Before a genuine first-generation immortal, any second-generation Celestial Venerable was nothing more than a joke.
"Return to the Five Elements Sect and properly learn about the deeds of your father and mother on their immortal path back then."
Chen Xun said coldly, "I was willing to speak to you here only because This Dao Ancestor gave you a chance for the sake of those two elders."
"Otherwise, I would have thrown you straight into the Desolate Heaven Domain to fend for yourself! Let's see whether your status would still be of any use there, and see just how high the heavens are and how thick the earth is."
"Yes, Dao Ancestor." Yin Xingxi spoke through trembling sobs.
No trace of her former haughty arrogance remained. Repeated events had ground it into dust; even the jealousy and hatred in her heart had been crushed apart.
Yin Tianshou slowly sighed. Back then, his spirit had been utterly spent, and he had gained a daughter late in life. Looking at it now, he had indeed indulged her too much and had never truly been able to harden his heart.
Cui Ying dared even less to voice any objection before Chen Xun. Her gaze was somewhat complicated. All along, she had simply not wanted Yin Xingxi to walk Yin Tianshou's old road. It was too bitter.
Yet their current identities doomed them to a life without peace. Located in the Three Thousand Great Worlds, the higher one's status, the more restraints one bore instead.
Half an hour later.
Cui Ying left the great hall with Yin Xingxi and Wan Yichen. As for the matter of self-sealing, even the latter did not know why he had agreed to it as though possessed by ghosts and gods.
Perhaps he had yielded to the pressure of immortals,