97: Chapter 97 The Supreme Elixir and Advice

"Who... who exactly are you!"

A roar from Old Soldier Cang broke the silence before the Southern Heaven Gate.

His cloudy, aged eyes stared fixedly at that man.

That man in black, holding a golden edict, standing straight and tall.

His eyes were filled with disbelief, even tinged with fear.

The Heavenly Emperor's Edict.

This item could only be produced by a supreme figure who grasped the Heavenly Mandate and rebuilt the Heavenly Court.

This was the symbol of the Heavenly Dao's authority.

Ever since the last epoch, when the Heavenly Court fell and the Immortal Emperor bled.

This object, representing the highest power, had become a complete legend.

A dream that even the current Immortal King dared not entertain.

He had seen with his own eyes countless powerful descendants of Immortal Kings and heirs of immortal lineages fighting fiercely, suffering countless casualties, all for a sliver of the ethereal Heavenly Mandate.

Yet, they hadn't even touched the edge of the Heavenly Mandate.

But now.

This legendary object had appeared, without any warning, in the hands of a young man from the Lower Realm.

This was too absurd.

It was even more incomprehensible than when he had personally watched the Southern Heaven Gate get cleaved in two by a single blade.

Li Xuan, however, didn't even glance at the old soldier.

He was simply examining the edict in his hand with great interest.

The edict was thin, yet exceptionally heavy.

The four ancient characters "Rebuild the Heavenly Court" on it were emitting a soft yet majestic golden light.

The light reacted slightly with the Chaos Dao within his body.

A thought arose spontaneously.

This object was not just a symbol of status, but a key.

A key capable of mobilizing the remaining authority of the heavens and earth within this broken Immortal Domain.

Simply put, if he wanted to, he could now use this edict to mobilize the power of the entire Southern Heaven Gate ruins.

This bit of power was insignificant to the entire Immortal Domain.

But the nature of it was different.

In a sense, he was now the new master of this Southern Heaven Gate.

"I said, just a lost traveler."

Li Xuan casually put away the edict that could drive Immortal Kings mad.

It turned into a streak of golden light and burrowed into Li Xuan's forehead, as if nothing had happened.

He raised his eyes, looked at the stunned old soldier, and smiled kindly.

"Senior, can we continue our previous topic?"

"You haven't finished yet; where are the headquarters of those so-called remnant forces?"

"Which one is the closest to here?"

This relaxed and casual tone was like asking which restaurant served good food.

The breath Old Soldier Cang had just drawn was instantly knocked back, choking him until he almost passed out.

Big brother, did you get the focus wrong?

Is this the time to care about that!

Do you know what you just did!

Do you know that you are now the number one target in the entire Immortal Domain!

Cang's wind-weathered face twisted into an expression uglier than crying.

He suddenly remembered something, and that shock suddenly turned into extreme anxiety.

He actually fell to one knee with a "thump."

This former Heavenly Court God General, this arrogant guardian who had sat before the Southern Heaven Gate for hundreds of millions of years and had never knelt even to an Immortal King.

At this moment, he performed the grand salute of a God General meeting his commander to Li Xuan.

"Subordinate... Cang! Pays respects to... the Lord of Heavenly Mandate!"

His voice was hoarse, but it carried an irrepressible excitement.

In those cloudy eyes, a new brilliance rekindled.

On the zhou tian star boat, Consort Xiao Yu and the others were stunned.

How did this Senior, while talking, suddenly kneel to their husband?

And what was this "Lord of Heavenly Mandate"?

It sounded even more impressive than some Great Emperor or Immortal King?

"No need for such formalities; I haven't agreed to be your master yet."

Li Xuan waved his hand, telling him to get up.

Just kidding, rebuilding the Heavenly Court sounded like a super huge trap.

He brought his wife and children to the Immortal Domain for a vacation, not to work.

But Old Soldier Cang was very stubborn, kneeling on the ground and refusing to rise.

He looked up, his old face full of urgency and pleading.

"My Lord! Precisely because you bear the Heavenly Mandate, your subordinate must implore you! Leave here immediately! Go as far away as possible!"

"Why?"

Li Xuan raised an eyebrow, wanting to laugh a little.

He had advised him to leave earlier, and now that he had become the Lord of Heavenly Mandate and was considered one of their own, why was he even more anxious than before?

