Sect Leader Tongtian's voice rang directly within Xuandu's heart:
"Among the countless fellow disciples, all are immersed in contemplation, yet your mind wanders, looking here and there."
"Xuandu, do you believe that the Dao I preach is no longer worthy of being your master?"
Xuandu felt a chill shoot straight up his spine to his heavenly spirit cover.
His master was angry!
And he had misunderstood him deeply!
What could he say?
Could he directly tell his master that he possessed the realm but lacked the corresponding comprehension, that he simply could not understand such profound Great Dao?
The system was his greatest secret and absolutely could not be exposed.
Any explanation at this moment would be pale and weak, more like an excuse.
Xuandu felt bitter beyond measure. He truly had suffering he could not speak of.
He hurriedly responded respectfully in his heart, lowering his posture as much as possible:
"This disciple would not dare!"
"Master's preaching is profound and abstruse. This disciple is dull-witted and is doing his utmost to ponder it. I have not the slightest intention of slighting it!"
He did not dare say that he could not understand, so he could only grit his teeth and claim that he was doing his utmost to ponder it.
"Doing your utmost to ponder it?"
Sect Leader Tongtian's voice remained icy, carrying a force that seemed to pierce through the heart.
"I observe that your aura is steady and your divine light restrained. There is not the slightest sign of deduction or enlightenment. Rather, you seem to be strolling through a courtyard, admiring flowers and scenery."
"Xuandu, you bear the Chaos Pedigree and are favored by Heaven and Earth. You should cherish this opportunity all the more and cultivate diligently without cease."
"How can you grow lax merely because of a momentary gain?"
Every word echoed through Xuandu's heart.
He knew that his appearance just now had thoroughly angered his master.
If he could not display something convincing now, his impression in his master's eyes would plummet, and all the previous appreciation and regard would be greatly diminished.
Just as Xuandu's thoughts raced, considering how to deal with this predicament.
Sect Leader Tongtian seemed dissatisfied with his feeble defense. With a slight movement of thought, an even harsher rebuke seemed about to descend.
However, at this critical moment.
Boom!
A powerful aura suddenly erupted from the center of the plaza!
Dao charm circulated, and immortal light soared to the heavens!
It was an outer disciple at the Golden Immortal Peak. Under the cleansing of the Dao's sound, enlightenment had suddenly struck, and the shackles within his body shattered with a roar as he stepped into the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Realm in one stroke!
Though he had only just entered it and his aura was still unstable, the Unique Charm of Grand Unity Dao Fruit had already appeared!
It was as though this were a signal.
Hum!
Boom!
Crack!
Auras of breakthrough rose one after another, endlessly shooting into the sky!
Immortal light and auspicious radiance intertwined, while fragments of laws fell like a rain of light.
Some Heavenly Immortals broke through to Profound Immortals.
Some Profound Immortals broke through to Golden Immortals.
Of course, most were breakthroughs in minor realms.
Those breaking through major realms had already been stuck at bottlenecks and broke through because of the lecture.
The entire Biyou Palace Plaza seemed to transform into an ocean of cultivation breakthroughs!
The Myriad Immortals aura resonated with one another, and Dao charm surged like the tides!
Sect Leader Tongtian's thought, which had been about to descend upon Xuandu once more, paused slightly.
His gaze swept over the thousands upon thousands of disciples below. A faint trace of satisfaction crossed his calm as an old well face.
This lecture had achieved remarkable results.
The Jie Sect Overall Strength would rise another measure.
And just then.
Another change arose in the Personal Disciple Area at the front!
The first was Saint Mother Wudang.
The cool and ethereal aura around her abruptly became incomparably solid.
Behind her, an Illusory World Projection faintly emerged, with mountains and rivers appearing within it as all things lived and perished.
Her aura exploded with a roar, instantly shattering her former shackles and entering an entirely new level!
Mid Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal!
Immediately afterward, Saint Mother Jinling beside her also stirred.
A Zhou Tian Star Projection emerged above her head, scattering endless starlight that merged into her body.
Her already dazzling spiritual light became even more brilliant and eye-catching, resplendent as the sun.
Vast magic power fluctuations swept outward as she too steadily entered the Mid Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Realm!
