Chapter 19 The Art of Creating All Things!

Time flies, and years pass like a shuttle.

It has been exactly three months since the Heavenly Demon Sect launched a massive assault on the mountain, the Blood Demon Ancestor was killed in one shot by Old Ancestor Lin Yuan, and thousands of demon cultivators were reorganized on the spot.

During these three months, the Taixuan Dao Sect ushered in an unprecedented "Great Renaissance."

The Taixuan Disciples, who were originally gloomy because the Sect-Protecting Formation was shattered and the main Peak was destroyed, were surprised to find that they couldn't get a hand in the reconstruction work of the Sect at all.

Because, on that construction site of the Demon Suppressing Death Prison in the back mountain, it was simply competitive to an outrageous degree!

"Quick, quick, quick! Brothers of the Earth Escape Hall, cut this thirty-thousand-catty [Ten-Thousand-Year Warm Jade] into one-foot square floor tiles! If the gap exceeds a single hair, I'll stuff you into the center of the earth to eat dirt!"

"Mountain Moving Hall, haven't you eaten?! This [Thousand-Year Golden Silk Phoebe] is for the Old Ancestor's main gate beam. It must be nourished and polished with alchemical fire forty-nine times. If it's missing even once, the Chief Supervisor's Karmic Fire doesn't have eyes!"

On the original site of the death prison.

Those high and mighty demon Sect experts, who once killed without blinking, were now shirtless, with towels around their necks, sweating profusely.

Core Formation Stage demon cultivators were responsible for using Flying Swords to precisely cut building materials; Foundation Establishment Stage demon cultivators were responsible for using the Object Control Technique to frantically transport them; Qi Gathering Stage demon cultivators were arranged to mix spiritual spring water with top-grade spiritual soil, acting as the highest-grade "Cultivation World Cement."

And in mid-air, the peerless demon venerable Tantai Jinyue, dressed in red, was sitting on a luxurious armchair. She held a long whip refined from a thousand-year-old flood dragon's tendon, and her scarlet eyes coldly scanned this group of former "colleagues" below.

Whoever dared to slow down even half a beat, a dark red fire lotus that made the Soul tremble would instantly explode in mid-air.

Under such high pressure, high intensity, and even what could be called crazy rushed work.

In just three months.

That once dark, damp "Eighteen Levels of Hell," filled with nine netherworld malevolent qi and making people tremble at the sound of its name, had completely disappeared.

Replacing it was a luxurious-to-the-extreme Nine Heavens Carefree Immortal Palace, covering a full hundred acres and emitting a dazzling treasure light!

The walls of the Immortal Palace were all built with [Flowing Light Star Stones] from the bottom of the Taixuan Dao Sect's treasury. They absorbed the essence of the sun by day and emitted starlight by night;

The roof tiles were all carved from [Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Jade] from the extreme cold lands. Not only were they warm in winter and cool in summer, but they could also automatically condense the free Spiritual Qi in heaven and earth;

And in the backyard of the Immortal Palace, the abyss crack originally smashed through by Lin Yuan was ingeniously transformed into an open-air [Nine Netherworld Spiritual Spring Bath] covering several acres.

At this moment, this group of demon cultivator construction teams was kneeling in unison under the towering golden silk phoebe plaque of the Immortal Palace, each of them weeping bitterly.

"Wuwuwu... Three months, it's finally built! This is simply a miracle in the architectural history of the cultivation world!"

A Core Formation Stage demon cultivator captain cried with snot and tears. He stroked the stone lions in front of the gate with great reluctance, "These three months of high-intensity labor reform not only cured my years of mania but also, because I bathed in the Dao rhymes overflowing from the Old Ancestor's Immortal Palace every day, my cultivation, which had been stagnant for fifty years, actually broke through!"

"Yes! The Old Ancestor is simply a living Bodhisattva! I don't want to go back to the demon Sect anymore. I want to stay here and be a security guard for the Old Ancestor for the rest of my life!"

