Heaven-Chosen Divine Sect's blessed grotto-heaven.
Goddess Xia Yan's consciousness returned to her true body. Beneath the radiance of the sect disciples' soul flames within the Bureau of Heavenly Observation, she sat in deep thought for a long while. The soul flames swayed now and then with soft whooshing sounds. Having lived through countless years, she felt the loneliness she had long grown accustomed to—yet, for no reason at all, it was now tinged with an unprecedented unease and fear.
All her calculations, and all the terms she had spoken of, had truly become so laughable amid the inner voices of the Azure Cloud Li Family and Li Yaowen's arrogant laughter.
"How dare they be so arrogant? Or is someone truly suppressing them all along?"
After a long silence, Goddess Xia Yan was doubtful, lost, and pained. Naturally, she could not calculate the strength and hidden cards of the Li Clan Members. The Li Clan's "heavenly secrets" were under Li Yaowen's protection. Yet she could still calculate the strength of the Li Family.
From the moment the Li Clan Members had walked out of that small mountain village, to their aptitudes and the paths their lives had taken, even the Bronze Gate and every possible source of aid—Goddess Xia Yan had been capable of deducing a person's entire life. Yet these people had come through wind and rain and grown to this day, and she always felt that something had been overlooked.
She calculated the Li Clan's present strength. It was absolutely impossible for them to survive on such a dead-end road, one that made enemies of the entire world. Nor should they possess such arrogance.
After repeatedly deducing the matter again and again, she changed her method. In mere moments, her furrowed brows relaxed.
All the power of her calculations