Chapter 588: Chaotic Sea Observation, Perception Sublimation!

Inside Xuanqing Palace.

A middle-aged Daoist at the fourth layer of Qi Refining was lecturing, speaking at length about the supreme glory Xuanqing Palace once possessed.

On the meditation cushions before him, a boy and a girl, two little Daoist novices, listened until they were drowsy, their eyes barely able to stay open.

Sigh~

Seeing this, the middle-aged Daoist sighed inwardly, yet did not rebuke them aloud.

Xuanqing Palace… truly was no longer what it once was.

Perhaps in a few more years, without any outside enemy, this once-supernatural wellspring of cultivation would simply perish on its own…

Those fellows who feared Xuanqing Palace yet looked forward to its demise could finally set their minds at ease.

Thinking of this, he suddenly lost interest, and his voice gradually trailed off.

This time, the two Daoist novices jolted awake at once.

Looking up somewhat at a loss at the middle-aged Daoist above.

"Sigh~" The middle-aged Daoist lowered his eyes. "Arrange your lessons on your own."

"Master!" The two were somewhat flustered.

Both assumed it was their own lack of attentiveness that had upset their master.

So they hurriedly rose, about to kneel and kowtow: "Master, this disciple was wrong, please Master absolutely must not…"

The middle-aged Daoist saw this and was about to rise to stop them.

After all, he was only at the fourth layer of Qi Refining, and his method of channeling spiritual power was still terribly crude — he truly could not achieve that effortless sweep of the sleeve that kept one from kneeling.

However, as three streaks of spiritual light pierced through the main hall, they flashed and vanished into the tops of the three people's heads.

A vast flood of information abruptly appeared within their seas of consciousness, forming one technique after another, covering everything from Qi Refining to Return to Void, causing all three of them to stiffen in unison.

After quite a while, clarity returned first to the middle-aged Daoist's eyes.

Sensing the cultivation methods circulating within his sea of consciousness, the middle-aged Daoist could not help but weep freely.

"The Patriarch transmits the Dharma! Hahahaha! The Patriarch transmits the Dharma!"

Saying it this way was actually not wrong.

Chen Xuanqing was, in a certain sense, indeed the patriarch of Xuanqing Palace.

Of course, if Chen Xuanqing were still here, she would surely correct them.

Although she considered herself the protagonist, she was still far from an existence on the level of a "Laozu."

How could a true protagonist care about such empty renown?!

But now that she had already left, that was another matter.

Soon, the two Daoist novices were also startled awake, and seeing their master above weeping and gesticulating wildly, they were immediately given a fright.

"M-Master…"

Master hasn't gone mad, has he!

Before they could even open their mouths to ask…

Boom!

A muffled sound that reverberated through heaven and earth caused the entire Xuanqing Palace to tremble along with it.

The middle-aged Daoist's frenzied expression halted; his body moved like the wind, and in a flash he darted out of the hall.

In truth, his talent was not poor — it was only that Xuanqing Palace's inheritance was now broken, with only the most shallow Qi Refining methods remaining, that had caused him to be stuck at the fourth layer of Qi Refining.

And the inheritance he had now received filled in this gap, and his originally scattered and mottled spiritual power was rapidly undergoing a transformation.

Though the two Daoist novices did not understand what had happened, they immediately followed after the middle-aged Daoist.

Arriving outside the main hall, they found their master gazing up at the sky.

The two also looked up, and immediately froze in place.

They saw the sky bright, with golden clouds rolling, layer upon layer like surging waves.

Amidst incomprehensible Daoist sounds, a vast voice reverberated through the ten directions of the world, echoing across the entire world.

"Today I establish the Ascension Platform, having attained the Return to Void realm. Accumulate a further three thousand external deeds, and when merit is complete, one may ascend to the 'Immortal Realm' and seek the Great Dao anew."

Hearing these words, all living beings within the realm were dazed.

Ascension?

……

……

At the same time, Chen Xuanqing, who had chosen to settle the mission, was in a peculiar state.

She felt herself continuously rising.

Everything around her became blurred; various colors formed a strange passageway, and the only thing she could see clearly was the messages constantly popping up on her personal interface.

【Ascension Platform Hub (Ling Yin Fang) retrieval program initiated, returning to the Grand Xuan Realm!】

【Mission settlement in progress…】

【Settlement complete!】