Lingxiao Palace.
Immortal Lord Xuan'e chuckled softly, and the palace fell silent.
"Fellow Daoist Du'e, did you already have a plan?" Immortal Lord Zixiao asked.
"I prepared to eliminate Jiang Ning long ago! He cannot be allowed to live. Leave him be, and he will become a grave threat! None of us wants another Martial Saint to emerge and dominate the world for a thousand years. His appearance, his rise, would seriously disrupt this grand game," Immortal Lord Xuan'e said slowly.
Hearing this unequivocal declaration, Yu Jiuxiao's expression tightened.
He thought back to his conversations with Jiang Ning over the past few days.
He had always believed the Upper Three Heavens stood above worldly affairs and kept clear of conflict.
Even when the Martial Saint had once dominated all under heaven, the Upper Three Heavens had not intervened of their own accord.
Only later, when the Martial Saint acted without restraint, breaking through several Grotto-Heavens in succession and even killing slumbering immortals within them, had the Upper Three Heavens entered the fray.
Their intervention had finally forced the Martial Saint to rein himself in.
But now things were different.
Immortal Lord Xuan'e's position was that Jiang Ning had to be eliminated.
Why? Yu Jiuxiao wondered.
Could it be because of that matter... the unification of the Ten Domains?! Another thought rose in his mind.
As Yu Jiuxiao pondered, Immortal Lord Zixiao spoke.
"Fellow Daoist, you said earlier that you had something to do. Was it perhaps related to the Luo River King?"
"Indeed!" Immortal Lord Xuan'e nodded slightly.
He then recounted how he had manifested in the River of Time and what he had planned with the immortals of the other Grotto-Heavens.
A moment later.
"That is the situation," Immortal Lord Xuan'e said.
With a lift of his hand, a