"Black Star was a cruel one." On a certain planet, Shi Long Huizhen shook his head and briefed Wang Qi and Ke Like on the case.
"Cruel?" Wang Qi recalled the encounter between Black Star and his benefactors, the Ant Clan, recorded within the Black Star Revenge Merit Monument, then nodded.
He had been willing to disregard the fact that more planets might suffer, demanding that the Ant Clan spare Shenzhong God for the time being, all so he could personally wound his enemy.
Someone without a heart hard enough could never have done such a thing.
Of course, Black Star had only been at the Foundation Establishment Realm back then. He probably had not known how many resources it took to raise an immortal to the level of Shenzhong God.
On the other hand, the Ant Clan's reaction had also been strange.
They had been willing to expend vast additional manpower and resources just to honor that agreement.
To put it bluntly, unless one was a Celestial Favored Clan, pursuing someone across Immortal Paths was nearly impossible.
The value of that promise even exceeded the productive capacity of many entire immortal civilizations without immortals.
Put another way, if the Ant Clan had wanted to buy lives, they could have used the manpower and resources spent on this operation to mine, then traded the extracted resources with ordinary civilizations. Plenty of High-level Cultivators would have been willing to sell the lives of their own kind.
If all that had been merely to buy the loyalty of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator with an uncertain future, was that not a little... excessive?
Wang Qi had even once suspected that the powerful being who had saved Black Star had attained the realm where past and future returned to one, then directly received spiritual