The Three Cloud Sisters Each Comprehend a Method; This Sect of Penglai Is Becoming Less and Less Like a Normal Sect

There were less than a hundred years until Fangzhang Immortal Island next passed through its designated spatial node.

Luxuan did not let his disciples wait idly.

They had gained far too much from their trip to Violet Cloud Palace.

This was the perfect opportunity to use the remaining time to truly integrate their newly acquired spirit treasures into their respective combat systems.

Yunxiao was the first to begin.

After the Nine-River Celestial Chart unfolded, its nine innate water veins meshed with the Nine-Bend Cloud River Formation far more perfectly than she had initially imagined.

In the past, when setting up an array,

she first had to draw upon the surrounding clouds and water between heaven and earth.

If she encountered an extremely dry environment or one thick with fire qi, the Nine-Bend Cloud River Formation's power would naturally be affected.

Now, things were completely different.

The Nine-River Celestial Chart itself contained nine innate water veins.

All she had to do was unfold it.

Nine cloud rivers could then form out of thin air.

In other words,

Yunxiao had once relied on the terrain to set her array.

Now, she had begun carrying terrain around with her.

What if there was no water somewhere?

There was water in the chart.

What if there was not enough cloud qi?

She could release it herself.

Even if a battle took place inside a volcano,

she could still create a water-element battlefield on the spot.

After watching, Bixiao offered an exceptionally accurate assessment.

"Big Sister, will you be carrying an entire array around whenever you go out from now on?"

Yunxiao thought about it.

"More or less."

Luxuan, however, saw things more clearly.

The Nine-River Celestial Chart's true value was not merely in supplying water veins.

It was that Yunxiao now possessed, for the first time, a core that could bear her Array Dao over the long term.

Every time she set up an array,

every time she modified one,

she could directly imprint the perfected array runes into the chart.

This meant that the array would grow alongside her.

The longer Yunxiao cultivated,

the stronger the chart would become.

The stronger the chart became,

the faster she would be able to set up arrays in the future.

Another positive cycle was taking shape.

Qiongxiao's new treasure was far simpler.

The Innate Sword Casket.

She would continuously pour sword qi from the Mystic Origin Immortal-Slaying Sword into it during her daily cultivation.

One sword a day.

More than three hundred and sixty swords a year.

In a hundred years,

that was over thirty thousand swords.

This sword qi would not noticeably dissipate from prolonged storage. Instead, it would be continuously nourished by the sword intent of the same origin inside the Sword Casket.

When Qiongxiao first truly tested it,

she had accumulated only three thousand strands of sword qi.

Then, facing an uninhabited stretch of sea beyond Penglai, she opened the Sword Casket.

Clang—!

A single sword cry rang out.

Three thousand streams of azure sword light shot into the sky at once.

The clouds within a radius of a hundred thousand li were instantly shredded to pieces.

Thousands of enormous sword scars also appeared across the sea's surface, unable to close for a long time.

Bixiao stood in the distance, staring in utter astonishment.

"Second Sister."

"Did you store up every sword you didn't strike with before and release them all at once?"

Qiongxiao nodded.

"Mm."

"What if you saved them up for a hundred thousand years?"

Qiongxiao thought about it seriously.

"I haven't tried."

Bixiao silently stepped a little farther back.

She had better not provoke Second Sister in the future.

In a certain sense, this thing was even more dangerous than holding a grudge.

At most, someone holding a grudge would fight you later.

Second Sister could actually save up the swords of the next hundred thousand years in advance.

Luxuan likewise received a hundredfold Sword Dao feedback.

This even made him think of an even more outrageous application.

If Qiongxiao reached the Great Luo realm, the Quasi-Saint realm, or even higher in the future, and the Sword Casket could still preserve all the sword intent she had accumulated thus far, then the true terror of this treasure would never lie in its grade.

It would lie in time.

The longer one lived,

the more one could store.

The day the casket opened,

everyone would first have to ask just how many years of pent-up fury it contained.

When it came to Bixiao,

the whole situation, as always, began going off the rails.

