Chapter 60 Shangqing Travels to the East Sea
With this assistance, the Dao runes within Feng Zichen's body immediately became clear, flowing continuously through his bones and radiating a profound aura.
As the runes swirled, wisps of purple energy appeared out of thin air, merging into his entire skeleton, gradually transforming it into purple.
When the Yin-Yang Creation Qi was exhausted, Feng Zichen was surrounded by purple light, permeated with the aura of the Dao. His entire skeleton had turned completely purple, shining brilliantly, like purple jade.
"Innate Dao Bones! Half of Pangu's Dao Body?"
After comprehending the changes within himself for a while, Feng Zichen understood. The Yin-Yang Creation Qi was limited, insufficient to transform him into Pangu's Dao Body completely; he could only transform his bones into Innate Dao Bones.
"Is that not enough?" Moving his body to adapt to the sudden surge of power, Feng Zichen stepped towards the sixth level of the Thunder Swamp.
Not enough? No problem, there's still one more Thunder Swamp ahead; passing that should be enough.
Within the sixth layer of Thunder Swamp, lightning transformed into various Dao artifacts—furnaces, towers, bells…—all kinds, pressing down on Feng Zichen.
Sensing the Dao aura carried by these artifacts, Feng Zichen dared not be careless. With a roar, he unleashed his full power, instantly unleashing several great divine abilities to battle the artifacts.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Explosions resounded throughout the arena.
However, while Feng Zichen was battling the artifacts, waves surged again on the East Sea!
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Ever since Nuwa attained sainthood, the Three Pure Ones had been sullen. It was one thing that they couldn't compare to the Dao Ancestor, the first being born in the primordial world, who possessed boundless fortune.
But after the Dao Ancestor, the first to attain sainthood was their junior sister—Nuwa—not the Three Pure Ones. This was something the proud Three Pure Ones couldn't accept.
Therefore, when Nuwa created the Nuwa Heaven, none of the Three Pure Ones went to congratulate her.
Even now, though they knew they would surely become saints, the Three Pure Ones couldn't help but feel anxious. Nuwa had been a saint for tens of thousands of years, yet the three of them hadn't even seen a glimpse of sainthood. What could they do?
In desperation, the three could only wander throughout the primordial world, seeking an opportunity to become saints.
Above the East Sea, the blue waves surged and rippled. A young Daoist walked on the waves, aimlessly strolling across the sea.
"Eh!" Suddenly, the young Daoist let out a soft exclamation, a strange feeling rising within him, as if something was drawing him in.
"Interesting! I never imagined that there would be a treasure in this East Sea that I would be destined for. Truly interesting!"
Intrigued, the Daoist smiled slightly and followed his intuition, heading deeper into the East Sea. His direction was precisely where Penglai Immortal Island was located!
"Hmm? Why do I feel like something is about to happen?"
Meanwhile, on Penglai Immortal Island, Xuanqing, who was in seclusion, suddenly felt uneasy and awoke from his meditation. He couldn't help but frown and begin to calculate with his fingers.
"What's going on? Why can't I deduce anything?"
After calculating for a long time, Xuan Qing felt that the secrets of heaven were in complete chaos, and no matter what methods he used, he couldn't glimpse even a fraction of them. This completely shocked Xuan Qing. With the blessing of the Three Immortal Islands and the Twelve-Petaled Pure White Lotus, he could glimpse something from anyone except the Great Luo Golden Immortal or higher.
Now, he couldn't calculate anything at all. Didn't that mean that a power at the level of a Great Luo Golden Immortal was watching him...?
Thinking this, the Innate Three Talents Array outside the Three Immortal Islands suddenly trembled, erupting with waves of destructive energy that swept in all directions. Startled, Xuan Qing hurriedly went to the array's central core and looked into the array.
A young Taoist priest, clad in a purple robe and wearing a golden crown, surrounded by celestial light, stepped into the Innate Three Talents Formation.
"Who is this person?" Though puzzled by his origins, the Three Immortals Island was of paramount importance, and an outsider could not be allowed to intrude.
Immediately, Xuan Qing leaped into the formation, personally presiding over the Innate Three Talents Formation, pushing its power to its limit, intending to force the Taoist priest out.
As Xuan Qing activated the formation, instantly, the three talents were thrown into chaos, heaven and earth were thrown into disarray, everything was crumbling, and waves of chaotic energy surged forth, engulfing the young Taoist priest.
"Well done!" The Taoist priest, seeing the chaotic energy approaching, was not alarmed but overjoyed.
He flipped his right hand, taking out a cyan sword. With a gentle swing, cyan light flowed across the sword, giving rise to cyan lotus leaves that suppressed the chaotic energy.
"This is..."
Upon the appearance of the azure sword, the twelfth-grade Pure World White Lotus suddenly trembled, revealing an overwhelming excitement, as if it had encountered a long-lost relative.
"The Azure Lotus Sword!" In a flash of memory, Xuan Qing recognized the sword's origin. Instantly, as if struck by lightning, he froze, speechless with shock.
After the shattering of the thirty-sixth-grade Creation Azure Lotus, a supreme treasure of chaos, its main body fell into Mount Buzhou, transforming into the twenty-fourth-grade Creation Azure Lotus, a supreme treasure of innate nature.
This treasure, born from the great fortune of creation, possessed the potential to return to its original state as a supreme treasure of chaos, and was therefore unacceptable to Heaven and Earth. For this reason, the Heavenly Dao deliberately summoned the Three Pure Ones, using the Pangu aura within them to destroy this treasure.
At that time, the Three Pure Ones had only recently been born, merely at the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm. Encountering the twenty-fourth-grade Creation Azure Lotus, they were naturally extremely excited.
However, there was only one supreme treasure, but the Three Pure Ones numbered three; it was unclear who should wield this treasure! Just as the three were in a dilemma, the Pangu imprint within them suddenly vibrated, and a sudden realization dawned on them.
Taiqing Daoist shouted, "Lotus root!" and the lotus root transformed into a coiled dragon-shaped crutch;
Yuqing Daoist shouted, "Red flower!" and the flower of the Creation Green Lotus transformed into the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi; Shangqing shouted, "Lotus leaf!" and the lotus leaf transformed into the Qingping Sword.
These three treasures were the proof treasures of the Three Pure Ones, transformed from the twenty-fourth grade Creation Green Lotus, all top-grade innate spiritual treasures. This
truly proved: red flower, green leaf, white lotus root—the Three Pure Ones were originally one family.
Coming to his senses, Xuanqing looked at the young Daoist wielding his sword light throughout the Innate Three Talents Formation, unable to hide his shock.
This person held the Qingping Sword, and his body was filled with the primordial energy—wasn't this Pangu Shangqing Daoist Tongtian?
Although Xuanqing had long intended to become Shangqing's disciple, the sudden appearance of Shangqing Daoist at his doorstep still made him somewhat flustered.
Within the sixth layer of Thunder Swamp, Feng Zichen was struggling against a Dao artifact when he suddenly received this news, causing him to lose his composure. A Thunder Cauldron seized the opportunity and sucked him in.
Within the cauldron, countless bolts of lightning surged, filled with incomparably intense light, and the sound of rolling thunder echoed, drawing upon the Dao of Thunder.
Fierce refining and suppressing forces surged from all directions, causing Feng Zichen's bones to crack and his body to crumble. If not for his exceptionally strong innate Dao bones, he would likely have shattered.
This Thunder Cauldron was actually intending to refine Feng Zichen alive with the power of heaven and earth and the might of thunder!
(End of Chapter)