Exiled Hatu continued with a smile:
"You've seen the result yourself. You really did come, and you really did try to take my 'Starheart.' In truth, being able to lure an Alchemist like you to this world was the main reason I agreed to bring out the 'Starheart.' They all thought I could survive the Abyssal Doomsday Calamity. In fact, that was my time of death. I was exiled long ago. The Beast Family exiled me in the First Era, but the other Beasts couldn't be bothered to spread the news.
"This calamity is different. The current Lord of the Abyss doesn't care about the balance between the Abyss and the elements at all. It's different from the previous King Lord. It's too extreme—so extreme that it wants to drive the monsters at the edge of the Abyss to tear the Astral Realm apart.
"What it wants is eternal darkness. It ascended the throne before the previous Lord of the Abyss had perished. That had never happened in the long history of the past, so none of our major families accepted it.
"Dukain has declined. The other Beasts of Rune only care whether the Lord of the Abyss is powerful. If it's powerful, they acknowledge it. The Azguk Family is ambitious and now occupies the Wind Sea. Ao is forever so high above all others. The Collective has no interest in getting involved in this. They barely even leave the Abyss. Oh, right, the Mother Tree of the Black Maple was taken from the Collective Family by you Law Destroyers."
Exiled Hatu's words were somewhat jumbled, but Su Xiao was the one giving him his final dignity. He truly wanted to reveal some of the secrets he knew as payment. Besides, he was now on the brink of death.
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