What had just happened was exceedingly bizarre, and they had witnessed the terror of time's power.
Yet it did not frighten them. Instead, it stirred in them the desire to take it for themselves.
Such was the confidence of supreme experts, and the embodiment of how the immortal path demanded struggle.
Divine Heart and Old Man of Heavenly Secrets said nothing, but their gazes had already turned dangerous.
"Everyone, I am merely a strand of divine thought, truly here only for a trade. Even if you erase me here, you will absolutely never obtain the River of Time."
Ancestor of the Extraterritorial still wore an indifferent expression.
"Heh... Then we'll storm the Ascension Sanctum."
The master of Night Abyss Hall spoke sharply.
Ancestor of the Extraterritorial sighed helplessly. "Why must it be so? We are all searching along the immortal path. Why can we not coexist?"
No one answered those words, yet the eyes of the gathered supreme experts had already made everything clear.
They were filled with profound disdain.
Ancestor of the Extraterritorial sighed again. "I know that you have always regarded us Extraterritorial Beings as remnants from ancient times, wanting to wipe us out..."
This time, he was interrupted before he could finish.
The one who interrupted him was Old Man of Heavenly Secrets.
"What does it have to do with what era you came from?"
"When have Extraterritorial Beings ever entered the world without stirring up storms of blood and rain?"
"Do you truly not understand why?"
Shameless beyond measure and thick-skinned to the extreme, Ancestor of the Extraterritorial replied, "We are merely fighting to survive."
"Pfft!"
Zhan Taichong sneered, the disdain in his eyes growing ever deeper.
Ancestor of the Extraterritorial maintained that calm expression, utterly unconcerned.
"Everyone, why not hear the terms of my trade