The Pressure Fell on Eastern Kunlun

When Zhou Qingqing heard Supreme Pure Laozi say that consciousness had been born within the Creation Azure Lotus,

she instantly became fully alert.

Hearing that she could not be killed, Zhou Qingqing wept with joy.

Sob, sob... I finally survived.

Supreme Pure old man—forget it, I won't call you old man anymore. You saved my life today. Once I take form, I'll recite a few passages from the Dao De Jing for you as repayment.

Something like, "The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name." I'll secretly tell you a few lines, at least.

Supreme Pure Laozi's eyes narrowed slightly.

At first,

he had been rather pleased to hear the Creation Azure Lotus's inner thoughts.

After all, being ranked first among the Three Pure Ones by her was quite gratifying.

But Zhou Qingqing's following words made it impossible for him to remain calm.

Especially that line she intended to tell him after taking form: "The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name."

Though it was merely twelve simple words,

they resounded in his heart like morning bells and evening drums.

The more carefully he savored them, the more they seemed to contain countless mysteries of the Great Dao.

After hearing that one line, he desperately wanted to hear what came next.

Unfortunately, after Zhou Qingqing finished reciting it, her thoughts drifted elsewhere. She had no intention of continuing.

The formerly smug Supreme Pure Laozi was so frustrated he nearly coughed up blood.

He desperately wanted to ask Zhou Qingqing about the rest of the Dao De Jing.

But the three brothers had already agreed not to reveal that they could hear her inner thoughts. As the eldest of the Three Pure Ones, he absolutely could not be the one to break that agreement.

Seeing the corners of his elder brother's eyes twitch wildly and his mind unsettled,

Jade Pure Yuanshi's heart stirred, and he knew that his brother must have been moved by the Dao De Jing.

And now,

was his opportunity.

"Elder Brother speaks wisely. The Creation Azure Lotus is a twenty-four-petal innate supreme treasure, and for it to give birth to spiritual consciousness is indeed difficult. Since that is the case, we might as well bring it back to Eastern Kunlun and nurture it carefully, allowing her to take form."

Oh, Jade Purity knows what he's doing too. He finally said something sensible. I won't call you disgusting anymore—you're still that handsome hunk.

It's already difficult for pure spiritual roots in the Primordial World to take form. Counting them all, there are fewer than five.

Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti in the west came from an Innate Bitter Bamboo and an Ancient Bodhi Tree respectively, and they're only top-grade innate spiritual roots.

I may have had some luck involved, but I'm still a twenty-four-petal Creation Azure Lotus, an innate supreme treasure—an entire level above them! Of course it's harder, okay?

Hearing that Zhou Qingqing no longer called him disgusting in her heart,

Yuanshi Heavenly Venerate smiled as though his plan had succeeded.

He, Jade Purity, was imposing and dignified, carrying natural majesty even without anger. Being called disgusting all day was truly unbearable.

Now, he had decisively acted while his elder brother was distracted.

Sure enough, he succeeded in one stroke, completely reversing his image and escaping the category of being gross.

However,

Zhou Qingqing's next words immediately dragged him back to reality.

The western region of the Primordial World

was a place the Three Pure Ones had never set foot in.

During the Dragon-Han Calamity, the Three Pure Ones had instinctively sensed unknowable danger in the west.

Later, the western spiritual veins had exploded, triggering changes in the celestial phenomena across the entire Primordial World. The Three Pure Ones could only be said to know next to nothing about the western region.

Yet Zhou Qingqing had immediately named the two western Daoists and even identified their origins.

Based on this information alone, what Zhou Qingqing said actually seemed as though it might truly be... true.

Seeing his second brother suddenly fall silent as well,

Tongtian was helpless.

Fortunately, his elder and second brothers were both top experts in the Primordial World. Otherwise, such obvious changes would have long since made the little girl before them suspicious.

As the third brother, he naturally had to cover for his two brothers.

With a thought,

a strand of Shangqing Qi slowly condensed from the void and transformed into the shape of a divine sword. Sword qi swept forth, severing the Creation Azure Lotus from its lotus stem on Mount Buzhou.

As his mana surged, he placed the twenty-four-petal Creation Azure Lotus upon his palm and nourished it with his mana, preventing its spiritual qi from leaking away.

Sword immortal.

Sure enough, men who wield swords are all this elegant.

Even such a casual strand of sword qi has this kind of bearing. I'm looking forward to seeing him wield the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords.

What a pity. In the end, such a man won't even have a single sword. What a failure...

Upper Pure Tongtian pressed his lips together.

He was quite pleased by Zhou Qingqing's approval of the sword Dao.

Moreover, from the girl's thoughts, he learned that he would obtain the most supreme divine swords in the Primordial World.

But before he could imagine his own magnificence, the little girl said he would not even have one sword left. That turn was even more severe than anything his two brothers had suffered.

He truly wanted to ask one question.

As Upper Pure Tongtian, who would dare seize the sword in his hand? And who could seize the sword in his hand?

Were they tired of living, huh???

Upper Pure Tongtian now truly understood how his two brothers felt.

By now,

even Tongtian had become deeply interested in the Creation Azure Lotus before him.

"The Four Immortal-Slaying Swords?"

"I'd like to see whether swords with such an overwhelmingly powerful name will fall into my hands."

Tongtian's gaze sharpened as he looked at the twenty-four-petal Creation Azure Lotus resting in his hand, battle intent rising in his heart.

Each of the Three Pure Ones had their own thoughts.

At this point, they truly did not care much about the spiritual treasure the Creation Azure Lotus would become.

Compared to a so-called top-grade innate spiritual treasure, they cared far more about the information Zhou Qingqing had inadvertently revealed.

Though she had only leaked a few scattered clues so far,

even those scraps had filled them with the desire to investigate further.

Eastern Kunlun.

This is a good place too.

The ancestral vein of the Primordial World. I hope the Three Pure Ones are capable enough—don't let me end up worse off than I was on Mount Buzhou.

Oh, right. I remember that Queen Mother of the West at Western Kunlun has water from the Heavenly Pool. Eastern Kunlun should be about the same as Western Kunlun, right?

"..."

The Three Pure Ones had still been lost in thought.

They had not expected the little girl before them to already be thinking about life in Eastern Kunlun.

She not only knew that Western Kunlun was Queen Mother of the West's sacred ground,

she even knew that it had a Heavenly Pool.

After all,

the Three Pure Ones had lived beside Queen Mother of the West for so long, yet they had never known that such a thing existed in her sacred ground.

Now that the little girl was comparing Eastern Kunlun with Western Kunlun, if it truly fell short, it would seem as though the Three Pure Ones themselves were somehow lacking.

At that instant,

the pressure on the Three Pure Ones skyrocketed.