Everyone Had to Get Moving

Yang Xuan's escaping light sped through the chaos. Before long, he had returned to Mount Buzhou in the Primordial World.

The seven gourd blossoms swayed gently in the wind, as though welcoming his return.

Yang Xuan sank his divine sense into the chat group and began the next step of his plan.

This trip had settled three karmic ties.

Yet one matter still hung unresolved in his heart—who would distribute the Heavens Marketplace invitations?

The system could distribute invitations automatically, but that process was random and beyond control.

Whether those who came were good or evil, strong or weak, friends or foes would gradually affect the development of Myriad Realms Mystic Heaven.

In its early stages, the marketplace needed a stable customer base and reliable partners, not uncontrollable variables.

He needed someone—someone who could travel through the myriad worlds, recognize talent, and issue invitations.

That person needed sufficient cultivation to roam the worlds. Above all, they needed sharp eyes capable of spotting those with potential, as well as enough adaptability to handle the differing rules of each world.

Yang Xuan searched his mind for a suitable candidate.

The members of the chat group.

Xiao Yan was too busy. He had to manage the Endless Flame Domain and prepare a branch of Myriad Realms Mystic Heaven; he was stretched too thin.

Luo Ji was too rational. If asked to issue invitations, he would turn it into a precise screening system rather than a matter of person-to-person connections.

Huang Rong was too clever. If asked to issue invitations, she could sell the marketplace invitations for astronomical prices, but she would also offend a great many people.

None of them were particularly suitable.

Then someone suddenly came to Yang Xuan's mind.

Han Li!

Yang Xuan immediately opened a private chat window with Han Li.

Immortal: Fellow Daoist Han Li, are you available to speak?

Han Li seemed somewhat surprised and only replied after several breaths.

Han Li: Please speak, Senior.

Immortal: I have a matter to entrust to you. The Heavens Marketplace invitations require someone to travel through the myriad worlds and distribute them to talented individuals with potential. After much consideration, I believe you are the most suitable candidate in the group.

Han Li fell silent for a moment.

Han Li: Why does Senior think this junior is suitable?

Immortal: You have struggled and clawed your way through the cultivation world for many years, rising from a Rogue Cultivator to where you are today through meticulous thought. To travel through the myriad worlds, meticulous thought is precisely what is needed.

Han Li was silent for a while.

Han Li: Senior, this junior has a question.

Immortal: Speak.

Han Li: Distributing invitations means this junior will become a "guide" for many cultivators across the myriad worlds. If those people cause trouble in the marketplace in the future, will this junior bear responsibility?

Immortal: No. You are only responsible for issuing invitations, not examining their character. The marketplace has its own rules, and violators will naturally be punished.

Han Li: Then this junior is willing to give it a try.

The corners of Yang Xuan's lips lifted slightly.

Han Li truly had not disappointed him.

First clarify where responsibility lay, then decide whether to agree—this was how smart people did things.

Immortal: Good. I will forge a special token for you as proof of your identity as an invitation envoy. With this token, you may move freely through Myriad Realms Mystic Heaven and use the marketplace's power for cross-world teleportation.

Furthermore, the token contains a sealed strand of my power of creation. It may save your life in a critical moment.

Han Li: Thank you, Senior.

Immortal: Come to Myriad Realms Mystic Heaven in three days to collect the token. At that time, I will explain the specific rules for distributing invitations.

Han Li: This junior obeys.

Yang Xuan exited the private chat, finally having settled every matter.

Still, he could not let someone else work for nothing.

Han Li had not mentioned compensation, but Yang Xuan could not pretend not to know.

But what sort of reward should he give Han Li?

Give too much, and Han Li would feel indebted, leaving him uneasy.

Give too little, and Han Li would feel slighted. He might not say so, but he would not agree next time.

Yang Xuan pondered for a moment.

He decided he needed to visit other worlds and do a little looting.

He could not keep plucking his own leaves. One day, he would strip himself bald.

Besides, there were so many worlds in the group. The world was so vast; he wanted to go see it.

Han Runrun, it seemed the two of them both had to get moving!

Yang Xuan reopened the chat group and swept his gaze over the member list.

Shi Hao's Perfect World had all kinds of sacred medicines, divine materials, and the Primordial True Understanding.

Ye Fan's Shrouding the Heavens world had Origin Heaven Divine Liquid, Nine Marvels Immortality Medicine, and inheritances of imperial scriptures.

Wang Lin's Renegade Immortal world had cultivation planets, restrictions, and ancient relics.

Han Li's own Mortal World had the Heaven-Palm Bottle, spirit herbs, and demon beast materials.

There were also Qin Yu's Stellar Transformations world, Chen Nan's Tomb of Gods world, Xu Fengnian's Snowy World...

Every world possessed unique treasures, but in Yang Xuan's eyes, those treasures were really only so-so.

His late Golden Immortal cultivation and the foundations of the Primordial Great Realm made him view the things of most worlds as ordinary objects—pleasant to look at, but useless.

What he needed were not treasures, pills, spirit medicines, or such things, but the unique "fragments of Heavenly Dao laws," "power of fortune," and "threads of karma" from every world.

Those were the scarce resources he needed to create a world and break through to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm.

But directly telling the group members, "Give me your world's Heavenly Dao laws," would not be appropriate.

First, they could not give them; laws were not physical objects.

Second, they would not be willing. Laws were the foundation of a world—who would dare hand them over to an outsider so easily?

Yang Xuan gave it some thought and changed his approach.

He could travel through those worlds under the pretext of observing the workings of Heavenly Dao, then take in a few "ownerless objects" along the way.

Every world had spiritual objects born of heaven and nurtured by earth. They were not the private property of any individual or faction, and taking them would not upset the world's balance.

For instance, the sacred medicines of Perfect World, the Origin Heaven Scripture of the Shrouding the Heavens world, the restriction jade slips of the Renegade Immortal world...

These spiritual objects often contained a trace of a world law's projection. Collect enough of them, and they would greatly benefit the perfection of Myriad Realms Mystic Heaven's Heavenly Dao.

No sooner said than done.

Yang Xuan once more formed an incarnation from his divine sense.

He glanced at the seven gourd blossoms atop Mount Buzhou.

Their buds had grown somewhat larger than before, taking another step toward maturity.

Before the Purple Cloud Palace's second sermon, he needed all seven flowers to mature. By then, his cultivation would press close to the peak of the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, perhaps even touch the threshold of the Great Luo realm.

Only then would it be possible for him to advance to Great Luo after the sermon ended.

And Myriad Realms Mystic Heaven was his greatest trump card.

"Which world should I visit first?"

Yang Xuan muttered to himself as a name flashed through his mind—Shi Hao.

It was the perfect chance to visit Shi Hao.

The peerless Great Emperor who would suppress ten thousand ages had loved drinking beast milk as a child!

And in the Lower Realm's Eight Domains of Perfect World, the copy of the Primordial True Understanding within the Wasteland Domain interested him greatly.

A bone fragment that recorded the traces of the Great Dao from when heaven and earth first opened.

The "primordial" path contained within it shared the same wondrous destination as his path of creation, though by different routes.

If he could study it, perhaps it would deepen his understanding of "Primordial Unity."

Yang Xuan's divine sense locked onto the coordinates of Perfect World. Seven-colored light wrapped around his body as his escaping light tore through the void and flew toward that world.

Bolstered by the power of late Golden Immortal laws, the world barrier was like thin paper, breaking at the slightest touch.