"That was only because I wasn't there. Otherwise, not a single one of you present back then would have escaped."
At the exit of the Teleportation Array.
As soon as Black Phoenix's elder said those words, a faint smile appeared on Xiao Tian Ce's face.
He knew that the man before him came from the Black Heaven Gu Clan and had left the True Phoenix Clan tens of thousands of years ago.
That was also why he had not appeared when White Jade Capital went to war with the True Phoenix Clan.
Still, Xiao Tian Ce had not expected the man to harbor such hostility toward him after so much time had passed.
"What are you smiling at? Do you find my words funny?"
Across from him, Black Phoenix's elder saw Xiao Tian Ce smile instead of answering and immediately lost his composure. Anger spread across his face as he stared fixedly at Xiao Tian Ce.
Xiao Tian Ce was not angered by this. He merely looked at the man calmly and asked, "So, senior, are you planning to go to war with White Jade Capital again on behalf of the True Phoenix Clan?"
Those words instantly left the man speechless. He had only dared to be so rude to Xiao Tian Ce because he relied on his strength as an early-stage saint-grade heavenly sovereign and did not fear him.
Yet White Jade Capital had grown more rapidly than any other faction in recent years. Many experts in the Black Heaven Gu Clan had said that White Jade Capital was now among the factions one must never provoke.
"You-when did I say I would represent the True Phoenix Clan in a war against White Jade Capital?" Black Phoenix's elder hurriedly demanded.
After all, five years ago, before White Jade Capital