Di Shi’s body tensed. A crushing feeling weighed heavily on his body, at the same time, seeing this visually perfect man smiling at him made his heart skip a beat. The contrast was giving him mixed feelings.

“Who... are... you?” He struggled to say.

Ji Xian raised an eyebrow brow as he grinned.

“Just a hero rescuing a damsel in distress.”

"…"

“Di Shi didn't know what to say.

Not only he but the Ancestors and the Nether race were speechlessly looking at Ji Xian. They were questioning his identity while the Ancestors from the Southern Continent were happy to see him, but they wondered why he took so long to arrive.

Ji Xian sensed the weird atmosphere but didn't pay it any mind. He looked up at the sky and narrowed his eyes.

“So many eyes on us right now.”

With that, he raised a finger into the air. A blinding golden light flashed from the tip of his finger and expanded. Except for Xia Lihua who was currently unconscious, the eyes of everyone in the proximity turned red and burned after just a glance at the light.

They turned away but no matter where they turned it felt as though the light was everywhere. Finally, they put their hand up to their face to cover their eyes, and only then was the pain relieved.

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Upper World.

The sickly middle-aged man who was playing Go stood up unexpectedly, surprising the person in front of him.

“I can no longer see the Mortal Haven World.” He said with a frowned

“Who was Di Shi talking to…”

The other factions in the Upper World who were also paying attention to the Mortal Haven World had also been caught by surprise. The World seemed to have vanished. To hide a World in the Upper World was hard, but not impossible. If a person of a high realm were to hide a planet, it would remain hidden as long as someone of the same or higher cultivation didn't come along to discover it.

But it should be impossible for someone to do this in the Lower World, especially for people in the Mortal Haven World. Although the Mortal Haven World is one of the stronger Lower Worlds, at the end of the day the people in it were still limited by their cultivation. 

“There is something weird about this World.”

“That person is one of the Absolute Di Shi.. why was he talking to himself? Or was he talking to someone?”

As the factions discussed among themselves, the Nether race in the Mortal Haven World was feeling weird.

It was a feeling that was hard to describe, it was like a piece of them was missing, something was wrong but they couldn't pinpoint where the problem lies.

“You..what… did you do?” Di Shi looked at his body in disbelief then at Ji Xian in from of him. The others from the Nether race also looked at him. That golden light from earlier felt familiar, but they weren't sure.

Ji Xian looked at them teasingly.

“Nothing special, I just learned it from you after seeing the way you used Heavenly Merits. You used it to hide your existence from the Universal Will, I used it to hide this entire World from prying eyes.

“This entire... World?” Di Shi asked slowly.

“Yes.”

" Impossible! The amount of Heavenly Merits you need to do something like that is immense!.” Di Shi was stunned.

“Not to mention this isn’t something you should be able to do at the Holy r-”

Di Shi stopped and intensify his gaze at Ji Xian. He couldn't see what his cultivation was.

Ji Xian shook his head.

“Stop pausing in between sentences will you?”

He took a glance at Di Shi and the other Nether race. He had arrived a long time ago and observed the battle between Xia Lihua and Di Shi. He saw the moment that Di Shi swallowed the Heaven Merit Stone. Using his special eyes, he was barely able to see how Di Shi utilized the Heavenly Merits from the stone to form a golden halo above his head. The method was too simply too mysterious.

After seeing the process, it gave him an idea. He went through hundreds of thousands of simulations to replicate the process on a bigger scale. A much bigger scale. Afterward, he made a quick journey to visit the World Will to complete the process.

“You got the Heavenly Merits from the Celestial race,” Di Shi stated as a matter of fact.

Ji Xian cooly slicked back his long hair, removing the strands that were out of place while flashing a dashing smile at Di Shi.

“I think it’s time to end this. From your halo, It doesn’t seem like you can maintain your state for long. Throw everything you got at me so you can die without regrets.”

The corner of Di Shi’s mouth twitched.

“Where do you get your confidence from? I do not care who you are, or what you are. Your cultivation cannot be higher than the Holy realm.”

Di Shi’s aura soared! The Ancestors and the Nether race were blown away. Ji Xian remained unaffected and continued to look at Di Shi with a smile.

The vein on Di Shi’s forehead bulged. Ji Xian’s smile irritated him!

The tall Ancestor who was carrying the unconscious Xia Lihua stabilized himself and flew over to the Sect Master of the Aether Sect.

“Huo Honghui, who is that person? Where is the Guardian of the Southern Continent, Zhao Ping?” He asked.

“Guardian Zhao Ping died eleven years ago. This young man is our current Guardian,” Huo Honghui replied

He looked at their shocked faces and shook his head.

“Now is not the time to explain. We’ll talk after the Guardian wins,” he said confidently before looking at Xia Lihua.

Turning over to an old man with white hair with a long beard wearing a white robe. He said, “Bai Ming, help heal Guardian Xia.”

The man named Bai Ming nodded and stepped forward. The rest of the people focus their attention back on the fight.

Di Shi conjured a stunning amount of black water into the sky. He formed a hand sign and it shaped into a hammer. The hammer was large enough to block out the sun. Di Shi slashed his hand and the hammer swung downwards. It shot down like a meteor and the space cracked as it dropped.

Ji Xian’s figure looked tiny underneath the massive hammer.

Raising one brow, Ji Xian gently swept his hand sideways. A thick amount of clear Essence emerged and knocked the hammer away. It flew a short distance before bursting into a rain of black water.

“You used this move against Xia Lihua, can’t you do something else?”