Peacock Flies Southeast

Atop Mount Sumeru in the West, the site of Luohu's Dao field.

Since obtaining the Heavenly Dao Primordial Violet Qi.

After over twenty-six thousand years of contemplation, cultivation, and gestation.

Luohu had gradually found, clarified, and solidified his own Dao!

That was the Path of Slaughter!

Slaughter the world!

Slaughter to prove the Dao!

At the summit of Mount Sumeru.

Luohu sat upon the Twelve Grade World Destroying Black Lotus Platform, gazing down at the hundreds of thousands of beings below.

His voice boomed like thunder, shaking heaven and earth: "Today! I shall establish a sect! It shall be called! Demon! Beings of the Demon Cult shall take slaughter as their path! All Primordial Beings may be slain!"

"Hail the Sect Master!"

The hundreds of thousands of beings stirred with fervor, all kneeling in reverence.

Luohu laughed long: "After ten thousand years of insight, I have finally understood—the Heavenly Dao is merciless! It shall reign! Through slaughter!"

"Slaughter! Slaughter!"

Beings of every kind covered the mountains and plains, roaring with fanatical zeal, killing intent soaring to the heavens!

The Demon Cult had just emerged, and a great calamity was about to rise.

Here at Li Xuan's place, however, all remained calm and undisturbed.

Time continued to flow.

Kong Xuan had become thick as thieves with Little Purple, Little Blue, and Bright Rabbit.

In the end, even Qi Ying couldn't resist joining in.

The four of them had become a force to be reckoned with across tens of thousands of miles around Mount Taixuan.

Especially Kong Xuan, because of Li Xuan.

He had found a sense of home and belonging.

Coupled with the companionship and growth alongside Bright Rabbit and the others.

This kid was clearly nothing like the aloof and arrogant Peacock Great Bright King that Li Xuan remembered.

Proud he still was, but solitary he was not.

Then again, thinking about it.

In the Primordial world where Li Xuan hadn't transmigrated.

Though Li Xuan didn't know how Kong Xuan had survived.

The path of his growth had undoubtedly been filled with hardship, pain, and even torment.

So when he grew up.

He became that utterly violent, supremely aloof Peacock Great Bright King.

But now...

Watching that youth with his hands on his hips, commanding a crowd of beings to run about, cackling with laughter.

Li Xuan felt that this kid had a bright future ahead of him...

In the blink of an eye, another fifty thousand years passed.

Over those fifty thousand years, Kong Xuan had grown into a half-grown youth of sixteen or seventeen.

His appearance was naturally handsome and spirited, his pride extraordinary.

His cultivation realm had long since stepped into the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal level.

Now he was at the ninth level of Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.

Especially his Five-Colored Divine Light, which had already begun to show its might!

Even Bright Rabbit, Little Purple, and Little Blue, all at the same Primordial Unity Golden Immortal level.

And Qi Ying, at the peak of Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, joining forces to attack him.

None of them could withstand a single move from him.

One day.

A beam of Five-Colored Divine Light shot through the air, landing on the peak of Mount Taixuan.

Li Xuan calmly opened his eyes and looked at Kong Xuan.

Kong Xuan strode over to Li Xuan's side and called out boisterously, "Dad, I'm way too bored. I'm planning to go out and travel a bit. What do you think? Support or oppose?"

Li Xuan raised an eyebrow at that and said, "I've told you many times, I'm not your father. You're grown up now, you should know who your real parents are. Don't call me that anymore."

"I know my parents are Primordial Phoenix and Divine Phoenix, but they died long ago, and I never even met them. Anyway, you're my dad, I don't care. Hey hey, I said I want to go out and travel—are you agreeing or not?"

Kong Xuan rolled his eyes, completely unfazed, and asked again.

Li Xuan could only sigh helplessly.

Over the years, he had told Kong Xuan more than once that he wasn't his father.

But it was useless. Now he just had to let it be.

