Gains +380,000 Years of Daoxing, Senior Disciple Brother's Sermon is This Fierce, Imagine What the Teacher's Would Be Like?

Serene Peak.

Immortal light blazed, Dao resonance drifted ethereally.

A massive willow tree radiated an emerald glow, swaying in the wind.

Beneath the tree.

A hundred people sat on the open ground.

They listened with rapt attention to the youth facing the crowd as he preached the Dao.

When this Youth in Black preached, heavenly flowers rained down and golden lotuses sprang from the earth, while an ineffable, transcendent aura of the Great Dao swirled around him.

As he preached.

His voice boomed like a great bell, shaking the nine heavens and ten lands.

Immortal light radiated from his body.

Around him, phantom shadows of the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws flickered faintly, and behind his head, a divine wheel seemed to manifest. Within that wheel, countless universes across the Ganges River trembled and sang, drawing a precious light from heaven and earth to descend here.

Every word he spoke was like a heavenly rule or earthly decree; his words followed the law, and even a single syllable could cause the Laws to materialize.

His speech and teachings stirred resonance from heaven and earth, causing boundless auspicious signs to descend.

Such a sight.

If anyone claimed this wasn't a great cultivator preaching the Dao.

Even the Great Peng Bird wouldn't dare believe it!!

Just by entering the Dojo.

One felt an impatient heart quickly calm.

The Spiritual Platform grew clear.

Any turmoil in the mind settled, and one swiftly entered a meditative state, with even a chance of stepping into the unity of heaven and man!!

This was the great cultivator using his own comprehension of the Great Dao Laws to draw down heaven and earth's response.

Allowing everyone in the Dojo to more seamlessly integrate and understand the Dao.

It was like a sage preaching the Dao—heavenly flowers raining, golden lotuses surging from the earth, boundless auspicious light and the Great Dao Spiritual Charm descending, letting listeners rapidly enhance their insight, nature, and grasp of the Dao, awakening intelligence in all things of heaven and earth, and possessing all manner of divine effects!

"But even ordinary Great Luo among the Phoenix Clan can't reach this step. Is Master really this formidable? To have such means?"

The Great Peng Bird was utterly shaken.

After just two sentences, he felt a sudden clarity, as if a light had dawned.

Even though the lecture was only on the Celestial Immortal Path.

Yet it was dissected and analyzed from a far deeper level, giving him a profound new understanding of even Celestial Immortals.

"A Celestial Immortal sublimates the self, unique through the ages, gaining heaven and earth's recognition, able to channel the power of heaven and earth..."

The Great Peng Bird took a deep breath.

Just silently reciting two lines, his realm loosened.

This was Master's extraordinary skill!!

He quietly slipped into the back of the crowd, sat down cross-legged, and listened.

Every disciple present was utterly entranced.

Even the most restless Wuzhiqi didn't notice the Great Peng Bird's return; all were completely absorbed in listening to the Dao.

Qingyuan, however, cast a subtle, unnoticed glance at the Great Peng Bird.

Then he withdrew his gaze.

And continued preaching.

Qingyuan's lectures did not restrict who could come.

Thus, some Jie Sect Disciples familiar with Serene Peak dared to attend.

Time flowed swiftly.

On Serene Peak, the great river surged eastward, idle clouds cast shadows over the river, willow branches swayed in the wind through long seasons, spring passed and autumn came, summers came and went...

Unnoticed, several hundred years slipped away like sand through fingers.

Over these centuries.

Because Serene Peak's Dao resonance was vast and its Immortal Light dazzling, it drew the attention of many Jie Sect Disciples, who speculated about what was happening inside.

But most disciples dared not approach.

Fearing they might offend this overwhelmingly dominant Senior Disciple Brother of the Jie Sect.

Only the bold and simple-minded dared enter the Dojo to listen to the Dao and gain a share of fortune.

Unfortunately.

The vast Jie Sect had nearly eight thousand members.

More than half had witnessed the wonders of Serene Peak's dojo, yet fewer than one in ten dared enter to listen to the preaching.

Even so.

Hundreds of figures sat within the dojo, utterly absorbed in the Golden Immortal Great Dao teachings, the Five Elements Great Dao Law, and the methods of alchemy, formations, and body refinement—listening with such rapt fascination that they forgot time entirely.

Their focus was ten times more intense than when listening to Sect Master Tongtian preach.

Suddenly.

Qingyuan withdrew the Great Dao Incense Burner.

He said calmly, "Everyone, I have preached for three hundred and seventy-five years. Today, the preaching ends!"

The Great Dao Incense Burner vanished.

The Preaching Function was also lifted.

This jolted the three hundred-plus Jie Sect disciples present from their enlightenment.

Some showed joy, clearly having gained something.

Others shook their heads in regret, as if they had been a hair's breadth from breaking through.

Daze, admiration, awe, fear, stupor, clarity, resentment, sorrow, joy...

All manner of emotions could be seen on the faces of the Jie Sect disciples.

Seeing this.

Qingyuan fell silent.

Was this perhaps the very scene his master Sect Master Tongtian witnessed when teaching the myriad paths of all beings?

