Xuandu heard this and turned to look at him.
A faint glimmer flashed deep within his calm, ancient-well-like eyes.
"You are quite perceptive."
"Indeed, that gain was related to you."
"One could even say that if not for you, I would not have obtained it."
Shen Ni froze, confusion filling his blood-gold eyes.
"Because of this disciple?"
Xuandu looked at him, a faint smile slowly curving his lips.
"Do you still remember that, apart from Xuandi's remnant soul, there was also a Chaos Spirit Vein within the secret realm's core?"
Shen Ni nodded, light flickering in his blood-gold eyes.
"This disciple remembers."
"That Spirit Vein contained Origin Power that had existed even before the World's First Opening. If not for that enemy's lingering remnant will clinging to it, Xuandi would not have guarded it for hundreds of millions of kalpas."
"But wasn't that Spirit Vein sealed by Master?"
Xuandu gently shook his head.
"The Spirit Vein was indeed sealed."
"But while sealing it, I also did something else."
He paused, and his voice grew deeper.
"I stripped that remnant will from the Spirit Vein."
Shen Ni's entire body trembled, and the light deep within his blood-gold eyes suddenly flared.
"What?!"
"That was an existence at the Hunyuan Taiji level! Even if only a wisp of remnant will remained, it was not something a Nine Heavens Peak cultivator could touch so easily!"
"Master stripped out his remnant will? Then he..."
Xuandu looked at him, his voice calm as water.
"He was the remnant soul within that dark red light."
"Now, he has become my disciple."
Shen Ni was completely stunned.
He looked at Xuandu, at that youthful yet steady face, at those calm, ancient-well-like eyes.
Over hundreds of millions of kalpas, he had seen countless cultivators.
Yet he had never seen