"Heavenly Lord, what did you mean by what you just said?"
After catching up with Heavenly Lord Hanjian, Xu Taiping immediately asked him through voice transmission.
As he spoke, he had already taken the Blade of Guicang in hand.
Sensing the aura around him being severed, concealed, and affected, Heavenly Lord Hanjian glanced at Xu Taiping in surprise.
"You actually possess a treasure capable of concealing my aura?"
He did not press the matter, however, and instead nodded.
"Very well. Let us keep this brief."
Then, as Heavenly Lord Hanjian walked toward the exit, he spoke to Xu Taiping through voice transmission.
"Xu Taiping, like Kang Cangzi, Ding Mou's previous life was that of a Heavenly Official who did not abandon the Mortal Realm when the Ancient Heavenly Court collapsed."
"Thus, beings such as him can only enter reincarnation or slumber unless the Heavenly Dao Edict sustaining Shangqing collapses. They cannot possibly die."
Joy immediately surged through Xu Taiping's heart.
"With the Great Sage's physical body sealed, he should only be able to fall into slumber!"
He hurriedly asked through voice transmission.
"Heavenly Lord, is there any means of awakening the Great Sage?"
Heavenly Lord Hanjian replied solemnly through voice transmission.
"Your fists are the only way."
Xu Taiping froze for a moment and asked in bewilderment.
"My fists?"
Heavenly Lord Hanjian immediately explained.
"Before Ding Mou went to challenge Dong Cangzi to a fist fight, he had a long conversation with me. During that conversation, he mentioned several times that your fist intent and fist techniques shared the same main lineage as his, and that you were very likely to travel even farther along it than he had."
"As far as I know, what Ding Mou sought in this life was to find the ultimate realm of this world's