Heaven Shaking Seal

Bai Yunfei still killed Changsun Yu.

With the Seventh Restriction, he had defeated the Eighth Restriction, foiling the Supreme Dao Sect's plan to destroy the Feather Transformation Sect.

The Feather Transformation Sect, which had been sealed off for several years, was finally free. No one remained surrounding its mountain gate.

Whoosh!

Before long, Bai Yunfei returned as a transforming rainbow. He landed before the Scripture Pavilion and saw Lin Jiufeng and the three disciples.

"Senior Brother killed Qingshan?" Bai Yunfei asked in surprise.

Lin Jiufeng smiled. "You could defeat the Eighth Restriction with the Seventh Restriction. What problem is there with me killing a Seventh Restriction?"

Bai Yunfei nodded with a smile. "Senior Brother must have attained sudden enlightenment. A ten-thousand-foot tower rises from level ground. I fear it will not be long before you surpass me."

Looking at the aura rising and falling around Bai Yunfei, Lin Jiufeng asked, "How far are you from the Eighth Restriction?"

Whether Bai Yunfei could break through to the Eighth Restriction concerned the Feather Transformation Sect's very survival.

Only if Bai Yunfei broke through to the Eighth Restriction could the Feather Transformation Sect, with the Feather Ascension Scripture, remain beyond the reach of the Supreme Dao Sect so long as no Ninth Restriction Dao Ancestor appeared.

Bai Yunfei knew this as well. He said gravely, "I have been in Secluded Cultivation for three years, yet I always felt something was missing and could never break through. But my fight with Changsun Yu just now let me see through many things. The Eighth Restriction is right before my eyes."

Lin Jiufeng was relieved. Although Bai Yunfei had just killed an Eighth Restriction Dao Ancestor, Changsun Yu had only recently broken through. His strength was nothing remarkable among the Eighth Restriction. If Bai Yunfei encountered a Dao Ancestor at the Eighth Restriction Peak, then even with the Feather Ascension Scripture, he would be hard-pressed to prevail.

As Bai Yunfei spoke with Lin Jiufeng, he saw the three little ones, now grown, and sighed. "You have all grown so much."

Wen Xinyun, Zhou Tianzi, and Yue Dashan respectfully called out, "Greetings, Master."

Bai Yunfei laughed at himself. "Compared to your Martial Uncle, I am utterly unqualified as a Master. Your Martial Uncle has taught you very well."

Lin Jiufeng said from the side, "Let us go into the Scripture Pavilion and talk."

Bai Yunfei nodded and followed Lin Jiufeng inside.

The Scripture Pavilion held countless books and was immensely vast.

In a Tea Room beside a cliff within the Scripture Pavilion, Lin Jiufeng brewed tea and savored it as he sat facing Bai Yunfei, just as they had several years ago. The difference was that Lin Jiufeng was now in the prime of his life.

Bai Yunfei still had a baby face, with delicate features and fair skin. Standing beside the three little ones, he looked as though he were their age.

After a while, the tea came to a boil. Lin Jiufeng poured each of them a cup and asked softly, "Junior Brother, the Feather Transformation Sect's crisis has temporarily been resolved. What do you intend to do next?"

Bai Yunfei was the Sect Master of the Feather Transformation Sect. The sect's path forward was his to decide.

Lin Jiufeng was merely a keeper of the Scripture Pavilion, and he preferred to quietly grow stronger within it.

"This time, the Supreme Dao Sect returned with feathers ruffled, but they certainly will not accept this. Their next counterattack will surely be fierce. Therefore, I must first break through to the Eighth Restriction. Only then can I withstand the Supreme Dao Sect's retaliation." Bai Yunfei took a sip of tea and spoke gravely.

"For now, the Feather Transformation Sect will remain as it is. You three little ones should continue cultivating diligently under your Martial Uncle. Everything can wait until I break through to the Eighth Restriction." Bai Yunfei said to his three disciples.

The three little ones nodded obediently.

Lin Jiufeng agreed with this arrangement as well. "Then go into Secluded Cultivation. The Supreme Dao Sect should not have spare energy to deal with us now, so we can delay for some time."

