"Eyes Beyond the Wall" Demand Caution

Shi Xuan, his hair white as snow and his face deeply lined with wrinkles, shook his head humorously. "This disciple's state of mind will forever be eighteen. How can I be considered an old daoist?"

Shi Xuan still retained the cultivation and realm of the One-Tribulation Peak. The Cold Light Freezing Heaven Cleaving Earth Immortal Formation was utterly useless against him, so he sat cross-legged directly before the ice coffin, looking at True Lord Xu's rotting body within. Through his Immortal Awareness, he confirmed that True Lord Xu's Heavenly Human First Decay had stabilized and would no longer leave him neither dead nor alive. Moreover, True Lord Xu had made exceedingly thorough preparations for this renewed Flesh Decay. Though he did not possess the more than eighty percent certainty Shi Xuan had enjoyed when crossing his Flesh Decay, he still had nearly seventy percent confidence. Thus, Shi Xuan was relaxed enough to make a joke drawn from his previous life.

Though True Lord Xu did not understand the allusion, its meaning was simple enough. He laughed and scolded, "Aren't you mocking this old daoist for having an aged state of mind and always calling himself an elder?" Having undergone Flesh Decay once already, True Lord Xu brimmed with confidence.

After a pause, True Lord Xu looked at Shi Xuan and suddenly sighed softly. "Your fierce, diligent advancement is naturally a good thing. Since the day you entered the sect, this old daoist watched you achieve Golden Core, achieve Primordial Spirit, then watched you pass Heavenly Tribulation and Decay Tribulation. Now you even have some confidence in the Heavenly Human Fourth Decay. Perhaps before long, you will become a Fourth Tribulation Heavenly Sovereign who commands one region with a stomp of his foot. Yet when I think that, after this, you