The core of Zhai Que'er and Ghost God Sword's dispute lay in what the Outer Realm Calamity Demon had left behind after fleeing.
It was the prototype of a "demon domain"—or, more precisely, one of the anchor points needed to establish one.
Yu Ci did not know what the two of them wanted with that thing, but in the current situation, their quarrel was no different from bickering.
Ghost God Sword said that he had driven off the Outer Realm Calamity Demon. Zhai Que'er said that if he had not rashly charged in, it would not have escaped. Ghost God Sword said that the demon sect wanted this thing for sinister purposes. Zhai Que'er immediately retorted that, following that line of thought, there was no need to visit the Donghua Palace ruins either—after all, in the end, they would slap the same label on it.
Yu Ci found it irritating, yet he also knew that their dispute was actually a warm-up for dividing up the search of the Donghua Palace ruins. If they did not reach a preliminary agreement now, they could only wait to start hacking at each other later.
Still, these two were taking it a little too seriously. A great number of Heavenly Demons and Heavenly Demon Kin were closing in—did they really think victory was already in the bag?
Their argument grew ever more irreconcilable, until Dao Hua True Man finally came over to mediate.
Whether Dao Hua True Man was truly silver-tongued, or whether the great clans had their own rules for getting along, not long after he went over, the sounds of argument noticeably quieted.
Once the pointless bickering ceased, Yu Ci paid some attention and listened in on their conversation before the next wave of the Demon Tide arrived.
Somewhat unexpectedly, Dao Hua