Chapter 618: The Xuan Realm and the Xun Yuan Realm

However, while understanding this, Xuan had never entertained the idea of delaying His revival either.

After all, the Cang race ultimately relied on 'Heaven' to maintain 'Heaven's Favor'.

On the other hand, this would also serve well to restrain the several True Immortals holding back the human race.

Yet the events within the Ancient Tai Xuan Tian made Xuan realize that He must be kept in check!

After a pause, Xuan spoke slowly:

"You'll arrange it—anyone who has reached the Dao Union stage must depart from here as soon as possible; I will meet them and guide them to the outside."

After this incident, the Ancient Tai Xuan Tian is no longer safe.

Better to relocate the Cang race above Dao Union to the far side of the starry sky, letting them adapt early to the war between the two races.

Moreover, a change of environment might even grant them new insights into the 'Building the Heavenly Pass' method.

"…"

Gu fell silent for a while, then slowly nodded.

"Alright."

For now, there was no choice but to follow Xuan's advice.

Xuan was about to say more, but suddenly paused.

His purple eyes reflected an endless, profound cosmic space, where a twisted, shifting shadow constantly writhed.

It was the front line of the starry battlefield.

Soon, a flicker of confusion passed through His eyes.

Gu also noticed Xuan's unusual demeanor and grew puzzled.

"What's wrong?"

"…"

Xuan gave Him a cold glance.

"Nothing."

Saying this, He turned and left immediately.

According to that human immortal's words—

'Heaven' appeared in the Ancient Tai Xuan Tian merely to find an opportunity when He wasn't paying attention, so He could meet Gu.

It sounded like a rumor fabricated by the human race to sow discord; logically, He shouldn't believe it.

But if it were Gu's words…

Never mind.

The event had already happened; He didn't want to say anything further over this.

Better to spend this time on matters of real importance!

Gu sat high upon the Wang Zuo, watching Xuan walk out through the breach in the hall; He had truly wanted to ask what had happened…

But in the end, He held back, watching helplessly as Xuan vanished from the world after stepping out of the hall.

I hope…

It's not something bad.

With a quiet sigh, Gu gently stroked the seven-colored orbs on either armrest.

Thin strands of seven-colored divine radiance trembled, flowing toward the breach at the front of the hall, slowly filling it; the gaping wound across the hall began to close at a visibly rapid pace…

Through the closing breach, Gu gazed up at the sky.

There, in the washed-clean azure heavens, a faint red line was etched—so thin that unless observed closely, its shape was nearly undetectable.

Rooted in the world, impossible to remove.

Soon, the breach in the hall was completely sealed.

Gu rose from the black Wang Zuo, transforming into a wisp of seven-colored divine radiance, vanishing from within the hall.

The Master Jianzu's strike had not only severed the many possibilities of the Ancient Tai Xuan Tian, fixing it as singular and immutable.

It had also affected, to some degree, His method of observing the present from the 'past,' since the Ancient Tai Xuan Tian was part of the 'past' itself.

He must quickly remedy this, so He could continue searching the central continent of the present for suitable humans.

More action invites more mistakes; better to do what He excels at…

The Master Jianzu and the others seem to have a 'Ascension Plan.'

Selecting suitable humans from outside the realm, and using special means to grant them recognition from Tai Xuan Tian, allowing them to reach Dao Union within Tai Xuan Tian, thereby increasing the 'world weight' held by the human race.

The humans of Tai Xuan Tian are out of the question.

But those ascended from outside the realm may not hold deep identification with the humans of Tai Xuan Tian.

Among them, there should be some room for manipulation.

…

…

In the blink of an eye, over a month had passed since Xu Xing had entered the Ancient Tai Xuan Tian and left his anchor point.

During this time, the 'Xian Sect Special Recruitment' had officially ended.

Ye Zhiwei, who had achieved Creation Foundation Establishment, did not receive the highest rating in the final 'Three Trials of Law,' but her overall score was overwhelmingly superior.

In the end, she chose to join the Sword Holding Hall, becoming a probationary disciple.

Gu Wangjun, who also participated in the 'Xian Sect Special Recruitment' and possessed the external aid of 'Ring Grandpa' Leng Rou, failed his assessment midway but truly broke through to Qi Condensation Ninth Layer upon returning to Yu Yao Star.

Though this was nothing remarkable among the many participants of the 'Xian Sect Special Recruitment.'

Yet on Yu Yao Star, it was already extraordinary—so much so that Gu Wangjun became a role model for many young cultivators on the star.

Commonly known as 'that other person's child.'

His outstanding performance also earned him sponsorship application opportunities from both Jingyue and Qiuzhen.

If he could, he actually wanted to choose both…

But the rivalry between the two was clear to anyone—choose one and you can't choose the other.

After weighing it again and again, and consulting Leng Rou's opinion, Gu Wangjun ultimately chose to apply to Jingyue, which had relatively fewer resources but also more lenient restrictions.

On the other hand.

The second batch of Ascension Emissaries' missions were also drawing to a close.

Among them, Xiao Fan was the first to complete his mission and choose to settle it.

His ascension mission was to drive out ghosts and banish gods, then follow his true heart to re-establish the supernatural order.

However, after learning more, he adopted a simpler and more brutal method.

Exterminate ghosts, slay gods!

He not only single-handedly purged the various restrictions the divine-path deities had placed on cultivators.

He even directly swept away all the ghosts, gods, demons, and monsters in the world—only human cultivators escaped the calamity.

Thus, Xiao Fan used absolutely forceful means to straighten out the twisted world!

It could even be said that the entire world had been plowed over by him.

Because his style of action was too extreme, his mission evaluation wasn't all that high.

Clearly there were three missions, yet he only saw the four words "follow your true heart"—no wonder his mission evaluation couldn't be high!

Still, he himself was quite satisfied…

Then came Zhang Yunlu, Zhao Ruohan, Lin Changsheng, and others—they all found solutions and completed their respective missions.

Mission evaluations varied, but all were better than Xiao Fan's.

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Yuanzhen Realm, Sea of Universes.

Above the great universes, Xu Xing sat quietly, gazing beyond the world.

After a while, he withdrew his gaze and looked toward a great universe in the distance.

The Fajie Great Universe.

A life-bearing planet on a border galaxy.

It was a planet where supernatural power existed, but was extremely barren.

Even its strongest being was only equivalent to the ninth layer of Qi Refining, and no supernatural individual capable of leaving the surface to travel the cosmos had yet been born.

In the planetary evaluation system established by the Holy Sovereign Dao Lord, applicable within Fajie and the surrounding great universes, that planet could barely be considered a "ninth-grade" barren star—the lowest grade among supernatural celestial bodies.

Xu Xing watched that planet with great interest—or more precisely, a certain spot on it.

It was a bustling, prosperous Fucheng.

Nominally under the Daqi Dynasty, its actual control had long since fallen entirely into the hands of Xuanling Sect.

Inside the Fucheng, a teahouse.

A seat by the window.

A youth in grey clothes, holding a yellow-skinned gourd in his hand, hair somewhat disheveled, looked at the opposite side with a helpless expression.

"Little junior brother, come on, just come with me to see Master. I can complete the mission, and you won't have to bother me anymore, right?"