Disciples Refine Treasures, and I Break Through Again

After Bixiao sheared off a mountain peak from Treasure Cliff with the Golden Flood-Dragon Scissors, Luxuan did not blame her.

Penglai lacked everything but mountains.

Besides, the Golden Flood-Dragon Scissors had only just acknowledged its master. Their spirituality was inherently formidable, and this was Bixiao's first time wielding them. Causing a little commotion was perfectly normal.

Thus, Luxuan swiftly assigned the three sisters to the places best suited for refining spiritual treasures.

Yunxiao went to the shore of the Three Lights Divine Water lake.

Qiongxiao entered the Primordial Sword Valley beneath Treasure Cliff.

Luxuan brought Bixiao to Void Cliff, where space was exceptionally active.

The three locations were tens of millions of miles apart, yet all lay within Luxuan's control over Penglai's origin. Should anything go wrong, he could arrive with a single thought.

Yunxiao sat cross-legged beside the lake, the Primordial Unity Golden Dipper floating before her. As strands of her mana flowed into it, the dormant primordial divine patterns on its surface gradually lit up.

One layer.

Two layers.

Three layers.

For an ordinary Golden Immortal, refining the internal restrictions of a top-grade primordial spiritual treasure was extraordinarily difficult. Even after spending thousands or tens of thousands of years, they might not truly gain control over much of it.

But the Primordial Unity Golden Dipper was simply too compatible with Yunxiao's Great Dao.

With the aid of the surrounding Three Lights Divine Water and Penglai's outrageously dense primordial spiritual qi, she had initially refined the first core restriction in only a few decades.

Boom!

A Primordial Unity aura surged from the Golden Dipper.

Countless columns of water abruptly rose from the formerly placid lake around Yunxiao. As they crisscrossed, they spontaneously formed a simple formation.

The Golden Dipper served as the formation's eye.

Water and clouds served as its foundation.

As enlightenment dawned upon Yunxiao, the insights into Array Dao she had gained at Enlightenment Cliff rapidly merged into it at that very moment.

The formation, which had still been somewhat awkward in operation, became several times smoother in the blink of an eye.

Almost simultaneously.

Luxuan, who was seated beneath the Enlightenment Ancient Tree studying the feedback from the three Great Daos, slightly furrowed his brow.

The hundredfold return descended once more.

This time, it was not merely Array Dao insights.

Part of the Primordial Unity Golden Dipper's primordial Dao charm.

Yunxiao's understanding of the Water-Cloud Great Dao.

As well as her experience from successfully combining a spiritual treasure with a formation—all of it surged into Luxuan's Primordial Spirit after being amplified a hundredfold.

The world before Luxuan's eyes changed in an instant.

The heaven-and-earth spiritual qi, originally formless and invisible to ordinary people, now resembled clearly defined rivers.

Where formations could be created.

Where nodes could be established.

Where primordial spiritual qi could be gathered.

He could see through it all with almost a single glance.

"At this level, the Dao of formations no longer needs to be constrained by formation flags and formation discs."

Luxuan fell into thought.

"Heaven and earth, all things beneath the sky, mountains, rivers, grass, and trees—all can serve as formations."

Elsewhere.

The Sword Valley likewise erupted with astonishing commotion.

Qiongxiao held the Mystic Origin Immortal-Slaying Sword and swung it again and again. At first, she merely circulated her mana according to the Mystic Origin Sword Codex. But as the first restriction inside the spiritual treasure was gradually refined, the sword's pure true intent of Slaughter began nourishing her Great Dao in return.

One slash of the sword.

A hundred-zhang sword light.

The second slash.

A thousand-zhang Sword Qi split the sea of clouds before her neatly in two.

By the third slash, Qiongxiao simply closed her eyes, completely abandoning flashy techniques and extending the sword forward with only the simplest thrust.

There was no grand display.

Yet a thread of sharp law, nearly condensed into substance, flashed past the blade's tip.

Luxuan's Primordial Spirit rumbled again.

A hundredfold return of Sword Dao.

That wisp of sharp law, which had only just sprouted, directly became an incomparably clear Great Dao pathway upon reaching him.

Luxuan raised two fingers.

He did not use any spiritual treasure.

He merely held his fingers together and lightly drew them through the air toward the distance.

Screech!

Clouds stretching for hundreds of millions of miles silently split apart.

A sword scar so fine it was nearly invisible extended directly to the end of the horizon.

"Not bad."

Satisfaction appeared in Luxuan's eyes.

His two disciples, Yunxiao and Qiongxiao, had already begun producing steady returns.

As for Bixiao...

He swept out with his divine sense.

The next moment, the corner of his mouth could not help twitching.

At Void Cliff, the little girl was not honestly sitting down to refine her treasure at all.

She was racing all over the mountain with the Golden Flood-Dragon Scissors, chasing one spatial rift after another.

Each time the Golden Flood-Dragon Scissors severed space, new changes appeared in the surrounding void. And amid those ever-changing shifts, Bixiao was gradually exploring the Space Great Dao.

She looked as though she had gone wild with play.

Yet the results were exceptionally good.

"Here!"

Bixiao's eyes lit up as she fiercely activated the Golden Flood-Dragon Scissors.

Two golden flood dragons crossed past one another.