So after a moment's thought, he said, "Right now, the Primordial Wilderness is fraught with danger at every turn. If nothing unexpected happens, those two bastards Hongjun and Luohu will soon start fighting. When they do, slaughter will spread everywhere, the entire Primordial Wilderness will be caught in the chaos, and the very earth might crack, splitting the whole land into four great continents. With your current cultivation, going out would be nothing but suicide. So I advise you not to go."

Li Xuan was trying to scare Kong Xuan a little, to make him stay put on Mount Taixuan.

That's why he said all that.

But to his surprise, Kong Xuan only got more excited upon hearing it.

His eyes were full of longing as he hopped on his feet and shouted, "That sounds so lively! I have to go see it!"

"You..."

Li Xuan was at a loss for words. He pointed at Kong Xuan and said, "Did you even understand what I meant? I meant don't go out, stay right here. Isn't life comfortable enough for you? Why do you have to go stir up trouble?"

Kong Xuan clearly wasn't listening to Li Xuan.

After all, Li Xuan's whole philosophy was to lie low and keep lying low forever.

He couldn't care less about what happened outside.

But Kong Xuan couldn't stand the boredom.

He hopped around, circling the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus Platform, trying to get on it, but the barrier blocked him.

So he just kept circling and shouting, "Ah! I'm so bored! There's nothing fun for hundreds of thousands of miles around! Bright Rabbit, Little Purple, and Little Blue all act all timid when they play with me now, and Qi Ying—after I beat him a few times, the moment he hears I want to spar, he vanishes without a trace! I'm so bored, Dad!"

"Hmm..."

Li Xuan fell silent for a moment, then sighed and said, "Fine, fine. Your nature is freedom—how could I keep you trapped here? If you want to go out and see the world, then go."

"Thanks, Dad!"

Kong Xuan was overjoyed.

With a strange cackle, he leaped into the air and shouted at the same time, "Little Purple! Little Blue! Bright Rabbit! And Qi Ying! Dad said we can go out! Let's hurry! Hurry! Don't give Dad a chance to change his mind!"

Li Xuan's eyelids twitched.

Good grief. Not only was he leaving himself.

He was dragging the other four along too.

But then Li Xuan shook his head and let it go.

Five of them together, all at the peak of Primordial Unity Golden Immortal cultivation.

Especially Kong Xuan—even an ordinary Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal probably couldn't withstand the washing of his Five-Colored Divine Light.

So they should be able to protect themselves across the Primordial Wilderness.

Let them go.

Sure enough, at Kong Xuan's words.

The other four also turned into streaks of light and rose into the air, all beaming with joy.

Sitting still and cultivating.

That was something only a natural-born hider like Li Xuan could enjoy.

The other four had long been sick of the boredom too.

But because Li Xuan was there, and because they had once sworn an oath.

They couldn't leave, and they didn't dare to bring it up with Li Xuan.

But now that the young master Kong Xuan, the son of the great one, was taking them out.

They had no qualms at all!

Seeing them fly far away, about to pass through the Grand Profound Illusory Realm Array.

Li Qing waved his hand again.

Immediately, the Qiankun Diagram and the Jade Pure Bottle flew up, appearing before Kong Xuan in the blink of an eye.

"Take these two treasures with you. Also, when you're out having fun, for heaven's sake, don't stick your neck out, don't stir up trouble, don't bully the weak, don't get tricked, don't..."

Li Xuan's voice kept coming, nagging on and on...

Kong Xuan grabbed the two treasures and laughed, "Don't worry, Dad! I, know, al, ready!"

As he spoke, with Kong Xuan leading the way, the five streaks of light.

Had already shot out of the Grand Profound Illusory Realm Array and vanished into the southeastern horizon.

"Ah, a peacock flies southeast..."

Watching them disappear, Li Xuan suddenly felt a hollow emptiness in his heart.

He shook his head with a sigh, then pulled his mind back and continued to close his eyes, meditating on the Great Profound Dao.

By now, he was already at the ninth level of Golden Immortal.

And his Incarnation Outside the Body was at the ninth level of Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal!