Invincible Starts From Dao Fruit-Chapter 585 - 455 Liangqiu Proving Dao! One Instant 1000 Years!
"It’s a pity that I’m still in the Inner Realm. My Essence Qi, spirit, and soul have yet to reach completion, so my efficiency in Enlightenment is much lower."
Chen Jichuan felt somewhat regretful.
If he still had the cultivation of his previous life, this time he might have had a chance to prove Dao and ascend to the rank of True Immortal in one fell swoop.
But life is often filled with disappointment.
Being able to participate in the Dayan Victory Conference, which occurs once every 490,000 years, was already a stroke of luck; there wasn’t much room for extravagance.
"The Dayan Chessboard."
"The Tonghe Immortal Fruit."
"It’s already quite good."
Chen Jichuan stopped overthinking.
The Tonghe Immortal Fruit descended, lingering momentarily, and then transformed into a stream of clear Qi, entering through the noses and mouths of the four participants. Immediately, their senses sharpened. Heaven and earth flipped upside down, and the four of them appeared within a domain of chaos.
No top nor bottom.
Chaotic and indistinct.
In this boundless chaos, an abrupt explosion rang out, shaking their Divine Souls. Chen Jichuan struggled to open his eyes, and what he saw stunned him—a point of chaos split open, the nascent Dao taking form within, unveiling the mysteries of existence and exposing all universal truths before his eyes. His Divine Soul cleared, and he gazed intently, becoming deeply enchanted.
Buzz!
Buzz!
Buzz!
The vibrations seemed like the humming of the Dao itself.
Chaos dissected, yielding purity and impurity.
A newborn world sprang forth, evolving rapidly from barbarity to splendor.
Primeval lands.
Cosmic starlight.
All transformed at blazing speed.
Chen Jichuan immersed himself, as though traversing millions of spacetime realms.
He saw the unfolding of primordial lands, the flourishing of living beings, their gradual decline, the universe’s eventual destruction, and the ensuing silence of all things.
The Chaos.
Yin and Yang.
Five Elements.
All things.
...
Creation.
Rebirth.
Aging.
Annihilation.
...
Countless profound mysteries revealed themselves before his eyes, and myriad realizations swirled within his heart.
"Dao!"
"Dao!"
Unknowingly, Chen Jichuan drifted into slumber amidst this chaos, entirely oblivious to the passage of time.
This slumber felt utterly refreshing.
"Hm."
When he awoke, his whole body felt light. Years of grueling cultivation, countless rounds of life-and-death battles, and the exhaustion of witnessing the chaos’s unfolding and the universe’s destruction—all had been thoroughly washed away.
It felt like rebirth.
"Comfortable."
Chen Jichuan felt utterly at ease.
His Daoist practice remained beyond measure, the path ahead uncertain. But if he were to gauge his progress against the 3,000-li stretch he had seen in the Dao Net at the True Knowledge Hall—where his earlier progress of 3,000 li came mostly from his accumulation in Chongming World—and the subsequent 500 years, during which he advanced another 1,000 li or so...
This time—
"At least 10,000 li."
"A journey of 10,000 li on the Dao!"
Chen Jichuan faintly felt the enormity of his breakthrough this time, far exceeding the progress he made in the 80,000 years of Enlightenment in Chongming World and the 700 years in this lifetime.
For a moment, it seemed as though the Dao was within reach.
The gains this time were truly immense. Chen Jichuan, now only 1,300 years old in this lifetime, still had a long journey ahead. There was every chance to prove Dao.
Reflecting on himself.
Observing the changing heavens and earth once more.
Chen Jichuan glanced around and found himself back in his cave abode. Calculating with his fingers, he realized only three months had passed since he entered the Dayan Chessboard.
"I wonder how Liangqiu fared."
Having personally experienced this great opportunity, Chen Jichuan couldn’t help but feel regret for Shen Mo and grew curious whether Liangqiu had succeeded in breaking through to True Immortal.
As these thoughts lingered—
Walking out of the cave abode.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Boom boom boom! 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦
He saw above the central skies—a city shrouded in black clouds, flashes of wind and fire blazing around.
"Wind-Fire Calamity!"
"True Immortal Proving Dao!"
Chen Jichuan leapt upward, peering into the distance.
Beneath the black clouds stood Liangqiu, triumphant and defiant, laughing majestically into the heavens.
"Forty thousand years of arduous cultivation!"
"In one moment, destiny bestowed!"
Liangqiu of South Continent—ascended to True Immortal!
...
A spectacular conference concluded in perfect fashion.
Liangqiu, a loose cultivator of South Continent, gained Enlightenment within the Dayan Chessboard, passed through the Wind-Fire Calamity outside the Immortal Court, and ascended to True Immortal. Henceforth, he enjoyed freedom, unsullied by mortality, transcendent and undying.
The triumph of a True Immortal was cause for universal celebration.
For that was an entirely different realm.
It had nothing to do with Chen Jichuan, Shen Mo, Liu Hechuan, or the numerous Upper Immortals still adrift in the sea of suffering.
"Liangqiu of South Continent."
"Liangqiu True Immortal."
Liangqiu’s proving of Dao ignited the ambitions of many.
Including Chen Jichuan.
Returning to the Golden Wind Mountain and Sea, he set aside all distractions, neither dwelling on the past nor anticipating the future, but wholeheartedly immersed himself in cultivation and Enlightenment.
Within the mountain, time ceased to flow.
In the outside world, a thousand years passed.
...
A thousand years later.
Golden Wind Mountain and Sea, Trial Sword Peak.
A streak of light suddenly arrived, revealing a figure, stepping directly into the mountain.
"It’s him!"
"Zhou Yan!"
"It’s Brother Zhou, the Inner Realm First of the Dayan Victory Conference a thousand years ago."
"Since the Dayan Victory Conference, Zhou Yan has been cultivating tirelessly in seclusion for a millennium without leaving the sect gates, nor has he ever returned to Trial Sword Peak. To appear today—could it mean a breakthrough?"
...
Inside and outside Trial Sword Peak, Daoist disciples coming and going all turned their attention to Zhou Yan, the most renowned figure of this generation.
A thousand years had passed since the Dayan Victory Conference.
A thousand years ago, Zhou Yan had dazzled the Dayan Victory Conference, seizing the crown of the Inner Realm and drawing the notice of the One Origin Dao Sect’s Sect Leader and several deputy leaders.
The name ’One Origin Zhou Yan’ resounded throughout Daoist sects and the Five Directions Continent.
Though Liangqiu’s ascension to True Immortal was like a shining jewel, it did not overshadow the brilliance of Zhou Yan. If anything, it sparked even more conjectures: in the vast realm of Shenzhou, Zhou Yan might very well be the next True Immortal after Liangqiu within the coming tens of thousands of years.
One Origin Zhou Yan, with the bearing of a True Immortal.
A name unrivaled during its era.
Yet after the Dayan Victory Conference, Zhou Yan remained exceptionally low-key, spending all his time cultivating in the sect, only shuttling between his cave abode, secret realms, and the Book Collection Pavilion. Even the ’Seeking Dao Mountain’ and ’Trial Sword Peak,’ which he often visited before, he had not returned to.
Zhou Yan’s cultivation and strength had reached what level after the conference remained unknown.
But based on the prowess he demonstrated during the conference, he was undoubtedly one of the elite among the Ninth Peak.
Now, after a millennium, he was back to climb the mountain.
"How many peaks can Zhou Yan surpass?"
Everyone was eager to find out.
