Daojun, start from Penglai foundation building

Above the sea of ​​stars, the Dharma boat travels thousands of miles among the stars.

This vast magical vessel far exceeded the expectations of Jiang Huan and his companions; they had never seen such a massive and exquisite magical vessel before.

Fences, decks, sails.
They were all rare and precious materials. The wooden planks under their feet were made of thousand-year-old spirit wood that they had only seen in books and picture albums. The price of a single piece of this spirit wood was far higher than the spirit stones Jiang Huan had spent on his cultivation from Qi Refining to Purple Mansion.

On this magic boat, the priceless spirit wood is only fit to be used as flooring, not to mention the materials used for the deck. These materials are made of spirit wood that is over three thousand years old, and every inch of it is engraved with spirit restrictions and spirit marks. The dense spirit marks and spirit restrictions cover the entire deck of the magic boat, forming a huge magic array.

On the outside of the magic boat, there are countless spiritual traces, Daoist inscriptions, and restrictive formations.

The magnificent palaces and endless pavilions aboard the Dharma Boat are legendary sacred sites of immortals.

Setting aside the war artifacts on the deck that are thousands of feet in size and the naval cannons in the cabins that have muzzles hundreds of feet in size, anyone would think that this is a magnificent, exquisitely crafted artifact that immortals used to traverse the void in legends, rather than some mass-produced warship.

In reality, there were countless such Dharma Boats when the Yin-Yang Orthodox Sect still existed. However, with the fall of the Chaos Profound Dao Lord and the destruction of the Yin-Yang Orthodox Sect, these Dharma Boats were naturally destroyed by the Heavenly Demons. In the entire Xuanhuang Realm, none of the remaining Dharma Boats have exceeded a thousand feet in size.

Firstly, those original cultivation families did not have the blueprints for building magic boats of a thousand feet or more, nor did they have cultivators with relevant experience.

After all, building a magic boat that is over a thousand feet in size requires a variety of experienced cultivators, including those with rich experience in setting up various spiritual restrictions, embedding arrays, constructing the hull, and even using materials. Array masters, spirit pattern masters, talisman makers, and mechanical masters are all indispensable.

In the past, the Yin-Yang Orthodox Sect was like the sun shining brightly overhead, suppressing all disobedient forces inside and outside the Xuanhuang Realm. They simply did not have the corresponding resources and experience. Later, the Yin-Yang Orthodox Sect collapsed, and countless heavenly demons occupied the sky. These aristocratic families dared not build large magic ships.

Therefore, even though Jiang Huan and his companions had traveled to many human cities and met many Golden Core cultivators and even Nascent Soul cultivators over the years, they had never seen such a massive and magnificent war artifact. This made them yearn for it and they looked around on the magic boat.

Until they were stopped by a Dharma Master.

Wearing a jade lotus crown, dressed in plain brocade robes, with a gold ring belt around her waist and emerald lion boots on her feet, she was surrounded by shimmering spiritual light, with a clear halo behind her head, a mysterious aura, and eyes like stars in the sky.
Everything indicates that this is a powerful Dharma-manifestation True Person!

The moment this Dharma Master spoke, Jiang Huan and the other two were stunned: "My master and several senior uncles want to see you. Come with me."

Master?!
Martial Uncle?!
While Jiang Huan and the other two were at a loss, the Dharma Master led the way and began to explain.

At this moment, Jiang Huan realized that this Dharma Image True Man was named Yun Hao and was a disciple of True Man Lingyu.

Lingyu Zhenjun is a true disciple of the Ling generation of the Penglai Dao Sect and a celestial being in the Refining Void Realm.

Every being they had encountered before was an immortal at the Refinement Realm.

Qi Refining, Foundation Building, Purple Mansion, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation.
Jiang Huan and the other two only had to think about it for a moment before they realized what the Refining Void Realm really meant: the immortals of the Upper Three Realms, who had truly transcended the gap between immortals and mortals and ascended to the Dao.

The name Penglai Dao Sect was something Jiang Huan and his companions had never heard of before.

Fortunately, they were still some distance from the main hall where the True Lord had summoned them. With the explanation of True Man Yunhao, Jiang Huan and the other two finally gained a preliminary impression of the Penglai Dao Sect and a general understanding of the methods of the immortals.

Just from the descriptions that Penglai Dao Sect has hundreds of thousands of such magic boats, tens of thousands of magic boats that are ten or even dozens of times larger than these, and giant ships larger than stars, Jiang Huan and his companions could imagine just how powerful Penglai Dao Sect truly is.

