The City-Suppressing Seal

Chapter 25: City-Suppressing Seal

At this moment, everyone within the City Lord's Mansion felt their hearts begin to tremble.

Including the heads of the several great families in Moon-Gazing City, all bowed their heads low. As far as the entire Immortal World was concerned, Moon-Gazing City was nothing more than a backwater town that didn't even possess a single immortal; it was simply not worth the attention of such beings.

It could be said that this immortal who had descended from the heavens was the very first to grace Moon-Gazing City since its founding.

Azure immortal light bathed the entire city. Although the cultivators' hearts were trembling violently, the moment that azure light merged with their bodies, they couldn't help but feel a wave of comfort. Even the barriers of their original cultivation levels loosened slightly—this was clearly a gift from an immortal.

Azure immortal light, a High Immortal!

The visitor was actually a High Immortal.

After cultivators passed their Heavenly Tribulation, they reached the Mahayana stage. Mahayana cultivators were also known as Void Immortals and possessed no protective immortal light. Above the Mahayana stage was the true Immortal realm; the first stage of immortality was the True Immortal, distinct from the Void Immortal as a true immortal being. Above the True Immortal was the Heavenly Immortal.

Chen Tiannan had always suspected that the immortal standing behind Chen Xiao was a Heavenly Immortal. Only above the Heavenly Immortal was the High Immortal, a superior immortal!

Azure immortal light, spreading across the earth, was the hallmark of a High Immortal.

Chen Xiao knew that once his Immortal Spirit Root was made public, the Glazed Heaven Palace would certainly receive the news and move to recruit the Chen Clan. Possessing an Immortal Spirit Root meant having the potential to become a Golden Immortal and establish a Golden Immortal family.

However, Chen Xiao had not expected that the one to arrive would be a High Immortal. One had to know that in the Immortal World, the status of a High Immortal was second only to a Golden Immortal; they were already high-ranking figures in the Immortal World. The next moment, Chen Xiao instantly associated this with what the Nangong Family had been plotting beneath Mingyu Mountain.

"Chen Fengyang, receive the seal."

High above in the sky, the High Immortal was shrouded in flickering azure light, concealing his form. Yet, this all seemed like a superfluous gesture; with an immortal descending, no one in Moon-Gazing City dared to look directly at him.

"Chen Fengyang pays respects to the High Immortal."

At this moment, a clear, resonant voice rang out from the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion. Following this, a man with white hair, dressed in azure robes, who appeared to be only thirty years old but whose eyes held a sense of worldly vicissitudes, soared into the air. He arrived in mid-air and prostrated himself before the High Immortal above.

Chen Fengyang, the number one expert of Moon-Gazing City, at the late stage of the Tribulation Transcendence.

The Chen Clan of the past had been nothing more than a small family in Moon-Gazing City. Not to mention great clans like the Nangong Family, even the Li Family and the Beiyu Family were superior to them. But three hundred years ago, Chen Fengyang burst onto the scene, passing his tribulation within a century and breaking through to the mid-stage of Tribulation Transcendence in one fell swoop, becoming the number one expert of Moon-Gazing City.

Before that, the original City Lord family of Moon-Gazing City had declined because their top expert failed their tribulation, forcing them to relinquish the position of City Lord and allowing the Chen Clan to rise.

It could be said that it was Chen Fengyang's existence that forged the Chen Clan's century-long foundation. It could be said that as long as Chen Fengyang did not fall, the Chen Clan's status in Moon-Gazing City would remain unshakable.

If Chen Fengyang successfully passed his tribulation and became a Mahayana expert—a quasi-immortal—then not just the Chen Clan, but the status of the entire Moon-Gazing City would rise within the Immortal World. After all, a city with an immortal presiding over it and one without were two entirely different concepts.

Moon-Gazing City could reign supreme among cultivators, but looking at the entire Immortal World, it was merely a trivial, insignificant place. On ordinary days, the Glazed Heaven Palace would never pay it any mind.

But now, the Chen Clan, the City Lord family of Moon-Gazing City, had suddenly produced a cultivator with an Immortal Spirit Root. Possessing an Immortal Spirit Root meant that as long as one did not perish midway, one was destined to become a Golden Immortal.

