Chapter 953: Ascension Protocol (1/2)
The Qingfu dao immortals fled the North Sea with their tails between their legs, never daring to set foot in the vicinity ever again. This battle in which a Golden Immortal of Grand Unity, Silverblaze, effortlessly took down an Arcane Immortal of the Nine Heavens shook the world of immortals.
Following the battle, the silvermoon wolves of Levitating Island began their withdrawal. They didn't dare defy their king and the two scarlet apes of the island hadn’t expressed anything either.
Everything remained still and silent on Levitating Island, but Silverblaze’s ringing question had shaken every monster spirit in the world. If the two ancestors could sacrifice their young geniuses for an ideal monster spirit race today, then they could sacrifice the rest of the monster spirits at any time.
Though Levitating Island no longer called itself the monster spirit sacred land, it’d always been the sacred land in the hearts of all monster spirits. However, collective faith wavered in light of recent events. Meanwhile, the monster spirit disciples in the Dao Academy mourned being set adrift in the world.
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In the third month of the twenty-first year in the Xuanhuang Calendar, the Dao Academy officially established the school for monster spirit dao. An unfamiliar name appeared with the formation of the school—Miao.
Shock and disbelief swept through the world with the founding of this new school. There had been demonic and shamanic dao in the academy prior to this, in which disciples walked the path of demons and practiced shamanic arts. However, there’d never been a school for monster spirits before!
The category was too broad and encompassed too many disciplines. The various races within the monster spirit classification were also the most complex within the multiverse. They'd never been unified, even during the age of human dao. Apart from the monster spirit ancestor of the great wilderness that had long been forgotten, even the monster celestial master of the primordial immortal court had never brought the race together.
But now, the Dao Academy dared to style itself as an authority figure for the race and set a nameless monster spirit as its ultimate sovereign! This was a challenge issued to all monster spirits in the world of immortals. The two ancestors of Levitating Island flew into a rage, as did Qingfu Nation of Mist Land regard this development with fury. After the death of their prince, the nation had quietly bided their time in their new territory.
Another tidal wave of change and struggle through the world soundlessly reared its head. Everyone understood that this was the academy's revenge against the Dao Academy. Taking away their legitimacy was worse for the two scarlet apes than even destroying the island.
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Lu Yun didn't pay attention to what was happening in the world; he really didn't have the effort to spare. On this day, he visited the World Gates.
Life thrived and prospered in the world of immortals, but none of that newfound glory or the immortal dao’s magnificence found its way here. The world formed by the World Gates was still drenched in blood and suffused with the air of death. Countless divine corpses littered the ground, and the body of the origin divine lay quietly outside the World Gates.
It’d stolen the opportunity that belonged to the Exalted divine spirits and almost destroyed the immortal dao. Though it had later latched onto the Dao Tree to feed off the immortal dao, its descendants had dedicated their lives to making up for its transgressions.
As the last emperor of the divine race, the origin divine had thoroughly faded away into the void now. However, Lu Yun believed that the origin divine was still alive and hiding somewhere. It must still be plotting other things in the dark.
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A newly repaired immortal dao didn’t affect the nine celestial emperors, Yueshen, Ruyi, or Diexi. Lu Yun took a deep look at the last one in the lineup. Her body was Changxi’s body and her true spirit was the weapon spirit of Changxi’s ultimate treasure—the shortsword Diexi.
The shortsword had been born on the Taiyin Star outside the great wilderness and was thus imbued with its strength. The star’s power could also be found within Diexi’s body as well. If she truly grew into her own, she would reach a higher peak than the previous Changxi.
The celestial emperors weakly opened their eyes and looked at Lu Yun with enormous satisfaction.
“Well done, Lu Yun… We didn’t pin our hopes on the wrong person.” Zhang Fengyang flushed with emotion when he looked at the youth.
On Lu Yun’s last visit, he’d made some preparations, given them karmic fruits, and left Violetgrave behind to stand guard. However, the celestial emperors were but empyrean realm and the dao fruits within their bodies… were all from the old Dao Tree.
In other words, these nine would die at the end of a hundred years, no matter what happened then.
Lu Yun took a tendril of soul force from each of them and carefully stored them within the Tome of Life and Death. “The world of immortals has me. Please be at ease, Your Majesties.”
“I leave the people of Witherdew Major in your hands, headmaster.” The former celestial emperor of Witherdew Major inclined his head at Lu Yun, who nodded back.
The remaining clans and cultivators of Witherdew Major had almost all moved to the capital city of Dusk Province. Lu Yun had nearly occupied the entire major; though there were still pockets of resistance, that handful of immortals wouldn’t change anything.
On the day when the immortal dao spanned the world, however, akasha ghosts had suddenly appeared and taken over the major with incredible speed. Lu Yun’s Infernum suffered heavy casualties in the process, to which he gave up the idea of conquering the major.
The akasha ghosts were too strong and he had no idea what they were planning in Witherdew Major. Since he didn’t have the strength to provoke them yet, he would leave them alone for now.