Chapter 457: Grand Ceremony: The Primordial Will

Time continued to flow, never pausing for any powerful being.

One year later!

At this time, Lu Qingshan's second body was still traveling through the Cosmic Sea, while his main body remained in the mansion within the Zushen Sect.

Zushen Secret Realm, the Five-Colored Aurora Lake region.

Swirling five-colored auroras surged endlessly, vast and boundless, with faintly visible islands and palaces floating within.

But if one were to name the place within the Zushen Sect with the greatest concentration of powerful beings, it would still be Zijing Island, where numerous Beast God inheritors gathered.

Suddenly, a series of immensely vast auras spread across the sky above Zijing Island, an invisible yet heart-stopping pressure instantly descended—some of these auras were even more terrifying than that of Zijing Island's master.

Shhh! Shhh! Shhh!

Upon sensing the anomaly, each Beast God inheritor on Zijing Island flew out from their mansions.

In an instant, tens of millions of inheritor figures all looked upward toward the heavens.

"What is this?"

"What's happening?"

All these Beast God inheritors gazed upward, their faces filled with shock and disbelief; those familiar with one another frantically transmitted thoughts to discuss.

At this moment, the high sky had clearly divided into dozens of regions—some radiating endless golden light, others flowing with boundless waves…

In each region stood a towering figure emitting vast auras, and surrounding these dozens of figures were even denser clusters of powerful beings.

"Those are the Three Ancestral Gods!"

"The Eight Directional Beast Gods, the Seventy-Two Divine Generals, and the Three Thousand Divine Envoys have all arrived!"

"What is the Zushen Sect planning? How could so many powerful beings gather at once?"

Countless Beast God inheritors who witnessed this scene began whispering among themselves.

Such a gathering of powerful beings, even across the entire vast universe, was an exceedingly rare spectacle.

"Hmph!"

Suddenly, a cold snort echoed.

From the very core of the void, a cold snort rang out, and the pressure intensified rapidly, forcing the hundreds of millions of inheritors suspended in midair to be crushed down onto the ground of Zijing Island—even those Beast God inheritors who had reached the Venerable Realm could not resist its power.

Then, within the endless five-colored auroras, three towering figures gradually emerged—precisely the three highest-ranking Ancestral Gods of the Zushen Sect.

In an instant, these three towering figures seemed to have become part of the universe's primordial laws, impossible to resist, compelling every Beast God inheritor to submit.

"I am the Two-Faced Ancestral God," said the towering figure at the center.

"Our Zushen Sect is the greatest power in the Primordial Universe!"

"Since the birth of the Primordial Universe, our Zushen Sect's core has consisted of Three Ancestral Gods, Eight Beast Gods, numerous Guardian Divine Generals, and Divine Envoys!"

"Beyond that, our outer organizations include three Guardian Divine Lords—Fengtian Divine Lord, Jiuyou Divine Lord—each of whom is a legendary supreme existence in the universe!"

The Two-Faced Ancestral God gazed downward, his voice booming like thunder: "Today, our Zushen Sect shall give birth to its fourth Guardian Divine Lord, and thus we hold this grand ceremony!"

Whoosh!!

No sooner had the Two-Faced Ancestral God finished speaking than the tens of millions of inheritors below erupted into chaos, their faces filled with shock and awe.

"A fourth Guardian Divine Lord!"

"No wonder such a commotion! Almost every powerful being in the Zushen Sect has appeared!"

"Indeed! I've lived on Zijing Island for over two billion eons and have never seen such a spectacle! Only the birth of a supreme being like a Guardian Divine Lord could draw such a gathering!"

"True! Thirteen billion eons ago, when the Lord of the Heavenly Path comprehended the Fire Void Beast God's Dao and became the exalted Guardian Beast God, only the Fire Beast God himself appeared to offer congratulations!"

"Every Guardian Divine Lord of the Zushen Sect bears legendary fame throughout the universe. Figures like Fengtian Divine Lord and Jiuyou Divine Lord… even my tribe's leader cannot compare. Who, then, will this fourth Guardian Divine Lord be?"

