The Xuanmen Is Secured; A Real Southern Heavenly Gate Stands in the World

Canglan Realm, Primeval Main Peak.

Today's Primeval Holy Land was no longer what it used to be.

Since Ji Changkong returned from the Second Lecture at Zixiao Palace, he had officially renamed the Primeval Holy Land the Primordial Xuanmen!

Ji Changkong appointed himself the first Sect Leader of the Primordial Xuanmen, while the first Holy Son, Lin Qiye, was conferred the title of Xuanmen's Chief Disciple and Demon-Subduing Protector.

As for Su Chen, who had been quietly cultivating in the Library Pavilion all along, he was revered as the Primeval Supreme Guest Elder, his status transcendent above everyone else, permitted not to bow even upon seeing the Sect Leader.

On the vast plaza in front of the main peak's grand hall, hundreds of glowing, vibrant lecture platforms hovered in midair.

Ji Changkong wore a purple-gold Daoist robe, his hair and beard completely white yet his face like jade, enveloped entirely in a rich purple-gold auspicious cloud of merit as he lectured tens of thousands of powerhouses from the Canglan Nine Provinces and even more than a dozen surrounding Minor Thousand Worlds on the Xuanmen Scripture of Virtue.

Complying with the heavens and benefiting humanity, accumulating goodness and perfecting virtue. Those endowed with merit are immune to all evils, and the Calamity Cycle cannot befall them...

Ji Changkong's mighty voice echoed across the heavens and earth.

Whenever he reached the most profound parts, Golden Lotuses condensed from the spiritual qi of heaven and earth drifted down from the highest heavens, merging into the bodies of the disciples listening below, prompting countless cultivators to break through their realms on the spot and kowtow in gratitude.

At the very front of the lecture platforms, Lin Qiye carried a broken sword on his back, dressed in green robes and coarse linen, sitting cross-legged atop a bluestone.

The second stage of the Eight-Nine Profound Art within him was like an unextinguished ancient smelting furnace, exuding the Indestructible Vajra meaning as steady as a towering mountain. The Heavenly Eye talisman seal deep within his forehead glowed faintly, ready at any moment to pierce through all illusions in the world.

Boom!

At that very moment, an extremely muffled and magnificently grand void tremor suddenly came from the highest heavens!

It was not the descent of a disaster, but a supreme auspicious phenomenon that made the spiritual qi of the entire Canglan Realm cheer wildly and the Laws of the Great Dao condense at a rapid pace!

Only to see that in the high heavens tens of thousands of li up, the originally azure firmament suddenly rippled violently like water waves. Boundless Creation Purple Qi surged forth out of nothingness, wrapping the entire Canglan Realm like a dazzling, radiant purple-gold pearl!

Hum—!

A pillar of pure golden merit, tens of li thick, descended abruptly from the very highest layer of the firmament, falling straight onto the lecture plaza of the Primeval Main Peak where it split into two, sinking into the bodies of Ji Changkong and Lin Qiye!

That is... the Heavenly Dao Merit Pillar?!

The tens of thousands of strong cultivators listening below cried out in involuntary shock, their eyes filled with incomparable awe and envy!

Witnessing this extremely massive and pure baptism of Heavenly Dao merit, the Purple-Gold Auspicious Cloud above Ji Changkong's head expanded several times over, his entire body wreathed in immortal light, and his cultivation unexpectedly rose again in tandem, directly pressing toward the true Human Immortal fruit position!

Meanwhile, the Eight-Nine Profound Art within Lin Qiye's body emitted a roar like that of a dragon or tiger, and a layer of dense and arcane Merit Divine Runes faintly sprouted across his previously dark-gold bones and skin, causing his physical defensive power to skyrocket once more!

Establish the Xuanmen, civilize all living beings, return the orthodoxy, and receive the blessing of the Heavenly Dao!

