Primordial Era: Starting with the repair of Penglai Immortal Island

"Light the lamp!"

Yuanshi Tianzun suddenly called his name.

Ran Deng was startled and quickly stood up, bowing respectfully.

"Master!"

Yuanshi Tianzun looked at him, his gaze as deep as chaos.

"How long have you been a member of the Chan Sect?"

The Primordial Celestial Venerable had already asked this question once before, but now, when he asked it again, his tone was completely different.

What was just a casual question now seems to contain some profound meaning.

Ran Deng paused slightly, then replied again, "Reporting to the Master, I have been a member of the Chan Sect for tens of thousands of years."

The Primordial Celestial Venerable asked again, "How long have you been trapped at the peak of the Great Luo realm?"

Ran Deng's expression changed drastically, and his voice was low and deep, "Dozens of Huiyuan!"

Yuanshi Tianzun nodded slightly and slowly said, "With your background, you have already attained the quasi-saint status."

"Do you know why you've been unable to break through to the Quasi-Saint level?"

The lamp's heart sank suddenly.

He had asked himself this question countless times, but he still couldn't find the answer.

His cultivation level was already at the peak of the Great Luo realm, and his understanding of the laws of the Great Dao was profound enough, but he just couldn't take that final step.

"This disciple is dull-witted, please enlighten me, Sage," Ran Deng said respectfully, his voice tinged with urgency.

Yuanshi Tianzun looked at him, his expression unusually gentle.

"We are both guests of Zixiao Palace. Although you have now joined my Chan Sect, your heart has never truly let go."

The words of the Primordial Celestial Venerable caused Randeng to fall into memories.

"You always remember that you once listened to the Dao Ancestor preach in Zixiao Palace and sat at the same table with us. This memory and this experience should have been a good thing, but you have turned it into an obsession."

Ran Deng's body stiffened abruptly.

Yuanshi Tianzun continued, "In your heart, you have always felt that you received the Dao from the Dao Ancestor and sat at the same table as the Sages, so you shouldn't just be a peak Great Luo Immortal."

"You yearn for a breakthrough, yearn to attain quasi-sainthood, and yearn for all living beings in the primordial world to remember your name."

Yuanshi Tianzun looked at Randeng and said, word by word, "But it is precisely this desire, this obsession, that has locked away your path to enlightenment."

The Jade Void Palace was completely silent.

All the disciples held their breath, their eyes fixed on Randeng.

Ran Deng sat quietly in place, but his face turned extremely ugly, and the aura he exuded was somewhat disordered.

The words of the Primordial Celestial Venerable were like a ray of light, blasting open the door that he had hidden so deeply.

No wonder he couldn't break through for so long, no wonder he always felt he was missing that little bit.

It turns out that the slight difference wasn't in cultivation level or laws, but in his inability to let go of his obsession.

He could never let go of that pride, that experience, or the memory of sitting at the same table as a sage.

"You are trapped in your own obsession."

The voice of the Primordial Celestial Venerable echoed in Randeng's ears: "This obsession is like a chaotic mass, trapping you within it. If you can cleave it open, you will see a new world; if not, you will be trapped in the Great Luo Realm forever."

The aura emanating from the lamp became even more chaotic.

Countless images flashed through his mind.

In the Zixiao Palace, the Dao Ancestor was preaching. The six saints sat at the very front, while he sat at the very back, looking up at those lofty figures... After joining the Chan Sect, although he became the vice sect leader, he saw one saint disciple after another enter the Great Luo Realm, and even Huanglong reached the peak of the Great Luo Realm.

This made his impatience even harder to suppress... Countless seclusions, countless attempts, countless failures...!

It turns out, everything was because of obsession!

"Disciple...understands!"

The voice of the lamp burner was hoarse as he bowed to the Primordial Celestial Venerable as a disciple.

He closed his eyes, no longer resisting or struggling, but instead immersing his mind in the depths of his soul.

There, he saw the gray mist, and within the gray mist, a golden flame, burning with his pride, his unwillingness, and his path.

This is his obsession.

Ran Deng took a deep breath. He slowly raised his hand and reached out towards the cloud of gray mist.

Inside the Jade Void Palace, Huanglong and the other disciples of the Sages saw the aura around Randeng begin to fluctuate violently.

One after another, the laws of the Great Dao intertwined and shimmered around his body, while the auspicious clouds above his head surged endlessly.

Suddenly, Ran Deng opened his eyes wide.

A dazzling light shot out from between his brows, transforming into an invisible sword that slashed at the gray mist deep within his soul.

"cut!"

A low shout, like a thunderclap, resounded within the Jade Void Palace.

In an instant, the aura around Ran Deng surged, and a spurt of endless malice cleaved out from his body, transforming into a ball of pitch-black flame that hovered in front of him.

The flames were filled with greed, jealousy, arrogance, resentment... all negative emotions surged within them.

The lamp's gaze fell upon that obsession, a complex expression flashing in his eyes.

This was his obsession, which trapped him in the Great Luo Realm for countless years.

With a wave of his hand, a lamp burning with pitch-black flames appeared.

The Primordial Treasure, the Spirit Vulture Lamp.

The spirit vulture lamp lit up slightly, and the black flame on the wick suddenly shot up, engulfing that obsession.

In an instant, the flame of the Spirit Vulture Lamp turned into a mixture of black and gray, and mysterious Dao patterns appeared on the lamp body.

The atmosphere surrounding the lamp underwent a dramatic transformation at that moment.

The bottleneck at the peak of the Great Luo realm vanished the moment the obsession was severed.

His aura surged wildly, like the eruption of an immortal volcano, breaking through the boundaries that had confined him for countless years.

Quasi-Saint!

He burned the lamp to sever his evil thoughts, and with the innate spiritual treasure, the Spirit Vulture Lamp, he broke through to the Quasi-Saint level.

All the disciples in the Jade Void Palace watched this scene in shock.

Guang Chengzi's eyes widened, Chi Jingzi's face was full of disbelief, and Taiyi sighed repeatedly.

Although they knew that Vice Master Ran Deng had been trapped in the Great Luo Realm for countless years, they never expected that today, with their teacher's casual guidance, he would directly break through to the Quasi-Saint realm right here in the Jade Void Palace.

Huanglong looked at Randeng, who was exuding the aura of a quasi-saint, and a flash of understanding appeared in his eyes.

That's it!

The burning desire of the lamp was his heart that had once sat with the sages and listened to their teachings.

He couldn't let go of his pride, couldn't let go of his resentment, so his obsession blocked his path, preventing him from breaking through.

Today, under the guidance of the Primordial Celestial Venerable, he severed his obsession and finally took that step.

Yuanshi Tianzun nodded slightly, his expression calm, as he looked at Randeng's breakthrough.

With a wave of his hand, a beam of spiritual light swiftly enveloped Randeng, and the next moment, Randeng's figure disappeared from the Jade Void Palace.

Yuanshi Tianzun withdrew his gaze and looked at the other disciples.

"Continue preaching!"

His voice was calm, as if the enlightenment he had just given to a quasi-saint was not worth his attention.

The disciples quickly composed themselves and continued listening to the teachings.

The voice of the Primordial Celestial Venerable resounded once more, like the celestial voice of the Great Dao, echoing throughout the Jade Void Palace.

In the void, countless laws of the Great Dao appeared out of thin air, evolving into all sorts of mysteries.

The Great Way of Fire, the Great Way of Water, the Great Way of Wind, the Great Way of Earth... intertwine to form a magnificent diagram of the Dao.