Chapter 1722: Ceremony

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

Golden Dragon Mountain, rear mountain, the ancestral shrine great hall.

Today, the upper echelons of Golden Dragon Mountain's three branches had gathered here, conducting an extremely elaborate sacrificial ceremony within the great hall, and the protagonist of the ceremony was clearly the focus of everyone's attention, Lü Qing'er.

She was dressed today in extremely splendid, solemn attire, her ice-blue long hair pinned up, and a gorgeous, dazzling hairpin swaying gently with each lotus-like step, the reflected light shining on her incomparably beautiful face, giving the present Lü Qing'er a different charm.

Led by the Mountain Master Lü Sui, the frost-faced Lü Qing'er completed the elaborate ceremony with meticulous precision.

The upper echelons of Golden Dragon Mountain present all bent in unison.

The atmosphere was solemn and dignified.

Li Luo, as an observer, quietly watched this scene. He could sense a trace of urgency flowing through Golden Dragon Mountain, a kind of urgency he was already very familiar with, because he had felt it whether in the Eastern Domain's Outer Shenzhou, or among the Dragon Race, or on the Radiant King Qi Huang.

Now the world was undergoing great changes, the "War of Return-to-One" already in full swing.

And half a year from now, the Spirit Phase Cave Heaven hiding the "Withering-Flourishing Phase" would once again appear in the world, and at that time, the situation of the entire world would be utterly detonated.

The Ten Great Shenzhou, the Dark World, the Return-to-One Society...

This decisive battle concerned the survival of the Ten Great Shenzhou.

Once the Ten Great Shenzhou were broken through from within, then the many Li Li Tianwang on the Wang Hou battlefield would inevitably be unable to attend to both ends, causing the Celestial Barrier natural moat to fall.

Then, with collapse both within and without, the living beings of the Ten Great Shenzhou would all face destruction.

Therefore, Golden Dragon Mountain also needed to make all preparations before then.

And Lü Qing'er pushing this "Acquired Primordial Seed" to the perfect realm should be the most important among them.

Clearly, Lü Qing'er now also bore a heavy burden on her shoulders.

Li Luo gazed at Lü Qing'er's graceful, slender figure, and secretly sighed with emotion. The world had changed; they were no longer the green boys and girls of the South Wind Academy back then. They had grown, and would eventually shoulder their own responsibilities.

With surging thoughts in his heart, Li Luo's fingers touched the spatial orb on his wrist. Two days ago, Lü Sui had already given him the payment for this matter in advance—three portions of Upper Nine-Rank "Spirit Water Marvelous Light"—and if one added the portion previously given by Qi Huang, then he had four portions of Upper Nine-Rank Spirit Water Marvelous Light in hand.

This was an extremely astonishing amount of top-grade cultivation resources.

Li Luo did not know whether fully refining and absorbing them could evolve his own Middle Nine-Rank Wood-Earth Phase into an Upper Nine-Rank, but he felt that no matter what, he needed to give it a try.

The decisive battle was about to arrive; there was no room for any error.

Hoo—

Li Luo took a deep breath. At this moment, the ceremony within the great hall had been completely finished, and Lü Sui's voice came through: "Alliance Leader Li Luo, are you ready?"

Li Luo immediately nodded.

Seeing this, Lü Sui did not delay. As his Shou Yin shifted, this ancestral shrine great hall let out a tremendous roar, and the next moment, Li Luo suddenly felt the surrounding space begin to twist and change.

When he focused his mind again, Li Luo found himself in the vast starry space. A startling dragon chant came from below, and he saw the Golden Dragon bearing the continuous mountain ranges spew out boundless golden light at this moment.

The golden light was like a flood whose end could not be seen, winding and flowing.

Li Luo, within this flood, sensed the fortune and destiny contained within heaven and earth, and at the same time it was filled with an aura of wealth and nobility. His heart stirred immediately: Golden Dragon Mountain had mobilized the wealth and nobility accumulated over a thousand years for this ceremony.

Then Li Luo sensed golden light condensing beneath his feet, finally transforming into an altar in the shape of a golden copper coin.

There were three other altars surrounding this one, and upon them, Li Luo saw the figures of Lü Qing'er, Zhang Lingsu, and Qian Yan.

Clearly, Zhang Lingsu and Qian Yan were the possessors of Golden Dragon Mountain's other two Holy Seeds.

"Everyone, prepare to begin." Lü Sui stood outside the golden light flood, his expression solemn as he spoke.

Lü Qing'er sat upright on the copper coin altar. At her smooth, bright brow, a mysterious speck of light bloomed, and an indescribable ancient, primordial aura surged forth, like a seed born when heaven and earth first opened.

