Han Yuyao bade Jiang Chen farewell, made her way halfway up Clear Void Peak, and chose a courtyard to enter.
The courtyard covered several mu of land, with pavilions and towers nestled amid swaying slender bamboo and immortal blossoms. Goldfish played, birds chirped clearly, and Spiritual Qi wreathed the grounds like an immortal paradise.
Han Yuyao entered the courtyard's meditation chamber and changed into the purple dress of a true disciple of the Purple Firmament Holy Land. She immediately felt a fresh, natural presence envelop her.
Han Yuyao swallowed a fasting spirit pill and immersed her mind in the Chaos Sword Scripture within her sea of consciousness. Her flawless sword heart was clear and translucent, and she soon entered a special state of enlightenment, drawing some kind of sword Dao source power toward her from the unseen.
Hazy chaos mist spread around her, with unfathomably profound streaks of sword light flashing through it from time to time. The ringing of swords rose and fell, as though countless sword immortals were imparting the Dao and teaching their sword arts.
This was an exceedingly profound sword Dao source power, who knew how many times more profound than Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, hidden in the deepest recesses of all creation. Under ordinary circumstances, only the legendary supreme beings of the sword Dao could perceive it.
Yet Han Yuyao had come into contact with this sword Dao source as soon as she began cultivating!
Han Yuyao's mind seemed to wander through an ocean of sword Dao source power. That power was cleansing her thoroughly from the inside out, replenishing her depleted life source with the sword Dao source.
Fierce sword intent surrounded Han Yuyao as she underwent a deeper transformation, like a peerless immortal sword gradually taking shape.
"She can already commune with the sword Dao source? A child of fortune-truly terrifying!"
Appreciation appeared in Jiang Chen's eyes. With a slight stir of his mind, he used the power of his Myriad Tribulations Indestructible Physique to conceal all heavenly secrets and threads of fate concerning Han Yuyao.
Not long ago, Jiang Chen's awakening of the Myriad Tribulations Indestructible Physique had caused an enormous disturbance. Fortunately, the physique itself could scramble heavenly secrets, allowing him to narrowly escape the notice of many ancient titans.
If Han Yuyao could awaken the chaos sword physique, it would probably alert certain ancient titans as well. Concealing her heavenly secrets and threads of fate beforehand was the safer course.
Jiang Chen had only just begun cultivating his Myriad Tribulations Indestructible Physique and was not yet capable of dealing with the many terrifying beings throughout the heavens and myriad worlds. Until he possessed sufficient strength, developing quietly was the proper path.
As time passed, chaos mist completely enveloped Han Yuyao's courtyard.
Hundreds of millions of fine rays of sword light flickered within the chaos mist, pulsing as it contracted and expanded like a heart. Faint, elusive sword chimes bearing the resonance of the Dao also drifted out, as though the mist were nurturing the endless wonders of creation throughout the heavens and myriad worlds.
Three months later.
"Humm!"
The chaos mist around Han Yuyao suddenly contracted, pouring into her breastbone in the blink of an eye.
Hazy chaos sword light suffused Han Yuyao's breastbone. Within it, a sword-shaped jade bone roughly an inch long took shape, wreathed in a misty chaos presence. Crystalline and dreamlike, it brimmed with fierce sword intent, like a peerless immortal sword hidden within chaos, radiating an incomparably sharp, invincible sword intent.
A chaos sword bone!
A chaos sword bone was a sword-type Dao bone countless times more profound than a supreme sword bone. The great sword Dao divine abilities nurtured within it were far beyond anything a supreme sword bone could match!
Legend had it that possessing a single chaos sword bone gave one hope of becoming an immortal!
And this was merely the first chaos sword bone Han Yuyao had formed through cultivating the Chaos Sword Scripture!
If she cultivated it to its pinnacle, every bone in her body could become a chaos sword bone, allowing her to roam unrestrained even in the Immortal Realm!
"Clang!"
The instant the chaos sword bone took shape, an immensely vast surge of sword Dao source power sank into the location of Han Yuyao's dantian wheel sea.
"Rumble!"
Over the next quarter of an hour, thunderous rumbling erupted from Han Yuyao's dantian. Endless Sword Qi gathered there into a boundless ocean, radiating exceedingly fierce Chaos Sword Qi.
The wheel sea!
Limitless Sword Qi surged within Han Yuyao's wheel sea. The sun, moon, and stars hung high above; earth, water, fire, and wind circled around; mountains, rivers, and lands rose and fell; the myriad races of the heavens bowed from afar; and the myriad Daos stood guard in a scene of countless splendors.
Her wheel sea released vast, boundless divine radiance of life, nourishing her flesh, organs, and bones. Divine brilliance shimmered faintly, rosy clouds swirled around her, and the presence emanating from her grew ever stronger.
[Detected that the host's disciple Han Yuyao has broken through to the Wheel Sea Realm. Fortune feedback granted. Congratulations to the host on obtaining ten years of cultivation! Congratulations to the host on obtaining the Golden Eyes of Fortune!]
The system notification sounded in Jiang Chen's mind.
Jiang Chen opened his eyes and clearly felt that his cultivation had advanced noticeably. He had gained ten years of cultivation out of thin air!
This was merely the fortune feedback from Han Yuyao's breakthrough to the Wheel Sea Realm. If she broke through to higher realms, the cultivation granted by fortune feedback would surely be even more terrifying!
Jiang Chen focused his consciousness on the Golden Eyes of Fortune Technique, and the relevant information surfaced in his mind.
