An Encounter Foreseen Long Ago

—The update owed from the last chapter will be made up next week.

Jian Taiqing listened to Shi Xuan's words, stunned for a moment before finally sighing. "Fellow Daoist Shi, your words are most excellent. Alas, Jian did not hear them sooner. Ah, better to seize it straight than seek it through crooked paths!" He looked deeply regretful.

"As for what happened just now, thank you, Fellow Daoist Jian, for speaking up righteously. Shi thanks you here. However, Shi still has important matters to attend to and must bid farewell now," Shi Xuan said with a smile.

Jian Taiqing seemed to return to his senses and asked as though casually, "May I ask what Fellow Daoist Shi has come to the depths of the Western Wilderness Inner Layer for? If you are searching for grotto-heavens left behind by Ancient Era Half-step Golden Immortals or Fourth Tribulation Heavenly Sovereigns, you and I could join forces and exchange information. Perhaps the gains would be greater."

With the fall of Jiuzang Imperial Sovereign's incarnation, the Temporal-Spatial Storm here had returned to its original violence. Yet whenever the black-and-white mingled, nearly dark Temporal-Spatial Storm blew close to Jian Taiqing, it calmed and turned docile on its own. His ability to manipulate time carried not the slightest trace of fireworks, clearly surpassing Shi Xuan's. Shi Xuan would need to join hands with the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger merely to stand comparison.

Deep within this Temporal-Spatial Storm, black spatial rifts and fragments had completely merged with nearly transparent white Time Tempests, giving off a light that seemed both black and white. No longer mad and violent, they were instead profound and tranquil. Yet they felt even more dangerous and terrifying. Unless one had reached the Fourth Tribulation Peak realm or possessed masterful, furnace-pure control over time,