With everyone across the five stepped terraces settled into their own corners of warm contentment, Lin Xiao finally decided it was time for the main event.
He had checked on Tie Shan and High judge Lu Feng. That made sure their plum wine was flowing smoothly. He had watched Gu Qingfeng release five hundred years of sword tension into the cedar steam. He had seen Su Ling’er purring in domestic peace as beastfolk cubs brushed her snowy tails. He had absorbed the four-hundred-liter tidal wave of Xiao Hei’s cannonball entrance without losing an ounce of poise.
Now, there were no more guests to greet, no more logistics to oversee, and no more space-folding fissures tearing open the fabric of reality.
It was time to become the ultimate blob.
Floating in the center of the Tier 2 Nourishing Jade Pool. There, the stone current was kept at a spotless, velvety warmth, Lin Xiao let out a long, bubbling sigh that sent a ring of tiny rainbow-bright ripples across the water: blubbbbbb...
Slowly, deliberately, he released the internal psychic pressure that held his body in a neat, semi-rigid two-foot sphere.
For an ordinary creature with bones, muscles, and internal organs, relaxation was a complex body-leverage process of loosening tendons and lowering cardiovascular pressure. But for a Primordial Chaos Slime who had achieved the Supreme Dao Ancestor realm, relaxation was a total physical transformation of fluid matter.
