Inside an ancient, imposing palace.
Daoist Randeng sat at the head of the hall.
The Chan Sect's Saint had left, so Daoist Randeng now handled all the sect's affairs.
"Senior Brother, I've already investigated. There truly isn't a trace of any living creature's presence on Golden Ao Island."
"It seems the Jie Sect Disciples really have all dispersed."
Yu Ding Zhenren lowered his head as he reported, but his eyes held an excitement he could not conceal.
The Three Teachings of the Daoist tradition.
Setting aside the Human Sect, which had only a handful of disciples, after all.
The remaining two great sects, the Chan Sect and the Interception Sect, had stood in fierce opposition for so many years without either gaining the upper hand.
Now that the Interception Sect had disbanded on its own, wouldn't their Chan Sect become the sole dominant power?
The mere thought sent a thrill of excitement through the entire Chan Sect!
Yet Daoist Randeng, seated at the head of the hall, found it suspicious.
The Interception Sect had been flourishing, and Saint Tongtian presided over it. How could it simply disband?
And why precisely when all the Saints had gathered at Zixiao Palace?
Could it be...
Was the Chan Sect's dissolution connected to this deliberation at Zixiao Palace?
Countless thoughts passed through Randeng's mind before he finally looked at Yu Ding Zhenren standing below.
"Have you sent anyone to find out exactly why they suddenly disbanded?"
Yu Ding Zhenren hurriedly answered.
"Our investigation revealed that the Interception Sect's dissolution was entirely the doing of Vice Leader Lu Feng."
"Lu Feng?"
Randeng immediately turned his head.
Though they were both Vice Leaders, Randeng had never thought much of Lu Feng.
After all, the man usually kept to himself and rarely interacted with him.
Nor was his strength particularly outstanding.
Yet now he had suddenly disbanded the entire Interception Sect.
Randeng could not shake the feeling that some enormous plot lay behind this.
For now, it would be better to watch and wait.
Naturally, Lu Feng knew nothing of the thoughts stirring on Kunlun Mountain.
His mind was wholly occupied with how to complete his task.
After countless discussions with the system.
They finally reached an agreement.
The system would provide Lu Feng with maps of the relevant locations, allowing him to pinpoint the disciples' whereabouts and guide them toward suitable fortuitous opportunities.
Of course, Lu Feng really had nothing worthwhile to take out of his inventory at the moment.
If he had no tangible goods, surely theory would do?
At worst, he could write down all the little mythological tales he knew and scatter them throughout the Primordial World. Surely some disciples would stumble upon them eventually?
Somewhere deep in the mountains of the Primordial World.
The Three Xiao Sisters glanced at the blazing sun overhead and finally decided to find somewhere to rest.
"We've been out training for so long already. Why haven't we found any of the fortuitous opportunities Senior Brother Lu spoke of?"
Bixiao had a lively disposition, and she spoke with even less restraint than usual.
Yunxiao was more measured, and she shot Bixiao a stern look after hearing her words.
"We've only been away from Golden Ao Island for a few days. Besides, how could a fortuitous opportunity be something you find just because you go looking for it?"
"Better not dwell on such things."
Bixiao immediately nodded, but the next instant, her eyes lit up.
"Eldest Sister, there seems to be a Jade Slip over there."
Looking in the direction Bixiao pointed, Yunxiao and Qiongxiao both perked up.
Qiongxiao raised her hand, and the Jade Slip fell into her grasp.
"What is this?"
Qiongxiao looked at her two sisters in puzzlement.
In truth, the other two were equally bewildered.
"Why don't we open it and have a look?"
Eagerness crept into Bixiao's eyes.
At that, Qiongxiao immediately sent a wisp of her divine sense inside. But the moment it entered, it was pulled straight into a small world.
At first, this world was pitch-black. Only with Qiongxiao's arrival did color gradually emerge.
Before long, a figure began to appear amid that color. Initially tiny, it gradually grew until it became a sacred image of a woman!
Through that sacred image, Qiongxiao seemed to glimpse the woman's entire life unfolding behind her, from the beginning of her cultivation to her step-by-step ascent to Sainthood...
She had no idea how much time passed.
When Qiongxiao's divine sense was expelled from the small world, only shock remained in her eyes.
At the same time, a wisp of the power of law had appeared in her hand.
She had comprehended this wisp of the power of law within that small world alongside the woman-no, the female Saint.
"Second Sister, you're finally out!"
Qiongxiao softly exhaled a breath of stale air.
"I'm fine. I merely gained an insight from a fortuitous opportunity just now."
With that, Qiongxiao immediately offered the Jade Slip in her hand to Yunxiao and Bixiao.
"There's a small world inside this Jade Slip that can unfold a Saint's entire life. Why don't you both take a look and see whether you can comprehend anything from it?"
Yunxiao and Bixiao both looked astonished at Qiongxiao's words.
A Saint's life was so vast and unfathomable. How could it appear inside a single Jade Slip?
Yet the power of law in Qiongxiao's hand was undeniably real.
Yunxiao and Bixiao exchanged a glance, then Yunxiao passed the Jade Slip to Bixiao.
"Third Sister, why don't you go first?"
Bixiao did not decline. She eagerly took the Jade Slip, but the moment her divine sense touched it, an invisible barrier seemed to spring up and repel it outright!
Seeing this, Yunxiao also sent a wisp of divine sense inside, only to meet the same result.
Qiongxiao looked utterly taken aback, then gave a couple of rueful chuckles.
"It seems I'm the only one who can enter this Jade Slip."
Neither Yunxiao nor Bixiao was petty. Besides, they were sisters; whichever of them received a fortuitous opportunity, it was a tremendous cause for celebration.
"Then it looks like this opportunity was prepared especially for our Second Sister!"
Qiongxiao stroked the Jade Slip in her hand, only to freeze when her fingers touched a raised spot on its surface.
"Eldest Sister, Third Sister, come look."
"This Jade Slip seems to belong to Senior Brother Lu!"
The Three Xiao Sisters were normally on good terms with Lu Feng, so they never addressed him as Vice Leader.
Moreover, Lu Feng and Tongtian were not master and disciple, and Tongtian treated Lu Feng with exceptional favor, so the Jie Sect Disciples had all tacitly accepted Lu Feng's standing as their martial uncle.
At first, Lu Feng would say a few words about it, but eventually he simply let them do as they pleased.
What could I do? I had the reputation in the Interception Sect, but no formal standing.
But precisely because they were close, the Three Xiao Sisters were especially familiar with Lu Feng's possessions.
The Jade Slip in their hands, for instance, felt perfectly smooth at first. Only by feeling along its side could they discover the little seal upon it.
The design on that little seal was none other than Lu Feng's Bodhi Diagram!
The three sisters examined it carefully and finally became certain: this was a Jade Slip Lu Feng had left behind.
"To think Senior Brother Lu's Jade Slip would be in a place like this. I wonder whether he knows?"
Bixiao, however, looked around before declaring with certainty.
"Senior Brother Lu definitely knows about this!"
"If he didn't, why would he have reminded us to come out and seek fortuitous opportunities?"
The moment she said this, realization dawned on Yunxiao and Qiongxiao.
Of course!
Though Senior Brother Lu usually kept his mountains hidden and his waters still, his novel methods emerged in an endless stream.
He must have arranged what happened today!
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