"Because you are now ten thousand times more dangerous than before!"

Cang's voice carried a hint of sobbing.

"Just now, you and your children, in the eyes of those people, were only perfect Cauldron and precious medicine."

"But now, you are the Heavenly Mandate!"

He took a deep breath and almost roared it out.

"Do you know what is the most valuable thing in the current Immortal Domain?"

"It is not Immortal King weapons, not immortal scriptures, but... vitality! It is the complete Dao!"

"The Immortal Domain has collapsed, the Laws are incomplete, and the Heavenly Dao does not exist. All the old monsters who survived, whether Righteous Path or evil demons, face the same problem: Lifespan exhausted, Dao Foundation decayed!"

"Their Dao cannot reach Perfection in this broken world; they can only rot day by day, waiting for death!"

Speaking of this, his gaze swept across the zhou tian star boat.

The six little ones, who were wide-eyed with curiosity, looking around, filled his eyes with fear and pity.

"And your children... they are the antidote!"

"They are, in the eyes of all the starving wolves on this desperate wasteland, the most delicious, the most nourishing, the most impossible to refuse..."

He enunciated word by word, his voice hoarse as he spat out the term.

"Su! preme! Medicinal! Pill!"

"Supreme Medicinal Pill?"

On the boat, the complexions of the mothers changed drastically.

They subconsciously hugged their children tightly in their arms, their eyes filled with anger and lingering fear.

"What do you mean?"

Consort Xiao Yu's voice was cold.

Cang explained bitterly:

"An old Immortal King who is about to pass away, if he can refine any one of your children, he can live for at least another epoch! He can also complete his own Dao and even advance further!"

"An immortal giant contaminated by darkness, as long as he swallows the Origin of your child, he can wash away all ominousness and return to his Peak!"

"And your Physique... your flawless Chaos Dao Body... if those ambitious people get their hands on it, they would even dare to think of using your Dao Body as a Foundation to create their own fake Heavenly Mandate!"

"This is no longer just simple covetousness! This is the only hope that can allow them to change their fate!"

"For this hope, they will spare no cost! Immortal Kings will personally take action, entire Ancient Sect will mobilize, and even those old monsters hiding in the forbidden zones of life might be stirred!"

Old Soldier Cang's words echoed clearly in everyone's ears.

What he painted was a picture of Hell.

The top hunters of the entire Immortal Domain would turn into the craziest starving wolves, pouncing from all directions.

Just to tear this family apart, swallow them, and refine them into Medicinal Pill.

The atmosphere suddenly became heavy.

Even those little ones who feared nothing felt that something was wrong.

"Hmph! Whoever dares to eat me, I will use my sword to poke ten thousand holes in him!"

The eldest prince, Li Changsheng, hugged his little wooden sword, puffed out his cheeks, and said fiercely.

"I... I don't taste good at all!"

The second princess, Li Qingyue, her eyes reddened slightly, and she shrank into Yue Chan's arms.

"Ah! Then my value must be very high?"

Only the third prince, Li Yuanbao, had a uniquely focused point of view.

He stared with his double pupils and started counting on his chubby fingers.

"An Immortal King can live another epoch? Then how many Immortal King weapons can I trade for? No, no, how can I sell myself? That's a losing business."

This serious muttering dissipated the tense atmosphere on the deck, making the mothers both angry and amused.

And in a corner that no one noticed, the sixth prince, Li Lunhui, who was still sleeping in his swaddling clothes, had the Reincarnation mark on his forehead flash quietly, as if marking something.

"So..."

Old Soldier Cang was still trying hard to persuade them.

"My Lord, do you understand? You cannot stay here any longer! You carry the Heavenly Mandate, and the hope of the future lies with you!"

"Please take your family and retreat to the Lower Realm immediately! Find a safe place, conceal your names, and Cultivate until you are invincible before coming out!"

"At that time, if you call out, we, these remnants of the old guard, will definitely follow you to the death, helping you sweep away the darkness and rebuild the Heavenly Court!"

He said this while crying, snot and tears streaming down his face.

He seemed to have already seen that as long as Li Xuan retreated temporarily, given the Aptitude of their family, after ten thousand years, they would surely dominate the Immortal Domain and reshape the order.

