Ouyang's sudden question brought a subtle change to Dongxu Zi's expression.
Dongxu Zi looked at Ouyang in confusion and asked, "A minor world? What minor world?"
The wine cup kept turning in his hand. Ouyang stared at it, but spoke softly. "Actually, I already had a question when I entered Li Taibai's Immortal Tomb. Later, after descending into the Nine Hells and learning about the Immortals' mortal worlds, I understood something else even more clearly."
As Dongxu Zi listened to Ouyang's calm account, his grip on his whisk involuntarily tightened. He had not expected Ouyang to be perceptive enough to discover this.
Just how many eyes did this brat have in his mind? He had even noticed something like this!
Ouyang paid no attention to Dongxu Zi's demeanor and simply continued laying out his conjecture. "Qi refining, essence condensation, core consolidation, nascent soul formation, spirit transformation, Dao resonance, laws-the cultivation in this world seems more like a kind of growth, a growth resembling that of a world."
Ouyang gently set his wine cup on the table. Looking at the Azure Cloud Sect's Sect Master, whom the system had rated as possessing tenfold omnicompetence, he said, "The difference between Immortals and cultivators is that Immortals can create their own minor worlds, right? Those mortal worlds are like that, and so is Li Taibai's Immortal Tomb."
Dongxu Zi remained silent, but that silence seemed more like tacit agreement.
Ouyang poured himself another cup of wine and drained it. An intriguing smile appeared on his face as he said, "You're all at the ninth level of tribulation transcendence. Whether it's Sword Sect Master Tai'a or Xiaoyaozi, whose head I just held down and beat, they're both among this world's handful of top experts, just like you. But I've fought both of them, and