Lu Xuan Breaks Through, Returns to the Primordial World

Although Lu Xuan knew that among this pool of White Lotuses, there might not be many that could reach the ninth grade and become lotus thrones—perhaps not even a single one.

Lu Xuan still did not want Tongtian's eyes fixed on his pool of Purifying World White Lotuses. After all, Tongtian would have tens of thousands of disciples in the future. Lu Xuan could not afford to provide for them all.

At the same time, Lu Xuan secretly decided that when he had the chance, he would send a few plants to Laozi and Primordial Heavenly Venerable as well. They were all brothers, after all; he could not favor one over another.

Tongtian merely gave a simple, foolish grin at this, then began drinking tea and discussing the Dao with Lu Xuan. In the blink of an eye, a hundred years passed.

Only then did Tongtian bid Lu Xuan farewell and return to his dojo on Golden Ao Island in the Eastern Sea.

Although Tongtian had yet to move to Golden Ao Island, he had already begun turning it into the main court of the Interception Sect.

However, his disciples were still all at Kunlun Mountain and had not moved to Golden Ao Island. This only caused the conflict between the disciples of the Exposition and Interception Sects to intensify by the day.

Thanks to Lu Xuan's prior arrangements, Primordial Heavenly Venerable and Tongtian did not take these matters to heart. They even deliberately, whether consciously or not, indulged them, making them all the more brazen.

Lu Xuan had even less interest in dealing with it. He entered the Pangu World-Opening Map once more to cultivate the Heaven and Earth Mystical Technique. Since he had already suffered through it once, he had to raise the Heaven and Earth Mystical Technique to the Zenith Heaven Realm—the Sixth Transformation.

Another ten thousand years passed in the blink of an eye. Amid extreme agony, Lu Xuan finally broke through to the Sixth Transformation. As his physical body reassembled once again, the Great Dao Battle Law merged into his bloodline.

Feeling the Great Dao Battle Law within his body, Lu Xuan let out a breath of turbid air and muttered to himself.

"So one can only comprehend the Great Dao Battle Law after reaching the Zenith Heaven Realm. Good thing I am more or less obsessive; unless I raised the Heaven and Earth Mystical Technique to Great Luo, I would never rest."

"Otherwise, who knew what year or month it would be before I qualified to comprehend this Great Dao Battle Law suited to me?"

At the same time, Lu Xuan had confirmed another point: comprehending the Great Dao Battle Law had a prerequisite—one had to cultivate a profound body-tempering technique.

Otherwise, even if one's cultivation reached the Primordial Golden Immortal Realm, one might not necessarily comprehend the Great Dao Battle Law. In the eyes of the Great Dao Battle Law, a cultivator who had not reached the Sixth Transformation of a profound technique possessed a body far too weak.

Lu Xuan did not rush to leave the Pangu World-Opening Map. Instead, he began consolidating his newly attained realm. For a time, the Dao essences of six laws continuously revolved around him.

This was the heaven-defying aspect of cultivating a profound technique. Even with the Way of Severing the Three Corpses passed down by the Dao Ancestor, one could only perceive the power of laws after breaking through to the Primordial Golden Immortal Realm—the Quasi-Sage Realm.

But a profound technique was different. As long as one reached the Second Transformation, one could begin coming into contact with the power of laws. It was merely that everyone's opportunities differed, as did the laws they obtained.

Lu Xuan had now obtained five Great Dao Laws in total. At the Second Transformation, he gained the Great Dao Space Law; at the Third Transformation, the Great Dao Wind Law; at the Fourth Transformation, the Great Dao Insight Law; at the Fifth Transformation, the Great Dao Concealment Law; and at the Sixth Transformation, the Great Dao Battle Law.

As the Dao essence of the battle law continuously shuttled back and forth around Lu Xuan, his newly broken-through realm gradually stabilized.

As the realm of the Heaven and Earth Mystical Technique stabilized, an Auspicious Cloud appeared above his head, with the Three Flowers floating upon it.

Then the Earth Flower swayed for a moment before slowly beginning to bloom. In the end, just like the Human Flower, it bloomed to the ninth grade.

This did not surprise Lu Xuan. When the Human Flower had bloomed, it had already determined his innate foundation. The Heaven and Earth Flowers naturally could not be inferior to the Human Flower.

Of course, unless he encountered some heaven-defying opportunity, they could not surpass the Human Flower either. Moreover, Lu Xuan's Human Flower had already reached the limit of the ninth grade, so the Heaven and Earth Flowers should naturally bloom to the ninth grade as well.

What Lu Xuan anticipated was whether the Earth Flower, like the Human Flower, would condense a pearl capable of absorbing powers of other attributes.

Sure enough, Lu Xuan was not disappointed. Before long, an earthen-yellow pearl slowly condensed atop the Earth Flower.

Like the watery-blue pearl upon the Human Flower, no matter how hard Lu Xuan tried, he was unable to touch its essence.

Yet Lu Xuan could clearly sense that as the earthen-yellow pearl formed, boundless earth-element power began surging toward him like a tidal wave.

It eventually fused with the wind and water origins within his body, transforming Lu Xuan's origin into three colors: white, black, and yellow.

This also signified that Lu Xuan's cultivation had successfully broken through to the Late-Stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Realm. Once he successfully caused the Heaven Flower to bloom, he would reach the Peak Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm.

At that time, breaking through to the Primordial Golden Immortal Realm with the power of laws would no longer be empty talk. For Lu Xuan, it would simply be as natural as water flowing into a channel.

After all, others only began comprehending laws after reaching the Peak Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm. Moreover, what they comprehended were Heavenly Dao Laws.

But Lu Xuan now wielded five different laws in full, and they were all of Great Dao grade. Thus, the Primordial Golden Immortal Realm, the most difficult breakthrough for others, was the simplest for Lu Xuan.

Lu Xuan withdrew the Three Flowers above his head, allowing the Auspicious Cloud to sink back into his sea of consciousness. Only then did he rise and step out of the Pangu World-Opening Map.

"By my reckoning, it has been tens of thousands of years since I last traveled through the Primordial World. The second great war between the Witch-Demon Clans should be about to begin by now."

Afterward, Lu Xuan gathered several Purifying World White Lotuses from the Pool of Three Lights Divine Water. This time, he took them together with their lotus roots.

The next moment, Lu Xuan pointed forward, and ripples instantly appeared in space. Then he took a single step and vanished directly into the ripples.

As Lu Xuan departed, Abbot Island's concealed grand formation activated as well. Even if a Sage passed through this place, they would not discover the slightest trace without knowing Abbot Island's exact location.

When Lu Xuan appeared again, he was already by the Eastern Sea. He then used the Earth Escape Technique and headed all the way toward Kunlun Mountain.

Although Lu Xuan could use spatial transference to travel faster, he chose the most basic Earth Escape Technique instead.

He wanted to use this opportunity to see just how far the Primordial Land had developed, and how brutal the war between the Witch-Demon Clans had become.

Along the way, all he saw was devastation strewn across the land. Everywhere bore traces of the battles between the Witch-Demon Clans.

The Human Race's days had also become increasingly difficult. The flames of war had already spread across the entire Primordial World. Had the upper echelons of the Witch-Demon Clans joined the fighting, it would have rivaled their final decisive battle.

The Human Race had naturally been caught up in the flames of war as well, suffering enormous casualties. Some clans had even been wiped out outright by the aftershocks of battles between the two clans.

Lu Xuan regarded himself only as a spectator. Even when he encountered battles between the Witch-Demon Clans, he would not intervene.

And so, after a full five hundred years, Lu Xuan finally arrived at the foot of Kunlun Mountain.