Grandpa, times have changed.

Chapter 615 Profound Refinement of Heavenly Will
“Your spirituality is highly compatible with your current physical foundation.”

Xiaoling's weapon-refining skills are naturally exceptional.

Although it looks like a sphere, its internal intricacy and fit far surpass the physical foundations of most 'artifacts' sold in the market.

Given Heng's current level, he can benefit greatly from this.

"It's a real shame to change it like this."

He observed that Heng would likely only receive less help from the Nascent Soul level.

Only when one reaches the Nascent Soul stage will the spiritual strength reach the upper limit of this physical foundation.

Moreover, this is without any subsequent reinforcement of the physical foundation.

"Once your spiritual strength is higher and you have fully adapted to the Tai Xuan Realm, I will ask Xiao Ling to help you change to a physical foundation that you like."

Heng just wanted to change his physical body into a human form; it wasn't an unreasonable request.

After all, Heng had already developed a complete sense of self when he was in mission world 1, and he usually used a human appearance to move around in the outside world.

Given all of the above, it is perfectly normal for it to be more adapted to a human form.

buzz~
Subtle spiritual energy fluctuations spread out, and Heng, which was resting on Zhou Kongming's shoulder, gradually floated up and rolled around on the table in front of him.

She looked up at him, a red light flashing in her eyes.

Because many spiritual energy circuits that nurture spirituality are inscribed inside, Heng's own spirituality is also confined within the sphere.

Therefore, it is no longer possible to freely manifest various forms of spirituality as before.

"Master, is it alright for the mistress to trouble herself with such a small matter?"

Zhou Kongming paused, but didn't dwell on the issue of address:
"Don't worry, this is nothing to Xiaoling."

Heng: "..."

If she hadn't been quick-witted and addressed him as the mistress of the house in time, it's uncertain whether she would have been able to return.

Maybe there won't even be a 'ball' left.

Hey~
Life is tough...

Thinking of this, Heng turned around and continued to look into the venue, watching the images projected from the secret realm.

Zhou Kongming didn't pay too much attention to this matter. Instead, he looked at Ye Zhiwei, who had passed the second test of the "Three Tests of Law" and received a very high rating, and a question arose in his mind.

With his foundation-building skills, he should be the top candidate in this 'Immortal Sect Special Recruitment', barring any unforeseen circumstances.

Judging from its various behaviors, the principle it gleaned should lean towards the categories of 'concealment' and 'hiddenness'.

I heard that she had previously cultivated the "Heavenly Net Sword Manual" ahead of schedule with the guarantee of her junior grandmaster, and the two had a very good relationship.

emm...

Could it be that Junior Grandmaster Uncle is cultivating a team in advance for the future election of sect leader?

Thinking of this, Zhou Kongming couldn't help but feel a sense of crisis.

Should I also...?

High platform.

Du Ruoheng, who was also paying close attention to the final round of trials for the 'Immortal Sect Special Recruitment', suddenly paused and frowned.

Ok?
For some reason, he suddenly felt a bit awkward.

Moreover, that feeling not only came suddenly, but also went very suddenly!

What is it?

He's a Daoist master; how could he have a sudden whim for no reason?

So something must have happened!
He glanced around the room discreetly but didn't notice anything amiss.

Come to think of it, who in this world would dare to cause trouble under the watchful eye of the patriarch?

Unable to figure out the reason for the moment, he had no choice but to suppress his unease and continue to focus on the final round of assessments, planning to find out the cause after the 'Immortal Sect Special Recruitment' was over.

During the 'Special Recruitment of Immortal Sects' period, in order to prevent some cultivators from taking the opportunity to amass wealth through divination, all techniques and supernatural abilities such as 'tracing back' and 'divination' will be directly blocked.

Let alone achieving the Dao, even if it were Dongzhen here, he wouldn't be able to use the slightest divination technique!
……

……

Soon after, outside the Sword Ancestor's main hall.

Standing beside Xu Xing was the Demon Ancestor, while in front of him was the Yuan Jun, who was preparing to leave.

As for the gazes cast by the other True Immortals, they had all retreated before this.

The reason I came here this time is because Xuan suddenly appeared on the front line of the starry sky battlefield.

Now that the situation is clear, Yuanjun doesn't plan to stay at the Sword Sect for long, since she's already been living there for quite some time...

Moreover, Sister-in-law Dieyu and her brother's second daughter recently achieved enlightenment.

Because she had been in seclusion for so many years, her brother was worried that his daughter wouldn't understand the world today, so he asked her to go and meet her.

“Since the Sword Sect is alright, how about we go together to pick up Mengdie?” Yuanjun suggested.

"No, thank you." Xu Xing shook his head slightly. "Senior Sister is currently in seclusion, and I need to keep an eye on the Sword Sect."

