Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls? Just Enough to Complete Your Set

After Zhao Gongming broke through to Great Luo, he spent several hundred more years consolidating his cultivation in seclusion.

When he emerged again, the slightly flamboyant Great Luo aura around him had completely settled. Every gesture carried a faint weightiness like mountains and rivers.

Luxuan gave him a glance.

He was quite satisfied.

At least Zhao Gongming was not the sort of novice who, having just broken through, wanted to carve the words "Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal" onto his forehead.

"Come with your master."

The moment Zhao Gongming emerged from seclusion, Luxuan led him toward Treasure Cliff.

Along the way, Zhao Gongming had more or less formed a guess.

When his three younger sisters had become disciples.

Each of them had received a Supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasure.

Though he was only a nominal disciple, surely his master would not give him no greeting gift at all?

Of course.

Zhao Gongming did not dare hope for anything too extravagant.

A High-grade Innate Spirit Treasure would already be excellent.

Supreme-grade?

That kind of treatment was clearly reserved for personal disciples like his three sisters.

He had better stay practical.

Yet after arriving at Treasure Cliff.

Luxuan did not even pause at the outer perimeter.

He led Zhao Gongming all the way to the deepest part.

Zhao Gongming's heart inexplicably began to race.

Why was the treasure light here becoming more outrageous the farther they went?

Luxuan finally stopped before a circular altar.

The altar itself was nothing special.

What truly caught Zhao Gongming's attention were the blue treasure pearls floating above it.

There were twenty-four in total.

Each was only the size of a fist.

Their surfaces appeared gentle and smooth as water.

Yet when Zhao Gongming truly approached them with his divine sense, it was as though twenty-four boundless seas had suddenly appeared before his eyes.

The sea and sky stretched vast and endless.

Worlds rose and sank.

And hidden within was an incomparably weighty force of suppression.

Most crucially.

The World Great Dao that had only recently condensed within Zhao Gongming unexpectedly resonated of its own accord the instant he saw those pearls.

Buzz!

All twenty-four pearls lit up at once.

Strands of azure divine light enveloped Zhao Gongming.

He froze on the spot.

"Master."

"These are..."

"Sea-Calming Divine Pearls."

Luxuan answered.

"There are twenty-four of them."

"They were originally a complete set of Supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasures."

Zhao Gongming fell silent.

All along the way, he had been comforting himself inwardly.

High-grade would be good enough.

Supreme-grade was a privilege for personal disciples.

Now, it seemed.

He had somewhat underestimated just how extravagantly his master squandered treasures.

"This treasure suits the World Great Dao you have just condensed very well."

Luxuan raised a hand and beckoned.

The twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls instantly began revolving around Zhao Gongming.

"Each divine pearl contains an independent space and possesses the power to calm seas and suppress all things."

"If you merely use them to smash people, that would be a waste."

"Try integrating your own World Great Dao into them."

Zhao Gongming's gaze narrowed slightly.

He had been worrying that his World Great Dao existed only as a realization within his Primordial Spirit, lacking a true medium through which it could be borne and evolved.

These twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls seemed almost tailor-made for him.

Space.

Suppression.

The embryonic form of a world.

All three were perfectly compatible.

"Master."

Zhao Gongming still could not help asking.

"This set of spirit treasures is far too precious. This disciple is merely nominal..."

Luxuan waved a hand, cutting him off.

"A nominal disciple is still a disciple."

"Besides, treasures have no use sitting in Treasure Cliff except gathering dust."

Zhao Gongming's mouth twitched.

Supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasures.

Gathering dust.

Only his own master could say such things.

Yet when he thought of how his three younger sisters had used Three Lights Divine Water for cultivation over the years, and how Innate Spiritual Veins were distributed per person as a matter of routine.

Zhao Gongming realized that his ability to accept such things had actually improved considerably.

At the very least, he did not begin questioning his entire life on the spot this time.

"This disciple thanks Master for bestowing these treasures!"

Zhao Gongming solemnly accepted the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.

The instant the spirit treasures entered his hands.

An arcane connection formed on its own.

Twenty-four illusory seas simultaneously unfolded within his Primordial Spirit.

Zhao Gongming did not hurry to leave.

He simply sat cross-legged before the altar and began refining them.

Luxuan did not disturb him.

Several decades later.

Zhao Gongming refined the core restriction of the first Sea-Calming Divine Pearl.

Boom!

The World Great Dao, which had previously possessed only a vague outline, suddenly became far clearer.

The first divine pearl transformed into an illusory heaven and earth.

Then came the second pearl.

The third.

As the number he refined steadily increased.

