The Heaven-Defying Heaven Mending Art, and Xia Jiuyou's Obsession with the Thunder Emperor Treasure Art

There was no great hurry to gather the Ancestral Dragon Veins for the Immortal Ascension Terrain. As long as ninety-nine were moved into the Source World before the Immortal Road opened, that would suffice for now.

And if, when the final moment came, they still weren't enough?

At worst, he would seize a few Life Origin Lands to make up the ninety-nine Ancestral Dragon Veins and unleash the true might of the Immortal Ascension Terrain's blessing.

Jiang Yun was no stickler for rules.

The Road to Immortality would not open for over a hundred years. He could take his time searching; he would reach his goal eventually.

With his plan settled, Jiang Yun took one more look at the Supreme Saint Spirit Dragon Vein drifting through the cosmos. Then he returned to the courtyard of the Central Immortal Palace and set an ancient-looking Stone Book on the table.

With practiced ease, he brewed a pot of Enlightenment Tea using spring water from the Divine Pool. Its fragrance curled through the air.

He sent several streams of Fortune Qi to the True Dragon and Immortal Phoenix Undying Medicines nearby, then took Xiao Nannan to the Nuwa Sacred Realm. He would not have traded this life for an immortal's.

Once that was done, he began studying the Stone Book.

The Stone Book was only a foot wide and two feet long. Blue-gold throughout, it looked ancient and imposing, with no sign of a divine object concealing its splendor.

One glance was enough to see that it was extraordinary.

It contained only three pages and a few thousand words, all imbued with a mysterious Daoist resonance. At the beginning were three ancient characters carved in seal script: "Heaven Mending Art."

Though Jiang Yun did not recognize some of the characters from the Immortal