In the Heavenly Screen, Venerable Gu Yi, who had led the Sacred Hall for ten thousand years, had died.
His death had been so sudden and abrupt. He hadn't even fallen fighting a Dimensional Demon God—he had been killed in a sneak attack by a few insignificant lackeys.
The Sacred Hall had lost its leader, and the Universe had lost its strongest guardian!
The Audience on Douluo Continent were left bewildered.
In fact, earlier, when Kaecilius and Huo Yuhao had said on the Heavenly Screen that Supreme Mage Gu Yi had lived for ten thousand years by drawing on the power of the Dark Dimension, quite a few people had already wondered about it.
Magic users could live for a thousand years if they reached a Profound Realm of cultivation. Yet most of the Temple Mages had lifespans of less than a hundred years, because using high-cost magic to protect the Universe took such a heavy toll on them.
So why had Gu Yi, the Sacred Hall's Supreme Being, who shouldered the greatest burden, been able to live for ten thousand years?
Was he really drawing on the power of the Dark Dimension, just as Kaecilius had said? Had he defected to Dormammu long ago?
Some people with darker thoughts even muttered that some of the years of life the Temple Mages lost through using magic might have been siphoned off by Gu Yi.
Or perhaps there was no cost to using magic at all. Maybe the supposed price was just a lie Gu Yi had made up to harvest lifespans, and the Mages had actually been handing all the years they lost while casting spells over to him?
Of course, most people still held on to their simple good faith. They believed that someone who had protected the Universe