Black Deer Martial Lord stood to one side, his expression somewhat complicated.
"What a pity. People's hearts are far too complicated. If that mysterious force could stand united with us, how could the matter East Monarch entrusted to us be so difficult to accomplish?
What a pity. They are far too mysterious, impossible to communicate with. Otherwise... if they could meet East Monarch and hear his words, they would surely be convinced by him and work together for this world."
Qi Yuan glanced at Black Deer once more. "East Monarch is such a good speaker? I'm looking forward to meeting him more and more."
These people's faith in East Monarch had reached a terrifying degree.
Qi Yuan found it rather strange.
Could it be that East Monarch possessed personal charisma like his own?
Still, Qi Yuan believed he fell somewhat short of East Monarch.
After all, all his citizens were his divine infants. They were all himself.
It was perfectly normal for him to believe in himself.
Suddenly, Qi Yuan thought of the corpse in the coffin within the ruins. "Have you ever seen East Monarch's Dao companion, the master of the Ancestor Demons?"
Black Deer Martial Lord shook his head. "Never. We have never seen East Monarch's true body either. What we saw were merely his avatars."
"Oh." Qi Yuan did not think further about it.
Black Deer Martial Lord's gaze fell beneath the tower, a smile in his eyes. "Mr. Qi truly has a discerning eye and excellent judgment of people.
That boy named Mu Yan has already reached the fifteenth floor and stands among the first echelon.
As for that black-robed boy, heh heh, he really is afraid of heights. He was so frightened on the sixth floor that he did not dare move.
The sixth floor