Immortal Father

As it turned out, Li Ping’an understood ’flow’.

The spell’s shadow left images that initially spread in Dong’an City, and then within two days, they swept throughout the East Continent.

The shadow images began on a quiet night in Yang Family Village.

The one recording the shadow image should have first been atop a treetop, quietly watching a thatched cottage, as an old Daoist strolled from the fields, his figure seemingly flickering a few times, before he reached the small courtyard of the Yang Family...

The story then follows the old Daoist meddling with the red string of fate.

Despite the shadow image being somewhat blurry, the subsequent dialogue enables the audience to understand that this is the so-called ’red string of fate’.

The Qi Cultivators of the Human Race never thought that the recorded shadow image could be edited;

Moreover, the effective information conveyed by this shadow depicts a story that is logically coherent.

The avatar of the sixth saint, Zhunti, came to the East Continent’s ordinary world, intending to use the saint’s means to privately betroth the Heavenly Court princess Yao Ji to a mortal, thus achieving the purpose of humiliating the Heavenly Court and diminishing the Heavenly Emperor’s prestige.

Though the Heavenly Emperor did not appear, his few scoldings and his behavior of pointing at Zhunti Saint and cursing caused many Qi Cultivators to exclaim in awe!

Many phrases were repeatedly mentioned by the Qi Cultivators.

"You, dignified saint... behaving so indecently here..."

"This unborn child is connected to this Poor Daoist."

"A saint, here threatening the Heavenly Emperor with mortal lives?"

Playing with such jokes, those who jest were numerous.

In fact, these two days marked the first phase, as this matter spread widely among the Human Race, with everyone privately discussing it, cursing several times at the ’Saint Old Six’.

The ancient obstruction of the Human Race’s rise on Lingshan, being the cause of continuous wars in the Western Continent for tens of thousands of years, inherently harbors resentment among most Qi Cultivators, so cursing a bit is quite normal.

Thus, Lingshan showed no reaction during these two days.

But under Li Dazhi’s hosting, the second phase fully began on the third day, with thousands of storytellers in the East Continent simultaneously recounting new stories.

"Taoist Unspeakable’s night raid on Li Family Fortress"!

Storytellers put on airs, seated in teahouses everywhere, the press paper in their hands, as the gavel falls and the storytelling begins earnestly.

Just as the most popular storyteller in Dong’an City starts selling with zest after sipping his tea:

"Speaking of that Taoist Unspeakable, he was one of the few Great Immortal beings under heaven, and if ever he took a fancy to a treasure, he would almost always obtain it before giving up, yet this Great Immortal’s strength is mighty, his power astonishing, spanning celestial gods above to ghost messengers below, all hailing him as... the Great Immortal~"

"This Great Immortal had a master, an unparalleled expert in heaven and earth, even Taoist Hongjun had to call him senior brother, claiming the title Wang Ri Old Man.

"Yet Wang Ri Old Man only took this Taoist Unspeakable as a nominal disciple, while our Human Race’s New Heavenly Court’s Heavenly Emperor was Wang Ri Old Man’s formal disciple, hence the later entry became senior brother, whereas the early entry did not possess the title of an official disciple.

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"Taoist Unspeakable and the Heavenly Emperor were not on good terms, do all wish to know the story within?

"Wish to know, let’s chat slowly, rest assured everyone, this old timer respects the Heavenly Emperor immensely, will never malign him, it’s just that the matters within involve the Heavenly Emperor, hence had to be brought up once..."

The number of Qi Cultivators gathered in the teahouse rapidly increased.

Even if many people had already watched those viral shadow images, hearing it from the storyteller’s mouth gives another flavor.

Thus, Taoist Unspeakable became quite popular in the East Continent.

The East Continent is akin to the Vast Wilderness Heaven and Earth’s rhythm engine.

In just three to five days, the realms of Kongmeng, Xuanwu, Vermilion Bird, and White Tiger started widely circulating the shadow images and related stories.

Lingshan reacted only at this point, sensing it incorrect for sentient beings to casually discuss saints.

Yet the previously established ’Ferocious Demon System’, ’Demon Cultivation Network’ by Lingshan had already been dismantled by Li Ping’an and the New Heavenly Court, and they could only send disciples to explain within small areas of the Western Continent, but the explanations were pale and weak.

"The beings in those shadow images are not our Western saint!"

"Not only saints can meddle with the red string of fate, but the Heavenly Court’s Matchmaker can too!"

"This clearly shows the Heavenly Emperor’s dissatisfaction with the Six Saints, aiming to frame the Six Saints! His intention deserves punishment!"

Such rhetoric.

Their voices were exceedingly weak.

Within just half a month, such stories began circulating under the Heavenly Square Pavilion’s supervision across all heavens and earth.

Taoist Unspeakable became known to all, arousing righteous indignation among many Human Race warriors.

Additionally, this story helped Qi Cultivators everywhere understand the relationships between the Heavenly Emperor, Heavenly Dao, and saints.

The Heavenly Emperor is the ruler of the Three Realms, governing the Heavenly Dao;

Saints stand beyond order, serving as vital pillars of the Heavenly Dao, not governed by the Heavenly Emperor.

The Six Saints are the strongest beings in heaven and earth, the Heavenly Emperor faces restraint from the Six Saints, and particularly the sixth saint, Zhunti, is a despicable, sinister, vengeful villain.

Meanwhile, the young Heavenly Emperor successfully established an image of ’unyielding justice before saints’, ’benevolent and tolerant towards sentient beings’.

Promoting his image didn’t bring substantial benefits to Li Ping’an.

However, tarnishing the beautiful image of saints in the heart of sentient beings directly impacted the saints’ dignity and followers negatively.

Sentient beings lost much of their fear of the sixth saint, thus the Western Sect’s influence was significantly diminished.

Of course, this wasn’t Li Ping’an’s goal.

It was merely a necessary means to accomplish his goal.

After the incident brewed for a whole month, the East Continent erupted into a planned unrest, with hundreds of elderly Heavenly Immortals and True Immortals from the Human Race nearing the end of their lifespan rushing to South Heaven Gate, kneeling to plead before it.