Swallowing the Seven-Marvel Ink Lotus's Nature, Three Flowers Gather at the Crown

Red lotus, white lotus root, green lotus leaves—the Xuanmen sects across the heavens were no single family.

That much was clear from the reactions of the other Great Thousand Worlds after the Mountain Sea Realm, Panfeng World, and Hengsha World had merged.

The Three Realms united, establishing the central pole. Four Dao-Ruling True Yang cultivators sat within them, casting their projections across the heavens, holding the Great Dao in their hands as they fixed their gaze on the Great Thousand Worlds.

Who among the Divine Path and the Buddhist Sect was not alarmed?

Let alone Xuanmen?

As things stood, everyone could see that after Heavenly Venerable Qingyan and Mingyang Heavenly Venerable, Daoist Lord Kaiyuan of the Tianhe Dao Sect—the foremost Dao-Holding Pure Yang cultivator—was the most likely to reach the Dao-Ruling True Yang realm.

If the Tianhe Dao Sect truly crushed the Tianyuan Sacred Sect's lineage through its own strength, then brought that intact Great Thousand World into the Three Realms' East Heaven, the fortune and merit from such a feat, coupled with aid from the Penglai Dao Sect and Qinghua Dao Sect, might soon make Daoist Lord Kaiyuan the fifth Dao-Ruling True Yang cultivator in the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds: the Heaven-Piercing Kaiyuan Heavenly Venerable!

Three Dao-Ruling True Yang cultivators within Xuanmen would certainly be a dazzling sight across the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds.

But if all three came from the Daoist sects of the Mountain Sea Realm, and from the closely allied Penglai Dao Sect, Qinghua Dao Sect, and Tianhe Dao Sect at that, it would be anything but good news for the other Xuanmen holy lands and orthodox Daoist lineages.

That was why no one had interfered despite the Tianhe Dao Sect's considerable activity over the previous twenty thousand years, yet trouble had dogged it