Invincible Starts From Dao Fruit-Chapter 621 - 471: Boundless Cosmos; 4th-Tier Well-Dweller, True Immortal Gazes at Heaven!
The One Origin Dao Palace was bustling with activity.
After meeting the new True Immortal and offering congratulations, one by one the True Immortals didn’t linger much longer, and their real bodies left again. Their real bodies needed to hold the Daoist fields, and staying away too long might give demons an opportunity.
A few days later.
The Golden Wind Mountain and Sea returned to tranquility.
However, this calmness was relative to the True Immortals.
For ordinary disciples in the mountains and seas, the joy and excitement from the Daoist School having a new True Immortal could last for a long time. Some were quick-witted, thinking of joining under his tutelage as Dongqi Palace was first established, and many Daoist Disciples rushed to break through, striving to advance to the Fourth-order as soon as possible. To become a Direct Disciple of Dongqi Palace and attain the Fourth-order Immortals, this was a prerequisite.
For a time, everyone aspired to join Dongqi Palace.
Yet at this moment in Dongqi Palace, the three thousand mountains and seas were desolate everywhere.
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In Dongqi Palace.
Five Phases Hall.
Chen Jichuan sat across from the East River Palace Master.
The East River Palace Master looked at this disciple who had just proved to be a True Immortal and lamented, "Proving Dao as a True Immortal at the age of three thousand three hundred and twenty years, you are the first in Shenzhou."
After proving Dao as a True Immortal, he took in a total of twenty-seven Direct Disciples, with even more registered disciples; his greatest wish was merely to hope for one True Immortal to emerge.
And the result?
The first one under his tutelage to achieve True Immortal was the most talented True Immortal in the history of Shenzhou.
The East River Palace Master was overwhelmed with joy during this time.
He felt proud on the surface, and also happy for his disciple.
"I was fortunate,"
Chen Jichuan humbly replied.
He hadn’t intended to make such a spectacle, but after proving Dao as a True Immortal, the calamities of wind and fire descended. He was in the Golden Wind Mountain and Sea, it was impossible to hide. Since he was already a genius, making a spectacle was no big deal.
However, his fame was too great, and it would be inconvenient to act in the future, likely attracting attention.
Fortunately, Chen Jichuan didn’t intend to let the identity of "Zhou Yan" wander around: "I have the ’Avatar Technique’, my true body will remain still while my avatar ventures outside."
He painted a picture in his mind.
On the other hand.
The East River Palace Master sighed, "There is no such thing as luck in proving Dao."
He shook his head, "The Fourth-order’s cultivation is limited, their lifespan is limited, so the heaven and earth in their eyes is but a small Shenzhou. Only a True Immortal can rise to a higher level. Have you seen the ’Qingshi List’? It records one thousand fifty True Immortals born in Shenzhou. But this is just one heaven and earth of Shenzhou."
"Just one heaven and earth of Shenzhou?"
Chen Jichuan straightened up, listening intently.
When he was Fourth-order, he had no access to much information or secrets. But today, as a True Immortal, he could learn more.
"Exactly."
"The vast starry sky is far beyond what we can imagine."
"In the outer starry sky, there are currently explored and contacted heavens equivalent to our Shenzhou, with eight thousand six hundred and eighty-eight of them, each having around a thousand True Immortals. There are also next-level heavens with dozens or even only a few True Immortals. And higher than our Shenzhou, there are some with Ancient Immortals, truly vast heavens, where True Immortals are as numerous as clouds and rain. Even our Daoist School’s founder, acclaimed as the best in Shenzhou, is alongside many in that level, and there are twelve such large heavens. In addition, there are countless stars, strange lands, and life forms, with not just a thousand or ten thousand True Immortals born."
Strange lands.
Stars.
Small heavens.
Medium heavens.
Large heavens.
The entire universe is too vast, even True Immortals may not explore it completely.
And the Shenzhou heaven, where the Four Daoist Schools and the Immortal Court reside, is just a medium heaven in this vast universe. There are over eight thousand at its level, and twelve higher-level large heavens.
Shenzhou heaven.
In the vast universe, it’s really small.
And those Fourth-order unable to break free from Shenzhou are even more like dust in the vast universe. From the True Immortal’s perspective, which spans the universe and sees myriad heavens and countless True Immortals, the Fourth-order is not significant.
They care about equals in True Immortals, about the vast universe.
Fourth-order Upper Immortals are still struggling, desperately seeking to prove Dao.
Whereas the True Immortals are already conquering the starry sea.
One day, one land.
The gap is too large.
Take the East River Palace Master for example.
Before, even with a genius disciple like Chen Jichuan, he offered guidance but limited interaction or conversation. When Chen first apprenticed, only a Magic Power Avatar of the East River Palace Master came, managing with a few words.
If a Fourth-order doesn’t prove Dao, everything is void, not worth a True Immortal’s attention.
Only a True Immortal.
For example, when Chen Jichuan proved Dao as a True Immortal, all the Daoist True Immortals came to congratulate him, and the East River Palace Master was willing to interact more and engage him as an equal.
It wasn’t disdain previously, just different levels.
"True Immortal!"
Chen Jichuan also deeply felt the changes before and after proving Dao.
However, he understood.
Listening to the East River Palace Master’s depiction of the universe and stars, his mind was already set on the starry sea. Once one looks up, once they rise, it’s rare to look down or return.
"Over eight thousand medium heavens comparable to Shenzhou."
"Twelve large heavens with Ancient Immortals, many at the level of Daoist School’s founder."
"And billions of stars, billions of lesser heavens."
"The universe is vast!"
Chen Jichuan felt an intense spirit filling his heart.
When he was Fourth-order, before proving Dao, even for a genius like him, even with the combat prowess of the ’Xuanyang Two Immortals’, he hadn’t reached that level.
Mentioning the starry sky, he only knew it was vast, but not the specifics.
