Lu Yuan had no idea what the Seventh Elder was thinking.
He had no ability to peer into people's hearts across billions of miles.
Nor could he waste precious Power of Destiny on such trivial matters.
Besides, he was still in the midst of a campaign.
Basically, after killing one Earth Supreme, he would immediately hurry to another border line to wait for another Earth Supreme to come and die, then rush off to the next one.
The benefit of doing this was keeping the enemy outside the borders.
It spared his side from potential losses.
After all, when Earth Supremes fought, heaven and earth shattered.
If the two sides were evenly matched and had to determine a victor, the aftershocks of two Earth Supremes fighting at full strength could even destroy an entire continent.
Xiao Yan and Hun Tiandi's final battle was a good example.
At the end of the story.
If Xiao Yan had not sealed the Extraterrestrial Evil God with his own body, it was hard to say whether the other continents of the Dou Qi Continent could have been preserved, but Central Continent, where the battle had erupted, definitely would not have survived. Even the continental landmass would have been shattered apart. As for the common people living in Central Continent, including cultivators below the Dou Zong realm—in other words, every living being that had not mastered Spatial Power—they all would have died.
Therefore, fighting on one's own territory was a loss regardless of victory or defeat. That was certain.
Lu Yuan understood this very clearly.
Thus, keeping the enemy outside the borders was the best tactic he could offer.
The Years Blade was not absolutely invincible, either.
Suppose an Earth Supreme, from tens of millions of miles away, swung out a sword beam capable of