"Brother Dao, you are worrying too much."

The Sword Sect, which has the most high-level cultivators, doesn't need constant supervision.

"It was agreed upon beforehand, so it's better for me to stay in the sect."

"Alright then." Yuan Jun didn't insist and turned to look at Mei Zu.

"You're not leaving?"

Meizu blinked: "Why should I leave?"

She never said she wanted to leave!
"Isn't the Hehuan Sect at a critical juncture in changing its sect leader?"

"so what?"

She doesn't care about anything; it's the same whether she's there or not.

Yuanjun: "..."

Yuanjun said nothing more, and after bidding farewell to Xu Xing, she disappeared.

after awhile.

Xu Xing looked at Meizu:

"Are you really planning to stay here for a few days?"

"It was just to fool Yuanjun."

She still had to go back and see about such a major event as the change of sect leader, otherwise Yin Xue would start nagging again.

Meizu gently approached Xu Xing.

"Brother Dao, don't you find her depressed look rather amusing?"

Xu Xing's eye twitched: "I don't think so."

"That's because you haven't experienced the joy of it yet, Brother Dao."

Xu Xing: "..."

For me, this kind of thing is probably just asking for trouble and there's no fun in it.

After a pause, Meizu seemed to have thought of something.

"correct!"

She then took out a maple leaf that was smooth and lustrous, fiery red, and looked like it had been carved from jade.

"Then please give this to Jiu Yu."

"Ok?"

“I promised her before,” Meizu explained. “When Jiuyu was chatting with me, she mentioned that your confidante, Lingzu and Yuanjun, both gave her gifts.”

At this point, her expression became more serious:
"Of course I can't refuse to give it to you."

"..."

Xu Xing glanced at the maple leaf Mei Zu handed him, feeling somewhat speechless.

That guy is really...

“Let’s go!” Meizu stepped back a little.

"Once the sect leader's succession is over, I'll make more time to visit the Sword Sect. While the Sword Master is in seclusion, I'll spend some time alone with you, my fellow Daoist!" With that, she disappeared in a wisp of drifting red light.

Xu Xing gazed in the direction of the Hehuan Sect, then looked back at the Sword Ancestor Hall behind him. Finally, he clasped his hands together, put away the maple leaf that the Demon Ancestor had asked him to give him, and turned to walk back into the Sword Ancestor Hall.

The information recorded in that 'past' that is etched with true history is pitifully scarce, and some of it is even more obscured by the existence of Xuan himself, making it impossible to glimpse.

That's why they observed it repeatedly, but still couldn't come up with a definitive answer.

The only certainty is that the reason 'Tian' threw out this 'past' before Xuan arrived was more likely to prevent Xuan from discovering it.

His entry into the Ancient Tai Xuan Heaven and taking it away might just be in line with 'Heaven's' calculations.

As for what is truly hidden within, perhaps only 'Heaven' and the ancients know...

Senior You has already rushed to the front lines of the starry sky battlefield, preparing to replay this event repeatedly.

Even if it can't sow discord between Xuan and Gu, as long as it annoys them...

Then it's worth it!

……

……

The vast and ancient past is an ever-expanding realm.

Ancient Tai Xuan Tian.

Xuan stood at the gap in the Hall of Time, gazing at Gu Yaoyuan on the throne.

Gu's palms pressed against the seven-colored spheres on the armrests on both sides, and boundless seven-colored divine light surged, as if he was trying something...

As His power seeped into the seven-colored sphere, strands of seven-colored divine light also flowed down from behind the celestial curtain of the ancient Tai Xuan Heaven.

Just like when the 'Old Time·Transformation and Rebirth' technique was used before, multiple overlapping shadows appeared throughout the entire world.

A tiny red line, already extremely fine, was continuously extracted from the two ends of the sky, as if the ancient Tai Xuan Heaven was shedding the affected part and returning to its former pure state.

however……

Buzz~!

Visible red ripples spread outwards, and wherever they passed, the world, which was originally blurry and seemed to be layered with overlapping shadows, began to quickly 'correct' itself.

In the blink of an eye, the hazy world became clear again.

Gu's face was extremely ugly, and boundless seven-colored divine light surged up again as he prepared to continue his attempt.

"Alright," Xuan said, stopping Him. "The Sword Ancestor has already severed the possibility of the Ancient Tai Xuan Heaven, making it constant and unique. This cannot be changed."

As he spoke, He slowly walked into the temple, and at the same time raised his hand and plucked a branch from the sky.

A wisp of crimson light fluttered down, and He actually plucked it from the horizon and held it in His palm.

A hint of joy flashed in Gu's eyes. Just as he thought there was still room to salvage the situation, he discovered that the crimson blade that Xuan had plucked reappeared in the sky, stretching across both ends of the heavens and earth.

