"What did you say?"
"Leng Yue was being hunted by Red Sand Ancient God?"
"And no one knows why?"
A hundred thousand years later, somewhere in the void between planes, Li Yun's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot.
After leaving the region shrouded in Ominous Miasma, Li Yun had not hurried to the other meeting place Leng Yue had named.
Instead, he concealed his aura and roamed the Boundary Sea's void, quietly searching for traces of her.
At last, a hundred thousand years later, he happened upon an Undying Ancient God of the One-Wheel Realm and learned something about Leng Yue from him.
The news left Li Yun furious.
Only after hearing the One-Wheel Realm Ancient God's account did he learn that Leng Yue had left the Ancient Mirror Plane three hundred million years ago because Red Sand Ancient God was hunting her.
No one knew why.
Many people knew about it, but their stories differed. One widespread rumor claimed Red Sand Ancient God had wanted Leng Yue as his Dao Companion. She had refused, enraging him and prompting the hunt.
But once Li Yun learned Red Sand Ancient God's identity and origins, he knew it was nothing like the rumors claimed.
Red Sand Ancient God came from the Three Saints Palace and served as Yun Mo, the Second Young Venerable's, guardian. It was highly unlikely that Leng Yue had refused to become his Dao Companion and that he had hunted her out of wounded pride.
More likely, it was because she had sheltered Lian Zixing, the Three Saints Palace's Seventh Young Venerable.
In other words, the feud between the Second and Seventh Young Venerables had dragged Leng Yue into the mire.
But this...
When all was said and done, he had caused it.
If he