Five Taiyi Golden Immortals

This was an incredibly tedious and mentally taxing task, like a slow grind.

Lu Changsheng was like an old tailor mending a tattered garment.

Using Great Dao Merit as thread, he painstakingly re-pulled, reconnected, and re-stitched the broken Earth Vein laws and shattered Five Elements spiritual energy, bit by bit.

With every stitch, a sliver of Great Dao Merit within him was consumed.

Fortunately, although the Heavenly Dao was too preoccupied with the great tribulation to attend to all beings, the inherent rules of the world's operation still existed.

When Lu Changsheng used Great Dao Merit to forcibly stitch the first section of the broken Earth Vein, halting the further spread of the Earth Core Poison Fire.

High above in the firmament, the churning blood clouds suddenly split open a tiny seam.

A ball of pure, gentle Mysterious Yellow light pierced through the endless Sha Qi and silently descended upon Lu Changsheng's crown.

"Boom!"

Heavenly Dao Merit entered his body.

Lu Changsheng's Primordial Spirit, feeling a slight fatigue from the depletion of his essence, was instantly like parched earth receiving sweet rain. Not only was the depletion completely replenished, but his True Immortal mid-stage cultivation also let out a joyful hum, his magic power becoming even more refined.

"Just as I thought!"

Lu Changsheng's eyes snapped open, his golden irises bursting with irrepressible ecstasy.

"The Western Spiritual Vein was destroyed, leaving the entire Primordial Land riddled with holes. The Heavenly Dao laws are at their weakest and most in need of repair."

"Appearing now to repair the Earth Veins is equivalent to sending charcoal in snowy weather to the esteemed Heavenly Dao!"

"The merit compensation received is more than ten times richer than when I purified Sha Qi in Phoenix Fall Valley!"

Lu Changsheng's earlier feelings of extreme frustration and fear at being forced out vanished instantly.

A practitioner of the Dao of Cowardice never acts without profit.

As long as the profit is substantial enough and the risk is within controllable limits, the drive they unleash is enough to make all the great powers of the Primordial Land sigh in admiration.

"Let's do this! As long as the esteemed Heavenly Dao is footing the bill, this Seat will stitch up every crack in this ten-thousand-mile radius today and never utter a word of complaint!"

Lu Changsheng's spirits soared.

He generously activated the Great Dao Merit within him, golden threads like a rain of flowers pouring into the depths of the earth.

On the edge of this deserted wilderness crack.

Time began its long, slow march.

One hundred years.

Five hundred years.

One thousand years.

A full eighteen hundred years passed in this silent mending.

For these eighteen hundred years, Lu Changsheng sat motionless at the edge of the crack, like an ancient tree with its roots firmly planted.

The blood rain in the sky, which seemed to never cease, fell upon the Mysterious Yellow barrier above his head, silently evaporating.

Occasionally, a few low-level Fierce Beasts, their minds lost to the Sha Qi, would wander nearby.

Before they could even get close, they were crushed into blood mist by the heavy pressure emanating from the Mysterious Yellow Shield, becoming fertilizer for this land.

Lu Changsheng's gains were also astonishing.

As the hundreds of miles of fractured Earth Veins were re-stitched by him, the Heavenly Dao Merit descending from the firmament almost formed a continuous line.

That immense merit not only swept away the slight Primordial Spirit fatigue left from his previous refining of the Mysterious Yellow Shield, but it also, like a surging river, forcefully pushed his cultivation from the True Immortal mid-stage all the way to the True Immortal peak!

He was now only half a step away from the Great Dao of Mystic Immortal, a realm yearned for by countless cultivators.

More importantly, the origin of his Great Dao Merit, which was originally only the size of a fist, had grown significantly after absorbing so much Heavenly Dao Merit for nourishment and feedback.

It expanded by a full circle, its emanating Dao rhythm becoming even more unfathomable.