"Chief Supervisor! Please talk to the Old Ancestor and approve a second phase of the project for us! We can also build a back garden!"

Thousands of demon Sect elites had actually developed Stockholm Syndrome because of Lin Yuan, crying and shouting that they didn't want to get off work.

"All of you, shut up. The Immortal Palace is completed, and the Young Master needs to rest. Take the severance pay issued by the Taixuan Dao Sect and get out of the Taixuan Mountain Range. Whoever dares to step within a hundred miles again will be killed without mercy."

Tantai Jinyue waved her hand coldly, dismissing this group of fanatical demon cultivator construction teams.

Afterward, she tidied her appearance, changed into an extremely soft pink maid's dress without any lethality, pushed open the heavy gate, and walked gracefully into the depths of the Immortal Palace.

...

Immortal Palace backyard, Nine Netherworld Spiritual Spring Bath.

Mist swirled, like a fairyland.

Lin Yuan was soaking very comfortably in the spiritual spring water heated by a top-grade Spirit Gathering Formation. In the water floated various Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Medicines that were rarely seen in the outside world and had been sliced thin, which was even more luxurious than the Pill Furnace of Lao Jun in the heavens.

For these three months, he had not left the death prison. Every day, besides supervising the work, he was idling and signing in.

With the extremely terrifying spirit-gathering boost of the Immortal Palace and the double experience from the death prison bond, although Lin Yuan's cultivation still remained at the Nascent Soul Early Stage, the particles of the God Elephant Prison-Suppressing Strength in his body had quietly surged from ten thousand to fifty thousand!

His pure Physical Body strength had quintupled again!

He now even suspected that if he didn't use the Sword Drawing Technique, he could smash a Soul Transformation Stage expert to death just by physical impact.

"Young Master, the Immortal Palace is fully completed. Those laborers have all been sent away."

Tantai Jinyue held a white jade tray and knelt very obediently by the bath, peeling a crystal-clear top-grade spirit fruit with her slender, jade-white fingers and gently feeding it into Lin Yuan's mouth.

"Hmm, the work efficiency is good. Thank you for your hard work."

Lin Yuan bit into the spirit fruit and sighed comfortably, "This is what cultivation should look like. I don't know how the original owner survived in that broken prison before."

Just as the master and servant were enjoying this rare quiet time.

"Old Ancestor!!! Your unworthy descendant Qingxu has a matter of extreme urgency and begs the Old Ancestor to save our lives!!!"

Outside the heavy gate of the Immortal Palace, the shrill, indignant, and even desperate wail of the Taixuan Sect Head Immortal Master Qingxu suddenly came, sounding as if his parents had died!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Hearing the noise, this dignified Nascent Soul Stage Great Perfection leader of the Righteous Path was frantically kowtowing on the white jade steps outside the Immortal Palace, almost breaking the floor tiles.

Lin Yuan frowned slightly.

"What's wrong with this old man again? Didn't I turn the demon Sect into a construction team? Could it be that a force from the Central Continent has attacked?"

Lin Yuan stood up from the bath, and Tantai Jinyue immediately and skillfully took a luxurious robe woven from Heavenly Silkworm Ice Silk and draped it over him.

"Let's go and see what this old man is up to now."

Draped in the robe, Lin Yuan lazily walked through the winding corridor and arrived at the towering vermilion gate of the Immortal Palace.

Accompanied by the operation of the Formation, the gate slowly opened to both sides.

Outside the gate.

Immortal Master Qingxu's hair was messy, his Daoist robe was covered in mud, and his eyes were swollen like walnuts. Behind him knelt several white-bearded Elders specifically responsible for guarding the most core Forbidden Ground of the Taixuan Dao Sect—the [Ten Thousand Medicine Garden], each looking as if they were at a funeral.

"What's wrong, Qingxu? Crying like this in broad daylight, you're bringing bad Luck to my newly built Immortal Palace."

Lin Yuan yawned and looked down at the Sect Head kneeling on the ground.

Seeing Lin Yuan come out, Immortal Master Qingxu seemed to have seen a living deity. He scrambled to the bottom of the steps and pointed toward the Taixuan Back Mountain, sobbing:

"Old Ancestor! You must stand up for us! The lifeblood of our Taixuan Dao Sect... has been dug up!!!"

"Lifeblood?" Lin Yuan was stunned.

You're a cultivation Sect, where did you get a lifeblood?

"It's the [Nine-Colored Immortal Lotus]!" A white-bearded Elder guarding the medicine garden beat his chest in despair. "That quasi-immortal medicine [Nine-Colored Immortal Lotus], left behind by the Founding Ancestral Master to suppress the Sect's ten-thousand-year Luck, and the only one in the entire Shenhuang Continent... was... was pulled up by the roots by a thief who came out of nowhere, not even a leaf is left!"

"Old Ancestor! That Nine-Colored Immortal Lotus is the treasure our Taixuan Dao Sect was going to use to cultivate the next generation of Soul Transformation Stage foundation in a hundred years! Once it's lost, the Spiritual Vein of the Taixuan Dao Sect has withered by a third! This is simply digging up our ancestral grave!" Immortal Master Qingxu cried heart-wrenchingly.

Hearing this, the corner of Lin Yuan's eye twitched imperceptibly.

He suddenly felt... this plot development was a little bit familiar.

He subconsciously reached out and touched his neck.

It was empty.

Usually at this time, that Soul Transformation Stage ice dragon, who would turn into an "Extreme Cold Scarf" and coil around his neck to blow cold wind every day to vie for favor, was actually... not here today?!

"Cough cough."

Lin Yuan coughed twice and asked with forced composure, "Qingxu, did you see the appearance of that thief? What kind of sacred being could silently sneak into your heavily guarded Ten Thousand Medicine Garden?"

"Reporting to the Old Ancestor!" Immortal Master Qingxu gritted his teeth, his eyes spitting fire of hatred. "That thief is extremely cunning! According to the records of the medicine garden's Formation eye, it was a streak of weird ice-blue lightning! The speed was extreme, and even a Nascent Soul Stage Peak Divine Sense could not capture it!"

"And... and that thief not only stole and ate the Nine-Colored Immortal Lotus but even... left a pile of extremely cold excrement in the mud pit of the lotus! It's simply outrageous, a great humiliation!!!"

"Pfft!"

Standing behind Lin Yuan, Tantai Jinyue really couldn't hold it back and laughed out loud quite inappropriately. But she immediately realized the occasion was wrong and quickly covered her mouth tightly, her shoulders shaking violently.

She could figure it out with her toes; in the entire Taixuan Dao Sect, who else could be as fast as lightning and carry an aura of extreme cold... besides that shameless Soul Transformation Stage Extreme Cold Ice Dragon the Young Master kept?!

That broken loach usually acted like a Husky in front of the Young Master. Although she didn't know what a "Husky" was that the Young Master mentioned, behind his back, he actually went and ate someone's Sect Head's lifeblood like a Spicy Strip! He even relieved himself anywhere!

Lin Yuan was also having a headache at this time.

He took a deep breath, and his Divine Sense, like a large net, instantly covered the entire luxurious Immortal Palace.

In less than half a second, he locked onto a small figure in a dog hole in the backyard of the Immortal Palace, who was shivering, had a round belly, and was trying to disguise itself as a blue brick.

"Xiao Bing, get over here."

Lin Yuan issued the command in his mind through the master-servant contract quite plainly.

"Whoosh—!"

In less than a tenth of a second.

A streak of ice-blue light shot out from the depths of the Immortal Palace, and then with a "splat," it stuck firmly to Lin Yuan's cheek.

Xiao Bing still maintained its small snake form, over a meter long.

It flatteringly rubbed its cold little head against Lin Yuan's chin. In its pair of watery, big dragon eyes, there was an innocent look of "I was wrong, but I'll dare to do it again next time."

