The explanation was flawless.
It explained both why the Qingyun Divine Water had remained unused and why it was Gu Chengyin's Qingyun Token.
Upon hearing this, the several Golden Core enshrined experts nodded in agreement.
Elder Qiu's gaze darted back and forth between Gu Chengyin and Jiang Qingshan, as if trying to judge something.
But after watching for a long time, he couldn't spot any flaws.
He could only suppress the doubts in his heart and continue asking, "Then this reopening is...?"
Before he could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by an exclamation.
"Wh... what is this!?"
The voice came from Gu Chengyin.
Everyone turned their heads at the same time, their eyes widening in shock.
They saw Daoist patterns suddenly surfacing on Gu Chengyin's body.
The Dao patterns started from the hand holding the Qingyun Token and slowly spread upward, as if something was awakening inside his body and revealing itself bit by bit.
Wherever they passed, his skin gave off a faint azure light. The glow was very faint, as thin as mist under the moonlight, but in the eyes of the crowd, it shook them to their very cores.
Because those Dao patterns...
Actually faintly contained the true principles of the Great Dao.
Everyone present was in the Golden Core Realm. They had all pondered the traces of the Dao countless times during their cultivation, and had fantasized countless times about what a complete Immortal Dao looked like.
So, the moment that true principle of the Great Dao appeared.
Everyone felt it.
It was complete.
It was coherent.
It was unbroken.
Elder Qiu's pupils shrank violently.
He stared at the Dao patterns on Gu Chengyin's body, stared at the slowly flowing azure light, and stared at the faintly discernible aura of the Great Dao, feeling his mind tremble violently.
As the person in charge of the Luodu Heavenly Master Mansion, he had seen countless cultivation methods and countless fragmented inheritances.
But those methods, those inheritances, were all severed, incomplete, and flawed.
But the Dao patterns before him were complete.
It was the true, complete Immortal Dao!
Elder Qiu's fingers trembled slightly.
And it wasn't just him.
The breathing of the other Golden Core enshrined experts grew heavy, their eyes fixed dead on Gu Chengyin.
Their eyes held shock, disbelief, and a trace of yearning.
That was the instinctive yearning of all immortal cultivators when faced with a complete Immortal Dao.
"This is..."
The Golden Core enshrined expert from the Divine Capital spoke in a hoarse voice, as if sleepwalking, "A complete Immortal Dao!?"
The moment these words came out, the room instantly exploded into an uproar.
"A complete Immortal Dao?"
"How is that possible?"
"But that aura..."
"No, look at those Dao patterns..."
The Golden Core experts spoke all at once, but their eyes never left Gu Chengyin.
Gu Chengyin stood there, allowing those gazes to fall upon him.
His face bore just the right amount of shock, as if he himself hadn't expected this to happen.
But if one looked closely at his eyes, they would find that deep down, they were as calm as water.
The shock was merely a facade.
The real Gu Chengyin was observing everyone's reactions.
Elder Qiu's shock.
Jiang Qingshan's bewilderment.
The yearning of the other Golden Core experts.
And Lin Qingyan's...
Worship?
Although he didn't quite understand what Lin Qingyan was worshipping him for at this moment.
But Gu Chengyin panickedly lowered his head, looking at the Dao patterns on his body, a trace of a tremble in his voice.
"Wh... what is going on?"
His acting was excellent, so good that the Golden Core experts couldn't spot a single flaw.
They only saw an immortal clan descendant who had just obtained an inheritance; they only saw a Gu Chengyin possessing a complete Immortal Dao.
Elder Qiu took a deep breath, suppressing the palpitations in his heart, trying hard to make his voice sound normal.
"Junior Preceptor Gu, how... how do you feel right now?"
Gu Chengyin raised his head and looked at him, a trace of confusion in his eyes.
"Feel?"
He paused, seemingly feeling for something.
"This junior feels... like there is something circulating inside my body."
"The feeling is very strange, it's like..."
Gu Chengyin frowned, trying hard to describe it.
"Like some path has suddenly opened up."
Opened up.
These words fell into the ears of the Golden Core experts like a clap of thunder.
The path had opened up.
The complete Immortal Dao had opened up.
What did this mean?
It meant that from now on, one could cultivate to the Nascent Soul Realm, or even higher realms.
It meant that from now on, one wouldn't have to worry about suffering from cultivation deviation and dying with their Dao vanishing.
It meant that from now on...
Elder Qiu's hands trembled slightly.
The way he looked at Gu Chengyin changed.
He was no longer looking at a junior, no longer looking at an imperial official, no longer looking at an immortal clan descendant.
Instead, he was looking at a hope.
The hope of the entire cultivation world.
The room fell into an eerie silence.
Flickering light and shadows played across everyone's faces.
Within those shadows were shock, yearning, greed, and...
Restraint.
Elder Qiu was the first to recover.
"Junior Preceptor Gu."
"Have you... obtained the complete Qingyun Art?"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone held their breath.
The complete Qingyun Art.
A peak Heaven-tier cultivation method.
Gu Chengyin remained silent for a breath, furrowing his brows as if feeling for something.
"This junior seems to have obtained something, but it is not very clear."
Not very clear?
The Golden Core experts exchanged glances.
Elder Qiu asked, "What do you mean?"
Gu Chengyin shook his head and said, "This junior cannot explain it clearly either. I just feel like there are many new things in my mind."
"But those things are very blurry, as if shrouded by something, making them impossible to see clearly."
"Perhaps it is because this junior's cultivation base is too low to fully accept the inheritance yet."
These words were reasonable and logical.
After all, Gu Chengyin was only at the Foundation Establishment Realm; he had not yet reached the Golden Core Realm.
And the complete Qingyun Art was a peak Heaven-tier cultivation method that pointed straight toward ascension.
With Gu Chengyin's current cultivation base, it was perfectly normal that he could not fully accept it.
Hearing this, the Golden Core experts nodded in agreement.
But their gazes still did not leave Gu Chengyin.
Their eyes contained scrutiny, speculation, and deeply hidden greed.
The complete Immortal Dao was right there on Gu Chengyin's body.
The complete Qingyun Art was right there in his mind.
Although he couldn't see it clearly right now, it was only a matter of time.
Once Gu Chengyin's cultivation base improved, once he fully accepted the inheritance...
Then he would be the only person in the entire cultivation world to possess a complete Immortal Dao.
Elder Qiu's gaze flickered before returning to calmness.
He looked at Jiang Qingshan and asked:
"Sect Master Jiang, is there any more of this Qingyun Divine Water?"
Jiang Qingshan shook his head. "That was the only portion."
Only one portion.
That meant the Qingyun Token could only be opened this one time.
That meant Gu Chengyin was the only person to obtain the complete inheritance.
That meant...
A storm of blood and gore.
Elder Qiu's gaze fell upon Gu Chengyin, a trace of complexity flashing deep in his eyes.
No one knew what he was thinking.
But Gu Chengyin knew; he saw it with absolute clarity.
Elder Qiu's gaze similarly held greed, yearning, and impulse.
But more than anything else, it held restraint.
Because he was the person in charge of the Luodu Heavenly Master Mansion.
Because what the Heavenly Master Mansion wanted was stability, not turmoil.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
