Chapter 517

A Heavenly Human has emerged in the world.

The story of Gao Tianxia ascending the East Sea City tower and inviting Heaven to come out of the city for a chat had spread throughout the world.

It is said that this number one in the world actually killed his way into the tribulation thunder.

Perhaps Heaven felt provoked.

The originally thousand-mile tribulation clouds directly covered ten thousand miles, and their momentum was shockingly large.

As if the whole world could see it.

But even so, Li Rui's grandmaster still forcibly blasted away the ten-thousand-mile tribulation clouds.

Finally achieving the Great Dao.

The first existence above First-Rank in this realm.

A realm that even the Human Emperor had not established.

An unspoken rule had already formed in the Jianghu, which was that from this day forward, the martial path of the world had opened a brand new chapter, and this number one in the world for a hundred years was destined to leave the most heavy-handed stroke in the Jianghu.

The Holy Emperor was overjoyed.

He specially issued an edict to grant amnesty to the world and planned to go to Ding Mountain by the East Sea to offer sacrifices to heaven.

That Ding Mountain was less than a hundred miles from East Sea City.

The purpose was self-evident.

Naturally, it was for that East Sea City Lord who had achieved the Heavenly Human Realm.

When a person's power is strong enough to suppress the whole world, the emperor must also bow his head.

Regarding this.

The Holy Emperor saw it very clearly.

Who told him that he had been a ranger, waded through the Immortal Calamity, and experienced endless slaughter before ascending the throne, which destined him not to be an ordinary emperor.

He knew the methods of those cultivators too well.

Strength is the greatest reliance.

The emperor's southern tour to offer sacrifices to heaven was a matter of the utmost importance in the court.

And the person presiding over this matter.

Was precisely Li Rui, who was the Peace-Establishing Order.

Besides examining immortal officials, presiding over immortal ceremonies was also an extremely important item for the Peace-Establishing Order.

To put it more heavily, it was a matter concerning the country.

The preparation process was also extremely cumbersome.

Fortunately, Li Rui had Yuan An by his side.

What even he, as a master, didn't expect was that Yuan An was extremely familiar with the ritual and law of the Yu Kingdom, and knew the process of offering sacrifices to heaven like the back of his hand.

With Yuan An's help.

Li Rui was undoubtedly much more relaxed.

However, after thinking about it carefully, it was understandable.

Yuan Dingting's status was extremely high; to say something that overstepped ritual, Yuan An's status was even more noble than some imperial princes.

After all, there were more than a dozen imperial princes, but there was only one young marquis in the Annan Marquis Prefecture.

So from the moment Yuan An was born, he was destined to inherit the marquis title, and he had been influenced by ritual and law since childhood, so naturally, he knew it by heart.

"Master, the matter has been handled."

Yuan An stood before Li Rui as if asking for credit.

"Very good."

Li Rui was not stingy with his praise.

Ever since he became his disciple, Yuan An had been following Li Rui in cultivation, and now his realm had climbed all the way, reaching the Primordial Realm; although he couldn't compare to his father or geniuses like Jiang Linxian, he was also extremely extraordinary.

Plus his good way of handling people and things, he had already become Li Rui's right-hand man.

"Master, I heard that presiding over the immortal ceremony is actually also a stroke of fortune, but it's a pity that it has always been taught by the teacher, and I have never truly seen it."

Yuan An blinked his curious eyes.

Li Rui was dumbfounded:

"This time you will be able to see it."

"I'll let you stand in the front row."

Hearing this, Yuan An instantly curled his mouth: "Many thanks, Master."

As the Peace-Establishing Order, Li Rui still had this bit of privilege.

Just as Yuan An said.

Presiding over the immortal ceremony was both a duty and a great opportunity.

The immortal ceremony concerned luck.

The closer one was to the center, the more luck one would have, which was of great benefit to cultivation.

As the saying goes, fat water doesn't flow to outsiders' fields.

Li Rui naturally wanted to arrange for those close to him to be in closer positions.

Just like Nie Siming, Yuan Xiong, Ning Zhongtian, and others who went together this time; by comparison, what Li Rui did was not too excessive—they were all officials, so naturally, he had to pull his relatives and brothers; a lone official couldn't go far; it is said that the chickens of the Minister of Works' relatives were now working and crowing in the palace, eating imperial grain.

