World Tree Leaf, Myriad Mountains Seal

Zhao Gongming felt numb inside. He had an unbearably stifled, powerless feeling. He had no idea where this person had come from.

It had been one thing for him to steal the Innate Spiritual Treasures belonging to Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao last time. From another perspective, if Dao Xuan had not intervened in time, they would have been killed by those two wyrms.

They might not have lived to see Tongtian arrive.

But stealing from him once should have been enough. Why had he come again? Zhao Gongming sensed the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls within his consciousness.

These twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls were the Innate Spiritual Treasure Tongtian had promised to return to them, and had bestowed upon him not long ago.

Zhao Gongming had a premonition that this person had most likely come for his twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.

Wasn't this person far too brazen?

He was no longer some lone, helpless rogue cultivator as before. He now had a powerful backer.

Did this man know Daoist Tongtian? That was his master, one of Pangu's Three Pure Ones, and one of the future six Heavenly Dao Saints personally designated by Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

How dared he steal Zhao Gongming's things?

Yet Zhao Gongming's intuition proved remarkably accurate.

Dao Xuan merely beckoned lightly, and the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls in Zhao Gongming's consciousness immediately flew out of his control.

They landed on the table between the two of them.

"Senior!"

Unable to endure any longer, Zhao Gongming hurriedly said, "This treasure was bestowed upon me by my master."

"I know."

Dao Xuan said calmly, "Tongtian. If I hadn't had some reservations about him, I would have robbed you at the foot of Kunlun Mountain."

"..." Zhao Gongming was even more speechless.

Good heavens, so this man had been