After the Space-Locking Ring was paired with the Golden Flood-Dragon Scissors,

its effect could be summed up in just two words.

Incredibly useful.

When she used the Golden Flood-Dragon Scissors to pursue enemies in the past,

what annoyed her most was their constant teleportation and escape.

Especially at the Taiyi and Great Luo levels.

Even if they could not win,

it was difficult to truly stop them if they wanted to flee.

Now, once she deployed the Space-Locking Ring,

the spatial nodes within a certain area were directly fixed in place.

No teleportation.

No spatial shifting.

Many spatial treasures would also be affected.

Then,

the Golden Flood-Dragon Scissors came down with a snip.

Lock them down.

Snip.

It was so simple that Luxuan did not know how else to describe it.

Bixiao herself was plainly extremely satisfied.

"Master."

"From now on, if anyone runs fast, can I just lock them down first?"

"In theory."

"Then snip them?"

Luxuan glanced at her.

"Can you stop thinking about snipping people all day long?"

Bixiao asked in earnest,

"If the Golden Flood-Dragon Scissors aren't for snipping people, what are they for?"

Luxuan was speechless.

Her logic was far too self-consistent.

For a moment, he could not refute it.

Zhao Gongming's progress was equally immense.

After he completely refined the first portion of the Cosmos Ruler's restrictions,

the original twelve stable heavens were reinforced even further.

Especially the boundary of each heaven.

In the past, they would still visibly tremble when struck by powerful attacks.

Now, with a sweep of the Cosmos Ruler,

the cosmos was fixed.

Heaven and earth were stabilized.

The strength of the World Fetal Membrane surged severalfold.

Though the remaining twelve Sea-Calming Divine Pearls had yet to truly open up worlds,

they had gradually found their direction.

They only needed time.

The completion of the Twenty-Four Heavens was merely a matter of sooner or later.

Each of his four disciples had made progress.

Naturally, the feedback Luxuan received was equally terrifying.

His Early Primordial Golden Immortal cultivation had not directly broken through to the middle stage.

Yet the Primordial Unity Dao Fruit, which had only just condensed not long ago, rapidly stabilized beneath the immense feedback from the Array Dao, Sword Dao, space, and World Great Dao.

If his Dao Fruit had been like a house that had just been built when he first broke through,

then now,

its foundation had been thoroughly secured.

Its beams and pillars had all been reinforced.

When he continued adding Great Dao to it in the future,

he would no longer need to worry as much about the structure falling out of balance.

Most crucially,

Luxuan was even more confident about finding Fangzhang Immortal Island.

He had already figured out the patterns of the Spatial Tides.

Bixiao could lock down space.

Zhao Gongming could use the heavens to stabilize the outskirts.

Yunxiao could seal off the paths with arrays.

When they truly arrived,

unless Fangzhang grew legs and ran straight out of the Great Wilderness,

there was basically no chance of it vanishing again.

Ninety-seven years

swiftly passed amid this cultivation.

On this day,

above the skies of Penglai,

Luxuan suddenly opened his eyes.

A wave of same-origin energy that only he could clearly sense was rapidly approaching the spatial node he had previously calculated.

It was here.

Luxuan rose in a single step.

Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, Bixiao, and Zhao Gongming also ended their cultivation almost simultaneously.

There was no need to say more.

They all knew it was time to set out.

Bixiao was especially excited.

The Space-Locking Ring was already fitted around her wrist.

"Master."

"If we manage to lock it down this time,"

"can I be the first one to go in?"

Luxuan thought for a moment.

"Fine."

"But let's make this clear first."

"Once you're inside, don't test everything you see with the Golden Flood-Dragon Scissors to see if it's hard enough."

Bixiao immediately looked a little guilty.

She really had been planning to do that.

Yunxiao simply dragged her away from the side.

"Let's find it first."

With a light sweep of Luxuan's sleeve,

the space beyond Penglai silently split open.

A spatial passage spanning the billions of miles of the Eastern Sea formed directly.

The five of them stepped into it.

And just after they left,

the very origin of Penglai Immortal Island suddenly let out a deep rumble,

as though answering something that was about to return.