After guarding the gates for a hundred years, I drove the Heavenly Saint to madness.

Thirty-three levels of heaven.

The Great Luo Heaven, the Eight Views Palace.

The air here is fresh and the place is completely silent.

Yuanshi Tianzun strode into the palace, his face ashen. He touched the short hair at his temple that had been cut off by the Qingping Sword, and the humiliation and killing intent in his eyes were almost tangible.

In the center of the hall.

Laozi sat cross-legged before the Eight Trigrams Furnace, fanning himself with a tattered palm-leaf fan. The fire in the furnace flickered, illuminating his calm, ancient face.

Without exchanging pleasantries, Yuanshi Tianzun got straight to the point.

"Senior brother. That scoundrel at Jiepai Pass is troublesome, and Tongtian has gone mad. I alone cannot control the situation."

"The grand plan of bestowing titles upon the gods cannot afford to fail. We need to rely on my senior brother's help."

Laozi did not open his eyes. He paused briefly with the palm-leaf fan in his hand, then continued to wave it.

No refusal is tacit consent.

Yuanshi Tianzun felt reassured and turned to face west.

Close your eyes.

boom!

A vast and boundless divine thought of a sage transformed into an invisible sword, instantly traversing endless chaos and descending directly into the Western Paradise.

The sound of Buddhist chants echoed along the shores of Bade Pond.

The two saints, Jieyin and Zhunti, sat serenely on a golden lotus of twelve merits.

Sensing the arrival of the divine thought of the Primordial Celestial Venerable, the Daoist Zhunti slowly opened his eyes, a shrewd smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

"Fellow Daoist Yuanshi, how have you been?" Zhunti's divine sense surged in the chaos, revealing undisguised calculation.

The Primordial Celestial Venerable went straight to the point: "The war in Xiqi has been thwarted. Tongtian is defending Jiepai Pass to the death. I need the assistance of my two fellow Daoists to break this deadlock."

Zhunti smiled.

"Fellow Daoist," Zhunti said slowly and deliberately through telepathy.

"My brother and I were naturally willing to help deal with Tongtian before. But now, even dealing with a third-generation junior of the Jie Sect requires our Western Sect to get involved in this mess..."

"This dirty work that lowers one's status has serious consequences."

Zhunti's true intentions were revealed, and his attitude was quite clear.

The Primordial Celestial Venerable's divine sense turned cold: "What do you intend to do?"

"It's very simple." Zhunti suppressed his smile, speaking each word clearly and forcefully.

"In the future, when my Western religion flourishes, your Chan religion must not obstruct it!"

In the chaos, a deathly silence descended.

The Heavenly Lord of Primordial Beginning's face was extremely grim. The rise of the West would inevitably bleed the East dry. Zhunti's condition was severing the very foundation of the Chan Sect's future.

But does he have a choice?

If Jiepai Pass is not breached, the Investiture of the Gods will not be filled, and the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect will be wiped out!

To put it bluntly, the Great Tribulation of the Investiture of the Gods was created by the Twelve Golden Immortals to atone for the bloodshed caused by the Human Emperor's enlightenment in the past, and he had no way to refuse.

Moreover, he had already agreed to Zhunti's proposal for the prosperity of the West, and now the only condition was that he could not be obstructed, so he had no choice but to accept it reluctantly.

"Can."

After a long silence, Yuanshi Tianzun squeezed out this single word through gritted teeth.

The two great celestial energies of the Great Luo Heaven and the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss converged in an instant.

……

Meanwhile, inside Jiepai Pass.

The main hall of the General's Mansion was deathly silent.

Xiao Wuji had already withdrawn the overwhelming power of the twenty-four heavens within his body that could crush the starry sky, and stood quietly in place.

Lü Yue stood stiffly a few steps away, his mouth slightly open, looking like a fish out of breath.

He had prepared a whole host of heartfelt words of persuasion, and had even planned to knock his nephew unconscious and forcibly abduct him. But now, all those words were stuck in his throat.

