Hearing Xiao Tianye's words, Xia Wuji's expression changed noticeably at once.
A Dark Being holding the Azure Greatsword had saved Xiao Tianye and Master Duanmu?
The reason Duanmu Qingfeng and Xiao Tianye had survived the Dark Being who had been on the verge of ascending to the Great Sage level was actually this!
Xia Wuji immediately asked, "Commander Xiao, where is that Dark Being now?"
Following the Sea Spirit Imprint's sense, he had separated from the army of cultivators from the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land and found his way here. Yet the Sea Spirit Imprint's sense had vanished, and by a twist of fate, he had discovered Duanmu Qingfeng and Xiao Tianye.
Now, through Xiao Tianye, he was about to obtain clues about the Golden Sea King Sword once more.
These complicated karmic threads had become intertwined.
Xiao Tianye said, "That Dark Being isn't actually too far from where Master Duanmu and I were discovered."
"But that Dark Being is extremely strange."
"He has clearly been severely corrupted by darkness, yet he is still desperately suppressing it."
"Master Duanmu judged that the sword could suppress the darkness. He also said that he sensed an extremely faint power of light within that Dark Being's body."
"But even with that faint power of light inside him, and that sword suppressing the darkness, he shouldn't be able to hold on for long. His condition is already on the verge of collapse."
"Precisely because of this, even after Master Duanmu and I were exposed, we never thought of bringing that Dark Being along. He could no longer help us."
Xia Wuji's thoughts raced.
The power of light that Duanmu Qingfeng had sensed within that Dark Being was probably the result of the Dark Being cultivating the introductory chapter of the Scripture of Light that