Saintly Venerable Shiyou's words carried no trace of anger, but anyone could hear the hidden clash of blades and the bloodshed boiling beneath them.
The two bore a deep grudge. Although Saintly Venerable Qing Kui had led men to attack Myriad Phenomena Palace, Saintly Venerable Ji Shuang's influence was everywhere in that assault. Several Mahayana cultivators under Saintly Venerable Ji Shuang had participated directly, and Saintly Venerable Ji Shuang himself had even shown up.
That was Myriad Phenomena Palace, filled with countless treasures—an irresistible, deadly temptation to any Mahayana cultivator.
After what had happened to Myriad Phenomena Palace, there was no possibility of resolving the enmity between the two sides.
"I couldn't ask for more. I had exactly the same intention." Saintly Venerable Ji Shuang smiled faintly and agreed without the slightest hesitation.
Although he did not know what Saintly Venerable Shiyou had been through over the years, Saintly Venerable Ji Shuang knew that he certainly had not been in secluded cultivation. Information had circulated through several generations of guardians of Sacred Abyss Hall, claiming that Saintly Venerable Shiyou's Destiny Lamp had grown dim and was almost extinguished.
Sacred Abyss Hall was a strange place in the True Demon Realm. Within it were the fortune indicators of the Seven Primal Saint Venerables, known as the Destiny Lamps. The Destiny Lamps were not soul lamps belonging to the Seven Primal Saint Venerables, but representations of their destinies. Each Destiny Lamp represented whether the fortune of one Primal Saint Venerable still remained.
If a Destiny Lamp went out, it meant that the corresponding Primal Saint Venerable had lost his fortune and would be replaced by someone else. Once the replacement succeeded, the Destiny Lamp of that Primal Saint Venerable would shine brightly once more.
That was also why seven supreme Mahayana cultivators