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Clang!

Gao Fang immediately knelt and smashed his head on the ground . He shouted loudly, “Greetings, Master . ”

Meng Chuan nodded slightly . “Very good . ”

Following that, the illusory world collapsed .

Gao Fang was in a daze . He was still kneeling on the Grand Yin Star with his six companions .

“Gao Fang, follow me . ” Meng Chuan waved his hand; Gao Fang didn’t resist at all . He was sent into a grotto-heaven .

Swoosh .

Following that, Meng Chuan took a step and vanished .

The six remaining cultivators exchanged looks .

“That Eminence actually took Brother Gao Fang away . ”

“Unfortunately, he didn’t fancy us . ”

The six Supremacies were filled with mixed emotions . It was already a great blessing for an Eminence to save them from the dire situation . They didn’t dare hope for the mighty figure to take them away . However, with one taken away, the remaining six naturally felt discomfort .

Envy and jealousy surged in their hearts .

“That Eminence might have taken away the cave abode, but he may have also left something behind . Let’s search carefully,” said the horned man .

“Search carefully again . ”

The six Supremacies continued their search on the Grand Yin Star . In the next month, they did indeed find something . After all, the cave abode owner had lived here in seclusion for a long time . The Grand Yin Star was very vast . Many places had been the Eminence’s experimentation grounds for his techniques . Many other residences were also scattered around the star .

…

Meng Chuan entered the River of Spacetime again and arrived at Pang Ming Realm .

Whoosh .

Returning to the ordinary outer realm void, Meng Chuan looked at the inhabited world in front of him . Pang Ming Realm was about 15,000 kilometers in diameter . With the spacetime laws’ restrictions, Meng Chuan couldn’t enter it .

Swoosh .

Meng Chuan waved his hand, and Gao Fang appeared beside him .

“Master . ” Gao Fang was somewhat puzzled . After being stored in the grotto-heaven for a moment, he had been talking with Supremacy Qing Gu . He was halfway through his conversation with Supremacy Qing Gu when he suddenly was thrown out .

“This is Pang Ming Realm, right?” Meng Chuan pointed at the inhabited world in front of him .

“That is Pang Ming Realm, my homeworld,” replied Gao Fang respectfully . He glanced at Pang Ming Realm and was secretly astonished .

His master was too fast . He knew that it would take him over 30 years to return to his homeworld from the Grand Yin Star through the River of Spacetime .

As for his master? He arrived in the time it took to exchange a few words .

“There should be another Supremacy in your Pang Ming Realm,” said Meng Chuan .

Gao Fang looked at Meng Chuan in shock and nodded . “Master is wise . There is indeed another Supremacy in Pang Ming Realm . ”

“Tell me about that Supremacy,” instructed Meng Chuan .

“Yes . ” Gao Fang felt mixed emotions .

There were two Supremacies in Pang Ming Realm . He had had some conflict with that person . They weren’t enemies, but they weren’t friends either .

“She’s a female Supremacy,” said Gao Fang respectfully . “Her name is Zhao Hongxiu . She’s the strongest assassin in Pang Ming Realm . She’s good at archery . ”

“Archery?” Meng Chuan raised his eyebrows . He couldn’t help but feel an affinity towards her .

His wife, Liu Qiyue, was also skilled in archery . Very few outer realm cultivators used bows and arrows .

“Zhao Hongxiu’s personality is rather special . ” Gao Fang hesitated for a moment and said, “In the early days, she was a member of an assassin organization . Later, she betrayed the assassin organization, which then pursued her… In the end, the entire assassin organization was destroyed because of this . She did everything according to her wishes . She hated corrupt officials the most . She even infiltrated the capital and killed the ministers under me .

“I’ve been cultivating for longer than her—800 years,” explained Gao Fang . “After I became a Supremacy, I unified the world and established the Great Xuan Dynasty . The Great Xuan Dynasty has been in existence for more than 600 years . Zhao Hongxiu has only cultivated for 300 years . When she grew in strength, the Great Xuan Dynasty was also helmed by my descendant as emperor . She ignored the Imperial Court and did whatever she wanted, causing me to fight her .

“She grew in strength extremely quickly . With the Zhao family’s archery technique as her foundation, she improved an ordinary archery technique to the perfected Grotto-Heaven realm . I fought her three times . In the beginning, I didn’t want her talent to go to waste . Furthermore, she and I were the only two Supremacies in the world . Therefore, I let her off for the first time and never pursued her .

“The second time, she managed to escape from me . The third time, I returned from the outer realm . When I saw her again, her strength was in no way inferior to mine,” said Gao Fang .

Meng Chuan was somewhat surprised .

He could tell at a glance that this disciple of his, Gao Fang, had an extremely powerful body . From his performance in the cave abode, he had at least cultivated three spear arts to the perfected Grotto-Heaven realm . He was considered extremely powerful among the outer realm Supremacies .

