"I can promise you one thing."
Gu Qingshan said.
The Heavenly Emperor watched him quietly, waiting for him to continue.
Gu Qingshan said, "At this critical moment, while we explore the Great Tomb, Starry Sky City is willing to coexist peacefully with the Heavenly Court—we can simply stop attacking each other, so the Sequences lurking in the shadows don't benefit."
"That's all?" the Heavenly Emperor asked.
Gu Qingshan smiled. "What else do you want? I just asked Starry Sky City. If you're the City Lord of the Heavenly Court, then you can't also be the City Lord of Starry Sky City."
"Perhaps I can," the Heavenly Emperor said.
Gu Qingshan paused, taken aback. "How is that possible?"
He'd guessed right.
—The Heavenly Emperor really was hiding within Starry Sky City.
Only a member of Starry Sky City could become its City Lord.
The Creator had to be using some terrifying secret art Gu Qingshan had never encountered to control the counterfeit Heavenly Emperor directly.
Then...
Just how many people could he control?
Taking a step back, if Gu Qingshan threw in his lot with him, could he replace Gu Qingshan at any moment and take everything he had?
If he could control countless living beings, would every one of them become a spare body for him?
This ability was too sinister.
Just thinking about it made a chill rise in Gu Qingshan's heart.
With so little information, he could only make it this far in his deductions.
As for how his opponent's ability actually worked, or whether it had even deeper powers, Gu Qingshan had no idea.
As if something had come to mind, the Heavenly Emperor said absently, "Nothing in this world is impossible. After all, even the Six Paths of Reincarnation has appeared..."
He fell silent for a