Crescent, Nine Realms, an Old Friend's Aura

Within the merchant pavilion of the Fate Dao Palace in Profound Fortune Dao City, Liu Yuan Heavenly Venerable wore a complicated expression. He had all manner of conjectures about Han Yi's identity, but in the end, he buried every thought in his heart.

Though he had never acted as a robbery cultivator himself, he knew that in the Chaos, Heavenly Venerables from certain great factions occasionally took on the role of robbery cultivators.

He simply had not expected Heavenly Venerable Xuan Mang of the Myriad Travel Palace to be one of them—and to be killed by his target instead.

That was right.

Han Yi had just revealed that he had once gone to the Myriad Travel Palace to buy an ancient sword, and the items he subsequently put up for trade happened to be Heavenly Venerable Xuan Mang's natal ancient artifact and several other related ancient artifacts.

The situation could not have been clearer. It was easy to infer that after Han Yi bought the ancient artifact, greed had arisen in Heavenly Venerable Xuan Mang's heart. He had attempted to rob Han Yi, only to be killed in return.

Otherwise, Liu Yuan Heavenly Venerable simply could not believe that Han Yi had been able to forcibly kill Xuan Mang within the Myriad Travel Palace, then walk away unhurriedly without the slightest Dao injury. Had that truly happened, the news would have been impossible to suppress and would already have spread throughout the Chaos.

In the end, he could only sigh. "What a mysterious and terrifying fellow."

Then he summoned his junior brother, another Heavenly Venerable, and instructed him to fetch two ancient swords from the other two Dao Cities of the Fate Dao Palace.

On the other side.

After leaving the merchant pavilion of the Fate Dao Palace, Han