"Fortunately, such an important figure could not possibly monitor everything happening in the Azure Realm at every moment."
"Founding Ancestor was most likely merely a pawn he had placed at random. After all, without becoming a Heavenly Human Dao Ancestor, one did not even count as an ant before the level of immortals..."
"But who knew whether Founding Ancestor possessed some means of contacting that person in the Upper Realm, or whether that person might happen to remember him and cast a fleeting glance down from above, thereby discovering my existence?"
"I must nip that possibility in the bud!"
In the void, a shadow of gloom flashed through Zhang Qingyuan's eyes.
That possibility did exist.
From Gui Yuanxin's memories, he had learned that
the Azure Realm itself had originally been a minor world developed under the leadership of the Five Elements Immortal Sect in the Upper Realm. The disciples of the other great immortal sects in the Upper Realm had appeared here only because, much like the Southern Immortal Region in that same Upper Realm, they wished to claim a share of the spoils.
The sect that truly held sway was still the Five Elements Immortal Sect.
Thus, the formations connecting the upper and lower realms, much like the Reincarnation Grand Formation, were all controlled by the Five Elements Immortal Sect. The means of activating them and reestablishing contact with the Five Elements Immortal Sect in the Upper Realm likely had much to do with the Five Elements Great Dao.
It was precisely because of this that cultivators who grasped the Five Elements Great Dao had naturally become thorns in the eyes of that person who, taking advantage of the great changes in heaven and earth, had seized control of the Azure Realm and already ascended to the Upper Realm!