Five Primordial Unity Golden Immortals

This was an incomparably tedious task, a slow and painstaking process that consumed his focus.

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

Using Great Dao Merit as thread, he slowly drew together, linked, and stitched up the broken Earth Vein laws and shattered Five Elements spiritual energy, bit by bit.

Every stitch consumed a sliver of the Great Dao Merit within him.

Fortunately, although the Heavenly Dao had no time to attend to all living beings during the Tribulation of Measure, the instinctive rules governing the operation of heaven and earth still remained.

When Lu Changsheng used Great Dao Merit to forcibly stitch together the first broken section of the Earth Vein, stopping the Earth Core Poison Fire from spreading any further,

a tiny crack suddenly opened in the churning clouds of blood above.

A pure, gentle glow of Mysterious Yellow light pierced through the endless baleful energy and silently settled upon Lu Changsheng's crown.

Boom!

Heavenly Dao Merit entered his body.

The fatigue in Lu Changsheng's spirit from consuming his origin vanished in an instant, as though a long drought had been met with timely rain. Not only was his loss completely replenished,

but even his mid-stage True Immortal cultivation let out a cheerful hum, his magic power advancing further still.

"Just as I thought!"

Lu Changsheng suddenly opened his eyes, uncontainable delight bursting from his golden gaze.

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

"Coming out to repair the Earth Vein now is the same as delivering charcoal to the Heavenly Dao in a snowstorm!"

"The merit compensation is actually more than ten times what I received for purifying the baleful energy in Phoenix Fall Valley!"

The frustration and fear Lu Changsheng had felt at being forced to leave home vanished in an instant.

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

As long as the profits were rich enough and the risks remained manageable, their motivation could make every mighty expert in the Primordial Land feel inferior.

"I'm doing it! As long as the Heavenly Dao is footing the bill, I'll stitch up every crack in the earth within a thousand li today, and I won't complain once!"

Lu Changsheng's spirits soared.

He spared no Great Dao Merit, urging it forth from within him. Golden threads poured into the depths of the earth like a rain of flowers filling the sky.

At the edge of the desolate fissure, untouched by another soul,

time began its long passage.

One hundred years.

Five hundred years.

One thousand years.

A full eighteen hundred years passed as he silently carried out his repairs.

Throughout those eighteen hundred years, Lu Changsheng remained motionless at the edge of the fissure, like an old tree with roots coiled deep beneath the earth.

The ceaseless blood rain fell upon the Mysterious Yellow light curtain above his head, evaporating without a sound.

Now and then, a few low-level Fierce Beasts, driven mad by the baleful energy, wandered nearby.

Before they could even draw close, the oppressive force radiating from the Mysterious Yellow Shield crushed them into blood mist, turning them into fertilizer for the land.

And Lu Changsheng's gains were astonishing.

As he gradually stitched together the Earth Vein fissure, which stretched for hundreds of li, the Heavenly Dao Merit descending from the sky became almost a continuous stream.

The enormous amount of merit not only swept away the lingering fatigue in his spirit from refining the Mysterious Yellow Shield,

but also surged like a mighty river, forcibly pushing his cultivation from the mid-stage of the True Immortal realm all the way to its peak!

He was now just half a step away from the Mystic Immortal Great Dao, the dream of countless cultivators.

More importantly, the source of Great Dao Merit within him, originally only the size of a fist, had been nourished and replenished by all that Heavenly Dao Merit.

It had grown by a full measure, and the Dao aura it gave off had become even more unfathomable.

"Phew—"

Lu Changsheng slowly drew back his hands, and the final golden thread at his fingertips sank into the soil.

The terrifying fissure before him, once bottomless and gushing with poison fire, had now closed completely.

The land remained charred, but the broken Spiritual Vein beneath it had been reconnected. A faint yet enduring vitality flowed slowly along the Earth Vein toward Nameless Low Mountain.

"Mission accomplished."

Lu Changsheng rose to his feet, wiped nonexistent sweat from his brow, then glanced at Nameless Low Mountain in the distance behind him, its collapse now halted, and nodded in satisfaction.

"My home is safe, and I've reached the peak of the True Immortal realm. This trip was a fortune made hand over fist."

"I should quit while I'm ahead. Get home and go into seclusion to break through to the Mystic Immortal realm!"

Lu Changsheng deeply understood the essence of the Dao of Cowardice. He would never be insatiably greedy.

He was just about to turn around and use the Earth Escape Technique to return the way he had come.

But at the very moment he turned,

the void, which he had kept perfectly calm under the protection of Mysterious Yellow Qi, suddenly twisted violently without warning.

Rumble!!!

A terrifying blast of air, millions of times louder than thunder, rolled toward him from the distant horizon.

Lu Changsheng whipped his head around.

The thick red clouds in the western sky were suddenly torn apart by some unimaginable force.

Then,

three enormous figures, each tens of thousands of zhang long and wreathed in golden-red flames, hurtled toward him at a terrifying speed that ripped through space.

They were three Five-Clawed Golden Dragons of pure blood!

But at that moment, these Dragon Clan powerhouses, mighty enough to dominate the Four Seas, looked utterly wretched.

Their indestructible golden scales had fallen away in great swathes, and dragon blood poured from the sky like waterfalls.

And behind them,

two blazing masses of Southern Bright Separation Fire, as dazzling as the sun, were hot on their heels.

Within the flames, two Divine Phoenixes could faintly be seen, their outstretched wings spanning tens of thousands of zhang. They shrieked with cries that split metal and stone, frantically unleashing divine fire abilities powerful enough to burn the heavens and destroy the earth,

trying to completely slaughter the three Golden Dragons fleeing ahead of them.

"Primordial Unity Golden Immortals... and five of them, all fighting like mad!"

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

That terrifying pressure bore down on him like a landslide, and even from tens of thousands of li away, it made the earth that had just stabilized groan beneath the strain.

"Damn it!"

Lu Changsheng couldn't help cursing.

He had never imagined that, despite choosing the most remote and desolate place to repair the Earth Vein, he would still somehow stumble into a chase right on the edge of a central battlefield.

And judging by the trajectories of their fall and the way they were fighting, they would crash directly onto the land he had just repaired in no more than ten breaths!

"Run! I have to run right now!"

Lu Changsheng's scalp went numb. His magic power surged wildly, and he was about to dive into the earth at once.

But as soon as he lifted a leg, he realized with despair:

the five Primordial Unity Golden Immortals were releasing their pressure and laws without restraint.

Within a radius of ten thousand li, the space had been completely locked down and thrown into chaos by the violent laws of fire and the Dragon Clan's water-element laws.

The rock layers underground had grown as hard as divine iron, and they were churning with chaotic currents of spiritual energy.

With his peak True Immortal cultivation, if he tried to use the Earth Escape Technique now, the likeliest outcome was that he would become trapped in the gap between the void and the Earth Vein, then be ground to meat paste by the chaotic laws of space!

"I can't get away..."

Lu Changsheng's heart sank to the bottom.

The three Golden Dragons and two Divine Phoenixes drew closer and closer.

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

Boom! Boom! Boom!