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After everyone busied themselves for the better part of an hour, Elder Mo Fang's condition finally stabilized.

"Father! What exactly happened when you were in seclusion?"

Mo Fang exuded a deep sense of sorrow as he slowly recounted, "It was like this... I was in perfectly good seclusion, trying to break through to the half-step Sovereign realm! But, just as I was at the crucial moment of my breakthrough, a palm shadow suddenly appeared out of nowhere and struck me right in the face..."

Mo Fang, filled with grief, recounted his tale of woe.

"What!?"

Everyone was shocked upon hearing this.

General Gongsun even said, "I've been guarding outside the secret chamber the entire time! If there had been any karmic attacks entering the secret chamber, I would have definitely noticed it..."

"It wasn't a karmic attack!" Elder Mo Fang said with certainty, "If it were a karmic attack, I would have definitely been able to catch some clues; however, these slaps didn't leave even the slightest trace for me to detect! Moreover, the secret chamber's karmic isolation formation didn't work at all! I suspect this is an even more profound form of attack than karmic attacks!"

"Elder Mo, do you have any idea who the culprit is?" General Gongsun asked.

"None!" Mo Fang sighed heavily.

If he had any idea, Mo Fang would probably crawl over to fight the person with his life! To be disturbed at the crucial moment of a breakthrough, resulting in failure, severe damage to his foundation, and possibly never being able to break through to the half-step Sovereign realm again!

Such a deep hatred was comparable to killing his father and stealing his wife!

Young Master Mo thought for a moment and said, "Father, I have something to tell you!"

"Speak!"

"While you were in seclusion, I was also slapped hard by someone!" Young Master Mo said.

"What!?" Mo Fang glared fiercely—although his aura was weak, this glare still enveloped the entire area with a terrifying pressure, "Who did it?"

"Someone named 'Xu Ming'!" Young Master Mo quickly said, "I heard Qian Yishang say that he slapped you before..."

Before Young Master Mo could finish speaking, Mo Fang interrupted him, "What? Xu Ming!? You ran into him!?"

"Yes..."

Mo Fang became even more furious, "You ran into Xu Ming, why didn't you tell me sooner!?"

Young Master Mo quickly said, "At the time, you were in seclusion, and I didn't want to disturb you!"

"Seclusion?" Mo Fang sneered, "If I had known Xu Ming was here, even if I was in seclusion, I would have broken out of it!"

Mo Fang didn't know that the slaps on his face now were thanks to Xu Ming!

Mo Fang's hatred for Xu Ming mainly stemmed from the time he was slapped in the face by Xu Ming in Naihe City—to be slapped in the face by a demigod was an utter humiliation for Mo Fang!

"Where is Xu Ming now? Bring him to me immediately!" Mo Fang still thought that Xu Ming's current strength was at most that of an ordinary Star-level god. After all, a hundred years ago, Xu Ming's cultivation was only that of a demigod; in Mo Fang's opinion, even if Xu Ming improved, how much could he have improved in just a hundred years?

Therefore, as soon as Mo Fang heard that his son had been slapped in the face by Xu Ming, he subconsciously assumed that Xu Ming must have been captured! That's why he asked Young Master Mo to bring Xu Ming over.

"Xu Ming is currently in the Yellow Springs Palace!" Young Master Mo quickly said, "However..."

"However what?"

"However... Xu Ming's strength is far greater than mine, and he also has the protection of the Palace Master; therefore, I can't bring him here!" Young Master Mo explained, "Moreover... Father, I suspect that the palm prints on your face might be related to Xu Ming!?"

"Xu Ming..." Mo Fang couldn't help but recall the "face-feel" when he was slapped in the face by Xu Ming in Naihe City.

Upon careful recollection, Mo Fang was shocked to discover that this time being slapped like crazy and the last time being slapped in Naihe City had an astonishingly similar "face-feel"! Both were painless and itchless, but loud and bright red!

"Could it be..." Elder Mo Fang's eyes widened, his anger soaring to the sky, "Xu Ming!!!!!?"

...

Of course, Xu Ming wouldn't know how angry Elder Mo Fang was! Because at this moment, he had already entered the secret realm of the Yellow Springs Palace, preparing to receive the inheritance of the General's position.

"Yellow Springs Secret Realm?"

Xu Ming looked around.

This secret realm was an extremely vast grassland.

At the end of the grassland, there were five enormous thrones, each tens of millions of miles high.

"Am I supposed to sit on the throne?"

Xu Ming walked towards the throne with a puzzled expression.

At this moment, a grand voice simultaneously echoed throughout every corner of the secret realm space.

"I, the Yellow Springs Saint! Knowing that I will inevitably die, I have left behind an inheritance secret realm, awaiting a destined one!"

If the Yellow Springs Saint hadn't fallen, how could the Yellow Springs Palace have declined to its current state?

The grand voice continued, "My Yellow Springs Palace has only ever had one thousand and eight General positions! When a General Star falls, the inheritor's imprint will carry the General's will and seek out an inheritor! Since you are destined to obtain the inheritor's imprint, as long as you sit on any throne, you can inherit the General's position!"

One thousand and eight General positions...

Xu Ming guessed that when the Yellow Springs Palace was at its peak, these one thousand and eight General positions were probably all occupied by Emperor-level great powers. Now that the Yellow Springs Palace has declined, the inheritors of these one thousand and eight General positions are probably mostly uneven, with not many God Emperors.

The grand voice continued, "The five thrones are for testing aptitude! They respectively test: the Heavenly Dao School, the Ancient Cultivator School, the Faith School, the Luck School, and the Mind Power School! Choose a throne to sit on, and if your aptitude is excellent, you can obtain some of my inheritance; if your aptitude is mediocre, then you can only be an ordinary General!"

The Yellow Springs Saint's inheritance?

Xu Ming's eyes lit up immediately—this was the inheritance of the most peak existence in the God Realm!

Although Xu Ming had already obtained the inheritance of the Wunans Saint, who would complain about having too many inheritances?

Moreover, the Wunan Realm was only created by the Wunan Saint in a "single thought", and was not the Wunan Saint's true lair! Within the Wunan Realm, Xu Ming only obtained the Mind Power secret technique "Myriad Heart Imprint" and a Chaos Divine Weapon—of course, Chaos Divine Weapons are extremely precious!

However, this Yellow Springs Secret Realm is very likely the Yellow Springs Saint's lair, and may contain all of the Yellow Springs Saint's secret techniques and treasures! Compared to the Wunan Saint's inheritance, it is undoubtedly much more precious!

Most importantly...

The Wunan Saint is "alive", while the Yellow Springs Saint is "dead"!

What does being dead mean?

It means that he is willing to pass on all of his secret techniques and treasures to the inheritor!

If Xu Ming could pass the Yellow Springs Saint's inheritance test, then it was very likely that he would take all of the Yellow Springs Saint's savings in one fell swoop!!

"Damn!" Xu Ming was a little excited just thinking about it!

The third watch is complete!