Taking the Chief of Male Immortals as a Teaching Tool for His Disciple's First Lesson

The Purple-Gold Divine Dragon spanned the heavens. Wherever it passed, space shattered layer by layer. Quasi-Saint power intertwined with the Celestial Court's fortune; even from hundreds of thousands of miles away, ordinary Golden Immortals would feel as though their Primordial Spirits were about to be utterly crushed.

Yunxiao stared unblinkingly at the battlefield.

She knew that what her master wanted her to see was not how powerful this strike was.

What truly mattered was where its strength lay.

Just as the divine dragon came within less than a hundred miles of Luxuan, he finally moved.

He did not take it head-on.

He merely took half a light step to the left.

Buzz!

That space, which had already been completely sealed by Quasi-Saint power, rippled like water. Luxuan's figure vanished from where he stood, and when he reappeared, he was already behind and to the side of the Purple-Gold Divine Dragon.

Dongwang Gong's gaze narrowed slightly.

"Space Dao?"

Luxuan ignored him and instead looked toward Yunxiao in the distance.

"One of the greatest differences between a Quasi-Saint and a Great Luo is the ability to more fully call upon the laws of the Great Dao and the momentum of heaven and earth."

"This strike appears to come from the Dragonhead Staff, but aside from his own magic power, the true force behind it comes from the Celestial Court's fortune and the spiritual energy of the surrounding heavens and earth."

Yunxiao focused her gaze.

The first time she looked, all she could feel was boundless vastness.

The second time, following Luxuan's words, she deliberately ignored the immense Purple-Gold Divine Dragon itself and turned her attention to the flow of spiritual energy around it. At last, a flicker of surprise appeared in her eyes.

Between the divine dragon and heaven and earth—

There were lines.

Not lines truly visible to the naked eye.

Rather, invisible connections formed from qi, magic power, and the momentum of heaven and earth.

Only because these connections converged together did that divine ability possess such terrifying might, far surpassing that of an ordinary Great Luo.

"So that's how it is..."

Yunxiao fell into thought.

But Dongwang Gong had already attacked again.

The Dragonhead Staff swept across the air.

Purple-gold radiance filled the sky like an overturned galaxy, sealing every inch of space around Luxuan. This time, he clearly had no intention of giving his opponent another easy chance to evade with the laws of space.

"I want to see how long you can keep dodging!"

Great Dao patterns appeared beneath Luxuan's feet.

His figure flickered repeatedly amid the countless violet rays.

Every time, it seemed he escaped by a hair's breadth.

Yet every attack missed by that tiny fraction.

What made Dongwang Gong even more uncomfortable was that Luxuan was not merely dodging—he was genuinely lecturing while he dodged.

"Did you see that?"

"The range of this attack has expanded tenfold, yet the momentum of heaven and earth it can draw upon has not increased in step."

"Once the force is dispersed, it looks more frightening, but the power that truly lands on a single point is instead reduced."

"The same principle applies if you were setting an array."

"The larger an array's range, the stronger it is not necessarily."

"Once there are too many nodes and your divine sense cannot completely command them, even a so-called grand array is no more than a sieve that leaks from every side."

In the distance.

Bixiao's expression gradually became more animated.

"Second Sister."

"Why do I feel that Dongwang Gong's expression is getting uglier and uglier?"

Qiongxiao could barely suppress the curve of her lips as well.

"If you were fighting someone, and they dodged while using you as a negative example, your expression would not look much better either."

Bixiao seriously considered it.

"Then I might just start cursing."

Qiongxiao looked into the distance.

"He should be close to his limit too."

Sure enough.

Purple qi around Dongwang Gong suddenly surged.

"Luxuan!"

"Do you truly think there is nothing I can do to you?!"

The Dragonhead Staff abruptly struck against the void.

Boom!

Invisible ripples swept across hundreds of thousands of miles.

The previously active laws of space around Luxuan were instantly forcibly suppressed by a higher level of Quasi-Saint power.

Immediately afterward, Dongwang Gong formed seals with both hands.

The scattered purple-gold divine light rapidly flowed back in from all directions, finally converging into a single point.

A purple sphere of light, no larger than a fist, appeared at the tip of the Dragonhead Staff.

Compared with the earlier vast divine abilities that stretched tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of feet, this strike looked pitifully small.

Yet the instant the sphere appeared, Yunxiao's expression abruptly changed.

