"Hahaha..."
"That year, you lost the battle and fled..."
"That year, our master passed away, and you and I rose to become Supremes. Beset by troubles within and enemies without, we were still full of fire. That day feels like it was only yesterday, yet now I've become the master we knew back then..."
Heavenly Beast Supreme laughed.
Pill Heaven Supreme's expression was impossibly complicated. She could not calm herself.
Taiyin-Sun Supreme merely sighed.
Having finished pouring the tea, Jiang Ding quietly watched the Supremes of the previous generation.
Their flames of life flickered in the wind, gradually dying away. The decline was irreversible; even an emperor would struggle to defy the natural cycle of birth, aging, sickness, and death.
"Great Sun Supreme,"
"After I die, could you look after my sect and disciples?"
Heavenly Beast Supreme, wrinkled like an old farmer, slowly lost his smile and suddenly pleaded.
At the last moment of his life, what weighed on his heart was still his sect. It had been there from his birth to his death, the home to which he had devoted a lifetime of feeling.
At the last moment of his life, he should have been utterly free of cares. Once life and death no longer mattered, what could there be to fear?
Yet at this moment, he was so humble that he addressed a junior as Supreme.
Because that junior was invincible in the Fallen Immortal Realm.
Everyone looked toward the azure-clad youth who had been pouring and serving tea.
"Senior Heavenly Beast, you needn't ask so much."
Jiang Ding thought for a moment, then slowly said, "The Celestial Beast Immortal Sect and the Pill Heaven Immortal Sect will grow under the light of the Tu Shan Code. So long as they abide by the Tu Shan Code,