What was even more fatal was that half a leaf of the Nine-Colored Immortal Lotus, which emitted nine-colored treasure light and looked priceless at a glance, was still hanging arrogantly from the corner of its mouth.

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The air froze completely at this moment.

Below the steps, Immortal Master Qingxu, who had just been wailing to the heavens and swearing to tear the thief into ten thousand pieces, was now staring at the "ice-blue suspect" hanging on the Old Ancestor's face, a half-eaten Nine-Colored Immortal Lotus leaf dangling from its mouth.

The expression on his old face shifted from extreme rage, to bewilderment, to terror, and finally, into deathly despair and servility.

" O-Old Ancestor... t-this... this... "

Immortal Master Qingxu stammered, pointing at the ice dragon on Lin Yuan's neck, his brain once again falling into a frenzy of over-interpretation.

This was the extreme icy aura of a Soul Transformation Stage Great Perfection expert!

Could it be... that this thief... oh no, this ancient demonic dragon, is a pet raised by the Old Ancestor?!

The Old Ancestor's pet went to the back mountain and ate the Taixuan Dao Sect's Sect-protecting treasure?

And I just threatened to tear the Old Ancestor's pet into ten thousand pieces?!

" It's over... the ancestral graves of my Taixuan Dao Sect are truly doomed today. " Immortal Master Qingxu wailed internally, wishing he could slap himself twice on the spot.

Lin Yuan helplessly pinched the scruff of Xiao Bing's neck, pulled it off his face, and dangled it in mid-air.

" You prodigal little thing. " Lin Yuan scolded it irritably, " Do I usually starve you? You could actually bring yourself to eat a freshly ripened immortal lotus? You didn't even chew it? "

" *Hiccup* — "

Xiao Bing let out an incredibly ill-timed, loud burp.

Along with this burp, a burst of extremely dense, pure Nine-Colored Immortal Lotus medicinal qi sprayed out from its nostrils. Immediately after, with a " *pfft* " sound, a lotus seed radiating nine-colored divine light, looking like jade, was spat out from its mouth and rolled into Lin Yuan's palm.

" Master, that grass didn't taste good at all, it got stuck in my teeth! I just thought it looked pretty and wanted to pull it back to decorate the backyard of the immortal palace for you, but I accidentally... it slipped down my throat. This pit is too hard, here, I'm giving it back to you. " Xiao Bing frantically argued in an incredibly fawning, little girl's voice.

Hearing this demonic dragon refer to their Sect-protecting treasure as "grass that gets stuck in the teeth," the white-bearded medicinal garden Elders below rolled their eyes and fainted from anger.

Lin Yuan ignored the dragon pretending to be pitiful and focused his gaze on the [ Nine-Colored Immortal Lotus Seed ] in his palm, which radiated a faint life force but was extremely dim.

This was the last trace of Bloodline from that quasi-immortal medicine.

Just then, the long-absent System notification sound exploded in his mind!

[ Ding! Detected a dying quasi-immortal medicine seed ' Nine-Colored Immortal Lotus Seed ', triggering Max-Level Comprehension feedback! ]

[ You have earnestly observed the principles of the immortal medicine's life and death and the withered wood meeting spring, gaining insight into the ultimate Profound Truth of the growth of all things and the life force of creation! You have had an Epiphany! ]

[ Congratulations to the host for comprehending the supreme Life Dao Divine Ability — — 《 Myriad Things Life-Transformation Art 》! ]

" *Boom* — ! " At this moment, Lin Yuan felt as if a Universe full of vitality had been opened up in his mind.

The 《 Myriad Things Life-Transformation Art 》, while neither offensive nor defensive, is an incredibly Heaven-Defying auxiliary creation divine technique! As long as the host does not die, with a single thought, one can imbue all things with life force! Withered wood can sprout, dead soil can produce life, and it can even forcibly ripen any Heaven And Earth Treasure, ignoring the Laws of heaven, earth, and time!

" Good heavens, this is the ultimate divine skill for the farming path. " A sharp light flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes.

