``` [You put away the eight puppets, counted on your fingers to divine the future, and looked toward the Sky-Rending Grand Canyon.]
[In the dozen-odd years since you had left the battlefield, several more battles involving multiple Nascent Soul True Lords had erupted at the Sky-Rending Grand Canyon. Even the Prince of the South had personally joined the fighting.]
[In the end, however, the "White Emperor" of the White Emperor Domain had joined forces with a middle-stage True Lord from the Great Luo Domain to stop him.]
["True Lord Yinxiao... would return from the battlefield in three days..."]
[Your gaze grew fathomless, and killing intent surfaced in your heart.]
[You had never intended to let True Lord Yinxiao off.]
[This True Lord of the Corpse Dao had harbored ill intentions toward you back when you were at the core formation stage.]
[He had also caused trouble at your Nascent Soul Ceremony, then planned to ambush you after you finished your assignment guarding the Demon Cave.]
[Although you had suffered no losses in the end, and had instead seized his fourth-tier corpse puppet,]
[you had still marked that debt down.]
[But True Lord Yinxiao was clever. After learning that you had become a middle-stage True Lord, he had mostly hidden within Corpse-Nurturing Mountain's fourth-tier formation.]
[After the Great Cosmos Immortal Dynasty's expeditionary cultivator army arrived at the Sky-Rending Grand Canyon, True Lord Yinxiao had stayed on the battlefield. With multiple True Lords nearby, you could hardly attack him openly.]
[According to your divination, in three days, when True Lord Yinxiao returned from the battlefield to Corpse-Nurturing Mountain,]
[he would be alone and without support.]
[Heavy karmic ties existed between you and True Lord Yinxiao.]
[Using divination to learn his precise movements over the next few days was hardly difficult.]
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