Xiao Tian had been missing for a year and four months. Some said he was in secluded cultivation, others said he had fallen. In any case, the Foreign Realm's lackeys seized the opportunity to stir up trouble. Recently, even its great cultivators had become active again, openly seeking to hunt down Xiao Tian's confidantes and his good brother Shi Hao.
The Foreign Realm had even spread word that the Immortal King An Lan had calculated the timing. Within three years at most, the power of the Heavenly Abyss's law pool would weaken further, allowing the Foreign Realm's Supremes to cross over. When that happened, calamity would engulf the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
No matter how astonishingly talented that brat Xiao Tian was, he was ultimately only a great cultivator of the Escape One Realm. The Foreign Realm had as many great cultivators as raindrops falling from the heavens, but before a Supreme, they could not withstand a single blow. Below the Supreme level, all were ants.
One could say that those traitorous curs who sided with the Foreign Realm had suddenly become active again.
Xiao Tian possessed Wind-Listening Ears and had caught wind of these rumors long ago. In particular, some people repeatedly mentioned his name during secret discussions and even cursed him, oblivious to their impending doom. Weren't they willingly binding their ties of cause and effect and destiny to him beyond all escape? Even if he wanted to ignore them, he could not.
Their clamor disturbed him from time to time, provoking him until his eyes reddened and he involuntarily listened in or took a look.
He had already recorded all these people in his little notebook. When the time came, he would follow those threads of cause and effect and wipe them all out in one