A Trip Back to Violet Cloud Palace Finally Corrected His Disciples' Sense of Prices a Little

After leaving Violet Cloud Palace, Luxuan continued using the Space Great Dao to protect the Three Cloud Sisters and Zhao Gongming. The five of them crossed the boundless Chaos and returned toward the Great Wilderness.

Compared to their journey here,

their states were clearly completely different.

Zhao Gongming had newly acquired the Cosmos Ruler and stabilized the Twelvefold Heavens in one go. Along the way, he continuously comprehended its transformations of heaven and earth, practically wishing he could sit down and enter seclusion again on the spot.

Yunxiao had obtained the Nine-River Celestial Chart and gained vast insights from the complete Myriad Immortals Formation, Hongjun's Corpse-Slaying Great Dao, and the spatial structure of Treasure-Dividing Cliff. Her mind probably already contained hundreds of new ways to modify the Nine-Bend Cloud River Formation.

Qiongxiao spoke the least.

Yet within the Innate Sword Casket newly acquired at her waist, dozens of sharp sword energies she had just condensed had unknowingly accumulated.

As for Bixiao,

she had been studying the Space-Locking Ring the entire way.

The small black ring rested around her wrist. From time to time, a faint spatial ripple spread through the area, briefly locking down the already chaotic space of Chaos around them.

"Master."

Bixiao suddenly spoke.

"I've realized something."

Luxuan did not even need to turn around.

"Say it first. Don't tell me you're planning to test the Golden Flood-Dragon Scissors on the Chaos Astral Wind again."

Bixiao: "..."

She really had considered it just now.

But her idea had been shut down in advance.

She could only ask something else.

"I mean, those Great Luo outside really seem pretty poor."

Luxuan's steps paused slightly.

Zhao Gongming immediately failed to suppress his laughter.

Yunxiao looked at her younger sister helplessly.

"Others aren't poor."

"It's that our Penglai has too many resources."

Bixiao thought about it seriously.

That did seem to be the case.

Before this trip to Violet Cloud Palace, she had always thought she was merely rather lucky to have taken a somewhat wealthy master as her teacher.

But upon arriving at Treasure-Dividing Cliff,

and personally seeing a crowd of ordinarily lofty Great Luo display every trick they had for low-grade and mid-grade Innate Spirit Treasures, she finally realized that the words "somewhat wealthy" needed to be removed.

It was already quite good for an ordinary Great Luo to possess one or two handy Innate Spirit Treasures.

Yet in her own sect,

the standard equipment for direct disciples began straight from Supreme-grade.

No wonder those Celestial Court envoys had looked increasingly absurd when they saw the Primordial Unity Golden Dipper, the Mystic Origin Immortal-Slaying Sword, and the Golden Flood-Dragon Scissors.

At the time, she had thought those people were somewhat ignorant.

Looking back now,

it seemed their reactions had actually been normal.

"So when we go out in the future,"

Yunxiao looked at Bixiao.

"Don't casually say things like, 'It's only a Supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasure.'"

Bixiao immediately retorted.

"Master said that."

Luxuan: "..."

She had shifted the blame with remarkable precision.

Zhao Gongming laughed even more openly beside them.

Luxuan could not be bothered to deny it.

"Things are meant to be used."

"Whether something is precious depends only on whether it has value to you."

"Just because others lack it doesn't mean Penglai has to lack it too."

Bixiao immediately felt that Master's words sounded much better.

In a single sentence,

her sense of prices seemed to be showing signs of going crooked again.

Yunxiao hastily changed the topic.

"Master."

"You previously said that Treasure-Dividing Cliff's internal space could be used for Penglai. Are you planning to continue renovating the immortal island after we return?"

"I do have that plan."

Luxuan nodded.

"But there's no rush."

"Penglai has just completed its first transformation. The World Fetal Membrane and spiritual energy circulation are not yet truly stable. If we continue splitting space on a large scale now, we could instead damage its foundation."

Yunxiao nodded.

"Then what comes next?"

"Find Fangzhang."

Luxuan's answer was direct.

The expressions of all four immediately turned serious.

