Kanshui was a True Monarch after all. After only a few breaths, it came back to itself and could not help muttering softly.
"And Fate too... A True Venerable this young, and you let him leave Houde, and, and, and counterkill a Great Monarch?"
In a True Monarch's eyes, all below the Out-of-Body Realm were ants, and it might not help even if it would only take a lift of its hand.
But someone who had comprehended Creation and Destruction, tempered his body with Creation, also cultivated Fate on the side, and was such a young True Venerable besides...
Even if Houde was some backwater, there was no way it could fail to understand what kind of seedling this was, right?
Jade could not become a tool unless it was carved, and towering trees did not grow in greenhouses. Everyone understood that principle.
But for a seedling like this, you let him go counterkill a Great Monarch, and more than once...
Such a peerless, monstrous genius—even in the entire history of the Houde Realm, had there ever been one? Had there ever been one???
Only after pausing for more than a dozen breaths did it ask again, "The True Meaning of Fate—how did you preserve it?"
A Great Monarch was worthy of being a Great Monarch. It did not question the existence of the True Meaning of Fate, but as for preserving it... it was not afraid to admit it did not understand.
"I don't know," Han Li answered, and that answer was truly one of a kind. "We thought a Great Monarch would know."
"That temper of yours..." True Monarch Kanshui was clearly about to say something rather unfriendly again.
In the end, however, it held back. "Even those above Great Monarch are not omnipotent."
Its interest had clearly