The Star Map flickered on the Formation Disk, the blood-red route leading to the Heavenly Patrol Guard Outpost glaring especially brightly.
Crouching beside the Formation Disk, Old Ancestor Xuanming kept involuntarily glancing toward the bow.
Zhou Xuan sat sprawled imposingly on the Throne.
He propped his chin on one hand, a faint halo of black and gold seeping from beneath his black robe.
The halo was extremely restrained, yet carried a pressure that made hearts pound with fear.
Old Ancestor Xuanming swallowed, itching with curiosity. Zhou Xuan's latest stunt was downright sneaky.
Over his tens of thousands of years of life, he had seen countless old monsters in the Longevity Realm.
But he had never even heard of anything like the Peerless Grade Dao fruit Zhou Xuan had condensed.
Not only could it withstand judgment by the laws of heaven and earth, it could perfectly fuse the Immortal Court's highest authority with that deadly black turbid qi.
If he could coax out a few secrets, even learn the barest scraps, perhaps his cultivation, stagnant for over ten thousand years, could finally climb a little.
The more he thought about it, the more covetous he grew. Old Ancestor Xuanming could no longer restrain himself.
Rubbing his hands, he approached with a face full of smiles.
"Brother Zhou... no, Token Master."
Bending at the waist, Old Ancestor Xuanming scrunched the fat on his face together in an utterly fawning smile.
Zhou Xuan ignored him, not even lifting his eyelids.
Old Ancestor Xuanming felt no embarrassment and continued on his own.
"Your breakthrough this time truly opened this old man's eyes, Token Master."
"Once your Peerless Grade Dao fruit emerged, even Central Province's laws of heaven and earth had to retreat three leagues. Such might is absolutely without precedent, past or present!"
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