Among the Three Immortal Islands overseas,

the only one they truly controlled now was Penglai.

Fangzhang and Yingzhou had never truly appeared in the world since the creation of heaven and earth.

If Penglai had not begun transforming into a world, Luxuan would not even have been able to sense their homogenous origin.

Now that he had comprehended methods of multilayered space from Treasure-Dividing Cliff,

that homogenous aura belonging to Fangzhang had become noticeably clearer.

This indicated that their previous speculation was most likely correct.

Fangzhang Immortal Island was likely not merely concealed within an ordinary innate formation.

Instead, it was hidden deep within a more complex overlapping space.

"Master."

Zhao Gongming suddenly thought of something.

"If Fangzhang Immortal Island itself is exceptionally strong in the Dao of space, wouldn't it be perfectly suited to Penglai's current need for world expansion?"

Luxuan smiled.

"That's why we need to find it."

Penglai currently lacked neither spiritual energy, resources, nor spiritual veins.

The battle against the Celestial Court had directly multiplied its reserves several times over.

Its true limitation

had gradually shifted from "insufficient resources" to "an incomplete world structure."

If Fangzhang governed space,

then once the two immortal islands of shared origin could merge with each other,

Penglai's internal space would inevitably undergo a truly massive expansion.

Even the World Fetal Membrane would undergo a qualitative transformation because of it.

Such a thing was more valuable than moving ten more Celestial Court treasure vaults.

Bixiao's thoughts were clearly much simpler.

"So Fangzhang Island counts as ours too?"

Zhao Gongming's eyelid twitched.

No matter how one looked at it, the logic behind those words was rather bandit-like.

Yet Luxuan actually considered it seriously.

"The Three Immortal Islands originated from the same source."

"Now Penglai has acknowledged this Daoist as its master."

"From the perspective of their origins,"

"Fangzhang and Yingzhou truly do count as relatives."

Bixiao's eyes lit up.

"Then we're not robbing them."

"We're bringing relatives home."

Yunxiao: "..."

Zhao Gongming: "..."

Qiongxiao's lips curled upward in a rare smile.

After this master and disciple got together, many things that had originally sounded rather overbearing somehow gained an entirely complete theoretical basis.

Still, if the Three Immortal Islands could truly merge with one another,

it indeed could not be considered ordinary forcible seizure.

After all, if Fangzhang and Yingzhou were still ownerless,

then whoever found them first

would naturally own them.

Opportunities in the Great Wilderness had always worked this way.

Several decades later,

the group passed through the Great Wilderness Fetal Membrane once more.

The vast world appeared before them again.

And at the very instant Luxuan truly stepped into the Great Wilderness,

a homogenous ripple several times clearer than anything in Chaos immediately came from the deepest reaches of the Eastern Sea.

This time,

it was no longer merely a vague direction.

Luxuan could even faintly sense that the source origin was moving.

"Hm?"

His gaze sharpened slightly.

Yunxiao immediately noticed something unusual.

"Master."

"Has Fangzhang's location changed?"

Luxuan nodded.

"It isn't that its location changed."

"It's moving."

Zhao Gongming's expression shifted slightly.

"The entire immortal island is moving?"

Luxuan raised his head and looked toward the farthest east of the Eastern Sea.

"More precisely,"

"the spatial layer where it is located has always been moving."

That explained it.

Why, after so many years in the Great Wilderness, countless mighty figures had traversed the entire Eastern Sea and still never found Fangzhang.

It was not hidden far away.

It simply was not fixed in place.

You might deduce its location here today.

But once the spatial tide changed tomorrow,

the entire island and its spatial layer would have drifted elsewhere.

It would be strange if ordinary search methods could find it.

Rather than finding it troublesome after hearing this, Bixiao

became eager to try.

"An island that can run?"

"Wouldn't that make it even more interesting?"

Luxuan glanced at his youngest disciple.

She walked the Space Great Dao.

A place like Fangzhang was indeed practically a natural cultivation sanctuary for her.

"Return to Penglai first."

"Digest everything we gained this time."

"Then."

Luxuan's gaze settled on the far eastern reaches of the Eastern Sea.

"We'll go catch an island."