On this day.
Mount Wuyi.
Atop the Peak of Dazang on the main range.
Xuanjian stood atop the mountain peak.
The environment around him shifted rapidly. The thirty-six peaks, ninety-nine crags, Nine-Bend Stream, Danxia landforms, and immortal realm of Mount Wuyi were swiftly replaced by an expanse of pitch-black darkness.
Xuanjian felt as if he had been pulled into a realm of void.
Nothing existed; all things were absent.
Yet at that moment, the gurgling sound of flowing water trickled softly, drawing near from afar until it grew clear.
The trickling water of time, flowing from an unknown realm, soon washed over Xuanjian's feet.
The river of time surged from behind Xuanjian, passed beneath his feet, and rushed onward into the distance.
This was the Long River of Time, also known as the River of Time.
The River of Time that belonged to Xuanjian.
Behind him represented the past.
Before him represented the future.
And where he stood now represented the present.
Looking back, the past was visible.
Looking ahead, the future was shrouded in heavy mist.
Xuanjian exhaled softly. The Five Elements Qi in his chest had long reached great perfection, and his Dao foundation was firmly laid. At this instant, the Five Elements Ascended to the Origin, and three flowers condensed and bloomed atop his head.
The Heaven Flower, the Earth Flower, and the Human Flower.
Only when the three flowers unified did they form the Daluo Dao Flower.
As for blooming into three, nine, or twelve petals, the moment Xuanjian truly set foot in the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, he understood there were no such convoluted twists. From beginning to end, there was only one type of Daluo Dao Flower.
Whether one could achieve a higher realm in the future depended entirely on their own comprehension and fortune regarding their Dao.
If you could, you could.
If you couldn't, you couldn't.
How could anyone determine the final endpoint of a person's Dao path at a glance just by looking at the grade of their three flowers?
The Daluo Dao Flower appeared; the Daluo Golden Immortal realm was achieved.
At this very moment, he attained Daluo!
The Daluo Dao Flower atop Xuanjian's head drifted down, landing on the River of Time and sending ripples across its surface.
Xuanjian's Daluo Dao flowed upstream and downstream, piercing through ancient times and reaching into the future, imprinting itself upon heaven and earth, leaving behind the traces of his Dao within the universe!
So long as his Dao did not perish, Xuanjian would not die.
Only now did Xuanjian truly witness the terrifying reality of a Daluo Golden Immortal.
The Daluo Dao Flower was the beginning, the mark of just entering the Daluo realm.
The Daluo Dao Fruit was great perfection, the symbol of cultivating the Daluo realm to completion.
To completely obliterate a Daluo Golden Immortal, two things were required:
First: Erase the opponent's Daluo Dao Flower or Daluo Dao Fruit.
Second: Scatter the traces of their Dao imprinted across heaven and earth.
So long as either of these two remained, the fallen Daluo Golden Immortal possessed the possibility of returning to life.
“Is this what a Daluo Golden Immortal is?”
As Xuanjian opened his eyes, the surrounding boundless void slowly faded away, and the River of Time beneath his feet receded as if it had never existed.
Feeling the seemingly infinite Daluo immortal force within his body—that wondrous, grand power of mastering time and space with a single hand—Xuanjian couldn't help but feel his heart surge with emotion. “Truly wondrous... and truly hard to kill.”
At this moment, Xuanjian was at the early stage of the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
However, equipped with his array of Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures and an Acquired Supreme Virtue Treasure, Xuanjian was confident in his ability to fight a mid-stage or even late-stage Daluo to a draw relying on his own power!
What if he encountered a supreme powerhouse at Daluo Great Perfection or above?
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After familiarizing himself with the Daluo realm, Xuanjian pinched his fingers to divine what had transpired during his seclusion.
“Have all the Innate Sacred Beings already set out?”
“Makes sense. The end of a yuanhui is approaching; it really is time to depart.”
