"Cooperate?"
Hearing Fang Yuan's proposal, Ying Wu Xie's face inevitably revealed a hint of complicated emotion.
The relationship between Fang Yuan and Shadow Sect could truly be called tangled and convoluted.
As half a Demon from Beyond the Heavens, Fang Yuan had once been a chess piece arranged by heaven's will. In a desperate gamble, he returned to the past and ruined Shadow Sect's grand plan.
After successfully seizing the Supreme Immortal Aperture Gu, Fang Yuan and Shadow Sect had become irreconcilable enemies, unable to exist beneath the same sky.
In the battle of Yi Tian Mountain, Shadow Sect suffered a crushing defeat and wished nothing more than to tear Fang Yuan into ten thousand pieces.
Yet Fang Yuan made full use of time and the advantages of the Supreme Immortal Body, gradually rising to power until he began hunting down Ying Wu Xie and the others.
Had Ying Wu Xie and the others not assessed the situation and possessed excellent escape methods, they would already have died at Fang Yuan's hands.
After the battle at Countercurrent River, Fang Yuan had grown powerful enough to fight a Rank 8 Gu Immortal.
Once Purple Mountain True Lord took leadership of Shadow Sect, he began changing their strategy and became willing to cooperate with Fang Yuan. This was the turning point in their relationship.
Precisely because of such groundwork, when Fang Yuan proposed cooperation at this moment, Ying Wu Xie nodded and replied, "Then let us cooperate."
Ying Wu Xie did not resent cooperating with Fang Yuan.
More accurately, he had once resented and loathed it. When Purple Mountain True Lord had proposed it, he had found it incomprehensible.
But people always changed.
If it had been during the battle of Yi Tian Mountain, when Ying Wu Xie had just been born