A spatial rift ahead was directly snipped into two sections.

But the rift did not vanish. Instead, it formed a temporary passage before her.

Without a second thought, Bixiao stepped straight into it.

The next moment.

She poked her head out from behind a massive boulder several hundred miles away.

"It worked!"

The little girl was beside herself with excitement.

Spatial teleportation.

Though the distance was only several hundred miles and amounted to nothing in the eyes of true great powers, she was merely a Golden Immortal. She had never specifically cultivated spatial divine abilities, yet succeeded on her first attempt. That was already astonishing enough.

The third return followed close behind.

A hundredfold spatial insight entered his Primordial Spirit.

Luxuan's mana had already reached the peak of the Middle Daluo Immortal realm due to the previous returns. At this moment, it finally underwent another qualitative transformation.

Rumble—!

All of Penglai suddenly trembled faintly.

It was not an earthquake.

Rather, the island's boundless primordial spiritual qi began frantically converging upon the central Enlightenment Ancient Tree.

The Three Lights Divine Water lake in the east surged with waves ten thousand zhang high.

In the west, ten thousand swords in the Sword Valley rang in unison.

Within the Southern Spirit-Root Garden, countless immortal herbs lowered their branches and leaves at once.

To the north, dozens of primordial spiritual veins awakened like slumbering giant dragons, endlessly sending spiritual qi into Luxuan's body.

The Three Xiao sisters almost simultaneously ceased cultivating.

Yunxiao raised her head toward the center of the island.

A figure sat cross-legged beneath the ancient tree.

Above his head, however, three illusory flowers of the Great Dao were slowly emerging.

A cloud formation evolved heaven and earth.

An immortal sword cleaved apart the firmament.

Layer upon layer of space encircled his body.

Luxuan's aura began rising at a pace the three sisters could not comprehend at all.

Peak Middle Daluo Immortal.

The barrier shook.

Then—

Boom!

Late Daluo Immortal!

The vast pressure erupted for only an instant before Luxuan voluntarily drew it back into his body.

Yet all of Penglai had already undergone visible changes because of this breakthrough.

Below Enlightenment Cliff, a primordial spiritual vein that had originally been only ten thousand miles long suddenly shook violently. Then, like a living creature, it began extending underground.

One hundred thousand miles.

One million miles.

In the end, it directly ran through nearly half of Penglai Island.

Wherever the spiritual vein passed, the density of primordial spiritual qi rose at a visible rate. Some spiritual herbs that had originally only been at the acquired level even began transforming on their own.

Luxuan opened his eyes. Feeling Penglai's changes, a clearer judgment immediately formed in his heart.

The returns he received did not necessarily have to be used solely to strengthen himself.

Array Dao could be integrated into Enlightenment Cliff.

Spatial insights could perfect the Penglai Primordial Formation.

The vast amount of pure mana and Great Dao origin could likewise nourish this immortal island that shared the same origin as himself in return.

His disciples grew stronger.

He received a hundredfold return.

The returns then strengthened Penglai.

Penglai could in turn provide a better environment and resources to cultivate his disciples.

An outrageously virtuous cycle had now completely taken shape.

Luxuan's mood immediately improved further.

When others raised disciples, that was called burning resources.

When he raised disciples, it was called investment management—and the Great Wilderness version came with a hundredfold leverage.

"Master!"

Ripples stirred through the distant space.

Bixiao was the first to emerge from a spatial passage. Just as she was about to show off her newly learned ability, she discovered that Luxuan's aura had become unfathomably deeper than it had been a few decades ago.

She stood frozen in place for two breaths.

"You broke through again?"

Luxuan could no longer be bothered to explain.

"A minor realm."

"Continue cultivating."

Bixiao silently turned around.

She was becoming more and more suspicious that whenever the three of them learned even a little something, their master could draw inferences from it and casually break through.

Unfortunately, no matter how she thought about it, she could never know the true reason.

Meanwhile.

Tens of millions of miles beyond Penglai's outskirts.

Several cultivators, treading upon auspicious clouds and clad in purple-gold immortal armor, were patrolling above the Eastern Sea.

The leader was a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, with a Purple Palace Immortal Token signifying his Celestial Court identity hanging from his waist.

When Luxuan had broken through just now, a vast Great Dao phenomenon had briefly pierced through Penglai's outer primordial restrictions.

Although it had lasted fewer than several breaths.

It had still been detected by them.

The leading immortal general abruptly halted his escape light.

"Was there an island there just now?"

The others all nodded in unison, each looking more shocked than the last.

At the point where sea and sky met.

Within the void that had originally contained nothing, a world shrouded in immortal mist, seemingly hundreds or thousands of times larger than an ordinary immortal island, had flashed into view.

More importantly.

They had clearly seen the two ancient, profound primordial Dao characters above that island.

Penglai.

The immortal generals' breathing immediately grew hurried.

Since the dawn of creation, the Three Immortal Isles beyond the sea had existed only in legend.

Each of them was said to possess countless innate opportunities.

And now, Penglai, the foremost among them, had actually appeared in the world.

"Return to Purple Palace Isle."

"Report to the Imperial Lord at once!"

Several streaks of immortal light abruptly changed direction, racing at top speed toward the Celestial Court deep within the Eastern Sea.