At the critical moment, a calm, clear voice rang out, seemingly capable of dispelling all panic.
As if traversing countless ages, it resonated clearly deep within everyone's soul, instantly overwhelming all chaos and despair:
"Stay calm and don't panic."
The voice wasn't loud, yet it possessed an indescribable penetrating power and a strange, comforting strength.
Like the first ray of light in the chaos, it illuminated the ignorant heart.
Everyone instinctively and laboriously turned their gazes toward the sound.
At the edge of the giant pit, on the once deserted viewing rock, a transcendent figure had appeared!
The man was dressed in an elegant blue robe and wore Green Lotus Dao Crown.
He stood tall and straight, like a mountain, with his hands behind his back.
The fierce winds howled and swept across the mountaintop, yet they could not even stir the hem of his clothes, as if an invisible force was blocking them away.
A faint, clear light flowed around him, exuding an innate Daoist charm.
It subtly blends with the desolate and primordial aura emanating from the Five-Colored Altar and bronze coffin below, yet stands out independently.
It was as if he himself was part of this wondrous scene, the finishing touch that brought it to life.
It's incredibly surprising!
At this moment, in the eyes of the tourists outside who are fleeing for their lives and crying out in despair.
In satellite images from various countries that orbit the Earth and are under close monitoring.
Apart from the shattered rocks and billowing dust, the Sunrise Viewing Stone remained completely empty!
This Dao Body seemed to exist independently of the current spacetime dimension.
Its form and aura were both shrouded in an extremely profound and mysterious Dao rule.
Only Ye Fan and his group, who were fortunate enough to connect with the energy of the ancient bronze coffin in this place, were able to transcend common sense and see its true appearance!
" Teacher Li!!"
Liu Yunzhi's eyes widened, his eyeballs almost bulging out of their sockets, and his voice became sharp and distorted with extreme shock and disbelief.
He simply couldn't comprehend the transcendent being before him, who seemed like Exiled Immortal descended to earth, whose aura resonated with the heavens and earth.
This connects to Li Qingshan, the erudite classical Chinese lecturer from my university years ago!
At this moment, Li Xiaoman's beautiful eyes were filled with overwhelming shock and deep confusion.
She keenly sensed that her former teacher was emanating an indescribable, pure, and profound aura of the Great Dao.
It was as if he had completely merged with the Mount Tai beneath his feet, with the ancient Five-Colored Altar, and with this world.
Standing within his field of vision, there was a deep-seated fear originating from the unknown dragon corpse and the bronze coffin.
It melted and subsided quickly, just like ice and snow meeting the blazing sun.
Kaide, standing next to her, was completely petrified, his mouth agape enough to fit a fist.
Pointing at the Dao Body, he made a strange "hoarse" sound from his throat, but couldn't utter a single complete syllable.
The scenes unfolding before him, one after another, completely overturned all the scientific knowledge he had built up over the past decades.
This had left his mind blank.
" Teacher Li,"
Ye Fan also recognized the person, and memories of his university classroom flashed through his mind.
When the young teacher was lecturing on ancient texts, he would occasionally mention seemingly mysterious passages such as "guarding one's mind and spirit" and "responding to the universe."
Here, at this moment, it is being recreated in this inconceivable way.
A flash of lightning suddenly illuminated the fog in Ye Fan's mind, and many of his past doubts seemed to have vague answers.
But more mysteries about the road ahead also emerged.
Li Qingshan ignored the varied expressions of shock on everyone's faces.
He remained calm and composed, slowly scanning the entire room before finally pausing briefly on Ye Fan, nodding as if in deep meaning.
Then, under the stunned gazes of everyone, he took a step forward!
The ground beneath my feet wasn't solid earth, but rather empty air!
Yet he walked with ease, as if stepping on invisible steps.
His Daoist robes fluttered, and his figure moved with the grace of an immortal. He Crossing the Void in Midair and landed gracefully on the altar, which was emitting five-colored light and shaking violently, in just a few steps.
He stood precisely between the giant bronze coffin and a group of panicked classmates.
His gaze swept over the crowd again, finally settling on Ye Fan, his voice calm and indifferent:
"The worldly ties are temporarily severed, and the road ahead has been opened."
"This is an opportunity left by our ancestors, and it is also a rare chance for you."
Every word he uttered carried weight, compelling one to believe it without even realizing it.
"However, it's hard to say whether this trip will bring good fortune or misfortune; the road ahead is full of unknowns."
He paused for a moment, looking at the worried or confused expressions on everyone's faces.
"This journey could be the chance to gain immortality, or it could lead to utter ruin."
If anyone doesn't want to embark on this unknown path, they can still choose to withdraw now.
Upon hearing this, everyone looked at each other, their faces showing hesitation.
A girl wearing glasses asked timidly:
"Withdraw? Can we go back now?"
