If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 1277 The Power of a Quasi-Great Luo

"The Qin Dynasty hasn't fallen yet, and you're all targeting me. But what if the Qin Dynasty falls, and the great calamity ends? Will you also 'eliminate demons and protect the righteous path'?" Xiaoyu asked.

The dwarf nodded heavily without hesitation, “When we are on the same road, we are fellow travelers. When we reach the crossroads and it is time to part ways, we should be decisive and resolute.”

At that time, we will gather together and discuss the matter, just as we do today.

If negotiations fail and the other party cannot be persuaded, then one should prove one's principles through spiritual cultivation.

Xiaoyu then asked, "Senior, do you think I can use my cultivation to prove my Dao before you?"

The dwarf shook his head and said, "You are quite good and have great potential, but unfortunately, you haven't been cultivating for long enough and are still lacking in experience."

He paused, then added regretfully, "If you cultivate the Celestial Immortal Technique and follow the Great Luo Path, you might be able to overcome several difficult obstacles within a few years and reach the same level as us."

Unfortunately, you have good fortune but not the destiny to become an immortal. Now, by a twist of fate, you have embarked on the ancient path of Qi cultivation.

Compared to modern methods, traditional methods require a greater amount of time and effort to refine slowly.

Because the ancient methods do not have a ready-made path to enlightenment, you need to explore step by step in the fog.

You might be nearing the finish line only to find there's no end in sight, no path ahead. You'll have to turn back and start all over again.

Before Hengshan mended the heavens, this group of quasi-Daluo only thought that Yu Fengxian had good talent, nothing more.

After she was able to perfectly merge with Hengshan, all the great powers of the Three Realms understood one fact: if she were given celestial techniques related to mountains and water, there would be no bottlenecks in her cultivation.

It's perfectly normal for someone to cultivate ancient methods for tens of thousands of years and still not become an immortal.

For example, Xiaoyu obtained the "Purple Flame Light" from Huoyixian through interrogation.

The biggest characteristic of modern immortal techniques is that, as long as they are compatible, the efficiency of Qi refining is extremely high, and there is no risk of going astray.

Achieving immortality within a few decades is common. Achieving immortality after hundreds or thousands of years of Qi cultivation is already considered late. Achieving immortality within a dozen or even a few years is considered genius.

Xiao Yu nodded and said, "That's right. Compared with you seniors, my cultivation and supernatural abilities are clearly inferior."

If I were to face one or two of you alone, I might be able to escape.

It is utterly impossible to defeat you and defend my way.

Therefore, I must try my best to make use of my strengths and avoid my weaknesses.

My advantage is that I represent the imperial court, which naturally possesses the righteous right to rule.

As long as we seize upon your mistakes, we can use righteousness and reason to coerce humanity, making you align with humanity instead of becoming our enemy.

As it turns out, I did a pretty good job.

Even I, as a senior, cannot deny the fact that you came to me because you couldn't take it anymore.

This further proves that I am on the right path.

The dwarf said with a solemn expression, "So, from this moment on, you have embarked on a 'fork in the road' different from ours? Do you understand what this means?"

Xiao Yu laughed and said, "What else can it represent? You want to use your cultivation to defend your own path. Why should I obey your wishes and 'compete on the same stage' with you to compete in supernatural powers?"
You may try to use your skills against me, but I will still use my righteousness and reason to deal with you.

There is only one point I must remind my predecessors: supernatural powers cannot overcome destiny; destiny lies in the hearts of the people, and the hearts of the people will always stand on the side of morality!
When I am in the moral high ground, whoever steps forward first will most likely be eliminated.

Even if your cultivation is so high that you can defy the heavens, you'll surely take several of them down with you before I fall.

Are you willing to sacrifice yourself for others? Hehe~~~

She laughed with extreme contempt.

The dwarf coldly replied, "What morality do you have? It's nothing but opportunism, a mere 'petty righteousness'."

True righteousness lies in obeying Heaven and fulfilling one's destiny.

Overthrowing the tyrannical Qin dynasty and establishing a new order is the greatest moral imperative.

For this cause of righteousness, I sent Ye Jiutian to Mount Hua to kill you; for this cause of righteousness, Qinglian Sun killed Guowei Liao, whose fate was already sealed.

Xiao Yu chuckled and said, "Senior, if you are truly in the right, why don't you go to the mortal realm, to the Peacock Garden, and speak eloquently in front of everyone?"

You wouldn't dare! You hide in the shadows, acting clandestinely and secretly, unable to bear the light of day.

Her voice gradually became more forceful and resonant: "I, Yu Fengxian, can proclaim my every word, action, and even my thoughts under the sun, and let the Grand Historian record them for thousands and thousands of years."

Senior, let me teach you a lesson. True destiny is not something a few people can calculate by counting on their fingers while floating high in the heavens.

Destiny lies in the hearts of the people!

When you dare not speak of your actions to the public, when you dare not face the masses, what gives you the right to claim you represent destiny?

