Chapter 98: The Aptitude Of The Immortals

Ji Wei’s head was buzzing. Helplessly, she placed her small hand on the jade stone.

The Daoist had just finished speaking.

A CRACK echoed.

BANG!

The Immortal Inquiry Stone shattered.

The Daoist: "?"

He had just started to step forward.

But in the next moment.

Like a heaven-shattering event, a brilliant golden beam of light—shooting hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of feet into the sky—suddenly erupted from the young girl’s small hand!

The words the Daoist was about to speak caught in his throat. As he stumbled backward, his eyes widened.

"You... you..."

’A natural-born Anomaly, with fortune that pierces the heavens! This is... the aptitude of the Immortals! The aptitude of the Immortals!’

’No, how is this possible?’

’How could a prodigy like this appear in a small, mundane city!?’

In an instant, his expression changed. He looked in all directions—east, south, west, and north—and saw figures rapidly approaching.

Suddenly recalling something, he slapped a Jade Talisman.

"Martial Uncle, there’s no time to explain! Quickly, have the Ancestral Master of our Side Sect, the Cyan Feather Sect, come to Cyan Mist City! A peerless genius of the Immortal Dao has appeared, one who caused a natural-born Anomaly before the Immortal Inquiry Stone!"

The Jade Talisman buzzed and trembled, then materialized into the form of a middle-aged Daoist clad in green robes and a feathered crown. He squinted, somewhat bewildered.

"What peerless genius...?"

As he spoke, he opened his eyes and saw the helpless young girl, the thirty-thousand-foot beam of light piercing the sky behind her, and the various figures on the horizon drawing ever closer...

He instantly began slapping frantically at a Jade Talisman. His feathered crown askew, he roared:

"Ancestor, Ancestor! The sky is falling!"

"You have to come quick! The hope for our Cyan Feather Sect to be promoted from a Side Sect to an Orthodox Sect has appeared!"

As an old man with a white beard and white eyebrows materialized from the Jade Talisman, he witnessed the scene through the talisman’s connection:

"Karmic destiny that reaches the heavens, fortune that is second to none... HISS..."

’Could it be that my hope of returning to the Orthodox Dharma Lineage is finally within reach?’

"No, a hero of this caliber must join our Cyan Profound Orthodox Sect’s Dharma Lineage in the Eastern Divine Continent of the Chixiao Heaven Universe! I’ll go find the Orthodox Sect’s Ancestor right now!"

...

"No, I can’t handle this situation on my own... I must summon the pillar of our lineage..."

"Where is the Supreme Ancestor? Where is the Supreme Ancestor?!"

"This is bad, people from other Daoist Lineages are coming to snatch her away! This is a tribulation, a tribulation..."

"Quick, go get the Founding Ancestral Master!!"

Ever since the various World Heavens and Celestial Universes connected thousands of years ago...

How many years does one have to wait to encounter a prodigy like this!?

As for Ji Wei.

She had long since been scared witless by the deafening roars that shook the heavens. She had no idea, not a clue, what was happening.

All she saw were countless figures flying through the sky and burrowing through the earth, appearing and disappearing over and over. It was like a dream. And in the end——

She found herself being led away by a ’kind-faced’ old man in a white robe, who held her hand with a gentle expression.

With a wave of his sleeve, he suppressed the chaos, and a stretch of the sky became clear.

Just like that, she was brought aboard a massive, ’levitating’ Flying Ship and traveled for an unknown amount of time.

They finally came to a stop at a boundless great marsh where clouds of Qi billowed and immortal mist coiled. The old man led her into a huge Daoist Palace, and in a daze, she was inducted into the so-called ’Daoist Registry’ and recorded as a True Inheritance disciple.

"From now on, you are a True Inheritance disciple of the Ten Thousand Laws Sect, one of the Ten Great Dao Lineages of the Chixiao Heaven Universe."

"And I... am this Ten Thousand Laws Sect’s Supreme Elder, Qin Wanfa."

The old man, who called himself Qin Wanfa, turned to look back. He sized Ji Wei up from head to toe, his gaze clear and profound, as if he could see through the cause and effect of all things.

"Divine Traveling in the Great Thousand Realms, witnessing the sights of all worlds..."

"In ancient times, there was one of the Immortals who once dreamt of Nan Ke, eventually achieving flying immortalhood and becoming a Dao Ancestor of his generation."

"This kind of Innate Talent... I haven’t heard of or seen such a thing in many, many years."

"The very doctrine of my Ten Thousand Laws Sect was founded upon this."

"Meeting you today... is also a matter of predetermined fate."

"My disciple, your mortal name is Ji Wei. Now that you have entered the registry of the Ten Thousand Laws Sect, your seniority is transcendent. From this day forward, all disciples of the sect shall address you as Fairy Wei."

"You are destined to return. The next time you come here... your Master will bestow upon you the True Inheritance."

"But before that,"

"Take this."

Qin Wanfa sent a Talisman Brand into Ji Wei’s body. Seeing the girl’s clueless expression, he smiled.

"A thousand years ago, a ’fissure’ appeared between the Great Xuan Dynasty’s Celestial Universe and our Chixiao Heaven Universe. Many young disciples from the Side Sects and unorthodox paths under my Ten Thousand Laws Sect fell into it."

"If you enter that place with my Flying Immortal Mark, you will naturally have junior disciples and their descendants come to pay their respects and serve as your Guardian Dao."

He watched as Ji Wei’s form grew increasingly transparent. He could faintly see a strand of grayish-white death Qi coiling around her fate...

He couldn’t help but let out a cold snort, and the Celestial Universe seemed to dim.

"Although I cannot cross Celestial Universes to intervene..."

"A disciple of me, the True Venerable of Ten Thousand Laws..."

"...is not someone that ordinary people can covet!?"

...

In Great Xuan, Anning County, on a dark and windy night.

A figure completely shrouded in a black robe stared with sinister eyes, glancing first toward the Lin Residence on the left, then toward the Ji Residence by the Fire Kiln on the right.

He let out a cold laugh.

"Han Ying, you sure run fast..."

"It’s just a shame I couldn’t intercept that so-called great treasure of Luo Daocheng’s. I wonder what kind of treasure it was."

"But, it doesn’t matter anymore."

"Xue Shaobai of the Little Five Decline Sword Sect..."

"You never expected that I’d survive, did you? That I’d even become a Qi Cultivation Grandmaster?"

"The disciple will repay the Master’s debt!"

"As for that Ji Xiu fellow..."

"Once I’m done here, I’ll wipe out his entire family too, hmph!"

However, a sudden, cold breeze brushed past his neck.

This caused Wang Hongzu—the Qi Cultivation Grandmaster known as the Ghost Hand Judge—to shiver involuntarily. He looked up at the pitch-black night, where winds were suddenly whipping up clouds and thunder was beginning to roar. He couldn’t help but feel bewildered and alarmed.

"What the hell is with this rotten weather?!"

"It’s really creepy..."