Chapter 758: Rise of Mount Xuanhuang, Establishment of the Dao Academy (1/2)

All of Dusk Province boomed and shook. An enormous mountain of bronze soared into the clouds from the outskirts of Dao City, seated north and facing south from its position by the city. Astoundingly, it came with the influence that’d once graced Mount Exalted, and in fact seemed even more awe-inspiring than the mountain that’d once stunned the land.

In the world of immortals, bronze was reserved for sacrificial rites and most of the altars in the realm were made of this metal. Formation runes crisscrossed and formations overlapped over the growing mountain. The moment it fully took shape, the world trembled and a strange power encompassed all of the facets.

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“He’s used the tools of sacrifice to forcefully pull together a world on the brink of disassembly!” On Levitating Island, Silverlight gasped in the direction of Dusk Province. The mountain next to Dao City was too enormous and too distinct. No matter where one was in the four great oceans, the first thing they’d see when they looked in the direction of Dusk was that mountain cast from bronze.

“The moment Qing Yu became an immortal, she used her own strength to suppress the immortal dao and compel the shattering world back into one. And now, this mountain concentrates immortal dao with a strange momentum that will fully repair the cracks in the world.

“It won’t be long before our current world is as of the one in the Primordial Era—reborn as one whole, complete world.” Somewhere far in the depths of the South Sea, Qi Hai stared blankly as he muttered to himself.

“All of this is what I’d wanted to accomplish once upon a time, but to think he was one step ahead of me!” He’d reverted to his appearance in the Primordial Era, that of a genteel and refined pill master.

“You wouldn’t be able to do it,” sighed the city lord of Destiny City from his position beside Qi Hai. “The immortal dao is the dao of all and not the dao of the human race. You lack the immortal dao’s acknowledgement and thus you would never obtain the acceptance of the world.”

“The immortal dao of all, is it?” Qi Hai shook his head, a lost look in his eyes. “The three founders of immortal dao were human. Why is their creation a dao of all living beings and not of humans? Did those three luminaries betray humanity as well?”

The city lord had no response to that.

“Junior brother, do you recall the rumors of our time?” Qi Hai suddenly asked.

“What rumors?” The city lord blinked.

“The ones about the battle of Emperors Fall,” Qi Hai said woodenly as he looked at the bronze mountain sharpening into focus.

There were fifty million kilometers between the South Sea and Dusk Province, but he could still see the enormous mountain rising from Dusk. This wasn’t testament to how towering it was, but a sign that the laws of immortal dao had imbued it. Mount Xuanhuang was poised to become the sacred mountain of the world of immortals, a landmark infused with laws of the immortal dao and worshipped by all in the world.

Of course, it wasn’t really a sacred mountain yet. It still needed to receive the worship of all beings in the world before it would slowly gain the holiness needed to anchor the world of immortals. With its appearance in Dusk Province, everyone was clear that Lu Yun was ready to create his sacred land.

“Rumors of the battle of Emperors Fall?” The city lord’s heart skipped a beat.

“Before that battle, every great emperor possessed their own great dao and were the representatives of the almighty dao. They were the sovereigns of all living beings,” Qi Hai murmured to himself. “After that battle and the deaths of countless great emperors, someone took their great dao away.”

Trembling violently, the city lord noticed that a corner of the sky had turned a blood red. Terrifying killing intent locked onto Qi Hai and the city lord. If Qi Hai dared continued speaking further, that killing intent would solidify into real action and destroy them both.

Thus, Qi Hai shut his mouth. He lifted his head with a trace of contempt playing on his lips. “Pathetic worms.”

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When the soaring bronze mountain fully materialized, it loomed to the north of Destiny City and reached for the clouds. A blurry halo of blue light shimmered into existence on the mountain, as if an enormous consciousness had descended from the heavens to sink into the landmass and gradually settle down into slumber.

This was the will of the immortal dao.

It had directed the first Sovereign Ranking Battle, but that had been when it was newly awoken and been in a muddled, jumbled state. Another entity had even seized control of it in the end.