Daojun, start from Penglai foundation building

Yanzhou, beyond the Northern Heavenly Pass.

Before the majestic Longevity Palace, suspended in the heavens and surrounded by fierce winds, thunder, and fire, the domain of magic interwoven with five colors slowly dissipated.

For a moment, everyone, whether they were disciples of the Qiankun Dao Sect in the Longevity Immortal Palace or Prince Youhua, Youyue, and Youjing who hesitated several times outside the North Heaven Pass, couldn't help but look up.

They all knew that the master of the Five Tribulations Domain was True Lord Mingyue Jingxing of the Qiankun Dao Sect.

They also knew who Mingyue Jingxing Zhenjun was dealing with: Penglai Lingyuan.

With the cultivation level of a Fifth Tribulation True Monarch, suppressing a First Tribulation True Monarch is not a difficult task at all.

At this moment, both the disciples and followers of the Longevity Immortal Palace and the three Prince Youhua had already concluded that True Lord Jingxing had won.

"Alas, it's a pity that Fellow Daoist Lingyuan, with such monstrous talent, insisted on trying to break a rock with an egg."

Crown Prince Youhua sighed softly and shook his head.

Although Crown Prince Youhua had been defeated by Jiang Sheng several times, he did not harbor much hatred towards Jiang Sheng.

The two fought only because they were on different sides. As for the prodigy Jiang Sheng, Crown Prince Youhua held a certain respect for him and hoped to befriend him. After all, there was no harm in having another fellow Daoist on the path of pursuing the Great Dao.

Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned. The Nine Chambers Realm is now allied with the Nine Provinces Realm, so they can only fight this battle against the Eastern Heaven Daoist School first.

Just as Crown Prince Youhua shook his head and sighed, Youyue and Youjing exclaimed in surprise at the same time:

"hiss"

"How can it be?!"

Hearing his two younger sisters' exclamations, Crown Prince Youhua paused, looked up, and froze on the spot.
As the five-colored splendor gradually dissipated and the auspicious clouds and rosy light faded layer by layer, two figures standing very close together were revealed in the Five Tribulations Domain that intertwined heaven and earth.

As the auspicious clouds and rosy light dispersed into flowing radiance, and as the five-colored splendor unfolded like a lotus platform, the two figures were revealed: Jingxing Zhenjun and Jiang Sheng.

Unexpectedly, it was not Jingxing Zhenjun who suppressed Jiang Sheng, but Jiang Sheng who held a sword to Jingxing Zhenjun's neck. Moreover, judging from his aura, Jingxing Zhenjun's aura had already dimmed and dissipated, indicating that this Fifth Tribulation Zhenjun was exhausted and his soul had been scattered.

"This, how is this possible?!"

At this moment, not only Youyue and Youjing, but even Youhua herself was filled with disbelief!
Although Youhua admires Jiang Sheng and acknowledges that Jiang Sheng will be invincible once he grows up, Jiang Sheng is only at the first tribulation stage of cultivation, while the Jingxing True Lord he is facing is a fifth tribulation True Lord!

So, Jingxing Zhenjun really did perish at Jiang Sheng's hands?!

How did he, a True Monarch of the First Tribulation, manage to do that?
At this moment, on the lotus platform formed from the dissipation of the five-colored brilliance, Jiang Sheng gently slashed with his Qingping Sword, and Jingxing Zhenjun's fine head rolled off his neck and fell directly onto the lotus platform. It fell into the air for only a moment before plummeting into the clouds and disappearing from sight.
Not only did Youhua, Youyue, and Youjing see this scene clearly, but the disciples and followers inside the Longevity Immortal Palace saw it even more clearly.

For a moment, the world was silent as everyone stared at the tall, straight figure of the Taoist standing on the five-colored lotus platform: Lingyuan Zhenjun of the Penglai Taoist Sect.

Crown Prince Youhua suddenly came to his senses and realized that from this moment on, Jiang Sheng was no longer simply the number one in the myriad realms of the Xuanmen, but the number one in the myriad realms of the present era.

When Penglai Lingyuan truly becomes famous throughout the heavens, no one will dare to underestimate this newly promoted First Tribulation True Lord of the Penglai Dao Sect.

Jiang Sheng, who had just killed Jingxing Zhenjun with a single sword strike, did not pause for a moment. He looked up at the Wanshou Immortal Palace not far away and at the pairs of terrified and astonished eyes inside.

The next moment, under the astonished gazes of the disciples and followers in the Longevity Immortal Palace, Jiang Sheng flashed to the front of the Longevity Immortal Palace. Looking at this majestic immortal palace that covered millions of miles, Jiang Sheng did not activate his magic sword again, but stared at the huge array that was radiant and vaguely revealed dozens of layers.

