"That is how things stand..."
Taiyi looked calm as he said bluntly, "Otherwise, my master Danyangzi would never have been forced to leave the Yaoguang Holy Land and hide himself away in seclusion!"
"Which side will you, the Holy Maiden, choose?"
"Do I have a choice?"
She recalled all the strange things she had discovered in the Holy Land over the years.
Linking these anomalies together one by one, Yao Xi was already half convinced.
The Yaoguang Holy Maiden glanced at Supreme Elder Li Xuan, who stood expressionlessly beside them, and said helplessly, "I have no desire to suddenly become someone else's 'tonic' one day!"
Previously, when she had known nothing, she could still have stayed out of it. Now, she had been dragged aboard the pirate ship for good.
The mere fact that she knew these secrets meant that the Ruthless One's Lineage would not let her go.
"Then everyone is happy..."
Taiyi smiled.
He looked at Li Xuan. "Senior Brother, are you reassured now?"
"Mm..."
Li Xuan nodded.
He believed that Yao Xi, the Holy Maiden, would not be foolish enough to join the Ruthless One's Lineage.
That would be like bargaining with a tiger for its skin-courting death.
"By the way, Junior Brother Taiyi..."
He looked at the spirited young prodigy before him, whose blood and vitality, though held in check, were astonishingly vigorous.
Amid his many emotions, some questions arose in Li Xuan's mind. "It is said that even without the curse, the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body requires enormous expenditure to break through each realm. To enter the Four Extremes Secret Realm, it needs more than ten million jin of Source. Only Holy Lands and great clans can afford to supply that..."
"I imagine the cultivation resources your Sun Sacred Body requires are hardly any less.