Cangyuan asked, "Can he beat you?"
Lu Ya froze for a moment, then relaxed. "True. He can't beat me."
Cangyuan smiled lightly, looking utterly at ease. "Exactly."
"As long as your cultivation and strength stay ahead, always surpassing theirs, then even if the other person is your elder, you can still speak to them as an equal."
Lu Ya nodded solemnly. "I will remember Teacher's teachings."
"Mm, go back."
After returning to Chaos Three Immortal Island, Cangyuan greeted Yunxiao before entering secluded cultivation.
He had something important to do next!
Meanwhile, Lu Ya sneaked over to the outer ring of Three Immortal Island, the dojo where mounts such as Taotie and Green Phoenix usually lived.
Inside Canglan Palace.
Cangyuan entered his Inner Space alone.
He did not go to any single world.
Instead, he arrived in the Inner Space that carried thirty-five Greater Thousand Worlds!
This place resembled a "universe" that existed solely within Cangyuan's body, while the thirty-five Greater Thousand Worlds were like stars scattered throughout it.
Inner Space.
It was like an endless, boundless void without borders.
At the very center of this space, a vast emerald Divine Tree Reaching Heaven, wreathed in dense life force, took root in the void.
It was one of the ten Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasures—Tongtian Jianmu.
Its trunk was like the blue-green backbone of Heaven and Earth. Liquid rays of Dao laws flowed through the cracks in its bark, and every breath of Jianmu released vital energy that spread throughout the void.
Countless branches were like crystalline arms of a star river, piercing through the barriers of space. On the eastern side, gnarled branches passed through the Flaming Greater Thousand World, where blazing spiritual charm condensed into Golden Crow phantoms along the leaf veins, and the Law of the Sun illuminated