932: Xiao Xuan swore that if time could go back, he would never laugh at himself again.

“...”

Everyone looked stunned, glancing at Gu Qing, then at Xiao Xuan, who was trying hard to keep his eyes wide open.

They all looked thoughtfully, their gazes fixed intently on Xiao Xuan.

Listening to Gu Qing, Xiao Xuan did not possess heaven-defying comprehension; the reason he could achieve enlightenment anytime, anywhere, was entirely due to external power infusion.

And this “external power” had been unknowingly taken away by Gu Qing.

However, they couldn't understand what kind of “external power” could allow someone to achieve enlightenment anytime, anywhere, and cultivate a Chaos Dao Body.

With Xiao Xuan's current foundation, he already had the potential of a Dao Lord; becoming a Dao Lord was only a matter of time.

In other words, Xiao Xuan's “external power” could mass-produce Dao Lords.

This was too incredible.

So they were not sure and decided to wait and see.

“You...”

Hearing this, Xiao Xuan's mind buzzed, as if struck by lightning.

Heaven-defying comprehension was his biggest secret, the foundation of his rise, and his greatest confidence for survival in the Xuanhuan world.

How did Gu Qing know?

Feeling the probing gazes of the crowd, Xiao Xuan's pupils constricted, his body trembled, and a wave of fear spread through his heart.

“How... how did you know?” Xiao Xuan's voice trembled.

He had originally thought Gu Qing was an insignificant nobody, and if he dared to block his path, he wouldn't mind eliminating him.

However, he never expected Gu Qing to be an unfathomable old monster, who had silently taken away his heaven-defying comprehension.

What level of cultivation was required to achieve this?

Xiao Xuan didn't dare to think deeply; at this moment, he felt a chill throughout his body, as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

“Naturally, I saw it.”

Gu Qing smiled slightly; seeing Xiao Xuan's expression, he knew what Xiao Xuan was thinking and couldn't help but feel utterly speechless.

“At this point, you couldn't possibly still think you have heaven-defying comprehension, could you?” Gu Qing truly wanted to cut open Xiao Xuan's head to see what was inside.

“Uh... I...” Xiao Xuan had indeed always firmly believed he possessed heaven-defying comprehension.

But now that Gu Qing had exposed him so bluntly, even Xiao Xuan's self-confidence couldn't allow him to deceive himself anymore.

“So that's how it is.”

“That hateful brat, relying on external power yet still so confident.”

“I knew it; how could anyone in this world achieve enlightenment anytime, anywhere?”

“This good-for-nothing truly deserves to die...”

“If this good-for-nothing hadn't cheated, the position of Saint Son would have rightfully been mine.”

Seeing this, what else was there for everyone not to understand?

What they thought was heaven-defying comprehension and the potential of a Dao Ancestor was nothing but a false facade, yet Xiao Xuan, that dog, acted as if it were real.

He constantly wore an expression of a lonely master, deceiving everyone.

The true disciples of the sect who had been defeated by Xiao Xuan had fire in their eyes, wishing they could tear Xiao Xuan apart and devour him alive.

They had endured countless hardships and difficulties to achieve their current cultivation and status, taking one step at a time, shedding countless blood and sweat.

Xiao Xuan, on the other hand, cheated with a clear conscience, as if it were his right.

“No... I didn't...”

Seeing the murderous gazes of the crowd, Xiao Xuan took a few steps back, panicked, and frantically shook his head in denial.

Bragging and showing off isn't shameful, but being exposed face-to-face makes one wish they could bury themselves alive.

Xiao Xuan's mind was in turmoil; in a trance, he heard the curses and disdain of his gold-digging ex-girlfriend from his previous life, and his company team leader yelling at him for being useless.

“I'm not useless!” Xiao Xuan roared, his eyes wild.

“I'm really not useless!”

“Ever since I started cultivating, my comprehension has been heaven-defying, and I've swept through all obstacles, unrivaled...”

Ever since he transmigrated to the Xuanhuan world, no one had ever called him useless, not a single person.

All he received was praise, worship, awe, and admiration for his supreme demeanor.

Therefore, he was definitely not useless.

“You are indeed not useless.”

Gu Nian suddenly spoke, making the collapsing Xiao Xuan feel as if he had grasped a final straw of hope, and a glimmer of light appeared in his frantic eyes.

However, Gu Nian's next sentence plunged him into despair.

“If you were useless, you wouldn't be worthy of being refined by me.”

As soon as her words fell, Gu Nian reached out to grab Xiao Xuan, a brilliant divine light appearing in her palm, with billions of great dao divine runes faintly visible, converging into a furnace.

The Great Dao Furnace seemed to merge with the external laws of heaven and earth, with all things in heaven and earth, infinitely large and infinitely small.

It seemed to exist in everyone's bloodline, in their magical power; even a Dao Monarch could not avoid it, and Gu Nian's Great Dao Furnace was untraceable.

Everyone felt as if they were inside a Great Dao Furnace, being mercilessly refined.

However, everyone only felt it for a fleeting moment, and soon returned to normal, as if the feeling just now was merely an illusion.

“What kind of divine ability is this?!”

Everyone looked at Gu Nian with terrified eyes, as if looking at an indescribable great horror.

Even if they were fools, they now knew that Gu Nian already possessed Zhi Meng's potential.

