What does my ancestor's pregnancy have to do with me, a mere servant?

In the farthest reaches of the world, in the small realm of Qingyun.

Today, at the Spirit Spring behind the City Lord's Mansion.

Su Qingluan sat cross-legged in the warm water mist, her spiritual energy surging like a tide.

A layer of shimmering fluorescence flowed across the surface of her originally fair skin, and the golden core within her dantian had expanded to its limit, with faint cracks appearing.

Breaking through the elixir and forming the infant is only one final opportunity away.

Boom!

From the depths of the cloudless sky, a deafening roar suddenly resounded, tearing the heavens and earth apart.

Immediately afterwards, the spiritual veins of the entire Qingyun Minor Realm trembled violently. Gale-force winds swept back, and the dense, almost liquid-like spiritual energy of heaven and earth converged wildly from all directions, condensing into a seven-colored auspicious cloud stretching for tens of thousands of miles directly above Tianshuang City.

Withered trees come back to life, and dried-up springs gush forth. Mortals within the city who inhale this spiritual energy expel most of the turbid energy from their bodies.

At the heart of this magnificent phenomenon, the void silently cracked open.

A jade-like foot, whiter than frost and snow, stepped out of the crack.

Clad in white, whiter than snow, standing on air.

The woman's face was exquisitely beautiful, shrouded in a hazy, ethereal light.

She didn't deliberately release any pressure, but just by standing there, the Heavenly Dao Laws of the entire Qingyun Minor World let out a mournful cry of unbearable burden.

Hundreds of thousands of cultivators and mortals below felt their knees go weak and uncontrollably knelt down in unison.

"I am Ji Bai from the Cangwu Immortal Palace of the Spirit Realm."

The clear, cold voice transformed into a resounding echo, reverberating throughout every corner of the Azure Cloud Minor Realm.

"From this moment forward, this place shall be my domain of attaining enlightenment. All of you beings shall henceforth be my subjects!"

"Today I will break the shackles of the laws of this world and remove the limits of cultivation. You all, then diligently seek the Dao."

Ji Bai flipped her hand and pressed it down casually.

boom!

A towering white jade stele, hundreds of feet tall and exuding an aura of ancient power, plummeted from the void and crashed heavily onto the white jade plaza in the center of Tianshuang City. The earth trembled, and countless golden runes appeared on the surface of the stele.

"This stele is inscribed with the 'Supreme Transformation of Spirit Technique,' which points directly to the Great Dao of Unity."

Within the city of Tianshuang, there was a deathly silence that lasted for three breaths.

Then, a frenzied kowtow erupted like a tsunami. Gu Changfeng knelt at the very front, his forehead pressed firmly against the cold stone slab, his whole body trembling wildly with excitement.

The cultivation limit is lifted! A supreme cultivation technique that leads directly to the fusion stage is bestowed!

The lid of this dry well in Qingyun Minor Realm has been completely lifted!

Ji Bai looked down at the jubilant ants below, her eyes devoid of any emotion. Refining the lower realm into a Dao-Merging Treasure Land was merely a necessary means for her to stabilize her cultivation. Bestowing cultivation techniques was simply to encourage these ants to cultivate as soon as possible, so they could replenish the spiritual energy of this world.

"Who is currently in charge of this place?"

Ji Bai's voice wasn't loud, but he landed precisely above the City Lord's Mansion.

In front of the main hall, Gu Changfeng and the others held their breath, not even daring to look up.

The main hall doors opened, and a figure in pure white, braving the overwhelming aura of a Dao Integration Realm cultivator, walked step by step to the center of the plaza.

Su Qingluan took a deep breath, raised her head, clasped her hands in a fist salute, and stood tall and straight: "Junior Su Qingluan, acting as the lord of Tianshuang City, pays respects to Senior."

High above, Ji Bai's indifferent gaze swept across the sky.

In just a moment.

That timeless indifference shattered abruptly!

Ji Bai's pupils contracted sharply, and the celestial light trembled violently. She raised her right arm and made a grasping motion with her five fingers through the air.

