Within Eight Sceneries Palace on Kunlun Mountain.
Chen Song sprawled inelegantly across his personal rocking chair, idly cracking a handful of "charred Five Elements Pine Nuts" whose heat he had just carefully adjusted with Samadhi True Fire.
Beside him, Xuandu, his newly inducted second junior brother, sat upright and proper, palms, soles, and crown facing heaven. He diligently circulated his energy according to the Golden Core Great Dao method Laozi had taught him, his little face flushed red as he tried to grasp that profound and elusive "Innate Primordial Qi."
At the doorway, Big White lay belly-up, snoring like thunder. Drool hung from the corner of its mouth, glittering in the sunlight. It was probably dreaming of frolicking atop the Ginseng Fruit tree at Wuzhuang Temple.
The peaceful, lazy atmosphere was abruptly shattered by a majestic hum that seemed to originate from the very source of heaven and earth in the primordial world!
"Hummm—!"
The sound did not ring in their ears. Instead, it directly shook the Dao Hearts and primordial spirits of every Golden Immortal and above! It was as though the "background rules" of the entire primordial world had been lightly stirred by an invisible hand, becoming more orderly—and more... restrictive.
The pine nuts in Chen Song's hand fell onto his Daoist robe with a patter. He jolted upright, and his divine sense instantly spread out like an unleashed wild dog—while Big White, the actual wild dog beside him, rolled over—probing toward the source of the disturbance.
"Holy shit! What's going on? Did the Heavenly Dao server get an update? Or did some Big Boss slap an 'order' filter onto the primordial world?" he muttered, but what his divine sense "saw" left him stunned.
In the depths of the endless starry sky, the three hundred and sixty-five primordial