Lan Ji snorted coldly. "In that case, there is no need to shelter the Star Palace anymore. In all these countless years, those old fellows have never once thanked me."
He would have been better off leaving that unsaid.
The moment he said it, the Immortal Beast's expression became half amused, half mocking. You were a disciple of the Star Palace yourself back then...
"Let's go."
Lan Ji drew a deep breath. "The Ten Great Forces have suffered a devastating blow, and Tong Yuan has fallen. Let us pay our respects first and see him off."
At the mention of Tong Yuan,
his eyes darkened almost imperceptibly. Once an old friend, now an enemy.
Tong Yuan's obsession with destroying the Eternal Immortal Frontier ran deep, while he sought to protect the Eternal Antiquity Dao Lineage. Naturally, they had taken different Dao Paths. Tong Yuan's end came as no surprise to him. Becoming too deeply entangled in karma had always been a road of no return.
"Mm."
"All right!"
"Let's hurry..."
The Immortal Beast urged them on. It did not want to spend another moment here, surrounded by such profound unease.
Before leaving,
Lan Ji could not help glancing back at the Star Palace.
He had never betrayed the Star Palace. It was merely that the tides of the Old Era had forbidden him from walking the world as a disciple of the Eternal Antiquity Dao Lineage. Nor could he stomach the lofty attitude of the Ten Thousand Clans of the Eternal Immortal Frontier, who treated all living beings as worthless weeds.
Yet from beginning to end, he had always loved the Star Palace, the place where he had cultivated in his youth.
The Dao Ancestor had returned...
Lan Ji did not know what that meant. He only felt that