The Longevity Immortal Palace, as the Daoist temple of the Longevity Immortal Lord, is also the core hub of the entire Yanzhou. Its interior is engraved with countless Daoist seals and spiritual marks, and inlaid with countless spiritual restrictions and magical prohibitions.

It can be said that the magic array of the Longevity Immortal Palace is immune to any attack below the Mahayana level and can withstand the supernatural powers and spells of the Mahayana Immortal Lord level.

Moreover, as a magic array set up by the Great Ascension Immortal Lord for his own dojo, the Longevity Immortal Palace's array is a series of interlocking arrays that eventually form a giant array covering the entire Longevity Immortal Palace. It integrates detection arrays, defense arrays, attack arrays, teleportation arrays, and so on. When one array is triggered, it will trigger the other arrays in turn.

The defensive formation of the Longevity Immortal Palace alone has thirteen layers, which cannot be shaken by anyone below the Great Ascension stage.

Just as in the Mountain and River Sun and Moon Cauldron, the combined forces of the four sects, including so many Fifth Tribulation True Monarchs, even those at the Integration and Refinement stages, could not break through the defensive stream of light emanating from Xuanjing Immortal Monarch's Radiant Golden Whip; the defensive formation of the Longevity Immortal Palace is also something that those below the Mahayana stage cannot break. The best way to deal with a Mahayana Immortal Monarch is always to ask another Mahayana Immortal Monarch for help.

Even if Jiang Sheng were to attach the Pure Yang Dao Seed to the Four Swords of Slaughter and Deception, he still wouldn't be able to break through the defensive light of the Longevity Immortal Palace.

The Pure Yang Dao Seed attached to the Four Swords of Zhuxian was merely a temporary measure for Jiang Sheng. It was sufficient to deal with Five Tribulation True Monarchs, but against Mahayana Immortal Monarchs, Jiang Sheng would only have a slight chance once his cultivation level and magical power increased.

Moreover, even with Jiang Sheng's current resources, he wouldn't use such a precious treasure as the Dao Seed lightly.

With Jiang Sheng's current cultivation and supernatural abilities, dealing with a first or second tribulation is no problem at all. He can even fight a third tribulation True Monarch and put up a fight against a fourth tribulation True Monarch, or at least run away. Unless he is facing a fifth tribulation True Monarch, there is really nothing that Jiang Sheng would use his Dao Seed for.

A Pure Yang Dao Seed, containing pure Yang energy and Daoist principles, is the best aid for cultivators to climb the Pure Yang Great Dao. It can be said that a Dao Seed that is compatible with one's cultivation method and close to one's path is like adding wings to a tiger. The blessing it gives to a cultivator is definitely not as simple as one plus one equals two.

However, a Dao Seed is ultimately just a Dao Seed, not pure Yang; moreover, although a Dao Seed may contain the laws and Dao rhymes of pure Yang, excessive use of it will do cultivators no good whatsoever.

The most crucial point is that in future cultivation and practice, you will inevitably be tainted by the aura of that Pure Yang. It's fine on ordinary days, but once you break through to Pure Yang and guide your two souls, who will ultimately succeed—your true self or that Pure Yang's Dharma body?
Therefore, even if there are cultivators in the myriad realms who possess Dao Seeds, they would never enhance them on magical artifacts like Jiang Sheng did. Instead, they would keep them within their bodies and not easily touch them, but simply observe their methods, rhythms, and Dao. They would use the Dao Seed's innate affinity with the Great Dao and the Laws to accelerate their own cultivation, rather than excessively urging the Dao Seed to work.

Therefore, the normal approach is to simply let the Dao Seed reside within the body and leave it alone. The Dao Seed will not be over-stimulated or consume too much power, and its overflowing Dao rhyme and Dao intent are sufficient for cultivators to learn and comprehend. Unless one is a madman or a reckless fool, no one will forcibly stimulate the Dao Seed, much less exploit its power.

This is the normal way of using Dao Seeds passed down from various Pure Yang Holy Lands throughout the myriad realms. For someone like Jiang Sheng to contain four Dao Seeds in his body at once, and then activate them and combine them with magical artifacts to unleash supernatural powers, is not only unprecedented in the myriad realms, but simply astonishing.

After all, once the Dao Seed consumes too much power, even if it can absorb the free-floating primordial energy and laws between heaven and earth to replenish itself, there will always be a time when it cannot be replenished after excessive use. At that time, the Dao Seed will be useless. Moreover, how much divine soul power and how much magic power would be consumed to activate four Dao Seeds at once?

