The Era of Quasi-Sages Arrives (Please Follow, Please Vote Monthly!)

A Saint's sermon—and one on the Quasi-Sage path that transcended Great Luo Dao Lords, the beginning of the Primordial Saint Realm—naturally unfolded every manner of Great Dao Rule and Dao realm.

The transcendent Dao realms that had always remained obscure and veiled now appeared one by one before the Great Divine Ability Users and Great Luo Dao Lords. Their minds sank into Dao Ancestor Hongjun's sermon.

Under Dao Ancestor Hongjun's explanation and guidance, the obscure and incomprehensible path of Quasi-Sage transcendence was thus comprehended by the Great Divine Ability Users and Great Luo Dao Lords amidst the vast, shadowy unknown.

Within Purple Firmament Palace, countless divine lights shot into the heavens. The Auspicious Cloud Dao Fruits of the Great Divine Ability Users and Great Luo Dao Lords manifested, revealing myriad immortal Dao realms and Great Dao divine abilities.

Guided by the Great Dao aphorisms spoken by Dao Ancestor Hongjun, the cultivation of Purple Firmament Palace's three thousand worldly guests rapidly soared for a time.

In merely a few years, their comprehension of the Great Dao Rules surpassed the bitter efforts of dozens, hundreds, or even an entire kalpa from before.

Every Great Dao aphorism spoken by Dao Ancestor Hongjun contained the boundless mysteries of the Heavenly Dao. Though they heard the very same Dao sounds and aphorisms, Purple Firmament Palace's three thousand worldly guests each comprehended different Great Dao Rules.

Moreover, these Great Dao Rules were largely either those they themselves cultivated or rules that mutually generated and restrained them.

One could not help but marvel at the immeasurable divine abilities of a Saint, and the unfathomable mysteries of the transcendent path!

As the transcendent Dao realm explained by Dao Ancestor Hongjun gradually deepened, even with the guidance of the Saint's Great Dao aphorisms and the silent, rain-like nourishment of Heavenly Dao power, the Great Divine Ability Users and Great Luo Dao Lords listening to the sermon gradually found it obscure and difficult to grasp.

At this point, the Great Luo Dao Lords, along with some Great Divine Ability Users whose foundations were shallow and cultivation low, stopped pondering the obscure Great Dao aphorisms. Instead, borrowing the Saint's Dao resonance, they contemplated divine abilities and Dao arts, breathed in the auspicious vapors of Golden Lotuses, and strengthened their magical power.

"Alas, the transcendent Dao realm, the path of Quasi-Sages, is indeed vast and obscure. If Teacher Hongjun had not explained these Great Dao aphorisms, we would likely remain halted within the Dao realm of Great Divine Ability Users for the rest of our lives..."

Before long, another portion of the Great Divine Ability Users furrowed their brows, their faces bitter. Clearly, they had gained little from their Dao comprehension.

At this time, upon the Purple Cushions in the first row of Purple Firmament Palace, Pangu's Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti continued to immerse their minds in Dao comprehension, aided by the Heavenly Dao power emanating from the Purple Cushions beneath them.

The Demon Race had established the 'Demon Court Heavenly Court,' gaining the blessing of a thread of the world's orthodox fortune. Dijun, Taiyi, Fuxi, Tengshe, and the others also listened with the utmost delight!

The Witch Race ruled the Primordial World's earth and were further blessed by Pangu's lingering fortune. Though they possessed no Primordial Spirits and could not comprehend the transcendent Dao realm or the Quasi-Sage path, they nevertheless comprehended Quasi-Sage-level Great Dao Rules from the Great Dao aphorisms spoken by Hongjun.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches also gained tremendous benefits. Their cultivation advanced, and the Great Dao Rules they had comprehended were on the verge of transforming into the next level!

"Ha ha, sever!"

Grand Pure Daoist, seated upon a Purple Cushion in the first row, let out a long roar. Endless delight appeared upon his usually detached and tranquil face.

Within his Auspicious Cloud appeared a mysterious yellow treasure pagoda, emitting boundless Profound Yellow Merit Qi.

As Grand Pure Daoist's word "sever" fell, a clear, natural immortal light detached from his body and coiled around the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda. His Good Corpse, an elderly man with a kind and benevolent countenance, was severed forth.

"Sever!"

Perhaps their Dao fortunes were linked. At the very instant Grand Pure Daoist severed his Good Corpse, Yuqing Yuanshi Daoist and Shangqing Tongtian Daoist seemed to undergo some change as well—the opportunity for both to sever their corpses arrived at once!

Thus, following Grand Pure Daoist, Yuqing Yuanshi Daoist and Shangqing Tongtian Daoist severed their corpses simultaneously. The Great Dao phenomena were magnificent, radiating endless Dao mysteries.

