The Cosmic Starfield Was Boundless; Fourth-Rank Immortals Sat at the Bottom of a Well, While True-

One Origin Dao Palace was lively for a time.

After meeting and congratulating the newly ascended True Immortal, the other True Immortals did not linger. Their true bodies departed to guard their respective Dao grounds; if they stayed away too long, demons might seize the opportunity.

Within days,

peace returned to Golden Wind Mountain Sea.

But that peace was only relative to the True Immortals.

For the ordinary disciples of Golden Wind Mountain Sea, the Dao Sect's newest True Immortal was cause for joy that would last a long time. Some saw an opportunity to enter Zhou Yan's service while he had only just attained the Dao and Dongqi Palace had only just been established. Many Dao Sect disciples redoubled their efforts to break through to Fourth Rank. That was the prerequisite for entering Dongqi Palace as a True Immortal's direct disciple.

For a time, everyone longed to enter Dongqi Palace.

Yet within Dongqi Palace, its three thousand mountains and seas lay deserted.

Dongqi Palace.

The Five-Phase Hall.

Chen Jichuan sat across from the East River Palace Lord.

The East River Palace Lord regarded this disciple who had just become a True Immortal and said with feeling, "You attained the Dao at three thousand three hundred and twenty years old. Across all Divine Land, you're the first."

Since becoming a True Immortal, he had taken twenty-seven direct disciples and even more nominal disciples. His greatest hope had been that just one would become a True Immortal.

And what had happened?

The first of his disciples to become a True Immortal was the most gifted True Immortal Divine Land had ever seen.

The East River Palace Lord had been beside himself with joy these past days.

He was proud, and happy for his disciple.

"I was fortunate, Master,"

Chen Jichuan