Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 1134 Next, the true form will be born.
Hidden Sword Mountain, Hidden Sword Hall, on the roof of the glazed tile roof.

Tianjian Zhenjun leaned against the green-tiled eaves and roof ornaments, his fingers pinching a tin pot from which white steam rose—warm osmanthus wine. His eyes were half-closed as he gazed at the night sky, where the silvery moonlight churned the thin clouds, his clothes damp with dew, reflecting the moon's faint glow.

The night sky was clear and clean, with distant clouds scattered, leaving only the moon hanging in the sky. The cool moonlight was not dazzling, like frost covering the roof tiles and the silver hair of a celestial being, even the patterns on the pot were clearly visible.

The stars are as dense as shattered diamonds adorning ink-black velvet; those nearby are dazzling, while those in the distance are faint as silver mist, spreading along with the Big Dipper to form the Milky Way, their light as weak as spring water and thin ice.

"My Lord!" A delicate sparrow feather floated up to the eaves like a gentle breeze and landed softly behind the Heavenly Sword True Monarch.

"Hmm, is there something you need?" Tianjian Zhenjun's voice was ethereal and casual, like a gentle breeze or starlight in the night sky.

"The Impermanent Ghost Sect has already occupied most of the Wanhua Mountain Range, and the Wanhua Demon Court seems to have been completely defeated," Que Lingyu said softly.

Her voice was full of warmth, and her bright eyes were full of tenderness and affection.

The Heavenly Sword True Monarch's relaxed expression slightly faded, and he became solemn.

"The Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, the Myriad Flower Demon Court, and other powerful forces are being destroyed one after another. Heh, the struggle for power has truly begun!"

Que Lingyu hesitated for a moment, then said softly, "My lord, the struggle for power is so dangerous, we should not fight for it!"

She had no interest in power or position, nor did she believe that Heavenly Sword True Lord absolutely needed that position. She only wanted to stay by Heavenly Sword True Lord's side.

Now that True Monarch Tianjian has been reborn, she feels that True Monarch Tianjian has no need to fight for power.

She still has nearly two thousand years of lifespan left, and she can accompany the Heavenly Sword True Lord for another two thousand years. She is already very satisfied with this and dares not hope for anything else.

Heavenly Sword True Lord turned to look at her, gazing at her delicate, pretty face and her tender, watery eyes.

He let out a soft sigh.

He neither desires nor needs romantic love.

In his heart, Que Lingyu was still that little sparrow who always hovered around him. He had never poured any extra emotion into Que Lingyu, but he still had feelings after all. He understood Que Lingyu's thoughts, but he could not give Que Lingyu any answers.

"Life has its end, and though I have been reborn, my soul remains unchanged!"

Que Lingyu froze, staring blankly at Tianjian Zhenjun.

She understood what he meant, but she was somewhat unwilling to accept it.

Lifespan is limited not only to the physical body, but also to the soul.

When the physical body and the soul are one, the limitation of lifespan is manifested in the physical body. As long as the physical body's lifespan is not exhausted, the soul will not be affected by the lifespan.

However, when the physical body and the soul are separated, the soul is limited by lifespan. The soul of an ordinary person can only exist for a few days, while the soul of a cultivator can only exist for a few days to several dozen days.

The Heavenly Sword True Lord uses the spirituality of the Azure Gold Sword to nurture his soul, residing his soul within the sword's body, thus escaping the restrictions of the rules of heaven and earth.

However, his soul could not escape the rules of heaven and earth. When he separated from the sword, his soul would be limited by his lifespan.

Therefore, he needs to seize possession of another body as soon as possible and obtain a new one.

The body that is possessed is ultimately not his own. Although it can extend his lifespan in terms of his soul, it cannot make up for the depletion of his soul.

He could only strengthen the connection between his soul and body by improving his cultivation level. In just thirty years, his cultivation level reached the Golden Core Realm, but his lifespan only increased slightly.

"If I cannot seize the position of power, I will only have a hundred years left to live!" Heavenly Sword True Monarch raised his head and gulped down a mouthful of wine.

