Penglai, the Great Void.
The coffin opened, and life and death underwent transformation.
Silver-black thunderbolts surged forth, crisscrossing with staggering might and authority. All of them poured into a radiant gateway manifested high above, where the essences of origin and creation dissolved them into the mysteries of the Altar Thunder Path.
A green-robed Daoist then stepped out, his face indistinct, a blue lotus hanging at his waist. He trailed boundless primordial chaos behind him, like a wondrous Immortal Sword.
"No further lightning tribulation descended..."
Xu Xuan had gained much through Turning Wounds into Enlightenment. Now that he had emerged without drawing another punitive assault, he could freely walk the world.
He did not leave, but quietly gazed ahead at the Life Pivot.
This Taboo Wood Dao Verification was a somber azure, engraved all over with images of demons and wraiths. Within it lay inexhaustible Taboo Wood Mysterious Radiance and the qi of life and death, concealing life and hiding nature, refining the living and delivering the dead.
[Life Pivot]
Bearing both Greater Yin and Lesser Yang Essence, it was indeed a supreme treasure-
The pivot gradually dispersed, returning to Taboo Wood and vanishing without a trace.
Pink-gold radiance immediately descended from the sky and condensed into a long path. Two peach blossoms drifted down along it, becoming celestial maidens who stood beside the path and bowed respectfully. "We invite the Mystic Lord to Thorn Ridge, to enter the Wood Immortal Hermitage."
At the end of this long path stood a mountain ridge suspended in the void, lush and verdant as an azure cloud, with a small deathly azure hermitage atop it.
Xu Xuan took a step and descended onto the ridge.
From afar, the ridge seemed only a few li across. The closer he drew, the vaster it appeared. Once