With this Divine Ability, even a blade of wild grass could be ripened into a hundred-thousand-year immortal medicine in mere minutes!

Lin Yuan tossed the dim immortal lotus seed into mid-air quite casually.

Afterward, he looked at Immortal Master Qingxu below, who was trembling with fear and didn't even dare to let out a fart.

" Qingxu, this beast is ignorant; it was indeed in the wrong for eating your grass. " Lin Yuan's tone was flat, yet it carried an unquestionable dominance.

" Old Ancestor, you are too kind to this Junior! What is one immortal lotus? Since the Old Ancestor's immortal pet has taken a fancy to it, that is its good fortune! This Junior will have someone remove all the Formations in the Myriad Medicine Garden immediately. In the future, the Immortal Pet can eat whatever it wants, just treat it as an all-you-can-eat buffet! "

How could Immortal Master Qingxu dare to let the Old Ancestor admit fault? He waved his hands repeatedly in fear, frantically demonstrating the "magnanimity" of the Taixuan Dao Sect.

" Alright, stop with the flattery. " Lin Yuan chuckled, " I, Lin Yuan, never take advantage of my Juniors. Since it ate a stalk of your grass, then I will... return a forest of immortal plants to you. "

Having said that, Lin Yuan raised his right hand and pointed at the dim [ Nine-Colored Immortal Lotus Seed ] in mid-air, with extreme nonchalance.

The 《 Myriad Things Life-Transformation Art 》 within his body roared to life!

" *Hum* — ! " A beam of extremely pure, emerald-green divine light, radiating rich life force of creation, shot out from Lin Yuan's fingertip and instantly injected into the lotus seed!

At the same time, with a thought, Lin Yuan mobilized the terrifying Spirit Gathering Formation of the entire Nine Heavens Carefree Immortal Palace, causing the Spiritual Qi within a hundred-mile radius to pour madly into the lotus seed!

" Give me... life! "

" *Rumble rumble rumble* — !!! "

Under the gaze of Immortal Master Qingxu, the medicinal garden Elders, and Tantai Jinyue, who were extremely shocked and almost had their eyeballs pop out!

That originally dying little lotus seed suddenly erupted in mid-air with a nine-colored divine light ten thousand times more dazzling than the sun!

A miracle, or rather, a divine manifestation, was unfolding before everyone's eyes!

The lotus seed was rooting and sprouting madly in the void at a speed visible to the naked eye, violating all common sense of the Heavenly Dao!

Crystal-clear roots pierced into the void, absorbing the energy of heaven and earth! Huge lotus leaves, seemingly carved from emerald, unfurled wildly, blocking out the sky and sun!

One year! One hundred years! One thousand years! Ten thousand years! One hundred thousand years!!!

In just ten breaths of time!

A [ 100,000-Year · Chaos 36-Petal Creation Golden Lotus ] — standing a hundred zhang tall, with thirty-six blooming petals, each petal flowing with Dao runes, and emitting a terrifying, exotic fragrance that would allow one to reach the Core Formation Stage just by taking a single whiff — was floating shockingly above the Taixuan Dao Sect!

How could this still be considered a quasi-immortal medicine? This is a supreme Heaven And Earth Treasure that even True Immortals from the Upper Realm would descend to the mortal world frantically to snatch!!!

" T-this... this... this... " Immortal Master Qingxu looked at the sky-covering Creation Golden Lotus, his legs went weak, and he collapsed directly to the ground.

His Dao Heart was, on this day, completely and utterly crushed into cosmic dust by that one finger of the Old Ancestor.

Ripening a 100,000-year immortal medicine with one finger?! Turning decay into magic, reversing the long river of time?!

Is this really power that a human can grasp?! The Old Ancestor... must be the Reincarnation of a Creation God!!!

Lin Yuan waved his hand quite casually, and the immensely massive Creation Golden Lotus rapidly shrank, finally landing steadily in his hand, turning into an exquisitely delicate, peerless bonsai the size of a palm.

Lin Yuan casually tore off a golden petal radiating chaotic qi and threw it into Immortal Master Qingxu's arms as if it were trash.

