The slovenly old man looked extremely uncomfortable. Helplessly, he said, "All I can say is that I truly don't know the reason behind this."
Su Yi fixed his gaze on the slovenly old man. "I'm asking who sought you out to inquire about this matter."
After a brief silence, the slovenly old man sighed. "It was the Star Radiance Emperor!"
"So it was her."
Su Yi murmured, and the image of a woman with blood-red flowing hair arose in his mind. Standing amid the starry skies, with countless stars bowing around her, she was cold and proud, lofty as a god!
Qing Wei, who had been silently seated at the side, was inwardly startled as well.
The Star Radiance Emperor!
One of the three great demon emperors of the North Darkness Sea in the Immortal Realm!
Su Yi recalled something.
Back when he had roamed the Era of Demons, he had encountered an Immortal Lord named Mu Jing. This man came from the Green Mulberry Wood Clan, whose ancestors had once guarded the dark battlefield at the Immortal Realm's borders and established peerless military merits.
One of the Green Mulberry Wood Clan's ancestors, Mu Chaosheng, had once served at Wang Ye's side.
Mu Jing was Mu Chaosheng's descendant!
It was also then that Su Yi learned that, at the very beginning, Mu Jing had acted on the Star Radiance Emperor's orders and infiltrated Xue Xiaozi's camp to serve there.
The reason was simple. After Wang Ye was ambushed by a host of peerless great enemies, the entire Immortal Realm had been shaken. Everyone believed that the Eternal Night Emperor, who had dominated an era, had perished as a result.
But the Star Radiance Emperor did not think so.
She had plotted for many years, secretly contacting numerous immortal factions and