Chapter 176: The First Meeting of the Three Supremes

Clear water, moving bamboo leaves.

Emerald spiritual bamboo towered into the clouds, leaves overlapping and rubbing, moved by the wind, illuminated by light, forming mottled light and shadow.

This was a space opened up by an Immortal.

It was also Li Wanshou's residence.

The gaunt old man sat alone by the stone table, watching Xu Xi enter, his white eyebrows lifting slightly: "For what reason did you run to your master's place, all well and good?"

Xu Xi smiled and sat on the other side of the stone table: "Naturally, I came to wish you a Happy New Year."

The old man appeared very disdainful.

He kept saying he had already achieved Immortal Ascension and had no need for Mortal holidays.

Or he would nag Xu Xi, telling him he should Cultivate as diligently as he did.

Only, as he muttered on, upon seeing Xu Xi take out the New Year gift—that specially cultivated dragon blood spiritual tea.

The corners of the old man's seemingly indifferent face could not help but turn up.

Clearly.

Li Wanshou's heart was not as indifferent to Xu Xi's New Year visit as his words suggested.

"Teacher, this is the spiritual tea prepared for you."

"Ahem, you have a thoughtful heart."

The old man coughed lightly a few times.

Struggling to maintain the appearance of an elder with the bearing of an Immortal.

With a light flick of his sleeve, invisible Immortal power spilled out, turning into rising water and fire, quickly brewing the dragon blood spiritual tea Xu Xi had brought.

In the blink of an eye.

Two cups of steaming spiritual tea appeared on the stone table.

There was no excessive courtesy, nor superficial refusal.

Xu Xi and the old man sat around the stone table, each picking up a cup of spiritual tea to drink.

The bamboo, with its varying heights, hung diagonally overhead like a deep green barrier, separating and blocking out all the noise and clamor.

Leaving only the pure, clear sound of the wind.

Circling around the ears.

In this precious tranquility, Xu Xi and the old man chatted and laughed, as teacher and Disciple, understanding each other's recent situations and discussing problems in Cultivation.

Overall, regarding Xu Xi's Cultivation speed, Li Wanshou was still "satisfied."

"Not bad, not bad, you have the demeanor I had back in the day."

The old man nodded, feigning profundity.

"Mm, compared to Teacher, I still have some shortcomings."

Xu Xi responded with a smile.

Although he knew that the old man's Aptitude for Cultivation was limited, entirely dependent on the Immortal Pill given by Xu Moli to elevate it.

The two continued to chat. After finishing topics regarding Cultivation, the conversation naturally shifted to other matters in the real world.

For instance, the continuously upgrading and expanding Earth.

And the increasingly frequent World Ruins phenomenon.

"Teacher, what do you plan to do in the future? Will you continue to remain as the director of the Supernatural Administration Bureau?"

Under the cool bamboo shadows, Xu Xi poured himself a cup of fresh tea.

The taste of the dragon blood tea leaves, along with its unique texture, made him quite addicted.

He drank it all in one gulp again.

Xu Xi cast his gaze toward the old man opposite him.

"No," Li Wanshou sighed, stroking his beard and shaking his head, "The original Cultivation World is likely long gone; it is no longer the way I knew it."

"It is even hard to say whether it still exists."

Ever since he saw Xu Moli, who had achieved Supreme status, in the real world.

The old man had a premonition.

Perhaps his hometown, which he missed so much, had long since been hacked to pieces by his Disciple's sister.

Shock was certain; the old man's worldview had nearly collapsed, but fortunately, Mo Li had only hacked apart the world and the Demonic Cultivators; the rest of the living beings were unharmed.

Thus.

The old man told Xu Xi his plans.

He wanted to rebuild the Heavenly Sword Sect on Earth.

"This world is becoming increasingly extraordinary, possessing a noble aura that feels like the ancestral vein of All Heavens and Myriad Realms, the origin of the myriad worlds."

