Inside the Vardy Family's sacrificial hall, in the Deep World.
The sacrificial hall was about seven meters high. Scaled, fur-covered tentacles hung down from above, adding a filthy, eerie quality to the solemn scene.
On the stone seat at the innermost part of the hall sat Vardy Family's first patriarch, Vardy Terecci. The old monster seemed to be smiling, but his completely gray-black eyes and their depths made anyone's heart tremble.
The old monster no longer felt human. His aura was clearly lifeless, yet it revealed no sign of decline.
"So you're the Chosen One selected by those two? The two from the church still haven't given up."
The old monster seemed to laugh, but his smile perfectly embodied the phrase "smiling with one's lips but not one's eyes."
"Did you come here on the orders of my two old friends? Or did you come to fight me for immortality?"
As the old monster spoke, an eye suddenly opened on his face. Its gaze was despairing, and its pupil trembled, clearly possessing an independent consciousness. If anyone familiar with the current patriarch of the Vardy Family, Vardy Lifak, had been present, they would have been stunned, because the owner of that eye was precisely Vardy Lifak. No one else in High Wall City had pupils like those.
The old monster calmly raised his hand, gouged out the eyeball growing from his face, and put it in his mouth to chew.
"..."
Su Xiao said nothing. He had come here neither because of the Grand Archbishop and Priest nor to seize immortality. Or rather, he had never cared about immortality. To pursue infinite possibilities within a limited life—that was what made life interesting.
Su Xiao's purpose here was simple. He upheld the fine tradition of the Shadow of Law Destruction: either