With the appearance of this mysterious speck of light, boundless, endless Origin power of frost also poured out in a steady stream, freezing the void where Lü Qing'er was entirely.

The frost condensed, as if forming a giant ice lotus beneath her.

Acquired Primordial Seed!

Li Luo gazed at the ancient speck of light on Lü Qing'er's brow. As for the aura of a Primordial Seed, he was more familiar with it than anyone, after all he had entered the "Divine Awareness" state with Jiang Qing'e too many times.

And at this moment, Zhang Lingsu and Qian Yan also activated their respective Holy Seeds.

One saw a bright, luminous moon emerge from Zhang Lingsu's brow, and at the same time her eyes changed—a full moon in her left eye, a waning moon in her right—looking quite peculiar.

The bright luminous moon at her brow slowly rose, growing larger and larger, until it truly hung high like a moon.

This was the Moon Holy Seed!

Inherited from that Zhang Li Tianwang of Golden Dragon Mountain!

As for Qian Yan, endless thunder rumbled within his body, his hair bristling with fury, mysterious thunder patterns continuously spreading along his skin, emitting extremely violent and astonishing energy fluctuations.

Boom!

Startling thunder exploded in the void, endless Lei Guang gathered, transforming into a silver thunder pill containing hundreds of millions of thunder seal scripts within. Every tremor of the thunder pill caused the void to shatter.

Thunder Holy Seed!

Li Luo gazed at these two Holy Seeds, and could not help but sigh once more at the profound foundation of Golden Dragon Mountain. After all, an ordinary Li Li Tianwang force, able to pass down one Holy Seed, could already ensure its clan prospered for a thousand years, yet this Golden Dragon Mountain had a full three!

And one of them had now successfully evolved into an Acquired Primordial Seed!

Relying on Lü Qing'er's Acquired Primordial Seed, as long as she was given enough time, Golden Dragon Mountain would inevitably produce a fourth Li Li Tianwang!

But in this current world, what was most lacking was time.

Therefore Golden Dragon Mountain had urgently chosen this kind of ceremony, using the thousand-year accumulation of Golden Dragon Mountain to accelerate the perfection of Lü Qing'er's Acquired Primordial Seed.

"Alliance Leader Li Luo, the matters within the ceremony have all been informed to you previously. Please act. Additionally, for this ceremony of our Golden Dragon Mountain, there is no need to worry about outsiders disrupting it. Here, neither the Dark World nor the Return-to-One Society would dare to enter." Lü Sui spoke loudly at this moment.

Hearing the confidence in Lü Sui's words, Li Luo also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Having just gone through that perilous incident within the Dragon Race, he did not want another one.

However, with Golden Dragon Mountain's foundation, they indeed had the qualification to say such words. After all, just this Golden Dragon wondrous array coiled in the void alone was enough to withstand a peak-stage Three-Crown King, let alone the fact that Lü Taiyi was also stationed within Golden Dragon Mountain.

"Mountain Master Lü Sui, please rest assured. I will naturally give my all to ensure Qing'er proceeds smoothly."

Li Luo replied. This ceremony, in a certain sense, actually weakened the power of the two great Holy Seeds to nurture Lü Qing'er's Acquired Primordial Seed. But Holy Seeds had spirits; once they sensed they were being harmed, they would resist, and might even backlash against Lü Qing'er's Acquired Primordial Seed. This backlash, even Zhang Lingsu and Qian Yan could not stop, and moreover, their own power would be mobilized by their respective Holy Seeds to form pressure against Lü Qing'er.

Although Lü Qing'er had evolved into an Acquired Primordial Seed, she herself was only at the peak of Unparalleled Seven-Rank, while Zhang Lingsu and Qian Yan were peak-stage Three-Crown King level powerhouses.

There was an enormous gap between the two sides, so once the backlash formed, Lü Qing'er would not only be unable to use this to achieve great perfection of the Primordial Seed, she might even suffer tremendous damage.

And Li Luo's role was to protect Lü Qing'er during this ceremony, preventing her from being pressured by the Moon Holy Seed and Thunder Holy Seed, and finally, using his own Grand Non-Phase Fire, help her refine and absorb the fortune and destiny contained within this golden light flood, stepping into perfection.

Boom!

The void behind Li Luo trembled as an ancient, magnificent Wheel of Ten Thousand Aspects slowly emerged, its five Aspect Palaces within emitting strange roars as the power of ten aspect natures surged forth.

Lü Sui, Zhang Lingsu, and Qian Yan gazed at the mysterious Wheel of Ten Thousand Aspects, unable to stop the look of amazement from surfacing in their eyes.

So this is the Ten Thousand Aspects Seed?

Ten aspect natures—truly unheard of in this world.

Li Luo sat at the center of the ceremony and spoke.

"Begin, everyone."