The Primordial World.
Mount Kunlun.
"I am Yuqing Yuanshi. Today, I shall establish the Chan Sect. From this day forth, the Chan Sect is established!"
"I am Shangqing Tongtian. Today, I shall establish a sect named Interception. It shall intercept a thread of vitality for all living beings. All are welcome regardless of their kind; anyone with the affinity may enter the Interception Sect. I shall suppress its Fortune with the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation. The Interception Sect is established!"
After Taiqing Laozi established Renjiao and attained sainthood, Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Tongtian followed close behind, attaining sainthood one after another.
Seeing that the Three Pure Ones of the East had all attained sainthood, Jieyin and Zhunti of the West were unwilling to fall behind. They followed the example of the Three Pure Ones, announced their vows to Heaven and Earth, and attained sainthood by making great vows.
Today, five Saints emerged together. Golden lotuses surged from the ground, rosy light filled the sky, and Heaven and Earth trembled.
On Mount Kunlun, outside a Daoist Sanctuary, a white-robed young man watched the scene before him and sighed repeatedly.
"To have the good fortune to witness five Saints emerging together today, my second life hasn't been in vain..."
The young man was named Xian Junyu. He was the first immortal energy in Heaven and Earth to take human form, and the only disciple of the Shangqing Daoist Tongtian.
Of course, he had another identity as well: he was a transmigrator from Blue Star.
Originally, he had been an ordinary office worker in Dragon Country on Blue Star. On the day he went to work as usual, a flash of white light appeared before his eyes, and he arrived here.
Just after successfully taking form, he was brought back to Mount Kunlun by Tongtian, who happened to be passing by, and accepted him as a disciple.
As the first immortal energy to take form since the beginning of the world, his innate foundation and talent were quite good. He had already possessed an Earth Immortal Realm cultivation when he was born.
After Tongtian brought him back to Mount Kunlun, he discovered that the person who had brought him here was the Shangqing Daoist, Sect Master Tongtian. As someone familiar with the plot, he knew even better how tragic the Interception Sect's final fate would be.
But after being brought to Mount Kunlun, he had no choice.
Escape? Escaping from a peak Quasi-Saint was simply seeking death!
Refuse Tongtian and say he did not want to follow him? He would probably die even more miserably.
Xian Junyu knew exactly how capable he was. Sainthood was completely beyond his reach, and he knew he lacked the ability to walk the Primordial Path.
In order to enjoy himself for tens of thousands of years before the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation arrived, he directly chose to lie low. If he could sit, he would never stand; if he could lie down, he would never sit.
In short, he would do whatever was most comfortable.
"Now that Master has attained sainthood, it seems my good days won't last much longer. Sigh... What a miserable fate!" Xian Junyu muttered with a long sigh.
However, while he was mumbling to himself, Tongtian's voice came from afar.
"Yu'er, stop sighing. Come over here for a moment!"
"Yes, Master..."
Xian Junyu answered listlessly.
Thinking that once the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation arrived, he would either be beaten to death and placed on the list, or be taken away to perform hard labor, he instantly lost the energy to do anything.
After arriving at his Master's Daoist Sanctuary,
Xian Junyu immediately clasped his hands and bowed to his Master, who sat high above him.
"Your disciple Xian Junyu pays respects to Master. Congratulations on attaining the Saint's fruit position..."
As he spoke, he forced a faint smile onto his face.
The alarm bells of the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation had already sounded. It would have been strange if he could still be happy.
"You sound so reluctant. There isn't the slightest bit of sincerity!" Tongtian looked helplessly at his only disciple.
His only disciple had already been in the sect for more than a thousand years, yet his cultivation was still at the Mid-Earth Immortal Realm. Compared to when he had first entered the sect, he had only advanced by one minor realm.
As a Primordial Being, his innate foundation and talent were not poor. For an Earth Immortal, advancing from the early stage to the mid stage should have been easy. How could it have taken so many years?
