Doesn't Tai Buye Look Like the Cang Clan Leader?

After sighing to himself over how fate toyed with people.

Lin Changsheng looked at the gift boxes laid out before him and reached out to pick up the wooden box in the very center.

When he opened it, he saw a tiny jade vial the size of a thumb resting atop dark crimson velvet.

A color beyond description glimmered through the thin walls of the vial, reflected in his pupils.

This was what he had traded from the Water-Ordering Emperor after answering several of his questions and imparting several sword arts and divine abilities to him.

A drop of world origin.

The world origin of the Xuanxiang World.

As he rubbed the jade vial, Lin Changsheng turned to look into the kitchen.

Divine Path deities wielded authority and possessed boundless might, but they also bore the responsibility of governing the world.

Ordering the heavens and mapping the earth, overseeing and regulating all things—these were all part of "governing the world."

Aside from meritorious deeds and evil karma, the more stable and prosperous a deity's domain was, the more favor it would receive from the world.

This was especially true of the Xuanxiang World.

After all, this was a world that had been ravaged by the "Xuanxiang Heavenly Track," its very foundations severely damaged.

The world itself placed particular importance on such matters.

And over the past few years, among the Divine Courts founded by the Nine Primordial Emperors, the Chishui Divine Court had been the most stable under its rule and had recovered the best.

Mu Yong, who held the divine office of Water-Ordering Emperor, had naturally received a reward from heaven and earth as well.

A share of three drops of world origin—this was the reward heaven and earth had granted him.

"With what he has accumulated so far,