Chapter 406: Why Is My Career Panel in a 2D Art Style? Chapter 185

This Great Yin Immortal saw clearly—and saw too clearly.

After all Gemenge Sects pledged that their secret transmissions would be delivered to Sanyi Sect within a month, they departed from the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley with deeply complex emotions.

What happened today was simply too monumental; those who came to witness were merely a small fraction—they needed to return the news to their own sects as quickly as possible.

As the supernatural factions present gradually withdrew, the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley was left with only the Sanyi Sect members and the sprawled bodies of the Quanxing demons.

At this moment, Yi Chong and the rest of the Sanyi Sect members stared expectantly at Li Ang, their meaning obvious.

Li Ang naturally knew what they were thinking, but merely shook his head slightly: "I still need to make minor adjustments to Reverse Birth: Three Layers; once revised, I'll hand it over to Master."

These Sanyi Sect disciples before him were different—he alone could replicate his path to immortality.

Think of the transformation requirements for 【Immortal】—could ordinary Qi-refiners possibly accomplish them?

Thus, Li Ang could only deconstruct the 【Reverse Birth】 specialization to optimize the original Reverse Birth: Three Layers.

Though the difficulty of achieving immortality through this method remains hellish, it is still incomparably better than the original impossibility.

After all, going from 99 to 100 means nothing; what truly matters is going from 0 to 1.

Upon hearing his words, Yi Chong's wrinkled old face instantly bloomed like a chrysanthemum in laughter.

Lu Jin, meanwhile, couldn't help but drift into wild thoughts—when Li Ang had first entered the sect, he himself had been the one to instruct him.

But now.

Sigh—thinking this way, he felt a tragic, thick barrier had formed between himself and this Immortal of his sect.

Though Zuo Zuo Ruotong was also deeply curious about the new Reverse Birth: Three Layers, he did not ask about it; instead, he inquired about the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley: "How should this place be handled afterward?"

"After I make minor modifications, sect disciples may enter and leave freely."

Li Ang had long had a plan for how to handle the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley.

To be fair, this place still had a certain sinister quality.

Yet he wouldn't eat his fill and then smash the bowl—he could only make minor modifications to the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley.

Afterward, he would not interfere as Sanyi Sect disciples or other supernatural beings entered the valley to meditate; indeed, he hoped they would gain deeper insights into abilities similar to the Eight Marvels.

Seeing his disciples had a plan, Zuo Zuo Ruotong nodded slightly and said no more: "Then let us return to the sect."

"No rush—I still have things to do."

Now that he had become an Immortal, Li Ang had no objection to doing something.

One might say that even without becoming an Immortal, he would have done something—only not as conveniently as now.

As Li Ang stirred his mind, a supermassive Eight Trigrams array instantly unfolded beneath his feet, encompassing the entire planet in an instant.

At this moment, sensing all things on this planet, the young man lowered his eyelids slightly and sighed inwardly: 'This is the 【Zhou Tian Transformation Principle】.'

Without external interference, Li Ang could effortlessly extend the 【Zhou Tian Transformation Principle】 across the entire planet.

Seeing the sudden anomaly before him, Zuo Zuo Ruotong froze in surprise, but quickly realized what his disciple intended to do.

Feeling the omnipresent Qi Gates scattered throughout heaven and earth, this Great Yin Immortal sighed inwardly.

'Qi Men Dun Jia…'

Before today, he had never imagined any being could wield 【Qi Men Dun Jia】 so terrifyingly.

It was less like a Qi Gates array and more like a miniature world.

Not only Zuo Zuo Ruotong, but many supernatural beings who had not yet traveled far from the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley also noticed this vast, incomprehensible Qi Gates array.

"Such a massive display…" Zhang Jingqing stared at the slowly rotating array above the heavens, murmuring softly, "What does that one intend to do?"

Unfortunately, no one could answer his question.

Beside him, the squinting man watched the celestial phenomenon, a thought rising in his mind.

From today onward, the title of peerless in his generation would no longer belong to him.

Thinking of this, the squinting man involuntarily rubbed his chin.

Come to think of it—could that one even be considered his peer? Isn't that a bit unfair?

At this moment, the short figure who had appeared behind Wu Wu Gensheng earlier spoke: "Master, Elder Brother—"

Before he could finish, Zhang Jingqing interrupted: "Huaiyi, I never thought you had such boldness."

"I should thank that one—if not for him, your affairs with Wu Wu Gensheng would have been impossible to resolve."

Hearing his Master's words, the short figure named Huaiyi awkwardly scratched his head, unsure how to rebut.

Seeing his expression, Zhang Jingqing snorted and did not dwell on the matter: "Forget it—your affairs can wait. Right now, the most important thing is how we should treat that one afterward. When we return, both of you tell me your thoughts."

"Why not just let you decide?"

"... Yes."

Such exchanges occurred among many supernatural factions, but the most extreme reaction came from Shuzi Sect Sect.

Upon seeing the colossal Eight Trigrams array in the sky, the head of Shuzi Sect Sect burst into tears and knelt helplessly on the ground.

This is it! This is it!

This was precisely what Shuzi Sect Sect had long sought to learn!

If Li Ang had merely mastered abilities on the level of the Eight Marvels, Shuzi Sect Sect would likely have resorted to forceful seizure.

But now—

They only regretted not having knelt fast enough earlier.

Of course, Li Ang did not unleash such a massive 【Zhou Tian Transformation Principle】 to show off—he did it to stop war.

After all, this ancient land still suffered from the ravages of war; he could not turn a blind eye.

To call it stopping war—

Stopping war through killing is still stopping war.

Watching the celestial anomaly, all invading forces sensed a heavy aura of death.

For ordinary people, they felt icy cold all over, as if their lives had already been erased by some unseen horror.

