“What's going on?”

Riding a cloud up into the sky, Ji Jingxi felt the violent upheaval in the qi of heaven and earth and looked around in some surprise.

Both she and Zixian were at the Heaven Realm, and they had sensed something wrong long before. But in so short a time the qi had shifted so much that it was shaking all of Xihong. This was more than just Heaven Realm experts trading blows.

They were fighting for their lives!

That much was obvious, and it wasn't what Ji Jingxi was asking. What she really wanted to know was why, and who was on each side.

Cultivators were people too. They couldn't make something out of nothing. Anyone who wanted to get anywhere in their realm had to consume vast quantities of heaven-and-earth treasures along the way and turn them into strength of their own.

That meant every expert—and especially every Heaven Realm expert—had a huge, fully formed power behind them, and countless dependents keeping them supplied.

Every time they struck, they had to weigh whether those who supported them would live or die.

People who did as they pleased seldom got much backing. It was like the tests so many immortal sects set their Dao-sons: first you had to prove you could shoulder responsibility for the lives of every being in a treasured site, and only then did you have a real chance of taking that site over.

Someone like Li Xuanqing was the exception, after all.

So when two Heaven Realm experts fought to the death, there had to be a conflict that could not be reconciled, one that had reached the point where it couldn't be put off any longer. It could never come out of nowhere.

“……” But faced with Ji Jingxi's question, Zixian looked completely lost.

She gathered nearly seventy percent of Xihong's news, and she had never seen any sign of a “conflict” like this in any of it.

Besides, judging from the qi—

one of the two was Qi Zhaoyang, the West Dragon Palace's Fourth Prince.

He never fought for anything or…