Hearing the disdain in the Mysterious Woman's tone, Ye Han's heart stirred slightly, and he said bluntly, "Fellow Daoist, you're overthinking this. Your current situation must be quite unusual. I imagine you want to regain your peak cultivation, while I want to cultivate more powerful divine abilities. If you're willing, we could work together and each get what we need. Isn't that perfectly normal?"
As Ye Han spoke, a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes. This Mysterious Woman was shrouded in mystery. She might have an even more terrifying and powerful background and once have been an immensely powerful being. For her to have fallen to this state, she must have been hunted down by some powerful-or even more terrifying-existence...
In the Cultivation World, many things could be summed up with "the strong reign supreme." With enough strength, everything in Heaven and Earth, cultivation, and divine abilities lay at the strong's discretion. Take the Myriad Realms Sovereign, Wretched Old Heaven, for example: he was the most powerful existence in the myriad realms. Unless one was stronger than Wretched Old Heaven, defeating or controlling him was impossible...
That was why Wretched Old Heaven would also eliminate opponents who posed an enormous potential threat to him, such as the Heaven-Sealing Ape, True Immortal Emperor Chen, and Azure Ox Old Daoist.
Clearly, this Mysterious Woman was probably another powerful existence capable of challenging Wretched Old Heaven. That was very likely why she had been sealed within the World Tree, lying inside the Water Spirit Coffin...
But the Mysterious Woman said calmly, "Little fellow, your idea is sound. Surely you don't think having the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron means you can challenge Wretched Old Heaven? That old thing is far stronger than you imagine. Still, I've watched you grow up, and you do have a