Golden Eyes of Fortune: an unparalleled innate talent for controlling fortune, capable of seeing through all rises and falls of fortune! See through falsehood and perceive the source! Master any Dao art or divine ability at a glance, with inherent blessings of time and space. Can also sense nearby children of fortune!
Delight appeared on Jiang Chen's face.
What terrifying Golden Eyes of Fortune!
Most importantly, they can sense children of fortune!
If I take in a few more children of fortune, I can sweep through the heavens even while lying flat!
Wanting to test the capabilities of his Golden Eyes of Fortune, Jiang Chen stirred his mind, and hundreds of millions of golden runes flashed through his endlessly deep eyes.
Jiang Chen's gaze crossed the void, clearly revealing the conditions of countless disciples of the Purple Firmament Holy Land. Radiance of fortune in various colors coiled around them.
Billowing power of fortune gathered together, forming multicolored auspicious clouds and rosy mists above the Purple Firmament Holy Land. They roiled ceaselessly, like oil seething over a raging fire.
In Jiang Chen's eyes, the radiance of fortune around each person in the Purple Firmament Holy Land differed in color. From weakest to strongest, they were white, green, blue, purple, gold, and red.
Of course, an extremely small number of disciples had radiance of fortune in varying shades of black. They were all unlucky wretches beset by misfortune!
White and green fortune mostly belonged to disciples who had only recently joined the Purple Firmament Holy Land. They had just begun learning its most basic cultivation methods and had no particular treasures on them, so their fortune was not strong.
If they gained access to more profound Dao arts and divine abilities, or encountered other opportunities, their radiance of fortune would naturally transform.
Fortune was the workings of fate and destiny, closely tied to aptitude, ability, Dao arts, treasures, background, connections, and other factors.
By comparison, most inner disciples had blue fortune of varying shades, while true disciples generally had purple fortune of varying intensity, precisely because their aptitude, backgrounds, and other aspects were stronger.
The Purple Firmament Holy Son possessed still more profound fortune. Exceptionally dense purple light of fortune gathered around him, with a faint pale golden sheen appearing at its edges. Like the first rising of a blazing sun or the first blooming of a green lotus, it brimmed with life and vitality.
The Purple Firmament Holy Son possessed outstanding aptitude, cultivated the Purple Firmament Holy Land's finest Dao arts and divine abilities, and carried precious treasures. He also bore the rise and fall of the Purple Firmament Holy Land's fortune in the current generation, so his fortune naturally towered to the heavens.
Most of the Purple Firmament Holy Land's many peak lords and elders possessed purple fortune, and their fortune was exceptionally dense.
However, their fortune carried varying traces of heavy twilight, far less vibrant than that of the younger generation, such as the Holy Son and true disciples.
As for the Purple Empyrean Holy Lord, blazing golden light of fortune radiated from his entire body. His billowing fortune merged with that of the whole Purple Firmament Holy Land. He was like the sun at its zenith, showing not the slightest trace of twilight!
"Hmm? The Purple Firmament Holy Land actually has so many beings with stronger fortune than the Purple Empyrean Holy Lord?"
Faint golden light flickered in Jiang Chen's pupils as he gazed toward the ancestral mausoleum deep within the Purple Firmament Holy Land. A trace of surprise flashed through his eyes.
Deep within that ancestral mausoleum lay a dormant red light of fortune, profound as an abyss, vast as the sea, majestic in its surging expanse.
This red light of fortune was faintly connected to the fortune of every disciple of the Purple Firmament Holy Land, with its connection to the Purple Firmament Azure Heaven Bell especially close. However, dense twilight clung to this fortune.
The Purple Firmament Patriarch!
Jiang Chen could immediately confirm that this was the legendary Purple Firmament Patriarch!
Unfortunately, the Purple Firmament Patriarch clearly had little lifespan remaining. Who knew how many years he had spent sealed in slumber? Every awakening demanded an unimaginable price, and he would never awaken lightly.
Aside from the Purple Firmament Patriarch, dozens of beings with pale red fortune lay dormant within the ancestral mausoleum. Beings with golden or red fortune also slumbered in certain forbidden grounds and secret realms, though their fortune all carried twilight of varying intensity.
Jiang Chen clicked his tongue in wonder. The Purple Firmament Holy Land's foundations truly ran unimaginably deep!
The strength the Purple Firmament Holy Land displayed openly was merely the tip of the iceberg. If its survival truly hung in the balance, these patriarchs could all awaken to fight!
Jiang Chen turned his gaze toward Han Yuyao, only to find a mass of chaos before his eyes.
Jiang Chen understood that this was because he had used his Myriad Tribulations Indestructible Physique to conceal her heavenly secrets and threads of fate. Even the Golden Eyes of Fortune could discern no information. Other beings hoping to deduce Han Yuyao's origins were indulging in a fool's dream.
Jiang Chen examined the entire Purple Firmament Holy Land, gaining a clear understanding of the fortune and strength of the disciples on its various peaks.
Unfortunately, he did not discover a second child of fortune.
Every child of fortune was a protagonist capable of suppressing an entire era. How could they be so easy to encounter?
Jiang Chen shook his head lightly. In any case, he now possessed the Golden Eyes of Fortune and believed he would find another child of fortune before long!
At this moment, Jiang Chen still did not know that although the formation of Han Yuyao's chaos sword bone had caused no disturbance within the Purple Firmament Holy Land, it had alerted quite a few sword Dao mighty figures whose cultivation reached the heavens.