Chapter 1 Grand Beginning

Boom!

A vast and boundless aura, like a silver river hanging in the sky, flowed down for millions of miles.

The sudden divine light instantly overshadowed the great sun, its brilliance illuminating even the starry sea.

Beneath the divine light, endless light and shadows, like a mirage, were projected onto the high heavens, into the eyes of countless people gazing upwards.

A majestic divine court stood at the pinnacle of heaven and earth, stretching endlessly, with glimpses of pavilions and towers, auspicious beasts, deities, palaces, flowers, trees, birds, beasts, insects, and fish...

Boundless holiness filled the sky.

"That is... the Great Divine Court?"

Looking at the source of the divine light, Ye Xiaoyi's heart trembled, her eyes seemed to redden, and she murmured, a hint of apprehension in her voice: "Could it, could it be Teacher?"

"This aura..."

Wei Shaoyou, his hair already gray, trembled. His long undisturbed heart was shaken. Xu Xun noticed that his senior brother's hands and feet were trembling, his mood clearly extremely excited.

"This aura, could it be the Ancestral Master?"

Sensing the aura flowing down from the Great Divine Court, Xu Xun's heart stirred.

Seventy thousand years ago, he was brought into the Divine Court by Gou Huang. Wei Shaoyou, acting as his teacher, taught him various Dao techniques and divine powers. But in fact, he had never met his master, Sa Wuling, let alone the Ancestral Master.

However, he was very familiar with the various legends and deeds of the Ancestral Master.

He had specifically studied the history of the Huangtian Ten Epochs and even longer. He discovered that his Ancestral Master seemed to be a being born in response to destiny, pioneering the Dao.

His life was one of fighting the heavens.

He guessed that the Ancestral Master should have completely integrated into the will of heaven long ago. But listening to the meaning in his senior brother and junior sister's words, it seemed that the Ancestral Master still existed.

Did his senior brother and the others go far away to trace the footsteps of the Ancestral Master?

"This aura, it comes from the Divine Court?"

Seeing the three Celestial Masters so excited, Lu Ming's face flashed with horror: "Ancestral Master, Ancestral Master, didn't he ascend to immortality?"

At the end of the Huangtian Ten Epochs, the Old Celestial Master fought the heavens and ascended to immortality. However, though the person passed away, his Dao remained. The Divine Court formed from his body was the true core of creating the current world.

The 'Qi' transformed from his will was their greatest reliance in expelling the Huangtian spiritual energy.

This was not something known to everyone, but it was not a secret to him. He had even personally killed dozens of rebels who wanted to ascend the Great Divine Court and desecrate the remains of the Ancestral Master.

Could it be...

Boom!

Several people in the Divine Court were emotionally agitated and stunned for a moment. The world, however, was in an uproar.

"The shadow of the Divine Court?! No, no, it's the light of the Great Divine Court!"

"What happened? Could it be that someone has ascended the Great Divine Court and desecrated the Ancestral Master's remains?! Who is so bold? Are they not afraid of offending all Qi refiners in the world?!"

"Is the scene in the Divine Court like this?!"

The Five Continents, the seas, the sky, the cities... countless people were alarmed by this scene, looking up in horror.

Some were excited, some were indignant, and some soared into the sky, driving divine light to get closer and see. Fire Spirit ships came from all directions, covering the sky.

Boom!

Boom!

As the Divine Court stirred, the earth trembled.

One after another, long-dormant wills also slowly awakened in the Five Continents and seas.

*Zheng* ~

In the midst of the intense sound of metal clashing, the boundless earth also responded. Five pure and vast rivers of divine light rose from the ground to the sky, sweeping across mountains and rivers, pouring into the Divine Court.

"How long has it been..."

In the Arctic of the Northern Continent, in a place rarely visited, guarded by endless glaciers and black water, a high platform sealed for countless years appeared under the reflection of the divine light.

In a low murmur, Ruyi Monk slowly opened his eyes, only to see that above the Arctic Conferred God Platform, which he had guarded for countless years, finally emerged a familiar thing.

Brilliant divine light, like a pillar of heaven, poured backwards into the Divine Court at the end of the sky. And within the pillar of divine light, there was actually a city of ghosts and gods, shrouded in endless Yin mist, rising and falling.

Faintly, one could see countless ghosts and gods reviving in the city, facing the sky, and making unintelligible howls.

"Fengdu City... is that you?"

Muttering to himself, Ruyi Monk shook off the dust from his body, slowly got up, looked around in the divine light, and smiled as he put his palms together: "Fellow Daoists, long time no see..."

In the far east, divine light flowed backward like a waterfall. A pill furnace, secretly conforming to the Nine Palaces, with three legs representing heaven, earth, and man, and a circular circumference of twenty-four, with divine fire swirling inside, hummed and rotated, overflowing with reason and spreading the law.

In the far west, a dark red, mottled Dao platform was faintly visible, its patterns like blood stains.

As the divine light burst forth, a guillotine loomed, seeming to be able to slay demons, eliminate devils, slaughter immortals, kill Buddhas, and slay gods – its extreme fierceness could be clearly sensed even across endless space.

In the Central Continent, a twenty-one-section divine mountain, towering into the sky, seemingly made of countless Dao runes, stood between heaven and earth. It looked unremarkable, but it had a sense of heaviness and vastness that suppressed the heavens.

Buzz, buzz, buzz~~~

Exotic treasures crossed the sky, seemingly existing independently, yet faintly connected.

Between the four colors intertwined, a magnificent and holy, vast and extreme divine gate rose slowly from the southernmost land, its light like the sun, illuminating the heavens. As it rose, it caused the four exotic treasures to vibrate even more violently.

The emergence of these various phenomena, seemingly slow, was actually extremely fast. In just a few moments, they had already rushed straight into the sky with the five divine lights.

