"You mean..." Xue Ku of the Blood Prison Dao Realm had a bloodthirsty gleam in his eyes, yet his voice carried an almost imperceptible tremor.
"That talisman came from... someone in the Da Luo true realm?"
The Da Luo true realm!
Those words weighed on everyone's hearts, leaving them struggling to breathe.
"Impossible."
Gantian immediately shook his head, rejecting the conjecture.
"Those in the Da Luo true realm have long since become one with the laws of the Hongmeng Universe. Their origin is immortal, and fortune has long been an external possession to them. It simply isn't worth going to such lengths over."
"Besides, if someone in the Da Luo true realm had truly come in person, why bother with something as troublesome as talismans?"
"A single thought would have been enough to erase Xuan Cang and the others at their very roots. We wouldn't even have had a chance to sense their Life-Soul Lamps going out."
Gantian's analysis won most of them over.
Indeed, this was not how someone in the Da Luo true realm should have acted.
"Then who could it be?" Buddha Fankong of the Brahma Sea Dao Realm asked, his brow deeply furrowed.
"When did such a mysterious force appear in the Flowing Light Domain?"
Just as everyone was puzzling over it to no avail, You Xuan, the lord of the Nether Dao Realm, who had remained silent and shrouded in shadow, suddenly let out a cold laugh.
"Someone in the Da Luo true realm naturally wouldn't enter the fray personally for this little bit of fortune."
His hoarse voice slowly echoed through the hall.
"But... the Hunyuan Wuji cultivators serving those top-tier domains overseen by Da Luo true realm experts need fortune to break through to higher realms."
You Xuan's words were like a bolt