"Old monk, you say my killing intent is too strong? Then what did you come here for?"
Wild Blade hoisted a pitch-black saber forged from meteoric iron onto his shoulder. His savage, ferocious qi erupted like heavenly fire and molten lava as he fearlessly confronted Long-Brow Monk and the others from the Heavenly Heart Zen Monastery.
"You make it sound as though you and I have different aims. Who among us didn't come here for the secrets of that Dao Lord of Myriad Tribulations' cultivation?"
The Dao Lord of Myriad Tribulations had fallen, his qi reverberating through heaven and earth. The Earthly Fiend Refiners had all sensed it and begun to act.
But Xingyuanzi had been the first to discover the enormous hollow within the Mist Sea.
Rather than enter immediately and seize the initiative, he had blocked the "gateway" and quietly waited for the others to arrive.
With the Dao Lord of Myriad Tribulations dead, the Brahma Sun Sacred Palace destroyed, and Devil Master Xuan Yehua gravely weakened in the battle at the West Heaven Summit, only Mister Under the Moon could rival Xingyuanzi across the entire Celestial Star Sea.
With Xingyuanzi guarding the passage, the Earthly Fiend Refiners who arrived afterward could only rein in their impatience. If several joined forces, they stood a good chance of defeating or even killing him.
But who wanted to be the bird that stuck its head out first?
As for seeking another void passage, that would be nothing but a gamble!
Xingyuanzi guarded it for two or three days. Only when most of the Celestial Star Sea's twenty-odd Earthly Fiend Refiners had arrived did he let them through.
Wild Blade's words dripped with mockery, but Long-Brow Monk did not grow angry. With his eyes lowered, he said mildly, "Ten Thousand Tribulations