Yi Tian instantly realized Mills's malicious intent.
Spreading word that Yi Tian had taken the Life Divine Core would undoubtedly attract a host of enemies who coveted it.
Xiao Ziyan, who had come to Great Xia this time, was probably already among the more reasonable ones. She was even willing to pay for a trade.
If the next god he encountered was unreasonable, all of Great Xia could get caught in the fallout.
And Mills was undoubtedly doing this to get revenge on him and Alice!
Yet the fact that Mills dared resort to such vicious tactics showed that he had no regard for Yi Tian at all.
Few enemies could make Yi Tian hold a grudge. At this moment, Mills became one of them.
Sensing the shift in Yi Tian's emotions, Xiao Ziyan also realized that the situation seemed more complicated than she had imagined.
Yi Tian decided to tell Xiao Ziyan the truth:
"I didn't obtain the Life Divine Core. I defeated Mills in public and humiliated him, so he's using this to get revenge on me."
"To be precise, that Life Divine Core was devoured. It never fell into anyone's hands. You only need to check whether I have any life divine power to know."
He briefly told Xiao Ziyan what had happened on the Yagu Continent.
He now needed a few influential people whose words carried weight to explain this matter on his behalf. Otherwise, Great Xia would keep suffering undeserved calamities.
Mills had framed him so brazenly precisely because Great Xia's standing in the Ten Thousand Races Rankings was low, leaving it unable to spread the truth among those powerful other races.
Life divine power made abundant vitality easy to sense, so this was actually fairly easy to verify.
Xiao Ziyan sighed at his words.