Lin Shen happily drank the Dragon Phoenix Soup stewed by his Third Master, Tongtian Jiaozhu.
The little fellow's belly was round and bulging, like a small ball.
After eating for a while, he let out a satisfied, babyish burp.
"Burp~" Then, just as he was about to climb down and play with the "Myriad Phenomena Heavenly Mechanism Box" his Second Master had given him, he heard First Master Taiqing Laozi speak.
"Guests have arrived."
Guests?
Lin Shen tilted his little head, his large eyes rolling around.
Had more kind people come to bring him delicious food and fun toys?
He licked the leftover broth from the corner of his mouth, his little eyes sparkling.
However, his three Masters had entirely different expressions.
"Guests?"
Tongtian Jiaozhu tossed the large iron ladle in his hand into the pot.
Clang!
The tremendous noise shook the entire Yuxu Palace.
He rose to his feet, clapped his hands, and wore a dangerous smile.
"Coming to our door at a time like this, are they here to offer congratulations, or to probe our strength?"
Having just broken through to the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, he was itching for a fight.
He wished some blind fool would deliver himself right to the door.
So he could test the power of the sword technique he had just comprehended.
Yuanshi Tianzun merely glanced beyond Kunlun Mountain.
No emotion could be heard in his voice.
"Those who come with ill intent do not come kindly."
"Still, since they have come, Kunlun Mountain has no reason to shut them out."
Though he said that, the pride engraved in his bones could not be concealed.
They had now attained the Primordial Dao.
The three brothers joining forces—throughout the entire Primordial World, who was there left for them to fear?
Even if Dao Ancestor Hongjun himself arrived, they were qualified to stand on equal footing with him!
"It is the Three Clan Ancestors."
Taiqing Laozi's gaze pierced through boundless void.
He clearly saw everything outside Kunlun Mountain.
He stroked his long beard and revealed a knowing smile.
"It seems they have thought things through."
The Dragon-Phoenix Calamity had been quelled because of Lin Shen.
The Three Pure Ones had then used that opportunity to attain the Primordial Dao.
This string of earth-shattering changes was enough to make any great power of the Primordial World reevaluate his position.
The three former overlords—Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primordial Kirin—had chosen to come together.
Their intentions were obvious.
"The Three Clan Ancestors?"
Tongtian Jiaozhu curled his lip, a hint of disdain on his face.
"These three made a complete mess of the Primordial World and got so many living beings killed."
"Now that they see the tide turning against them, they have come running to cling to our thighs?"
"If not for the fact that my little disciple calmed the calamity, I would have taken up my sword and gone straight to their lairs!"
"To have a proper word with them!"
Tongtian Jiaozhu had no favorable impression of the three chief culprits who had started the war.
"Third Brother, calm yourself."
Yuanshi Tianzun spoke.
"The calamity was part of the Heavenly Dao's workings. The three tribes were also born to undergo it, and they could not help themselves."
"Now that the calamity has passed, their coming to pay respects at the mountain gate shows that they understand the times."
"As Pangu's True Lineage, we should have the tolerance to accommodate others."
Though he also looked down on what the three tribes had done before.
He placed greater importance on status and rules.
Since they had lowered their heads and come, they could not simply be beaten away.
Would that not tarnish Kunlun Mountain's reputation?
"Second Brother is right. They are getting off too easily."
Tongtian Jiaozhu grunted twice, but said no more.
Lin Shen listened from the side, completely confused.
The Three Clan Ancestors?
Were they that pretty big bird with wings?
And that big loach with the long whiskers?
As well as that large dog covered in scales?
He had seen them in the water mirror his Masters had conjured with magic.
They were coming?
Were they bringing presents?
Lin Shen's eyes immediately lit up.
He moved his short little legs and ran to Taiqing Laozi's side.
He tugged at his Daoist robe.
"Yiya? Yaya!"
(First Master, are they bringing delicious food?)
Taiqing Laozi looked down at his little disciple's eager eyes.
He could not help but laugh.
He bent down, picked Lin Shen up, and tapped his tiny nose with a finger.
"You little glutton, you have barely finished eating and you are already thinking about food again."
"Don't worry. They would not dare come empty-handed."
Hearing that, Lin Shen happily kicked his short little legs.
Wonderful!
There would be new snacks again!
The three Masters watched his innocent, carefree appearance.
Their hearts all softened.
Yes, what did it matter who fought for dominance among the three tribes, or what the Primordial World Trend was?
As long as their little disciple could be happy every day, eat well, and drink well, nothing else mattered more.
"Big Brother, how should we receive them?"
Tongtian Jiaozhu asked.
"Should we put on a bit of a display and let them know how formidable we are?"
"There is no need to do so deliberately."
