"Nine-Life, who is this? He can actually converse with the double-pupiled one?"
Some Ancient Freaks were astonished, their gazes brimming with curiosity as they looked at Nine-Life Heavenly Lord.
"The Celestial Clan!"
Shi Hao recognized Nine-Life Heavenly Lord's race and instantly guessed his identity.
"You're the legendary Three-Stone Heavenly Lord?" Shi Hao asked.
"What? He's the famous Three-Stone Heavenly Lord who fused with three Destiny Stones?" The Ancient Freaks were astounded, well aware that this man was no ordinary figure.
However, he had not attended the contest for supremacy or displayed his strength. Despite his resounding fame, the Ancient Freaks were not particularly awed. They merely thought Nine-Life Heavenly Lord was, at most, on Gu Jianyun's level, and quite possibly no different from themselves.
"Three-Stone Heavenly Lord has already vanished with the wind. Now, I am Nine-Life Heavenly Lord," Nine-Life Heavenly Lord said softly, answering Shi Hao.
"Nine-Life Heavenly Lord..." Shi Hao repeated the title, sensing that the Celestial Clan prodigy before him was far from ordinary.
Since ancient times, nine had been the supreme number on the path of cultivation. Someone who called himself Nine-Life surely possessed matchless fighting strength.
Through his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye, he saw that Nine-Life Heavenly Lord possessed immortal qi and was a peerless prodigy who had cultivated it. However, immortal qi obscured heavenly secrets, so he could not tell exactly how many strands there were.
Shi Hao harbored resentment toward the Celestial Clan. They had repaid his kindness with betrayal and imprisoned him in a dungeon, and his elder cousin had even captured that humiliating scene in a Recording Stone.
Precisely because of this, a trace of hostility and anger entered Shi Hao's gaze as he looked at Nine-Life Heavenly Lord. Still, he did not lash out. He knew that his grievances with