It had originally been nothing more than a conversation where honesty was traded for life.
But as they spoke, Water Ghost suddenly seized Yama's Five Declines of Heaven and Man, practically striking to kill.
A Supreme Master, wielding Water-type Ultimate Meaning in conjunction with the Subdimensional Door.
Even the Half-Saint Five Declines of Heaven and Man had failed to react before being controlled on the spot.
No one had foreseen this turn of events.
But...
Was it really unexpected? It hardly counted as an accident. This was simply normal performance.
Once again, the middle-aged and elderly Spirit Refiners on Void Island recalled one of the greatest terrors they had known in their era.
"Yu Mo the Great Devil King..."
There were only mistaken names, never mistaken nicknames.
The title "Great Devil King" was no joke!
Yu Mo had dominated the Holy Spirit Hall's mid- to high-end combat forces decades ago, back when he had still been part of the younger generation—when he had been even younger than Yu Lingdi.
Back then, Dao Qiongchang had been painstakingly studying the Heavenly Secrets Art. He had not yet become one of the Ten Seat Holders, nor had he risen to fame in a single battle.
Yet the Holy Spirit Hall had suddenly produced this youngest Ultimate Meaning-level Spirit Refiner, who nearly crushed every last prodigy on Gui-Zhe Holy Mountain.
Even the Six Divisions' chief seats of the later era, who had been making names for themselves at the time, could not equal a single finger of that Great Devil King when combined.
Schemes, combat prowess, talent...
He had it all! The younger Night Owl, Teng Shanhai, Wang Big Hammer, Aberrant, and the rest could not even glimpse the Great Devil King's back.
Those who shared their fame were not the Great Devil King,