Appearance sprang from the heart, and this had more or less fueled Crying Old Man's brutal nature.
He had always been wildly ambitious, and on top of that, he envied the Demon Venerable's title of Color Emperor.
Thus, as soon as he heard that the Demon Venerable might well have suffered cultivation deviation, he began entertaining ideas, itching to make a move.
Later, even when he heard that Blood Rain Demon Venerable might have broken through and reached the state of Unity of Heaven and Man.
He did not believe it at all.
Instead, it only made him more suspicious.
In the cultivation world, no one had ever remained in death seclusion for so long and still survived.
What was more, Unity of Heaven and Man was a legendary state. The Demon Venerable only possessed a four-leaf Dharma Body, so how could he possibly have reached it?
There had to be a trick!
So he spared no expense in having the Divination Pavilion perform a divination.
He learned that the Demon Venerable was gravely wounded and dying, with little time left.
Then he brought the Heavenly Yin Sect's protectors and elders to the Blood Rain Cult in a mighty procession.
He wanted to kill Blood Rain Demon Venerable.
But to be safe, he had sent Crying Old Man and Sword Fool ahead to probe the situation.
Meanwhile, he waited here with the others.
He had thought that, given Crying Old Man's and Sword Fool's strength, success was all but guaranteed.
Yet both men had died on the spot.
And they had been killed instantly, at that.
Crying Old Man, in particular, had been capable of killing Dharmakaya Realm experts with the White Bone Yin Bead in his hand.
Yet he had still died here.
As a Dharmakaya Realm expert, although