled through this universe to force Aurora King back, thus buying the three of them a chance to escape back to the Mirage Cloud Realm.

It's a pity that the three of them only managed to obtain two drops of that golden blood.

Venerable Lingyuan, who was standing to the side, also raised his head at this moment, his face filled with killing intent.

"This grudge must be avenged!! That Aurora King nearly caused the three of us to perish outside. If this debt isn't settled, I, Ling Yuan, will be unworthy of calling myself a saint!!"

As he spoke, he nodded to Venerable Qian Yuan, and then the two of them looked at Venerable Xuan Wei, who had remained silent.

"Senior brother!!"

The two spoke almost simultaneously, their meaning already self-evident.

Venerable Xuanwei sat in the main seat, but remained silent.

His thin face didn't reveal much emotion, but those who knew him well knew that he was making a decision at that moment.

After a few breaths, Venerable Xuanwei slowly spoke.

"We must avenge this!! After the three of us have fully recovered from our injuries, we'll venture into that mysterious Taoist temple."

He raised his head, a glint of light flashing in his eyes.

"Although the Aurora King is currently no match for the three of us working together, his cultivation has already reached the Great Perfection of the Saint Realm. Give him enough time, and once he truly takes that final step and fully enters the Great Perfection of the Saint Realm, then even if the three of us join forces again, we will be at his mercy!!"

The voice of Venerable Xuanwei carried a rare hint of urgency.

"So we have no choice! We can only hope that we can obtain some more treasured artifacts from that mysterious Taoist temple, allowing the three of us to advance further!!"

Upon hearing this, Venerable Qian Yuan and Venerable Ling Yuan nodded emphatically in unison.

That mysterious Taoist temple was discovered by chance by the three of them when they traveled through the universe in their early years in a void region that was not even marked on a star map.

It was precisely because they received the inheritance there that the three of them stepped into the threshold of the Holy Realm together.

"That's right!!" Venerable Qian Yuan suddenly raised his head, his eyes turning somewhat cold.

"Senior brother, with the injuries we three are in now, it will be impossible for us to fully recover without decades of recuperation."

"If we want a quick recovery, we can only capture another newly ascended human Saint Realm expert and devour their Saint Core!!"

Venerable Xuanwei narrowed his eyes slightly, and a thoughtful glint flashed in his somewhat cloudy eyes.

"A newly ascended Saint Realm being among the human race? Junior Brother!! You mean... that purple-haired kid from back then?"

"It is him." Venerable Qian Yuan nodded, his expression growing even colder.

"Although that kid was concealing his cultivation level back then, the Saint-level power he exuded was undeniable!"

Just then, a mocking laugh rang in their ears.

"Those three old geezers, still eyeing me? Tsk tsk tsk, they've got a pretty good plan, but too bad..."

"You've probably chosen the wrong person."

The expressions of the three Venerable Xuanwei changed simultaneously!