Danger!

Utmost danger!

Because this time, Dongwang Gong had compressed nearly all the power of heaven and earth within hundreds of thousands of miles into that single point.

"Now this is more like it."

Luxuan instead revealed a trace of satisfaction.

"The second lesson."

"The concentration of power."

Dongwang Gong: "..."

He suddenly realized that speaking with this man would shave years off his life.

The next instant.

The purple sphere abruptly vanished.

It was so fast that even the divine sense of an ordinary Great Luo could scarcely catch it.

Yet Luxuan did not dodge again.

He raised his right hand.

His index finger lightly pointed forward.

To onlookers, the place where that finger landed was not even on the direct path of the purple sphere.

Dongwang Gong was first stunned.

Then his expression changed sharply.

"How dare you!"

It was already too late.

Luxuan's fingertip landed upon a spot in the void that appeared utterly empty.

Pop.

The sound was faint.

But as that finger descended, one of the core qi connections Dongwang Gong had formed by drawing upon the surrounding power of heaven and earth was forcibly severed.

One line broke.

Ten lines fell into disorder.

The purple sphere, which had originally maintained perfect balance, immediately began trembling violently.

Yunxiao's eyes lit up at once.

A node!

Her master's attack had not targeted Dongwang Gong's divine ability at all.

It had targeted the node connecting that divine ability to heaven and earth!

Boom!

Before the purple sphere could even reach Luxuan, its internal power fell out of balance and it exploded prematurely.

Purple light spanning ten thousand feet swept through the void.

Yet it was as though an invisible barrier stood before Luxuan. When all the aftershocks came within a hundred feet, they automatically slid away to either side.

"Do you understand now?"

Luxuan turned back and asked.

Yunxiao suppressed the excitement in her heart.

"This disciple understands some of it."

"Arrays have nodes, divine abilities have nodes, and even the momentum of heaven and earth borrowed by cultivators likewise has nodes."

Luxuan nodded in satisfaction.

"Though the paths of the Great Dao differ, they lead to the same destination."

"If you understand arrays only as array flags, array discs, and fixed array patterns, you will ultimately remain beneath the surface."

"A true grand array—"

"Heaven and earth can be the array."

"All living beings can be the array."

"Even an enemy's divine ability can become a part of your array."

Yunxiao's Primordial Spirit trembled violently.

It was as though something that had always remained vague and unclear was completely pushed open in that instant.

The tranquil clouds around her began to flow of their own accord.

One strand.

Nine strands.

Thirty-six strands.

These clouds did not form any fixed array diagram. Instead, they continuously changed between heaven and earth, each movement of their flow precisely following the fluctuations of the surrounding spiritual energy.

At the same moment, a far purer comprehension of the Array Dao than before surged into the depths of Luxuan's Primordial Spirit.

Yunxiao had only taken one step forward.

But the hundredfold feedback that reached him was like completely pushing open an enormous gate.

The heaven and earth in Luxuan's eyes changed once more.

The Great Dao nodes that he had previously only been able to sense now began to reveal far more complete trajectories of operation.

Dongwang Gong also keenly sensed the change in Luxuan.

His expression darkened completely.

"While fighting this seat—"

"You still dare use this chance to comprehend the Dao?"

Luxuan flexed his fingers.

"For that, I have you to thank."

"My few disciples usually lack teaching material at the Quasi-Saint level."

"You arrived at just the right time today."

A vein finally throbbed on Dongwang Gong's forehead.

Very good.

Excellent.

He, the dignified chief of male immortals, had personally come to Penglai to demand answers.

Yet in the end, he had been made into teaching material for several Golden Immortals in a public lesson.

If word of this got out, would he have any face left at all?

Boom!

An aura several times stronger than before erupted from Dongwang Gong's body.

At this moment, his Early Quasi-Saint cultivation was no longer restrained in the slightest.

Boundless purple qi dyed the heavens.

A purple-gold Dharma form, a hundred thousand feet tall, slowly rose behind him.

The Dragonhead Staff likewise swelled with the wind.

Dongwang Gong looked at Luxuan, and for the first time, true killing intent rose in his eyes.

"Teaching?"

"Today, this seat will first teach you—"

"Just how vast the gap is—"

"Between a Great Luo and a Quasi-Saint!"

Luxuan raised his head to look at that Dharma form that blotted out the sky.

"This lesson—"

"Finally has a little difficulty."