"Yan Xu" said calmly, "There are two Immortal Venerable vacancies left."
"If you can become a Venerable, it should be among Heaven and Earth, Yin and Yang, Being and Nonbeing... these six."
Only two Immortal Venerable vacancies remained?
Pei Ling listened, momentarily stunned.
The Human King, Zhong Kui Lie, had told him that the known Immortal Venerable vacancies were one for the Golden Crow Clan, one for the Dragon Race, and one contested by the Human King and the Lord of the Netherworld...
There should have been at least three!
Thinking of this, Pei Ling quickly asked, "Senior, can only the Golden Crow Clan and the Dragon Race become Venerables?"
"Can the Lord of the Netherworld not become one?"
In the later Panyai Realm, the Netherworld had already fallen, and the surviving You Su Fen had never fallen into the hands of the Human Race.
The Human King and the Lord of the Netherworld had certainly neither become Venerables.
Subtracting that vacancy, there really were only two left...
However, before Pei Ling could think further, "Yan Xu" said evenly, "Wrong."
"None of those three can become Venerables!"
"One of the two Immortal Venerable vacancies I mentioned is yours."
"The other one..."
As she spoke, "Yan Xu" smiled faintly and said no more.
The Golden Crow Clan and the Dragon Race couldn't become Venerables?
One of the two Immortal Venerable vacancies was his?
Pei Ling was taken aback, but quickly came to his senses.
If Immortal Venerable "Yan Xu" hadn't lied to him, then... the secret to becoming a Venerable was even more profound and abstruse than he'd imagined!
The Golden Crow Clan, the Dragon Race, the Lord of the Netherworld, the Human King Zhong Kui Lie... all wanted to become Venerables, but none of them could!
Was it because the