Chapter 1076: Xia! Devil Emperor Xia! (1)
We're nearing the entrance to the Abyss. Wu Yuan was seated on a battleship, directing it with a fraction of his consciousness.
This battleship, though only a top-grade Dao Instrument, could traverse the Spacetime Intersection Layer at light speed with his mana body taking full control.
In terms of combat power, his mana body was no different from his qi refiner self in most aspects, with the only disparity being the absence of his lifebound flying swords.
At present, Wu Yuan had four major combat bodies—his body refiner self, his ether body, his qi refiner self, and his mana body. He had left only his qi refiner self behind to guard the Greenridge Macrocosm.
After all, when it came to direct combat, neither his qi refiner self nor his mana body could match his body refiner self or ether body. Their greatest utility lay in domain suppression and evasion, so his mana body was sufficient for this journey.
As for why he left his qi refiner self behind, there were two reasons: first, to safeguard against any unforeseen circumstances in the Greenridge Macrocosm. Second, in the worst-case scenario where his body refiner self perished, he would still have hope for survival.
I suspect Senior Brother Bei Zhen is still puzzling over the relationship between my qi refiner self and body refiner self. Wu Yuan smirked.
Only his mana body met with Overlord Bei Zhen, not Wu Yuan's body refiner self. Moreover, he hadn't informed Overlord Bei Zhen of his intention to enter the Abyss, only requesting help to capture Sovereign Gui Chi, stating that a Devil Sovereign friend would arrive at the destination to bring back Sovereign Gui Chi's ether body. And all of this was ‘a request for assistance from his friend Wu Yuan’.
Thus, in Overlord Bei Zhen's eyes, it was the Overlord Wu Yuan of the Eldritch Court who had asked Ming Jian to meet him, offering a Xiantian artifact in exchange for enlisting Devil Emperor Ku Mu's help in capturing Sovereign Gui Chi. From Overlord Bei Zhen's perspective, he had only communicated with Ming Jian from start to finish.
The relationship between the two true selves can be explained as that of close friends who would die for each other. There's no need to reveal more if it can be avoided. Wu Yuan mused, his mind serene.
In truth, the safest approach would have been for Devil Emperor Ku Mu to capture Sovereign Gui Chi and deliver him to the entrance of the Abyss for the exchange. Unfortunately, the other party could only confirm the location of Sovereign Gui Chi's ether body, not his true self.