"I often suspected the sect had gone mad."
"They were sending us to the Jiao Ming Domain on a mission with the Great Sun Sword Son."
Soil-Calming Sage sent a low voice transmission to the Dao Children around him. "How was that any different from sending a wolf out to herd sheep?"
"The ancestors' thirst for what lay beyond Void Refinement had already made them lose their minds. Those of us below did not even dare remonstrate."
"Senior Brother An's words truly echoed my heart..."
Azure Wood Dao Child Ji Liuyue revealed a mournful expression.
"Right,"
"When was the last time we encountered him?"
Xuanwu Dao Child recalled something, and a chill ran through him as he repeatedly pressed for an answer.
"Three hundred and fifty-six years, seven months, and twenty-seven days ago, at the Yin Yang Void Realm."
Heavenly Secrets Dao Child answered at once.
"That long ago?"
The Dao Children around them were instantly horrified.
Array patterns emerged among them one after another. Instinctively, they formed an array with each other, their movements incomparably practiced. They were countless levels stronger than they had been hundreds of years ago; clearly, they had drilled it innumerable times over those centuries and undergone a qualitative transformation.
"By all rights,"
"He should already have fallen into bloodthirsty madness. That was the Great Sun Sword Son's instinct—he had to be nourished with blood. Recently, though, there did not seem to have been any news of a Deity Transformation Cultivator dying?"
Heavenly Secrets Dao Child asked doubtfully.
His divine sense swept out without the slightest courtesy, scanning the Youth in Green Robes not far away to confirm his condition, so he could decide whether to fight or flee.
"There were—the two from Xu Realm... But that still was not enough..."
The Dao Children around