At that moment.
There was no confusion in Liu Dongqing's voice.
His clear words rang with utter certainty.
On the other side.
As Liu Dongqing's Resplendent Demonic Voice reached him, Hechu Dao Lord answered with a great laugh.
An unrestrained, wildly defiant laugh.
"That's right! That's right!"
"Mystic Yang Dao Lord, your mind is keen indeed!"
"To put himself in the game and invite Mystic Yang Dao Lord to test his sword, one or two safeguards would never suffice. Only someone who had truly set life and death aside could do it!"
"It's a pity about our senior brother. He was once a peerless talent of the Sword Sect."
"But when he advanced from Golden Core Peak to Nascent Soul, he took a wrong turn. Later, when he condensed his natural Dao image and called forth the resonance of a Dao Fruit, every step of his cultivation led him further astray."
"He could never pass the Heaven-Earth-Human Three Tribulations required to attain Spirit Transformation Dao Lord."
"Even if he barely survived the Human Dao Killing Tribulation, the moment the Earthly Dao Killing Tribulation came, a surge of vast earth qi would make his Dao Field collapse before it showed the slightest sign of becoming a Blessed Land!"
"That was a dead knot no heaven-sent fortune could untie."
"In this life..."
"Our senior brother was fated to spend his whole life stalled at the Nascent Soul Dao Lord realm!"
"Then, perhaps, when his lifespan neared its end, he could draw on all he had accumulated and use a secret method to undergo the Transmigration Tribulation."
"Or perhaps, when the sect faced something it could not avoid, he could step forward and, with the sect's reserves supporting the Tribulation-Transference Secret Method, turn himself into a body fearless of life and death!"
"Today,