Golden Immortals were known as immortal and eternal. As the rulers of the Glazed Heaven, the Glazed Heaven Palace would naturally spare no effort to win over such a cultivator with potential, especially since this Immortal Spirit Root had appeared under the jurisdiction of the Glazed Heaven Palace, within the City Lord family of Moon-Gazing City.

After the High Immortal sized up Chen Fengyang, he flicked his sleeve, and a golden seal, roughly a zhang in circumference, slowly manifested in the air.

The City-Suppressing Seal!

Legend had it that within the Glazed Heaven, all major cities under the control of the Glazed Heaven Palace—whether they were cities of cultivators or cities of immortals—were not built by human hands. Instead, they were a type of artifact-like city jointly forged by countless immortals within the Glazed Heaven Palace.

Although these cities were administered by City Lords on a daily basis, the actual, true control belonged to the Glazed Heaven Palace, and the fundamental reason for this was the existence of this City-Suppressing Seal.

The City-Suppressing Seal was equivalent to the core of a city; controlling the City-Suppressing Seal was equivalent to controlling the entire city. Only families recognized by the Glazed Heaven Palace would be bestowed with the City-Suppressing Seal, becoming true City Lords, protected by the Glazed Heaven Palace, and passing the position down through generations.

This time, because Chen Xiao had consumed the Ten Thousand Jade Heavenly Dragon Pill and awakened his Immortal Spirit Root, the Chen Clan had logically received the affirmation of the Glazed Heaven Palace and was bestowed with the City-Suppressing Seal. This City-Suppressing Seal was not merely a symbol of power used to regulate the entire city; it was, in itself, a powerful Immortal Artifact.

With the City-Suppressing Seal in hand, even if Chen Xiao could not break through to the Orange Cloud Realm within two years, Chen Fengyang would still safely pass his Heavenly Tribulation.

The moment the City-Suppressing Seal appeared, Chen Xiao finally let out a true sigh of relief. He knew that the fate of this life had been completely altered; the Chen Clan... was saved.

At the very least, the Nangong Family would never dare to touch the Chen Clan, no matter how strong their background was; they could not contend with the hegemon of the Glazed Heaven.

Below, Nangong Shenhe's expression was extremely unsightly. The Chen Clan's status had been affirmed by the Glazed Heaven Palace, meaning all their plans would have to be changed and restarted. A century of deployment, lost in an instant.

In mid-air, the High Immortal nodded slightly at Chen Fengyang, then looked down.

Chen Xiao felt his heart tighten. Two gazes, as tangible as reality, swept over him. In an instant, the Breath-Concealing Talisman he had cast upon himself seemed to lose all effect, and the details of his cultivation were laid bare, nakedly exposed under these two gazes.

Chen Xiao knew that the Breath-Concealing Talisman he had crafted might fool other cultivators, but against a High Immortal, it was completely useless.

However, the golden Thunder Virtue Heavenly Book in Chen Xiao's dantian stirred slightly, emitting a golden light that concealed all traces of the Nine Heavens Thunder Virtue Universal Transformation Art.

Even a High Immortal could not see through the Thunder Virtue Heavenly Book.

"To have such composure at such a young age, you are a child worth teaching."

The High Immortal's voice echoed in Chen Xiao's mind. Suddenly, Chen Xiao felt his dantian stir, and a jade-green longbow appeared within it. The High Immortal had silently infused an Immortal Artifact into Chen Xiao's dantian.

Chen Xiao's heart could not help but tremble with shock.

However, in the next instant, he understood. The Glazed Heaven Palace's actions were merely to win Chen Xiao over. Although they had bestowed a seal, the beneficiary was ultimately not Chen Xiao. Therefore, the High Immortal had immediately and silently gifted an Immortal Artifact that suited Chen Xiao's constitution.

The next moment, the spiritual pressure in the sky lightened, and the High Immortal vanished without a trace.

"My Lord, it is done."

A hundred miles outside Moon-Gazing City, high in the sky, the High Immortal from before bowed and saluted a young man with an exceptionally handsome face, dressed in azure robes.

"Mm, Qingle, you have done well."

The old man in azure robes nodded slightly, sighing inwardly: "Brother Fubao, Brother Wennuo, you perished protecting me back then. This is all I can do for you. The Ten Thousand Jade Heavenly Dragon Pill, the Seven-Evolution Azure Dragon Talisman, the Taiyi Dry Dragon Bow—the three of us brothers each held one, yet I never expected, Brother Fubao, Brother Wennuo..."