33: Chapter 33 The Chosen One

Three days later.

The gates of the Imperial Capital of Great Xia were thrown wide open.

A merchant caravan drove in.

Over a hundred treasure carriages and a thousand armored guards.

Pulling the carriages were various rare and exotic beasts.

At the very front, eight snow-white unicorn pegasi.

The treasure carriage they pulled was made of gold and jade, with night-luminescent pearls on the roof that glowed even in the daylight.

A large character was inscribed on the carriage body.

Tianbao.

Tianbao Chamber of Commerce.

The legendary Tianbao Chamber of Commerce, whose wealth rivaled nations.

The commoners on both sides of the street stretched their necks long, standing on tiptoes.

"My god, this display..."

"Aren't the beasts pulling the carriages alone worth an entire city?"

"Why have they come to our Great Xia? Did some Heaven And Earth Treasure appear?"

The crowd pointed and whispered, buzzing with discussion.

Inside the imperial palace.

Emperor Li Zhan, accompanied by his civil and military officials, waited personally at the palace gate.

This was giving them too much Face.

The treasure carriage came to a steady stop.

The curtain was lifted.

A middle-aged man in a brocade robe stepped down, a smile hanging on his Face.

Su Wanli, the branch president of the Tianbao Chamber of Commerce in the Wilderness Desolation.

A powerhouse at the fifth level of the Marquis Realm, a legend who had spread his business across this land.

But beneath his smile at this moment, anxiety was hidden.

His gaze swept over Emperor Li Zhan and the civil and military officials behind Li Zhan who were radiating a new Aura.

A few days ago, he had received the Great Xia state letter, but hadn't taken it seriously.

But the subsequent intelligence made his hair stand on end.

Zi Wuji, the Saint of Ziyang Holy Land, had brought four Marquises and vanished from the Imperial Capital of Great Xia while riding the cloud-piercing ark.

A Mortal Dynasty, capable of making a Holy Land stumble?

Su Wanli understood in an instant.

The waters of this Great Xia were unfathomably deep.

That state letter was an ultimatum that could not be refused.

He dared not delay and decided to come in person.

"President Su, you have come from afar; it has been hard on you. I have prepared a modest banquet to welcome you."

Li Zhan spoke, his voice neither high nor low, neither servile nor overbearing.

"Your Majesty is too kind."

Su Wanli responded with a smile, his mind racing.

A Mortal emperor was so calm in front of a Marquis like him.

It seemed the person behind him had given him immense courage.

At this moment, another person stepped out of the treasure carriage.

A young girl.

Roughly seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a simple and elegant moon-white long dress. Her body was very frail, as if she couldn't stand steadily.

Her appearance left everyone present stunned.

Her skin was snow-white, and her features were flawless.

Those eyes were clear yet cold, carrying an otherworldly temperament.

Terms like "peerless beauty" couldn't do her justice.

Her appearance seemed to attract all the light.

It attracted everyone's gaze.

Emperor Li Zhan was accustomed to the beauties in his harem, but even he stared blankly.

Yet, this stunning appearance was permeated with a sickly pallor.

Her lips lacked color.

Between her brows was an inescapable exhaustion and frailty.

A flower about to wither.

Beautiful, yet heart-wrenching.

She was Su Wanli's only daughter, Su Muxue.

Su Muxue curtsied to Li Zhan.

The movement was very light, yet it seemed to exhaust all her strength, and her Face turned a shade paler.

Su Wanli hurriedly supported his daughter, his eyes filled with heartache and helplessness.

He had come this time, firstly to probe the bottom of Great Xia.

Secondly, it was for his daughter's strange illness.

Zhaoyang Hall.

The hall was very quiet.

Li Xuan sat with his eyes closed, half-reclining on his exclusive rocking chair, his chest rising and falling steadily, with no sign of waking up.

The moment the Tianbao Chamber of Commerce's convoy entered the Imperial Capital, his Dharma Eye had opened.

In the luxurious convoy, everyone else had ordinary Luck light shadows.

Only in the most magnificent treasure carriage was there a brilliant ball of light.

The ball of light was blazing and magnificent, formed by the light of countless gold, silver, jewelry, and Heaven And Earth Treasure.

Wealth, honor.

This was the "Ten Thousand Treasures Glazed Body" mentioned by the System.

But the core of the light ball was entangled with wisps of Death Qi.

A peerless piece of porcelain that had cracked and could shatter at any moment.

"Interesting."

Li Xuan thought to himself.

A natural treasure basin.

Unfortunately, the basin was broken.

It couldn't withstand the treasure Qi and was instead harmed by it.

When Li Zhan led Su Wanli and his daughter into Zhaoyang Hall, this was the scene they saw.

The hall was not the resplendent place they had imagined.

There was no majestic ruler as they had pictured.

Only a young man in white, looking younger than Li Zhan, lying lazily on a rocking chair.

He didn't take them seriously at all.

