Unlike the sycophants in the Goddess Palace, Gongsun Tianyang had always been known for speaking his mind.
At that moment, he simply turned around and faced Yang Ruolan.
"I said—we wait to die. If we're lucky, that brat will return as a Demon King, and I'll be half-dead after fighting him. If we're unlucky, everyone in the Goddess Palace will pay for the grievances he suffered back then."
He knew full well that if Wang Xian really managed to break through the barrier and return, with his innate spiritual physique and his cultivation at the Void Refinement Realm—
And with the deadly skills he had honed in the Demon Realm—
None of the so-called prodigies in Sword City would be his match!
Then it would be the turn of elders like him to step in.
And the outcome was easy to imagine.
Yang Ruolan trembled with rage, her golden cloak snapping in the wind and snow.
She glared at the meritorious elder and snapped, "Have you no backbone? You really think he can turn the world upside down?!"
In her eyes, Wang Xian's ability to break through the barrier and leave was already incredible luck.
If that demonic dragon hadn't suddenly appeared, how could Wang Xian have broken through a barrier that had held for a thousand years? Never mind returning through it again years later—
"That's a joke!" Yang Ruolan gritted out.
Gongsun Tianyang only smiled.
His smile looked especially bleak amid the wind and snow. "Who knows? For a thousand years, no one had managed to break through the barrier and leave. But didn't he do it?"
He paused, then continued, "Some things will happen whether we're willing to believe in them or not."
Yang Ruolan was so angry she couldn't speak.
In the Goddess Palace, only a