"It was him..."
Li Yue murmured, somewhat dazed.
Back then.
An enormous, indifferent eye had appeared above him and given him a talisman for the Gray Valley Ark.
At the same time, an indifferent, majestic voice had sounded in his mind.
The voice he heard now was exactly the same as the one he had heard then!
They were the same existence!
He remembered that the other party had said, "My name is Gray Valley."
In other words, the master of the Gray Valley Ark!
And judging by what he had just said—
Gray Valley had three souls, and the Soul Shadow he had brought inside was actually Gray Valley's Third Soul?!
He was dumbstruck, overcome by a sense of absurdity.
He had imagined that Soul Shadow's origins would be extraordinary, but never in his wildest dreams had he expected him to be the master of the Gray Valley Ark!
The Gray Valley Ark!
It had been left behind by a Supreme Existence from beyond the Three Thousand Dimensions. That Supreme Existence was at least Half-step Transcendence-grade, and might even stand above half-step Transcendence!
How had a mere Fourth Step Deity of the Dao-Treading Divine Rank like him accidentally stumbled upon such a heaven-defying powerhouse...?
"Cut the crap."
"While you were wasting away here, I went to the outside world and underwent reincarnation three times."
"Each time, I attained Dimension-level. Doesn't that make me a hundred times better than you?"
"I came back this time to initiate the Gray Valley Contest with you!"
Soul Shadow still stood with his hands on his hips as he sneered.
"Third, are you certain?"
"Once the Gray Valley Contest begins, there is no turning back."
"The three of us will inevitably unite as one and become the master of the Gray Valley Ark once