Zhao Hongxiu, who was just a sharpshooter, wasn’t inferior to him? Sharpshooters were extremely powerful when it came to offense, but they were typically weaker in other aspects . Meng Chuan was rather happy about Zhao Hongxiu’s talent—which allowed her to match Gao Fang despite cultivating for over 300 years only .

The higher one’s talent was, the higher their chances of becoming an Imperial Lord .

Meng Chuan smiled and nodded . “Gao Fang, make a trip to Pang Ming Realm and bring her out . ”

“Master, you wish to accept her as your disciple?” asked Gao Fang .

Meng Chuan nodded .

“Zhao Hongxiu’s personality is different from mine,” said Gao Fang carefully . “After she reached the perfected Supremacy realm, she once went to the outer realm for decades . Later, she was disappointed with the outer realm . She returned to our homeworld and lived in seclusion for a long time . She is willing to live a peaceful life . I am not confident in successfully persuading her . ”

“Go and give it a try,” instructed Meng Chuan . “Just do your best . ”

“Yes . ” Gao Fang’s heart trembled .

His master was clearly warning him not to play any tricks when he told him to ‘do his best . ’

For example, he could enter Pang Ming Realm and not meet Zhao Hongxiu before coming back out to tell him that Zhao Hongxiu was disagreeable .

Master is willing to accept me as his disciple . I should be more careful, Gao Fang thought to himself . I shouldn’t anger Master . He can kill me with a flip of his hand; offending him won’t be worth it . Forget it . We are ultimately cultivators from Pang Ming Realm . I’ll give Zhao Hongxiu this great opportunity .

…

Gao Fang entered Pang Ming Realm, his homeworld .

Swoosh .

He flew at a high altitude before arriving above a mansion in a bustling city—Zhao Manor .

This mansion spanned more than five kilometers . It could be said to be a city in a city . The Zhao family had once been a large family clan in Pang Ming Realm, but it gradually declined . Zhao Hongxiu had found herself entering an assassin organization when she was young . However, she mainly cultivated the Zhao family’s archery technique after she rose to prominence . Furthermore, she improved the archery technique to an astonishingly high level .

Zhao Hongxiu reconstructed Zhao Manor and restored it to its golden era in history . In fact, during the most prosperous period in history, the Zhao family was still a step away from reaching the Supremacy realm . Now, the Zhao family was enjoying its most glorious period .

However, the Zhao family had very few direct descendants . In particular, there were very few people in this ancestral mansion . The clansmen of the branch families lived elsewhere .

“Oh?” Zhao Hongxiu sat cross-legged under a plum blossom tree . Snowflakes fluttered, and the fragrance of the plum blossoms filled the air . Zhao Hongxiu enjoyed peace and quiet . There were only about ten direct descendants in this manor, which spanned more than five kilometers . There were only about 100 servants . There was no one else within half a kilometer of Zhao Hongxiu . There were only some cats and dogs .

Zhao Hongxiu looked up .

A tall and muscular Gao Fang appeared in the sky . In a flash, he appeared on the snow . He looked at Zhao Hongxiu .

Zhao Hongxiu was still sitting cross-legged . She was dressed in a white outer robe and a red inner robe . Her eyes were long and narrow as she looked at Gao Fang . “How rare of you to drop by . You actually came back from the outer realm?”

They were two extremes .

Gao Fang was very well-rounded . Including the ultimate techniques that aided his physical cultivation, he had cultivated five ultimate techniques to the perfected Grotto-Heaven realm . He wanted to accumulate more insights so that he could reach the Heaven Earth realm .

Zhao Hongxiu’s focus was on archery . Strictly speaking, the Zhao family’s archery technique was something she had created . Ignoring the most important Supremacy-level portions, she had also modified the basic parts from before . She had created a perfected Grotto-Heaven realm archery technique . She naturally had extremely high combat strength .

“Zhao Hongxiu . ” Gao Fang stood there and said coldly, “I met a Tribulation Eminence in the outer realm . This Tribulation Eminence has ties with Ancestral Master Pang Ming, so he’s willing to accept me as his disciple . He also knows that Pang Ming Realm has another Supremacy… and he’s willing to accept you as his disciple as well . ”

“A Tribulation Eminence is willing to accept me as his disciple?” Zhao Hongxiu revealed a look of surprise .

“Yes . ” Gao Fang said indifferently, “You can reject it; no one will force you . By the way, once you become an Eminence’s disciple, you will have to follow the mighty figure to a distant river zone . I’m afraid you won’t be able to return for a long time . Zhao Hongxiu, do you agree or not?”

Zhao Hongxiu smiled brightly . Her smile was even more beautiful than the winter’s plum blossoms beside her . “Of course I’m willing . Such an opportunity is most welcome!”

…

In the outer realm, Meng Chuan looked at Pang Ming Realm, which was in front of him .

After I recruit my disciples, I should return to Three Bay River System . Meng Chuan’s mind was already on his distant homeworld . That was the place he wanted to set up his base .