"They have ulterior motives."
Inside the main hall of the magnificent Central Heavenly Palace in the Fire Kingdom Imperial City, the middle-aged man from the Yan Sect frowned. Perhaps he had never heard of Azure Heaven Divine Mountain, but he certainly knew the names of the Heaven Mending Sect and Immortal Mountain.
He even suspected that this was a setup, with the Upper Realm fanning the flames.
Otherwise, all of this was far too coincidental.
They had all swarmed here without any warning. Who would believe there were no undercurrents surging behind this?
What was more, he had been here for so long, speaking with the people of the Fire Kingdom. How had he never learned that someone had already visited the Fire Kingdom Ancestral Land, and just recently at that?
"Aren't you going to help?" Di Yi asked, looking at the middle-aged man from the Yan Sect.
"There's no need. The Fire Kingdom's reserves run deeper than many imagine. Taking it down with just a few Venerables is nothing but a fool's dream. Besides, people from Immortal Mountain and the Heaven Mending Sect are here too. Whatever the reason, they won't sit by and watch another power take control of the Fire Kingdom. That would work against their plans," the middle-aged man from the Yan Sect said, shaking his head.
"Work against their plans?" Di Yi did not quite understand and pressed him. "What sort of plans?"
"They probably involve the reshuffling after the Great Calamity. As for the specifics, I don't know. After all, neither Immortal Mountain nor the Heaven Mending Sect is a power based in the Heaven Domain, so I know little about them," the middle-aged man from the Yan Sect answered. "Besides, this is far too strange. The Fire Kingdom has never let outsiders enter