Chapter 703: Fishing Always Brings Out a Whale

Chapter 703: Chapter 703: Fishing Always Brings Out a Whale

Ever since Xu Yunfan boldly slew Red Sun True Monarch in the battle at the Boundary Sea, suppressed his Dao Fruit, and revealed the supreme imagery of the Divine Sky Thunderbolt destroying the Ten Thousand Laws and the Profound Vault Undying supporting the heavens,

he had already seen it as a Dao Fruit that held a supreme opportunity.

The Divine Sky Dao Fruit’s Power of Destruction and Rebirth held a fatal attraction to the Dao he himself cultivated.

He had waited bitterly for many years, enduring and lying in wait, even going so far as to use a hidden contact buried within the Primordial Sect to constantly monitor the movements on Divine Sky Mountain, all for this very moment.

Back when this Dao Fruit was in Lv Chunyang’s hands, he hadn’t dared to entertain any ideas about it. He was even prepared to reincarnate. Even if he couldn’t reach the Golden Core realm again, with the protection of his Immortal Golden Nature, he could have continuously reincarnated, awakening his Innate Wisdom with each life. Perhaps one day, he could have even attained a Dao Attainment Fruit Position again.

But then, in an ironic twist, Xu Yunfan appeared.

’My years of patient waiting have not been in vain! The Taiyin Nether Dragon Fruit, and the Divine Soul Origin of that Divine Sky True Monarch, they’re all mine!’

The sinister smile on the White-haired True Monarch’s face widened, carrying a heart-stopping greed.

He shot to his feet, his Purple Gold Daoist Robe fluttering though there was no wind. What was shocking was that he didn’t separate his Divine Soul from his body like True Monarch Tong Xuan. Instead, his hands rapidly formed a series of profound and complex spells.

What flowed from his fingertips was not the brilliance of Magical Power, but a Death Qi so dense it was congealed and gray, along with a sliver of vibrant, verdant Vitality.

The two diametrically opposed forces mingled around him, finally forming the phantom of a constantly reversing Life and Death Wheel that enveloped his entire body.

"Life and Death Reincarnation, spirit and flesh shall cross!"

A low curse rang out, and the reversing Life and Death Wheel suddenly flared with brilliant light.

The gray Death Qi and the verdant Vitality, like two entwined giant pythons, instantly wrapped around the White-haired True Monarch’s physical body.

A bizarre scene unfolded.

Under the effect of this power that reversed life and death, the aura of his flesh-and-blood body swiftly became illusory and ethereal. It seemed to exist between life and death, substance and void, emitting a bizarre fluctuation that was remarkably attuned to the aura of the Sea of Suffering Reincarnation.

The next moment, the reversing wheel and his body violently imploded inward, transforming into a bizarre escape light that hovered between life and death. It silently tore through the spatial barrier and fled in the direction of the Sea of Suffering Reincarnation.

This was an unbelievable, forbidden Secret Technique for forcibly crossing the Sea of Suffering Reincarnation with one’s physical body.

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「Chenghua Mountain, one of the Nine Immortals Mountains of the Primordial Sect.」

At the peak stood an Immortal Palace, simple, ancient, and majestic.

The controller of the Primordial Sect, True Monarch Pu Du, a Mid-Stage Golden Core cultivator, sat at the center of a slowly rotating Eight Trigrams Daoist Platform.

Upon it, Eight Trigrams Runes flickered in and out of existence, deducing the Heaven and Earth Qi Mechanism and the cause and effect of all realms.

The fluctuations from Xu Yunfan’s Divine Soul separating from his body and forcibly breaking into the Sea of Suffering Reincarnation were naturally reflected clearly in the Eight Trigrams Daoist Platform’s deductions. They manifested as a dazzling trajectory of purple-gold thunderbolt, plunging headlong into a deep and mysterious region of the trigrams.

True Monarch Pu Du’s simple and ancient face showed no expression, his eyes as deep as an eternal Cold Pool.

He quietly watched the trajectory disappear into the Sea of Suffering trigram. His fingertips unconsciously brushed over an Eight Trigrams Rune that had cracked and then reformed, and in the end, he only gave a barely perceptible shake of his head.

He looked up in the direction of the White-haired True Monarch and let out a low sigh, its meaning unclear, tinged with a hint of disappointment.

"Young man, your composure is still lacking, after all."

In True Monarch Pu Du’s eyes, for Xu Yunfan to have achieved the Golden Core in a single lifetime was astonishingly brilliant and showed infinite potential.

The Primordial Sect was at a time when its new blood was withering and its old guards were trapped in their own predicaments. Xu Yunfan’s appearance should have been a blessing of Destiny.

