If "undying beasts" were considered a profession, then Hualing Patriarch Aofu Jiabuliusi would have been the rising king, the standout talent, in that promising line of work.
He had a terrifying master, so terrifying that even he, as he was today, did not dare entertain the urge to challenge his teacher.
Yet such a powerful master had merely been an escaped slave of another powerful organization—at least, that was how Aofu Jiabuliusi saw it. He had witnessed his master being captured and taken away by an even stronger group of experts, and he had learned of the true overlords of the universe—those who called themselves the Celestial Favored Clan.
But after that, he had roamed the universe for countless years without ever encountering the so-called Celestial Favored Clan again.
Of course, that was for the best. As long as that remained true, he would not have to fear encountering an expert he could not handle.
In truth, there was no master-disciple affection to speak of between Hualing Patriarch Aofu Jiabuliusi and his master. His master had created him only because he wanted to test a new cultivation method.
Although his master could, to a certain extent, know the past and future, the price was still enormous. Thus, whenever he could avoid using that foreknowledge, he would. Empirical testing was the method he had adopted.
At the moment he witnessed his master being taken away, Hualing Patriarch had hesitated, wavered, and even doubted whether all this had been a trap arranged by his master to test his loyalty.
Only after remaining on the planet where his master had been captured for roughly three hundred years did he finally confirm that his master would not be returning.
Then he wept tears of joy.
He never encountered any truly powerful experts again.
But