Yun Qing abruptly stiffened.
Yun Huang set down his teacup and leaned forward slightly, his Golden Pupils looking straight into Yun Qing's deep double pupils as he enunciated each word:
"How did it feel to become one with the world and wield the laws of ten thousand Daos?"
A devilish smile curled his lips. Watching Yun Qing freeze, he asked softly, "And the seat of Immortal Emperor on this Heavenly Origin Continent... how does it feel to sit upon it?"
"What?!"
Yun Qing's four eyes widened in disbelief, undisguised horror filling his face.
His hand holding Little Radiant Chick even trembled, dropping the little fellow onto the Jade Table with a plop. The chick tumbled twice in a daze, a little dust clinging to his golden down.
Yun Huang: "..."
Little Radiant Chick: "???"
His resentment almost took tangible form. His feathers puffed into a ball, and flames of fury shot from his beady eyes straight at Yun Qing.
But at that moment, Yun Qing had no attention to spare for him.
What-what had he just heard?!
Did this venerable menace mean to wash his hands of everything and make him, his elder brother, toil away as an unpaid laborer for millions upon millions of years?!
Only Yun Huang's words remained in his mind, booming over and over like thunder crashing from the nine heavens.
The experience of becoming one with the world.
The seat of Immortal Emperor.
I'm not the one who'll be managing it. You are.
Surely not?
Surely he couldn't mean what I think he means?
Watching him become so stunned that he lost the power of speech, Yun Huang finally let out a soft laugh. His delight was impossible to conceal, and even his Golden Pupils rippled with flecks of light.
He lifted his teacup to