The strange black wind in the sky dissipated, the dark clouds for thousands of miles broke apart, and rays of light fell from the sky. Along with this magical scene, a Taoist wearing a Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams Taoist robe walked down from the sea of clouds.
One by one, the disciples of Lingshu Mountain flew up to the sky, stood in mid-air, and saluted the Taoist priest. The disciples all over the mountain knelt on the ground, making a sound like a tsunami.
However, there was no joy on the face of the True Lord who had returned from the tribulation. He had survived two of the three disasters, his body had been rejuvenated and he had shed his mortal body, but the record of life and death had not been erased. Once his life span was over, even if he managed to hold on to life, the underworld would come to take his soul.
Now, the body of Master Jia Yi is as light as the bright moon, and all kinds of divine light emanate from his body unconsciously. He descends from the sky on a cloud like an immortal and lands in the divine palace on the top of the mountain.
Jia Yi looked at Fang Xiu, who was standing with his hands behind his back in front of the cliff corridor, and then he smiled.
Fang Xiu looked at Jia Yi and said, "This Heavenly Immortal Dao is indeed extraordinary. He didn't need any external things and survived these three disasters with his own strength alone."
"If you didn't want to play it safe, you could have survived the third disaster today! But there's no rush. You haven't died yet, so you can wait a little longer."
Jia Yi sighed inexplicably: "Immortality, possession, and tribulation, the three stages of immortality are so dangerous. The immortality pool is a place to practice immortality, but possession is hard to find and the foundation is hard to complete. In the end, there are still three disasters and six tribulations waiting for you, taking turns to fight, and they will not stop until you are worn out to death."
However, just after lamenting the difficulty of achieving immortality and becoming an immortal, Jia Yi thought of the scene after becoming an immortal.
"With the three disasters of fire, wind and water, now all I have left is the Yinquan to cleanse my immortal body. I didn't expect that the first time I went to the underworld, it was not the end of my life span, but that I would be wiped out of the book of life and death."
"Fengdu! In the past, did we ever think that we, mortals, would have such a day! It is really possible to ascend to heaven and become immortals, and live in eternal bliss!"
Jia Yi opened his heart and stood on this cliff temple: "Live as long as the heaven and earth, shine as bright as the sun and the moon, how magnificent it is!"
Fang Xiu looked out from the Divine Palace, and saw the mountains and rivers rising and falling, and a line was drawn between heaven and earth. He said, "Wait until you become an immortal! Perhaps what you want is for the heaven and earth to fall but I will not perish, and for the sun and moon to collapse but I will be immortal."
"This road! There's no end in sight."
Jia Yi said, "That's exactly why it's interesting."
"Fight against people, fight against the earth, fight against the sky!"
“It’s so much fun!”
The two looked at each other, shook their heads, and then couldn't help but burst into laughter together. Only they understood the hardships and difficulties involved in living for thousands of years and achieving immortality.
It is precisely because of this determination to fight against heaven and earth that generation after generation of practitioners continue to attack the path to immortality, and will not turn back even if they face countless difficulties and calamities, or even if they die.
After surviving the great calamity, True Lord Jia Yi had not originally planned to hold any grand banquet. After all, there were nine calamities in total from the Three Disasters and Six Calamities. If he held a grand banquet for each one, that would be disastrous. True Lord Jia Yi was determined to ascend to the upper realms and attain the status of a celestial being, so he didn't care about just two calamities.
However, what he did not expect was that on the second day, two distinguished guests broke into Dongzhou and arrived at Lingshu Mountain. Master Jia Yi held a banquet to celebrate his successful tribulation and the arrival of his old friends.
They entered Dongzhou in the morning, and before nightfall, they crossed the vast territory of Dongzhou and arrived at Lingshu Mountain in the north of Da Zhou. Divine light crossed the sky all the way. It might not feel strong to cultivators, but to gods, the strong divine pressure could be felt even thousands of miles away.
The gods of the land and water in all directions of Dongzhou knew immediately that a true supreme god had come for the rest of their lives, and they came to pay homage and welcome him respectfully.
But the light did not stay for a moment, and there was no intention of even meeting the gods of the earth and water. The gods of the entire Dongzhou Shinto system and all the forces were terrified and had no idea what was going on.
Only some practitioners and the Great Zhou Imperial Observatory who had heard of the latest developments in the East China Sea and the South China Sea understood what had happened.
The officials of the Imperial Observatory hurriedly reported to the three emperors of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Only then did everyone know that the two gods, Chang De and Zhang Heming, had crossed the sea to Dongzhou.
