Swish! Swish! Swish!
One saber beam after another swept across the area. A gray-robed female Supremacy was one step slower and was reduced to dust by the saber beam. The other seven Supremacies used various methods to dodge the saber beams desperately.
“Granny Kui.” A red-haired elder couldn’t help but feel extremely pained when he saw the gray-robed woman turn to dust.
The other cultivators continued to probe the area carefully. After the saber beams swept past them, the surroundings returned to normal. Only then did they heave a sigh of relief.
“Brother Zhang, since we are here to explore this cave abode, we were prepared to die. My condolences,” said the muscular leader with two curved horns. At the same time, he waved his hand and swept the treasures left behind by the female gray-robed Supremacy to the red-haired elder’s side. The red-haired elder and the gray-robed Supremacy were husband and wife. Their other companions wouldn’t go so far as to snatch the items left behind by Granny Kui.
The red-haired elder’s eyes turned red as he nodded slightly. “I understand. This cave abode is like what is recorded in the treasure map. It’s already our luck that it’s true. We found the cave abode, but we didn’t have the ability to obtain the treasures inside. We can only blame our lack of strength if we die in the cave abode.”
The other companions had mixed emotions.
“We came as a group of 12, but only seven of us are left.” The horned man—who was the leader of the group—swept his gaze around. “We are getting closer and closer to the cave abode’s core. Everyone, be careful. Either we make it big, or we die here. We have to seize this opportunity.”
The cultivators were determined.
Supremacies were the weakest cultivators in the vast outer realm. They did not have any spare true bodies in their homeworld. They roamed the outer realm with their only true bodies. If they died, that was it.
They were weak. Most of them came from low-level worlds. They were the only Supremacies in their homeworld.
Follow experts? Experts didn’t think highly of them.
Find cave abode ruins? The outer realm was vast. Where could they find one?
This expedition team was already very lucky to have found a cave abode. However, although they had found the ancient cave abode, many Supremacies died inside. Those who could obtain the treasures within a cave abode were either strong or lucky.
Among the seven cultivators, a tall, muscular man walked carefully with his spear in hand. I, Gao Fang, was invincible in my world. I united the world and established a dynasty. I even mastered Ancestral Master Pang Ming’s ultimate techniques. However, when I came to the outer realm, I ended up lining the outer realm’s bottom with all the other Supremacies. My homeworld is also a low-level world.
As a Supremacy, I can only obtain one of Senior Pang Ming’s treasures, a Third Tribulation treasure. Gao Fang only realized how vast the world was when he came to the outer realm.
Senior Pang Ming was a Fifth Tribulation Eminence. He had indeed left behind treasures for his homeworld. However, every Supremacy in his homeworld could only obtain up to 20 Outer Realm Essence Crystals worth of treasures. After all, Senior Pang Ming didn’t leave much for his homeworld—a total of 20,000 cubes. Some were prepared for Imperial Lords and Tribulation Eminences, so not much was left for Supremacies.
Twenty Outer Realm Essence Crystals? Although such an amount seemed quite significant for a Supremacy, they remained poor. Gao Fang’s spear was one of the treasures Senior Pang Ming had left for his homeworld. It was a Third Tribulation spear that was most suitable for his cultivation.
With this spear and the ultimate technique he cultivated, Gao Fang had the strength of a threshold Imperial Lord even though he was considered a bottom-feeder Supremacy in the outer realm. At the very least, he was ranked in this team’s top three.
I came to the outer realm with great ambitions, but after struggling for 300 years in the outer realm, my greatest resource is still the treasure Senior Pang Ming bestowed me. As for the treasures in this cave abode… it’s my opportunity. I definitely have to seize this opportunity. Gao Fang had struggled for too long. He had to grasp onto this sliver of hope, even if he had to risk his life.
The exploration team continued forward.
Although they encountered danger two more times—which were extremely harrowing experiences—none of them had died.
“We have already arrived at the cave abode’s core region. The surrounding array formations are clearly much denser,” said a cyan-haired woman. She carefully observed the array formation. She was the best at array formations in the team.