Layer upon layer of overlapping heaven-and-earth phantoms gradually appeared behind Zhao Gongming.

Twelve layers.

Eighteen layers.

Finally, twenty-four layers!

Twenty-Four Heavens!

Though they were still extremely crude embryonic forms, not even truly qualifying as minor worlds, the suppressive power produced after each layer of heaven and earth stacked together surged wildly.

Zhao Gongming opened his eyes.

He pushed forward with his right hand.

All twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls shot forth at once.

Boom!

A ten-thousand-zhang immortal mountain ahead abruptly sank.

It was not smashed down by the divine pearls themselves.

Rather, it had been simultaneously suppressed by the phantoms of twenty-four heavens and earth.

The entire mountain mass plunged several thousand zhang into the ground.

As Zhao Gongming looked at the results of his work, the delight in his eyes could not be concealed.

He finally understood why his master had said it would be wasteful to simply use the pearls to smash people.

If all twenty-four heavens were fully cultivated.

Then with a single strike.

It would be equivalent to twenty-four worlds pressing down upon an enemy at once.

Who could withstand that?

At almost the same moment.

A hundredfold feedback appeared once more within Luxuan's Primordial Spirit.

The embryonic form of the Twenty-Four Heavens that Zhao Gongming had just comprehended was continuously magnified and deduced at a nearly terrifying speed.

One world.

Two worlds.

Twenty-four worlds overlapped, supporting one another.

The Space Great Dao was no longer merely a simple alteration of distance.

It now truly possessed the possibility of carrying heaven and earth.

Luxuan's heart stirred.

He suddenly looked down at Penglai beneath his feet.

He had always wanted Penglai to transform from an immortal island into an independent world.

Yet no matter how vast an island became.

It would ultimately still remain attached to the Great Wilderness.

What if he could integrate Zhao Gongming's method of "world-space" into the Penglai Origin?

Let the inner space of Penglai expand on its own.

Let the immortal island possess not only mountains and rivers.

But a true, independent framework of heaven and earth.

The instant this thought emerged.

Luxuan could no longer suppress it.

He even vaguely felt.

That he had already touched upon Penglai's true direction of evolution.

However, to truly push a top-tier Innate Immortal Island toward the level of a world, its current foundation was still far from enough.

Resources.

Spiritual veins.

The origin of space.

And perhaps even more things that shared the same origin as Penglai.

Two names inexplicably flashed through Luxuan's mind.

Fangzhang.

Yingzhou.

The three overseas immortal islands all shared the same origin.

If the three had truly been born from the same source after the opening of heaven and earth...

Just as Luxuan was lost in thought.

Purple Palace Isle.

Within the grand hall of the Celestial Court, the atmosphere was oppressive.

In recent years.

There had been increasingly more news concerning Penglai.

The Three Cloud Sisters had all broken through to Taiyi.

Zhao Gongming entered Penglai.

Quite a few rogue immortals of the Eastern Sea had even begun actively avoiding Celestial Court forces, heading to Penglai's outskirts in search of cultivation opportunities.

Although Luxuan had not truly established a faction or taken in disciples,

Penglai's renown was rising at an astonishing speed.

What Dongwang Gong found most unacceptable was this:

People in the Great Wilderness had already begun comparing Penglai with the Celestial Court.

"The Celestial Court rules the Eastern Sea?"

"Then does Penglai obey the Celestial Court?"

That single question

was enough to make Dongwang Gong's face darken for centuries.

What the foremost male immortal truly relied on had never been cultivation alone.

It was prestige even more so.

If, within the Eastern Sea, there existed a Luxuan who utterly disregarded the Celestial Court and had even defeated him head-on, then the title of foremost male immortal would forever bear a crack like a laughingstock.

Below the great hall,

several Great Luo of the Celestial Court remained silent.

They all knew that Dongwang Gong had been hesitating these past years.

Whether or not to strike at Penglai once again.

After all, his last defeat had been far too disastrous.

But if he did not act,

the Celestial Court's prestige would only sink lower and lower.

After a long while,

Dongwang Gong finally opened his eyes slowly.

"Convey my decree."

Everyone in the hall stiffened as one.

"Recall every Great Luo of the Celestial Court stationed outside."

"Reorganize the million immortal troops."

"Open the Purple Palace Isle treasury."

"This time, the Myriad Immortals Formation must be completely restored."

One Great Luo could not help raising his head.

"Your Majesty, are you preparing to..."

Purple-gold divine light flickered in Dongwang Gong's eyes.

His voice was ice-cold, without the slightest ripple.

"I gave Luxuan a chance."

"Since Penglai is unwilling to submit,"

"then this time,"

"let it vanish from the Eastern Sea completely."