"So you want to have Di Qi go to the world where you were born and straighten out its rules?"
The Mysterious Lord roughly summed up what Kregya meant.
"Exactly. Because of my birth, that world has actually fallen into chaos and turmoil. But, presumably because of that being's influence, I can't enter it myself."
"The authority of blazing flame is still in that world, but I can't get in. That's why I haven't become an upper Great Old One after all these years."
Kregya offered only two or three brief sentences.
Yet they left the Mysterious Lord utterly stunned.
No upper Great Old Ones besides the Three Pillars of Flame had ever emerged in this world. The Mysterious Lord had always assumed it was just like the Primordial World.
The world's rules suppressed and restricted their emergence!
But now Kregya was telling him that, as long as she obtained a certain thing, she could directly become one of the highest-ranking Great Old Ones!
A genuine hunyuan taiji daluo golden immortal!
Huh?
This setup sounded awfully familiar!
The Mysterious Lord frowned. Just then, Sect Master Tongtian, who shared a portion of his memories, sent him a message.
He suddenly remembered!
Holy shit!
Wasn't this just the Cthulhu version of fighting over Primordial Violet Qi in the Primordial World for a chance to become a sage?
A host of thoughts immediately came to the Mysterious Lord, such as...
"So that lord doesn't want to divide up his power and let other upper Great Old Ones at the hunyuan taiji daluo golden immortal level emerge either!"
The Mysterious Lord grumbled, somewhat speechless.
He had thought their own Old Ancestor Hongjun, that sly old bastard, already stood at the very ceiling of the realm of swindlers.
Who would have imagined there was another