The underground cavern was deathly silent.
Su Qingyuan and Su Lingyao still huddled tightly together, hardly daring to breathe. Their faces remained pale.
But as they watched the hundred Sages outside sink into contemplation, their eyes filled with confusion.
Su Qingyuan lowered her voice, her breath trembling as she whispered to Li Yun, "Young Master Li, why... why have they all sat down to cultivate?"
"Didn't they come to kill the Demon Fox?"
Su Lingyao looked just as puzzled. "Exactly. So many powerful figures finally got in here. Why are they sitting down to cultivate instead?"
Li Yun slowly opened his eyes. A cold gleam flashed through them, and a frosty, mocking smile tugged at his lips. He kept his voice low, but every word was clear.
"Still can't see it?"
"It's not that they don't want to kill the Demon Fox. It's that what's before them tempts them more."
"Those four figures in the sky are the Four Great Heavenly Saints of antiquity. What remains of them is an eternal Saintly resonance, left behind at the cost of their lives and all the Dao principles they cultivated."
"For those three Great Sages, I'm afraid nothing could be more precious than the Dao Resonance left by the Four Great Heavenly Saints."
"As for killing the Demon Fox and heading off the calamity... to them, that's a minor matter they can set aside whenever they please."
The Su sisters' eyes widened. Horror spread across their faces, and their bodies went rigid.
They were hardly fools.
Li Yun's words made everything click.
"W-what?"
"So this was a trap from the very beginning?"
"And the Star Lord himself set it?"
Su Qingyuan's voice shook with disbelief. "Then our lineage digging up the Heavenly Saint Remnant Stele, and everything that happened afterward... he arranged