Listening to Master Yunhao describe how her master and uncles all possessed over a thousand years of cultivation, their spells could easily pluck stars and seize the moon, shatter the void, and with a wave of their hand, they could destroy mountains and rivers and sink continents. Jiang Huan and the other two could hardly imagine how powerful they were.

Until Jiang Huan and the other two arrived in front of the main hall.

Entering the magnificent hall with its jade railings and golden palace, walking among the towering, thousand-foot-high gilded vermilion pillars, and looking at the Dharma Aspect True Persons on both sides, each with a clear halo behind their heads and an incomparably powerful aura, Jiang Huan was shocked. He counted that in this hall, every single aura of existence far surpassed that of the seven Nascent Soul True Persons of West Sea City.

Not to mention, deep within the main hall, atop the floating cloud bed, sit four ethereal, otherworldly immortal figures.

At that moment, Jiang Huan suddenly understood what immortals and true lords were.

Ascend to immortality and attain the Dao, becoming an immortal who lives forever.

In the darkness, Jiang Huan, along with Wang Yuan and Li Shu, bowed deeply: "Jiang Huan pays respects to the immortals of Penglai."

“Lift your head up.”

An unseen force lifted Jiang Huan and the other two up, but they still couldn't see the faces of those sitting cross-legged on the cloud bed. They only sensed that the four immortals were two men and two women, and their auras were unfathomable.

As four gazes fell upon him, Jiang Huan felt as if he had been seen through from head to toe, and all his thoughts were exposed under their gazes. This made Jiang Huan involuntarily tighten his grip on the immortal scroll in his sleeve.

At this moment, Lingwei slowly spoke: "Indeed, he is the chosen one."

"Stop hiding it. Do you think what you're hiding can fool those mortals in the lower six realms, and also fool us?"

"They are not orthodox practitioners of the Xuanmen school, nor are they familiar with any of the orthodox methods. Although they cultivate the Xuanmen, they are like blind men touching an elephant, only able to see the surface but not the essence."

“But we are all true Taoist cultivators, cultivating pure spiritual energy and nurturing the true fruit of the Xuanmen. Nothing about you, inside or out, can escape our eyes.”

As she spoke, Lingwei raised her hand and gently beckoned, and Jiang Huan found that the immortal scroll she had been clutching tightly in her sleeve floated out and landed in Lingwei's hand.

Jiang Huan's heart sank, thinking that these immortals of the Penglai Dao Sect also coveted his treasures.

Unexpectedly, Lingwei only glanced at it and casually returned it to Jiang Huan.

This gain and loss left Jiang Huan somewhat at a loss.

Ling Wei chuckled softly, her voice clear and gentle, calming the tense mood of Jiang Huan and the other two.

"Jiang Huan, what you have on you may seem like treasures to you, but to us it is nothing more than ordinary."

“You were a rogue cultivator before, and you experienced life and death, faced many dangers, and were surrounded by hostility. It’s normal for you to be cautious and keep some trump cards hidden.”

“But you have boarded my Penglai Dharma boat, which means you have a karmic connection with my Penglai Dharma and will become my Penglai disciple in the future. There is no need for this.”

"Your treasure is nothing more than a jade slip with residual spirituality from a geomancy book. If I wanted, I could activate hundreds or thousands of them at will."

"Therefore, do not think that we would covet anything from you." "Rogue cultivators are different from sect disciples, and ordinary sects are even more different from my Penglai."

“My Penglai sect is a legitimate branch of the Xuanmen lineage, the Chunyang Dao Sect, within the Heavenly Venerable lineage. Everything you have seen and everything you haven’t seen, our sect has it all.”

“You acquired this, but the sect doesn’t value it and won’t want it; you don’t need to be wary of the sect, and there’s no need to hide it from them.”

You may not understand this principle now, but you will in the future.

As she spoke, Lingwei looked at Lingqiu and said, "Lingqiu, you saved them, so you must have a connection with them."

"Therefore, you will lead the three of them. Once the Dharma Ship arrives in the Central Region, you will lead the sect disciples to establish a separate temple in the Central Region to spread the Dharma, save people, and promote the name of Penglai."

Lingqiu's voice rang out: "Lingqiu obeys Senior Brother's command."

Immediately, Lingqiu stood up and looked at Jiang Huan and the other two: "It is your good fortune that you three are being led by me."

"Come with me."

After Lingqiu led the still somewhat bewildered Jiang Huan and the other two away, Lingwei looked at Lingyu beside her and asked, "What do you think of this chosen one?"

Lingyu nodded: "He has some cunning and some tricks up his sleeve. It's normal for a rogue cultivator who has survived all sorts of crises to be a little wary and secretive with people."

"Once he witnesses the true strength of my sect, he will come to his senses."

Lingwei slowly nodded: "Lingyuan said that this chosen one has some special characteristics."