In other words, his disciple had barely cultivated at all during the past thousand years.
"Yu'er, Yu'er, what exactly are you thinking? You won't leave your cave, you don't want Spiritual Treasures, and you refuse to cultivate. After all this time, you're still a little Earth Immortal..."
"If there's anything you're dissatisfied with, tell me. As long as you say the word, I'll satisfy you completely!"
Tongtian spoke gently, without the slightest anger.
After attaining the Saint's fruit position, there were almost no things in this world that he could not accomplish. For this disciple, he was truly willing to go all out.
As long as his disciple asked for something belonging to someone else, he would even abandon a Saint's dignity and seize it for him.
Xian Junyu naturally knew how good his Master was to him. However, what he needed was security, and his Master could not give him that. Once the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation arrived, even his Master would struggle to protect himself.
"Thank you for your affection, Master, but I have no desires. I only want to live out the rest of my life in peace..."
Before Xian Junyu could finish speaking, Tongtian interrupted him and scolded him.
"Nonsense! As cultivators who defy Heaven, what we cultivate is Great Freedom. How can you say you have no desires?"
"If everyone were like you, what would be the meaning of cultivators' existence? You..."
Seeing his disciple lower his head in silence, Tongtian ultimately could not bring himself to finish scolding him.
"Sigh... Forget it, forget it. Let everything follow its course..."
"The Interception Sect has just been established. Before long, people will come to seek discipleship. Go and show them the way..."
Without continuing to reprimand Xian Junyu, Tongtian directly explained why he had summoned him.
As his only precious disciple, he truly could not bear to scold him. If he had not had no choice but to say something, he would not have spoken today.
"Yes, I'll remember that, Master!"
"Sigh... Go on, go..."
After sighing, Tongtian raised his hand slightly and directly sent Xian Junyu away.
At the same time, he began to worry about his disciple. Now that the Interception Sect had been established, many people would certainly come. How would his disciple, with his Earth Immortal cultivation, conduct himself after all these disciples entered the sect?
With Tongtian supporting him publicly, surely no one would say anything. But in private...
"Forget it. We'll take it one step at a time. Perhaps one day Yu'er will figure things out on his own!"
Elsewhere,
In the blink of an eye, Xian Junyu returned to his cave dwelling. Recalling his Master's reprimand, he smiled bitterly and shook his head, then lay down on a reclining chair without the slightest concern.
He thoroughly embodied the meaning of lying low.
So what if he cultivated to Great Luo? So what if he cultivated to Quasi-Saint? Unless one became a Saint, one would remain an ant. Besides, even his Master, a Saint, had been schemed against during the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.
Rather than waste time only to be schemed against and killed in the end, he might as well enjoy the present. If he could enjoy himself for ten thousand years, then he would enjoy himself for ten thousand years.
Although his Master had given him a task, he still had time to relax for now. The five Saints had all established their Daoist Lineages, and those who wanted to become disciples of a Saint had to consider whose sect to join.
Besides, reaching Mount Kunlun would take time. It was not as if one could arrive immediately just because one wanted to.
At present, he could only rest for a few days. It probably would not be long before someone came knocking.
At the same time, far away, the rogue cultivator Daoist Duobao also began considering becoming a disciple under a Saint.
"As a rogue cultivator without any backing, traveling through the Primordial World is far too difficult. If I had a Saint behind me, everything would be much safer!"
"However, now that five Saints have emerged together, choosing which Saint to become a disciple under is another problem..."
"The two Saints of the Western Lands live in a region that is far too barren, so there's no need to consider them. As for the other three, all of them are good choices!"
Duobao still had not decided which Saint to become a disciple under, but he did not consider Jieyin and Zhunti at all.
The other three Saints were all on Mount Kunlun. He decided to go to Mount Kunlun first and think about the rest later.
Green Lotus, White Lotus Root, lotus leaves—the Three Pure Ones had originally been one family. Since they were all family, it made little difference whose discipleship one entered.
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