Lantern Festival

Seven Luminaries Heaven.

Imperial Capital Changluo.

It was the annual Lantern Festival. Every household hung lanterns and draped decorations, while Kongming lanterns rose into the sky one after another from the twelve wards of Changluo.

Zhong Shenxiu, dressed in white robes, stood at the liveliest spot on the main street, gazing at the bustling splendor of the mortal world.

"After searching for her a thousand times in my dreams, I suddenly turned my head—and there she was, in the dimmest corner of the lantern-lit scene..."

He laughed heartily and looked toward a woman in a red dress wearing a fox mask, teasing her.

"Did my husband guess that it was me?"

The red-dressed fox smiled sweetly and took off her mask. It was none other than County Princess Qingyuan.

Suddenly, Qingyuan felt that something was wrong with her husband across from her.

His aura... seemed to have become even more ethereal and exalted.

Zhong Shenxiu reached out and caught a key in the void, one that seemed to be formed from countless rays of light.

In the next moment, the key exploded with a boom, transforming into specks of shimmering light that sank into his body.

His Dharma Body seemed to become boundlessly enormous in an instant, yet also seemed to compress into a single point, changing nine times in the blink of an eye.

Then, all his Qi Mechanisms sank into dormancy.

Everything had taken place in secret. If the royal family had possessed a Corpse Release Immortal, perhaps they could have sensed something.

But now, they could sense nothing at all.

*I've passed the secondfold pass of the Dharma Body and achieved complete perfection. On top of that, I've digested the Unique Divinity. I can break through to Ancient Immortal at any time... but the disturbance would certainly