"Master, I understand. You mean I should take this opportunity to befriend Ye Tian."
"But Ye Tian really is powerful. He is unquestionably the strongest of the younger generation, and rumor has it that he has his own force, capable of wiping out a top-tier Immortal Force amid casual laughter and conversation."
The little girl spoke curiously, then seemed to think of something and addressed the Heavenly Mechanism Elder.
"Ye Tian himself is an Eternal Taboo. The last time I divined his future, all I could see was a veil of mist, as though he had never existed in this ancient history. I forced the divination, and ultimately left myself with an incurable Great Dao injury."
"If you can take this opportunity to befriend him, Ling'er, perhaps Ye Tian might be able to heal those irreparable Great Dao wounds of mine."
"I understand. This is also a fine chance to lean against the mighty mountain that is the Eternal Ye Family. I'll go investigate this mysterious number one on the Hidden Dragon Ranking."
Looking at the sensible little Ling'er, the Heavenly Mechanism Elder stroked her head with a gratified smile.
He had his own selfish motives, too. When the world-destroying calamity arrived and the Myriad Heavens and Worlds met their dark end, even Immortal Forces would be nothing more than cannon fodder.
The Eternal Ye Family might be able to remain outside the conflict, but it certainly could not safeguard peace across all the heavens.
If the Heavenly Mechanism Sacred Land wished to avoid that fate and endure in the world, its only hope was to have the Eternal Ye Family at its back.
As an Eternal Taboo, Ye Tian had been born to cultivate the Dao and had arrived to answer the tribulation.
Judging by that glimpse of his