stjorthotic Chapter 63 The Sage Makes His Move!
Chapter 63 The Sage Makes His Move!
The night was as dark as ink, but Jin'ao Island was ablaze with lights, and ethereal music drifted through the air.
Lin Yuan followed behind Daoist Duobao, walking step by step along a hidden jade staircase paved with the radiance of ten thousand years of starlight towards the deepest part of Biyou Palace.
The deeper one goes, the denser the surrounding spiritual energy becomes, even condensing into chaotic energy currents.
"Junior brother, the Jingxu Hall is just ahead."
Daoist Duobao stopped in his tracks, his usual amiable expression vanishing from his chubby face.
He turned around and lowered his voice to instruct, "Master rarely summons his disciples alone in the Jingxu Hall. With the great calamity approaching, Master's summons of you this time must be due to an unparalleled decree concerning the fate of heaven and earth. Remember to be careful in your words and actions."
Lin Yuan took a deep breath and clasped his hands in a fist salute: "Thank you for your guidance, Senior Brother. I understand."
Daoist Duobao nodded, said no more, turned around and disappeared as a wisp of pure energy.
Lin Yuan straightened his black robe and calmed the surging Dao Integration Realm power within his body.
Before that bronze gate, with its ancient Daoist patterns that seemed to isolate him from the primordial ages, he bowed deeply.
"Disciple Lin Yuan, by imperial decree, requests an audience with Master!"
"Creak—"
The bronze gate slowly opened to both sides.
Behind the door.
As far as the eye could see, there was a vast and boundless void of stars!
Stars rise and fall, the Milky Way hangs upside down.
In the very center of this empty starry sky, the Tongtian Sect Leader had shed the purple robe that symbolized the majesty of a saint, and was now wearing only a simple blue Taoist robe, sitting cross-legged on a meteorite.
On his lap lay a three-foot-long green sword, still sheathed, yet faintly radiating a sharpness capable of cleaving through the heavens and myriad realms.
Qingping Sword!
"Come in."
The Tongtian Sect Leader did not open his eyes; his voice was ethereal and seemed to come from all directions at the same time.
Lin Yuan stepped into the Jingxu Hall.
The bronze gate behind him closed instantly, cutting off all the secrets of heaven.
"Disciple greets Master."
Lin Yuan respectfully performed a grand salute in the void, ten zhang away from the Tongtian Sect Leader.
The Tongtian Sect Leader slowly opened his eyes.
The boundless pride that had filled those eyes during the day before the myriad immortals was gone; instead, there was a profound understanding that had seen through the vicissitudes of time and comprehended the impermanence of the heavens.
"Yuan'er."
The Master of the Heavens reached out and pointed to the void in front of him.
A futon formed from starlight appeared out of thin air.
"Sit down and talk."
"Yes."
Lin Yuan didn't hesitate and walked forward confidently, sitting down cross-legged.
A brief silence fell over the hall.
Only the endless starlight flowed slowly around the two of them.
After a long while, the Tongtian Sect Leader gently stroked the scabbard of the Qingping Sword with his fingers and spoke slowly.
"These past few days, I have used the Jade Disc of Creation to reverse your karma."
boom!
Upon hearing this, Lin Yuan's heart skipped a beat, but his expression remained calm.
He had already put on a grand show at the foot of the desolate mountain, using his identity as a "visitor from another world," so he was naturally not flustered at this moment.
The Tongtian Sect Leader looked at Lin Yuan's composed demeanor, a hint of admiration flashing in his eyes, and continued speaking.
"The great calamity of the Investiture of the Gods has begun, and the secrets of heaven are as chaotic as a quagmire."
"Your Grandmaster Yuanshi boasts that he is in accordance with the will of Heaven and in charge of the Investiture of the Gods, believing that he can manipulate all the beings in this primordial world. He even regards the tens of thousands of disciples under my Jie Sect as perfect expendable resources to fill the void in the Heavenly Court."
The Tongtian Sect Leader sneered, his tone revealing an arrogance that looked down upon the world, but also a hint of solemnity.
"Do they think I don't know?"
"Do they think that because this heavenly secret is obscured, I have truly become blind and deaf?"