"The Sword Ancestor arrived too quickly this time, gaining the upper hand." Xuan sighed, crushing the wisp of crimson light he held in his hand.

“I haven’t found my way to go any further, but he has already done so.”

"And the entry was even faster than I expected."

This is the only possibility.

Otherwise, based solely on the faint aura of 'Heaven' appearing for that brief moment, the Sword Ancestor of the past could not have pinpointed the existence of the Ancient Tai Xuan Heaven so quickly.

"..." Gu paused, seemingly wanting to say something but then stopping himself.

In the end, however, he still asked:

"What should we do now?"

"no way."

The incident had already occurred, and Xuan remained unusually calm.

And no matter how many reminders you give, similar incidents will still happen...

Just don’t say it.

“But if ‘Heaven’ thinks that doing this will force me to accelerate His revival, then he is overthinking it.”

His dark eyes gleamed, and he slowly opened his palm.

An invisible and intangible, yet profoundly mysterious and weighty entity appeared in His palm—

God willing!

Bear!
Purple flames soared and danced, seemingly depicting the beginning of chaos and the birth of primordial order. The light of heaven and earth flashed by, and countless small worlds were born and vanished in an instant.

The source of the Tao, fire!
Upon its appearance, it completely enveloped the 'will of Heaven' and continuously refined it.

All of a sudden!
The formless and intangible 'Heavenly Will' twisted continuously, and within it, a pair of indifferent eyes seemed to open, filled with boundless shock and anger, staring intently at Xuan, who was refining the Heavenly Will.

"Xuan! You..."

"Noisy!"

boom!
Purple flames surged and rolled, the flame waves suddenly rising, causing the great hall, formed over countless years, to succumb to the pressure and show signs of melting!
In an instant, the eyes that had opened within 'Heaven's Will' were forced back by the purple flames.

The ancient king on the throne was startled.

Looking at the leaping purple flames, He felt the same sense of 'invincibility' He had felt when facing the Sword Ancestor.

This is the mystery!

Thankfully, this was a mystery!
Gu was somewhat alarmed, but also somewhat relieved!

a long time……

The purple flames gradually weakened and eventually died down completely.

The 'Heavenly Will' in Xuan's hand had been burned and refined from the inside out, and the traces of 'Heaven' had been completely erased.

The primordial fire of the Dao is the embodiment of Xuan's status as the extraordinary source of the Tai Xuan Realm!

The 'Heaven' that has broken free from the restrictions of the Heavenly Dao is itself an extremely pure and extraordinary existence, and has absolutely no resistance to this 'Origin Fire of the Dao'.

"Xuan, what you just did..."

“Let Him behave,” Xuan said calmly.

He is not the 'Celestial Tribulation' and cannot, like the Sword Ancestor, sever the means by which 'Heaven' exerts its influence on all living beings.

But erasing the traces of 'Heaven' in 'Heaven's Will' while 'Heaven' is in a state of silence is an easy task for Him.

If we consider 'Heaven's Will' as the body of 'Heaven', then the Sword Ancestor is the 'Sword' created specifically for that body.

He can kill the body, but he doesn't understand the 'essence' of the body.

In His view, the method by which the human race's true immortals sealed and refined the will of Heaven was extremely crude.

To put it simply, it means dividing its body into pieces of still-active 'flesh and blood' and binding them, then gradually 'devouring' and 'digesting' them to completely destroy their 'vitality'.

As one of the innate enlightened beings, He was able to understand the 'essence of the body' from a perspective completely different from that of the human immortals, thus directly extinguishing its vitality.

"But like this..."

The heavens were already in a state of dormancy, and having lost this trace of 'divine will,' they were even further away from revival.

"If Heaven disregards everything, it will allow the 'favor of Heaven' to shift."

The reason why the Cang Clan is able to hold out against the Human Clan is entirely due to the characteristic that "Cang is indestructible and Xuan is immortal".

The prerequisite for 'Cang Immortal' is that the Cang Clan itself must be a 'Clan Favored by Heaven' in the Tai Xuan Realm.

"will not."

Xuan put away the pure will of heaven that had become purified in his palm.

"The Cang Clan is His only chance to return. Even if I do something worse, He won't care."

The most selfish and holy Heaven, for its own survival and for that sliver of possibility of transcendence, has no bottom line.

It is precisely because He saw through His true nature that He would not allow 'Heaven' to be revived.

If He truly seizes the essence of an enlightened being, breaks free from the constraints of the Heavenly Dao, and transcends to the source of the Dao, the first thing He will eliminate is all beings above the level of enlightened beings.

Whether it's the human immortals, or Him and the ancients.

Although He descended to earth as one of the Cang Ancestors, in His eyes there was no difference between Cang and humans, or all living beings.

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