The Sword of Time Astonished Heaven and Earth

To everyone else, the Innate Sacred Sect's position looked excellent.

Liu Dongqing had yet to show himself.

But the collapse of those Daoist sanctuaries in the Yang World, and of a thousand miles of Splendid Mountains and Rivers, could not be faked.

The younger of the two devils had escaped certain death, while the elder was plainly on the verge of attaining Spirit Transformation.

One more step, and the Innate Sacred Sect's might would blaze forth, unstoppable.

Yet amid this spectacle of flames fed with oil, Liu Dongqing was the first to feel an intense sense of danger!

If Shouchen advanced smoothly to Spirit Transformation, the fragile balance between them would be utterly broken.

Worse, Liu Dongqing's feat of fighting above his realm and killing several Nascent Soul Peak cultivators would become proof of this "hyena's" value as a creature worth keeping.

It would tell Shouchen, soon to become the world's only Spirit Transformation cultivator, one unmistakable fact.

Liu Dongqing held a great secret!

A secret worth coveting even to him!

And as a Spirit Transformation cultivator, Shouchen would have the power to pry into it!

This was not the best outcome for the Innate Sacred Sect.

It was the worst outcome for Liu Dongqing!

He could not sit and wait for death!

He had to do something!

Kill that old dog Shouchen while I have the chance?

That fierce killing intent flashed through Liu Dongqing's mind.

But he snuffed it out almost at once.

The time was nowhere near ripe.

Shouchen's death alone would tug at one thread and set the whole cloth unraveling. Liu Dongqing had made no preparations for the chaos that would follow.

And that was before the question of killing the old dog in the first place.

The supreme killing formation of the Primordial Eight