Taking the Primordial Golden Dipper, Tongtian Accepts Four Disciples

Tongtian and the various Saints established teachings to compete for merit and seize destiny. Thus, they took in disciples far and wide and founded their lineages.

Whenever they encountered such outstanding talents, they would naturally be overjoyed and want to accept them as disciples.

But Dao Xuan was different. He walked the path of World-Proving Dao, focusing wholeheartedly on cultivating his own Inner World. He had no desire to involve himself too deeply in the disputes and karmic entanglements of the Primordial World.

Therefore, he had no intention of establishing a teaching or spreading the Dao. Naturally, he had no need to take in disciples and become embroiled in sectarian strife and struggles for destiny.

Still, Zhao Gongming's alertness at this moment made Dao Xuan somewhat tempted.

He had even been able to decisively abandon an Innate Spiritual Treasure like the Primordial Golden Dipper.

All he wanted was to survive?

For a moment, Dao Xuan did not know whether Zhao Gongming was simply good at reading the situation or whether his obsession with protecting his sisters had kicked in.

After all, if Zhao Gongming truly understood the situation so well, why had he lost his head during the Investiture of the Gods?

Of course, that had taken place amid a Calamity Cycle. Perhaps the baleful aura had influenced him.

But regardless, Zhao Gongming had made the right choice this time.

Dao Xuan suppressed his urge to take disciples and looked toward the Primordial Golden Dipper. Taking disciples was one thing, but this Innate Spiritual Treasure was truly enticing.

Dao Xuan would not let a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure slip away merely because of this concern or that concern.

So Dao Xuan extended one hand and reached for the Primordial Golden Dipper suspended in midair.

"Roar!"

Seeing that Dao Xuan intended to take the Primordial Golden Dipper, the two Innate Flood Dragons roared and charged toward his hand.

They actually wanted to stop Dao Xuan!

Dao Xuan naturally had no reason to indulge such brainless creatures that did not know their place.

"Bang!" "Bang!"

With two flicks of his fingers, his great hand unleashed two attacks, instantly sending the two Innate Flood Dragons flying.

Each of them crashed into a mountain peak.

Amid thunderous explosions, rocks tumbled and dust filled the sky. The two Innate Flood Dragons made no further sound.

Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao could no longer sense either of their auras.

There was only one explanation for this: the two Innate Flood Dragons had been killed in an instant.

At once, Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao became tense to the extreme.

After all, Dao Xuan had killed the two Innate Flood Dragons with casual attacks, merely striking them as he took the Innate Spiritual Treasure.

He had killed the two Innate Flood Dragons so effortlessly.

If Dao Xuan also developed the intent to kill them, they would have no ability to resist whatsoever.

Their lives and deaths could be said to rest entirely on a single thought from Dao Xuan.

But soon, Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao discovered that after the senior took the Innate Spiritual Treasure and casually killed the two Innate Flood Dragons, he simply flashed away, turning into a streak of light that vanished into the distance.

"This..."

Zhao Gongming froze for a moment. He felt as though he had survived a disaster, but he also could not help feeling a wave of disappointment.

After all, that had been an Innate Spiritual Treasure.

And an exceptionally powerful one at that, yet it had been taken away just like that.

"Big Brother, it is already fortunate that a being like that did not kill us. What are you still thinking about?" Yunxiao, the eldest of the three clouds beside him, could not help saying when she saw his expression.

Zhao Gongming nodded at her words. "Yes. It is good enough that we survived."

"Hmph!"

Bixiao, the youngest, snorted. "That was our Innate Spiritual Treasure. We had not even gotten a clear look at what it actually looked like. I really cannot accept this."

"What can you do even if you cannot accept it?"

Qiongxiao, the second sister, smiled. "And speaking of it, we were not the owners of that Innate Spiritual Treasure. Those two flood dragons were. Yet even they could not survive."

"That is because they had no brains..." Bixiao added.

At this moment, however, Zhao Gongming's eyes lit up when he heard Qiongxiao mention the two flood dragons. He laughed. "Haha, that senior is actually quite kind. Although he took the Innate Spiritual Treasure, those two flood dragons themselves are also quite valuable treasures."

"True," Yunxiao said.

However, just as Zhao Gongming was about to collect the corpses of the two Innate Flood Dragons, another streak of light flew over from the horizon.

Before that streak of light even arrived, Zhao Gongming felt his Primordial Spirit tremble as it frantically warned him of danger.

Zhao Gongming's expression immediately turned bitter.

"Well, there go the two flood dragons as well." He did not dare speak aloud, instead communicating with the Three Xiao through divine sense.

The Three Xiao also looked utterly miserable.

In the blink of an eye, the streak of light from the horizon descended upon the Three Immortal Islands.

The newcomer was another young Daoist, but his aura was so powerful and sharp that Zhao Gongming needed no further confirmation to know that this was another senior.

Thus, Zhao Gongming respectfully bowed and addressed the young Daoist as Senior.

"Eh!"

The young Daoist had been examining the miserable sight of the two flood dragons, which had been smashed so hard that they were nearly embedded in the mountain peaks.

Upon hearing Zhao Gongming speak, he immediately turned his gaze toward him.

The moment he saw Zhao Gongming, his eyes lit up, and he let out a surprised exclamation.

Then his gaze fell upon the Three Xiao, and he let out another "Eh!" as his eyes shone even more brightly.

He suddenly laughed loudly. "Good, good, good!"

Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao were rather horrified by his laughter. They had just said that the two flood dragons were treasures, but were they not treasures themselves as well?

The way this senior stared at them and laughed without stopping made them all feel afraid.

"Senior."

As Zhao Gongming spoke, he shielded the Three Xiao behind him, attempting to awaken this senior's conscience.

The young Daoist found Zhao Gongming's apparent fear rather strange.

Then, hearing Zhao Gongming call him Senior, he thought for a moment and asked, "What is your name?"

"My name?"

This time, it was Zhao Gongming's turn to be bewildered. Why was he asking for his name?

Still, Zhao Gongming honestly answered, "In reply to Senior, my name is Zhao Gongming."

"And them?" The young Daoist nodded, then looked at Yunxiao and the others.

"They are my three younger sisters: Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao."

Zhao Gongming spoke cautiously, but in the end he gritted his teeth and steeled himself. "Senior..."

Yet at the same time, the young Daoist also spoke. "Good. The four of you, are you willing to take me as your master?"

"Ah?!"

Zhao Gongming, who had only just started speaking, was instantly stunned. The Three Xiao were stunned as well.

"Take a master?"

Zhao Gongming felt the weight in his heart suddenly lift, and cold sweat broke out across his forehead.

"Yes, take a master. What is wrong with that?"

The young Daoist was also somewhat confused by Zhao Gongming's reaction. He simply continued, "I am Tongtian, known by the Daoist title Shangqing. I am of Pangu's orthodox lineage. Am I not qualified to accept you as disciples?"

"Or are you unwilling?"

"Willing!"

Once the young Daoist, Tongtian, said this, Zhao Gongming—being a Grand Unity Golden Immortal—might never have left the Three Immortal Islands, but with a movement of his Primordial Spirit, he immediately understood much of the relevant information.

Naturally, faced with Tongtian's offer to accept him and his three sisters as disciples, Zhao Gongming did not hesitate in the slightest. He immediately performed a grand salute and said, "This disciple, Zhao Gongming, pays respects to Master."

The three clouds also transmitted their divine sense, taking Tongtian as their master.

Only after Tongtian had finally accepted the four of them as disciples did he nod in satisfaction. Then he said, "Tell me, what happened here just now?"