"Once I rebuild the Heavenly Sword Sect, the position of Sect Master will be yours, my Disciple!"

Li Wanshou spoke eloquently.

His eyes were extremely bright.

Xu Xi smiled and thanked the old man for his kindness, then politely declined the position of Sect Master.

"As far as I know, there are quite a few members of the Heavenly Sword Sect who descended to Earth along with the World Ruins. Perhaps you can find them, Teacher."

Xu Xi offered a suggestion.

But the old man was very dissatisfied, blowing his beard and staring, claiming Xu Xi lacked ambition.

"Foolish Disciple! Foolish Disciple!"

"Once you become the Sect Master of the Heavenly Sword Sect, with me here to assist you with the government, we teacher and Disciple can join forces—why worry about not being able to make it big and strong, and recreate the glory of the Heavenly Sword Sect!"

Xu Xi laughed, watching the old man vent his dissatisfaction.

He knew.

Li Wanshou had his best interests at heart.

But the problem was, Xu Xi was truly not interested in the so-called position of Sect Master.

Whether it was power or status, those things that others envied, Xu Xi felt he didn't need them.

"After all—"

"Living off a woman makes me fearless."

Xu Xi once again drank up the dragon blood spiritual tea.

He pondered in his heart, since he was already in the capital, whether he should visit the Red Dragon.

The perfect cultivation of dragon blood spiritual tea could not be separated from the Red Dragon's selfless contribution; Xu Xi felt that he should give the Red Dragon some reward.

To motivate the Red Dragon.

To produce higher quality dragon blood.

"Mm, that's decided then, I'll go home a bit later."

"I hope Mo Li and Klisa won't be waiting anxiously."

Xu Xi estimated that at this very moment, the two girls should be at home waiting for him to return.

But having said that.

The sister and the witch at home were merely a wisp of their thoughts.

Their essentially Supreme true selves were still in the Chaos.

The New Year had arrived; what were the eternal Supremes doing? Were they still working hard for the upgrading of Earth? Xu Xi felt a little curious.

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Outside the Universe.

The darkness of Chaos filled the unknown.

Worlds, planes, stars.

All Heavens and Myriad Realms, the multiverse, everything floated in the cycle of order and disorder.

There were Supreme wills governing everything, casually intercepting the long river of time, fishing out valuable worlds from it, either slaughtering them or smashing them to pieces, all merging into the interior of the azure Earth.

This was a magnificent feat difficult for Mortals to imagine.

In the boundless Chaos, only the equally eternal Supremes could observe this terrifying scene.

An accident occurred.

The two Supreme wills that had originally gotten along harmoniously suddenly became stiff; a third Supreme will emerged, walking through the Void Realm as if taking a leisurely stroll.

"This world is not bad, the weight is sufficient."

"Eh, that world is not bad either, perhaps Mr. Xu would like it?"

Fire.

That was the fire that burned everything away.

It was the Nirvana of finding life in death, and even more, the fearlessness of a moth to a flame.

Life and death, Reincarnation never ceases.

The fire of seeking life was also heading toward death.

Such flames were too intense, nearly steaming dry a segment of the river of time, attracting the attention of the first two Supremes.

"Who… are you?"

Such a question came.

Crossing the barriers of infinity and the multiverse, reaching the depths of Wu Yingxue's soul.

Wu Yingxue did not answer immediately, but her expression was slightly stunned as she looked at the two figures ahead—figures she had never seen before, yet whose aura she felt familiar with.

Those two auras.

She had felt them in Xu Xi, in those personal items he carried.

"So that's how it is…"

"It wasn't that Mr. Xu was lucky and obtained them by accident, was it?"

"Mr. Xu, you seem to be a bit of a playboy…"

The Princess muttered to herself.

She could not see through the Karma of the two Supremes, but judging by their actions, it was clear that there was some important connection between them and Xu Xi.

Very bad.

This was the worst outcome the Princess had imagined before coming.