Chapter 962: Exalted Linglong: Fang Yu, Your Birthday Gift Is Truly Excellent!

One by one, spatial flowers condensed from spatial force fell before Fang Yu.

After Fang Yu absorbed this spatial flower, he felt he had gained a new understanding of space.

A single spatial flower contained many spatial laws; every petal was condensed from spatial force and spatial laws, and upon them were mysterious runes composed of spatial particles—far, far more profound than the spatial laws Fang Yu himself had comprehended.

Spatial laws contain a great many profound meanings; even an immortal would hardly dare claim to have fully mastered space. In today's Xuanhuang Great World, a being like Fang Yu could open a spatial gate at will, but upon ascending to the immortal realm, the spatial laws would be entirely different again—this wondrous law required a lifetime of contemplation.

And now, having obtained Exalted Linglong's spatial flower, Fang Yu needed only a moment of contemplation to surpass many Grotto-Heaven realm experts in his comprehension of space.

Every one of these spatial flowers was a reward bestowed by Exalted Linglong.

Fang Yu breathed and absorbed upon his throne; with each breath, vast spatial force poured into his blessed grotto-heaven, transforming into an incomparably pure form of spatial divine law. These divine laws shifted and combined according to the patterns of the spatial divine talismans bestowed by Exalted Linglong, rendering Fang Yu's blessed grotto-heaven impregnable.

After such absorption and refinement, Fang Yu felt that his gaze could now perceive countless spaces, and he could even see some voids from bygone eras he had never sensed before.

Those layers upon layers of planes, those layers upon layers of alternate dimensions—some had been utterly impossible for anyone to detect, but now Fang Yu truly perceived them down to the finest detail.

Suddenly, before Fang Yu's eyes appeared river after river of spatial flow, surging endlessly like natural barriers, forming insurmountable high walls within the endless void.

And so Fang Han, seated below Fang Yu, suddenly discovered he could no longer see this Senior Brother Fang.

The moment Exalted Linglong appeared, celestial flowers rained down and golden lotuses sprang from the earth. Those celestial flowers were spatial force, greatly beneficial to his cultivation of certain divine abilities, while the golden lotuses were condensed from dense primordial energy—each one obtained could add decades to one's cultivation base. Naturally, he would not let them slip by, absorbing them with great delight.

But just then, he discovered he could no longer sense Senior Brother Yu.

Senior Brother Fang Yu seemed to be right above him, yet he simply could not see Senior Brother Fang Yu.

It was an incomparably wondrous sensation.

In his heart, his sixth sense told him Senior Brother Fang Yu was right there, but no matter how he looked, scanned with his divine sense, or exerted his eyesight, he could not detect Senior Brother Fang Yu.

"What on earth is going about? I am now a Longevity Second Stage Undying Body expert; a sweep of my divine sense can perceive everything within tens of millions of miles. But Senior Brother Fang Yu is clearly right before my eyes—why can I not sense him at all?"

Many thoughts rose in Fang Han's mind. He looked carefully, yet still could not detect him; he even had the feeling that the celestial flowers falling from the sky had become far fewer.

It was not only Fang Han who felt this way. Below, not far from Fang Yu, the two Star Lords of Dragonwood Star—Dragon Daoist and Wood Daoist—who had also been joyfully absorbing the celestial flowers and golden lotuses, suddenly discovered they could no longer see that immortal venerable of the Yuhua Sect.

"What's going on? How did that immortal venerable suddenly vanish? Has he gone somewhere else? Is this the wonder of the Longevity Third Stage Grotto-Heaven realm?"

"Terrifying—truly terrifying! We cannot even sense that immortal venerable's existence. If he were to strike at us, would we have any power to resist at all?"

Whether Dragon Daoist or Wood Daoist, they exchanged a glance and saw the horror in each other's hearts.

But at this moment, the situation above changed again; they once more saw that immortal venerable Fang Yu. That immortal venerable still sat high upon his throne, only now appearing far, far more mysterious than before, exerting an immense pressure upon them.

"Senior Brother Yu has reappeared."

Fang Han saw Fang Yu again and shook his head. He resolved that he must quickly comprehend spatial laws and cultivate to the Grotto-Heaven realm before anything else. This gap in realm left him unable to even discern what Senior Brother Fang Yu was doing; in the days to come, should he encounter other Grotto-Heaven realm experts, he feared he would have a very hard time dealing with them.

"Mysterious, mysterious, mysterious—spatial laws are indeed mystery upon mystery. But with this immortal venerable's aid, I have advanced considerably further upon the Longevity Third Stage Grotto-Heaven realm."

Fang Yu smiled faintly.

Absorbing the spatial flowers bestowed by Exalted Linglong was of tremendous help to his Dao cultivation. If previously he had only been at the early stage of the Grotto-Heaven realm, now he had directly reached the middle stage—or even the late stage.

This was a heaven-defying advancement.

And at this moment, the voices of countless female disciples of Linglong Blessed Land rang out in unison: "Congratulations, Sect Master Supreme, on a thousand-autumn sacred longevity and ten-thousand-year eternal spring! Guests, present your birthday gifts!"

This immortal venerable's grand four-thousand-year birthday ceremony officially began.