[Ding! Host has preached for three hundred and seventy-five years. Preaching concluded. Settling...]

[Settlement complete. Rewarding host with 380,000 years of Daoxing, Five Elements Law +2%, Innate Spiritual Root Immortal Apricot *1, Chaos Divine Material *1. Host, keep up the good work!]

Boom!

In an instant.

Qingyuan fully stepped into Golden Immortal Middle Stage. The terrifying pressure radiating from him swept through like a gale, forcing the disciples all around to lower their heads!!

Such momentum.

Even the Great Peng Bird changed color.

His master had only just entered Golden Immortal Middle Stage.

Yet why did facing him feel like facing cultivators who had long dwelled in Golden Immortal Late Stage or even Golden Immortal Peak—as if he were facing a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal?

If he were to fight his master again, he felt he would be easily subdued...

It wasn't just the Great Peng Bird.

Golden Spirit Holy Mother, Wudang Holy Mother, and the many Jie Sect disciples present.

Felt the same in their hearts.

Just how strong was Senior Disciple Brother, that he gave them a sense of never being able to overcome him?

"Junior Sister Golden Spirit, Junior Sister Wudang, your Daoxing surpasses mine. My preaching may have been riddled with errors. I beg your pardon."

Qingyuan clasped his hands to the two, his face full of shame.

Little did he know.

Hearing this, Golden Spirit and Wudang's faces twisted with bitterness.

Senior Disciple Brother, are you mocking us? We gained more from your preaching than from Master's. The essence you spoke of went straight to the source, unlike Master's teachings, which were so profound and misty, like looking at flowers through fog...

"Senior Disciple Brother, you jest. Your preaching benefited us greatly. We found no errors at all."

The two Jie Sect direct disciples shook their heads.

Qiushou Xian, Piluxian, and other elite outer disciples of the Jie Sect also shook their heads and sighed. "Senior Disciple Brother, you truly have a knack for preaching. If we didn't know Master had moved his preaching to three thousand years from now, we'd think he was here teaching in person!"

"Yes, Senior Disciple Brother, what you said went straight to the source. A single point and we understood."

"Honestly, I feel the same. I think Master's teachings are too profound..."

Many Jie Sect disciples chimed in with chatter.

They had all been drawn by the extraordinary celestial phenomena of Serene Peak and entered the dojo to listen to Qingyuan's preaching.

"You all flatter me. It's not that exaggerated. Compared to Master, I am but a speck of insignificant firefly light, while Master is the boundless, eternal blazing sun!"

Qingyuan gave a bitter laugh.

How could he know.

Sect Master Tongtian, born from Pangu's Primordial Spirit, had been a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal from birth.

Though his Daoxing was unfathomable, making him a Heavenly Dao Saint.

He had never personally experienced the realms below Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal. He could see and understand those realms from a god's perspective.

But how could the disciples grasp such lofty profundities?

It's like mathematics.

Someone who has never learned addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division hears another person say that multiplying this number by that number, then adding this number, subtracting that number, and dividing by this number will give the answer—but how would they know what addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division even are?

What's more, Sect Master Tongtian has always only lectured on Daoist methods.

It's like only teaching the formula, without explaining the deep principles or giving examples and analysis.

He finishes and leaves.

He never says more than necessary.

And who would dare ask a sage a question they themselves couldn't understand?

But Qingyuan has personally experienced it all, possessing a profound understanding of lower realms.

Coupled with a thread of the Great Dao's origin bestowed by the Preaching Function.

The teachings he gives are simple and easy to understand!!

At the dojo.

Many Jie Sect disciples who had come to listen were chattering excitedly.

"As expected of the Senior Disciple Brother, the methods he taught are really good—I already know how to use Water Escape! Next time I go deal with that Water Beast, I won't have to flee in disgrace!"

"Hahahaha, I've gained some insight into all Five Elements Escape Arts!"

"If the Jie Sect's Senior Disciple Brother lectures so brilliantly, I wonder how much we'd gain if Teacher Tongtian himself gave a sermon!!"

"I'm looking forward to that sermon three thousand years from now too..."

There weren't many people at the dojo.

Most were at the Celestial Immortal or True Immortal stage.

But they were all unrestrained, bold types who weren't afraid of offending anyone with their chatter.

Qingyuan's face twitched uncontrollably.

Comparing him to Tongtian—it was a good thing Tongtian wasn't petty, or he'd have Qingyuan's skin flayed off.

"Master, Master..."

Suddenly.

A voice transmission reached Qingyuan.

Qingyuan paused slightly, turned his head to glance at a figure with a peng's head and a human body among the crowd, then looked away without acknowledging it.

The smile on Great Peng Bird's face froze.

"Master, I was wrong, please forgive me!!"

"Master, I won't dare do it again."

Great Peng Bird apologized for a long time.

Only then did Qingyuan respond to him: "No next time."

"Alright, alright, thank you, Master. This disciple understands—I won't dare again!!"

Great Peng Bird was exceptionally excited, hopping and jumping on the spot. This deranged behavior scared the nearby Jie Sect disciples into quickly dodging, afraid of catching bird plague...