When You Qin Xuan Ya left, it was already sunrise.

After his close Junior Sister Ling E, not-so-close Senior Uncle Jiu Wu, and Second Leader Ao Yi, Li Chang Shou once again brought out the same template for a Great Dao oath.

This time the establishment of the Great Dao oath was fully notarized by the Heavenly Dao Notary Office. Both parties, in the spirit of friendship, mutual assistance, mutual benefit, and reciprocity, established this confidentiality agreement in a pleasant mood.

Though, when You Qin Xuan Ya rode away on her cloud, her expression was somewhat dazed, her cloud-riding somewhat unstable…

‘True Immortal realm.’

Li Chang Shou stood in the morning light, saying ‘Let us encourage each other’ in his heart, then rode his cloud to the lakeside.

At this moment, Li Chang Shou was somewhat speechless inside.

The details he had always worried about, such as how he couldn’t explain where his cultivation came from—saying he had enlightenment every few days, others definitely wouldn’t believe.

Unexpectedly, he didn’t need to waste effort explaining;

Because nobody cared about these things at all.

You Qin Xuan Ya…

This sister was cold outside but warm inside, a princess of some mortal nation since childhood, surrounded by admiring stars after entering the sect.

In the previous decades, she still had that ill-fated Yuan Qing beside her…

In such a growth environment, being able to maintain an upright heart was already quite remarkable—being unfamiliar with worldly affairs was actually understandable.

Li Chang Shou savored the stirring in his heart.

That was the slight touching feeling left in his heart when You Qin Xuan Ya bowed to him, saying that phrase ‘on behalf of all disciples’…

Shaking his head with a smile, he smoothed out this ripple.

Li Chang Shou didn’t need others’ moved feelings, nor others’ praise—he only liked not being noticed by others.

Things with the Sect Master were still somewhat unstable. He must go probe the Sect Master’s attitude in half a month, and while at it, have a good talk with the Sect Master, and think of a way to get the Sect Master to help cover for him in the future.

This time, though he accidentally exposed his cultivation level to the Sect Master and Junior Sister You Qin, increasing hidden dangers, it wasn’t completely unfortunate.

Whether something was good or bad was always relative.

If he could successfully “capture” Sect Master Wu You Dao Person, it could make his future cultivation environment in the sect more stable.

The best would be if the Sect Master secretly ordered people not to disturb Little Qiong Peak, and gave him more treasure materials, arranging something like a hundred-fold monthly allowance for several decades…

That was thinking a bit too much.

Li Chang Shou flew over the lakeside on his cloud, but no one came to welcome him;

Ling E and the newly promoted Little Qiong Peak mountain-protecting security team captain Xiong Ling Li were busy at the spirit beast pen.

Previously Li Chang Shou had given Ling E a task, having her ask an elder of the Hundred Mortals Hall who was familiar with their senior-junior siblings to exchange their siblings’ next two years of monthly allowance, and Xiong Ling Li’s future ten years of monthly allowance, for spirit beast cubs.

What made the various external affairs elders feel somewhat strange was Ling E’s requirements…

In choosing spirit beast cubs, she didn’t pursue high grade, high spirit intelligence, or high rarity, but rather wanted some that tasted good, had fresh meat, and were easy to breed and cultivate, with relatively short growth cycles.

Soon some elders understood why, feeling this was their Little Qiong Peak starting a new “variety” after spirit fish!

They had many innovations!

Thus, these external affairs elders also became very attentive to this matter, each bringing many spirit beast cubs according to their preferred tastes.

The external affairs elders even paid out of their own pockets to supplement Little Qiong Peak’s “meat-type” spirit beast breeding plan…

These days, Xiong Ling Li was moved to tears by these elders’ enthusiasm, tears uncontrollably flowing from her mouth…

These were naturally all small matters.

Li Chang Shou arranging this matter for Ling E to handle was also testing Ling E’s ability to handle affairs, and so far, Ling E has done quite well.

As for rewards for doing things…

Not being punished was already the best commendation!

Li Chang Shou truly understood Ling E’s personality too well—praise her a few times and she could fly to heaven and burrow into earth!

After Ling E turned eighteen, whenever Li Chang Shou praised her a few times, incidents like “deliberately getting drunk” would emerge endlessly.

Though ultimately it was still like Lord Ye’s love of dragons.

‘Golden Immortal tribulation, Golden Immortal tribulation.’

Li Chang Shou strolled toward his master’s grass house, his thoughts turning to major matters concerning himself.

Although he had self-severed his realm once, now only one thread away from perfecting the Celestial Immortal realm, he completely didn’t dare to casually sit in meditation to cultivate.

Various treasures for passing the Golden Immortal tribulation needed to be prepared quickly.

