Chapter 1090

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

As the words fell, time inside the hall seemed to stagnate for an instant.

All flowing golden threads halted in mid-air, and the pulsing of the nine stellar cores also came to a brief pause.

When the Dao Venerable's voice rang out, his tone remained calm, yet it carried a weight pressed from the deepest depths of the ages.

Right in front of Xu Zhangqing, he spoke of a past event.

Long, long ago, in an era before the Beidou Star Domain had become the Beidou Star Domain, the Floating World Four Domains were not as they appear today.

Back then, the Tianyuan Star Domain was still the central origin where the myriad worlds paid homage, and the Beidou Qixing were merely seven ordinary stars.

And beside the Dao Venerable stood another person equally radiant.

The Master of the Creation Dao.

The Creation Dao was once one of the most ancient inheritances in the Floating World Four Domains.

It differed from the North Dipper Immortal Mansion's Dao of Order, and differed from the Green Emperor's Wood-element Vitality Way; rather, it was an independent Great Dao that deduced "Creation" itself to the extreme.

The core philosophy of the Creation Dao consisted of only one sentence:

Creation is neither birth nor death; it is the beginning of all things, and also the end of all things.

In the Creation Dao's system, the Power of Creation is not a vassal of Wood-element laws, nor an extension of vitality, but the primordial state before the birth of all laws.

All things are born from Creation, and will ultimately return to Creation.

Alas, this philosophy was utterly incompatible with the "Absolute Order" pursued by the Dao Venerable.

The Dao Venerable wanted time to be orderly, causality controllable, all things operating under the surveillance of the Long River of Time.

While the Master of the Creation Dao pursued the free evolution of all things, an endless life unbound by time.

Two people who had once stood shoulder to shoulder to establish the Beidou Star Domain ultimately walked toward an irreconcilable opposition in philosophy.

On the day they turned hostile, the Master of the Creation Dao alone opposed the Dao Venerable and the not yet fully formed North Dipper Immortal Mansion.

Yet he lost.

Not defeated in cultivation, but defeated by time.

From then on, the Creation Dao's inheritance was severed.

In the ensuing long ages, the North Dipper Immortal Mansion destroyed all scriptures, cultivation methods, and magic treasures related to the Creation Dao.

The Patrol Heaven Division hunted down the Creation Dao's remnant disciples, not a single one left.

Xu Zhangqing listened, shaken to the core: "Because of different philosophies, it was just gone?"

No wonder the Nine Extremes Heavenly King kept silent on this, seemingly unwilling to touch upon it.

So there was actually such a past.

And he himself seemingly possessed the methods of the Creation Dao.

No wonder the two of them misunderstood him!

At this moment, the Dao Venerable said in a deep voice: "The North Dipper Immortal Mansion's 'Big Dipper Returning Origin Scripture' is the beginning of the myriad laws returning to the source; all North Dipper Direct Disciples cultivate this method.

You alone must not take its origin; instead you should continue Creation."

Finished speaking, he raised his right hand and lightly drew once in the void.

A time crack fine as a hair silently unfurled; from the crack drifted out five objects, which hovered in succession before Xu Zhangqing.

The first item was a brush condensed entirely from the Power of Creation.

The brush shaft was warm and smooth like jade; the brush tip seemed to exist and not exist, each inhalation and exhalation as if drawing an invisible talisman pattern in the void.

"This is the Creation Brush; with the Power of Creation it draws talismans and array patterns out of thin air, needing no cinnabar, needing no spirit ink."

The second item was a dark green square seal.

The seal knob was carved with a tender sprout breaking through the soil; the seal face was engraved with ancient Dao patterns even Xu Zhangqing could not understand.

"This is the Creation Seal; stamped on spirit plants it can catalyze ten thousand times growth speed, stamped on withered wood it can make it meet spring."

The third item was a perfectly round jade bead.

The bead body was semi-transparent; inside, a mist-like Yun Wen aura slowly flowed.

