Purple Cloud Retreats as Calamity Draws Near, Great Merit Achieved in the Extreme North and Karma Made Clear

No sooner had the Dao Ancestor's words fallen than the final strand of Primordial Violet Qi, as though entrusted with his will, drifted leisurely out from the Dao Ancestor's Dharma body and circled beneath the vaulted ceiling of Purple Cloud Palace.

Violet light swirled in misty splendor, its Dao resonance profound. Wherever it passed, it left behind wisps of mysterious radiance, stirring every taut divine sense within the hall.

The gathered great powers all held their breaths, their blazing gazes following it without pause, their eyes brimming with undisguised yearning and determination to claim it.

Yet after circling several times, as if searching for one destined by Heaven, the violet qi suddenly paused before Hongyun's seat. Then violet brilliance burst forth, transforming into a mysterious stream of light that shot straight into the ancestral aperture between his brows!

In an instant, the hall became so silent that a needle dropping could be heard.

Countless gazes shifted abruptly from utmost anticipation to incredulous shock, then to irrepressible disappointment.

Hongyun himself was stunned. Then a vast Dao resonance erupted from the depths of his Primordial Spirit, and his aura instantly merged and resonated with the Primordial Violet Qi, glowing with mysterious radiance.

Hongyun stood frozen for a moment before realizing this was no dream. An uncontrollable ecstasy surged into his heart; he was so agitated that his body trembled faintly and his eyes grew hot.

Hongyun abruptly turned and seized the arm of his close friend Zhenyuanzi. A brilliant smile, free of all shadow, bloomed across his usually gentle face, and his voice quivered with excitement:

"Fellow Daoist Zhenyuanzi! Look, what did I say? I have always said that if one harbors kindness and forms good ties far and wide, the Heavenly Dao will never fail them! Today, this great opportunity of