"Venerable Master..."
Seeing that matters had reached this point, the Deputy Cult Master simply laid everything bare.
"Venerable Master!"
"Have you forgotten why the people of Shu Mountain surrounded and hunted you down last time? For all we know, it was that so-called younger sister of yours who set you up. Venerable Master, wake up."
"Shut up!!" Shangguan Suiyun's eyes nearly split with fury.
Bearing the pressure of a Tribulation Crossing Stage Great Power, the Deputy Cult Master could not stop his entire body from trembling.
Though he was at the peak of the Body Integration Realm, known as half a step into Tribulation Crossing—
Compared to a true Tribulation Crossing Great Power, however, the difference was as vast as clouds and mud.
"Venerable Master, you are Shangguan Suiyun—the renowned lord of Supreme City, the king of the Netherworld Desolation.
Have you forgotten how, when you were young, this subordinate followed you and fought our way step by step through the Netherworld Desolation, until we reached our present position?
You commanded from within the command tent, excelled at laying out schemes, and plotted against men's hearts...
But now... now you are being played in the palm of some little girl's hand. Venerable Master, where has the you of old gone?"
The Deputy Cult Master cried out, tears and snot streaming down his face.
Back then, he and Shangguan Suiyun had both been slaves of Supreme City. Only after enduring countless hardships had they gained everything they possessed today.
Their life stories had even made the front-page headlines of the Central Continent World News.
Countless people had idolized them.
Though that issue of the World News was later pulled from circulation, it still filled the Deputy Cult Master with immense pride.
The most correct choice he had ever made in his