"You should stay by my side."
Yuangeng rejected the Heavenly Nether Treasure's request without so much as looking at it.
The surprise this fellow spoke of was probably a matter of using various means to further its own nirvana. Left unchecked, the Netherworld Treasure could easily undergo another major transformation or two in the vast Shrouding the Heavens Universe.
"If I become an Immortal Artifact, I'll be far more valuable to you than the Immortal Bell!" the Netherworld Treasure coaxed. Naturally, it understood its position. No matter which world it was in, Yuangeng's approval was crucial.
"I know, but not now." Yuangeng refused again.
With that, he stopped listening to the Heavenly Nether Treasure's arguments and began considering the current state of the Shrouding the Heavens Universe. There were very few supreme-level combatants left in this universe.
Across the starry sky, aside from the few old fellows still slumbering in the deepest reaches of the forbidden zones, the two or three Great Perfection Saint Spirits who had attained the Dao in the Saint Spirit Ancestral Land, and exceptional beings on the level of great accomplishment sacred bodies and great accomplished tyrant bodies, almost every other Supreme had followed Yuangeng into the Strange World.
This meant that even when heaven and earth underwent their great upheaval at the end of the Primordial Era tens of thousands of years later, a large-scale dark turmoil would no longer be possible. At most, a few maddened practitioners of alternative Dao attainment and cultivators at the ninth heaven of the Quasi-Emperor realm would leap out. Such minor disturbances would not even warrant Yuangeng taking action.
Unfortunately, this would also remove many of the trials that Dao Provers had faced in the original timeline. For prodigies like Xue Yueqing, having Supremes bar their path had also