When Xia Chen saw this anomaly, his pupils constricted. For the past two months, he had been trying to awaken this jade seal, but there had been no reaction whatsoever.
Today, however, faint rays of light diffused from it. Xia Chen quickened his pace, passed through the massive Marquis Manor, entered his own courtyard room, and closed the door.
He felt a burning sensation in his palm, as if something was growing out of his flesh and blood.
Xia Chen could clearly sense a connection between himself and the jade seal, as if they were coexisting, sharing the same origin.
Threads of chaotic energy permeated the jade seal. In a trance, Xia Chen seemed to see Dao and principles intertwining, and chains of order shooting out.
Mysterious runes appeared on the surface of the jade seal. Xia Chen saw countless living beings prostrate on the ground, immortal flames burning. In the center of a territory stretching millions of miles, a tall altar was constructed from five-colored chaotic stones.
A mysterious and ancient sacrifice!
Xia Chen heard the sound of this sacrifice, which seemed to pierce through all heavens.
"Are they calling me?"
Xia Chen felt dizzy and dazed, his entire body covered in goosebumps.
Just then, the originally illusory jade seal slowly materialized, about to manifest in the world, seemingly descending into this world from some unknown place.
Xia Chen involuntarily walked towards the jade seal, which was suspended in the room, emitting faint purple energy.
The next moment, he vanished from the room, having been absorbed into the jade seal.
Outside the room, everything was calm. Not a single person in the Zhendong Marquis Manor, known for its numerous strong cultivators, noticed anything.
...
Xia Chen quickly composed himself and looked around, finding that he had arrived in an unfamiliar world.
In this world, everything was frozen, utterly desolate.
Only the area around Xia Chen had a trace of vitality, making it a normal place.
Xia Chen found himself standing on a tall, five-colored altar, and on the altar were some items.
Ancient fierce beasts, larger than mountains, still dripped fresh blood, as if they had just been hunted.
There was also a piece of chaotic jade marrow emitting chaotic energy, and crimson-gold phoenix divine gold.
"Is that... a phoenix egg?"
As Xia Chen examined them, he realized that although he had never seen these items before, information about them abruptly appeared in his mind.
He saw an egg suspended in the void in the distance, still radiating strong vitality, seemingly undergoing Nirvana.
His mind trembled violently.
He then saw another egg not far from this pure-blooded phoenix egg, seemingly reflecting its radiance.
"A dragon egg!"
Xia Chen found it hard to remain calm. Phoenixes and true dragons had long been extinct.
As the top divine beasts between heaven and earth, pure-blooded phoenixes and pure-blooded true dragons would cause a bloodbath whenever their traces appeared.
During the era of spiritual energy resurgence, some people obtained a few drops of phoenix marrow and dragon blood, and quickly rose to prominence.
But now, there was a phoenix egg and a dragon egg here, seemingly still alive—this was too astonishing.
"Using ancient fierce beasts, rare true materials, and even pure-blooded dragons and phoenixes as offerings—who are they sacrificing to? Heaven? No, it's not!"
Xia Chen's heart surged. Who could possibly receive such offerings?
He subconsciously thought it was a sacrifice to Heaven, but he looked around and immediately dismissed the idea, because he was standing above Heaven, seated high in the Ninth Heaven!
This was a vast complex of palaces, built from stars, spanning millions of miles, as if suppressing all heavens.
At this moment, Xia Chen seemed to have become the deity of this place. The entire world seemed to be within his field of vision, and he understood some aspects of this place.
He had gained some kind of authority.
Xia Chen wanted to approach the offerings, but as soon as he got close, an invisible barrier seemed to block him.
Xia Chen tried various methods, but eventually gave up. All permissions did not seem to be open to him.
"Is it because I haven't been recognized here, or for some other reason, like insufficient unlock conditions?"
Xia Chen muttered to himself, guessing, but soon stopped agonizing over it. He continued to examine this mysterious world.
"Is this the Heavenly Court, an immensely powerful immortal dynasty that ruled all heavens, but for some reason, it fell, and everything was frozen!"
Xia Chen saw the frozen Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals in the distance, and also saw the names on the various palaces.
The Lingxiao Palace, the Ministry of War, the Medicine Hall, the Hanlin Academy, the Academies of the Hundred Schools of Thought, the Demon Slaying Platform, the God Conferring Platform, the Scripture Repository, the Mortal Transformation Pool...
All sorts of departments were present, filled with people radiating terrifying aura, but all these palaces were frozen.
Their lives seemed to have dimmed, but within each of them, a crystal radiating a special Dao rhythm and filled with great Dao rules had been nurtured.
Just as Xia Chen was observing, he heard a dragon's roar.
Xia Chen's pupils contracted violently. He saw a golden divine dragon, spanning an unknown number of territories, burst out from the Purple Xiao Palace.
The divine dragon was so vast that only its head or tail could be seen at any one time.
However, this divine dragon seemed to be in extremely poor condition at this time, abnormally weak, its golden light dim, as if it was about to completely vanish from this world.
"Qi Luck Divine Dragon!"
Xia Chen suddenly realized the origin of this divine dragon.
The dragon eyes of this Qi Luck Divine Dragon were full of spiritual intelligence. Seeing Xia Chen's figure appear, there was intense joy in its eyes.
In a blink of an eye, it appeared above Xia Chen's head and, before Xia Chen could react, directly plunged into Xia Chen's forehead, merging with him.
Xia Chen felt as if his body was about to explode.
A massive amount of energy poured into his body, instantly shattering all his meridians.
But very quickly, this energy contained a vast vitality, and Xia Chen's flesh, which had been disintegrating segment by segment, rapidly regenerated.
Destruction and vitality cycled back and forth.
They merged with each other, both opposing and unified.
Xia Chen's body seemed to have transformed into a vessel, and now, it maintained a unique balance.
At the same time, Xia Chen's eyes seemed to be intensely stimulated. The previously faint double pupils began to fully manifest, and his black-gold eyes seemed to have undergone a mutation.
Two pupils appeared in his bright eye sockets, one yin and one yang, as if the sun and moon were merging, with purple-gold energy permeating. And that Qi Luck Golden Dragon flashed past, seemingly merging with his eyes.
Double pupils, an ancient phenomenon, an exclusive phenomenon of ancient sages and emperors. Legend has it that those with double pupils possess a supreme destiny.
As long as they didn't die young, they all became beings who ruled all heavens.
And now, the double pupils within Xia Chen's body began to awaken...
This process lasted for an unknown duration. When Xia Chen awoke, he found that his physique had been forged like adamantine, and his entire being had begun to change from the inside out.
"That golden divine dragon was formed from the concentrated Qi Luck of this broken Heavenly Court, but now it has entered my body?"
Xia Chen's expression was solemn. A Qi Luck Dynasty could gather the Qi Luck of the world and confer titles upon divine officials. Divine officials could cultivate by borrowing the dynasty's Qi Luck.
This was also the fundamental reason for the later 【Immortal Dynasty Hegemony】.
The struggles in the world were all about the power of Qi Luck.
Only the ruler of a dynasty could bear the nation's Qi Luck Golden Dragon, but now, he seemed to have absorbed that Qi Luck Golden Dragon?
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