For a time, the originally powerful and overbearing Great Zhou Dynasty felt a little uneasy. The founder of Lingshu Mountain, Jia Yi, had just transcended his tribulation, the Taoist priest from Fengdu also arrived in Dongzhou, and now two gods had also arrived.
Any move of these characters could turn the world upside down, let alone if four of them gathered together. If they were determined to overthrow the Great Zhou Dynasty, the four of them wouldn't even need to take action, but just by showing that intention, even if the Great Zhou was known as the Divine Dynasty, the world would have to change hands.
So when a grand banquet was held on Lingshu Mountain to celebrate, not only did guests from all over the world come, but even the crown prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty came in person to celebrate and presented valuable gifts to Jia Yi, Fengdu, Changde and Zhang Heming. At the same time, he also wanted to know why Changde, Zhang Heming and Fengdu came to Dongzhou.
When the disciples of the Tianshi sect learned that Zhang Heming had returned from the underworld, they held up signs and boarded a treasure ship across the Li River to welcome their master back to the mountain.
The hustle and bustle of Lingshu Mountain that day did not seem like that of a large sacred mountain sect, but more like a bustling city. Waves of practitioners came one after another, and the entire mountain was filled with cultivators who wanted to pay their respects to these four legendary immortal and god-like figures. Many people could not even go up the mountain, and could only put down their gifts and turn around and leave.
At the banquet, the four people recalled the past years again, when they traveled all over the world together to the fairy mountains and rivers, and recalled the old days of the Dongzhou Wilderness Era, the Xun Kingdom Period, and the Dahuan Period.
After thousands of years and several dynasties, countless people have been buried and fallen, the great rivers and the Lijiang River have changed their courses, the vast sea has turned into mulberry fields, and finally the four people have gathered together again.
The immortal banquet lasted for three days and finally ended when thousands of immortals came to pay homage.
Zhang Heming was going to follow the disciples who came to greet him and go back to see the Tianshi Sect today. Chang De wanted to see the ancient mountain of the past and the ancient temple that he left behind.
The two planned to survive the third divine thunder tribulation there, and then head to Beiming and Beizhou to find someone who could unify the North Sea and become the master of the North Sea.
Afterwards, Fang Xiu also bid farewell to Jia Yi and left Lingshu Mountain.
Jia Yi specially sent him to the gate of the Divine Palace and asked, "Where are you going? Are you ready to survive this catastrophe? When do you plan to ascend to the upper realm and become an immortal?"
Fang Xiu said: "I am still going through the tribulations in Dongzhou. As for when I will ascend to heaven, it has not been decided yet!"
"But this time I will take a look at the lineage of the academy I left behind. I established the Xundu Academy in the past, but I don't know what it looks like now. I also don't know what kind of results the causes and conditions I planted in the past will eventually bear."
Fang Xiu looked up at the sky: "When I transcend the tribulation and ascend to the upper realm, the preaching jade slip will also ascend with me."
"This preaching jade slip carries the merits of the academy for a thousand years. I hope it can be integrated into a star palace in the sky and take charge of a cave. The academy will truly become a holy place for humanity."
Jia Yi immediately knew that Fengdu had already had a plan, and this time he came to Dongzhou, he also had a plan, and he had other actions while ascending.
It will even implicate the entire Great Zhou Academy and be related to the plans left over from a thousand years ago.
"The Jade Slip of Teaching? It's the artifact you had in the past."
"With the sacred incense weapon as the foundation, generation after generation of sages from the academy entered the blessed land of incense, and finally ascended to the upper realm together. There is also such a method to attain enlightenment! It is really amazing!"
Jia Yi couldn't help but click his tongue and looked at Fang Xiu: "Did you start planning this game since then?"
Fang Xiu nodded: "In the past, I just wanted to try a path to enlightenment, but in the end I didn't make a choice. As for the Xundu Academy and the Jade Slips of Enlightenment, they don't belong to anyone. Even if they are transformed into the Cave Heaven Star Mansion, they are different from ordinary Star Gods and Immortal Gods."
"It will uphold the beliefs of the saints of all ages and suppress the destiny of humanity and literature! It can also be regarded as another path of the great laws of heaven and earth!"
"Although I didn't take this path, it was after all the cause and effect that I created, so I might as well end it all here."
After finishing speaking, the two men bowed to each other and said goodbye. Fang Xiu also turned into light and rushed up to the sky, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye.