Forging Immortality through the Dao Seed

Strength, talent, and even luck movement are indispensable.

According to his limited understanding, the birth of each legacy is an indisputable major event.

How could his former Junior Brother have inexplicably become a Tao Sect legacy, and moreover—

Seemingly recalling something, Nong Xingzhou struggled to speak:

"That, Senior Brother Zhang Jing's cultivation level, should still be sufficient to take the legacy assessment, right?"

Seeing this.

The three of them smiled helplessly at the same time.

"Xingzhou, I couldn't believe it at first that you actually have a Senior Brother who is a legacy! But the fact is just so, perhaps... perhaps this is what a prodigy is like, one cannot view them with common sense. After all, their existence, compared to ours, is unreasonable in itself."

"We should just be content with ourselves."

Chu Yan stepped forward and gently grasped the other's rough hands, her face full of tender consolation. After living together for so many years, how could she not know what her Tao Monk partner was thinking.

"Junior Brother Nong, Junior Sister Chu, what are your plans for the future?" Qiu Han suddenly asked.

"Senior Brothers, Junior Sister wants to return to Lingjiang Immortal City first."

Chu Yan withdrew from Nong Xingzhou's embrace, and said without hesitation.

"Isn't that your Chu Family's territory? Going there now might be somewhat dangerous." Nong Xingzhou's expression changed upon hearing this.

Facing You Yuanming and the other two's surprised looks, Chu Yan smiled and explained:

"Junior Sister inadvertently entered the abode of an ancestor in her youth and obtained an innate divine object of legend, which is now hidden in Lingjiang Immortal City."

"I wish to retrieve it and, after returning to Senior Brother Zhang Jing's place, figure out a way to exchange it for some Immortal Root Spiritual Medicine, to repay the three Senior Brothers for this life-saving grace, and also to see if there's any way to enter the nearby mana domain to cultivate."

"You don't plan to return?"

"No."

Chu Yan said with a determined look.

"Well then, we'll accompany you on this trip. With Senior Brother Zhang Jing's Immortal Binding Chain for protection, it will be a bit safer."

"Thank you, Senior Brother."

...

...

Time slowly passed.

He glanced surreptitiously at Zhang Jing and another person, still in conversation, from the corner of his eye.

The burly man on the ground felt an inexplicable chill fill his heart, and his face turned to one of despair.

This man was actually a Tao Sect legacy!

It seemed that Jiu Yan, the True Immortal, didn't even have time to flatter, let alone fulfill his wish to eliminate the other party as he had hoped.

And judging from the legacy's attitude before, he knew in his heart that this man would not let things rest.

So whether Jiu Yan, the True Immortal, would protect the Li Family or let the Li Family take the fall was now foreseeable.

"It was just an un-wedded Tao Monk bearing a child with someone else, enduring it would have been fine, so why act so irrationally? In the end, involuntarily dragging out a legacy, bringing such a calamitous disaster upon my Li Family."

The burly man thought of his unworthy son, and his heart was filled with both anger and regret.

Of course, thinking was just thinking, but Li Zi was after all his own flesh and blood, and the only one who possibly could continue the Li Family's bloodline.

Thinking of this.

He once again surreptitiously glanced at the two figures – one red and one green – ahead of him, and in his sleeve-clad large hand, the Dao charm reappeared.

"I will not conceal from the True Teaching that since my youth, I have been cultivating under the mentorship of Lou Buyi. Luckily under his care, I achieved the Unity Realm Stage in less than 20,000 years. You could say that his kindness to me is as heavy as a mountain." Jiu Yan's face showed a fleeting wistful expression.

"Senior Brother Lou is indeed extremely kind."

Zhang Jing nonchalantly agreed.

By now, he was nearly certain that behind the Li Family was this Jiu Yan, and the Underground Palace below, as well as the Karmic Fire raging to the sky, naturally could not escape from any relation with him.

The key was that Senior Brother Lou Buyi stood behind this person, the distinguished tenth legacy of the Tao Sect! Moreover, did Lou Buyi actually know about this, or rather... had he participated in it?

This is troublesome!

A sense of wariness arose spontaneously in Zhang Jing's heart.

While he pondered,

The True Immortal Jiu Yan beside him seemed to have discovered something, and stealthily glanced at the burly man on the ground, then his left hand, previously kept behind his back, pinched a peculiar Dharma Seal.

In an instant, an extremely faint fluctuation passed through the ground, rapidly spreading downwards.

At the same moment.

In the palace below,

Li Zi, who had been sitting quietly in meditation, suddenly looked down at the Jade Pendant in his embrace, which began to glow red.

At first, he rubbed his eyes in disbelief, but once assured of its reality, his Mind was immediately engulfed by a thick sense of sorrow.

"Has it finally happened? That person!"

His voice was hoarsely talking to himself, as Zhang Jing's youthful face flashed before his eyes.

Fingernails were fiercely digging into the flesh of his palm.

After a few breaths.

Li Zi rose emotionlessly, turning into a streak of light as he dashed into the constantly flowing Immortal light of the nearby Teleportation Array.

His actions were as if they had been rehearsed thousands of times.

He connected his Divine Sense with the Array.

Hum!

Amidst the trembling hums, beams of bright Immortal light surged up from under Li Zi's feet within the Array, enveloping him in an instant.

The void began to violently fluctuate.

Li Zi looked up, staring fixedly at the upper diagonal, that was undoubtedly the direction of the Welcoming Palace.

"Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west, do not bully the poor because they are young. The annihilation of my family, I have remembered, Li will personally seek vengeance in the future!"

He said coldly.

However, as soon as his voice fell,

The magnificent Immortal light enveloping the Teleportation Array rapidly retracted, then turned into a thin stream, rushing towards the blood furnace a hundred yards away with the speed of lightning that does not cover one's ears in time.

"What is going on? Why did the Teleportation Array fail?"

Li Zi looked blankly at everything happening before him, his mind a complete blank. The situation had far exceeded his expectations.

The next moment.

"No!" he shouted in horror, his voice filled with despair.

The blood furnace, which stood towering, began to crumble bit by bit, while the vast Immortal fire, carrying boundless malice and Karma Power, spewed out from within the furnace rapidly.

In just a moment,

The fire had devoured everything in the Underground Palace clean.

Afterward, guided by some deliberate force, the raging sea of fire rushed eagerly towards the surface.

It turned everything it passed, be it soil and stone or metal and iron, into ashes and molten lava.

...

...

"Ahhhh!!"

"Ouch, that hurts like hell!"

Zhang Jing stood in midair, his pitch-black eyes reflecting a fire that spread over a hundred miles, with countless figures struggling in it, turning into ashes in an instant.

This flame was terribly fearsome, filled with a profound evil and resentment, resembling a mad dog that would burn anything it touched until nothing was left alive.

If any common creature were to be touched by even a hint of it, their body, Divine Sense, divine soul, and even consciousness would probably be completely annihilated.

Utterly malicious!

It was somewhat similar to the Karmic Fire that Zhang Jing possessed, but that was just a similarity. The Dao and rationale it contained were utterly different extremes.

After a great fire, nothing was left, truly a good method!

A trace of a cold smile appeared on Zhang Jing's face, and he said in a flat voice:

"Jiu Yan, can you release me now?"

As these words were spoken, the Mana hand that firmly grasped Zhang Jing began to dissipate bit by bit.

"I don't know what kind of ghostly flame this is, truly terrifying! Jiu Yan was afraid the True Teaching would be harmed by this flame and had to act in urgency. I beg forgiveness for any offense," explained Jiu Yan, the True Immortal, with quite an apologetic tone.

"You really didn't know?"

A meaningful expression appeared on Zhang Jing's face.

"True Teaching jests. Of course, Jiu Yan is unaware. If I had known earlier that The Li Family harbored such a deceptive and evil tactic, Jiu Yan would have been the first to eliminate it and would certainly not have tolerated it. The Beast Territory has always been peaceful; how could we allow such a scourge to exist!" said Jiu Yan, the True Immortal, with righteous indignation, meeting Zhang Jing's half-smiling gaze.

Having said that,

A trace of solemnity flashed across his face.

"However, The Li Family's sudden self-immolation could very well be a hidden agent of the All Heavens Beasts, specifically targeting the True Teaching. The Beast Territory is no longer safe. Since the True Teaching's cultivation is not high, please leave as soon as possible. We will certainly give you an explanation for this incident."

"Do I really have to leave?"

Zhang Jing said somberly.

"Please, True Teaching, leave this place!" Jiu Yan, the True Immortal, said with an unconsciously intensified tone, his voice carrying a slightly undeniable purpose.