Almost at the same time, Saint Mother Guiling opened her eyes as well.
Her gaze was lively, but the Dao charm around her carried a deep and heavy quality, as though she bore the Azure Heaven upon her back and carried the earth.
A faint turtle shell resonance sounded from within her body, and her aura broke through with force, entering the mid Daluo stage!
The three Personal Disciples had all broken through during this lecture!
They had stepped from the Early Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal stage into the middle stage in one stride!
The great increase in the Personal Disciples' strength meant that the Jie Sect's top-tier combat power had risen.
The appreciation in Sect Leader Tongtian's eyes deepened, and he nodded slightly.
However, when his gaze inadvertently swept across Xuandu again, his pupils suddenly contracted!
On the plaza, where the Myriad Immortals were breaking through and their auras intertwined in chaos.
Xuandu, seated upright upon his cushion, had grown a fraction stronger!
Though the increase was not large.
At the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Peak, however, every tiny bit of progress was as difficult as ascending to heaven.
Not to mention that it had happened in this brief moment, without any sign that he had deeply contemplated anything?
This... what was happening?
The displeasure and intent to rebuke in Sect Leader Tongtian's heart instantly vanished, replaced by genuine surprise and confusion.
Could it be... that he had truly wronged him?
This child was not without enlightenment, nor had he grown lax.
Rather, his method of enlightenment was entirely different from that of ordinary disciples?
When ordinary disciples listened to the Great Dao, they absorbed and understood it, so their auras manifested outwardly, sometimes accompanied by breakthrough phenomena.
But because of the uniqueness of Xuandu's Chaos God Demon Pedigree, perhaps the Great Dao was not something he needed to deliberately comprehend.
Perhaps it was naturally resonating with his own origin?
That seemingly leisurely state of his was perhaps precisely the state of enlightenment most compatible with his special pedigree and the Great Dao?
He was using his own origin to directly reflect and absorb the Great Dao's rules.
Thus, while he seemed calm on the surface, he was actually continuously gaining enlightenment within?
Yes!
That had to be it!
Otherwise, how could one explain how he had gone from an ordinary mortal to the Zenith Heaven Peak in just a few days, condensing Eight-Petal Three Flowers?
His path of cultivation could not be measured by common sense.
Yet just now, he had used ordinary standards to judge him and had nearly misunderstood this piece of uncarved jade.
At that thought, Sect Leader Tongtian's gaze toward Xuandu instantly became incomparably complicated.
He gave Xuandu a deep look, then withdrew his gaze.
The sound of the lecture remained calm and majestic, echoing through Heaven and Earth without the slightest pause because of this minor interlude.
It was as though the silent rebuke and the surprise that followed had never occurred.
Xuandu, meanwhile, let out a great sigh of relief.
His back was already soaked in cold sweat.
That was close!
Naturally, he had sensed the rise in his own aura.
It was not because he had comprehended any Great Dao.
Rather, as the Jie Sect Myriad Immortals collectively broke through and grew stronger.
The Cultivation Sum Feedback from the [Total Sum System] had naturally risen with the tide!
It had happened at just the right moment and, through a fortunate coincidence, resolved his predicament!
"Fortunately... fortunately, there was system feedback..."
Xuandu secretly felt relieved.
This accidental increase had come at exactly the right time!
Time slowly passed.
As the Sage Preaches, Dao charm stretched on, and even a hundred years passed like a fleeting white colt.
Before Biyou Palace, the Myriad Immortals sat in silence. Only the Great Dao's Resonant Voice echoed without end, golden lotuses bloomed and withered, and immortal light circulated.
During these hundred years, disciples continuously erupted with auras, immortal light soaring to the heavens and drawing waves of spiritual qi.
One Outer disciple after another stepped from Profound Immortal into Golden Immortal, while Golden Immortals broke through to Taiyi.
Among the Seven Attendant Immortals, several also had increasingly condensed auras as they steadily advanced toward higher realms.
Even the Personal Disciple Area in the very front occasionally stirred with unusual changes.
The treasure light around Daoist Duobao became increasingly brilliant, as though countless spiritual treasure projections rose and fell around him. His aura was deep as the sea, and he had clearly reached the Mid Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Peak!
