He had not wanted to disturb the old patriarch, who had been in secluded cultivation for countless years. The old patriarch had long since reached the Quasi-Sage Perfection Realm and was comprehending the Great Dao, seeking to ascend to the Sage Realm.
Once the Fire Spirit Tribe had a Sage, it could receive a private domain as a reward and become an upper-tier Fourth-Level Lineage.
In truth, they did not even know which Lineage the Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable belonged to. He had deliberately concealed it. After all, when stealing things, one had to hide one's identity.
The Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable had taken the initiative to attack because he did not want them pursuing him into his Lineage's territory.
He suspected they had some means of sensing the Sacred Fire and had followed it across vast distances. That was why he had left his Lineage's territory of his own accord and fought somewhere far away from it.
He had originally gone out to find materials to refine treasures for the disciples of the Sect of the Heavens. He had sensed three Quasi-Sage auras on their planet: one at the Middle Quasi-Sage Stage and two at the Early Quasi-Sage Stage, all in secluded cultivation from which they would not emerge until they broke through.
He had thought he could borrow some Sacred Fire and a few materials without gods or ghosts noticing.
Taking the other things had provoked no response, but the moment he took the Sacred Fire, his expression changed. He sensed that the three Quasi-Sages were about to awaken.
Seeing this, the Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable pocketed the Sacred Fire and immediately fled far away. He had even deliberately altered his aura and taken several long, winding detours before returning.
He had never expected them to find him