586: Suspect

Back then, Saint King Qing Shang already stood at the pinnacle among the many Saint Kings and was the strongest existence.

But this also made his situation incomparably difficult.

The whole world was his enemy!

Every Saint King wanted him dead!

Because no one wanted to see the appearance of someone who was truly invincible.

The Saint Kings had always kept each other in check, restraining one another to reach an eerie and twisted balance.

If this balance were broken and a powerful existence capable of sweeping away everything appeared, then all the other Saint Kings would die, and their Sacred Thrones would be plundered.

When Saint King Qing Shang truly stood at the top of this pyramid, he sorrowfully discovered... he no longer had any friends.

Even his former life-and-death friends gradually distanced themselves from him and stood on the opposing side.

Moreover, Saint King Qing Shang suffered unimaginable targeting and assassination attempts; everyone wanted him dead.

Such days lasted for a long time. When Saint King Qing Shang killed the last assassin, he finally felt tired.

From then on, Saint King Qing Shang disappeared, and no one ever saw him again.

Some said he had died...

Others said he had hidden himself away...

After moving far away from the several Source Realms, Saint King Qing Shang crossed the starry sky, walking alone, wandering aimlessly...

Finally... he arrived at the Leaving Dust Realm and settled down in this world.

After arriving in this world, Saint King Qing Shang's heart became peaceful as never before. He was no longer obsessed with the Sacred Thrones but instead focused his attention on the Three Thousand Great Daos.

The manifestation of his Dao was a towering tree, and he would sit cross-legged before the tree, meditating all day, while Dao fruits grew on the tree of their own accord...

Every single Dao fruit... was one of the Three Thousand Great Daos.

Time flowed slowly, and the number of Three Thousand Great Daos on Saint King Qing Shang grew, until gradually... he noticed something was wrong.

When he had mastered over six hundred of the Three Thousand Great Daos, he felt that he had broken through a certain limit...

This feeling was very strange, as if he had experienced a Breakthrough to the Saint King realm again!

But the strange thing was... he was already a Saint King himself!

He felt as if he had experienced another Breakthrough to the Saint King realm; although this statement was very strange, it was indeed the case.

And when he had mastered seven hundred of the Three Thousand Great Daos, he felt as if he had completed a Fusion of two Sacred Thrones, and when he reached eight hundred, it felt as if he had completed a Fusion of five Sacred Thrones!

What was going on?

When the number of Three Thousand Great Daos he had mastered reached one thousand three hundred, it brought a tremendous increase in strength... it felt as if he had completed a Fusion of fifty Sacred Thrones!

At this moment, Saint King Qing Shang could not help but feel suspicious.

Because these Sacred Thrones... seemed to have functions that overlapped with the Three Thousand Great Daos.

As for the exact origin of the Sacred Thrones, no one had ever been able to explain it clearly, and there were all sorts of strange and bizarre theories.

When Saint King Qing Shang discovered another path that could continuously increase his strength, he completely gave up on the Fusion of Sacred Thrones. So, after so many years, he still had eight Sacred Thrones; they had neither increased nor decreased.

Only those who were truly walking the path could discover that this path of Sacred Thrones was somewhat eerie, because this path was simply too easy to walk, and the boost it provided to a Saint King was too simple and crude... it was nearly an Evil Path!

Today, Li Qi crossed the distant starry sky to find him and voiced the doubt that had been in his heart all along.

"Qing Shang, surely you have noticed it as well."

"These Sacred Thrones... all have problems!"

Saint King Qing Shang's pupils shrank into pinpricks, and his body trembled imperceptibly.

Moreover, he noticed that when Li Qi said this, he did not use his mouth but instead used his Divine Thought to transmit his voice secretly, seemingly to avoid being detected by some existence hidden in the shadows.

Such behavior made Saint King Qing Shang's heart hang in suspense.

After a long while, Saint King Qing Shang similarly transmitted his voice to Li Qi: "Do you know what the problem with the Saint Kings is?"

"I know a little."

"Tell me."

"..."

After pondering for a long time, Li Qi finally told the other party about the qing zun cauldron.

"The Great Destruction?"

"A Reincarnation every ten epochs!?"

Li Qi slowly nodded: "That is exactly it."

Since Saint King Qing Shang had already noticed some clues and had even taken countermeasures, Li Qi did not evade the other party and told him part of the truth.

Saint King Qing Shang's body trembled uncontrollably: "So that's it, so that's it..."

"I was wondering why the functions of the Sacred Thrones were overlapping and nearly an Evil Path; to think this was the reason!?"

Then, Saint King Qing Shang felt a sense of sorrow: "The Sacred Thrones that many Saint Kings fought for their entire lives are merely a trap, all a scam..."

"All the Saint Kings... are just pawns in the game!"

Li Qi slowly nodded: "That is exactly it, but now there is an opportunity to break out of this game!"

"That opportunity... is me!"