"Hoo—"

Lu Changsheng slowly withdrew his hands, the last golden thread from his fingertips sinking into the soil.

The terrifying crack in front of him, which was once bottomless and spewing poisonous fire, was now completely sealed.

The earth was still scorched black, but the broken spiritual veins beneath had reconnected, and a faint yet continuous life force was slowly flowing along the Earth Veins towards Nameless Low Mountain.

"Mission accomplished."

Lu Changsheng stood up, wiped away non-existent sweat from his brow, and glanced at the distant Nameless Low Mountain, which had stopped collapsing behind him, nodding with satisfaction.

"My lair is safe, and my cultivation has reached the True Immortal peak. This trip out was a massive profit."

"Know when to stop. I'm heading back home to go into seclusion and break through to the Mystic Immortal realm!"

Lu Changsheng deeply understood the essence of the Dao of Cowardice and was never greedy.

He prepared to turn around and use an earth-escape technique to return the way he came.

However, the very moment he turned.

The void, which he had kept perfectly calm with his Profound Yellow Qi, suddenly twisted violently without warning.

"BOOM!!!"

A terrifying sonic boom, ten million times louder than thunder, rolled in from the distant horizon.

Lu Changsheng whipped his head around to look.

He saw the thick, blood-colored clouds on the western horizon suddenly torn apart by some unimaginable, immense power.

Immediately following.

Three massive figures, tens of thousands of feet long and burning with golden-red flames, were plummeting toward his location at a speed so terrifying it tore through space.

They were three pure-blooded Five-Clawed Golden Dragons!

Yet at this moment, these three Dragon Clan powerhouses, capable of dominating the four seas, looked miserable to the extreme.

The indestructible golden dragon scales on their bodies were peeling off in large patches, and dragon blood rained down from the sky like a waterfall.

And behind them.

Two balls of Southern Bright Separation Fire, as blinding as the scorching sun, were in hot pursuit.

Within the flames, two Divine Phoenixes with wingspans of tens of thousands of feet were faintly visible, emitting shrill cries that could pierce metal and stone, frantically spewing fire techniques capable of burning the heavens and destroying the earth.

They were attempting to completely annihilate the three golden dragons fleeing ahead.

Primordial Unity Golden Immortals... and five of them, all blinded by bloodlust!

Lu Changsheng stood rooted to the spot, feeling every hair on his body stand on end.

The terrifying pressure, overwhelming as a mountain and sea, was already causing the surrounding earth—which had only just stabilized—to groan under the strain, even from tens of thousands of miles away.

"Damn it!"

Lu Changsheng couldn't help but curse.

He never imagined that even after choosing the most remote and desolate place to repair the Earth Vein, he would be unlucky enough to stumble into a chase occurring on the edge of such a core battlefield.

Furthermore, judging by the trajectory of their descent and combat, they would crash directly into the land he had just repaired in no more than ten breaths!

Run! I must run immediately!

Lu Changsheng's scalp tingled; his internal mana surged frantically as he prepared to dive into the ground.

But the moment he lifted his leg, he realized with despair.

Because those five Primordial Unity Golden Immortals were unleashing their pressure and laws without restraint, the space within a radius of ten thousand miles had been completely locked down and disrupted by various violent fire laws and Dragon Clan water-element laws.

The rock layers underground had become as hard as divine iron and were filled with chaotic spiritual energy turbulence.

With his cultivation at the peak of True Immortal, if he tried to force an earth-escape now, the most likely outcome was being trapped in the rift between the void and the Earth Vein, shredded into pulp by the chaotic spatial laws!

I can't escape...

Lu Changsheng's heart sank to the bottom of a valley.

Watching the three golden dragons and two Divine Phoenixes draw closer and closer.

The Southern Bright Separation Fire, capable of melting all things, and the Nether Heavy Water spat out by the dragons in a desperate counterattack, were already falling like raindrops onto the land around him.

"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"