In the Chaos Sea, Meng Chuan, Baoyue Tathagata, and Four Absolutes Daoist each stood in a different direction. The spring lay in a fourth.
The three appeared perfectly cordial, but Baoyue Tathagata and Four Absolutes Daoist were each on guard against the other—and against Meng Chuan.
Meng Chuan had no reason to be on guard.
Unless those two had some means beyond the ordinary, even together they could not beat him.
Meng Chuan was confident of that much.
Besides, although the Treasure they were fighting over interested him, he felt no greed for it.
It gave off a faint aura of the Supreme. Even if a Supreme One had painstakingly refined it, it would be no more than a Supreme Treasure.
It meant little to Meng Chuan.
Without desire, one stood firm.
Seeing the tension in the air, Meng Chuan ventured, "Fellow Daoists, why don't you carry on?"
"..."
Do you think we're monkeys putting on a show?
"Dragging this out will get us nowhere," Baoyue Tathagata said slowly, his Majestic Buddha Aspect solemn. "There is only one Chaos Dao Treasure. But if we fight endlessly over it, we will all lose face."
"Why not compare our skills and debate our Daos? Whoever proves more skilled and whose teachings prevail shall take the Chaos Dao Treasure."
"What do you say, fellow Daoists?"
Chaos Dao Treasure was a general term for any Treasure born within the Chaos Sea.
A Treasure that could take shape in the Chaos Sea was, at the very least, of the Supreme tier. Calling it a Dao Treasure was no exaggeration.
Anything below the Supreme tier would be worn away and destroyed the moment it appeared in the Chaos Sea.
"Agreed."
Four Absolutes Daoist nodded. He had no objection.
Meng Chuan paused. He had only come to