Who exactly was this mysterious man who had appeared out of nowhere?
Was he Dongfang, the Grand Hall Master?
But that did not seem right. If the mysterious man truly was Dongfang, the Grand Hall Master of the Central Divine Temple whose strength was second only to Tian Yu, the Supreme of the Divine Temple, then even if Ji Wuri were an idiot, he could not possibly claim to be Zhong Hua, the Hall Master of Light Hall. He could deceive anyone but Dongfang, the Grand Hall Master. Only someone who did not know the Central Divine Temple very well might fall for what Ji Wuri had said.
Moreover, the mysterious man claimed to be Jiuxiao's master, making it even more impossible for him to be Dongfang, the Grand Hall Master.
If he was not Dongfang, the Grand Hall Master, then who exactly was this mysterious man? Where had such an absurdly powerful old freak come from?
Yue Yang had a terrible headache.
No matter how he thought about it, he could not see through the truth.
What felt most unbelievable to him was that Jiuxiao had already been "watching" him back when he had still been pathetically weak? He had guarded against the people of the Heaven Realm in every possible way, yet in the end, he had overlooked the hidden surveillance of Jiuxiao's faction.
Just as he had broken through realm after realm, pointing straight toward Divine Rank, and as the Heaven-Piercing Tower—brimming with renewed life under his lead—was flourishing, Jiuxiao had finally been unable to hold back any longer. Jiuxiao had not only used powerful Heaven Realm forces such as the Heavenly Empress, the Sun King, and Ji Wuri to stab him in the back, but had even summoned his master in the end. With this overwhelmingly