Feeling the immortal power and merit filled to the absolute brim within his body, Ji Changkong was moved to tears of joy, and leading hundreds of thousands of disciples from the entire sect, he bowed heavily toward the void:

The Primordial Xuanmen expresses its utmost gratitude to the Heavenly Dao! We express our utmost gratitude for the grace of the Dao Ancestor!

However, before everyone could recover from the shock of this heavenly descent of merit.

A new change occurred!

Hum—!!

An ancient pressure, countless times more massive than the one just moments before, erupted without warning from the tens of thousands of li of Purple Qi clouds above the Canglan Realm!

That was neither an illusion nor a divine sense projection, but real, top-tier physical fluctuations of the Supreme Law!

At this moment, not only the Canglan Realm.

The Ziwei Star Domain, the Heavenly Demon Great Realm, the Primordial Demon Realm... all powerhouses across a full thirty-seven surrounding Great Thousand Worlds sensed this terrifying fluctuation originating from above the Canglan Realm, and frantically tore through the void in alarm to cast their divine senses over!

What has happened?! What is wrong with the Canglan Realm?! Supreme Mystery True Lord's divine sense crossed the starry sky, crying out in dismay.

Such terrifying physical immortal might! That is definitely no ordinary spiritual treasure! Netherworld Blood Emperor, the First Demon Emperor, also had his divine sense descend, trembling all over.

Under the sluggish and reverent gazes of the countless living beings across the heavens and myriad realms.

Above the Canglan Realm, the tens of thousands of li of Purple Qi clouds violently retreated to both sides!

A towering giant gate, tens of thousands of zhang high and carved entirely from some supreme Immortal Gold and Nine-Heavens Divine Jade, rose step by step from nothingness, suppressing the highest heavens of the Canglan Realm!

The giant gate was pure white in color, carved all over with magnificent reliefs of countless ancient Heavenly Soldiers and Generals engaged in bloody battle, and gods and demons kowtowing.

On both sides of the giant gate, twelve Nine-Dragon Glazed Immortal Pillars that required dozens of people to embrace shot straight into the clouds, the nine divine dragons on the shafts lifelike as they exuded a vast dragon might capable of crushing rivers of stars.

And directly above this towering giant gate hung a dark plaque that exuded an aura capable of cleansing souls and suppressing all evil entities across the myriad realms of the heavens.

Upon the plaque were two golden characters naturally condensed from ancient Immortal Dao Laws—

[Southern Heaven]!

It was no fragment! It was no phantom!

Rather, it was an utterly complete, truly real Desolate Ancient Heavenly Court Heavenly Gate existing in the physical world!

Sou... Southern Heavenly Gate?!

Ji Changkong raised his head to look at the ten-thousand-zhang giant gate hovering above his head that exuded the true and unmistakable might of an immortal, his eyeballs practically popping out of his head, his breathing even coming to a complete halt!

In his mind, he instantly recalled that palm-sized piece of white jade broken brick he had discovered deep within Sorrowwind Valley a few months ago!

At the time, he had thought that was the sole remaining relic left behind by the Heavenly Court.

Yet now... a completely intact, unimaginably magnificent physical Southern Heavenly Gate stood planted so brazenly across the high heavens of the Canglan Realm!

Goodness... It's real! The Southern Heavenly Gate has reappeared in the world! The portal of the Ancient Heavenly Court... has revived!!

Supreme Mystery True Lord's divine sense shrieked sharply in the starry sky, his excited spirit trembling violently!

The Heavenly Court's Southern Heavenly Gate... That was the supreme portal of the Desolate Ancient Era! Old Ancestor Tu Shanye of the Primordial Demon Realm trembled all over.

This is impossible! How could there still be ancient immortal architecture preserved in such pristine condition in this world?! Netherworld Blood Emperor also roared in despair!

Real!

Far too real!

The Immortal Restrictions circulating on the ten-thousand-zhang-tall white jade giant gate, the True Dragon might emanating from the twelve Nine-Dragon Glazed Pillars, and even the slight weathering marks remaining along the edges of the frame all acted genuinely within the Laws of the physical universe!