With the cultivation of the Great Luo Realm, twenty-four worlds have been opened within his body!

Lu Yue suddenly realized that he, as the senior disciple, could not see through this third-generation disciple in front of him at all.

The absolute sense of suppression emanating from the very source of life prevented him from even drawing his sword, and for a moment he was at a loss for words.

Just when the atmosphere reached its most tense point.

hum.

A barely perceptible ripple appeared in the void within the hall.

There was no deafening roar as if tearing through the void, no grand spectacle of purple aura rising from the east. Only a supreme yet extremely restrained Shangqing sword intent appeared out of thin air.

"Good lad."

A carefree, unrestrained laugh suddenly rang in their ears.

"No wonder the disciples of the Chan Sect have suffered repeated setbacks. Even the Kunpeng was defeated by you. You are truly extraordinary."

The space in the center of the hall expanded like ripples on water, and the Tongtian Sect Leader, dressed in black, walked out with his hands behind his back as if taking a leisurely stroll.

The air pressure in the hall suddenly dropped to freezing point!

Lu Yue's pupils dilated violently, his three eyes fixed intently on the newcomer.

His legs went weak, and he collapsed heavily to his knees on the bluestone slab with a thud, his whole body trembling violently with excitement.

"Master...Master?"

Xiao Wuji's heart pounded wildly, his face filled with horror.

The Master of Heaven? The true form of a sage has come?

Although he had seen Tongtian make a move before, he never expected that the other party would directly step into Jiepai Pass at this time!

"Disciple Xiao Wuji pays respects to Grandmaster!"

Xiao Wuji dared not be negligent in the slightest, and strode forward, bowing deeply.

"No need for formalities, we're family."

With a wave of his sleeve, the Tongtian Sect Leader lifted the two of them up with a gentle force. He then reached out and grabbed Xiao Wuji's arm.

The moment of touch.

The Tongtian Sect Leader's saintly eyes, which could see through all things in the heavens, narrowed slightly, and his gaze pierced directly through Xiao Wuji's physical appearance.

"Opening the heavens within the body... proving the Dao through force?"

The Tongtian Sect Leader looked surprised, and after a brief moment of astonishment, he couldn't hide his amazement!

"Hahaha! Great!"

The Tongtian Sect Leader released his grip and couldn't help but clap his hands and laugh, the sound of which made the beams and pillars of the hall vibrate.

"What a grand vision! What incredible fortune!"

The Tongtian Sect Leader looked at Xiao Wuji with an alarmingly bright gaze, growing more and more fond of him the more he looked.

"To have opened up the heavens within one's body—such courage is truly extraordinary!"

The Master of the Heavens patted Xiao Wuji's shoulder heavily, his face full of pride.

Faced with the sage's lavish praise, Xiao Wuji suppressed the shock in his heart and humbly bowed his head: "Grandmaster is too kind. This disciple was merely lucky."

"Luck is also a form of ability."

The Master of the Heavens suppressed his smile, his expression becoming more solemn than ever before.

He looked at Xiao Wuji. This physical body was already comparable to a humanoid magic weapon, with heaven-defying potential, but it still lacked a true killing technique that could unleash the world's great power.

"With such profound knowledge, ordinary magic is useless to you."

"The Three Immortals died, leaving no time to teach you."

The Tongtian Sect Leader slowly raised his right hand, and a wisp of pure, gray sword energy gathered at the tip of his index finger.

"Our meeting today is fate; I shall grant you a true battle!"

With a flick of his finger, he struck Xiao Wuji squarely between the eyebrows.

boom!

In an instant, the Tongtian Sect Master's own swordsmanship surged forth, transforming into a stream of light that entered Xiao Wuji's mind.

At the same time, boundless information exploded in Xiao Wuji's mind, and a vast torrent of sword energy surged, exuding an aura that could cleave heaven and earth.

Subsequently, this information converged and transformed into four large characters—the Heaven-Slaying Sword Technique.

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