Chapter 484: Sitting opposite each other

In Boundless Outer Domain, an old man and a young man sat opposite each other in the boundless emptiness.

However, what was somewhat amusing was that the two only maintained their relative stillness to each other, but did not fix themselves in place. So, although they appeared still to each other, in reality, they were spinning at an extremely fast speed, constantly drifting in Outer Void, just like countless cosmic dust particles, continuously performing Brownian motion.

But it was clear that neither of them cared much about this. They only needed to be still relative to each other. As for drifting around in Outer Void… that was a matter of course. There was no one here, so fixing themselves in space was meaningless.

“Alright, since you’re making that face, I won’t ask. Anyway, no one in the world understands what you’re thinking better than I do, even without looking into your mind,” the old man said with a smile.

Then, the old man continued, “Just like that demon race girl behind you, the emperor fluid paste you used to repair your Physical Body after shattering your Inner World was obtained from her, wasn’t it? She’s been following you for several epochs, and you’ve asked her for countless favors, freeloading off her food and drink every day, even sleeping at her house, yet you still refuse to give her a proper title. That’s really a bit unseemly.”

“Hey, old man, don’t talk nonsense! I sleep in the living room, and I haven’t touched her. Besides, if someone invites me to eat, I have to agree? What kind of person would I be then?” Zhu Fengdan immediately became alert and waved his hand to deny it.

“That’s why I say you’re useless. After all these years, you still can’t find a wife. Your disciple will probably have a child in a few years. You can’t even compare to a child. He can establish a Four Symbols contract, so why can’t you even get an engagement?” The old man shook his head, his tone somewhat disdainful when he mentioned this.

“Come on, it’s other people’s business if they have a wife, what does it have to do with me? Why are you so fixated on this? If you really want to, I support arranged marriages anyway. It makes no difference to you,” Zhu Fengdan seemed a bit annoyed by this topic and directly suggested an arranged marriage.

“It’s not that I want to care about this. The main thing is, your disciple’s wife, Shen… Shui Bi, right? She also had her Inner World completely shattered, just like you. The reason she could be healed was also because of you, wasn’t it? Neither Chang’an nor Honglu Temple would be so easy to deal with, right? So, the emperor fluid paste used to repair her Physical Body was also something you got from the demon race?” the old man asked nonchalantly.

Zhu Fengdan seemed to have been prepared for this for a long time. Although the old man’s sudden mention of it surprised him a little, he didn’t panic. Instead, he said smugly, “Of course. Otherwise, where would Chang’an get so much emperor fluid paste? Old man, it’s not me talking, but if you guys had been so attentive to me when I was a child, I wouldn’t have ended up like this, still a bachelor. You guys have to bear half the responsibility, okay?”

“You’re good at sneaking around and fighting, but why can’t you talk to women? Didn’t your mad scholar demeanor attract a bunch of admirers? And you didn’t get your emperor fluid paste from your admirers, so why didn’t you pick one of them? To put it bluntly, you’re just incompetent. You just brag all day long. When it comes to actually taking off a woman’s clothes, you’re not even as good as your little disciple,” the old man said with disdain.

However, this disdain made Zhu Fengdan scratch his head and chuckle twice, without refuting.

No way, he couldn’t refute it.

He could banter with those women, but when it came to talking about love, it was truly difficult for him.

As for taking off a woman’s clothes…

He would rather fight Guixu.

He really didn’t understand how Li Qi, that little rascal, could do it without batting an eyelid. He simply couldn’t figure it out.

Even the Dao was not as difficult to understand as women.

The two continued their conversation, still without a specific topic, just casual small talk. However, as they chatted, it could be seen that both Zhu Fengdan and the old man seemed to be in increasingly good moods.

Moreover, sometimes, the moods of Great Powers can affect the real world.

As they continued their cheerful conversation, in this boundless Void Realm, suddenly, flowers rained down from the sky, precious rain showered abundantly, auspicious mists layered and billowed, chirping sounds resounded, magnificent distant glows appeared, moisture spread like rain, and transforming winds dispersed. Countless stardust began to condense, forming tiny meteors that surged around them, coming like a rain shower and dispersing like clouds, like rivers of stars gradually drifting away.

