"Were you planning to make a meal of me yourself, or did you think I lacked the ability to come looking for trouble with you?"
"After all, you were destined to become the lofty clan chief of the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan, one of the most powerful figures in the Demon Domain, able to decide the life and death of countless living beings with a single word."
Ye Lin rubbed his fingers together, clicking his tongue in amazement.
Those words made Xuan Tian's expression turn gloomy.
"But you didn't die either, did you? After you escaped, I never came looking for trouble with you again, did I?"
As though he had found some flaw to seize upon, Xuan Tian spoke again.
"Kid, you've cultivated to this realm and experienced no small number of things, haven't you? Why are you still acting like a child?"
"Everything in this world has cause and effect. Once you do something, karma will cling to you. Don't you understand such a simple truth?"
"You must bear the corresponding consequences of everything you do."
"Do you understand? Back then, you besieged and tried to kill me—that was the cause. Now, I am destroying your Profound Origin Scorpion Clan—that is the effect. Do you understand, kid?"
"One of the Demon Domain's future most powerful figures, you say? If the entire Profound Origin Scorpion Clan were handed over to you, I'd say it would sooner or later be wiped out by someone anyway."
"And I merely hastened that process."
After Ye Lin finished speaking, he lightly placed his right hand atop Xuan Tian's head. Compared with his two brothers, the Xuan Tian before him was utterly unworthy of the title of prodigy.
He appeared to be at the peak of the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm, but in