" This petal's medicinal power is a hundred times stronger than that broken grass you had before. Take it and brew tea; the excess medicinal power is enough for your Taixuan Dao Sect to cultivate another ten Soul Transformation Stage experts. "

Lin Yuan yawned, " Consider it compensation for you. Don't bother with that Myriad Medicine Garden thing; in the future, if you lack any medicine, just bring the seeds to me, and I'll plant them for you while I'm at it. "

Holding that petal containing terrifying chaotic qi, Immortal Master Qingxu trembled violently, tears gushing out like a breached floodgate. He prostrated on the ground, and toward Lin Yuan's retreating back, let out the most fanatical and pious roar of his life:

" The Old Ancestor's kindness is as great as Creation itself! The thirty thousand members of the Taixuan Dao Sect are willing to lead your horse and hold your stirrup for all eternity! We will not refuse even ten thousand deaths!!! "

Losing a ten-thousand-year piece of broken grass, in exchange for a petal of a 100,000-year chaotic immortal medicine!

How was this the Old Ancestor indulging his pet's theft? This was clearly the Old Ancestor using an incredibly subtle method to test the loyalty of the Taixuan Dao Sect, while incidentally bestowing upon them epic-level benefits!!!

The Old Ancestor's painstaking efforts—I, Qingxu, have realized it! I have completely realized it!!!

Watching the Sect Head's fanatical appearance, which looked like he was about to have an epileptic seizure, Lin Yuan shook his head, speechless.

This old man's ability to over-interpret things is truly becoming more and more masterful.

He stopped paying attention to the farce outside and turned back into the immortal palace.

The doors closed slowly.

Lin Yuan casually planted the [ Chaos 36-Petal Creation Golden Lotus ] next to the spiritual spring bath, using it as an incredibly luxurious air freshener.

Afterward, he sat back down on the lounge chair by the bath, reached into his Storage Pouch, and pulled out the ancient, weathered sheepskin map fragment he had snatched from the Blood Demon Ancestor three months ago.

" My bones are almost rusting after these three months. The System hasn't been able to idle out any new tricks either. "

Lin Yuan looked at the fragment in his hand, which depicted the general route to the [ God-Burying Abyss ], and a curve of excitement hooked at the corner of his mouth.

Just as he was preparing to use his Divine Sense to investigate the secret of this fragment.

" *Hum* — ! " Without any warning!

The sheepskin map fragment in Lin Yuan's hand suddenly erupted with an incredibly blinding blood-colored light!

This light pierced directly through the shielding Formation of the Nine Heavens Carefree Immortal Palace, transforming into a pillar of blood-colored light that shot straight into the heavens, piercing through the clouds above the Taixuan Dao Sect, as if it were sending a certain incredibly strong coordinate signal to an extremely distant, unknown region!

" Hm? " Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow, his eyes instantly becoming somewhat playful.

" Interesting, this fragment was actually planted with a space-time tracking mark that spans thousands of miles? "

At the same time, tens of millions of miles away from the Taixuan Dao Sect, in the core region of the Shenhuang Continent where the Spiritual Qi is so dense it turns into liquid rain — Central Province!

At the summit of an ancient divine mountain floating above the Nine Heavens.

A young man wearing a purple-gold python robe and a flat-topped crown, his body radiating a terrifying pressure far exceeding the Soul Transformation Stage, suddenly opened his eyes.

His eyes were like abyssal black holes, looking toward the extremely distant east, a cruel and condescending sneer hooking at the corner of his mouth:

" Found it. The last fragment of the Mahayana Stage Demon Lord's Immortal Cave actually fell into such a remote garbage dump as the Eastern Wilderness. "

" Transmit this Divine Son's decree! "

The young man's voice echoed throughout the entire divine mountain like the thunder of a god:

" Tear open the void Formation platform! This Divine Son will personally descend upon the Eastern Wilderness and crush that ant who knows not life from death and dares to touch my Opportunity! "