The Supreme Being Against Heaven
Chapter Summary
We’ve been back for almost **half a month** already!” Shen Suping walked over, hooking her arm around his and pulling him toward Bingqing Hall as she teased, “Master, I’ve got a little ‘surprise’ for you.” “A surprise?” Tan Yun raised an eyebrow. “Alright then, let me see what my dear disciple has prepared.” After entering Bingqing Hall, Shen Suping guided Tan Yun to sit down before moving behind him. “He causes way too much trouble!” “He just came back from the Eternal Immortal Sect, and before...
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Shen Suping stood there, waiting anxiously, hoping her master would arrive soon so she could bring him home to treat her father’s illness.
Suddenly—
Her beautiful eyes lit up with undisguised joy.
Tan Yun, dressed in his turtle-patterned robe, slowly descended from the sky, riding the **Golden Dragon Lion**, landing right in front of her.
“Master! Why did you only come now?” Shen Suping looked at him with a slightly aggrieved expression, her tone soft with a hint of playful complaint.
“Ahem…” Tan Yun cleared his throat, speaking in an aged voice. “By my estimation, shouldn’t you have just returned?”
“Hmph! We’ve been back for almost **half a month** already!” Shen Suping walked over, hooking her arm around his and pulling him toward Bingqing Hall as she teased, “Master, I’ve got a little ‘surprise’ for you.”
“A surprise?” Tan Yun raised an eyebrow. “Alright then, let me see what my dear disciple has prepared.”
After entering Bingqing Hall, Shen Suping guided Tan Yun to sit down before moving behind him. As usual, she lifted her slender hands and began massaging his shoulders.
“Master, before I show you the surprise, I need to thank you first.”
“Thank me for what?” Tan Yun asked calmly.
“For reading the stars… and for your precise predictions,” Shen Suping said happily.
“Do you know? Everything you said came true. In the pill-refining competition of the **3 ancient sects**, our Alchemy Division actually won **1st place**!”
“It was unbelievable! That Tan Yun—he turned out to be the only **Immortal-level Alchemy Grandmaster** there. By himself, he overturned the entire competition!”
“And because of that… the Sect Master personally appointed me as a **Meritorious Elder** of the Alchemy Division in the Immortal Sect!”
Hearing this, Tan Yun pretended to be surprised before letting out a light laugh.
“Haha, then I must congratulate you. My disciple is truly outstanding.”
“Hehe.” Shen Suping stuck out her tongue playfully. “Of course! Did you forget who my master is?”
She smiled brightly and continued:
“Master, the Sect Master also said that after I lead the inner disciples to participate in the **Eternal Immortal Realm trial**, I’ll officially take up my position in the Immortal Sect.”
“I’m really so happy!”
She spoke nonstop, as if she had endless things to share.
“Oh, right… and also—Lu Wu, the **12th Elder** of our Alchemy Division, is dead.”
“Serves him right—it’s karma!”
“I don’t know who killed him, but if I ever find out, I’d definitely want to thank that person.”
“The Jade Recovery Herb used to refine pills for Chief Tang was poisoned by Lu Wu’s men. If you had killed him back then, his father would’ve definitely caused trouble for you.”
“But now it’s different. I’ve been personally appointed by the Sect Master as a Meritorious Elder. Even if his father wanted to make trouble, he wouldn’t dare.”
“Besides… Lu Wu died just **5 days** after I left the sect.”
Suddenly, Shen Suping let out a soft sigh.
“Sigh… Master, you know what? I both admire and hate that Tan Yun.”
“Oh?” Tan Yun wrinkled his nose slightly. “How so?”
“He’s incredibly talented, and I’ve benefited a lot from him, but…” Shen Suping puffed her cheeks slightly.
“He causes way too much trouble!”
“He just came back from the Eternal Immortal Sect, and before anything else—he already went and crippled the only son of the Spirit Beast faction leader in the inner sect!”
“Your disciple really acts recklessly… how could the Beast Soul Line’s leader just let this go?”
Hearing that, Tan Yun gave a faint smile.
“From your tone… it sounds like you’re quite worried about him.”
Shen Suping paused for a moment, then replied calmly,
“He’s made great contributions to my Alchemy Line. Of course I have to care.”
After saying that, her delicate hands—still resting on his shoulders—suddenly stopped, as if she had something more to say but hesitated.
Tan Yun smiled lightly.
“You were talking nonstop just now. Why did you suddenly go quiet?”
A faint feminine fragrance drifted into his nose. He looked up and saw Shen Suping standing in front of him, her expression shy yet charming.
“If you have something to say, just say it,” Tan Yun said.
A blush spread across Shen Suping’s cheeks.
“Master… do you think I’m beautiful? Don’t lie—tell me the truth.”
Tan Yun answered honestly,
“Of course you are. One of the ‘13 beauties of the Inner Sect’—how could you not be?”
Her heart began to race.
“Then… how old do you think I look now?”
“About 26–27,” Tan Yun replied after a brief look.
Her voice softened.
“Then… which do you think looks better… me now, or when I was younger?”
Tan Yun didn’t overthink it and chuckled.
“You’re standing in front of your master—why so shy?”
“You look more mature now. I’ve never seen you as a young girl, but I imagine you must’ve been even more beautiful.”
Those words—“even more beautiful”—seemed to push Shen Suping to make up her mind.
She walked behind him, flipped her palm, and took out a dark green pill, swallowing it quickly.
Instantly, a burning pain spread through her entire body—from her face and neck to every inch of her skin.
Even so, she endured it and continued massaging his shoulders.
Moments later, she hurried to the mirror.
In the reflection—
her face had transformed into that of a young maiden once more.
Turning back to Tan Yun’s back, she spoke softly, her voice trembling slightly,
“Master… close your eyes first.”
Tan Yun raised a brow.
“What are you planning?”
“Just close them!” she pouted, revealing a rare, youthful side only he ever saw.
“Alright, alright.” Tan Yun smiled and did as she said.
Her heart pounded rapidly as she stepped closer. Then she whispered,
“Master… I have a surprise for you. Open your eyes.”
When Tan Yun opened them—
he froze for a moment, then exclaimed,
“Beautiful!”
In his eyes, her already flawless skin now looked even more radiant—fair and luminous, as if she had completely returned to her youth.
At that moment, Tan Yun finally understood—
why she hadn’t taken the Youth-Preserving Pill he gave her back at the Eternal Immortal Sect.
She had been saving it… for this very moment.
“Hehe, Master… am I really that beautiful?” Shen Suping smiled sweetly, her eyes sparkling.
“Now that I’ve regained my youth, I can be called unmatched in beauty!”
Tan Yun laughed.
“So full of yourself… but as long as you’re happy.”
“Master, you’re so annoying!” she pouted playfully.
“Alright, alright. My disciple is the most beautiful. Satisfied now?” Tan Yun teased.
Shen Suping wrinkled her nose slightly.
“Now that’s more like it…”