Inside a pavilion beneath the arena, Lu Yue, the Third Elder of Demon Quelling Palace, watched True Lord Jingyue below holding a disc, a trace of confusion flashing through his eyes.
"Sect Leader Senior Brother, hadn't you previously told Senior Brother Hu to try not to let Song Qingming run into anyone from Qingyang Sacred Sect? Why did these two still end up meeting?
Could it be that Jingyue and the others came knocking again afterward?"
"Hehe! Junior Brother Lu, you do not know this—this time, it was not Qingyang Sacred Sect's doing."
"Not Qingyang Sacred Sect's? Then who deliberately arranged for the two of them to fight? Surely it could not have been Fellow Daoist Song's request?"
Seeing Lu Yue turn toward him with a face full of bewilderment, He Yuliang, the Sect Leader of Demon Quelling Palace, still shook his head.
"Junior Brother, you misunderstand. Neither Fellow Daoist Song nor Qingyang Sacred Sect came to us over this matter. The deliberate arrangement for them to face each other in the battle for the top ten...
Was actually Heavenly Imperial Sect."
"Heavenly Imperial Sect! Why would they suddenly interfere in this? Senior Brother, what exactly is going on?"
Faced with Lu Yue's somewhat astonished question, He Yuliang merely smiled and shook his head.
"To be honest, I do not know why the people of Heavenly Imperial Sect suddenly wanted this arrangement either. It is probably related to the one above!"
"..."
On the arena above, Song Qingming's expression also grew somewhat grave as he looked at the white disc in True Lord Jingyue's hand.
The cultivation method primarily practiced by this Qingyang Sacred Sect Leader was not the Azure Yang True Fire cultivated by Hu Yukun and the others, but a metal-element cultivation method similar to Xia Mo's, one