Zhang Yuan's brows slowly furrowed as he listened.
That middle-aged Daoist was not actually the Profound Ancestor, but merely an immortal spirit born from a wisp of the Profound Ancestor's remnant soul.
Well, that made sense.
The present-day Lords of Heaven and Earth and the Great Luo of the Primordial Era were essentially the same group of people. The only difference was that there were a few more of them now than there had been in the Primordial Era.
Since the Lords of Heaven and Earth had personally surrounded and hunted him down, how could they have let the Profound Ancestor's immortal spirit escape? They must have destroyed both his immortal body and his immortal spirit, leaving only after confirming that he had no chance of returning to life.
It only made sense that the middle-aged Daoist was not the Profound Ancestor. Zhang Yuan's earlier misconception had been entirely the result of Ye Xiangning misleading him.
She had first made him guess the skeleton's identity, so he had naturally assumed that the immortal spirit which appeared afterward belonged to the Profound Ancestor. Even this had been part of a scheme against him. That damned old scoundrel Ji Guang!
You and I shall never coexist!
Zhang Yuan cursed [Jiguang Shixin True Lord] inwardly for a while, then began considering the matter at hand.
[Immortal Lord Xuancong Chuirui] wanted him to kill this wisp of the Profound Ancestor's remnant soul.
Wonderful. Though the middle-aged Daoist isn't the real Profound Ancestor, he still has a tremendous connection to him. This decision of [Immortal Lord Xuancong Chuirui] really is a heartwarming display of "filial devotion."
*Why didn't he say earlier that he wanted the Profound Ancestor's remnant soul killed? I shouldn't have negotiated with him back then. I should have unleashed every means at