“Hehehe, so none of you are around anymore, huh? Then Honghuang is my home turf!”
Thinking about what he was going to do next, Xuanjian showed a cunning grin.
“Scavenge!”
“Scavenge with everything I've got!”
“I won't even leave them a scrap of ground!”
Xuanjian only said he wouldn't steal treasures that belonged to others, but he never said he'd turn a blind eye to unowned items.
“I remember the Innate Gourd Vine and the Innate Four Elements Plantain Tree are both on Mount Zhou. My first stop will be Mount Zhou, then.”
Xuanjian thought to himself.
“It just so happens that the Wu tribe has strength in numbers. They can help me conduct a sweep of the mountain.”
With that thought, Xuanjian set off for the Wu tribe's territory near Mount Zhou.
Before attaining Daluo, Xuanjian could only travel by flying.
Not only did it take time and energy, but the speed and efficiency were also painfully slow.
Now, things were different.
Once one attained the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, they transcended time and space, jumped out of the Five Elements, and naturally mastered the power of time.
Xuanjian brought up his own timeline, located the time node corresponding to his arrival at Mount Zhou, and used the power of temporal sequence to make a targeted jump, arriving instantaneously.
However, Xuanjian did not traverse physical space or consume the flow of time. Instead, he used his authority over temporal sequence to anchor a past moment. The current temporal sequence of the world froze for him; without expending years or time, he naturally accomplished his goal of instantaneous arrival.
Of course, this was merely the most plain and unadorned way for a Daluo Golden Immortal to travel.
Other methods were equally fast.
Arriving at Mount Zhou.
He landed directly outside Pangu Hall.
After a full yuanhui, the “elderly gatekeepers” outside Pangu Hall had finally changed.
Xingtian and Kuafu were absent.
The ones guarding Pangu Hall now were Da Yi and Da You.
Xuanjian had met these two Arch-Witches before.
Back then, to make it easier for Xuanjian to move around the Wu tribe, the Twelve Ancestral Witches had summoned all the Arch-Witches under their command to familiarize themselves with Xuanjian's face.
“Greetings, Arch-Witches. I hope you've been well,” Xuanjian greeted with a smile as he appeared.
“Ah, so it's Ancestral Witch Xuanjian! Long time no see! We heard from Xingtian that you left previously to hunt for treasures. Did you harvest anything? Do you need our Wu tribe's help?”
Da Yi and Da You looked over, and Da Yi spoke with a smile.
Xuanjian replied, “I've already obtained the treasure, but I truly do need your help with something else.”
“Oh?” Da You grew interested, his tiger-like eyes widening as fierce authority billowed from him. “What kind of help? Is it a battle? Or revenge? Speak up, Ancestral Witch Xuanjian! Your business is the Wu tribe's business. I'd like to see who dares to provoke our Wu tribe!”
“No.”
Xuanjian shook his head with a gentle smile. “The favor I need from you this time is still treasure hunting.”
“The place is right here on Mount Zhou.”
“Treasure hunting again?”
Hearing this, the eager Da You felt deflated, and the fierce authority exuding from him faltered.
“What are you getting so excited for? Even if it were a battle, it wouldn't have anything to do with you or me,” Da Yi scoffed. “Don't forget our shift has just begun. Neither of us can leave Pangu Hall even a single step during this yuanhui.”
Da You muttered, “I don't need you to remind me.”
Da Yi stopped paying attention to Da You and looked back at Xuanjian. “Ancestral Witch Xuanjian, the twelve Ancestral Witches have emerged from seclusion. You can discuss this matter with them in detail.”
“Very well.”
Xuanjian nodded and turned toward the nearest tribe, the Houtu tribe.
“So boring... Let me fight you, Da Yi,” Da You said, bored out of his mind.
Da Yi replied, “Stop fooling around.”
...
Before long, Xuanjian arrived before Houtu.
“Brother Xuanjian, you've broken through?”
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