A hundred years is a long time for mortals, but for Golden Core cultivators and demon kings, a hundred years is a very short time.

Heavenly Sword True Monarch raised his hand to wipe the wine from the corner of his mouth and grinned, "Little Sparrow, for me, power and position are everything."

"I'm sorry, I have to let you down!"

Que Lingyu's eyes shone brightly, her heart trembling with a mixture of heartache, sorrow, and resentment, but above all, unwavering resolve.

"Little Sparrow understands! Little Sparrow will help the Master win the position of power!"

Heavenly Sword True Monarch grinned, "No rush, wait a little longer, the time will come soon!"

He was waiting for the right moment. This moment might not matter to others, but to him, it was the best opportunity.

If he misses this opportunity, he will lose everything; if he can seize it, he will have a great chance to ascend to the position of Dao Lord.

It is the position of the master of the Way, not the position of authority.

He desires power and authority, but he aspires to go even further and become a true Dao Lord.

……

The destruction of the Wanhua Demon Court brought great shock to the Wanhua Domain. The demise of the two top powers, from the Tianji Pavilion to the Wanhua Demon Court, signified the beginning of a once-in-ten-thousand-years struggle for power.

All the major powers have accelerated the pace of the war, with the South Sea Demon Court and the North Sea Demon Court being the most active.

Needless to say, the South Sea Demon Court has firmly occupied the Jinchuan Mountains, while the North Sea Demon Court has not been idle either, and has begun to expand rapidly in the Northern Region. In just a few months, the North Sea Demon Court has swallowed up thousands of miles of land in the Northern Region.

In the Southern Region, the Hengshan Sect stood against the South Sea Demon Court, but in the Northern Region, there was no major force to resist the North Sea Demon Court, allowing the North Sea Demon Court to move in as if it were an empty territory.

Those forces in the Northern Region with any strength migrated south in an attempt to escape the attacks of the Northern Sea Demon Court.

The North Sea Demon Court's style of doing things is even more brutal than that of the South Sea Demon Court. Although the South Sea Demon Court has been fighting with Hengshan Sect and many other forces in the Southern Region for more than a hundred years, they will not involve innocent immortal cultivators. As long as those immortal cultivators do not provoke them, they will not harm them.

Many low-level cultivators are not qualified to participate in the war, so they are naturally insignificant. Many small immortal cultivation families do not even have a Foundation Establishment cultivator, so the South Sea Demon Court will not bother with them.

However, the Northern Sea Demon Court launched a massacre against all cultivators in the Northern Region. All immortal cultivators, regardless of their cultivation level, were exterminated. Even demon beasts were exterminated by them.

They are aquatic demons, and the demons on land have no relation to them.

Therefore, they treated the demon race and human cultivators on land the same way.

This ruthless attitude terrified the cultivators in the Southern Region, who fled to the Central Region and other areas such as the Wilderness of Ten Thousand Waters.

The influx of so many cultivators from outside the Central Region has caused considerable unrest, plunging many forces within the region into turmoil.

Myriad Treasures Immortal City.

Since the Wanbao Sect closed the Hundred Realms Grotto-Heavens, the atmosphere in Wanbao Immortal City has become much more tense.

Although the Wanbao Sect sealed off the Hundred Realms Cave Heaven, it still left a considerable amount of power within the Wanbao Immortal City. The inner city of the Wanbao Immortal City is still under the control of the Wanbao Sect, and the Wanbao branches in various places and Taoyuan Mountain are still operating. However, they can no longer contact the Hundred Realms Cave Heaven.

At this time, the people in charge of managing the affairs of Wanbao Immortal City are the five great immortal clans. They were originally vassals of the Wanbao Sect. Now that the Wanbao Sect has temporarily separated from Wanbao Immortal City, they have naturally become the controllers of the immortal city.

At the Zheng family mansion of the Immortal Clan, the patriarchs of the Zheng family, Qin family, Liu family, Bai family, and Sun family gathered together.

