The Azure Dragon's massive eyes narrowed as he examined Lin Mu carefully again.
His appearance had changed slightly since those events.
He had grown stronger.
His aura had matured.
But the core of his presence remained the sa.
The Azure Dragon exhaled slowly.
"...So it truly is you."
Temple Head Puyi looked between them in stunned silence.
His brain was already overloaded.
Now he had learned sothing even more absurd.
The Great Granduncle Master...
Was also a Guardian Beast Tournant Champion. And even the two ancient Guardian Spirits... were shocked by him.
For a few long monts after the revelation, neither the Azure Dragon nor the Vermilion Bird spoke.
The temple hall fell into a strange silence that felt far heavier than before. Their massive illusory bodies still hovered in the air, but their earlier groggy confusion had completely vanished.
In its place appeared sothing far more complicated.
Both ancient spirits were now staring at Lin Mu with an intensity that bordered on disbelief. Even beings who had existed for hundreds of thousands of years rarely experienced the kind of shock that had just struck them.
Because the human standing before them was no longer rely a cultivator who had consud a few bloodline essence crystals, nor simply the victor of a Guardian Beast Tournant.
He was the disciple of that being.
The disciple of the Holder of Space.
The disciple of the Pillars of the Void.
The disciple of the Void Weaver Spider.
The disciple of Xukong himself.
The implications of that fact alone were enough to make even ancient Guardian Spirits uneasy. Xukong was not simply so powerful being whose reputation was exaggerated through legend.
Every single one of his titles had aning and had been earned through actions that had reshaped the structure of reality itself.
The title Void Weaver Spider described his nature and origin, a being whose existence was deeply intertwined with the chaotic emptiness of the void itself. The title Holder of Space spoke of his mastery over the spatial laws that governed countless worlds and realms.
But the title that truly terrified those who understood it was Pillars of the Void. That title was not symbolic.
It was literal.
Xukong was one of the beings responsible for stabilizing the fractured and chaotic regions of the void that surrounded the worlds of existence.
Vast stretches of space that should have collapsed or been swallowed by the chaotic void were instead held in place by the invisible structures and spatial anchors he maintained. Entire regions of reality existed in a fragile balance because he allowed them to exist. And the terrifying truth was that he did not need to attack a world to destroy it.
All he needed to do was stop caring about it.
If the Void Weaver Spider withdrew his support from certain regions of the void, the fragile barriers between existence and nothingness could collapse. Worlds could be swallowed by spatial turbulence.
Entire star systems could drift into the void and vanish without a trace. For beings like the Guardian Beasts who had existed for unimaginable spans of ti, the danger posed by such a presence was not theoretical.
It was very real.
What was worse was that even karma would not affect him. After all, he was not harming them... he was rely ignoring them. And for that, he would earn no Karma.
After all, during an accident, those saving a victim might be praised, but those who stood on the sidelines could not be blad.
Even the Guardian Beasts of the Celestial Realm treated Xukong with extre caution. It was not a matter of fear alone, but of respect toward a being whose function was deeply tied to the stability of existence itself. Offending soone like that was not rely a personal mistake. It could potentially create consequences for entire worlds.
And the man standing before them was his disciple.
To beings like Xukong, disciples were not rely students.
They were family.
A disciple represented the will, the legacy, and the reputation of the master. Insulting the disciple could easily be interpreted as insulting the master. That alone was enough to make both Guardian Spirits extrely uncomfortable.
Very slowly, the two spirits exchanged glances.
Their eyes did not move much, but their thoughts were already communicating
through spiritual sense.
The Azure Dragon spoke first through their ntal connection.
'What should we do?'
The Vermilion Bird replied imdiately.
'What do you an what do we do? We already ssed up. No... We fucked up!
The dragon remained silent for a mont before responding.
'We scanned him without permission.
'We questioned him like a normal cultivator.'
'We treated him as a junior!
The Vermilion Bird groaned internally.
'Exactly'
'And if the Void Weaver Spider is watching...'
She did not finish the thought.
Both of them suddenly felt extrely uncomfortable.
The two ancient spirits had witnessed countless events throughout history.
They had seen empires rise and collapse, immortal sects flourish and perish, and entire civilizations vanish into dust. Yet rarely had they felt the need to reconsider their actions so carefully.
But when dealing with soone connected to Xukong, every word mattered.
Every action mattered.
Every possible offense had to be considered.
Both spirits began ntally reviewing everything that had happened since Lin Mu entered the temple. They replayed every word they had spoken and every
action they had taken.
They rembered scanning his body without asking.
They rembered questioning his actions.
They rembered calling him a junior.
None of those actions would normally be offensive. But when dealing with the
disciple of the Void Weaver Spider, normal standards suddenly felt dangerously
insufficient.
For the first ti in a very long ti, the two ancient Guardian Spirits began to
sweat.
The Azure Dragon spoke again ntally.
'Maybe we are overthinking this.'
The Vermilion Bird imdiately shot back.
'You want to gamble that the Void Weaver Spider isn't watching?"
The dragon fell silent again.
Because neither of them could sense Xukong.
And that was exactly what made the situation worse.
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