"To think that all my painstaking efforts amounted to less than simply staying in the Spirit World and waiting for you to arrive-"
A figure with an ordinary face and an ordinary aura, who looked like nothing more than an average middle-aged man, spoke before Lin Hao with a hint of self-mockery.
,??
He was the Demon-Suppressing Heavenly Lord, the Human Clan's only current Mahayana expert, who had guarded the Human Clan for over ten thousand years.
Yet before Lin Hao, he truly seemed to have returned to a simple, natural state, without the slightest hint of an edge.
"Not long ago, I sensed fluctuations from the Demon-Suppressing Tower in the lower realm. I imagine you were the ones who touched it? Your methods really are extraordinary, though. I was showing off before a master."
A trace of wistfulness seemed to appear on the Demon-Suppressing Heavenly Lord's farmer-like face.
"You flatter us, Heavenly Lord."
Lin Hao harbored no particular ill will toward the Demon-Suppressing Heavenly Lord.
Although the Demon-Suppressing Heavenly Lord belonged to the Beast Taming Sect, judging by his actions so far, he had indeed always been fairly selfless.
He had sheltered the Human Clan for so many years, maneuvering among the Spirit World's various races to secure room for the Human Clan to survive.
Especially after the Overseas Immortal Mountain fled, he had been left all alone.
Ever since then, his whereabouts had even remained elusive. He no longer told anyone where he was going, lest the Demon Clan corner the Human Clan's sole Mahayana expert.
This time, he had only appeared again because the matter was so serious, and because, in a sense, the Demon-Crossing Daoist was his successor, the one who would take up his mantle-
"Alas, I bear some fault this time as well. When