Years Settled Deep, an Aura Like Ancient Mountains

Their voyage had been peaceful all the way, with no blind cultivators coming to disturb them.

Nangong Hueling bid everyone farewell at the outskirts of Profound Grotto Immortal Island and headed for the Dao Academy. Being able to stay out for so long had required her to call in a few favors...

Leaving Dust Island. Today, light streamed through gaps in the clouds and scattered in all directions, beams shining upon the great immortal cities.

Chen Xun and Black Bull had already gone to the Immortal Hall to begin their cultivation. Yin Tianshou was setting up a grand formation in the Immortal Hall's rear courtyard. Strands of inscribed Rule Force emerged between heaven and earth, while the sound of the Great Dao echoed afar.

They listened quietly to his teachings, their expressions solemn. Chen Xun in particular still had far too many questions he wished to ask, such as the connection between the power of the Great Dao and Rule Force.

Was fighting across realms possible? Yin Tianshou began imparting countless matters of common knowledge to them. Black Bull's nostrils flared repeatedly, even its pupils trembling. If that was truly the case...

Then, if they refined several hundred strands of Rule Force at the Great Vehicle Early Stage, they could contend against the legendary venerables of the Great Vehicle Late Stage!

Thus, day after day passed. Chen Xun and Black Bull remained exceedingly busy, thirsting for knowledge.

Black Bull was especially engrossed in the Dao of Talisman Formations—how to inscribe the power of the Great Dao into talisman blanks, and so on. It listened as though utterly bewitched.

Black Bull truly had not been mistaken back then. The Dao of formations held countless paths, and Talisman Formations were absolutely a means of refining its formation arts. For instance, when breaking