“What do we do next?” asked the curved-horned man. His companions, including Gao Fang, looked at the cyan-haired woman.
The cyan-haired woman carefully inspected the array formation. After a while, she tapped her finger slightly. Wisps of threads seeped into the array formation. Just as she was carefully probing the array formation, she touched a hidden node in the array formation. After all, it was very difficult for Supremacies to probe a Tribulation Eminence’s cave abode’s array formation. Back then, Meng Chuan had relied on his seventh-level Essence Soul and his Essence Soul Star’s recovery speed to crack Eminence Pang Ming’s cave abode’s array formation.
“Not good.” The cyan-haired woman’s expression changed drastically.
Boom!
The array formation erupted as a huge palm appeared in the sky, enveloping the entire region. The seven cultivators in the team looked up at the gigantic palm in horror.
“Not good. The surrounding void has been sealed.”
“We can’t escape.”
“We will be reduced to meat paste.”
The team couldn’t be bothered to blame the cyan-haired woman as they frantically rushed out of the region. Gao Fang brandished his spear and stabbed forward with all his might.
However, the void prison was like a cage that completely trapped the intruders. The Supremacies were unable to escape the void prison as they watched the gigantic palm descend.
“We won’t be able to turn into meat paste. We will probably be reduced to dust. There won’t be any traces of our bodies left.”
“We’re doomed.”
“Forget it.” Gao Fang lowered his spear and faced his fate—death in this cave abode ruins—calmly.
At this moment—
Rumble…
A vast painting world descended and enveloped the cave abode. This ancient cave abode ruin seemed to be just a tiny portion of the massive painting world. As for the gigantic palm formed by the array formation’s power, it instantly shattered.
In the middle of the painting world, a white-haired man appeared. He stood in midair and looked down.
He arrived ten minutes ago and had observed Gao Fang for a while. After all, he wanted to see his disciple’s temperament. He only took action when the other party was in a dire situation.
Huh? Gao Fang and the other six cultivators watched this scene in shock.
As they watched the vast world descend and the white-haired man appear in the sky, the invisible pressure caused the cultivators to feel fear instinctively. This was the most terrifying expert they had encountered in their lives.
Boom!
The cave abode ruins were uprooted and rapidly shrank before landing in the white-haired man’s palm.
It should be a cave abode of a Third or Fourth Tribulation Eminence, guessed Meng Chuan before putting it away.
“Thank you, Senior.”
“Thank you for saving my life, Senior.”
The seven cultivators knelt respectfully. They even had hints of desire in their eyes. As long as they could follow such a Tribulation Eminence, it would be a great opportunity to be his subordinate.
Meng Chuan’s gaze landed on Gao Fang.
Gao Fang could also sense the senior’s gaze. He couldn’t help but feel nervous and excited.
Whoosh—
Gao Fang felt the scenery in front o
f him change; he found himself standing on a vast grassland. In front of him was a white-haired man.
Only Meng Chuan and Gao Fang existed in this world.
Gao Fang looked around in shock. Where is this place?
“What’s your name?” asked Meng Chuan with a smile.
“I’m Gao Fang.” Gao Fang hurriedly bowed respectfully.
“You’re from Pang Ming Realm, right?” asked Meng Chuan.
Gao Fang was shocked. He had received strict orders that Supremacies from Pang Ming Realm had to hide their identities for 200,000 years after Ancestral Master Pang Ming died.
“Senior, do you have a grudge with our Ancestral Master?” Gao Fang’s heart palpitated. Ancestral Master Pang Ming had powerful enemies, so he needed to hide his identity.
Now that Gao Fang had been captured, the other party was definitely confident about Gao Fang’s background since he mentioned Pang Ming Realm directly.
“No.” Meng Chuan shook his head. “I owe your Ancestral Master a favor, so I specially came to recruit you as my disciple.”
“Recruit me as a disciple?” Gao Fang felt his head buzzing. He had struggled in the outer realm for 300 years.
I, Gao Fang, am finally going to soar?
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Clang!
