I smiled at her and said, "It's fine. The truth will always see the light of day again. But I'm also quite astonished that the leader of this Heavenly Realm is actually so powerful. The density of his meridians far exceeds anything I imagined, and they're meridians from many years ago at that. I wonder what they're like now."
Xie Chuhe smiled and nodded. Her mood brightened, and after hearing what I said, she replied, "My younger sister is even stronger than him, which amazes me even more. As for the leader of that Heavenly Realm, we'll be able to meet him very soon."
"Mm, perhaps." I sighed inwardly. When Xie Chuhe truly meets him, she'll probably be wounded from head to toe, won't she? Perhaps she'll never trust anyone again. After all, I was the real Xia Yitian, and I might even have to destroy everything she had personally protected—including the Zhaoyin Immortal Prefecture.
But for the sake of the war, I had no choice but to do this. Shouldn't the Heavenly Realm feel even more aggrieved? It had to resist the corrupt energy and raise the banner of resistance for all under heaven, yet the Jie Cult had brought its troops right to the gates. If I didn't do this, the Ninth Heaven would fall sooner or later!
However, just as Xia Chuhe and I were communicating through voice transmission, Heizi suddenly gave a deep chuckle. "Hehe, since this young lady isn't an impostor of the person I had in mind, why don't we discuss the Spirit-Assimilation Art? If I remember correctly, Xia Yitian was also extremely skilled at using it—powerful, too. What a curious coincidence. The trajectories of your fates are actually so similar."
My heart tightened. Only then did I remember the karmic mutual devouring of