124: Chapter 124 Extraordinary Phenomena of Heaven and Earth, Blessings from Heaven

In the valley, there was a deathly silence.

Patriarch Lin Tianyou knelt on the ground, unable to rise for a long time. His expression was uncertain, and boundless fear surged in his heart; he had been forced into this.

Three years ago, on the night of the first earth vein riot, he was Cultivating in a secret chamber when a dark red light descended from the sky and merged into his brow.

That light contained a wisp of a Divine Soul; it was precisely the remnant Soul that had escaped after Venerable Lingyun was sealed.

That remnant Soul told him that as long as he helped him break the Seal, he could bestow Patriarch Lin Tianyou with supreme Opportunity, allowing the Lingyuan Family to become the top power in the Eastern Southern Wilderness.

Patriarch Lin Tianyou was tempted. The Lingyuan Family had operated in the Eastern Southern Wilderness for thousands of years, yet they had always remained a mid-sized Family, unable to breathe under the pressure of those top powers.

He dreamed of making the Lingyuan Family rise and having the name Patriarch Lin Tianyou recorded in history.

Following the guidance of that remnant Soul, he found this valley and the stone statue.

He gathered the Elders and Disciples of the Family, spent a fortune to recruit hundreds of Cultivators, and after three years of preparation, finally succeeded in breaking the Seal.

But the moment Venerable Lingyun actually stood before him, he realized what he had done.

What he had released was not an ancient Immortal who would bestow him Opportunity, but a bloodthirsty Devil Head.

Patriarch Lin Tianyou slowly stood up, his face ashen.

"Patriarch."

Behind him, an Elder of the Lingyuan Family spoke in a low voice, full of worry. "The Materials this Venerable asked us to collect are clearly..."

"Shut up." Patriarch Lin Tianyou interrupted him, his gaze like a knife.

"I know what they are."

Of course he knew. Among those Materials, many were items needed to refine a blood sacrifice array.

Venerable Lingyun did not rely on Cultivation to restore his strength, but on blood sacrifice, on devouring the essence blood and Soul of Cultivators.

"Patriarch, what... what should we do?"

Patriarch Lin Tianyou was silent for a long time before speaking slowly, his voice hoarse and weary.

"Do as he says."

"But—"

"There are no buts." Patriarch Lin Tianyou turned around, his gaze sweeping over the pale Elders and Disciples behind him, his voice low and cold.

"We have already boarded this ship and cannot get off. The only thing we can do now is to follow his instructions, and then pray that after he recovers his strength, he will spare us."

No one spoke again. In the valley, only the wind wailed, as if mourning for the impending bloodbath.

Patriarch Lin Tianyou led the group away from the valley, heading towards the direction of the Lingyuan Family.

Hundreds of figures disappeared into the mountains and forests, and the valley returned to silence.

Only the shattered stone statue remained scattered on the valley floor, gradually covered by dust blown by the wind, as if telling an ancient and dark secret.

A year passed in the blink of an eye.

The situation in the Eastern Southern Wilderness had quietly changed during this year.

At first, there was only sporadic news: a small Family became deserted overnight, or a remote Sect suddenly lost contact.

These pieces of news were like pebbles thrown into a lake, causing a few ripples before returning to silence.

The Southern Wilderness was too vast, and small and medium-sized powers were as numerous as crucian carp in a river. It was the norm for them to rise today and perish tomorrow, so no one would look into it deeply.

Moreover, the eyes of the seven major Sects and the Three Great Dynasties of the Southern Wilderness were all focused on Kunlun, so who would have the mind to care about those trivial matters?

Thus, the number of disappearing powers increased, from one or two per month, to five or six, and then to a dozen or so.

Those disappearing powers shared a common characteristic: they were all located in the Eastern Southern Wilderness, near the mountains shrouded in thick fog all year round.

But no one linked these disappearing powers together, and no one went to investigate deeply.

Because the Eastern Southern Wilderness was already barren, and the destruction of those small and medium-sized powers was, in the eyes of most, just the usual survival of the fittest.

This day, in the Kunlun Small World.

At the peak of the Main Peak, the entire sky was trembling.

Starting from a month ago, a phenomenon appeared in the sky of the Kunlun Small World.

At first, it was just a few faint golden lights falling from the horizon, like the first light of dawn. It was beautiful, but not rare.

But as time passed, the golden light grew stronger and denser. By today, the entire sky had been dyed a brilliant gold.

The sea of clouds surged, and golden rays of light layered upon layers, as if an Immortal from the Nine Heavens was splashing golden ink.

On every Immortal peak, all the Disciples stopped what they were doing.

In front of the Trial Tower, Ao Qin slowly sheathed his sword and looked up at the golden sky above the Main Peak, his pupils reflecting the golden light filling the sky.

"It has been a month." He spoke in a low voice, his tone filled with unconcealable shock. "The phenomenon caused by the Sect Master's Cultivation has been going on for a full month."

Mu Qingxue stood beside him, her cold face also showing a trace of emotion.

The Loose Cultivator Disciples of ordinary backgrounds were even more dumbfounded.

Shen San stood on the stone steps under the Trial Tower, looking up at the golden sky, his mouth open wide enough to fit an egg.

"What kind of Cultivation does the Sect Master actually have?" He muttered to himself, his voice trembling.

His companion beside him also looked up, his gaze dull: "I don't know, but it must be stronger than Undergoing Tribulation."

"Nonsense! Can Undergoing Tribulation have this kind of display?"

Discussions rose and fell, but they were kept very low, as if afraid to disturb someone in that golden sky.

At this moment, at the peak of the Main Peak, above the Kunlun Main Hall.

A white-clothed figure sat cross-legged in the Void Realm, golden light circulating around his body, and dao rhyme permeated the air.

Jiang Changge had his eyes slightly closed, his expression calm. Around him, countless profound runes constantly appeared, circulated, dissipated, and then condensed again the next moment.

Each of those runes contained the principles of the Origin when the world first opened. A normal Cultivator would feel dizzy and have their Dao Heart collapse just by taking a glance.

They moved around Jiang Changge, sometimes turning into a galaxy hanging upside down, sometimes turning into a blooming lotus, and sometimes turning into a Dragon and Phoenix.

The Creation Sutra was running crazily inside Jiang Changge's body.

Over the past year, Jiang Changge had devoted all his attention to Cultivation, carefully comprehending the profound mysteries in the Creation Sutra that he had not yet understood.

The more one cultivated the Creation Sutra, the more one could feel its unfathomable nature.

Every Breakthrough allowed him to comprehend new things, and every contemplation made his dao foundation more solid.

A month ago, when he pushed his understanding of the Creation Sutra to a new height, the barrier that had been lying in front of him finally began to loosen.

He went with the flow and began to impact the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.

He had thought that the Breakthrough to the Tribulation Transcendence Stage would attract heavenly thunder and earthly fire, and the Nine-fold Lightning Tribulation. He even prepared Tribulation pills and several defensive treasures just in case.

But when he actually started to impact that barrier, the expected Lightning Tribulation did not appear.

In its place was a heavenly phenomenon.

At first, it was just a few rays of golden light, then more and more, stronger and stronger. By today, the entire sky of the Kunlun Small World was covered in golden light.

Jiang Changge did not understand why his Undergoing Tribulation did not have a Lightning Tribulation. He asked the System, and the System only replied with four words—Blessing of the Heavenly Dao!