Gao Fang immediately knelt and smashed his head on the ground. He shouted loudly, “Greetings, Master.”
Meng Chuan nodded slightly. “Very good.”
Following that, the illusory world collapsed.
Gao Fang was in a daze. He was still kneeling on the Grand Yin Star with his six companions.
“Gao Fang, follow me.” Meng Chuan waved his hand; Gao Fang didn’t resist at all. He was sent into a grotto-heaven.
Swoosh.
Following that, Meng Chuan took a step and vanished.
The six remaining cultivators exchanged looks.
“That Eminence actually took Brother Gao Fang away.”
“Unfortunately, he didn’t fancy us.”
The six Supremacies were filled with mixed emotions. It was already a great blessing for an Eminence to save them from the dire situation. They didn’t dare hope for the mighty figure to take them away. However, with one taken away, the remaining six naturally felt discomfort.
Envy and jealousy surged in their hearts.
“That Eminence might have taken away the cave abode, but he may have also left something behind. Let’s search carefully,” said the horned man.
“Search carefully again.”
The six Supremacies continued their search on the Grand Yin Star. In the next month, they did indeed find something. After all, the cave abode owner had lived here in seclusion for a long time. The Grand Yin Star was very vast. Many places had been the Eminence’s experimentation grounds for his techniques. Many other residences were also scattered around the star.
…
Meng Chuan entered the River of Spacetime again and arrived at Pang Ming Realm.
Whoosh.
Returning to the ordinary outer realm void, Meng Chuan looked at the inhabited world in front of him. Pang Ming Realm was about 15,000 kilometers in diameter. With the spacetime laws’ restrictions, Meng Chuan couldn’t enter it.
Swoosh.
Meng Chuan waved his hand, and Gao Fang appeared beside him.
“Master.” Gao Fang was somewhat puzzled. After being stored in the grotto-heaven for a moment, he had been talking with Supremacy Qing Gu. He was halfway through his conversation with Supremacy Qing Gu when he suddenly was thrown out.
“This is Pang Ming Realm, right?” Meng Chuan pointed at the inhabited world in front of him.
“That is Pang Ming Realm, my homeworld,” replied Gao Fang respectfully. He glanced at Pang Ming Realm and was secretly astonished.
His master was too fast. He knew that it would take him over 30 years to return to his homeworld from the Grand Yin Star through the River of Spacetime.
As for his master? He arrived in the time it took to exchange a few words.
“There should be another Supremacy in your Pang Ming Realm,” said Meng Chuan.
Gao Fang looked at Meng Chuan in shock and nodded. “Master is wise. There is indeed another Supremacy in Pang Ming Realm.”
“Tell me about that Supremacy,” instructed Meng Chuan.
“Yes.” Gao Fang felt mixed emotions.
There were two Supremacies in Pang Ming Realm. He had had some conflict with that person. They weren’t enemies, but they weren’t friends either.
“She’s a female Supremacy,” said Gao Fang respectfully. “Her name is Zhao Hongxiu. She’s the strongest assassin in Pang Ming Realm. She’s good at archery.”
“Archery?” Meng Chuan raised his eyebrows. He couldn’t help but feel an affinity towards her.
His wife, Liu Qiyue, was also skilled in archery. Very few outer realm cultivators used bows and arrows.
“Zhao Hongxiu’s personality is rather special.” Gao Fang hesitated for a moment and said, “In the early days, she was a member of an assassin organization. Later, she betrayed the assassin organization, which then pursued her… In the end, the entire assassin organization was destroyed because of this. She did everything according to her wishes. She hated corrupt officials the most. She even infiltrated the capital and killed the ministers under me.
“I’ve been cultivating for longer than her—800 years,” explained Gao Fang. “After I became a Supremacy, I unified the world and established the Great Xuan Dynasty. The Great Xuan Dynasty has been in existence for more than 600 years. Zhao Hongxiu has only cultivated for 300 years. When she grew in strength, the Great Xuan Dynasty was also helmed by my descendant as emperor. She ignored the Imperial Court and did whatever she wanted, causing me to fight her.
