Chapter 262: Where Emperors Rest (1/2)

As the Dao Flower bloomed, it unleashed a tremendous wave of ideology and engraved it into the minds of all cultivators. Only when the names of Qing Han, Wu Tulong, Zi Chen, Mo Qitian, and Lu Yun appeared did people comprehend with shock that the flower was blooming in Dusk Province!

The development floored the Feng and Jin Clans, and all of the other factions that had attacked Lu Yun and his companions.

“Impossible, impossible!” Jin Shikong shrieked in unhinged tones, rejecting what he was learning with every fiber of his being. “They’re demons that crawled out from the Blood Sea! They can’t be the escort of the Dao Flower....”

He’d been the one to give the order to blast Lu Yun.

Likewise, the Jin and Feng Clans fell into despair. It was too serious a crime to have attacked the Dao Flower and obstructed the repair of the path of cultivation! After today, the two clans would become public enemies in the world of immortals and many of the other worlds.

By now, the Dao Flower had bloomed and shared its knowledge with everyone. Peak nascent realm cultivators, one step away from ascending to immortality, let out discreet sighs of relief.

The qi, core, and spirit realms trained a cultivator to temper their own body, while the void realm trained them to understand heaven and earth. Cultivators were to become one with the heavenly dao, to perceive, unravel, and return to the void until they reached an understanding and integrated with the world. Then they would bound to immortality.

That realm had a direct impact on one’s progression through the dao immortal realm. With the experience of the void realm, plucking a dao fruit at peak peerless immortal wouldn’t be such a dangerous task. Even if one were to fail, they’d be able to easily retreat, unscathed by the repercussions of the world.

“Back in Xiankan, Lu Yun asked the mysterious expert to not allow Wanfeng to ascend to immortality. Is this the reason why?” Someone recalled what the young man had said back then.

Do not ascend to immortality!

“Did he already know then that the path of cultivation was incomplete?”

“No wonder he and the other youth sovereigns departed Xiankan and missed even the Nephrite Celestial Emperor’s coronation!”

“The coronation was nothing compared to repairing the path of cultivation!”

“They were missing for a year and three months. Did they repair the path during that period of time?”

“Lu Shenhou of the Lu Clan and youth sovereign Dongfang Hao sacrificed themselves for the restoration of the path....” The two names evoked many mournful sighs. Meanwhile, the Mo Clan, Immortal Martial School, and Zi Clan jubilated that their geniuses had contributed to such a great feat. Such glory to their factions and to their ancestors! It would even further improve their standing in the world.

“Hao’er sacrificed himself for the world. He is also a hero, and all living beings in the world of immortals must never forget about him!”

“Lu Shenhou was the first to discover that the path of cultivation was severed! I pity the Lu Clan, who’ve been imprisoned by the Nephrite Court! Has the court really been taken over by demons that stand against the immortal dao?”

“Oh dear, that poor Qing Clan branded Qing Han a traitor and kicked him out. I wonder what they’re thinking now.” Many lamented the loss of Lu Shenhou and Dongfang Hao, and even more laughed at the Qing Clan.

“Why didn’t they previously announce it to the world if they already knew the truth about the path of cultivation?!”

At the same time, there were questioning voices as well, mostly from those who had ascended to immortality while Qing Han and the others were repairing the path of cultivation, or from those whose youths had made the ascension and thus missed out on the void realm.

“Would you believe it if someone told you before this that the path of cultivation was missing a realm?”

“This concerns everyone in the entire world! Qing Han and the others were attacked by the Jin and Feng Clan as soon as they returned with the Dao Flower. If the news had gotten out beforehand, the path would’ve never been successfully restored!”

……

The Dao Flower was still blooming, and the path of cultivation it carried slowly integrated into the great heavenly dao.

“They can’t succeed… can’t let them succeed....” muttered Jin Shikong as he stared at the blooming flower on the border of Outré Province. He would be persona non grata in the entire world once the flower finished blooming, and the Jin Clan would never recover from these circumstances.

“Soldiers!” he yelled crazily. “Activate the weapon of war and blow that flower to pieces!”

That only resulted in cold, chilling stares being directed at him from those around him.