Though the method of self-severing realm could still be used, this time he had already severed almost all the impure and unstable parts of his foundation;

Even if he severed his realm again later, the effect wouldn’t be very obvious, at most dropping a few small realms.

For the Origin Immortal and True Immortal realms, Li Chang Shou had directly crossed them through enlightenment after tribulation ascension;

Cultivation was like making a sand sculpture on the beach—his foundation still had many ‘air bubbles.’

The Golden Immortal tribulation was also called the Establishing Way tribulation.

Before Golden Immortal, it was all a process of continuously perfecting one’s Great Way, starting from refining essence into qi, all the way to the Celestial Immortal realm, when divine soul and physical body tended toward perfection, then one could merge with one’s own way, forming the long life way fruit.

There were no two completely identical flower petals in the world, nor two completely identical Great Ways.

Tai Qing Sage Lord and Great Priest Xuan Du, this boss master-disciple pair, were the best example—one homebound, one lazy, though seemingly similar, actually worlds apart.

While Li Chang Shou’s way was even more distinctive, adding full stability to the foundation of the Tai Qing Wu Wei Way…

Whether living beings achieved long life depended on whether their way could dwell between heaven and earth, whether they could live as long as heaven and earth, shine with sun and moon, and whether they could withstand the test of the Golden Immortal tribulation.

Whether donkey or horse, all had to be reviewed by the Heavenly Dao Lord at that time…

Because the primordial world’s elemental qi was abundant, Dao sect methods were widely spread, and the human race’s destiny was prosperous, many human cultivators could reach the immortality tribulation.

But after becoming immortals, each step was an isolating trench. Not many cultivators could reach the perfection of the Celestial Immortal realm before their lifespan limit.

Even fewer could pass the Golden Immortal great tribulation.

The primordial world had many experts because of slow accumulation over countless ages since ancient times;

If just taking the past ten thousand years, under such a huge base number of living beings, those who cultivated to Golden Immortal were still very rare.

Li Chang Shou had seen a saying in ancient texts, saying that when the number of Golden Immortals reached a certain level, the Great Way would descend boundless catastrophic tribulations to maintain heaven and earth’s stability.

There were many similar sayings in the primordial world, which couldn’t be specifically investigated.

Li Chang Shou summarized the problems he needed to solve now:

First, his cultivation rose too fast, with little buffer room left;

Second, he was too unfamiliar with the Golden Immortal tribulation;

Third, preparations for the Golden Immortal tribulation were far from sufficient, and due to the limitations of the previous problem, Li Chang Shou didn’t know the specific direction of effort…

‘Best would be to have a target to reference.’

In the sect, who had hope of passing the Golden Immortal tribulation?

Two figures immediately jumped out in Li Chang Shou’s mind…

The cold-faced poison king leaning on a copper-skinned cane, Elder Wan Lin Yun.

And, with two streaks of flirtatious silver-white hair at the temples, claiming to have forgotten emotions yet having a story with his own extremely vicious little ancestral master, Forgetting Emotions Senior.

Though the former was still quite some realm away from the Golden Immortal tribulation, he was the elder Li Chang Shou most respected in Du Xian Sect and also cared for him immensely.

Both emotionally and rationally, if Li Chang Shou had a way to give this elder a chance at eternal life, he naturally should help.

Though Li Chang Shou had to admit he had some thoughts in this direction, thinking that after Elder Wan Lin Yun broke through, he could try to create dao poison that could harm Golden Immortals…

That way, his trump card library could be enriched some more, even when faced with Golden Immortals surrounding him, he could smile and face them, shouting:

‘Don’t force me to draw my sword!’

However, not everyone could reach the Golden Immortal tribulation—Elder Wan Lin Yun had been stuck at the bottleneck for too long, and opportunities were hard to find.

Just as he finished sighing inside, his master’s grass house was right ahead.

Li Chang Shou collected his emotions, planning to first visit his master, then go back to continue pondering solutions to these problems.

The grass house was quiet.

Making such a big disturbance last night, yet his master could still peacefully “cultivate”—this state of mind was truly remarkable.

Through these practically nominal formations surrounding his master’s grass house, Li Chang Shou looked at his master’s lying posture while cultivating for a few glances, then simply returned to the pill room.

Just hoping that the ancestral master could find Senior Uncle Wan Jiang Yu’s reincarnated body some time, to give the master some hope…

Master had almost become the god of sleep!

It wasn’t hard to understand though—when people lost their goal, they easily lost their spirit.

Li Chang Shou could only take this as a warning, setting himself a small goal as encouragement.

Mm…

First, stabilize at Tai Luo before talking more!

…

‘What does the Sect Leader actually like?’

