"Dean..."
Su Mo watched the Dean stand upon that altar in the void, his green robes facing the wind, ethereal as an immortal, as though he might depart at any moment.
The Dean turned back and looked at Su Mo. "You are exceptionally gifted, yet I have never taught you anything..."
"This is the first lesson I will teach you, and also the last..."
Su Mo looked at the Dean. The Void Beast beneath him likewise stared at the terrifying figure in green upon the altar.
It felt Su Mo's body trembling, and within that trembling lay sorrow and anguish...
"Do you know how many games I laid out for this day?"
Su Mo stared blankly at the Dean, then looked toward the approaching Upper Realm cultivators.
"Three?" Su Mo asked.
The Dean shook his head.
"Many!"
Su Mo looked at the Dean, then raised his head toward the Divine Talisman blazing with boundless light high in the sky.
"That was a two-step scheme..." Following Su Mo's gaze, the Dean also looked toward the "Ban Immortals" Divine Talisman in the sky.
"Our realm was cut off from the outside world, making it difficult to advance in cultivation..."
"The Upper Realm cultivators have higher cultivation than any of us. Though I am a remnant soul of the Heaven and Earth Consciousness, my cultivation is only at the Inquiry Realm First Layer, so I could not offer them as sacrifices..."
"I took advantage of the damage to the Ends of the Earth and used a few means to lure them down to the Lower Realm ahead of time..."
"That was the first scheme..."
He had used his means to lure them down to the Lower Realm ahead of time...
Su Mo stared blankly at the Dean, unable to believe that the Dean