The secret of the heavens revealed in a single word!
That ancient mystic turtle covering the sky and sun was precisely the gravekeeper who had formerly guarded the Nameless Stele Forest and brought Shen Qiu into the upper realm.
Thinking back to the former days when Fang Tianyi swept unhindered across the Yun Cang Realm, he alone had looked upon him with different eyes—the underlying reason for that was finally coming to light now.
Aside from supreme giants of the Immortal King tier, who else could have fought head-on with Jiemie Immortal King and successfully preserved his life?!
At the edge of the firmament, deep within the tribulation sea.
The gravekeeper slowly shed his mystic turtle true form, reverting to his past appearance of a hunched, white-haired old man.
That ending demon spear, radiating towering killing intent, had completely pierced through his chest. Along its ice-cold edge, wisps of dark blood dripped downward, smashing dense, minute spatial voids out of the thunder sea.
In the end... was I still a move short?
The gravekeeper let out a long sigh, waves of weakness washing over him like a tide, frantically eroding his vitality.
Yet even though his vital essence was about to burn to ashes, he still gritted his teeth and straightened his spine!
His withered hands tightly gripped the demon spear, inch by inch tearing it outward, resembling a warrior fighting until the very last moment, resolute and persistent.
Whoosh—
At that moment, a gentle breeze slowly arrived, scattering the oppressive atmosphere across the scene.
It's good... I didn't let that stinky kid see this, or else he'd be making a laughingstock of this old man again.
The gravekeeper slowly raised his gaze, looking toward the white-clad figure stepping on the clouds in the distance, and spoke in