Qingqiu.
Distant mountains overlapped in emerald layers. Countless Sky-Reaching Giant Woods surged in from beyond the mountain ranges like a green tide, crowding around a vast stretch of water.
The teardrop-shaped island in the lake was as silent as ever, the surrounding land dim and indistinct.
"Fu Yuan's" enormous body stretched across the void. Before him, water mist poured down and rolled like flying silk. In an instant it dispersed, and "Guang," whom he had slain countless times already, appeared before him once more, completely unharmed.
The Dragon King's expression remained calm and unreadable. After several tests, he had already realized that "Guang," who was discussing the Dao with him, was connected to that human!
Yet for now, no matter what method he used, or how many times he killed this Lord of Qingqiu, it seemed to have no effect on that human!
This must be a rule of the chess game!
As his thoughts raced, a scene surfaced in "Fu Yuan's" mind: a deep valley in Qingqiu, its high platform reduced to ruins.
A nine-tailed girl in white palace attire embroidered with gold stood with her sleeves gathered. Not far before her stood two human cultivators.
One of the two human cultivators wore helmet and armor and carried himself with heroic grandeur. The other wore plain, simple clothes, seeming as though he had reached the end of his road, his aura shrouded in obscurity.
At that moment, the two human cultivators regarded the white-clad nine-tailed girl warily, their expressions solemn, and were saying something to her in a tentative manner.[Note]
Immortal position, "Gazing at Heaven"!
The reason he had been unable to use the immortal position "Gazing at Heaven" just now wasn't that the immortal position was unusable, but that he couldn't peer into that human's circumstances!
Now, as