Magma Fire City

Within the crimson Lava Cave, inside an extraordinarily vast Mountain Cave.

Fan Gu God Monarch resembled an ordinary old man, his beard and hair entirely white. Holding a plain bamboo staff, he walked over from afar. Upon reaching the Mountain Cave, he looked toward Chen Mu within it and said with a smile:

"Little Friend Chen, I had never imagined that our meeting would come so soon."

Chen Mu and he had actually always kept incarnations within Fan Gu Hall to converse with one another. Yet the meeting Fan Gu God Monarch spoke of was not a meeting of incarnations, but of their God Power True Bodies. It could be said that this was the first time he and Chen Mu had truly met in the fullest sense.

As early as when he had driven away Demon Lord Shang Mang and rescued the Great Xuan World, he had judged that, given Chen Mu's talent, Chen Mu would certainly become a Divine Lord in the future. Yet at that time, his God Power True Body had already fallen into the Bottomless Abyss. He had no idea when he would be able to escape, nor had he ever thought that Chen Mu would converge with his God Power True Body.

What he had envisioned at the time was merely whether a few of his disciples could become Divine Lords, and then Chen Mu could likewise achieve Divine Lordhood. That way, the forces of the Fan Gu Void Domain could grow somewhat stronger and share some of the pressure he bore.

But events always developed beyond expectations.

Chen Mu's cultivation speed had shaken even him. At first, he had even considered how to nurture Chen Mu. The reason he had not directly gifted Chen Mu rare treasures and resources helpful to cultivation was