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.
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
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