Su Wanli's heart tightened.

With his cultivation at the fifth level of the Marquis Realm, he couldn't detect anything.

The young man before him was just an ordinary person.

No, not even an ordinary person.

He seemed to have merged with his surroundings, void.

The more this was the case, the more Su Wanli felt fear.

This was the person who had wiped out the group from Ziyang Holy Land.

"Commoner Su Wanli, along with my daughter Su Muxue, pays respects to Senior."

Su Wanli dared not be negligent; he pulled his daughter, who was still somewhat dazed, and prepared to kneel.

"No need."

Li Xuan's voice drifted over; he didn't even open his eyes, just raised his hand slightly.

A force appeared out of thin air, supporting Su Wanli and his daughter.

They wanted to kneel but couldn't.

This move deepened Su Wanli's awe.

"You are the person in charge of the Tianbao Chamber of Commerce here?"

Li Xuan asked indifferently, as if chatting.

"That is indeed me."

Su Wanli sweated on his forehead and replied respectfully.

"Not bad."

Li Xuan nodded, and only then did he slowly open his eyes.

His gaze didn't linger on Su Wanli.

It fell directly on Su Muxue behind him.

At that moment, Su Muxue felt she had been seen through.

The other party's gaze was strange.

There was no amazement or greed like other men when they saw her.

Nor was there the scrutiny or pity of a doctor looking at a patient.

That gaze was deep and calm.

It was like appreciating a treasure, and also like examining a flawed piece of art.

The gaze was indifferent, as if it could see through a person completely.

Under this gaze, she felt she had been seen through inside and out.

This made her uncomfortable.

But she couldn't muster the thought of resistance.

"Not bad, a good seedling."

Li Xuan looked at Su Muxue and nodded.

"It's just that it's about to break, it needs to be fixed quickly."

"What?"

Su Wanli was stunned, not understanding.

He thought the Senior was praising his daughter for being beautiful, and quickly said: "Senior is too kind; my daughter is of mediocre appearance and hardly worthy of Senior's Dharma Eye."

"No, I am talking about her illness."

Li Xuan finally sat up straight, his gaze still locked on Su Muxue's Face.

"Ten Thousand Treasures Glazed Body, naturally able to resonate with Heaven And Earth Treasure Qi, and actively absorb it."

"A complete Physique, when grown up, is a mobile treasure vault; wealth rivaling nations is a small matter."

"Unfortunately, your Physique is incomplete."

"This makes you only able to passively absorb treasure Qi, but unable to refine or control it."

"Over time, this violent treasure Qi becomes poison, eroding your Meridians, internal organs, and Divine Soul."

"Looking at your situation, you have at most three years to live."

Li Xuan's words stabbed into their hearts one by one.

Su Wanli was completely dumbfounded.

Ten Thousand Treasures Glazed Body.

This name was something he had spent an exorbitant price to have a Saint from the Eastern Wasteland deduce.

But that Saint only said this Physique was related to treasures and could say nothing else.

Yet this person before him, just by one look, accurately stated the name.

Even the root cause and drawbacks were analyzed clearly.

What kind of insight and cultivation was this?

Su Muxue was shocked, her Face growing paler.

Her body trembled violently, and in those clear eyes, emotions other than frailty finally appeared.

Shock.

These words understood her body better than she did herself.

All her suffering from childhood to now stemmed from this.

"Senior, Senior, you..."

Su Wanli's lips trembled, unable to say a complete sentence.

He pushed aside his daughter, who was still dazed.

"Thump."

He knelt down heavily.

"Please, Senior, save my daughter. No matter the price, my Tianbao Chamber of Commerce is willing to pay. I beg Senior to show mercy."

He kowtowed forcefully to Li Xuan.

He no longer had the shrewdness of a Chamber of Commerce president, but was just a desperate father running around for his daughter.

Su Muxue was awakened by her father's actions.

She looked at the young man with a composed demeanor before her, biting her bloodless lower lip, her eyes full of disbelief.

And a sliver of hope she couldn't believe herself.

For so many years, her father had taken her to seek out famous doctors and experts; she had even met Saints from Holy Lands.

But the answers she got were all shaking heads and sighs.

They couldn't even find the root of the illness, and could only use Heaven And Earth Treasure to prolong her life.

Today, this mysterious man had seen through the root of all her suffering at a glance.

Did he really have a way?

Li Xuan watched Su Wanli, who was kowtowing incessantly on the ground, with no fluctuation on his Face.

His gaze fell back onto Su Muxue's Face.

He spoke in a tone so calm that it sounded like a matter of course.

"I can cure your illness."

Just six words.

Su Wanli and Su Muxue were both stunned.

Both were instantly ecstatic.

But Li Xuan's next sentence made their hearts go cold.

"But, there is a condition."

He leaned back on the rocking chair, his fingers tapping on the armrest.

His voice was low, but every word was clear.

"You, marry me."