Chapter 1025: Dragon Palace
Qi Xuansu and Li Tianzhen did not get into a direct confrontation since this was no place for a fight.
Though they were at sea, this stretch lay between the Funan and Jawa Kingdoms, so it was more like an inland gulf, where reinforcements from either side could arrive in short order.
So, a good place for a fight would be the legendary Dragon Palace left by the Heavenly Empress. It was isolated from the world, the perfect site for murder and silencing witnesses.
To Qi Xuansu, the fact that Wu Guangbi so freely revealed the Dragon Palace’s location reeked of a trap, so he refused without hesitation.
His lack of interest in the Dragon Palace was because he was a manmade Banished Immortal. He only needed Xuan Jade and divine power to advance his cultivation, not the Heavenly Empress’s legacy. After all, natural-born Banished Immortals would benefit from perfected methods more than manmade Banished Immortals would.
Qi Xuansu believed that his five lineages were more than sufficient for now, at least until he faced his first tribulation.
By now, Qi Xuansu had nearly refined the Xuan Jade of Immortality gifted by Sage Qingwei, so it was time to seek the next one.
In his view, the manmade Banished Immortal path was heavily reliant on divine power. This was related to the Heavenly Immortal’s second ascension, as evidenced by Izanami, whose divine incarnation ascended as a Godly Immortal.
Qi Xuansu even felt that the Heavenly Empress’s case closely resembled Izanami’s. Both deities had descended to the mortal realm and ascended again with startling ease. The Heavenly Empress ascended before turning thirty, without ever facing a tribulation, which was a hallmark of the Heavenly Immortal’s second ascension.
It seemed every incarnation of a Heavenly Immortal carried a fatal limitation. Becoming an immortal was easy, but surviving a tribulation was not.
On that thought, Qi Xuansu once had a wild notion. If a Heavenly Immortal’s incarnation could ascend twice, could it also go rogue and become a separate being? What should I do if Zhang Yuelu ever loses control and splits off another self named Tantai Chu? Should I then sever my other self as Wei Wugui so that our rogue selves can make a pair?
In the end, Qi Xuansu and Li Tianzhen merely passed each other by.