He saw within Xie Family’s Cave, amidst a wondrous world of vibrant colors, a man carved from jade.

The man, slender and ethereal, hovered above Xie Family’s Cave, like a God traversing the heavens.

"This man... this man... is the most esteemed Dan Officer by the Changsheng Palace Master, Zhou Xuan."

"Zhou Xuan is actually the Colorful Play Master?"

Mr. Yan’s main role, much like that of the God-level beings, was to oversee the human world,

However, he was a native of the Heavenly Fire Clan, with a status and position surpassing that of the Gods.

When he noticed an unavoidable "blight" in the human world, he had the authority to dispatch God-level Daoists to remove the blight.

If this Colorful Play Master weren’t Zhou Xuan, he would have already dispatched the God-level beings to slay that person,

the Eternal Life Sect Leader and Tiancan Monk, who were just in the human world, could conveniently take over this "removal" task.

But the Colorful Play Master happened to be Zhou Xuan, so he dared not act rashly,

He went to seek instructions from "Changsheng Palace Master" Qing Yangyu.

Thinking of this, Mr. Yan didn’t even bother to retract his eyes, and with empty sockets, he lifted a lantern and hurried into the endless night of the Heavenly Dome...

...

In the Changsheng Palace, Qing Yangyu was sulking, holding a giant gourd, gulping down several doses of medicine,

Dozens of elixirs, resembling "human eyes," were swallowed whole,

His corpulent body finally found a moment’s peace, and under the effect of the elixir, he saw the flowers in the Changsheng Palace bloom,

In the palace, it was spring all year round, and exotic flowers and rare herbs blossomed,

But this wondrous sight persisted for less than half a quarter-hour before it vanished on its own,

Furiously, he threw the medicine gourd to the ground, stomping it to pieces, loudly cursing,

"Damn these medicines, with such poor efficacy, yet they are offered to the Heavenly Dome? What rubbish are those Fire Pit people concocting?"

The gourd was crushed, and those "human eye" elixirs, highly sought after by earthly experts, rolled onto the ground, soaking in dirty muddy water, being polluted,

Yet Qing Yangyu showed no hint of heartache, he continued stomping those elixirs into the mud one after another.

"Palace Master, I have something to report." Mr. Yan appeared beside Qing Yangyu, carrying a lantern.

"Xiao Yan, it’s you." Qing Yangyu had no interest in managing the human world, his eyes were fixed only on the elixirs.

He complained, "Why are the elixirs offered by the Fire Pit becoming less effective? The flowers in my Changsheng Palace are wilting too quickly."

"I’ll have the God-level beings from the sick village urge them again." Mr. Yan consoled with a few words and then got to the point: "Palace Master, the Colorful Play Master has appeared again in the human world."

"The Colorful Play Master, those impostors like maggots?"

Qing Yangyu waved his hand, saying: "Just eliminate them. Such trivial matters, why bother asking me?"

"That person is hard to kill."

Mr. Yan said: "It’s Zhou Xuan, the young man who could become the strongest Dan Officer."

"It’s him? Then this is troublesome."

Changsheng Palace Master Qing Yangyu asked: "Is the scale of the colorful play large?"

"Yes! Very large! The people in the colorful play are numerous, tens of thousands at least."

"A colorful play of such magnitude can’t be concealed."

Originally, Qing Yangyu thought, if the scale of this colorful play wasn’t large, since Zhou Xuan was so important to the Heavenly Dome, he could just turn a blind eye.

But with such a massive scale, Zhou Xuan’s colorful play could hardly be overlooked.

"Why does it have to be Zhou Xuan?"

Qing Yangyu was very frustrated, telling Mr. Yan: "Xiao Yan, calm down, I’ll go to Bai Yujing to see how those above feel."

He headed towards the entrance of Changsheng Palace, and as he walked, the fat on his body began to fall off,

By the time he crossed the threshold, he had already turned into an ink-colored beetle, flapping its wings, soaring to heights beyond the heavenly dome, plunging deep into the sea of clouds.

However, he went quickly and returned quickly, Mr. Yan hadn’t waited long before Qing Yangyu returned to the Changsheng Palace, once again in his obese form, jiggling with excess flesh,

He sighed deeply.

Seeing this, Mr. Yan hurried over to inquire, "Palace Master, what did those above say?"

"Alas, Zhou Xuan, he’s finished."

"Should we go now to kill Zhou Xuan?" Mr. Yan asked.

He also found it a shame to kill Zhou Xuan—he had heard Qing Yangyu say in the past few days that Zhou Xuan might become the strongest Dan Officer in Heavenly Dome’s history.

Such talent at this level cannot simply be cultivated at will; killing one means there’s one less.

A genius lost, the arrival of the next genius, who knows which month or year it would be.

"The people in Bai Yujing are not telling us to kill Zhou Xuan now."

Qing Yangyu took out another gourd, gulping down several doses of elixir, and said,

"Bai Yujing also cherishes talent, those people thought hard and came up with a plan—tonight Zhou Xuan is to refine the first true furnace of elixirs, if this batch is refined well, then we’ll be lenient with Zhou Xuan,

If it’s not refined well—then we will eliminate him."

Mr. Yan, vague about what constituted a "good or bad" elixir, asked again: "Palace Master, what kind of elixir is considered good, and which is considered bad?"

Qing Yangyu said: "A few days ago, Zhou Xuan refined a medicine powder, if the elixir he refines today is of better quality than that medicine powder, then it’s a good elixir, if it matches the quality of the medicine powder, then it’s not good."