What happened afterward in the treacherous Mystic Void Spirit World remained unknown to the world.
At that moment,
as his figure rose swiftly,
Liu Dongqing returned to the Yang World. His cold eyes swept in every direction, settling on the sacred sects of the Sacred-Mystic Confluence, led by the two great sects of the North Sea Blackwater and Heavenly River!
Bzz—bzz—bzz—
For a moment,
tremors and humming echoed across the Five Regions Mountains. Under Liu Dongqing's sweeping gaze, the sects reacted as if startled, pouring all their strength into manifesting their Fortune Clouds.
Some
even revealed considerable signs of the Ancient Earth Immortal Method.
Clearly, they were preparing to activate even more secret techniques tied to their sects' Fortune Clouds!
Liu Dongqing
had seen no shortage of similar methods in the Pure Yang Sword Sect's scripture repository.
Some were bloody and brutal.
They sacrificed one Spirit Transformation Dao Lord—or a prescribed number of them—on the spot to the Fortune Cloud. Through the Ancient Ritual Method, they stirred the sect's fortunes, using the victims' bodies, souls, and accumulated Dao arts as firewood.
For a short time, this could grant the sect's Fortune Cloud extraordinary power to attack and protect.
But cultivators sacrificed through the Ancient Ritual Method
could not even undergo a true-spirit Transmigration Tribulation, for the rite touched upon the arcane workings of Fortune Spiritual Opportunity!
Even the more balanced secret techniques
required a cultivator to deliberately bend their Dao Path. Using Incense Divine Power drawn from transmitted teachings as a guide, they would turn the entirety of their Spirit Transformation Dao Lord foundation toward the Earth Immortal Method!
On the spot, they would become Earth Immortals with no future left on the immortal path!
Then they would make the Mountain Gate their Earth Immortal domain and wield the Fortune