Zheng Kaiming sat high in the main seat, his silvery-white beard running from his chin to his abdomen, the silver strands smooth and shiny.

Qin Xianyang sat at the head of the table below. He was tall and imposing, wearing black armor, and exuded a majestic aura, like a general in the army.

Liu Yingchun's face was as beautiful as a peach blossom, her eyes were full of spring, and when she looked up, she exuded the charm of a mature woman.

Bai Shangyun, true to his name, is dressed in white like a white cloud in the sky, wandering freely among the mountains and hills, pure and unblemished, unburdened and unattached, like a celestial being descending to earth.

Sun Ye, on the other hand, was the complete opposite of Bai Shangyun. He was dressed in coarse linen clothes, with a rough face and dark skin, looking like an old farmer from the countryside, and seemed somewhat out of place with the people and things around him.

The gathering of five Golden Core cultivators is an extremely rare sight, even in the Myriad Treasures Immortal City.

But today, not only were they all gathered here, but the atmosphere was also extremely heavy. "Brother Qin, are you able to contact the Wanbao Sect?" Zheng Kaiming broke the silence and asked.

They have gathered here today to discuss how to deal with the North Sea Demon Court.

Currently, the North Sea Demon Court is still in the Northern Region, which is tens of thousands of miles away from the Wilderness of Ten Thousand Waters. However, once the North Sea Demon Court has conquered the entire Northern Region, its next target will inevitably be the Wilderness of Ten Thousand Waters.

The Wanbao Sect has gone into seclusion and temporarily left Wanbao Immortal City, but they are unable to leave Wanbao Immortal City.

Their departure from Wanbao Immortal City was tantamount to abandoning the foundation accumulated by their families over thousands of years. In fact, they valued Wanbao Immortal City even more than the Wanbao Sect.

After all, the loss of one immortal city would not damage the foundation of the Wanbao Sect. The foundation of the Wanbao Sect lies in the Hundred Realms Grotto-Heaven, not in the Wanbao Immortal City.

The foundations of their five great immortal clans are all located in this immortal city.

Therefore, they cannot allow the North Sea Demon Court to threaten Wanbao Immortal City, or even the Wanshui Wilderness.

Qin Xianyang shook his head, "No!"

"Didn't True Lord Duobao leave you a way to send a message?" Zheng Kaiming frowned.

Qin Xianyang hesitated.

Everyone else stared intently at him, hoping he could find a way to contact the Wanbao Sect.

There's a saying in Wanbao Immortal City: "The Sun family in the East City refines immortal pills, the Bai family in the South City forges spiritual weapons, the Liu family in the West City welcomes guests, the Qin family in the North City guards the eight passes, and the Zheng family in the Central City has a road leading to heaven."

In terms of close relationship with Wanbaozong, the Zheng family was the closest to Wanbaozong.

Zheng Kaiming possesses high cultivation and strength, reaching the peak of the Golden Core stage. He is a highly respected guest in the Wanbao Sect and enjoys the deep trust of the sect leader, Wan Hong.

But since he asked Qin Xianyang this question today, it means that he has no way to contact Wanbao Sect.

Besides him, the person most likely to have connections with Wanbao Sect is Qin Xianyang.

The Qin family of Beicheng guards eight passes!
The Qin family commands the city guards of Wanbao Immortal City and has now gained control of the city's protective array, demonstrating the deep trust the Qin family enjoys from the Wanbao Sect.

The Wanbao Sect's trust in the Qin family stemmed from Duobao Zhenjun. Qin Xianyang was considered Duobao Zhenjun's disciple, although he was not formally accepted into the sect, the two had a master-disciple relationship.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Qin Xianyang hesitated for a moment and said, "I can't contact Master Duobao, but before the Wanbao Sect sealed off the cave, Miss Xiayi gave me a communication talisman!"

Everyone's eyes lit up, and Zheng Kaiming quickly said, "Then what are we waiting for? Let's contact them and give it a try!"