Before you know it, the four Dao Seeds will drain you dry. Even if they don't, your physical body and soul will inevitably be tainted with the pure Yang energy left by the Dao Seeds. If you try to climb the Pure Yang Dao in the future, you will face many difficulties and have to deal with numerous karmic consequences.

Jiang Sheng dared to do this because these four Dao Seeds were given to him by the Empress Houtu. The original owners of the four Dao Seeds, those four great gods of pure Yang cultivation, had already completely perished, and their chances of reincarnation were slim.

Secondly, Jiang Sheng never intended to follow the Four Symbols Path. The Four Symbols Path was merely a method of cultivation for Jiang Sheng, just like the Three Calamities Path.

Subsequently, Jiang Sheng will not only cultivate the Path of the Three Calamities, but also the Path of the Five Difficulties; he will not only learn the Method of the Four Symbols, but also the Method of the Five Elements. Ultimately, the Four Symbols, the Five Elements, the Three Calamities, and the Five Difficulties will all be integrated into Jiang Sheng's Path of Yin-Yang Annihilation, returning to the Method of the Final Calamity and Final Fortune. Thirdly, this is because within Jiang Sheng's soul lies the talisman of unrestricted power bestowed by the Heavenly Venerable Qingyan, and the immense fortune he possesses.

Without that talisman protecting Jiang Sheng's life soul, Jiang Sheng would not have easily used the Dao Seed. After all, once he used it, he would be connected to that Pure Yang and even have karmic ties with him.

With the talisman that grants freedom from all taboos, Jiang Sheng can ensure that his soul and true spirit are pure and flawless, and that his own fortune and the fortune of Penglai are enough for him to suppress these so-called causes and effects.

However, even if he could activate the Dao Seed, Jiang Sheng's current cultivation level would be somewhat insufficient to deal with a Five Tribulation True Monarch. True Monarch Jingxing was killed by Jiang Sheng because he was blinded by the tribulation energy. If he were to face a Mahayana Immortal Monarch, Jiang Sheng would have absolutely no way to deal with him.

Let alone facing a Mahayana Immortal Lord, even the methods set up by a Mahayana Immortal Lord are not something Jiang Sheng can easily break.

Just like the various formations layered upon each other in the Longevity Immortal Palace in front of him, they were beyond Jiang Sheng's ability to handle.

However, Jiang Sheng did not show much worry at this moment. Although he could not invite a new Mahayana Immortal Lord, he had something left behind by an existence above the Mahayana level: as Jiang Sheng slowly raised his left hand, a "破" (break) character in seal script, written in a flamboyant style, was shining brightly in the palm of his left hand.

This is the "Breaking the Forbidden Word" that Langxiao Xuanming Daojun personally wrote on Jiang Sheng's palm. This single word is the entire "Langxiao Xuanming Daojun's Explanation of the Spirit Forbidden Word Breaking the Void Method".

This "Break" seal was Jiang Sheng's trump card in breaking the Grand Array of the Longevity Immortal Palace.

"Master Xuanming, the rest is up to you now."

Jiang Sheng spoke softly, then raised his left hand and placed it on the defensive array.

In an instant, the massive array of the Longevity Immortal Palace froze. The massive array, constructed from dozens of layers of various formations, began to dissolve and fade away layer by layer. In just a few breaths, the colorful glazed light that enveloped the entire Longevity Immortal Palace vanished completely. As countless spiritual energy restrictions collapsed and transformed into a violent surge of spiritual energy, the entire Longevity Immortal Palace was completely exposed to the world and to Jiang Sheng.

As the magic array dissipated, the first thing to attack the Longevity Immortal Palace was not Jiang Sheng, but the surrounding gale-force winds and thunder and fire!

In the past, relying on its massive array, the Longevity Immortal Palace was fearless against gale-force winds, thunder, and fire, and unfazed by any supernatural powers. Even if the sun and moon were destroyed, it would not cause any damage to the Longevity Immortal Palace. But now, with all the arrays dissipating, the Longevity Immortal Palace has become a live target exposed to the world without any defense. The gale-force winds, thunder, and fire that were originally surging around it immediately rushed into the Longevity Immortal Palace.

In an instant, howling winds and raging thunder and fire filled the air. The millions of disciples and followers of the Longevity Immortal Palace were in a panic and scattered in all directions. Most of these disciples and followers were only at the Golden Core or Purple Mansion level, with only a few at the Nascent Soul or Spirit Transformation level.

