A moment earlier, in a side hall beside Du Xian Hall.
Ji Wuyou, the frail Golden Immortal of Du Xian Sect and its sect master, was coughing up blood when he suddenly detected an extraordinary trace of Dao Charm flash and vanish within the Mountain Protecting Grand Formation.
Though that Dao Charm disappeared swiftly, Wuyou Daoist, who was not in seclusion, still caught it.
Upon careful savoring, the Dao Charm was anything but ordinary. It seemed to contain Heaven and Earth's ultimate principles, standing several realms above even the Dao Charms of the experts from the Three Teachings that Ji Wuyou had sensed at the Dao Origin Convention...
Hm?
Ji Wuyou set down the soup ladle in his hand, extinguished the Immortal Fire beneath the medicine pot, and lowered his head to cough a few times.
As the sect master of a Human Teachings Lineage, naturally he would not make a mountain out of a molehill over such a minor matter. It was merely a wisp of Dao Charm. Perhaps some disciple blessed with good fortune had stumbled upon a treasure.
Following nature, remaining neither warm nor impatient, governing through nonaction—only then could one be a qualified leader of a Human Teachings immortal sect...
Rumble!
What was happening?
Suddenly, wind and clouds churned beyond Du Xian Sect. Vast Heavenly Might appeared in the direction of Lesser Qiong Peak, its overwhelming force bearing down upon every corner of the sect!
"Cough! Cough, cough!"
Ji Wuyou nearly spat blood outright. Through several walls, he stared wide-eyed toward Lesser Qiong Peak.
His mighty immortal consciousness at the Golden Immortal Realm immediately swept out to investigate, only to be directly scattered by that Heavenly Might!
This situation...
Such tyrannical Heavenly Might...
Ji Wuyou suddenly recalled the scene from long ago when he had undergone