All seven Quasi-Emperors fell silent upon hearing this.
Though they had once been defeated by this man, they truly admired him from the bottom of their hearts.
Otherwise, why would they have tolerated Jiuhua letting Li Changsheng and the others go?
"We can give you the freedom you want."
"Even if you do not wish to join the noble clans, we can agree to that."
"But there is one thing you absolutely cannot do: stand on the Imperial Tutor's side."
Facing the noble clan Quasi-Emperors' demands, the Nine Splendors Emperor Lord sighed. "Your conditions are tempting. In truth, that was what I had originally intended as well."
"The Pill Epoch is turbulent and unsettled. I could have hidden away in the Nine Splendors World, keeping a low profile, then emerged once the dust had settled."
"But Heaven did not grant my wishes. Those little children happened to end up in my Nine Splendors World."
"The moment I saw them, I saw the future of the Pill Epoch—and the future of the world."
"As a Loose Cultivator who rose from among mortals, I truly could not find any reason not to help them."
"Besides, that Li Changsheng said something to me. Do you know what he said?"
Looking at the Nine Splendors Emperor Lord in the distance, one of the noble clan Quasi-Emperors said, "What did he say?"
"He comforted me!"
"He told me not to lose faith in this world, because he promised me that this world would not remain like this in the future."
"Do you know how shaken I was when I heard those words?"
"I, the mighty Nine Splendors Emperor Lord, was actually comforted by a cultivator in the Immortal King Realm."
"In this vast Pill Epoch, Li Changsheng was the only one who felt sorry for