Taiqing Laozi shook his head.
"We have attained the Primordial Dao. Every action and movement is the Dao itself; why would we need to put on airs?"
"Let them wait outside the Mountain Gate."
"Let them properly experience how today's Kunlun Mountain differs from the past."
Taiqing Laozi's voice was calm, yet it carried unquestionable authority.
This was not deliberately making things difficult for them.
It was simply the natural bearing of a Primordial Golden Immortal.
The laws of heaven and earth stirred by their breakthrough had yet to fully settle.
The entire Kunlun Mountain was shrouded in an invisible Primordial Dao aura.
To Grand Unity Golden Immortals, that Dao aura was an insurmountable chasm.
Making them wait outside the mountain would also wear down some of their arrogance.
Meanwhile, outside Kunlun Mountain's Mountain Gate.
Three figures radiating towering might hovered uneasily in midair.
They were Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primordial Kirin, who had rushed all the way from Blood Maple Plain.
Behind them followed a group of high-ranking elders from the Dragon, Phoenix, and Kirin tribes.
Every one of them was a Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
In their hands, they held gift boxes radiating countless rays of auspicious light and soaring treasure aura.
Inside were top-grade heavenly materials and earthly treasures accumulated by the three tribes over countless epochs.
Yet even such a magnificent group, capable of sweeping aside any power in the Primordial World.
Did not dare approach Kunlun Mountain's Mountain Gate at this moment.
"S-So terrifyingly oppressive!"
Ancestral Dragon's enormous body had transformed into a dignified middle-aged man wearing a golden imperial robe.
He stared at the Immortal Qi-shrouded Kunlun Mountain before him.
Cold sweat had actually formed on his forehead.
The Kunlun Mountain before him appeared no different from before.
Yet with his peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal cultivation, he could clearly sense it.
The entire mountain was enveloped by a Dao aura he could neither comprehend nor resist.
That Dao aura stood apart from the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World, forming a world of its own.
He felt that if he took even one more step forward, he would be crushed into dust by that Dao aura.
"Is this... the realm of a Primordial Golden Immortal?"
Yuanfeng's incomparably beautiful face was also filled with shock.
She felt that the Southern Bright Leaving Fire she had always been proud of.
Was like a child's little flame before this Dao aura, utterly insignificant.
"I feel..."
Primordial Kirin's voice was incomparably dry.
"The three of us combined might not even be able to withstand a single finger from any one of those inside."
His heavy Earth Laws.
Were as fragile as a thin sheet of paper before Kunlun Mountain's Primordial Dao aura.
The elders behind the three ancestors were even paler.
Their legs had gone weak, and they did not dare breathe too loudly.
Only then did they truly realize.
Just what kind of terrifying beings they had come to meet.
Just as they were caught between advancing and retreating, their hearts filled with unease.
A lazy voice came from within the Mountain Gate.
"The Masters have commanded that you wait outside the Mountain Gate."
The voice was not loud, yet it clearly reached every person's ears.
Immediately after, a plump Daoist in a gray robe.
Yawned as he slowly walked out from the Mountain Gate.
It was Daoist Duobao, whom Tongtian Jiaozhu had accepted as his eldest disciple and assigned to guard the gate.
Duobao was feeling so good that he was practically in heaven.
He had merely meditated at the Mountain Gate.
Yet he had been bathed in the Primordial Dao aura left behind by his three Masters' breakthrough.
He felt that even his Cultivation Bottleneck had loosened considerably.
The moment he came out, he saw a dark mass of people kneeling outside.
Taking a closer look, he was stunned!
Was that not Ancestral Dragon, leader of the Dragon Clan?
And that breathtakingly beautiful Yuanfeng of the Phoenix Clan!
As well as that huge fellow, Primordial Kirin, from the Kirin Clan!
The three great bosses of the Primordial World were actually kneeling neatly outside his own Mountain Gate?
Duobao felt as though his little heart could barely endure such a thrilling sight.
He cleared his throat.
He did his best to appear calm.
Imitating his Master, he put on an inscrutable expression.
"The three Masters are dining with their little junior brother and have no time to receive guests."
"You can wait here."
After saying that, he ignored the ghost-struck expressions of the three ancestors.
Then he turned and swaggered back through the Mountain Gate.
Leaving the three big shots—Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primordial Kirin—standing there in utter disarray.
D-Dining?
The three supreme beings who had just attained the Dao of the Primordial Unity, their might shaking the prehistoric world—
Were now... accompanying their mysterious little disciple... to eat?
That excuse was far too absurd!
He simply did not take them seriously at all!
Yet they did not dare voice a single complaint.
They could only obediently lead the elders—
And kneel properly outside Kunlun Mountain's gate.
That kneeling lasted three days and three nights.
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