Although the Heavenly Abyss was showing signs of decay, it could still function fully until it was completely destroyed.
Yuan was already immensely powerful. Add the Heavenly Abyss's suppressive force and the power of other Immortal Kings working in secret,
and even things that seemed utterly inconceivable might become possible.
As for everyone at Emperor Pass saying that Emperor Yuan's battle with the Undying King had taken place outside the Heavenly Abyss's reach...
They were merely Human Dao cultivators. Their eyesight was limited; they could not even understand what Immortal Kings were doing when they watched.
What did they know?
But even if Yuan was not an Emperor, even if his strength matched their estimates, he would still be a thorny problem.
"Yuan is friends with the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit, and she is still alive..." The thought soured Ao Sheng's mood.
"He is our enemy by nature. There is no room for reconciliation."
Enemies by nature? That was laughable.
If they had not attacked Willow God back then, where would this karma have come from?
This so-called natural enmity was nothing but karma they had forged themselves, then refused to speak of.
"Word is that a young man in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands possesses the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit Technique and is closely connected to Yuan..." Tai Shi glanced at Ao Sheng as he spoke.
"He even went to the Immortal Hall and provoked a True Immortal descendant of Dao Brother Ao Sheng's."
"He said that if he lost so much as one hair in the Immortal Hall, the hall and the entire Ao Family would be buried alongside it."
Tai Shi was plainly enjoying the joke as he recounted that last part.
"The young man certainly had some nerve," Yuan Chu Immortal King added.
To be threatened like