No matter how any Tribulation Transcendence Stage or Half-Step Human Immortal mighty figure across the myriad realms of the heavens probed with their divine sense, they could find not the slightest hint of falseness or a flaw!

Because this was precisely a physical Southern Heavenly Gate that Su Chen had spent a full fifteen million Karma Points on, directly reconstructing and materializing using matter and laws at the foundational level of the universe via the system!

Rumble—!

The instant the Southern Heavenly Gate stood tall in the high heavens of the Canglan Realm, the cosmic standing of the Canglan Realm began to soar crazily!

The originally incomplete land began to automatically extend, dried-up spiritual veins erupted wildly, and the spiritual qi concentration of the entire Canglan Realm multiplied several times over within a short span of time!

Even the void surrounding the Canglan Realm evolved layers upon layers of immortal mists, guarding the Canglan Realm like a Divine Immortal pure land above the nine heavens.

And just as powerhouses across the entire universe were left speechless by the shock of this physical Southern Heavenly Gate.

Hum—!

The white jade giant gate of the Southern Heavenly Gate, which had remained tightly shut for who knew how many kalpas, suddenly slowly opened a crack amidst a heavy roar!

Boundless, pure immortal qi and mighty heavenly might gushed out from the crack like a tsunami, sprinkling across the entire Canglan Nine Provinces!

And right before the steps of the Southern Heavenly Gate, a tall, upright figure dressed in coarse linen clothes and carrying a broken sword stepped through the void, step by step, slowly ascending the ten-thousand-zhang-tall long staircase of the Southern Heavenly Gate!

It was none other than the first Holy Son—Lin Qiye!

Lin Qiye stood beneath the Southern Heavenly Gate, his posture upright like a spear, the Heavenly Eye talisman seal deep within his forehead erupting with unprecedentedly dazzling dark-gold divine brilliance.

The Eight-Nine Profound Art within his body operated like a roaring thunderclap, creating a peerless, ancient resonance with the entire Southern Heavenly Gate!

Under the breathless, mesmerized gaze of the countless living beings across the heavens and myriad realms.

Lin Qiye slowly turned around, overlooking the vast starry sky and the Canglan Nine Provinces below, resting a hand on the Broken Sword behind his back as his voice boomed throughout the entire stellar domain of the heavens like the bell of the Heavenly Dao:

The Heavenly Court portal has been established, and the Orthodox Xuanmen has returned!

All those within the heavens who practice the Orthodox Xuanmen and widely accumulate Heavenly Dao merit may cross this gate, enter my Canglan, and receive the protection of the Heavenly Court!

Should anyone cause chaos among the living beings and accumulate the baleful qi of the Calamity Cycle... the Demon-Subduing Heavenly Soldiers shall surely punish them!

His voice shook the heavens!

His pressure awed the myriad realms!

At this moment, watching Lin Qiye standing beneath the physical Southern Heavenly Gate with merit divine runes circulating around his body, all the powerhouses of the myriad realms of the heavens completely cast aside their final doubts, dropping to their knees in unison from the depths of their souls!

Pilgrimage!

At this very moment, immortal cultivators across the entire universe initiated an unprecedentedly grand pilgrimage toward the Canglan Realm, toward the Southern Heavenly Gate, and toward the Xuanmen orthodoxy!

Yet behind this heaven-shaking iconic scene.

Behind the peak of the Primordial Xuanmen, within the quiet and serene Library Pavilion.

Su Chen remained dressed in green robes, leaning leisurely against the back of his chair. His slender fingers gently shook a teacup as he looked out the window at the ten-thousand-zhang Southern Heavenly Gate standing tall in the high heavens, a profound brilliance capable of overseeing the grand chess game of the universe flashing within his warm pupils.

The physical Southern Heavenly Gate has been established, and Xuanmen order has been formed.

Su Chen's lips curved into a profound smile that showed everything was under control as he muttered to himself:

“The next act... it's about time to place the ever-changing [Investiture of the Gods], where the gods return to their positions, onto this chessboard of the heavens.”