"Whoosh!" A streak of golden light flashed across the sky and vanished in an instant. Li Xiaoya kept hurtling forward, his expression grave.
After speaking with him for over an hour, High Person Qianshan sent Li Xiaoya back to the Second Army. Everything was just as Li Xiaoya had guessed: High Person Qianshan had summoned him because of the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning. Naturally, negotiating peace was not something that would fall to Li Xiaoya. High Person Qianshan would handle it personally.
As it turned out, the Medicine Venerable of Spring Returning really had agreed to join the Heavenly Dao Sect because Li Xiaoya was the Calamity-Bound One. As long as Li Xiaoya remained in the Heavenly Dao Sect, with the sect's formidable strength behind him, taking shelter beneath that great tree would ensure the Spring Returning Church's safety if the Demon Realm truly invaded the Human Realm. At the very least, it would preserve most of their strength. The Spring Returning Church's combat divine abilities and fighting prowess were the weakest of all; otherwise, even with the Four Symbols Spirit Cannon, the Fire Dragon Palace could not have breached their defenses so quickly.
Nor was the Heavenly Dao Sect alone in knowing about the Calamity-Bound One. Almost all the great cultivators at the Spirit Communion Stage knew of him. But everything had two sides. Although Li Xiaoya's status as the Calamity-Bound One offered the Righteous Path a tremendous opportunity for resurgence, it was hardly good news for the Demonic Path. Apparently, Li Xiaoya was the Demonic Path's nemesis, and anyone who provoked him would come to a bad end. Yet if the Demonic Path or the Devil Race killed him, both would flourish. No wonder Black Skeleton had personally traveled from the Great Illusion Continent to kill Li