“We just entered the Xuanhuang Realm and happened to witness his misfortune, which also attracted Lingqiu’s attention. It seems that the will of heaven and earth in the Xuanhuang Realm has invested a lot of power in this Jiang Huan.”

"This is not a bad thing for us. The world origin of the Xuanhuang Realm has been absorbed too much, and the primordial energy of heaven and earth has been dissipated too much. With the current will of heaven and earth, it is impossible to remove the demons and evil spirits in the Xuanhuang Realm."

"Even if he cultivates more chosen ones, it will be the same, because the current Xuanhuang Realm simply does not have enough power to support their growth."

Lingyu wholeheartedly agreed: "Yes, the earth is barren, rivers have dried up, forests and vegetation are withered, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is waning. From any perspective, the Xuanhuang Realm is currently in an extremely weak state."

“Looking at this sea of ​​stars again, all the stars are dead and silent. This not only shows that there is no power of the Upper Three Realms in the Xuanhuang Realm at present, but also shows that the Xuanhuang Realm is temporarily unable to give birth to new Upper Three Realms.”

"If the Xuanhuang Realm wants to give birth to the three upper realms again, it will need at least a thousand years to recuperate and restore its foundation, given the current situation where demons are rampant and the origin and primordial energy are constantly leaking out."

"However, as we gradually clear away the demons, restore the mountains and rivers, and sort out the earth's veins, this time can be shortened to three to five hundred years."

"If we go any faster, we'll have to wait until the Kaiyuan Ancestor slays the Heavenly Demon and lets the essence that the Heavenly Demon absorbed nourish the Xuanhuang Realm."

As she spoke, Lingyu suddenly asked, "Speaking of which, where did Lingyuan go?"

Ling smiled and said, "Ling Yuan said he wants to take a look around this starry sea. After all, he is the only one among us at the Integration Realm. Even a Fifth Tribulation True Monarch can't defeat him. Let him go."

In the starry sea of ​​the Xuanhuang Realm, the stars hang high, yet it is utterly silent.

All the stars simply hung silently in the sky, without starlight or spirit, like lifeless stones, devoid of the ability to interpret celestial phenomena, reveal destiny, or govern the seasons.

The importance of stars in a world is self-evident; the earth's energy is regulated by the earth's veins, and the celestial phenomena are regulated by the stars.

The changing seasons, the shifting solar terms, and the secrets of fate all rely on the stars for their arrangement and manifestation.

Now all the stars in the Xuanhuang Realm are dim, indicating that the world's origin has been severely depleted, to the point that this great world has lost its ability to maintain basic operations.

Jiang Sheng paced through the sea of ​​stars, sensing the desolate expanse and the faint aura of calamity and impending doom within it.

As the Heavenly Demon Mo Xuan amassed wealth without restraint, the source of the Xuanhuang Realm was nearly exhausted. This vast world gradually began to show signs of the end times. As a result, the seasons disappeared, the solar terms were no longer observed, the mountains and rivers withered, and demons ran rampant.

Amidst these signs of impending doom, the aura of impending doom began to spread, adding a touch of calamity to the Xuanhuang Realm.

Heaven and earth have an end, and the universe has a limit; this is the end of time.

When the end times arrive, calamities will manifest, leading to the destruction of heaven and earth and the cycle of the universe.

Jiang Sheng, who cultivates the path of the Three Calamities and Destruction, and whose goal is to achieve the final calamity and destiny, is most clearly aware of this aura of the final destiny.

When Jiang Sheng embarked on the path of the Three Calamities and Destruction, he witnessed firsthand the collapse of a small world as it faced its final calamity, and he comprehended the final fate of that small world.

Now, even this vast world is showing signs of its end. Even if the Xuanhuang Realm cannot collapse, this process is still an invaluable insight for Jiang Sheng.

Walking quietly through the sea of ​​stars, sensing the sorrow of the world and the weight of broken mountains and rivers, the wisps of the aura of impending doom lingered in the sea of ​​stars, giving Jiang Sheng a deeper understanding of the path of the end times and calamities.

Just as Jiang Sheng was quietly contemplating the impending doom of the world, a large star, hanging high in the starry sky and radiating a dim silver light, appeared before him.

That is the Taiyin Star of the Xuanhuang Realm.

"The Moon?"

"They just delivered it right to my doorstep like this?"

Jiang Sheng frowned slightly, looking at the large moon star in front of him, and suddenly realized something.

In the next instant, Jiang Sheng accelerated and sped towards Taiyin Star.

If he wasn't mistaken, this Taiyin Star was sent to him by the will of the Xuanhuang Realm. (End of Chapter)