Li Qingshan nodded:
"I can use a secret technique to send those who don't want to go any further back."
Everyone fell silent, each weighing the pros and cons in their minds.
One person said with a wry smile:
"I still have projects to handle at my company, and my wife and children are waiting for me at home. I probably can't handle this kind of opportunity."
Then several more people expressed their intention to leave, all of them unable to let go of their worldly attachments.
Li Qingshan didn't say much. With a gentle wave of his sleeve, a soft light enveloped those who chose to leave.
They slowly closed their eyes in the light, their figures gradually disappearing.
After the light faded, only a dozen or so people, led by Ye Fan, remained on the altar.
For the safety of their families, those who left would only remember the scene of the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin, and Li Qingshan had quietly altered their memories.
According to their understanding and external investigations, they hurriedly left Mount Tai as soon as the bronze coffin was placed on the ground.
Those who remained were still at the center of this cataclysmic change, their hearts filled with confusion and unease about the unknown.
But under the influence of Li Qingshan's detached and seemingly all-encompassing composure, the extreme panic that had been felt earlier miraculously subsided.
"Keep your mind focused and observe the situation calmly."
His words seemed to possess a Calming the Mind magic, and everyone unconsciously followed them.
He tried to calm his mind and clear his mind of distractions, turning his gaze to the Five-Colored Altar that was undergoing an astonishing transformation.
The moment Li Qingshan finished speaking, everyone felt an even richer, more desolate, and ancient aura, as if it were awakening from its slumber.
It began to circulate and converge above the altar, stirring the heart and making it difficult to contain one's emotions.
In the next instant, a strange change occurred on the altar!
The scattered jade pieces and stone slabs seemed to have been imbued with life.
A dazzling array of lights burst forth one after another! The Five-Colored Divine Light— blue, red, white, black, and yellow—intertwined and flowed, illuminating the entire altar in a dreamlike and ethereal way.
The countless ancient characters and symbols engraved on it seem to have broken free from the shackles of eternity.
They detached from their carriers and transformed into solid, metallic light runes that soared into the sky!
Thousands of these ancient runes are like countless living stars.
A mysterious radiance lingered above the ancient bronze coffin and the nine dragon corpses.
They moved and combined on their own according to some profound and unfathomable trajectory, containing the ultimate truths of heaven and earth, and finally, to the astonishment of everyone present.
It coalesced into an enormous Bagua diagram that covered the entire sky!
The Dao diagram slowly rotated, exuding a majestic aura that suppressed all heavens and established the order of the universe. Its texture was like refined divine gold, heavy and awe-inspiring.
The Bagua trigrams—Qian, Kun, Xun, Dui, Gen, Zhen, Li, and Kan—light up in sequence, their brightness fluctuating.
It's as if they are calculating the mysteries of the universe's birth and death.
Immediately afterwards, in the center of that enormous Bagua diagram, the Yin-Yang and Yang energies converged, and the Taiji diagram naturally manifested!
The two Yang Fish, head to tail, embrace each other and swim slowly, as if containing the most fundamental balance and Fortune power in the universe.
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Everyone held their breath, their eyes glued to this mythical scene.
At the center of the Taiji symbol, at the eye of the Yang Fish, space begins to distort and blur violently, and the light becomes hazy and uncertain.
Finally, with a deep, Heaven-Opening- shattering roar, the two Yang Fish, like two ancient gates leading to an unknown world, slowly opened to the sides!
Beyond the portal lay not darkness, but an Starry Sky Ancient Road adorned with countless glittering stars, stretching towards an endless, distant land!
The stars shone brightly, the Milky Way hung upside down, and a vast, mysterious, and infinitely possible cosmic aura emanated from the open portal.
At the same time, the nine dragon corpses lying on the mountaintop seemed to be injected with their last bit of power, trembling in unison as they emitted low, murmuring sounds.
The massive bronze coffin, which had remained silent until then, also emitted a loud "clang".
The heavy coffin lid shifted open a crack amidst the tremors, releasing an even more ancient and vast aura, as if it had accumulated over countless ages, which wafted down and resonated with the aura of the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
This time, on the summit of Jade Emperor Peak, no one screamed or cried out.
Everyone was protected by Li Qingshan's mountain-like, calm aura.
Suppressing the turmoil in his heart, he steadfastly guarded the "mindset" he had instructed him to maintain.
Silently, with a complex mix of indescribable anticipation and fear.
Gazing at that mysterious ancient road leading to the depths of the starry sea, awaiting the final guidance of destiny.
"Clang!"
The bronze coffin experienced its final and most violent tremor!
An immense suction force, far exceeding anything seen before and indescribable, seemingly originating from the very source of the universe, swept in like a tide, instantly enveloping everyone on the altar!
In that instant, the world spun around, and time and space seemed to distort and blur.
Everyone felt a sudden darkness before their eyes, and they were all swallowed up by the bronze coffin.