In the East Sea Dragon Palace, in the new room that seemed carved from seven-colored crystal everywhere, Ao Yi sat beside a pool, gently rubbing his forehead.

In the pool, beautiful merfolk were gently swimming, that exquisite cute face full of sweet smiles, occasionally swimming to the pool’s edge to bring Ao Yi some immortal fruits and fine wine.

After transforming, Ao Yi had maintained a youth’s form, inexplicably stopping growing.

This merfolk princess’s thoughts were quite delicate, returning to her human form after transformation to a young girl’s form.

In the romantic stories passed down in the merfolk race, there was a romantic rule:

Between partners, whoever appeared older would be at a disadvantage, unconsciously taking care of the one who appeared younger!

Joking, joking…

Regarding her relationship with Ao Yi, the merfolk princess understood very well—though the Second Prince was very gentle and always respected her, her race was after all just a vassal of the dragon race.

She also had to restrain her occasional willingness, focusing on being a good wife and mother in the future and supporting her future husband…

Seeing Ao Yi frowning in puzzlement there, this little merfolk princess swam over.

With some water sounds, her fish tail transformed into jade feet, her forehead flashing with light, a light-colored short dress falling, at Ao Yi’s side, gently massaging his forehead for him.

Merfolk was good at singing, and when this little princess spoke, her voice turned and hummed softly, very pleasant to hear.

“Brother Yi, don’t worry, the chaos in the four seas will settle down.”

Ao Yi was also somewhat caught off guard, but after all he had mixed with the Sect Leader, immediately following along:

“Mm, right, worrying here is useless.”

His dragon face grew increasingly thick.

“By the way Si Si, according to Merfolk customs, when giving gifts to someone one greatly values and cares about, what kind of gifts would be given?”

The merfolk princess’s face showed a slight blush, saying softly:

“I’ve already given you my mermaid pearl, silly dragon.”

Ao Yi immediately knew she had misunderstood, smiling and saying: “It’s someone besides you and me, someone I most value, I want to give him one or several gifts.”

The merfolk princess immediately rubbed Ao Yi’s forehead hard twice, complaining: “Could it be you learned these things here from me to please other women!”

“How could that be,” Ao Yi smiled bitterly, “it’s an elder brother of mine, he’s of human race origin, the one I’ve mentioned to you many times before.”

“Elder Brother Chang Shou?”

The merfolk princess then gave a soft sigh—though she hadn’t yet met this elder brother, this elder brother was truly everywhere, constantly appearing during their pre-wedding honeymoon period…

Ao Yi sighed and said: “Help me think of ideas, we’ll set off to go there in a few days.”

“Then, I’ll help you prepare a gift, if you feel it’s suitable, give it to this elder brother, how about that?”

Ao Yi’s eyes lit up, naturally nodding repeatedly.

However, this little princess covered her mouth and laughed softly.

For the sake of her adorable and gentle husband not going down an irreversible path in the future;

This time, she also wanted to send this elder brother a generous gift, to help him achieve a marriage…

…

In a hidden cave dwelling near Spirit Mountain in Western Cattle Gift State.

A strand of mosquito sound arose, and then several streaks of blood light quickly condensed, forming the figure of a beauty wearing a blood-red long dress.

The empty cave dwelling had no one, several layers of grand formations instantly condensed outside the cave dwelling, blocking external inspection!

Wen Jing Dao Person walked a few steps, suddenly snorting coldly, a large stone not far away silently turning to powder.

Taking a forceful breath, Wen Jing Dao Person quickly calmed herself down.

Half a day ago, she had been called by some Western vice sect leader to discuss the next scheme against the dragon race but was repeatedly criticized by several people, who threw all the blame for the previous several actions not achieving results onto her.

“It’s themselves being useless, simply waste!”

Wen Jing Dao Person cursed through gritted teeth, but thinking of something, her mouth corners showed a cold smile.

These guys had thoughts of driving a wedge between the Human Dao and the Dragon race.

Were they crazy?

Going to provoke that Sea God Cult’s leader?

Oh, almost forgot, these guys all didn’t know this Sea God’s background…

Interesting, very interesting.

“There’s a good show to watch,” Wen Jing Dao Person laughed softly, thinking of those vice sect leaders’ pig liver-colored faces after being thwarted, her mood immediately improved by half.

But following that, Wen Jing Dao Person had to consider…

‘Although, this king need not care much about these things, that Sea God will handle these troubles;

But currently, this king has secretly joined the Human Dao and Heaven Court, if nothing is done, it wouldn’t be good to explain…’

Thus, Wen Jing Dao Person thought briefly, lying sideways on the bed, slowly closing her eyes.

But secretly beginning to control puppets hidden in some deep mountains and wild forests…