Even those at the Nascent Soul stage must be cautious when facing fierce winds, thunder, and fire, let alone disciples and followers whose cultivation is not even at the Nascent Soul or Spirit stage.
As the gale howled, the Qiankun Dao Sect disciples who had no time to hide were swept into the gale one by one. Even though these disciples and followers raised spiritual energy barriers and set up defensive magic weapons, they could not withstand the bone-splitting and soul-destroying gale.

As the gale swept past, large swathes of bones fell, leaving no trace of soul or flesh.

Those disciples who barely survived the fierce winds had no time to catch their breath before facing the ensuing thunder and fire.

The endless thunder roared, and the boundless flames surged. The art of thunder and fire, the righteous path of heaven and earth, was the most magnificent and domineering.

Where lightning and fire raged, accompanied by the crashing thunder, the dim spiritual light shattered instantly, and the cultivators inside cried out in agony before turning into dust; where the raging fire surged, the defensive magical artifacts and treasures that had been erected instantly melted away, and the cultivators behind them turned into ashes in the flames before they could escape.

Wherever the lightning passed, the pavilions, towers, corridors, and courtyards of the Longevity Immortal Palace were filled with pitch-black ash.
Jiang Sheng coldly watched the raging winds and thunder, seeing the entire Longevity Immortal Palace trembling and wailing under the thunder and fire. The surrounding pavilions, corridors, courtyards, and palaces had no chance of surviving under the winds and thunder.

As the immense power of heaven and earth surged inward, it was evident that after the raging winds, thunder, and fire, vast stretches of broken walls and ruins remained.

The increasingly dilapidated Wanshou Immortal Palace at this moment seemed like a harbinger, a microcosm, of the Qiankun Dao Sect, foreshadowing its eventual loss of territory and city in Yanzhou, and its future fate in this great calamity of the Xuanmen.
As the disciples and followers continued to flee, crying and begging for mercy, someone finally made a move within the Longevity Immortal Palace.

Those few remaining Upper Three Realms cultivators who had not participated in the battle due to injury or other reasons within the Longevity Immortal Palace could no longer restrain themselves and took to the air, rapidly heading towards Jiang Sheng's location.

"Lingyuan, how dare you damage the Longevity Immortal Palace!"

"Lingyuan, this is where the Immortal Lord of Longevity is in seclusion. Do you really want to die?!"

With a series of angry roars and shouts, several figures immediately summoned their magical weapons and unleashed their supernatural powers, as if they wanted to suppress Jiang Sheng on the spot.

However, Jiang Sheng sensed a hidden fear in their words. Rather than anger, it was more accurate to say they were all bark and no bite.

Jiang Sheng never wastes words when dealing with such people. With the sword mechanism wrapped around his Qingping sword, he suddenly raised his sword and slashed out.

"Intercepting Heaven, Breaking All Laws"

boom!
In the formless and intangible realm, across the seasons and time, a surge of magical power, as radiant as the sun, condensed with the laws of the Great Dao, transforming into a roaring dragon that crashed into a majestic deity who stood between heaven and earth, his body wreathed in sunfire, with a great sun wheel hanging high behind his head. The impact caused the Sun Lord deity to stagger, and his aura immediately weakened.

Immediately afterwards, the dragon turned around and transformed into a bright silver dragon sword, which landed in the hand of Xuanming Daojun.

Xuanming Daojun glanced at the listless Emperor Sichen and couldn't help but laugh, "Yanxing, don't you understand yet?"

"The reason Junming and I didn't kill you wasn't because we couldn't, but because we wanted to know how you climbed to the Pure Yang realm."

"If you just tell us, the two of us will give you a clean break and let you reincarnate, how about that?"

Junming Daojun, standing to the side, nodded slightly. He gently shook the Lingyun Wanfa Fan in his hand, stirring up substantial laws of the Great Dao and condensing them into flowing clouds and gales on the fan, ready to destroy Emperor Sichen's soul at any moment.

Emperor Sichen coughed twice, first glancing at Daoist Junming in the distance, then looking at Daoist Xuanming in front of him, and suddenly grinned and said, "Don't you know the answer?"

Why don't you dare to say it?

"Because you're afraid?"

"Hahahaha!"

"Xuanming, I will never tell you. If you want to know the answer, find it yourself and guess for yourself!"

Seeing Emperor Sichen's frenzied state, Xuanming Daojun's expression darkened, and he was about to become angry when he sensed something. His face then regained its calm and composed smile.
"Oh? Really?"

"Since you're unwilling to talk, then go die."

"Anyway, that kid Lingyuan will be finishing up his business soon." (End of Chapter)