To Southern Celestial Venerable, standing from the position of an uninvolved bystander, he simply had no desire to confront Ye Xiwen head-on over an Emperor Lord, even if he was merely a newcomer who had just stepped into the Celestial Venerable realm.
But anyone who had entered this realm was difficult to deal with, not to mention that he was no longer in his former peak condition.
Even if Ye Xiwen had done it, so what? If Ye Xiwen were still a Peak Emperor Lord, then they could settle accounts with him. But now, becoming enemies with Ye Xiwen over a Ruyi Divine Emperor was truly not worth it.
Time and Space Celestial Venerable merely snorted coldly and ultimately said nothing, because he knew very well that this single handle was likely insufficient to do anything to Ye Xiwen. Besides, he could not be certain that Ruyi Divine Emperor's death had anything to do with Ye Xiwen.
Just now, he had merely wanted to interrogate him, hoping Ye Xiwen might reveal a few flaws. Who would have thought it would prove useless?
During the period when the Outer Domain army had surrounded Creation Divine Capital, heavenly secrets had been chaotic and murky, impossible to calculate. Coupled with the chaos of war at the time, who knew where Ruyi Divine Emperor had gone?
Nor did anyone know whose hands he had died in.
Even now, there was still a heap of messes to deal with. If Battle Venerable had not been handling matters all this time, the problems awaiting them when they emerged from seclusion would have been even more severe.
They had lost this contest of schemes, and in the end, under the pressure of Celestial Venerables across the world, they had no choice but to make concessions.
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