Chapter 958: Lower Worlds (1/2)
Though the Ascension Pool and Ascension City were both in “Dusk Province” and the four guides were experts from the Dao Academy, that didn’t impede other factions in the world of immortals from taking up residence in Ascension City.
Immortals from the lower worlds continued to stream into the world of immortals, while those in the world of immortals regarded this new frontier with avid curiosity. Now that a connection had been established and stabilized through the Ascension Pool, the battlefields of the lower worlds were prime trial grounds for their juniors and disciples.
In addition, those who ascended from the lower worlds possessed exceedingly high talent, potential, and maturity that rivaled the greatest geniuses of the world. If given further training and carefully nurtured, it was only a matter of time before they developed into unparalleled powerhouses of the world.
Thus, the new visitors to the world of immortals were hot targets that many factions vied over.
There were only two parties that didn’t have representatives in Ascension City nowadays—Levitating Island and Qingfu Nation of Mist Land.
Qingfu Nation once sent representatives to Ascension City, where they’d been promptly slaughtered by Liu Qingmiao and Zou Longxiu. The nation then sent a delegation to the Dao Academy to demand an explanation, but met by Liu Qingmiao and Zou Longxiu again instead of Lu Yun. That party was massacred to the last as well.
The ruler of Qingfu Nation almost went out of his mind with fury. His cultivation level of peak grand pure realm placed him at the apex of the world of immortals, but he could do nothing against the Dao Academy. That person’s sword formation protected Dusk Province. Even great emperors beyond grand pure realm would face death if they attacked Dusk, to say nothing of regular grand pure realm masters.
Meanwhile, the two scarlet apes on Levitating Island didn’t take any action from beginning to end, as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened in the world.
Ascension City grew increasingly lively these days. It was an enormous city that spanned ten thousand kilometers across. Appearing more like a cluster of cities, it stretched on without end.
The center of the city—a thousand meters around the Ascension Pool—was a forbidden zone that no one could access. Only those with the headmaster’s express orders could enter this crucial spot and travel to the lower worlds.
The other factions of the world once resisted this control and attempted to overturn the status quo. A massively allied army attacked the defenses around the Ascension Pool, reinforced by Golden Immortals of Grand Unity and Arcane Immortals of the Nine Heavens.
Lu Yun responded with domineering force and almost dyed the city red to pacify the insurrection. The four guides were also revealed to the world at this time.
After this matter, the world finally realized that though Lu Yun possessed an ambitious vision and willingly shared his knowledge to enemies and friends alike, he was also inordinately unyielding when it came to his principles. He killed people like slicing vegetables—unblinking and without hesitation.
The world of immortals gradually calmed down after these events. Lu Yun was still the master of Dusk Province and the Dao Academy in this new world order. Though Primeval Era experts had awoken from their slumber, they wouldn’t be able to knock him off his perch.
However, there was one detail that everyone overlooked, and that was Lu Yun didn’t put in a personal appearance in all of the tumult. Everything was handled by the sovereigns and deans of the academy.
The Dao Academy now operated on its own like a vast and precise machine. Its operations could still be handled in perfect order even in Lu Yun’s absence. His Yama Kings stepped down from their deanships after finding successors for their positions; they were the ones who’d stepped forward to oversee the developments with Levitating Island and Qingfu Nation.
They hadn’t bothered Lu Yun with their problems, and he was now more of a spiritual leader for the Dao Academy.
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Qing Yu sat at the peak of Mount Xuanhuang, meditating on the Dao Flower in her hands. A joint session of formula dao between Lu Yun and her had surprisingly revealed that her dao fruit was the Dao Flower!
If she could refine the Dao Flower, she would set foot into the dao immortal realm and be the supreme sovereign of immortal dao. As for Lu Yun, his dao fruit was in the lower worlds.
The chaos dao fruit that Fuxi had prepared for him was still growing and removed from the chaos. Time could no longer resolve his problem, so Lu Yun needed to think of another way to break through to the dao immortal realm. Joint efforts between him and his dao partner placed his search in the lower worlds.