Small Bridge, Flowing Water Await an Honored Guest

--A little late, because I had to finish writing this plotline, so it ran five hundred words over. Well, tomorrow morning's update won't be ready in time; it'll be posted around four in the afternoon.

As strange thoughts spun through his mind, Shi Xuan's expression did not change in the slightest. Smiling, he cupped his hands to Guo Qian Xiu. "Many thanks, True Lord Guo, for informing me. It gives this poor Daoist more time to prepare."

"True Lord Shi, your Dao heart is truly smooth and flawless. When I heard that Xu Jingshu was connected to the Ancient Slaughter Dao, even this old daoist could not help worrying and fearing for a while. Yet you showed not the slightest emotional ripple. No wonder you became a second-tribulation Mighty One so quickly and have spread your name far and wide through the Myriad Worlds." Seeing Shi Xuan's reaction, Guo Qian Xiu could not help voicing his admiration. The Ancient Slaughter Dao had once slain quite a few Fourth Tribulation Heavenly Sovereigns.

He himself had pursued Xu Jingshu's trail back then and was a major suspect, so naturally he was worried.

Shi Xuan displayed no pride whatsoever and said evenly, "True Lord Guo overpraises me."

Yet inwardly, he muttered, If you had a Dao Ancestor as an enemy locked in an undying struggle with you, were constantly being watched by a Half-step Golden Immortal, and had once escaped alive from the claws of a terrifying divine beast trapped in the Heavenly Human Fifth Decay, then being targeted by the Ancient Slaughter Dao would become commonplace. Besides, with the Cosmic Light Bell on him, it was a faint hope indeed for the Slaughter Dao to calculate and pinpoint his whereabouts.

Though Shi Xuan felt pressure, it was not overwhelming. Fear and