For a Thousand Years, the Celestial Masters' Mansion Saw No Trace of a Heavenly Master. Today, That Trace Finally Saw Me!
That night, Longhu Mountain returned to silence.
Chen Du silently returned the Celestial Master Deputy Seal to its original place without alerting anyone.
The ceremony has ended, and the mountain breeze blows through the empty Patriarch Hall, leaving only the eternal lamps still swaying gently.
He returned to his small courtyard and sat cross-legged inside the house.
The various lost Celestial Masters' Mansion arts techniques he had acquired over the years flowed through his mind like water.
The Golden Light Mantra, the Divine Sky Five Thunders, the Feathered Immortal Scripture, the Prison-Subduing Great Method, the Seven-Turn Divine Art, the Ninefold Annihilation True Thunder, the Dao-Suppressing True Scripture, and dozens of other Daoist techniques that, while not reaching the Eighth Realm, each possessed their own profound mysteries, were all awakened from the depths of his memory that very night.
You begin to refine all that you have learned in your life; you no longer contemplate them separately, but break them down into the most fundamental Dao Resonance and laws.
Golden light forms the body, five thunderbolts the application, swordsmanship the edge, stars the array, the Dao of Suppression the heart, and the Cleansing of the Spirit the root. The Celestial Masters' Mansion's ten-thousand-year-old tradition originates from the same source. Now, these dozens of lost Daoist techniques are re-converging in your sea of consciousness, like ten thousand streams flowing into the sea, naturally giving rise to a magnificent aura.
[You use your own Heavenly Master Position Rank as a furnace, gradually imprinting the essence of the Celestial Master's Way into every Daoist technique. Martial Arts]
The framework of the classic unfolds in your consciousness, weaving all the insights of the Celestial Master Realm into a brand new chapter.
You are no longer just a practitioner, but a creator. You have begun to write your own Celestial Master Daoist teachings for this Ninth Tier world.
You take the "Grand Pure Heavenly Master Dao-Subduing True Scripture" as the general outline, and run the true meaning of the word "zhen" throughout the book. You use the Tao to suppress the Tao, use yourself to Divine Status the law, and use your position to suppress the heaven. You incorporate the "Taiqing Yuhua Dengzhen Celestial Master Baodian" into it as the foundation of the "Celestial Master Body". You transform the "Dragon-Tiger Heavenly Script Seven-Turn Divine Art" into the "Seven Transformations".
You have refined the "Divine Firmament Nine Annihilation Purple Extreme True Thunder Great Method" to the extreme of killing, and integrated the Golden Light Mantra and the Five Thunders Orthodox Method into two sides of the same coin: protection and attack.
You further incorporated the Seven-Star Dipper-Stepping, Dragon-Tiger Sword Dao, Northern Emperor Demon-Subduing, and Cloud-Water Heart Cleansing into all of them, either as techniques, mental cultivation methods, formations, or spiritual practices.
[Overnight, the first chapter of the "Martial Canon: Celestial Master" was completed. This was a complete path leading directly to the end of the Heavenly Master Realm, and also a grand fusion of the lost Daoist techniques of the Celestial Masters' Mansion.]
[Your cultivation level moves accordingly, from the Middle Stage the Heavenly Master Realm to the Late Stage. You can feel that vague, higher realm is opening up to you.]
Your Heavenly Master Position Rank within you also surged at this moment, like a second ascension after the Heavenly Gate opened, reaching the farthest reaches, far exceeding the height that an ordinary Heavenly Master Realm should possess.
Chen Du slowly opened his eyes, and two tiny golden rays seemed to fall into the depths of his pupils, flashing and disappearing in an instant.
From this moment on, his strength crossed another invisible threshold, Late Stage the Heavenly Master Realm!
He had spent decades on Longhu Mountain, and only tonight did he finally begin to resemble a true Celestial Master.
He closed his eyes, regulated his breathing for a moment, and then resumed his old servant's appearance.
It was still dark outside, and the mountain breeze gently tapped on the windowpane, as if softly asking: Who are you?
Chen Du did not answer.
He simply pulled up the thin blanket and slowly lay down.
Tomorrow morning, I still need to sweep up the fallen leaves in front of the hall.
The following night, Chen traversed the layers of corridors, avoiding the patrolling disciples, and once again arrived at the place where the Heavenly Master Divine Seal was kept.
Deep within the Patriarch Hall, atop the nine-tiered jade platform, the divine seal remains covered by yellow silk, as still as an ancient jade piece submerged at the bottom of a deep pool.
