"Old hag, you think I'm afraid of you?"
"Who knows? Someone might just be bluffing."
Chu Mo looked at the two old fossils beside him, their barbs clashing like needlepoints against wheat awns, and politely declined Tai Shao's proposal. "You're both figures from the Primordial Era. I'm just a lowly cultivator barely a thousand years old. I really shouldn't get involved. Let's talk business instead."
"You certainly have a way with words." Tai Shao immediately rolled her eyes at him.
The Sword Ancestor choked too. For all his sneering at Tai Shao for pretending to be young, calling her an old hag and an old fossil, he was hardly much younger himself.
With him and Tai Shao currently wearing the faces of a teenage boy and girl, there was no difference between them in Nether Crossing, Nether Command's eyes. They were both old fossils putting on an act.
He promptly lost the urge to argue and turned to Tai Shao. "Tell us your real objective."
"You're far too suspicious," Tai Shao grumbled, then explained, "Because of my second brother, relations between Great Evolution and our Tribulation Deliverance are terrible. If we let them grow stronger, those busybodies are guaranteed to cause trouble for us over the Heavenly Seats. Since your Heaven's Will Sect stands to benefit, just accept the windfall."
"Heh." Huangfu Zhi chuckled. Without saying whether he believed her, he agreed. All he wanted was a statement of intent. He had ways of handling everything else.
The battle had reached a fever pitch.
Divine abilities and tamed beasts tore the Myriad Spirits Heaven Curtain to shreds. The Void Sea trembled as the cultivators unleashed their might.
"An inferior tamed beast dares run wild before me!"
Gao Cheng spurred the Golden-Mane Suanni beneath his feet. The Suanni unfurled thirty thousand