Qin Xianyang said helplessly, "Miss Xiayi didn't say that this communication talisman could be used to contact her. She only said that if the Qin family encounters a major disaster, they can use this communication talisman to ask for help!"

Zhong Lixiayi had a closer relationship with the Qin family because her mother was a member of the Qin family. Qin Xianyang was her great-great-grandfather.

"This..." Zheng Kaiming and the others exchanged glances, also somewhat unsure of what to do.

They all knew Zhong Lixiayi, but Zhong Lixiayi's current status in the Wanbao Sect was not high, and she couldn't even enter the core.

Since it concerns the concealment of the Hundred Realms Cave, Zhongli Xiayi should not have been qualified to leave any traces.

In other words, this communication talisman was likely not for contacting the Wanbao Sect, but for contacting someone else. Zhongli Xiayi left such a communication talisman simply to provide the Qin family with a way out.

“Fellow Daoist Tianbao has also returned to the Hundred Realms Cave Heaven, so this communication talisman shouldn’t be for contacting him!” Bai Shangyun said.

"Who would they contact?" Liu Yingchun asked, puzzled.

"They might be Miss Xiayi's friend!"

"But contacting Miss Xiayi's friends is useless. We need the sect to come back and take charge now!"

"What if they can get in touch with Miss Xiayi?"

The group started discussing it, and they all wanted Wan Baozong to come back and take charge. They felt uneasy without Wan Baozong around.

The successive destruction of Tianji Pavilion and Wanhua Demon Court brought them a lot of unease.

Even those who had only reached the halfway point of the Dao realm were falling one after another, let alone ordinary Golden Core cultivators like them.

"Then let's give it a try?" Zheng Kaiming looked at Qin Xianyang with a last glimmer of hope.

Qin Xianyang hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded in agreement.

The communication talisman represents Zhongli Xiayi's concern for the Qin family, and he is unwilling to use it unless there are special circumstances.

But the current situation is special. If he waits until the enemy comes knocking on his door, it will be too late. So he decided to use it now.

After making his decision, he took out the communication talisman, considered it for a moment, left two sentences on the talisman, and then activated it.

The communication talisman transformed into a beam of light and vanished before everyone's eyes, disappearing into the void.

The group stared at the vanished communication talisman, exchanging bewildered glances.

“This seems to be the Dao of Void!” Sun Ye said.

“Yes, I can sense the aura of the void,” Liu Yingchun echoed.

“Let’s just wait and see!” Zheng Kaiming said.

……

A fairyland of habitats.

Yang Zhengshan walked out of the Pill Hall. The second Nine Cauldrons Divine Pill was completed. As expected, he succeeded in refining it again.

Successfully refining the Nine Cauldrons Divine Pill twice in a row signifies that his alchemy skills have entered a new level, almost reaching the highest level of alchemy in the Myriad Flower Domain.

In the entire Wanhua Domain, there are only a handful of alchemists capable of refining the Nine Cauldrons Divine Pill. Yang Zhengshan may not be the first, but he is definitely among the top three.

Standing in front of the Dan Hall, under the bright sunshine, Yang Zhengshan stretched lazily.

"Ah, that feels so good!"

He felt incredibly relaxed at that moment, without the slightest sense of urgency.

Although his cultivation level is still at the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, his Dao intent has already reached the level of half-stepping into the Dao, making him a top expert in the Wanhua Domain.

In addition, he also refined the Nine Cauldrons Divine Pill, and Yu Qingyi also formed her core. His last concern disappeared.

"Haha~~"

Thinking of all this, Yang Zhengshan couldn't help but laugh.

"Now it's time for me to emerge. After hiding for so many years and enduring for so many years, it's time for me to go out and stir up some trouble!"

"I, too, should contend for this position of power."

He wasn't qualified to compete before, but now he has the confidence.

Now that he has no more worries, he should naturally start planning for himself.

One must strive for the position of power and improve one's cultivation. If one can become a true Dao Lord, that would be the best. If not, then one must strive for the position of power.

(End of this chapter)