By rights, he had slain Zu Yuan in the Azure Cloud Sect, and Ling Feng had only ever visited this Mortal World, so why had the Lotus Seed ended up in the west?
And in his perception, it was extraordinarily far away.
That Lotus Seed was the bonded Magic Treasure the current Demon Venerable had bestowed upon Zu Yuan, and it was also one of the keys to Zu Yuan's passage from the Demon Realm to the Cultivation World.
If he wanted to return to the Demon Realm without anyone being the wiser, that Lotus Seed was vitally important to him!
Chen Changsheng rose unhurriedly and asked the Array Ancestor, "The Immortal Gate has yet to open. Even you, with an Immortal's body, cannot become an Immortal. Your opportunity probably won't come until after the Dao-Demon War begins."
The Array Ancestor shook his head and said, "I'm merely a contingency you left behind, and a trump card of yours. My cultivation can only rise along with Heaven and Earth. Don't worry about me. You'd better worry about yourself!"
Chen Changsheng had assumed Zu Yuan's identity precisely to travel to the Demon Realm and climb high enough in the ten years before the Devil Race invaded the Cultivation World!
Even if he could not surpass Zu Yuan from his previous life, he could not fall short of him either. Only then could he descend upon the Cultivation World as a Great Calamity!
Chen Changsheng turned to leave, and the Array Ancestor's voice drifted over faintly. "Could it be that our very existence is a tragedy?"
His voice held some wistfulness and some desolation. These did not sound like words an Immortal would say.
With his back to the Array Ancestor, Chen Changsheng said calmly, "We exist to prevent an even greater