Eliminating Hidden Dangers, Each in Their Own Way

When Shi Xuan left the Shangqing Shenxiao Realm, deep within the Western Wilderness Outer Regions, the rolling Yellow Sand Storm mixed with spatial rifts suddenly froze and slowly parted. An Emperor clad in a deep black dragon robe, with bead curtains hanging before his face, stood with his hands behind his back and gazed at the horizon. He murmured, "Shi Xuan has finally gone out to travel."

Back in the events of the Western Wilderness, Nether Sea Imperial Sovereign's thought had been destroyed, and Nine Treasures Imperial Sovereign's avatar had been slain. Only Fengdu Imperial Sovereign's avatar had emerged wholly unscathed. Yet he had not recalled that Fourth Tribulation Peak avatar to Nine Nether, instead leaving it in the Western Wilderness.

"No matter what Youhai and Jiuzang intend, Shi Xuan and I are bound to have a clash. There will be no peaceful resolution." Fengdu Imperial Sovereign's true body in a great hall on the Nine Nether Eighth Layer likewise stood with his hands behind his back, gazing into the distance, majestic and solitary.

Fengdu Imperial Sovereign knew clearly that Shi Xuan wanted the sacrificial refinement method for the Fate Destroying Scroll in his possession, while he himself wanted the cultivation method for Shi Xuan's three flying swords. Since Shi Xuan had rejected the path of exchange, an unavoidable battle would certainly arise between them—whether Shi Xuan entered Nine Nether after becoming a Half-step Golden Immortal, or he tracked Shi Xuan down now.

He sighed inwardly. *This concerns an opportunity to attain the Dao. I do not care about bullying the young with age. Even if, to avoid making Senior Ehuang suspicious, I cannot have her help my true body leave Nine Nether, I possess a secret art that can exchange the positions of my true body and Fourth Tribulation