“She grew in strength extremely quickly. With the Zhao family’s archery technique as her foundation, she improved an ordinary archery technique to the perfected Grotto-Heaven realm. I fought her three times. In the beginning, I didn’t want her talent to go to waste. Furthermore, she and I were the only two Supremacies in the world. Therefore, I let her off for the first time and never pursued her.
“The second time, she managed to escape from me. The third time, I returned from the outer realm. When I saw her again, her strength was in no way inferior to mine,” said Gao Fang.
Meng Chuan was somewhat surprised.
He could tell at a glance that this disciple of his, Gao Fang, had an extremely powerful body. From his performance in the cave abode, he had at least cultivated three spear arts to the perfected Grotto-Heaven realm. He was considered extremely powerful among the outer realm Supremacies.
Zhao Hongxiu, who was just a sharpshooter, wasn’t inferior to him? Sharpshooters were extremely powerful when it came to offense, but they were typically weaker in other aspects. Meng Chuan was rather happy about Zhao Hongxiu’s talent—which allowed her to match Gao Fang despite cultivating for over 300 years only.
The higher one’s talent was, the higher their chances of becoming an Imperial Lord.
Meng Chuan smiled and nodded. “Gao Fang, make a trip to Pang Ming Realm and bring her out.”
“Master, you wish to accept her as your disciple?” asked Gao Fang.
Meng Chuan nodded.
“Zhao Hongxiu’s personality is different from mine,” said Gao Fang carefully. “After she reached the perfected Supremacy realm, she once went to the outer realm for decades. Later, she was disappointed with the outer realm. She returned to our homeworld and lived in seclusion for a long time. She is willing to live a peaceful life. I am not confident in successfully persuading her.”
“Go and give it a try,” instructed Meng Chuan. “Just do your best.”
“Yes.” Gao Fang’s heart trembled.
His master was clearly warning him not to play any tricks when he told him to ‘do his best.’
For example, he could enter Pang Ming Realm and not meet Zhao Hongxiu before coming back out to tell him that Zhao Hongxiu was disagreeabl
e.
Master is willing to accept me as his disciple. I should be more careful, Gao Fang thought to himself. I shouldn’t anger Master. He can kill me with a flip of his hand; offending him won’t be worth it. Forget it. We are ultimately cultivators from Pang Ming Realm. I’ll give Zhao Hongxiu this great opportunity.
…
Gao Fang entered Pang Ming Realm, his homeworld.
Swoosh.
He flew at a high altitude before arriving above a mansion in a bustling city—Zhao Manor.
This mansion spanned more than five kilometers. It could be said to be a city in a city. The Zhao family had once been a large family clan in Pang Ming Realm, but it gradually declined. Zhao Hongxiu had found herself entering an assassin organization when she was young. However, she mainly cultivated the Zhao family’s archery technique after she rose to prominence. Furthermore, she improved the archery technique to an astonishingly high level.
Zhao Hongxiu reconstructed Zhao Manor and restored it to its golden era in history. In fact, during the most prosperous period in history, the Zhao family was still a step away from reaching the Supremacy realm. Now, the Zhao family was enjoying its most glorious period.
However, the Zhao family had very few direct descendants. In particular, there were very few people in this ancestral mansion. The clansmen of the branch families lived elsewhere.
“Oh?” Zhao Hongxiu sat cross-legged under a plum blossom tree. Snowflakes fluttered, and the fragrance of the plum blossoms filled the air. Zhao Hongxiu enjoyed peace and quiet. There were only about ten direct descendants in this manor, which spanned more than five kilometers. There were only about 100 servants. There was no one else within half a kilometer of Zhao Hongxiu. There were only some cats and dogs.
Zhao Hongxiu looked up.
A tall and muscular Gao Fang appeared in the sky. In a flash, he appeared on the snow. He looked at Zhao Hongxiu.
Zhao Hongxiu was still sitting cross-legged. She was dressed in a white outer robe and a red inner robe. Her eyes were long and narrow as she looked at Gao Fang. “How rare of you to drop by. You actually came back from the outer realm?”
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