As long as Xu Yunfan could remain patient and build his foundations steadily, with the potential of his Divine Sky Dao Fruit, his future achievements would be limitless. He could even lie low for several centuries, and perhaps obtain another Dao Fruit of the Taiyin attribute. Then he would have a chance to break through to the Mid-Stage Golden Core and become a new pillar of the Primordial Sect.

Unfortunately, he was too eager to obtain the Taiyin Dao Fruit and actually took such a dangerous risk—separating his Divine Soul from his body to forcibly enter the Sea of Suffering. It was truly unwise.

The Sea of Suffering Reincarnation was treacherous and unpredictable; how many astonishingly brilliant talents had been buried within it?

Moreover, Tongxuan of the Wansheng Sword Sect had been drawn out, as had that secretive and skulking White-haired True Monarch with his mysterious methods...

These waters were too murky and treacherous.

In True Monarch Pu Du’s eyes, Xu Yunfan’s action was tantamount to placing himself in a gamble with a near-certain chance of death. To take such a risk when his Daoist Cultivation was not yet profound was a sign of insufficient composure and an unstable Dao Heart.

Although he had some expectations for Xu Yunfan, they went no further than that. In the Primordial Sect, the strong preyed on the weak, the path of the Dao was fraught with peril, and one’s personal choices, life, and death were all left to fate.

He had no need to intervene, nor any intention to.

After his sigh, True Monarch Pu Du slowly closed his eyes. The aura around him fell completely silent, as if his spirit was roaming the Taixu. He once again immersed himself in the endless deductions of the Great Dao and Meditation, shutting out all external disturbances.

At the Mid-Stage Golden Core, one no longer worried about lifespan. One only sought to ascend the Great Dao, to seek the Great Circulation Perfection. And perhaps, there was even a sliver of a chance at a Dao Embryo.

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「Primordial Sect, Divine Sky Peak.」

The pillar of purple-gold thunderbolt light still pierced the heavens, unceasing day and night, announcing the identity of this place’s master.

In the deepest part of the Divine Sky Palace, Xu Yunfan’s main body was not, as the outside world perceived, roaming in spirit or in secluded cultivation.

He sat cross-legged upon the Cloud Platform, his eyes tightly shut, but an extremely faint purple-gold Thunder Pattern flickered faintly between his brows.

Of course, Xu Yunfan hadn’t separated his Divine Soul from his body as the outside world believed. Instead, using the Profound Capital Eight Sceneries Celestial Refining Creation Cloud Scripture combined with the powerful control of his Attribute Panel, he had channeled the vast majority of his Heart and Spirit and his will through their shared Origin, firmly locking them onto his clone, Wukong, who was far away in the Sea of Suffering Reincarnation.

It was only thanks to the Attribute Panel’s miraculous ability to turn decay into wonder that even True Monarch Pu Du, who had also cultivated the Eight Sceneries of Profound Capital, could not possibly see that it was Xu Yunfan’s clone that had departed.

At the same time, he secretly activated a Multiple Cause and Effect Secret Technique, weaving an invisible and intangible secret net that covered the entirety of Divine Sky Mountain and the surrounding void. It keenly captured any trace of abnormality in the world, specifically targeting the fluctuations of the Qi mechanism in this area.

At the very instant True Monarch Tong Xuan severed his Divine Soul with a slash of his sword to leave his body, the White-haired True Monarch used his bizarre Secret Technique to cross with his physical body, and True Monarch Pu Du let out his sigh, the Cause and Effect Lines under Xu Yunfan’s Divine Thought Secret Net began to tremble violently.

Several powerful, sinister, greedy, and murderous Cause and Effect Threads, like sharks that had scented blood, suddenly pulled taut from different directions. The ends of these threads pointed directly at the source of the fluctuations from Wukong’s escape into the Sea of Suffering Reincarnation.

Xu Yunfan’s tightly shut eyes snapped open.

Within his eyes was nothing but an icy indifference. As his vision ascended to a higher dimension, the trajectories of those several malicious cause-and-effect threads were clearly reflected before him.

The corner of his mouth twitched. He truly hadn’t expected that this little act of his would actually bait out so many people.

’Heh... As expected, they all came smelling the blood in the water.’

’Tongxuan from Wansheng... Let’s see how many more of these skulking rats there are.’

His gaze seemed to penetrate the restrictions of the Divine Sky Palace and look far off in the direction of Chenghua Mountain. That sigh also seemed to cause a slight ripple in the lake of his heart, but it was calm again in an instant.