He needed only a final sliver of opportunity to take a further step and enter the late stage!
Behind Zhao Gongming, projections of twenty-four Sea Calming Pearls faintly rose and fell. His bold aura gained a touch more vastness. Though he had not broken through, his understanding of the Daluo Dao had grown ever deeper.
The auras of Yun Xiao, Qiong Xiao, and Bi Xiao intertwined. Within their cool immortal light, the image of the Nine Bends Yellow River grew increasingly clear, its killing intent restrained and its Dao charm Self-Forming.
Behind Kong Xuan, Five-Colored Divine Light flowed without end, and his Dao of Innate Five Elements became increasingly perfected.
Xuandu remained seated upon his cushion, his expression calm and his eyes slightly closed.
To outsiders, he seemed to have remained immersed in that profound Dao Realm, resonating with the Great Dao.
Only he himself knew that he had not deliberately attempted to understand that obscure Dao sound.
His mind had been silently sensing the vast magic power within his body, steadily rising with every breakthrough among the Myriad Immortals!
After a Hundred Year Dao Lecture, the strength of the Jie Sect Myriad Immortals had risen across the board!
The Cultivation Sum Feedback it brought was unimaginably immense!
At first, the growth had been relatively gentle, but as the lecture deepened and more and more disciples broke through, especially with the significant advances of the Personal Disciples.
The cultivation fed back to him had already turned into a surging torrent, roaring through his meridians that had long reached the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Peak!
Within his Purple Mansion, the projections of the Eight-Petal Three Flowers swayed and shone, madly absorbing this endless Vast Power.
Above the Three Flowers, the Dao Patterns grew increasingly clear, as though they were about to turn from illusion into substance and imprint an immortal Dao seal.
Xuandu could clearly sense that layer of the Golden Immortal of the Origin Realm that had once been so impossibly distant!
"Almost there..."
Xuandu murmured inwardly, unable to suppress the excitement surging in his chest.
A hundred years of accumulation, with the power of the Myriad Immortals gathered into one body!
At this moment, his perception of the Heaven and Earth Rules was clearer than ever before.
His Chaos God Demon Pedigree was also naturally drawing in and exhaling the unseen Chaos Qi, providing the most fundamental support for his attempt to break through!
The time had come!
He no longer hesitated in the slightest.
With a movement of thought, he completely released his suppression over the vast magic power within his body!
BOOM!!!
It was like a galactic river bursting its banks, like the universe opening for the first time!
An indescribably terrifying aura exploded with a roar from within Xuandu!
This time, it was no longer passive growth brought by system feedback.
He was actively guiding the Vast Power gathered from the cultivation of the Myriad Immortals, striking at the bottleneck of the Golden Immortal of the Origin!
In an instant, the wind and clouds changed color!
Above Biyou Palace, the ten thousand miles of auspicious clouds and endless golden lotuses that had originally gathered because of the Sage Preaches.
Were violently scattered by an invisible wave of air that burst forth from Xuandu's body!
In their place came Chaos!
Not spiritual qi, not immortal light, but the most primordial Chaos Qi!
Gray currents surged from the Void, instantly enveloping the area where Xuandu sat and rapidly spreading in all directions!
Within Chaos, Earth Water Fire Wind churned, as though reenacting the scene of creation!
Countless indistinct projections of Chaos God Demons roared within the currents!
A Supreme Dao Charm that stood above Daluo Golden Immortals, transcended the shackles of the Heavenly Dao, and possessed Self-Forming Laws swept forth!
"This is...?"
Upon the high platform, Sect Leader Tongtian's voice of preaching abruptly stopped!
He suddenly opened his eyes, unprecedentedly brilliant divine light shooting from them as he stared fixedly at Xuandu, who was wrapped in Chaos Qi!
His Saint Heart, calm for countless ages, now churned with towering waves!
"Hunyuan Dao Rhyme... Is he attempting to break through to the Golden Immortal of the Origin?"
Even Sect Leader Tongtian, a Heavenly Dao Sage who had seen all the vicissitudes of the Great Wilderness, could not help but have his heart and mind shaken at this moment!
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