"Bagua Furnace!" (Eight Trigrams Furnace)

"Da Shen Bian!" (God Beating Whip)

"Fengdu City!" (Capital of the Underworld)

"Zhan Xian Tai!" (Immortal Slaying Platform)

"Nan Tian Men!" (Southern Gate of Heaven)

As the phenomena manifested, divine light crisscrossed, and boundless rosy clouds were born between heaven and earth, as if in praise, as if in welcome.

Above the Taiji Continent, no matter where they were, no matter how high their cultivation was, whether they were in seclusion or not, everyone was shocked and震 by the phenomena.

In the Taiji Daoist temple, which had been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years, there were no other sects or heretical paths under heaven. Among the ‘Qi refiners’ of the world, there might still be thousands of sects, but their roots were all in Taiji.

At this time, looking up at the sky, even children who had not yet come into contact with cultivation exclaimed. Many people had already knelt on the ground, tears of excitement streaming down their faces.

"Finally, it's here?!"

Under the Five Continent Conferred God Platforms, figures soared into the sky.

The ‘Qi refiners’ in the various continents were horrified to discover that these figures soaring into the sky were either the founders of sects or great experts who had been famous in Taiji Dao for a long time.

They were all ancient beings who had survived from the tenth epoch of Huangtian, reappearing in the world.

Yan Xiake, Lian Sheng the old Daoist, Ruyi Monk, Pei Yuanhua, Sun Qi, Gongliang Shen, Huang Qing'er, the Tongue-less Daoist...

Each and every one of them was an ancient existence that had survived from the tenth epoch of Huangtian, reappearing in the world.

"Fellow Daoists, long time no see!"

The group of people either looked at each other, or looked down at the heavens and the earth, sensing all things, all with sorrow, excitement, and anticipation.

"Seniors..."

In the small Divine Court, Wei Shaoyou, Ye Xiaoyi, and Lu Ming all bowed deeply, with a sense of sadness and admiration.

Competing with the heavens was by no means easy, and the path of replacing ‘spiritual energy’ with ‘Qi’ was even more difficult.

The Five Direction Conferred God Platforms had always been of utmost importance!

Behind the spread of ‘Qi seeds’ in the universe, and the transformation of various stars into new heavens and earth, was the steadfast garrison and blessing of many strong individuals for hundreds of thousands of years!

For hundreds of thousands of years, with thought and awareness, but losing the ability to perceive the heavens and the earth, what a terrible torture this was?

There were quite a few people ascending into the sky now, but there were a hundred times, a thousand times, or even more people who had disappeared without a trace...

*Huff!*

Yan Xiake stepped into the air, his eyes sweeping across the heavens and the earth, seeing one familiar figure after another. He could not hide his excitement and sorrow, but when he finally looked towards the Celestial Master's Mansion in the small Divine Court, his heart suddenly skipped a beat:

"Where is Sa Wuling? Where is Wang E? Where is Gou Huang?"

For hundreds of thousands of years, he had guarded the Conferred God Platform in the Southern Continent, no different from being dead. He had no way to perceive the passage of time in the outside world. Now that he appeared, but did not see familiar old friends, he felt a sudden sense of foreboding.

His voice echoed, and eyes darted back and forth in all directions, but there was no response.

"Where is Sa Wuling? Where is Wang E? Where is Gou Huang?"

Yan Xiake's heart turned cold, and he spoke again, his gaze on the small Divine Court becoming sharp.

"Brother Yan..."

In the small Divine Court, Wei Shaoyou, Ye Xiaoyi, and Lu Ming all looked gloomy, but they didn't know how to speak.

After a long time, Wei Shaoyou sighed and replied, "Seventy thousand years ago, Gou Huang and Senior Brother both followed the Ancestral Master on an interdimensional expedition, and have not returned since, nor has there been any news..."

Most people on the Taiji Continent only knew that Wang Lingguan led various Fire Spirit Ships far into the starry sea to rebuild the heavens and the earth, but only a few people knew that he had been missing for seventy thousand years.

"What?!"

Yan Xiake staggered, a great unease rising in his heart.

But before he could ask again, the five phenomena that had burst forth into the Divine Court had already let out a deafening roar and began to converge and merge in the Great Divine Court.

*Rumble*

Amidst the deafening roar, Yan Xiake and the others woke up and looked back at the Great Divine Court, only to see that at the very core of the intertwined five-colored divine light, a wisp of purple light overflowed!

At first, the purple light was as small as a firefly, but in an instant, it had replaced the five colors and shone brightly. After a few more moments, a hazy figure, like smoke, slowly emerged from the purple light.

The divine shadow was hazy and ethereal, its form seemed both real and illusory, and one could not see its facial features. But as it emerged, the Divine Court at the highest point of the sky, higher than the great sun, dimmed.

All the divine light poured into the divine shadow.

In an instant, it pushed the brilliance of this divine shadow to a point where the heavens and the earth, the starry sea, and the universe could all see it. It was as if the ‘Qi’ that permeated all nothingness and microscopic places was transmitting for it, cheering for it!

"That is... Ancestral Master?!"

"Daoist An?!"

"Ancestral Master! Ancestral Master, is the Ancestral Master really manifesting?!"

The world boiled!

Including Yan Xiake and the others who had just emerged, everyone's eyes were attracted by the slowly emerging divine shadow.

Without facing it directly, just by sensing this aura and the throbbing from within, everyone's mind had already appeared with the identity of this divine shadow.

This was the origin of all Qi refiners in the world, the ancestor of the Qi Dao.

The one who single-handedly ended the great tribulation of the Huangtian Ten Epochs and even more distant epochs, and opened up the foundation of the current world.

Taiji Daoist, An Qisheng!