"What a sharp-tongued wild girl! Her previous politeness was all a facade, and now she's finally showing her true colors," the dwarf gritted his teeth and roared.

Xiaoyu smiled even more brightly and said, "Senior, are you perhaps talking about yourself?"
I have always insisted on discussing morality with you.

You, however, say that when things are different, one must use supernatural powers to kill and fight for one's life.

"Or, let's ask some great Confucian scholars in the mortal realm to judge who is more in the right?"

The dwarf shouted, "Enough with the small talk! Now that you've made your decision, let's see what you've got!"

With a wave of his hand, the jade pot, jade cup, fragrant tea, and divine fruit on the table all vanished.

He then pointed outside the pavilion and said, "Grand Master Yu, please! Once you leave this pavilion, you will no longer be my guest."

Grand Tutor Yu stood up and said sincerely, "Before leaving the pavilion, I am still a guest, and you are still the host."

My host served me tea and fruit, and I must say one last thing from the bottom of my heart—stop now! Even if you don't believe in morality, you must trust the historian's pen!

I now rely on my 'legacy in history' to intimidate gods and immortals!
"It's impossible for me to not include 'Water Bucket Taoist' in the 'Immortal Clan Chapter' just because a senior treated me to a cup of tea."

The dwarf huffed and puffed, “Write it! Go ahead and write it! ‘Water Bucket Taoist’ is following the will of Heaven and is not afraid of rumors.”

"Farewell!" Grand Tutor Yu cupped his hands in greeting and floated out of the octagonal pavilion.

The dwarf first waved his sleeve, putting away the octagonal pavilion, and then circulated his immortal power, with the power of the Great Dao surrounding him.

Xiaoyu can even "identify" the type of the Great Dao Law, and thus deduce what type of great supernatural power the opponent is about to use.

"We've done our duty! Grand Tutor Yu, get ready, we're about to make our move!"

The dwarf was poised to strike, but instead of immediately making a move, he shouted first.

"Sigh, since you're so principled, I'll be fair too. I'm no match for you. If you try to hit me, I'll definitely run away," Xiaoyu said.

The dwarf was speechless, but didn't seem to care.

His task was simply to stall her and create an opportunity for Yin Yinzi to take away Qinglian Sun.

In the next instant, he unleashed his great divine power, "Rain of Time Swords." There were no sound or light effects, only countless invisible swords of time, forming a tsunami that instantly engulfed Grand Tutor Yu.

Any sword of time that hits its target can tear apart a celestial body, and the wound will fester for millions of years.

If one's lifespan is limited, they will simply die. Even immortals with unlimited lifespans will have their immortal bodies destroyed.

At the same time, Grand Tutor Yu's figure vanished as if it were a bubble.

In the next instant, Yin Yinzi took action.

Yin Yinzi had already been preparing for action. He entered Xianyang territory even before Lu Dingxian, but did not immediately approach the Peacock Garden of the Epang Palace.

When Lu Dingxian shouted "Grand Tutor Yu," Yin Yinzi used earth magic to enter the Epang Palace.

After all, he is a "respectable person" who is about to attain the Great Luo realm. Even if they break off relations and want to take action, they must first issue a notice.

To be honest, Yin Yinzi was already feeling resentful, complaining that "Water Bucket Taoist" was wasting time chatting idly with Yu Fengxian.

He had been waiting impatiently for a long time.

Sensing the intense fluctuations of primordial energy erupting in the sky, the aura still belonging to Lu Dingxian, Yin Yinzi immediately leaped forward, arriving on the opposite side of a vast river hanging in the sky.

He was originally underground, using earth magic, and had locked onto his target—Qinglian Sun. He should have arrived beneath Qinglian Sun immediately. Then, by breaking through the blockade of the military formation, he could easily take him away.

But the scene he expected didn't happen; instead, he fell into a scene that was both strange and familiar.

The formation stretches across the heavens and the earth, the momentum of the Yellow River is overwhelming: in a world of endless yellow sand, the Yellow River flows down from the sky, winding and turning before landing on the ground, lying across his "front", and at this moment he only has one direction left "before" him.

"Huhuhu~~~"

A chilling wind howled like ghosts, and thick black mist drifted in from all directions, lingering and mysterious.

"This is the Yellow River Three Immortal Maidens' Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation?!"

Yin Yinzi was stunned for a moment before he realized what was happening.

During the Investiture of the Gods period, many powerful immortals of the Chan Sect had never heard of the "Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation" and were thus unwittingly caught in its trap.

Three hundred thousand years later, the nobles of the Celestial Empire had also read "The Investiture of the Gods" and could describe the approximate power of the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation.

A near-Great Luo cultivator like Yin Yinzi can not only recognize the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, but also knows how to defend against it.

He immediately focused on his primordial spirit, and the three flowers of essence, energy, and spirit on his head shrank beneath the clay pill, hiding inside the immortal golden elixir.

The Golden Elixir is immortal, and the Qi of the Three Flowers cannot be violated.

