Suppressing with a Casual Gesture! Thanks to [Xiao Si Shu, Who Loves Clams in Black Bean Sauce] for the Completion 666!

Xu Changqing nodded at this. He neither argued nor grew angry. He merely tossed aside the barnyard grass in his hand, patted the dirt from his palms, and smiled.

"I understand."

His voice was soft, yet it made all the wind in Fengrao Commandery freeze. "You mean that beyond the Heavenly Origin Realm lie the foreign races beyond the realm, the Four Mortal Domains, and the Grand Void Rift, right?"

Chao Jin's pupils abruptly contracted.

For the first time, a clear change appeared on his face.

The Four Mortal Domains were a top-secret matter he had only come into contact with after becoming the sect master of the Dongting Immortal Sect.

How could this spirit farmer before him, this Xu Changqing who worked the fields, know of them?

Chao Jin's voice sank, and the contempt in his tone vanished without a trace, replaced by disbelief. "How did you know?"

Yet Xu Changqing passed over Chao Jin's question. His gaze even went past him, landing upon the Abyss-Cleansing Mountain Chariot and the old acquaintances from the Dongting Immortal Sect aboard it.

Zhao Lie, along with the elders and stewards he had met before, all stood behind Chao Jin, their expressions exceedingly complicated.

"Zhao Lie!"

Xu Changqing spoke again. "And you as well.

Get down from the Abyss-Cleansing Mountain Chariot now and submit to the Azurewood Immortal Sect.

Then I can pretend I never saw what just happened."

Zhao Lie stood atop the Abyss-Cleansing Mountain Chariot, his gaze meeting Xu Changqing's from afar.

At that moment, shock and unease churned within his heart.

More than a hundred years had passed, yet he was horrified to discover that he could no longer see through Xu Changqing's cultivation.

And it was not the sort of unfathomability caused by concealing one's cultivation.

Rather,