Chapter 1010: Qiang Liang (1/2)

Lu Yun and Qing Yu were no closer to an answer even after prolonged joint deduction. Unbidden, Lu Yun thought of the gigantic shadow he’d seen in the river of time, the one that’d obscured all glimpses of the truth.

It didn’t matter anymore how the Dao Tree had supported that shadow. The tree had only been a chess piece in the grand scheme of things.

There were forty-some more years until the World Gates opened, but Lu Yun had yet to reach dao immortal realm. He’d determined how to proceed in his cultivation, yet couldn’t find the last dao palace to complete his plans.

He searched for ten years without coming across any hint of it. Whether the world of immortals or the lower realms, it seemed to have vanished into thin air.

“Has it returned to the chaos?” Lu Yun murmured to himself as he sat at the peak of Mount Xuanhuang.

“The current formula dao is still one of heaven and earth. We can’t calculate anything involving the chaos.” Qing Yu lay in Lu Yun’s arms and grumbled with dissatisfaction, “If only the immortal dao could traverse the chaos as well.”

“If the immortal dao could traverse the chaos?” Lu Yun blinked at his beloved.

“Formula dao is a dao beneath the immortal dao at the end of the day. We have to be physically standing in the chaos to operate it there. If we try from the world of immortals, we’ll never find any answers,” Qing Yu answered matter-of-factly. In a similar situation, they’d only been able to deduce the truth about the Bridge of Forgetfulness because they’d been physically present in the fourth realm.

“In that case, let’s go to the chaos!” Lu Yun shot to his feet and pulled Qing Yu up with him.

“But the world of immortals…” Qing Yu worried. Though the world seemed peaceful at a glance, towering hostility and antagonism suffused it. Many factions irritated against each other and it seemed very possible that large-scale conflict would break out.

“The heavenly court is firmly established in the world of immortals and has become its ruler.” Lu Yun smiled. “The two of us are only symbolic leaders now, the world no longer needs us.”

Eyes widening, Qing Yu gaped with comprehension. She finally understood her dao partner’s true goal. No matter when and no matter how, he’d never given up that fondly cherished dream of leaving all responsibility in someone else’s hands.

Heavenly Emperor Qing Taxian was in residence in the heavenly palace, as well as the four heavenly kings and one Venerated Sacrosanct Immortal King. They were sufficient to maintain order in the multiverse.

Dragons and tigers further abounded in the Dao Academy. Having come into their own, Lu Yun’s ten Yama Kings were unfathomable and mysterious. Without question, they were the strongest aces of the academy.

In addition, there were also eight great emperors and a chaos realm master holding down the fort in the Dao Academy. The remaining supreme pure, jade pure, and grand pure immortals were too numerable to count. These were all great talents who could handle a great many situations by themselves. There was no need for Lu Yun and Qing Yu to worry about anything.

In fact, the couple’s cultivation had fallen behind when compared to everyone else.

Great emperors existed in the world now, but Lu Yun and Qing Yu were respectively a peerless immortal and a High Immortal of the Great Firmament. They… didn’t even count as ants anymore.

Lu Yun was held back due to his lack of a dao fruit, whereas Qing Yu had no idea how to improve herself anymore in the world of immortals. The entire immortal dao was hers; she wouldn’t be able to continue cultivating unless she departed from this realm and absorbed energy from a place not ruled by the immortal dao.

As the dao sovereign of immortal dao, Qing Yu had a hefty price to pay for grasping this great dao.

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“We’ll head to true chaos this time, out of the zone still within the boundaries of the realm. Let’s go see what this real chaos is like. Plus, we’ll have to fight the chaos creatures sooner or later. They know us like the back of their hands, but we still don’t know anything about them or even what they look like.” Lu Yun looked at Qing Yu and squeezed her cheeks firmly.