But today, even before he got close, he could already sense that the aura emanating from the seal was much stronger than before.
The breath was neither hurried nor forceful, yet it rose and fell gently with his steps, as if waiting for him.
Chen Du walked to the jade platform but did not immediately reach out.
He first activated his two great talents, attempting to touch the divine seal with [Become a God on the Spot] and [The World as a Book]. However, the seal resembled a silent god, its Dao Resonance as profound as the sky and the sea. He tried three times, but couldn't even lift a corner of it.
He was not surprised. The Heavenly Master Divine Seal was left by the first Celestial Master and was formed from the Dao power of the Ninth Realm Grand Heavenly Master. It was something that he could not move with his current talent.
But he no longer needs those two paths.
He slowly extended his right hand and placed it on the Heavenly Master Divine Seal.
At that moment, the entire Celestial Masters' Mansion awoke.
A thick, golden beam shot into the sky from the Patriarch Hall, illuminating the entire Longhu Mountain as bright as day.
In the golden light, the roars of dragons and tigers resounded simultaneously. All the trees in the mountains bowed low, birds took flight in fright, and even the earth seemed to be awakening a dragon that had been sleeping for ten thousand years.
Lord Zhou Xuanzhen sat bolt upright in bed with a start, rushing out the door without even putting on his shoes.
Several immortals, elders from various halls, and disciples from the entire mansion were all alarmed by this strange phenomenon and rushed out of the house.
They looked up toward the direction of the Patriarch Hall and saw a pillar of golden light rising into the sky, breaking through the clouds and revealing a sea of rosy light that surged endlessly.
"That is... the Heavenly Master Divine Seal!" Zhou Xuanzhen's voice trembled.
"Someone is activating the divine seal! How is that possible!" Zhang Shouyi burst into tears.
"Who is it? Who is it?" someone murmured, but no one answered.
Everyone was frozen in place, staring at the golden light filling the sky, feeling both surprised and delighted, yet also afraid that it was all just a dream.
For so many years, the Celestial Masters' Mansion has not produced Celestial Master.
The divine seal, dormant for thousands of years, has finally shone brightly today.
Within the golden light, one after another, extraordinary phenomena of the Celestial Masters appeared.
Auspicious purple clouds rise from the east, swirling and rolling. Golden-armored generals stand on the clouds, while flocks of white cranes fly around the mountains.
At the very center are a dragon and a tiger, coiled together in a pattern, roaring at each other, as if announcing to the world: the Celestial Master has reappeared.
The extraordinary phenomenon was so magnificent that even ordinary people outside the mountains witnessed it.
Some people knelt down and kowtowed, while others cried out that the Celestial Master had appeared to them.
Inside the Patriarch Hall, Chen Du still kept his eyes closed.
The Heavenly Master Divine Seal beneath his palm resembled a slowly awakening heart, golden light pouring out from between his fingers, turning the yellow silk into a crimson gold.
He was as calm as if he were standing in the eye of a golden storm.
Today, at Longhu Mountain!
For a thousand years, no trace of the Celestial Masters' Mansion has been seen at the Celestial Master's Mansion; Celestial Master trace!
The golden patterns on the divine seal shone brightly once more.
The golden light, though intense, only surged within the palace walls.
Although the Celestial Master's extraordinary phenomenon was vast, it seemed to be held down by an invisible hand. All the rosy clouds, the phantom images of dragons and tigers, and the purple and golden clouds all surged back like a tide at the moment they reached their highest point, and were completely submerged in the Patriarch Hall.
The light didn't leak out even a sliver outside of Longhu Mountain.
Outside the mountains, the night remained deep and the wind was calm.
The strange phenomenon lasted for about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn before slowly dissipating.
The crowd remained standing outside the hall, as if in a dream.
After a long while, someone shouted, "Quickly, go check on the divine seal!"
Zhou Xuanzhen and the other immortals seemed to awaken from a dream, and practically tumbled and crawled into the hall.
But when they broke into the innermost layer and their eyes all fell on the nine-tiered jade platform, everyone was stunned.
The jade platform is still there, the yellow silk is still there.
But the Heavenly Master Divine Seal has disappeared.
The faces of the several masters turned completely pale. The Heavenly Master Divine Seal was the lifeblood of the Celestial Masters' Mansion, a supreme sacred object left behind by the first Celestial Master.
Losing it is no different from digging up one's ancestral grave.
This is an unforgivable crime, one that the entire Celestial Masters' Mansion's Mansion cannot bear.
"Lord! The seal... the seal is gone!" Zhang Shouyi's voice trembled, even his fingertips were shaking.