Cloud Dream Jade Pool Mirror, on the Undying Tree.
The Eight Trigrams Furnace is fiercely burning, and even Li Boyang is rarely seen sitting cross-legged with hands forming seals, suspended in mid-air.
Behind Li Boyang on both sides, Golden Horn and Silver Horn are also tensely staring at the Eight Trigrams Furnace, each holding their gourds aimed forward.
Boom!
Suddenly, there’s a loud bang, and the Eight Trigrams Furnace that can refine heaven and earth has exploded.
The furnace lid is blown off by a powerful force.
The Tai Chi Diagram in front of the furnace is uncontrollably trembling.
"Golden Horn!"
Seeing this, Li Boyang decisively shouts.
Without the slightest hesitation, Golden Horn opens the lid of the Purple Gold Red Gourd, absorbing that powerful impact into the gourd.
Buzz!
This time, it’s the Purple Gold Red Gourd’s turn to shake violently.
Purple-gold light continuously flows on its surface, as if alive, striking against this supreme treasure.
Fortunately, Golden Horn has not relaxed his cultivation over the years, and his Lifebound Magical Treasure, the Purple Gold Red Gourd, is naturally not an ordinary item.
Realizing that what he absorbed this time possesses extraordinary power.
Golden Horn immediately circulates the Primordial Qi in his body, maximizing the power of his Body-Protecting Gang Qi, forcibly stabilizing the still-trembling Purple Gold Red Gourd.
"Ah!"
Faintly, a harrowing wail emanates from the Purple Gold Red Gourd.
Yet Golden Horn remains unfazed, continuing to circulate Qi around his body, as if he hadn’t heard the scream at all.
In just a few breaths, the harrowing cries completely vanish, and the Purple Gold Red Gourd regains tranquility.
"What came out this time... what is it?"
Having witnessed the refinement process of the Purple Gold Red Gourd from start to finish.
Silver Horn, after a moment of hesitation, looks incredulous.
No one understands better than Silver Horn the power of Golden Horn’s Purple Gold Red Gourd.
In past spars with Golden Horn, even when Silver Horn occasionally succeeded in sneak attacks, he would be mercilessly suppressed by the Purple Gold Red Gourd afterward.
It’s no exaggeration to say that even if it was a Celestial God that came out of the Eight Trigrams Furnace just now, there’s no way it could have lasted that long in the Purple Gold Red Gourd.
"Looks like Xiluo got into big trouble this time."
Having also noted the unusual state of the Purple Gold Red Gourd, Li Boyang muttered.
The next second, Li Boyang rotates a palm forward.
The Tai Chi Diagram then separates into Yin and Yang Fish, directly pouring into the Eight Trigrams Furnace.
——Yin and Yang flow, the Eight Trigrams form!
Without the collision of additional power, the Eight Trigrams Furnace soon regains calm.
Only the Samadhi True Fire within burns even more vigorously.
It’s only now that Li Boyang has the chance to flick his sleeve toward the sky, and the Map of Mountains and Rivers immediately unfolds infinitely above the three.
If the previous unfolding of the Map of Mountains and Rivers was like unrolling a painting.
The current unfolding is like replacing the entire realm of Cloud Dream Jade Pool.
The sky is obscured, the earth is altered...
It’s as if suddenly entering an illusion infinitely close to reality, or perhaps truly stepping into a foreign world.
Only the Undying Tree beneath the three remains in its original form.
"That’s Grandmother Mountain God!"
Suddenly pointing forward, Silver Horn’s exclamation successfully draws Golden Horn and Li Boyang’s attention.
Looking in the direction indicated, the scene within the Map of Mountains and Rivers shifts, and the original view starts to zoom in.
That is Kunlun Mountain, and it is Kunlun Mountain where the Celestial Emperor’s Capital still exists.
The Cloud Ladder stretching from the mountain foot into the void is the legendary Ascension Stairs.
However, judging by the features of this era, it evidently cannot be the period of the Celestial Emperor’s reign thousands of years ago.
Especially as the sun descends from the sky, the ground temperature visibly rises, and the distortion of the air creates a blur over everything.
Yet amid this extinction of all things, a goddess with a leopard’s head and a human body stands proud.
Clad in a splendid feather robe, with countless ribbons fluttering to form an absolute defense field.
Earth, fire, water, wind, thunder, mountain, and marsh...
No external element can invade this field, much less harm it.
Only when a few gods restrain themselves, reverting from natural disasters back to their true forms, will Xiluo reluctantly cast them a glance.
Yet it’s just a mere glance.
Without any excess movement, the ribbons behind Xiluo transform naturally into iron fists, striking down hard.
Boom!
The earth-shattering roar spreads in all directions, gods’ wails echo in the ears of the three.
Only then does Silver Horn realize Xiluo is being besieged by a crowd of celestial gods.
Those earth, fire, water, wind, thunder, mountain, and marsh are not natural phenomena but manifestations of celestial disaster gods.
"It’s Golden Crow!"
His pupils suddenly constrict, and Golden Horn gazes deep into Kunlun Mountain.
At the junction of Ascension Stairs and the Celestial Emperor’s Capital, a youth draped in golden armor and wearing a golden crown is coldly watching the siege.
His crest feathers rise to the sky, and his golden armor glows brilliantly.
The youth simply stands silently at the junction of heaven and earth, yet no one dares to underestimate his power.
For the descent of the sun is precisely this youth’s doing.
He is the Celestial Emperor of this world and era, the embodiment of the sun in the mortal realm.
"This can’t be possible!?"
"Didn’t Emperor Hao get trapped in the past?"
"How could he escape the river of history to possess such a future?"
Golden Horn’s words reveal the world’s essence—this is a timeline from the future, a dream evolved by Xiluo using the Dreaming Enlightenment method.
Normally, Xiluo evolves the path in dreams, practicing her Divine Path.
So whether it’s collecting the gods’ names or validating her trials, it’s all but a one-night dream.
Once Xiluo wakes from the dream, everything disappears, and this fictional timeline ceases to exist.
After all, the Dreaming Enlightenment method is but dreaming enlightenment.
Refining Illusion into Truth is key to making the dream enter reality.
Yet exceptions exist, especially when Xiluo’s dream enlightenment inadvertently infringes on the interests of some Great Celestial Gods.
These Great Celestial Gods, despite being part of Xiluo’s dream, are not fictional in their existence.
Among countless timelines involving future possibilities, no matter how ridiculous or absurd, if such a possibility exists, it will inevitably birth such a timeline.
Therefore, when these Great Celestial Gods realize they are just another’s dream, they will undoubtedly retaliate, turning their existence into reality.
This is a reverse Refining Illusion into Truth and is the biggest drawback of the Dreaming Enlightenment method.
Evidently, the youth in golden armor seems to be the Great Celestial God in this dream, longing to descend into the present world through Xiluo’s body as an Awakened.
The lessons of Zhuang Zhou and Posun are vivid before their eyes, leaving Golden Horn and Silver Horn uneasy.
However, the peculiar point lies here.
True Great Celestial Gods are, at the least, Transformed Taoists who can refine spirits and return to the void.
They may not have embarked on the path of enlightenment, but they’re certainly beyond the reach of typical celestial gods.
Not yet a Transformed Taoist, how can Xiluo endure so long under the gaze of this Great Celestial God?
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