"You don't know, do you? I once heard my ancestral elder say that the Lord of Wan Jie from the Human Clan has now become a supreme existence rivaling Fengtian Divine Lord! And the Lord of Wan Jie was originally a Guardian Beast God of the Zushen Sect—surely this time, he is being elevated to Guardian Divine Lord!"

"What? Are you serious?"

"My ancestral elder himself told me—how could it be false?"

"But the Lord of Wan Jie is a powerful being of the Human Clan—how can the Zushen Sect make him a Guardian Divine Lord?"

"Why not? In the Primordial Universe, strength reigns supreme—even within the Zushen Sect!"

In an instant, these Beast God inheritors could not help but whisper among themselves, each filled with excitement.

Those who received Beast God Inheritance Tokens and came to the Zushen Sect to cultivate were naturally supreme geniuses from all corners of the universe.

Yet even for them, reaching the Venerable Realm was extremely difficult, let alone crossing into the Lord Realm.

And now, the Lord of Wan Jie, Lu Qingshan—whom many of them knew—was about to be honored by the Zushen Sect as a Guardian Divine Lord!

This was undoubtedly one of the most important events in the entire Primordial Universe; to witness such a scene was an extraordinary stroke of fortune.

Among the countless powerful beings around, Jiu Feng Zunzhe also felt boundless emotion.

He remembered that when he was still a Hei Fengwang, he had once, alongside Lu Qingshan—who was then also a Hei Fengwang—jointly received the Ling Feng Divine General's inheritance.

At that time, Lu Qingshan had absorbed the inheritance to an astonishingly high level in an extremely short span—he was certain to one day complete the full Ling Feng Divine General's inheritance.

But he had moved faster, receiving the complete Ling Feng Divine General's inheritance first, thereby gaining immense power and immediately breaking through to the Venerable Realm, later becoming a candidate Divine General of the Zushen Sect.

When he next noticed Lu Qingshan, it was already the news that Lu Qingshan had become a disciple of Lord Bingfeng Zhi and then broken through to the Venerable Realm.

Yet even after Lu Qingshan reached the Venerable Realm, he had not paid him much attention.

After all, at that time, with his supreme treasure, his strength was already among the very top in the Venerable Realm—fewer than thirty Human Clan Venerables surpassed him.

But in the following years, Lu Qingshan continually brought him new shocks.

Cosmic Overlord, Top Cosmic Overlord, Cosmic Lord, one of the elite Cosmic Lords…

Now, Lu Qingshan had become one of the Zushen Sect's Guardian Divine Lords, on par with Fengtian Divine Lord and Jiuyou Divine Lord.

Thinking of this, Jiu Feng Zunzhe felt both emotion and relief.

"To have received the Ling Feng Divine General's inheritance alongside the Lord of Wan Jie—what fortune I had!"

Jiu Feng Zunzhe thought inwardly: "But thank heavens I received the complete Divine General's inheritance before the Lord of Wan Jie—if he had become the candidate Divine General instead, my Human Clan might have lost a supreme being!"

Even as Zifeng Zunzhe's mind flashed through various thoughts…

Splash!

The Five-Colored Ultimate Light Lake suddenly split apart from its central region, and then a five-colored bridge appeared, at the end of which stood Lu Qingshan, clad in a purple-gold battle armor.

The three Ancestral Gods simultaneously turned their gazes toward Lu Qingshan at the bridge's end, then spoke: "Our Zushen Sect's fourth Guardian Lord shall be the Master of All Realms!"

"Master of All Realms!" The countless Cosmic Lords floating in the void within the Zushen Sect all voiced their congratulations.

In an instant, the name "Master of All Realms" echoed throughout this spacetime.

"Hail the Divine Master of All Realms!" The Zushen Sect's seventy-two Divine Generals and three thousand Divine Messengers all bowed deeply, offering their utmost reverence.

"Pay homage to the Divine Master of All Realms!" The Zushen Sect's numerous peripheral members and over a hundred million Beast God inheritors also chimed in unison.

Such a breathtaking scene was exceedingly rare even throughout the Primordial Universe.