Earth-Fire Brightness Wounded, Water-Fire Fulfillment!

The Water-Qi Demonic Path and the Fire-Qi Demonic Dao!

At that, Wang Ping could not help narrowing his eyes. He was hardly surprised. If anything, he had long been prepared for this.

After all, what good could come of someone mixed up with Water Qi?

Back in the Radiant Realm, Fire Qi had made himself sound entirely innocent.

He had claimed that the Living Buddha was to blame for his downfall. He had painted a pitiful picture of Fire Qi treating the Living Buddha as one of his own, giving endlessly, only to be cast aside in the end.

Wang Ping had not believed a word. They were all cultivators. What did innocence have to do with it? Was he supposed to believe Fire Qi had harbored no designs on the Living Buddha? Impossible. The Living Buddha's break with him could not have happened overnight. The two sides must have fought openly and schemed in secret; Fire Qi had simply lost.

Now Yi Xuangong had given his version.

Wang Ping felt it might be the closest to the truth, so he asked at once, "What is so profound about Fire Qi swallowing other lineages, and how does it strengthen him?"

"Put plainly, there's nothing mysterious about it."

Yi Xuangong explained, "As the Water Qi Dao Son, fellow Daoist, you must know of the eight upheavals and Dao Strifes that reshaped the Immortal Dao around the Heavenly Venerable Nine-Character True Words."

"It began with the first upheaval, when the Calamity-character lineage was cast out. That Dao Strife was Fire Qi's first attempt. They backed the newly arisen Transformation-character lineage and helped it overthrow Calamity, accomplishing a great deed of sweeping away the old and bringing forth the new."

"From then on, Transformation became orthodox."

"Calamity was cast aside."

"But of those