Chapter 287: The Dao Finally Consummated, Purple Qi Comes from the East for Three Thousand Miles!
Winters and summers cycled, spring passed and autumn returned.
This small patch of heaven and earth in Anping County of Great Wall Prefecture had quietly passed a full year in peace and harmony.
During this past year, the outside world surged with wind and clouds. The aftershocks triggered by the integration of the Heavenly Abyss Fragment Realm into the Qingzhou Territory were like a ceaseless mega-earthquake, shocking the cultivation world of the entire Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty.
Countless aristocratic clans and sects fought head over heels for the ancient resources in that new territory, and the power hub of the Divine Capital saw undercurrents surging even more fiercely.
However, as the ultimate culprit behind all this, that world-shaking Realm Lord Chu Bai seemed to have completely evaporated from the mortal world.
He not only refused the visits of all factions, but never once stepped half a step outside the dilapidated old county magistrate residence in Anping County.
For a full year, the gates of the county magistrate's old residence remained tightly closed, covered with layers upon layers of defensive and isolation arrays.
No person knew what that peerless latent dragon was doing inside, but every single commoner of Anping County, when passing by this street, would spontaneously lighten their footsteps and quietly light a stick of pure incense at the street corner, bowing deeply toward those tightly closed gates.
They understood no Purple Abode Dao, nor did they understand the dignity of a realm lord. They only knew that living inside was the "azure-sky great lord" who gave them full meals and protected their safety.
And deep within the underground secret chamber of the old residence.
A battle of life and death, lacking blade