"Sages endure countless eons without perishing, and remain untainted by karma. Though I cannot foresee the ultimate outcome of this great calamity, my Azure Lotus Sword senses, in the darkness, the vast net cast upon my Golden Turtle Island!"
"This is a dead end."
"A dead end where the Four Saints joined forces, intending to completely wipe out the Jie Sect's lineage!"
Lin Yuan was deeply shaken upon hearing this.
really!
The Tongtian Sect Leader is definitely not the simpleton in the early part of the original story who was kept in the dark by his disciples and fooled by his two senior brothers!
As a sage of the Heavenly Dao, how could he be completely unaware of the impending catastrophe that would destroy his sect?
He simply refused to believe that his brothers had turned against each other; he was just enduring it and searching for a way out of the predicament!
"Master..." Lin Yuan couldn't help but speak, his voice hoarse.
The Master of the Heavenly Sect waved his hand, interrupting Lin Yuan.
"On this ancient chessboard, no matter how I place my pieces, every step will be fraught with thorns. For they have already seized control of destiny and the overall situation."
At this point, the Tongtian Sect Leader took a deep breath, his gaze suddenly becoming intense.
"Until... I saw you!"
"I saw that behind you, which is untouched by any primordial karma, and is not even governed by the laws of Heaven... the Blue Star Realm."
Lin Yuan's hair stood on end at that moment.
He had a vague idea of what the Tongtian Sect Leader was going to say next.
"Yuan'er."
The Master of Heaven leaned forward slightly.
"Since you come from another world, do you know what your 'mortal realm' truly means in my eyes?"
Lin Yuan swallowed hard and answered tentatively.
"Does that mean... a desolate land devoid of spiritual energy and extraordinary power?"
"wrong!"
The Tongtian Sect Leader waved his hand and shouted sternly.
"Completely wrong!"
"In the eyes of mortals, that place is a desolate land devoid of spirits. But in my eyes, it is a land untouched by the Heavenly Dao, undivided by the saints... a land without a master!"
"There are billions of mortals there, with the purest emotions and desires, and the most immense potential for human destiny!"
The Master of Heaven stood up and paced back and forth in the starry sky, becoming more and more excited as he spoke.
"What was the struggle during the Great Tribulation of the Investiture of the Gods?"
"What we're fighting for is destiny, the continuation of our tradition!"
"Since they are not leaving any way out for my Jie Sect on this ancient chessboard of chaos."
"Then I will leap out of this chessboard!"
The Tongtian Sect Leader suddenly turned around and looked at Lin Yuan, emphasizing each word.
"Yuan'er, let me ask you a question!"
"Would you be willing to become my personal disciple, the chief disciple of my Jie Sect?"
"Take my Jie Sect's supreme doctrine of 'education for all, seizing every opportunity for survival' back to your world?"
"Would you be willing to become my disciple and completely bring that 'mortal realm' into the territory of my Jie Sect, establishing a branch altar of my Jie Sect on Blue Star?!"
Rumble!!!
The words of the Tongtian Sect Leader were like billions of divine thunderbolts from the heavens, detonating in Lin Yuan's sea of consciousness.
Lin Yuan felt a chill run down his spine, and his blood boiled to its peak in that instant.
Originally, what was the sole purpose of all the Blue Star explorers, including the high-ranking military think tank, in this mandatory one-year-long [God Conferment] secret realm?
It's "just surviving"!
They hide like mice in the deep mountains and forests, hoping to find even a tiny fragment of a cultivation technique.
He longed to become a disciple of some third-rate rogue cultivator, learn a move or two, and then return alive to Earth to lord it over others.
Take Chu Tianhe, for example. He even risked his life for the sake of a lowly lieutenant general.
They are all just passersby in this world, the lowest ants and thieves in this world!
But now?
He's Lin Yuan!
He was the ninth direct disciple of the Intercepting Sect Saint and the Tongtian Sect Master!
It is in accordance with the supreme decree of the Heavenly Sage!
They carried the most orthodox and core inheritance of the first great religion in the primordial world to "establish a sect" on Earth!
This is no longer a "triumphant return home".
This is a true "divine intervention"!