"Cause and effect? ... Heh heh, true enough. We have to settle our cause and effect in the end. You descended into the lower realm in mortal form—wasn't it precisely so that one day you could face a situation like today's? Cough, cough... But I..." Immortal Lord Wanqi gave a light cough.
I secretly thought that all four of these immortals were peerlessly clever. They knew what causes they had sown and what effects they would reap, so unlike ordinary immortals, who descended through Dao seeds, they had come down in the form of reincarnated lives. But precisely because of that, the disasters they brought were greater and even harder to deal with.
They weren't afraid of death. They were even willing to die for the sake of their own cause. That made beings like them terrifying!
"Actually, when Xia Yitian created the Creation Heaven, wasn't he giving an existence like you a chance? Why insist on proving the Dao in the Proving Dao Heaven? You fear that your Dao lineage's proving the Dao will overlap with another's. In truth, you could simply choose the Creation Heaven. Why insist on opposing the Creation Immortal Venerable alongside us?" Fairy Haoxi said calmly.
"..." Immortal Lord Wanqi said nothing. He looked at Fairy Haoxi, his eyes never shifting even half an inch. Only after a long while did he murmur, "Junior Sister... don't you understand my heart yet?"
"Shut up!" Fairy Haoxi's voice suddenly turned cold, and even I furrowed my brows. In that instant, I shuddered inwardly and immediately sensed a certain truth.
But just as I was racking my brains and tracing through the information I had gathered, Immortal Lord Wanqi said with a bitter smile, "I'm sorry. For a moment, I failed to hold true to my heart. Fairy