Mysterious yellow qi steamed up from underground, gathering into yellow clouds above the peaks and giving rise to countless wondrous visions that stretched for over eight thousand li, stunning everyone. Yet these were merely the outward signs.
Ordinary people truly could not recognize this mysterious yellow qi. Most were simply enjoying the spectacle, perhaps assuming it was only yellow mountain mist and miasma manifesting changes under the spiritual workings of immortal ascension. In truth, of course, it was far more than that. Only those with a certain breadth of knowledge could see that this was no ordinary mountain haze or earth qi, but "Earth-Lung Mysterious Yellow Qi"! If that name still meant nothing to them, there was another way to put it: this yellow mist was the baleful fog released by the "Yellow Pole Zhengwu Baleful Intent," commonly known as the world's foremost baleful intent!
How much true baleful intent could be condensed from baleful fog spanning eight thousand li? No one knew the answer, but the profoundly shaken onlookers could probably imagine that, henceforth, Juqü Mountain in Jinling would no longer dare claim that all the world's primordial mysterious yellow qi came from its hands.
While yellow lotuses blossomed across the sky, wondrous signs also manifested within Mount Zibai.
Right where the Daoist sat cross-legged, Huang Yulian, a yellow jade lotus as large as a bathtub, slowly rose from the ground, like a lotus emerging from water, lifting him bodily into the air.
The Daoist sat upon the lotus in perfect harmony. Its size suited him, its Dao resonance matched his, as though it had always been there, always accompanied him. To borrow the incredible descriptions of innate divinities found in Daoist scriptures, it was like a Lingbao born alongside him, making it impossible to regard the man and