"I want you to go back and make a real mess over at the Heavenly Dao Sect."
The First Hall spoke without preamble.
But Hanyu heard the implication behind those words.
The Yanluo Hall was eager to send its sacred relic down. Was the Heavenly Dao Sect doing the very same thing?
"So the Heavenly Dao Sect is planning to send the Heaven River down too, right?"
Hanyu asked thoughtfully.
The First Hall looked pleased and chuckled.
"You're not completely stupid."
But that only deepened the confusion on Hanyu's face.
"You've already lost your formation. The Heavenly Dao Sect has no life force."
In other words, neither side had enough to get its sacred relic into the Central Continent.
The Yanluo Hall needed souls to fill its millstone, while the Heaven River of the Heavenly Dao Sect needed an endless supply of life force. Hanyu knew all that.
Could they still carry on without those two things?
"That's not something you need to worry about. When you go back, all you need to do is ruin things for me over at the Heavenly Dao Sect."
The First Hall spoke with a genial smile, but the suggestion nearly made Hanyu jump out of his skin.
He wanted Hanyu to charge headfirst into the Heavenly Dao Sect and cause trouble? Never mind anything else—Di Liuxin and Jiang Xinyuan would surely be delighted to see him walk right into their hands.
They could even kill him while they were at it.
"You think far too highly of me."
Hanyu shook his head. There was no way he could pull that off.
But the First Hall seemed utterly confident. He pointed at the Enlightenment Dao Forest before them and said meaningfully, "Didn't I give you enough providence? If you still don't have the nerve