Northern Polar Immortal Sect, in the palace on the mountainside.

"Hoo..."

He Jiuxuan slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.

Using that Heaven-Guiding Talisman took a great toll on him; although he successfully escaped, it still took a full ten days to return to his peak.

Of course.

Compared to losing his life in the Black Prison, this bit of toll was not worth mentioning.

Even the First-Rank Black-Hearted True Person ended up with his physical body shattered; although he escaped with his life, it is estimated that he would have no chance to advance further in this life, and even keeping his Dao Body Realm would be extremely difficult.

'Pity...'

He Jiuxuan sighed secretly.

Originally, the spirit of the Immortal Fruit was almost in his hands, but he still missed it.

However, he also saw.

All of this was actually a trap set by Gu Changsheng.

He had no chance at all.

Every move he made was under the other party's control.

'He's quite a good opponent.'

He Jiuxuan thought to himself.

Not bad.

In his view, only Gu Changsheng was worthy of being called an opponent; that Yu Kingdom official Li Rui, who possessed the Great Dao of Azure Profundity, simply didn't have the qualification to compete with him.

Since returning.

Besides healing his injuries, he also secretly investigated the intelligence of the person who fought him in the Black Prison that day.

A Purple Mansion Realm figure, and a native of the Small Grotto-Heaven at that.

If he, a genius of the Wan Fadian, were to treat him as an enemy of destiny in the struggle of the Great Dao, it would simply be ridiculous.

Just a crude martial artist.

As a cultivator of a great sect, he still had countless foundations he hadn't displayed.

If it weren't for Gu Changsheng and others spying, he would have had at least an eighty percent chance of killing that native.

'If there is a chance, I must kill him as soon as possible.'

He Jiuxuan thought to himself.

Secretly proud of his own steadiness.

Not leaving himself any hidden dangers, truly a case of a lion fighting a rabbit, also using all its strength.

Thinking of this.

He couldn't help but become even more interested in this Small Grotto-Heaven.

'Heavenly South Old Demon Li Rui...'

In just a few months, he had suffered setbacks one after another at the hands of native martial artists; that Heavenly South Old Demon Li Rui, who fought two with one, killed Ji Lei by force, and had domineering and strange methods, was regarded by He Jiuxuan as a formidable enemy, and then there was Li Rui, who had only stepped into the Heavenly Phenomenon Realm for a short time, yet could take several of his moves.

They were all quite good.

Of course.

They were only quite good; in the cultivation world, he had seen too many outstanding people.

He Jiuxuan slowly stood up.

Just as he was about to go out and down the mountain.

He suddenly saw that there was an extra person at the door without a sound.

It was an old Confucian scholar who looked like withered wood, but his back was held straight.

Seeing that person appear, He Jiuxuan was startled.

Surprised by the other party's strength.

He couldn't see through him at all!

Surprised by the other party's identity, because after coming to the Northern Polar Immortal Sect, he had recorded everyone on the mountain who had some ability, but among these people, there was no such old Confucian scholar.

'Who is he?'

A strange powerhouse broke into the Northern Polar Immortal Sect and then came before his cave dwelling.

It didn't attract anyone's attention.

He was naturally full of wariness.

The two confronted each other silently like this.

A full ten breaths passed.

Only then did the old Confucian scholar speak slowly: "You are the disciple of Nine Snakes?"

Hearing the two characters "Nine Snakes."

He Jiuxuan's pupils shrank slightly.

Because he was an inner sect disciple in the Wan Fadian, and his master was the True Person Nine Snakes.

His background was revealed.

He Jiuxuan was not panicked in the slightest; after all, this matter was not a secret in the cultivation world at all.

But he remembered a matter his master had once told him.

'Jiuxuan, I have a senior brother who descended to a Small Grotto-Heaven five hundred years ago; perhaps you might not necessarily see him once in your life, but according to the sect inheritance, you still need to know that you have a senior uncle.'

"Senior Uncle Huang Long?"

He Jiuxuan asked tentatively.

A smile appeared on the old Confucian scholar's withered skin.

"He is quite a good junior."

Yes.

His Dao name was Huang Long, and in the cultivation world, they all called him Huang Longzi.

(End of chapter)