Su Qingluan was powerless to resist. Her body was forcibly lifted up by an overwhelming force and instantly fell tens of thousands of feet into the air, hovering three feet in front of Ji Bai.

Ji Bai stared intently at Su Qingluan, her jade hand flashing out like lightning, grabbing her wrist.

An irresistible wisp of divine consciousness forcefully surged into Su Qingluan's limbs and bones.

"Bone age... nineteen?!"

Ji Bai's voice lost its previous coldness, rising an octave higher, "Nineteen years old, peak late-stage Golden Core? Just one step away from Nascent Soul?!"

But in the next instant, her loss of composure turned into utter shock.

The probe of divine sense clearly felt the breadth and resilience of Su Qingluan's meridians. What terrified her the most was the purity of her spiritual root!

Absolutely flawless. Transparent as crystal. Perfectly in harmony with the myriad principles of heaven and earth!

"This is... a Heavenly Spiritual Root!"

Ji Bai took a half step back, released Su Qingluan's wrist, and stared intently at the girl from the lower realm before him. His chest heaved violently, and finally he couldn't help but laugh wildly to the sky.

"Hahaha...Good! Excellent!"

"In this desolate lower realm, we've unexpectedly encountered a prodigy!"

The laughter of the Dao-Merging Great Power dispersed the auspicious clouds for thousands of miles. A blazing light burst from Ji Bai's eyes as he looked at Su Qingluan as if she were an unparalleled treasure.

"Su Qingluan, are you willing to become my disciple?!"

Gu Changfeng and the others kneeling below were so shocked by the words coming from the sky that their minds went blank.

A Dao-Merging Grandmaster willingly accepts a disciple?! What incredible virtue has Lord Su accumulated?!

In mid-air, Su Qingluan's heart was in turmoil.

Over the past year, she has read countless ancient books in Tianshuang City and knows all too well what a Dao-harmonizing treasure land means.

Without a moment's hesitation, she knelt down with both knees in mid-air and kowtowed deeply.

"Disciple Su Qingluan greets Master!"

If you can't beat them, join them; use their strength against them. She knew the survival rules Lin Yuan had taught her by heart.

"Great! That felt good!"

Ji Bai was extremely satisfied with Su Qingluan's pragmatism. She raised her hand and released a gentle stream of immortal energy to lift Su Qingluan up.

"Qingluan, now that you have joined my sect, you should understand what your talent truly means."

Ji Bai stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze sweeping over the vast天地 (heaven and earth), his voice filled with control and arrogance: "My Spirit Realm has a vast territory and countless living beings. Originally, there were three Dao Integration Realm cultivators. Ten thousand years ago, the Grand Void Ancestor unfortunately perished, leaving only two."

"Now, with my recent breakthrough, we have made up the number of three."

Su Qingluan listened quietly.

"These three Dao Integration giants, without exception, all possess Heavenly Spiritual Roots." Ji Bai turned his head, staring intently at her, enunciating each word clearly, "And such peerless spiritual roots are fewer than ten in the entire Spirit Realm!"

"You are the next person who will have the opportunity to reach the top."

Su Qingluan lowered her eyes, not wanting the other person to see the strange look in them.

Fewer than ten people? A direct path to the Daoist gate?

But this Heavenly Spiritual Root wasn't something she was born with. It was something Lin Yuan forcibly created from her top-grade spiritual root.

That person possesses the heaven-defying method to produce Dao-Merging Immortal Seeds.

After a brief silence.

Ji Bai's tone suddenly shifted. His phoenix eyes, capable of piercing through illusions, locked onto Su Qingluan's gaze.

The surrounding air instantly froze, and the terrifying laws of the Dao Integration Realm transformed into invisible shackles, fixing Su Qingluan in place.

"Logically speaking," Ji Bai's voice turned cold, "the spiritual energy in this world is thin, and the Heavenly Dao is incomplete. The birth of even one cultivator with an Earth Spiritual Root already exhausts ten thousand years of fortune. It is absolutely impossible for a Heavenly Spiritual Root to be naturally conceived."