"How should I address you, sir?" A yellow dog's head emerged from the black mist ahead, its eyes gleaming with eagerness. "My name is 'Xiao Qiang,' and I am Grand Tutor Yu's guard dog."

The Grand Tutor instructed me to wait here for the Great Immortal, and warned her—the road ahead is impassable. If the Great Immortal swears to avoid my master from now on, she will open the passage and release the Great Immortal.

Yin Yinzi sneered, "The mere Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation is nothing but an ancient relic from a bygone era. What can it do to me?"

Without wasting words, Xiao Qiang shrank his head into the black mist, hiding in the shadows and waiting for an opportunity to launch a sneak attack.

At this moment, Grand Tutor Yu's voice came from all directions, "Senior, are you really not going to back down?"

"Enough with the nonsense, today I must take Qinglian Sun away! Rupture the heavens and tear the earth!" Yin Yinzi's primordial spirit merged with his own Great Dao, driving the power of the Great Dao, and used the great divine power called "Rupture the heavens and tear the earth".

He bent his hands into claws, one palm facing up and the other palm facing down, tearing at each other.

"Sizzle~~" The Yellow River, which hung in the sky in front of him like a painting of the Yellow River, was suddenly torn into pieces. The dark spacetime rift tore the Yellow River into pieces.

With just one move, the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, which once suppressed the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect during the Investiture of the Gods period, was broken by half.

Although the time and space of the Yellow River were torn apart, Yin Yinzi did not touch the real world outside.

A large number of purple bubbles surged into the spacetime rift, shimmering with multicolored, dreamlike light, filling the rift and submerging Yin Yinzi.

"There's another formation outside the immortal formation? Hmph, you think you can bewitch me with mere nightmare power!"

Yin Yinzi remained calm and composed, placing his palms together at his chest, the left palm on top, transforming into the clear and ethereal sky; the right palm below, transforming into the turbid earth.

The left palm transforms into the sky, the right palm into the earth, and between the two palms, the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth evolve into a world.

In the blink of an eye, a fragmented miniature world took shape in his palm.

"Collect!" Yin Yinzi shouted, and the purple bubbles, Yellow River water, and gray dust that were spreading all around were sucked into the "Five Elements Small World" in his palm.

All matter and energy belonging to the Five Elements are immediately traced back to their origins and transformed into the power of the Five Elements after entering the Five Elements microcosm.

As the power of the five elements increased, the size of the five-element miniature world in his palm rapidly expanded, and its aura became increasingly dangerous.

In just a few breaths, it grew from the size of a cantaloupe to the size of a winter melon.

"Yu Fengxian, don't blame me for being ruthless, you asked for it."

Yin Yinzi pushed his hands outwards, and the Five Elements Small World flew out with a "whoosh".

The Five Elements Small World lost control and began frantically absorbing the surrounding vital energy and matter during its flight.

"Rumble~~" It flew forward, absorbing and expanding all the way.

At a mere "naked distance" of over three hundred zhang, it had already grown from the size of a winter melon to almost overlapping with the world inside the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation.

In other words, the Five Elements miniature world that Yin Yinzi casually created was about to completely devour the "Great River Space" evolved from the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation.

It not only devours space, but also consumes all the matter and energy within it.

All things belonging to the five elements were transformed into nourishment for the five elements' microcosm.

However, many substances and energies within it are not within the Five Elements at all. For example, the power of nightmares.

The energy that could not be reversed back to the origin of the Five Elements was also swallowed up by the Five Elements Small World, but could not be digested.

"Click, click~~"

The Five Elements Minor World began to crack, and various colors of energy shimmered within the cracks.

An atmosphere of extreme danger permeated the air.

Yin Yinzi gave a cold laugh and made a "bang" sound.

The next instant, "BOOM!"

The Five Elements Miniature World exploded.

In that instant, it was as if the universe had exploded, and the violent energy storm directly wiped out the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation world.

It's as if you erase the world in the painting with an eraser and then burn the paper to ashes.

Yin Yinzi stood proudly on the spot, surrounded by the energy of the five elements.

There is no space, no time; spacetime even tends to turn into chaos.

"You're courting death, you deserve it!" A mocking smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

He firmly believed that even Yunxiao himself, after taking this blow, would either die or crawl on the ground, barely clinging to life.

"Sigh, as expected of someone who is about to attain the Great Luo Dao, he has already grasped the power to evolve the Great World."

But you hit so hard that I couldn't hold back anymore.

Grand Tutor Yu's sighs continued to echo from all directions.

The next instant, the raging storm of five elements energy was extinguished in a single breath, like the flame of a candle.

The hazy "chaotic world" has become clear again, even too clear: the sun shines brightly overhead, five towering mountains rise into the clouds below, stretching for thousands of miles, and four great rivers crisscross between the five mountains in a "well" shape.

Yu Taishi floated directly below the "sun," looking down at Yin Yinzi, who was surrounded by five mountains and four rivers in the center and looked somewhat dazed.

(End of this chapter)