"This is the Creation Bead; the wearer is immune to all poisons.

Any toxin entering the body is entirely decomposed into harmless spiritual energy."

The fourth item was a jade ruler about a chi long.

The ruler body had no graduations, only a single continuously flowing green light pattern.

"This is the Creation Ruler; with the Power of Creation it measures space, able to shrink the land to an inch.

With each cultivation realm advanced, the land that can be shrunk expands tenfold."

The fifth item was a palm-sized bronze mirror.

The mirror surface did not reflect Xu Zhangqing's face, but reflected a mass of chaotic, primordial, Yun Wen qi like the world at its initial opening.

"This is the Creation Mirror; it reflects the origin of all things.

It restores the legal composition of whatever the mirror light shines upon to the most primordial Power of Creation.

When cultivation is insufficient, do not use lightly; otherwise backlash is easy."

The five items hovered before Xu Zhangqing, each emitting fluctuations homologous with the Power of Creation, and all reaching the Immortal Artifact grade.

This fluctuation was very unfamiliar, yet inexplicably familiar.

Suddenly, the Dao Venerable's voice rang out once more: "The Creation Dao's inheritance is all within the 'Creation Heavenly Scripture'.

This scripture stands alongside the Big Dipper Returning Origin Scripture as one of the two core cultivation methods of the Xianfu, except one is sealed and the other is passed down.

Accept these Immortal Artifacts, and the Creation Heavenly Scripture will naturally open for you.

He fixed his gaze on Xu Zhangqing, saying as if reminding him: "All who cultivate Creation are Daochuan of the Creation Dao."

Xu Zhangqing opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but finally took a deep breath, raised his hand, and accepted the five Immortal Artifacts one by one.

He knew he had no choice.

On someone else's turf, failing to cooperate obediently is courting death.

The Great Dao Venerable's words fell but did not dissipate; instead, they spread outward like ripples.

The voice penetrated the time barrier, penetrated the golden faith shrouding Tian Shu Xing, penetrated the endless void between the seven main stars.

Finally, it exploded simultaneously above the entire Beidou Star Domain.

"Today, on Tian Shu Xing, I take Xu Zhangqing as my Direct Disciple."

Bestowing the title—Qinghua Department Annual Creation Lord."

These words echoed three times above every main star.

On Tian Xuan Xing, several white-robed Supreme Elders atop the Ji Temple Tower looked up simultaneously, their faith ledgers in hand nearly slipping from their grasp.

On Tian Ji Xing, the lightning in the clouds of punishment paused for an instant, and the endlessly cycling wailing cries ceased abruptly at that moment.

On Tian Quan Xing, within the military fortresses stretching tens of thousands of li, hundreds of thousands of Star Guard soldiers stopped in their tracks, and even the commander deep within the Qi Sha Dian glanced sideways slightly.

On Yu Heng Xing, several Stewards of the Star Spirit Grass were checking the operation of the Jie Xiao tokens; upon hearing the voice, they looked at each other.

One of them murmured, "Qinghua Department Annual... is that in charge of Jie Xiao?"

On Kai Yang Xing, several thousand disciples in the Yan Fa Dian studying cultivation methods simultaneously stopped their movements.

Some frowned, some were bewildered.

Many more, disbelieving, repeatedly confirmed those words: Direct Disciple?!

On Yao Guang Xing, the Jing Guan Shou Jiang of the External Affairs Department subconsciously looked toward Tian Shu Xing; the light on that Time Realm Barrier was thirty percent brighter than usual.

And the most shaken were still the last word in that sentence.

Creation Lord!

Not True Lord, not Star Lord, not Dao Lord, but Creation Lord.

Since the founding of the Beidou Star Domain, there has never been such a title.

What this title signifies, ordinary Xiuxian Zhe do not understand, but those Xiuxian Zhe holding high positions among the Nine Departments sensed a hint of the unusual.

In the hall, Xu Zhangqing likewise heard this title.

Creation Lord?

This "Lord" character is simply too great!