Bai Yunfei looked at Lin Jiufeng suspiciously, unsure what had happened.

Lin Jiufeng explained, "A young divine beast, a Qilin, has appeared in the Million Mountains. The Supreme Dao Sect's experts have all gone there, hoping to capture it and make it their mountain-guarding divine beast. That is why they only kept the Feather Transformation Sect under blockade instead of striking with thunderous force. Changsun Yu only broke through after a hundred years of Secluded Cultivation."

"A divine beast Qilin..." Bai Yunfei looked at Lin Jiufeng in surprise. "Ever since a great war three thousand years ago, divine beasts have vanished from this world. The Demon Race of the Million Mountains also declined because of it and could only seek peace in one corner. I never expected a divine beast to appear three thousand years later."

"What happened three thousand years ago?" Lin Jiufeng asked curiously.

"I do not know either. I only read about it in the secret vault that only successive Sect Masters may view. That war was exceedingly brutal and swept through the entire Cultivation World. Our founding ancestor rose to prominence at that time and established the Feather Transformation Sect with the Feather Ascension Scripture. The Supreme Dao Sect also seized that opportunity to leap from a third-rate minor sect to the pinnacle of the Daoist schools," Bai Yunfei recounted.

"The Sect Master's Secret Vault?" Lin Jiufeng raised a brow. No wonder there were no records of that war from three thousand years ago in the Scripture Pavilion. He had not known that only the Sect Master could read them.

"The Sect Master's Secret Vault is inside the Scripture Pavilion. It is a separate Small World and can only be opened with the Sect Master's jade pendant. If Senior Brother wishes to read it, you may go whenever you like." Bai Yunfei took out the Feather Transformation Sect's Sect Master jade pendant and handed it to Lin Jiufeng.

The Sect Master jade pendant was shaped like a crescent moon. Its entire body was white, streaked through with wisps of azure, beautiful and mysterious.

"You are simply giving me the Sect Master's jade pendant?" Lin Jiufeng asked.

Bai Yunfei nodded. "In truth, Senior Brother is more suited than I am to view those secret treasures. They contain things collected by the successive Sect Masters of the Feather Transformation Sect. I hope they will be of some help to your Cultivation."

Lin Jiufeng did not decline again. He accepted the Crescent White Jade Pendant and said, "I will go take a look."

Bai Yunfei drained the tea in his cup, then rose and flew toward the Golden Summit Great Hall.

This time, he would definitely break through to the Eighth Restriction!

Bai Yunfei entered Secluded Cultivation once more, and the three little ones stared eagerly at Lin Jiufeng like hungry fledglings chirping for food, waiting for him to feed them.

Especially after seeing Lin Jiufeng easily kill Qingshan of the Seventh Restriction across realms, the three little ones looked forward even more eagerly to Lin Jiufeng teaching them his Cultivation experience.

After finishing the tea in his cup, Lin Jiufeng began instructing the three little ones.

The three had already stabilized their cultivation at the Third Restriction, so Lin Jiufeng began explaining deeper Cultivation knowledge to them.

The three little ones were like sponges. Gifted as they were, they understood very well what Lin Jiufeng explained.

Before long, Lin Jiufeng sent them away to cultivate on their own, telling them to return and ask him if there was anything they did not understand.

Thus, Lin Jiufeng was the only one left in the Tea Room.

He quietly sipped his tea, recalling the battle between Bai Yunfei and Changsun Yu.

The Great Dao and divine abilities they had displayed had opened Lin Jiufeng's eyes and broadened his horizons greatly.

Though he had been in the Feather Transformation Sect for the past hundred years, where had he ever seen experts of that level fight?

All his knowledge of the Eighth Restriction had come from books.

Yet what one gained from paper always felt shallow; to truly understand a matter, one had to practice it oneself.

Having seen it with his own eyes, the words in those books became tangible. Scene after scene emerged in Lin Jiufeng's mind.

He carefully contemplated them.

The knowledge he had gained from books, combined with the battle he had watched today, formed new insights.

Gradually, a new realization arose in Lin Jiufeng's mind.

A line of words appeared before his eyes.

You contemplated with care, activating Heaven-Defying Comprehension. You have comprehended the Heaven Shaking Seal!