Then, some of these rivers of stars, through continuous collision, gathered together.

The gathered starlight condensed into seed-like existences, which abruptly disappeared from their original locations, seeming to have… taken root in space.

Then, the rooted seeds miraculously began to sprout.

A world barrier appeared.

Inside the world barrier, rivers of stars flowed, and dense vitality surged forth.

Clear Qi descended, seemingly possessing the power to create heaven and earth!

Then, turbid Qi nurtured all things, Yin and Yang Qi gave birth to the sun and moon, Five Elements Qi established the three heavens and distinguished the four poles, and heavenly principles descended, fixing the laws of the sun and moon’s movement, determining morning, evening, day, and night.

After the entire process of world creation was completed, with towering mountains and leveled seas, and the traces of divine craftsmanship concealed, where supreme virtue did not govern but divine will responded, countless Innate Heavenly Gods were born, each upholding corresponding natural phenomena and holding a portion of the world’s authority.

Heavenly Gods descended like flowing fire, striking the world barrier with all their might to expand it.

As the world expanded, the Heavenly Gods also became exhausted and lay down to rest.

After they lay down, their Physical Bodies transformed into mountains, rivers, and seas, becoming clouds, mist, frost, and mineral veins. As they rested and slept, their Physical Bodies became the world, and their minds became pure ‘spirits’.

Then, a world devoid of life, yet full of vitality, was born.

And such a world, within the entire river of stars caused by the old man and the young man, was merely a drop in the ocean.

Tens of thousands of newly born worlds drifted out into this boundless Void Realm.

This was true ‘creation from nothing’.

These countless worlds were spontaneously generated out of nothingness.

The countless worlds then influenced each other and existed independently, creating gravitational entanglement among themselves. Thus, they rotated together, forming a world cluster around the old man and the young man.

A small world cluster, similar to a rotating galaxy, though currently only a few hundred million miles across.

As these worlds expand, they will gradually move away, then become a true world cluster spanning many light-years.

The old man and the young man in the middle seemed not to notice these things, still chatting about irrelevant things.

However, as they chatted, Zhu Fengdan glanced at the surrounding rivers of stars, suddenly fell silent, and then sat up straight.

With his action, the surging celestial flowers and the continuously born new worlds around them abruptly paused. The entire process of the world cluster’s creation was directly interrupted; no new worlds were born, and no more anomalies appeared.

Zhu Fengdan became serious; he was about to get down to business.

The old man also changed his previous amiable attitude, his body suddenly mutated, becoming abruptly transparent, yet not completely transparent, but rather a kind of… existence similar to a natural phenomenon.

Large numbers of hypercubes, hyperspheres, and constantly moving geometric lines formed the contours of his body.

But this was no ordinary natural phenomenon. Whether it was the perfectly smooth and cyclical space-time itself, or the constantly changing, transcendent-dimensional geometric figures, they undoubtedly spoke of the miraculous nature of this state.

A person’s Physical Body could actually transform into this… This could no longer be called a Physical Body; this was fundamentally the manifestation of some kind of Dao Resonance.

However, appearing in this posture must signify seriousness, right?

“Old man.” Zhu Fengdan sat up straight and looked at the old man in front of him, saying, “Regarding my disciple’s matter, his affair… I can’t control it. After all, it involves the Heavenly Demon, and if we don’t act, the Heavenly Demon will succeed. Therefore, regarding the Sun-Moon Orbit, I vote for war.”

“War, huh… So, no more delaying, just like your disciple did, a quick decisive battle? Using the arrangements made before to persuade Mount Luofu to hand over the Sun-Moon Orbit? In that case, you can’t just talk the talk without walking the walk,” the old man said.

Zhu Fengdan nodded slightly. He knew that the words he and the old man were speaking at this moment contained no personal feelings, and what they said, they had to do.

This was not child’s play; this was making a decision for the entire Shaman God Mountain. Although the two of them could not make the final decision, in the high-level meeting, every vote was crucial.

“Of course, I won’t just talk without acting. After all, I’m the one who proposed war. If I say war and then don’t fight, what kind of person would I be? So this time, I will personally go to the front line. I just hope you, old man, don’t stand by and do nothing. When you vote, cast a vote for war. Your words still carry weight.” Zhu Fengdan nodded.

