Haiye and Iluka were the same person, and the one Orloff had killed was the Light Sovereign's clone! It involved one of the eleven most precious High-level Sovereign Sparks in the world!
"That doesn't make sense..." Desterie murmured again, a new doubt rising in his mind. Bula Clan members could recognize their own kind when they met. Since Orloff had personally killed Haiye, there was no reason he wouldn't recognize Iluka on the Plane Battlefield.
But soon, certainty gradually returned to Desterie's eyes. During the first battle between his Destruction Divine Clone and Iluka, Iluka had wielded not an Earth Attribute Sovereign Artifact, but a Light Attribute Sovereign Artifact! Yet when Iluka was on his Ten-Win Streak in Heaven, he hadn't used any Sovereign Artifact at all on the Plane Battlefield!
It wasn't that he couldn't use one; he simply didn't want to. He didn't want the Sovereigns to discover the attribute of his Sovereign Artifact, much less investigate where it had come from!
He was on good terms with the Earth Sovereign, yet possessed a Light Sovereign Artifact. It hadn't seemed unusual before, but now it was impossible not to read more into it.
Just as Desterie figured it out, at the edge of the Mulan Material Plane, Iluka suddenly turned and spotted Desterie's Life Divine Clone racing toward him at breakneck speed. Surprise crossed his face.
As far as he could remember, he had only encountered Desterie's Life and Death Divine Clones separately a handful of times. He had certainly never seen Desterie hurry across a Material Plane at full speed like this. After all, Desterie was the true Overlord of the Mulan Material Plane.
Desterie landed lightly in front of Iluka and got straight to the point. "The true master keeps a low profile, Light Sovereign Haiye."