“The world has changed.”

Before Zhi Meng, the world's orthodoxies bloomed, and all races contended for supremacy.

Now, a Great Dao one level higher than theirs had appeared in the world; there was a distinction between immortals and mortals between them and Zhi Meng, and Gu Nian.

And Gu Qing.

Although they didn't know Gu Qing's background, as Gu Nian's father, could he be weak?

And Starry Sacred Mother, Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman, and others... they say birds of a feather flock together; these two, walking side by side with Gu Qing and his daughter, were probably fellow travelers.

Hiss.

The more they thought about it, the more terrifying it became; even a superficial thought was terrifying. Everyone increasingly felt that the world had changed, or rather, they had seen an unknown side of the world.

“Don't kill me.”

Xiao Xuan was enveloped in the Great Dao Furnace, his cultivation realm, including his body, completely out of his control.

No matter how he called out, his body and Dao Fruit would not obey her.

The great terror of death enveloped his heart, and Xiao Xuan was utterly terrified.

He didn't want to die, he really didn't want to die.

He had finally lived a glorious life; he still wanted to cultivate to become a Dao Ancestor, to become the sole existence, looking down on all sentient beings, the changing years, and living a long and carefree life.

Also, he hadn't yet won the goddess's heart... Oh right, the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman could definitely save him.

Xiao Xuan's eyeballs darted around, looking at the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman, who was ethereal like an immortal god.

“Save me, save me...”

Xiao Xuan looked at the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman, his voice trembling as he begged for help.

The only person present who could save him was the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman.

Although begging a woman for help was shameful and not his style, if the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman didn't save him... he would die.

“You know him?” Gu Qing asked, surprised.

“I know him, but not well.” The Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman only felt that knowing Xiao Xuan was extremely bad luck, and she deeply regretted bringing Xiao Xuan into the Star God Sect.

“Oh!”

Gu Qing said “Oh” and crossed his arms, looking at Xiao Xuan with interest.

To be precise, he was looking at the “System” deep within Xiao Xuan's divine soul.

He wanted to know what this unknown powerful being would do.

“Not well?”

Hearing this, Xiao Xuan was dumbfounded; his longed-for goddess actually said she didn't know him well?

What did his years of yearning for the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman count for?

Did the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman not like him at all?

Then why did she bring him to the Star God Sect?

An unprecedented feeling of humiliation surged into his heart, and a surge of power seemed to erupt from Xiao Xuan's body, his eyes splitting with rage as he roared, “What a ‘not well’!”

“Didn't you have even a little liking for me?” Xiao Xuan asked with a self-deprecating bitter smile, his voice dry.

He had fallen in love with the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman at first sight; all his thoughts and feelings these years were for her, and it turned out his sincere heart was fed to a dog.

“You're asking for death.”

“Nian'er, don't kill him; put his divine soul into the Soul Refining Hell.”

The Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman was furious; being liked by Xiao Xuan made her feel as if a toad was crawling on her instep—it didn't kill, but it was disgusting.

She had only met Xiao Xuan once and hadn't even exchanged three sentences with him; how dared Xiao Xuan harbor such delusions?

The Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman felt as if she had suffered a great humiliation, never having disliked someone as much as she did now.

“What?”

Xiao Xuan never expected that a mere self-deprecating bitter smile would lead to such cruel retaliation from the goddess.

Was there any justice? Was there any law?

Xiao Xuan was filled with grief and indignation, and resentment towards the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman rose in his heart. However, thinking of his divine soul being scorched in the Soul Refining Hell for countless years, all his resentment vanished, leaving only terror.

Anyone whose divine soul had been scorched knew that it was simply a living hell.

He would rather die, rather completely dissipate, than have his divine soul scorched for all eternity.

“Good!”

Gu Nian had also been annoyed by Xiao Xuan for a long time; he was clearly a useless cheat, yet he constantly cultivated a detached and peerless demeanor.

Killing Xiao Xuan like this would indeed be too easy for him.

Gu Nian extracted a wisp of his divine soul and cast it into the Soul Refining Hell within the Star God Sect. With a thought, great dao divine runes appeared on their own, forming a Soul Refining Array.

“Ah...”

Xiao Xuan let out a mournful wail, his heart filled with regret. If time could flow backward, he swore he would never self-deprecatingly smile again, and certainly never be so presumptuous.

Unfortunately, time could never flow backward; what had happened had happened, and no one could change the established facts.

Gu Nian sealed Xiao Xuan's origin, planning to refine it after entering the Gate of Creation.

Closing her eyes and sensing for a moment, all her clones had completed their coronation, and boundless great fortune converged upon her.

Gu Nian entered a mysterious and profound state, her divine soul ethereal, colors appearing in her eyes. Her whole being seemed to enter another realm, seeing the colors of another realm, and perceiving the essence of the Great Dao.

“I'm leaving first.”

Seeing this, Gu Qing knew it would take countless years for Gu Nian to awaken from her enlightenment state, and he didn't have that much patience.

Accompanying his daughter to her coronation as Sect Master was already the extent of his patience.

“Go, go!” Starry Sacred Mother glared at him, knowing Gu Qing's personality, she didn't say much more.

“Wait for me.”

Liu Ruyan from the crowd hurriedly chased after him, and Liu Ruyi, the siscon, followed like a shadow.

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