Within the Wuxian Great Dao, which radiated Glazed Treasure Light.
The Ultimate Dao Master's figure shifted feebly.
Behind him, Heavenly Extreme Swords unleashed a frenzied barrage, targeting him in an ever-changing array of patterns.
This...
Was already the hundredth year since he had been imprisoned within Li Xian's Wuxian Great Dao.
Firmly believing that his race would never abandon a Top Dao Master like him, even as Li Xian repeatedly tried to shred him with Heavenly Extreme Swords...
Even after he realized that Li Xian was actually studying his escape Secret Art, he pretended not to know and cooperated with Li Xian's pressure, demonstrating the mysteries of the Escape Technique, Nine Turns of Primordial Space, to their utmost.
But...
There had to be a limit to this cooperation, to this relentless pursuit.
A hundred years!
Li Xian had attacked, pressured, and tried to shred him in all manner of ways for a full hundred years. Even though a Dao Master's will became almost indestructibly tenacious after its transformation...
After being tormented for over a hundred years by attacks that demanded his utmost concentration at every moment, he was still beginning to buckle.
"What exactly do you want?"
The Ultimate Dao Master roared feebly, "You wanted my escape art. I gave it to you thirty years ago..."
He was telling the truth.
Thirty years ago, Li Xian had indeed received the Escape Technique this Dao Master had offered as "ransom."
Only...
He did not trust this Dao Master.
He did not believe the Escape Technique he had provided was genuine.
So he had chosen to observe it himself.
The Ultimate Dao Master had guessed as much.
Over the following decades, he had been quite cooperative, doing everything he could to demonstrate the mysteries of Nine Turns of Primordial Space.
But recently...