Uchiha Hiko's move left Taishang Laojun a little stunned. One thought kept circling through her mind: Could this man really defeat her?
His confidence was truly formidable. She had occupied this position for even longer than the Earthly Heavenly God had existed. If she had not been too lazy to concern herself with worldly affairs, why would she have chosen such a leisurely job as guarding the Eight Trigrams Furnace?
More importantly, guarding the Eight Trigrams Furnace earned even more merit than the position of Heavenly God. How could she possibly hand such an easy, lucrative job over to someone else?
The price, however, was that every hundred years, a piece of the Eight Trigrams Furnace's ground would go mad and fall away. That spot was where the furnace fire had burned hottest over the past century, the place with the highest temperature in the entire Eight Trigrams Furnace. Repairing it meant facing the risk of certain death.
She still remembered that the Earthly Heavenly God of the previous generation had not been nearly so old. She had gone to ask the Heavenly God for help before getting it fixed.
Another matter was keeping watch for the eggshells left behind by a phoenix's nirvana every two hundred years, collecting them as reserves.
As it happened, Taishang Laojun, who had stayed home so long she was practically growing mold, had not gone looking for phoenix eggshells during these past two hundred years!
So the current situation was a little troublesome.
Before Taishang Laojun could think any further, Uchiha Hiko had already erupted with ki.
Pale yellow ki instantly surged forth, gradually turning nearly dark yellow.
Ki that was about to surpass that of the Heavenly God was so terrifying that it gave Taishang Laojun a fright. She had never heard of