However, after hearing this, Li Xuan just picked his ear.

He looked at this loyal yet pedantic old soldier and suddenly smiled.

"Conceal our names? Wait until we are invincible before coming out?"

He shook his head and asked in return.

"Senior, do you know what this behavior is called in my hometown?"

Cang was stunned and subconsciously asked:

"What is it called?"

"It's called... 'hiding until the finale'."

Li Xuan spread his hands, looking helpless.

"The plot you mentioned is too cliché; readers nowadays don't like to watch it."

"Readers? What readers?"

Cang was completely confused.

"Nothing."

Li Xuan couldn't be bothered to explain the tropes of web novels to him.

He turned around and looked again at the depths of the Immortal Domain, filled with deathly silence and decay.

His gaze was something Old Soldier Cang could not understand at all.

It was not fear, nor was it heaviness.

But rather a kind of... eagerness that only a top-tier player has when they first log into a new server labeled as 'Hell' difficulty.

"Thank you for your advice, Senior; I have noted it all down."

Li Xuan's voice became calm again.

"Supreme Medicinal Pill, it does sound quite tempting."

"However, I have a flaw; the more others want to take something from me, the more I want to see if they can actually take it."

"Immortal King Family, immortal Ancient Sect, remnants of darkness, forbidden zones of life..."

He recited these names one by one, his smile becoming increasingly unfathomable.

"They all sound quite impressive."

"It's just that I don't know if their heads are hard enough."

Boom.

As soon as he finished speaking, a terrifying Aura flashed across Li Xuan's body.

That was not the prestige of an Emperor.

But a kind of absolute dominance that viewed Immortal Kings as nothing.

Old Soldier Cang's Divine Soul was fiercely impacted by this Aura; his brain buzzed, and he knelt there, unable to say a word.

A madman.

This guy... is definitely a madman.

Did he really think that by himself, he could fight against all the top forces in the entire Immortal Domain?

What does he rely on?

Just when Old Soldier Cang's mind was shaken to the core.

Li Xuan's calm voice sounded again.

"Senior, since you are a God General of the old Heavenly Court, you should be very familiar with the distribution of the major forces in the current Immortal Domain, right?"

Cang nodded subconsciously.

He had guarded here for hundreds of millions of years; although he hadn't left, by sensing the changes in the Aura of heaven and earth, he knew the rise and fall of the major forces in the Immortal Domain like the back of his hand.

"Very good."

Li Xuan snapped his fingers.

He turned his head and smiled brightly at his family on the zhou tian star boat.

"You all heard it, right?"

"This travel map seems quite interesting. There are BOSSes everywhere; there should be plenty of experience babies."

"Daddy! I want to fight that bad guy who wants to refine me into medicine!"

Li Changsheng raised his little wooden sword and shouted angrily.

"Everyone get ready; our first stop on the Immortal Domain sightseeing tour is about to depart."

As he spoke, Li Xuan's gaze shifted back to the already stunned Old Soldier Cang.

He pointed in a direction where the sky was shrouded in a gray, deathly Aura, and even the Laws had become viscous and filthy.

"Senior, if I remember correctly, that direction should be the closest immortal Ancient Sect you mentioned earlier; what was it called again?"

"...Ghost... Ghost Soul Ancient Cult."

Cang's lips trembled as he answered mechanically.

That was a Daoist lineage established by a fallen Immortal King, relying on devouring the Souls of living beings to Cultivate; its methods were cruel, and it had a fierce reputation.

"Ghost Soul Ancient Cult, right?"

Li Xuan nodded, revealing a kind smile on his face.

"That's the one."

"I was just worrying about where to take the children to check in; let's start here."

As his words fell, he took a step and returned to the deck of the zhou tian star boat.

Hum!

The divine boat, forged entirely from Star God Gold, let out a soft hum.

It turned its bow, pointing directly at the location of the Ghost Soul Ancient Cult, which was shrouded in the Aura of death.

Immediately, in the astonished gaze of Old Soldier Cang.

The zhou tian star boat turned into a streak of light, charging without hesitation straight into that unknown Domain representing endless danger and slaughter.

Leaving behind only a light sentence, accompanied by the whistling wind, echoing in front of the empty Southern Heaven Gate.

"Senior, thanks for leading the way."

"We... will be right back."