Chapter 766: Jin Xian Sequence

Boom!

The rumbling sound pierced straight into his soul; even though Li Yuan had long been prepared, his mind could not help but tremble.

In a daze, he saw the divine tree's branches and leaves spread out, as if dimensional worlds were being born and dying within them, and he glimpsed all manner of profound wonders flowing and interweaving.

Faintly, he caught sight of the Law Net's outline.

'The Law Net is indeed rooted upon the Xuanhuang World Tree…'

This thought flashed through Li Yuan's mind, and then he felt the violent ripples transmitted from the Law Net.

【Law Net Rank 3 Promoted】

【Law Net Rank 4 Promoted】

……

【Law Net Rank 6 Promoted】

【Obtained Xuanhuang Merit 800, Minor Merit 200,000…】

"Hum~"

Li Yuan felt only an invisible, strange force pass from outside to inside, lifting his mind and bearing it upward toward the higher levels of the Law Net.

"Rank 6 authority?! Such generosity…"

Even though he had anticipated it, Li Yuan still felt shocked, clicking his tongue inwardly.

Eight hundred Merit points would be one thing, but the Law Net authority had actually been elevated straight to Rank 6…

The Law Net's order was strict and stern; even descendants of the Five Emperors or disciples of the Three Saints could not possibly be promoted so swiftly.

One had to know that the Law Net had nine levels in total, and above the seventh level there were only twenty holders, no more.

Law Net Rank 6 authority, in a certain sense, was already the limit that the cultivators of the Xuanhuang San Qian Shi Fa Jie could reach!

"According to Yun Yun Changlong's intelligence, Law Net Rank 6 is also called the Jin Xian Sequence, and qualifies one to inherit a seat among the Twelve Jin Xian…"

Li Yuan was both shocked and delighted.

The Xuanhuang elder's generosity exceeded expectations, but such a grand gesture only proved that the man's schemes ran exceedingly deep.

"Hum~"

While his thoughts raced, Li Yuan focused his mind intently, perceiving the Law Net's violent transformations.

In that instant, the Law Net was clearer in his perception than ever before.

It was a terrifying great net rooted upon the Xuanhuang World Tree, taking the Xuanhuang San Qian Ci Yuan Shi Fa Jie as its foundation and radiating outward to cover the entire Xuanhuang Great World.

It reached everywhere, existed everywhere.

"Hum~"

Endless streams of light and shadow flowed at extreme speed.

By virtue of the Xuanhuang elder's elevation, Li Yuan rose from low to high, as if leaping upward through boundless void.

He switched his control, and relying on the augmentation of the Soldier Register, he managed to glimpse some of the Law Net's mysteries amid the light and shadow flowing at extreme speed.

The Law Net's nine levels, from bottom to top, resembled a colossal pagoda.

"More like, a series of chessboards…"

Li Yuan strained his gaze into the distance.

Countless lines formed by the convergence of profound divine patterns, crisscrossing like a chessboard transformed from a stretch of starry sky; countless light-points, some small, some large, some bright, some dim, sat at the intersections of the lines, like chess pieces.

"Whoosh!"

In the instant he brushed past a certain light-point, Li Yuan seemed to see an elderly cultivator sitting in quiet cultivation within his cave dwelling.

But it lasted only a moment; when Li Yuan wanted to look a few more times, the flowing light and shadow around him had already calmed down.

"Law Net Rank 6!"

Li Yuan felt as if he were standing beneath a starry sky; he looked down and could faintly see a vast abyss, within which light-points flickered from time to time, rising or falling.

He slowly raised his head.

Above the sixth level was likewise a deep, vast stretch of starry sky, but far brighter than the one beneath him.

Twelve unfathomable figures sat enthroned above the abyss; even as he strained his gaze and focused his spirit, he could not glimpse a single detail.

"The Twelve Xuanhuang Immortals…"

Li Yuan suppressed the throbbing in his heart, and just as he was about to take stock of the Xuanhuang elder's gifts, he suddenly sensed something.

He saw a streak of crimson light burst forth from the abyss and shoot up into the Law Net's sixth level.

"What is this?"

Li Yuan's heart stirred.

He saw the crimson light blossom with radiance within the starry sky of the sixth level; the moment he focused his mind slightly, he actually sensed a will trembling violently within that radiance.

【Law Net Rank 4 cultivator, Yuan Yun, is willing to offer Merit 20, and seeks aid from a cultivator of the sixth level to help me slay a Qi Jing extradimensional demon-evil; this demon-evil bears upon its person a gourd for slaying immortals, and its killing intent is appallingly fierce…】

【Yuan Yun seeks only to slay the enemy, and will not take a single share of the merit…】

"So this is a call for aid?"

Li Yuan recognized this as one of the Law Net functions that could only be invoked from Rank 3, but before he could examine it closely, one powerful will after another rose up within the starry sky of this sixth level.

"Good heavens…"

Li Yuan watched, his heart pounding wildly.

Though he could not perceive who the masters of these wills were, they were clearly no lower than Qi Jing, and might even be great cultivators of Ba Jiu Jing.

What was even more startling was that the reaction speed of these sixth-level cultivators was extremely fast.

"Whoosh!"

In less than an instant, a single will had already descended from afar.

In that instant, Li Yuan actually saw very clearly.

It was an old man with a beard and hair both white as snow, seated cross-legged beneath an ancient tree, a jet-black divine sword resting across his knees. The instant it touched that crimson divine light, the old man raised his hand, took up the sword, and slashed through the air!

"This is the Primordial Five Punishments Sword."

Li Yuan recognized that sword-light.

"Whoosh!"

As the sword fell, ripples suddenly rose across the law-net; in less than an instant, that sword-light had already passed through the law-net and descended directly upon the cultivator named Yuan Yun.

Light and shadow flickered within the starry sky.