Supreme Heaven, the Kun Realm.
Inside a quiet chamber in a secluded palace, Miao Xuan's true body suddenly opened his eyes. His body shuddered, and he gasped for breath.
At the instant his shadow avatar had been destroyed, he too had felt as though his true body had died.
"Damn it," Miao Xuan cursed inwardly. "Why did a Qi Refiner from Radiant Splendor Heaven suddenly appear in the World Cluster?"
Fortunately, the Kun Lord had equipped his shadow avatar with a means of self-destruction. Otherwise, the other party really would have searched his soul. He rose and paced back and forth in the quiet chamber, thinking:
I must report this to the Kun Lord as soon as possible.
At that thought, Miao Xuan gave two cold chuckles.
He admitted that the Qi Refiner was powerful, with vast, inexhaustible true qi. But what fucking use was being good at fighting alone? To travel the heavens, one relied on wondrous divine abilities and extraordinary mastery of the Dao.
Without some profound divine abilities, one could only gaze at the ocean and sigh at its immensity.
He refused to believe that the other party could cross layer upon layer of the World Sea, pinpoint Supreme Heaven, and come straight here to seize him. Even if he could, he would only be coming to his death.
Miao Xuan rose, preparing to seek an audience with the Kun Lord. Just then, a subordinate's voice sounded outside the hall. "Reporting to Your Venerable, Supreme Venerable Su is here to visit."
"Supreme Venerable Su? Su Mu?" Miao Xuan froze briefly, then waved the chamber door open and looked at the subordinate with a frown. "Why would she come looking for me out of the blue?" Although he knew Su Mu, their relationship was nothing special. Ordinarily, they