But for the Extraordinary People.

The Qi between heaven and earth grew ever more terrifying, as if some pair of indifferent pupils were watching them from the unseen.

Feeling the killing intent pervading heaven and earth, many Extraordinary People were inexplicably reminded of certain lines from the *Yinfu Jing*.

"When Heaven unleashes killing intent, the stars shift and the lodges change; when Earth unleashes killing intent, dragons and serpents rise upon the land; when Man unleashes killing intent, heaven and earth overturn."

"When Heaven and Man unleash it together, the myriad transformations are fixed as their foundation."

"?"

Before they could react, the view before their eyes abruptly plunged into darkness.

And those who suffered this catastrophe were not only the Extraordinary People of this ancient land—every being connected to the war was subjected to judgment.

"What happened?!"

No escape, no evasion.

Li Ang gazed quietly at his own handiwork through the 【Principle of the Changes of Zhou Tian】.

Before his arrival, Extraordinary People and the mundane could barely be considered two worlds—what was called "the Extraordinary belong to the Extraordinary, the mundane belong to the mundane."

Li Ang did not know what would happen if this boundary were crossed; he only knew that no Extraordinary Person on this planet could resist him.

As for whether suddenly killing so many people would cause chaos—

Li Ang did not care, and figured that in this era there were people in the mundane world capable of handling such matters.

After finishing what he wanted to do, Li Ang dismissed the Qimen array that had covered the entire planet.

Everything that had just happened was merely a small application of the 【Principle of the Changes of Zhou Tian】 and 【Qi Mechanism Sorting】; the true capabilities of these two skills had not yet been fully displayed.

Space, the Five Elements, the division of Yin and Yang.

'Interesting.'

Recalling a certain notion that had crossed his mind earlier, Li Ang's gaze flickered.

If he could possess a world entirely his own, he might really be able to casually cosplay a certain great deity from Daoism.

Of course, to achieve that step, the abilities brought by other professions were also indispensable, and the Fifth Energy Level could most likely only produce a "youth version."

Thinking of this, Li Ang gently stroked his left eye.

But thinking about all this now was useless; for Li Ang, the current priority was still enriching the 【Immortal】 profession's abilities, and—

World development.

At this moment, Zuo Zuo Ruotong, who was standing nearby, gradually came back to his senses. He glanced at his disciple, who seemed lost in thought, and could not help but speak: ". Let's go back. You must be tired as well."

This Daying Immortal did not bring up what had just happened.

Because there was nothing worth saying—were he in that position, he would most likely have done the same. It only proved that he had not misjudged the person.

The Sanyi Sect disciples nearby, however, had not yet realized what had happened, still immersed in the earlier celestial portent.

Hearing this, Li Ang nodded calmly: "Then let us head back first."

With that, he took all the Sanyi Sect disciples present and vanished.

As the crowd departed, the Twenty-Four Solar Valley returned to calm, with only a few artificial-human maids left silently guarding the place.

……

Time passed in this manner for over half a month.

Because communications in this era were not developed, the events at the Twenty-Four Solar Valley took a full half-month before they gradually began to ferment.

And during this period, the Sanyi Sect's threshold was nearly worn through.

Of course—that was a living Immortal!

Even if one could not formally enter the Sanyi Sect, just brushing up against some immortal aura would be good enough.

Unfortunately, although the Sanyi Sect had resumed recruiting disciples, the requirements were extremely stringent.

Even stricter than a few years prior—character, temperament, and aptitude, none could be lacking.

Of these, the first two were given the most weight. After all, compared to other paths of transcendence, the Qi Refiners did not rely especially heavily on talent, especially now that the Sanyi Sect also possessed the Reverse Birth: Three Layers optimized by Li Ang.

Of course, it was also during this period that basically every Extraordinary Person in the world who had witnessed the portent from over half a month ago realized who the mastermind truly was.

If this had happened in ordinary times, such an act would clearly have broken the rules.

But in the present, that person's word was the rule.

Precisely because of this, the atmosphere on this planet gradually grew strange and sinister.

Every faction feared that their actions might incur that person's displeasure—after all, the lessons of the past were fresh in mind.

Regarding this, Li Ang was happy to see it come to pass; reducing some of the world's disputes was, after all, a good thing.

But he also knew that completely eliminating disputes in the short term and turning the world into a utopia was utterly unrealistic—where there were people, there would be disputes.

Of course, there was not no Decisive solution: that would be for Li Ang to maintain the 【Principle of the Changes of Zhou Tian】 at all times, impersonating a living Heavenly Dao.

This was not impossible—after all, with the augmentation of the Third Method, he need not worry about energy consumption at all.

But the problem was that doing so would scatter a great deal of Li Ang's attention, and these matters could be handled gradually—there was no need to seek a permanent solution all at once.

At this moment, Zuo Zuo Ruotong was leading the sect's disciples in offering incense to the patriarchs in the ancestral hall.

The Sanyi Sect ancestral hall had now undergone tremendous changes; the most eye-catching was the single spirit tablet placed alone beneath the Sanyi Sect's founding patriarch.

On it was written only one name: Li Ang.

Honestly, it was hardly surprising that Li Ang's spirit tablet had appeared here.

After all, for the Sanyi Sect, the contributions he had made were already comparable to those of the founding patriarch.

Revitalizing the Sanyi Sect, optimizing the Reverse Birth: Three Layers—

Not a single one of these feats was simple. Not placing his tablet on the same row as the founding patriarch was already out of respect for the patriarch.

After finishing the incense, Zuo Zuo Ruotong led the disciples out of the ancestral hall, then turned to Sichong beside him and asked: "Junior brother, those foreigners still haven't left?"

"No." Facing the question, Sichong shook his head slightly. "They say they won't leave until they see Li Ang, our martial nephew."