“When your disciple made that decision, I guessed you would support him. But… it’s also a good thing. I just don’t know if this little fellow realizes how many people his little scheme has implicated. The result of his long deliberations… will make you rejoin the major operations of Shaman God Mountain. You know, once you’re back, it won’t be so easy to leave,” the old man said with emotion.

“He definitely doesn’t know. All he’s thinking about right now are his own small possessions, a little money, and the safety of himself and his wife. But it’s still good, it shows he’s thinking about things. As for the Sun-Moon Orbit, he hasn’t really influenced me much. I was always in favor of war. If we were to delay, it would drag on for tens of thousands of epochs. Who can wait that long?” Zhu Fengdan replied.

“But if it weren’t for him, would you really participate in the war?” the old man asked.

“Hahahahaha!” At this moment, Zhu Fengdan suddenly threw his head back and laughed loudly, then abruptly stood up and disappeared, ending the conversation.

He didn’t say whether he would participate in the war, but that was already enough.

The old man, however, was startled for a moment, then shook his head slightly and smiled helplessly.

All that painstaking effort, all those countless schemes, just to reverse ‘Heaven’s Will’?

But, well done.

He really did make me guess wrong once, which is commendable.

In other words, Zhu Fengdan was actually involved in this whole play, but… he was very clean about it, and he even used special methods to conceal the heavenly secrets, hiding it from the eyes of ‘Heaven’s Will’.

Is that why he’s so smug? Is that why he’s willing to return to Shaman God Mountain’s external wars?

Tsk.

In the Void Realm, the figures completely disappeared, leaving only countless newly born worlds, forming a brand new world cluster. Perhaps hundreds of thousands of years later, some nascent civilizations in these world clusters will open their world barriers for the first time to see what the outside world is truly like.

It’s just unknown whether, by that time, they will wonder where this magnificent world cluster, with so many worlds, came from.

However, no matter how the wise and enlightened among them speculate, it’s probably impossible for them to get the true answer.

Because the answer is outrageous.

Because they were happy chatting, a thought gave birth to a world.

Who would believe that if you told them?

——————

And at this very moment in Hell, Li Qi was already exhausted.

However, the opponent was also exhausted.

The intensity of the battle had decreased significantly; neither side could maintain high-intensity thinking anymore. Li Qi felt his brain was already burnt out. After almost a quarter of an hour of confrontation, he was about to vomit.

The pressure of thinking made him nauseous, dizzy, his blood pressure rose, and his Human Body Inner World was in disarray.

These were signs of mental exhaustion.

However, precisely at such times, one must persist. Sometimes, an extra second of persistence is where victory lies.

All evenly matched great battles eventually turn into wars of attrition. When strength and foundation are equal, willpower becomes the object of competition.

However, Li Qi’s mind was still calculating the future situation at this moment.

He had an extra card in his hand, possibly a winning card: a third-rank head.

This was a genuine third-rank head, not one boosted by official position.

There was just one problem: such a thing… was too dangerous.

This was a hand grenade; if not used well, it would explode on himself. The residual Dao Resonance of a third-rank corpse, if used well, would be a decisive blow; if not used well, it would be an instant self-detonation, and the opponent would automatically win.

Therefore, extreme caution was necessary.

However, adding this element to the calculation now added another burden to Li Qi, forcing him to expend more energy to keep up with the Demonic Prince’s offensive.

This was a give and take, but overall it was a good thing. A little more burden, but also an extra trump card.

“Young Master, what’s next?” At this moment, Cang Hou’s voice appeared in Li Qi’s ear.

Cang Hou also roughly understood the situation.

The True Dragon next to him had already started slacking off.

Ao Guangxiao hadn’t completely defected, but this True Dragon had already started slacking off. Clearly, he was preparing to ‘help whoever wins’.

And the reason for Ao Guangxiao’s change of heart was probably inseparable from that Young Master.

In other words, now, whoever could win would survive.

“I don’t know either. Let me consider…” Li Qi said, continuing to ponder methods.

However, at this very moment—

A dark shadow suddenly fell from the sky.

Li Qi’s pupils constricted!

Wait, the Demonic Prince, wants to fight him in close combat!?

Holy cow, is this his way to break the deadlock?!