Uchiha Hikaru's move left Taishang Laojun a little stunned. At that moment, one thought kept running through her mind: Could this man really defeat her?
His confidence was truly formidable. She had held this position even longer than Earth's Kami. If she had not been too lazy to concern herself with worldly affairs, why would she have chosen such a leisurely job as guarding the Eight Trigrams Furnace?
More importantly, guarding the Eight Trigrams Furnace earned even more merit than the position of Kami. How could she possibly hand such an easy, profitable job over to someone else?
The price, however, was that a piece of the land around the Eight Trigrams Furnace would go haywire and fall away every hundred years. That area was where the furnace fire had been strongest over the past century, making it the hottest place in the entire Eight Trigrams Furnace. Repairing it meant facing mortal danger.
She still remembered that Earth's Kami from the previous generation had not been so old. She had gone to ask Kami for help, and that was how it had been fixed.
There was also the matter of keeping an eye out for the eggshells left behind by a phoenix's rebirth every two hundred years, collecting them as spares.
Unfortunately, Taishang Laojun had spent the past two hundred years holed up at home and had not gone searching for any phoenix eggshells!
So the situation was rather troublesome now.
Before Taishang Laojun could think any further, Uchiha Hikaru had already erupted with ki.
Pale yellow ki surged out in an instant, gradually turning nearly dark yellow.
His ki was about to surpass Kami's. It was so terrifying that Taishang Laojun jumped in fright. She had never heard of anyone like this emerging on Earth.
How strange.
Fortunately, Taishang