Chapter 1608: Everyone Has Their Own Struggle (3)
Great Xia King frowned.
After a long while, he said, "Not really. He had been smart and talented from childhood. He was already very strong before source qi returned. In fact, he was stronger than me during our youth. When source qi returned, we started advancing rapidly in cultivation...Eventually, each of us entered a different ruin. I managed to affirm my dao, but the same didn't happen to him."
Great Xia King said, "Now that you're asking, things were indeed quite suspicious. I recall encountering a powerful Eternal back then. A mysterious individual appeared out of nowhere to kill that enemy. Was that Xia Chen?"
The mysterious enemy and the appearance of the ruins were indeed suspicious.
However, they hadn't been able to find out much about the two matters.
Xia Chen? His ancestor?
Great Xia King sank into thought. He was so focused that he had even forgotten about his embarrassing past. Or perhaps he was deliberately forgetting that matter.
Su Yu asked, "Senior Xia Chen said that he gave you the Willpower Grotto after sustaining serious injuries. Did you not suspect anything back then?"
"He said that he had some other affairs to handle. I thought that he had given up after failing to affirm his dao so I didn't ask too much. I was hoping that he would regain his motivation after a short rest, but he vanished soon after. Eventually...he died."
Great Xia King sighed and said, "If he's a seventh-degree Eternal even as a death spirit, was he a ninth-degree Eternal before dying?"
Su Yu nodded, "Most likely."
"Who killed him?"