"Someone once told me you were the strongest of the Nine Great Imperial Sons. I said your strength just now was rather ordinary—so you'd been hiding your true abilities," Xu Zimo said with a smile.
"Once they're all dead, I'll kill you too. Wouldn't that make me a candidate for the Main Clan?" Shen Yu said with a sinister grin.
"Where does that confidence come from?" Xu Zimo asked with interest.
"You'll find out soon enough," Shen Yu replied calmly.
At that moment, a vast surge of pure white spiritual energy erupted around him and shot into the heavens.
The spiritual energy carried a towering might, an aura that had already surpassed the Heaven Melting Realm and pressed toward the presence of a Sage.
"What is this?" Xu Zimo watched with interest.
The boundless white spiritual energy blanketed the entire void, and within that stretch of space, a figure seemed to appear and vanish.
"It's the Patriarch!" On Great Dao Peak, everyone rose to their feet and exclaimed in surprise.
"Why would the Patriarch's phantom appear on Shen Yu?" Wang Yuntian asked with a frown.
Everyone turned their gazes toward Chang Qing, master of Shenxiao Peak, their eyes filled with suspicion.
"Don't look at me. This has nothing to do with me," Chang Qing said with a smile.
"Yu'er obtained the Patriarch's inheritance."
"An inheritance? When did the Patriarch ever leave behind an inheritance specifically for someone?" Qi Hai asked.
"I don't know about that either. But since the Patriarch chose Yu'er, it proves he thought highly of him," Chang Qing said.
"There's no use being jealous."
The expressions in everyone's eyes shifted unpredictably, and no one knew what they were thinking.
Within the illusory spiritual energy, although Xu Zimo could not make out the figure's appearance, he could