Within Yuqing Yuanshi Daoist's Auspicious Cloud Dao Fruit stood a middle-aged Daoist holding the Three-Jeweled Jade Ruyi, his aura solemn and imposing.

Within Shangqing Tongtian Daoist's Auspicious Cloud Dao Fruit stood a youth in black with the Qingping Sword upon his back. A trace of boundless sharpness, seizing a sliver of Heavenly opportunity, flashed through his eyes.

Afterward, top Great Divine Ability Users such as Nuwa, Jieyin, Zhunti, Dijun, Taiyi, Zhenyuanzi, Hongyun, Fuxi, Kunpeng, and Minghe successively severed their corpses and stepped into the Quasi-Sage path.

As these ten-odd top Great Divine Ability Users succeeded in severing their corpses, the gap between Great Divine Ability Users was instantly torn wide open.

Meanwhile, the divine baleful power upon the Twelve Ancestral Witches suddenly surged by a great measure. Through this bout of Dao comprehension, they had grasped Quasi-Sage-level Great Dao Rules.

At this time, the Dao sounds within Purple Firmament Palace remained distant and ethereal. The thirty-thousand-year term of the sermon had not yet ended, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun still recited Great Dao aphorisms, explaining the mysteries of the Quasi-Sage path.

Having successfully broken through, these Great Divine Ability Users immediately shifted their focus and continued to contemplate the Great Dao aphorisms and the transcendent Dao realm, comprehending the Dao amidst the vast, shadowy unknown.

Kunlun Mountain, within Sanqing Palace.

Lu Yuan sat cross-legged in a side hall, inhaling and exhaling Innate Spiritual Qi containing all five elements. From it, he refined strand after strand of Innate Metal Element Vital Qi, continuously feeding them into his Lung Aperture Divine Treasury.

His mind had sunk into a vast, shadowy state. The Shangqing Great Cavern True Scripture circulated on its own, drawing in a ceaseless tide of Innate Spiritual Qi. With practiced ease, Lu Yuan used a secret method to refine strand after strand of Innate Metal Element Vital Qi.

Within the Lung Aperture Divine Treasury, wisps of white mist condensed. Under the infusion of Innate Metal Element Vital Qi, the enormous divine treasury lacked only this final fraction before it would be filled.

Among the Five Qi within his chest, beside the crimson pillar of qi, a white pillar of qi gradually became solid under the washing of Innate Metal Element Vital Qi.

As strand after strand of Innate Metal Element Vital Qi condensed within the Lung Aperture Divine Treasury, the Innate Metal Element Qi stored within it gradually broke free of its scattered acquired state and returned to innate unity, as though it could be completely unleashed the very next moment.

In the blink of an eye, another three to five thousand years passed. On this day, Lu Yuan's Lung Aperture Divine Treasury was finally filled with Innate Metal Element Vital Qi.

In an instant, the Innate Metal Element Qi stored in the Lung Aperture Divine Treasury trembled and voraciously refined the mist-like Innate Metal Element Vital Qi. Among the Five Qi in his chest, the white pillar of qi completely solidified, standing shoulder to shoulder with the earthy-yellow pillar.

"Whew! This breath of Innate Metal Element Qi has finally been successfully refined. Seventy thousand years of water-grinding effort..."

Lu Yuan opened his eyes and slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air. His Auspicious Cloud Dao Fruit manifested above his head, with yellow and white pillars of qi standing tall and continuously washing over the Three Flowers above his Dao Fruit.

A pinch of his fingers told him that he had returned to Kunlun Mountain twenty thousand years ago, while he and Senior Brother Daoist Duobao had guarded the Dao field for over fourteen thousand years.

The Kunlun Mountain Dao Field was protected by the Innate Grand Formation laid down by the Sanqing. Lu Yuan and the others did not need to watch over it at every moment.

Thus, even while guarding the Dao field, Lu Yuan could still enter seclusion to refine Innate Metal Element Vital Qi. Only the location of his seclusion had changed from Qingxuan Hall to this side hall of Sanqing Palace.

Lu Yuan was not the only one doing so. At this moment, Daoist Duobao was also cultivating in seclusion within another side hall of Sanqing Palace.

"By my reckoning, Master and the others have been gone for thirty thousand years. Purple Firmament Palace's second sermon should be nearing its end, shouldn't it?"

At the thought of Purple Firmament Palace's sermon, a trace of envy appeared in Lu Yuan's eyes. The three sermons of Purple Firmament Palace were the period in which cultivation and Dao attainment advanced fastest in the Primordial World.

With the Saint's aphorisms and the blessing of Heavenly Dao power, Purple Firmament Palace's guests opened a chasm-like gap between themselves and the Great Divine Ability Users born in later generations!

Without Great Opportunity, Great Wisdom, and Great Perseverance, the Great Divine Ability Users born in later generations would find it difficult to surpass those mighty figures who had listened to the sermon at Purple Firmament Palace.