When the Heavenly Demon saw how calm Li Qi was,
he said, "You do not seem to find this strange at all. Aren't you curious about what happened?"
"No. I cannot be bothered to be curious. What I needed to do is already done," Li Qi said.
"Is that so? You needed to destroy demons to establish the foundation of your Dao. Wasn't everything you had built upon that? Now that you have failed, how will you deal with it?"
The Heavenly Demon smiled. In truth, he had only been watching all along.
Why had the second-rank demonic path cultivators been destroyed so swiftly?
Because not only had the Heavenly Demon not intervened to stop it, he had instead fanned the flames. He had not acted personally; he had merely hinted to Emperor Chaos how important Li Qi was.
Thus Emperor Chaos had helped Li Qi take action, and Grand Duke Jupiter had also entered the plans of those second-rank demons at that time.
The Inner Demon was a second-rank member of the Heavenly Demon Lineage, and also the demon closest to the Inner Demon. He had made the Inner Demon believe that he would favor him, but in the Heavenly Demon's eyes, everything in this world other than himself was something that could be cast away at will.
No, not even he himself was exempt. To the Heavenly Demon, there was nothing worth caring about apart from the goal he desired.
And from beginning to end, the Heavenly Demon had only one goal.
To seek "something the Heavenly Demon had not yet imagined."
Just as he had said before.
Li Qi had once believed that this unimaginable thing was himself, but later he discovered that he had thought too highly of himself. He was merely a chess piece the