This illustrious immortal venerable now manifested within true void, and all could see that this immortal venerable actually wore men's clothing, possessing a dashing, elegant air. Upon her head, a plume crown bound her hair. She sat quietly upon a crystal throne, and within her eyes appeared countless mysterious transformations—as if billions of stars lived and perished, and world-systems countless as the sands of the Ganges cycled through birth, existence, dwelling, decay, and emptiness, displaying the profundity of the supreme Heavenly Dao.

She was like an exalted Heavenly Dao presiding over all, commanding every truth and every Dao art of the myriad realms. The river of time flowed within her gaze; the breath of creation pervaded her being. Her existence there seemed capable of reflecting every past and future, every shift of life and death, of all living beings across the realms.

This immortal venerable was truly exalted above all, wielding supreme creation, acting on Heaven's behalf, and orchestrating the evolution of the universe. Every rule lay within her grasp.

Her hands, fair and slender, rested upon the armrests of the chair; each finger commanded the rules of the Heavenly Dao—be it space, time, the five elements' primordial energy, life and death and souls, the laws of creation, or the power of heavenly rank.

Her magic power was vast beyond measure, 强大 without limit!

Anyone who beheld this immortal venerable's true form would feel exactly this way.

Whether it was the Scarlet Abyss Demon Venerable Fang Yu had seen, or the many ancestors he had encountered within the Kanlishen Sect—these formidable beings, terrifying as their might was, were all outshone by Exalted Linglong.

Exalted Linglong was indeed just as her self-created art suggested.

The Linglong Great Luo Heaven signified all time and space, eternal freedom, the attainment of Great Luo.

This female immortal venerable harbored vast ambition: she would one day establish a Great Luo Heaven of her own, and upon that Great Luo Heaven, achieve true eternal freedom.

Even Fang Yu, beholding this immortal venerable, revealed a look of shock.

Though he had now cultivated for three years, reaching the Longevity Third Stage Grotto-Heaven realm and mastering many great Dao divine abilities, creating a supreme divine ability comparable to the Three Thousand Great Daos was still far too early. Yet Exalted Linglong had been continuously perfecting her own Linglong Great Luo Heaven, walking a Dao entirely her own.

In the World of Eternal Life, the Three Thousand Great Daos were simply too formidable. Obtaining and cultivating the Three Thousand Great Daos was already extremely difficult—yet sufficient. To walk one's own great Dao beyond the Three Thousand Great Daos required heaven-defying courage, perseverance, and wisdom!

"All birthday celebrants, present your birthday gifts!"

At this moment, another voice rang out, and immediately congratulatory cries arose. First, the master of one of the Xiandaoshi Sect's branches, the Crystal Grotto-Heaven Gate Master Mr. Shuijing, presented his gift—many treasured artifacts, various Earth-grade elixirs, and Spirit-grade elixirs. Then the master of the Liudao Alliance, the Six Dao Loose Immortal, presented some mid-grade treasured artifacts, some Dao arts, and some rare treasures of heaven and earth.

As these巨头 presented their gifts, the Linglong Blessed Land disciples chanting the gift list proclaimed them loudly, calling out precious elixirs, Dao scriptures, and magic treasures word by word, their voices rippling through heaven and earth, making one feel as though endless treasures were all being offered up to Exalted Linglong alone.

And next, it was Fang Yu's turn.

Fang Yu stepped forward, and in his hand appeared a scroll. This scroll was adorned with the Spirit God Stone—one of the four great strange stones of the Heavens and Worlds—and upon it was manifested the form of a woman: the supremely virtuous and holy Pangu Goddess Nüwa of the Desolate Wilds Record Realm.

This goddess existed only upon the scroll, yet everyone felt an ineffably profound Dao韵味 emerge, as if a supremely virtuous and holy being had appeared, manifesting her many great Dao divine abilities.

And around this scroll were also wondrous Dao intents—the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art of the Perfect World, and the Nine Secrets of the Shrouding Heaven Realm.

Beyond this, Fang Yu waved his hand, and several hundred streams of radiance flowed forth—wave after wave of magic treasures and talismans.

The magic treasures were naturally of the supreme-grade treasured artifact level; anything lower, Fang Yu would not have deigned to present. And the talismans were personally refined by Fang Yu himself, a legendary being of the Longevity Third Stage Grotto-Heaven realm.

At a cultivation base like Fang Yu's, every talisman he refined was a supreme treasure.

Take, for example, the "Great Strength Heavenly Dragon Divine Talisman"—a divine talisman Fang Yu had casually condensed using the true dragon qi of the Eight Divisions. Its strength was boundless; burning a single such talisman could unleash the force of ten million Xuanhuang warhorses.

Indeed, when this Great Strength Heavenly Dragon Divine Talisman burned, it was directly equivalent to a full-power strike from a 10th Stage of Divine Abilities expert.

In other words, even a disciple at the 10th Stage of Physical Body, if he obtained this Great Strength Heavenly Dragon Divine Talisman, could instantly slay a disciple who had cultivated to the 7th Stage of Divine Abilities Golden Core Realm—even a disciple at the 8th or 9th Stage of Divine Abilities might not be able to withstand such a strike.

The force of ten million Xuanhuang warhorses—such a strike was more than enough to casually slay an ordinary Golden Core expert.

These were the talisman birthday gifts Fang Yu presented!

These were taboo treasures entirely capable of altering the strength of a cultivator.