Shengxia accelerated his cultivation, knowing that the God Emperor could appear to issue a challenge at any moment. He could only respond to motion with stillness and constancy with the unexpected. Having reached Shengxia's level, he had attained a state where the extraordinary returned to the ordinary. The river of time in the courtyard occasionally rippled with faint waves. In the fishpond, the goldenies and an old soft-shelled turtle that Shengxia had caught in the East China Sea were all alive and thriving.
The Chaos Enlightenment Tea Tree radiated the aura of a Great Dao Sage and called out loudly, "Master doesn't usually sit right here, so why did he go into the palace to cultivate? Little Loach, are you sleeping again?"
At that moment, a female voice drifted from the pond: "You're a loach, and your whole family's loaches! Is the Master's decision something the likes of you and me can second-guess?"
Chapter 87