"If we're talking about old scores, I'd say you have a much bigger one with me. The Tribulation-Birth Sect, the Star-Moon Devil Sect—and, oh, Ancestor Jie Bing here also had a wager with my senior brother Chen and lost badly. So how do you plan to settle things?"
Lu Xiaotian swept his gaze across the group. That Celestial Silkworm Evil Venerable had an unusually powerful aura; Lu Xiaotian knew he was no match for him. But with Xiao Tiannan and Ji Qianshui backing him up, there was no chance of anything going wrong. Since the other side had made their intentions clear, Lu Xiaotian was keen to seize this opportunity to find a way to remove the Tribulation-Birth Gu from Luo Qian.
As for their talk of settling old grievances, that was probably all empty words. Lu Xiaotian had wiped out so many people from the Star-Moon Devil Sect and the Tribulation-Birth Sect that, if not for the Ghost Clan invasion, there would have been no possibility of reconciliation. No matter how pleasant their words sounded, if they got the chance, they would still strike to kill.
They had come here under the pretense of resolving their grievances, but all the world bustled for profit. They had either come for some benefit, or simply to make the Soaring Heavens Palace lose face—or to suppress it.
"Good. I like how direct you are, Fellow Daoist Lu. You once took my Star-Moon Devil Sect's flying warship, then used our ship to wipe out the Tribulation-Birth Sect's main camp. If you'd faced them head-on, that would be one thing, but I suspect you used some tricks as well. Our two sects are unconvinced. You were invincible among Golden Core cultivators, and now you've formed your Nascent Soul and become one of us. I