Searching for a Daoist Sanctuary, Primordial Five-Element Grand Formation

"Your disciple Duobao obeys Master's sacred decree!"

Duobao Daoist accepted the order loudly, then gave Xuan Liu beside him a gentle smile. "Fifth Junior Brother, come with me to find a Daoist sanctuary."

"The East Sea is vast and boundless. We will surely find you a sanctuary to your liking."

"Then I'll have to trouble you, Eldest Senior Brother." Xuan Liu drew back his long sleeves and cupped his hands in thanks.

As he spoke, he stored the Purple Lightning Hammer, which radiated violet-gold lightning, in the deepest recesses of his primordial spirit.

Upon the Dharma platform, Tongtian Cult Master watched their actions and slowly closed his eyes.

Seeing this, Duobao Daoist and Xuan Liu did not linger any longer.

They bowed once more toward the Dharma platform before turning around.

They unleashed their great divine abilities, stepped over the tall threshold, and crossed out of Jade Tour Palace in a single stride.

The Primordial World knew no years; time flew like a galloping white colt.

The moment they left Jade Tour Palace, Duobao Daoist brought out a medium-grade postnatal spiritual treasure shaped like a flying shuttle.

It left behind a brilliant bright-yellow streak as it carried Xuan Liu along.

They began searching the endless waters of the East Sea for a suitable immortal island to serve as his Daoist sanctuary.

Along the way, countless islands could be seen floating amid the waves.

Immortal mist rose from the islands, while spiritual energy condensed into fog.

Many innate beings cultivated and breathed in spiritual energy upon them.

"Fifth Junior Brother, look over there. That place is called Purple Ganoderma Island. It is also quite a decent immortal island." Standing at the front of the flying shuttle, Duobao Daoist began introducing it to Xuan Liu.

Xuan Liu's divine sense was exceptionally clear. In an instant, his spiritual awareness swept across that stretch of sea.

After a long while, Xuan Liu gently shook his head and murmured, "Though this island is good, it lacks some karmic affinity with me."

"I'm afraid I'll have to trouble Eldest Senior Brother Duobao to take me elsewhere for another look."

Although Purple Ganoderma Island was considered a fairly good immortal island in the Primordial World—

Choosing a Daoist sanctuary was an extremely important matter.

Beyond the island itself, one also had to seek karmic affinity.

Without karmic affinity, no matter how good an immortal island was, it would all be in vain.

Moreover, Purple Ganoderma Island fell far short of the sanctuary he had envisioned.

It was better to keep looking and see whether there was a more suitable immortal island.

"Haha, Fifth Junior Brother possesses noble origins and the body of a top-grade innate spiritual root. It is only natural for you to have high standards. Then let us continue into the deep sea and take a look."

Seeing that Xuan Liu was dissatisfied, Duobao Daoist was not angered in the slightest. Instead, he appeared exceedingly patient.

As the Interception Sect's chief eldest disciple, Duobao Daoist had received a sage's decree this time.

Naturally, he treated this as a major matter.

Besides, he knew perfectly well just how monstrous Xuan Liu's talent was.

Befriending a future supreme powerhouse was well worth traveling a little farther.

Not to mention that this was his own Fifth Junior Brother!

Junior brothers were meant to be spoiled!

No one knew how much time passed as the flying shuttle drifted across the vast East Sea.

The two of them had surveyed seas spanning untold billions of miles.

They had also seen many top-tier immortal islands of every conceivable form.

Yet every time, Xuan Liu felt that a trace of karmic affinity was still missing.

Duobao Daoist remained calm throughout, circulating the power of a Golden Immortal of the Great Luo.

He continued leading Xuan Liu through the sea in search of a suitable place.

One day, their flying-shuttle treasure crossed a perilous region ravaged by thunderstorms.

They arrived at an extremely remote and deathly silent stretch of strange sea.

The seawater here was no longer the azure blue it had been before.

Instead, it was a murky dark gray. Space was exceptionally stable, and its Dao aura was restrained.

"This place... has something wrong with it." Standing on the flying shuttle, Xuan Liu furrowed his brows tightly.

"Oh? Did Fifth Junior Brother sense something?" Duobao Daoist asked.

As he spoke, his expression shifted as well. His divine sense rapidly spread outward, illuminating heaven and earth in every direction.

However, before his spiritual awareness could fully penetrate the sea beneath them—

"Rumble!!!"

Without warning, an earth-shattering roar erupted violently from the depths of the seabed, shattering the dead silence of the area.

The next moment, before the stunned eyes of Xuan Liu and Duobao Daoist—

The previously still dark-gray sea suddenly tore open in a frenzy, splitting apart into an enormous void fissure.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

In an instant, five streams of incomparably brilliant light in different colors shot into the sky from the depths of that fissure!

Eastern green wood, southern blazing fire, western hardened metal, northern gui water, central wu earth.

Green, red, gold, blue, yellow.

The five-colored divine radiance intertwined and converged, forming a boundless and terrifying grand formation.

It carried a dreadful might as though heaven and earth were returning to ruin and mountains and rivers were losing all color.

In an instant, it completely sealed off their flying shuttle along with the surrounding space.

Rules twisted, and laws reformed.

Under the crushing pressure of this force, the medium-grade postnatal spiritual treasure flying shuttle Duobao Daoist had brought out—

Could not even withstand a single blink.

It let out a mournful cry before exploding with a bang and returning to nothingness.

"Retreat!" Duobao Daoist's expression changed drastically as he shouted.

The powerful cultivation of an early-stage Golden Immortal of the Great Luo erupted instantly.

With a sweep of his sleeve, endless bright-yellow Shangqing immortal radiance transformed into torrents of magical power.

He sought to shield Xuan Liu firmly behind him.

Xuan Liu reacted just as swiftly.

Without another word, he directly activated the Willow God Art. Three thousand orderly willow branches flashed behind his Dao body.

They evolved into the hazy embryonic forms of three thousand divine kingdoms, firmly protecting his entire body.

Yet the formation composed of five-colored divine radiance possessed power far too terrifying.

As the grand formation slowly revolved, the endless principles of the five elements' mutual generation and restraint rapidly evolved through the void.

Within the formation, every bizarre phenomenon of celestial flowers raining down was ground to pieces.

The five streams of light visibly transformed into overwhelming attacks, crisscrossing in every direction.

This formation was profoundly mysterious, its Dao aura obscure and difficult to comprehend.

Even Duobao Daoist, with his cultivation as a Golden Immortal of the Great Luo—

Found his defensive divine radiance repeatedly twisted beneath the impact of this formation power condensed from the origin of heaven and earth.

In that brief instant, no matter how the two changed directions—

Even with Xuan Liu frantically driving the Willow God Art, they could not escape this sealed void.

They were thoroughly trapped inside.

"This is... the Primordial Five-Element Grand Formation?!"

Duobao Daoist's eyes widened as he recognized the origins of the formation.

Within the Primordial World, formations were divided into innate and postnatal types.

Innate formations were grand formations naturally nurtured by the source of heaven and earth.

Such innate formations often contained supreme power.

Of course, if one could break an innate grand formation, there was a high chance of obtaining a considerable opportunity.

As for postnatal formations, they were formations set up artificially after the fact.

This Primordial Five-Element Grand Formation had been nurtured from the origin of heaven and earth's five elements, and its power was truly peerless.

Even a Golden Immortal of the Great Luo trapped within it could face mortal peril and be utterly annihilated in body and soul.

Danger!