Chapter 35 - The Mysterious Gu Immortal Palace, Karma Descends
Chapter 35 The Mysterious Gu Immortal Palace, Karma Descends
After the initial excitement, Chu Yuan quickly calmed himself. In a place filled with such precious treasures, he had to take control swiftly—lest delay lead to unforeseen consequences.
He began carefully collecting the treasures from the lotus pool. With his mana, he meticulously extracted the three ninth-grade, nine sixth-grade, and twelve third-grade Purifying White Lotuses from the Divine Trilight Water, roots and all, and temporarily stored them in the Creation Tower to be nurtured.
These lotus platforms could be gifted to his sect members in the future. Next, he carefully stored away the remaining Divine Trilight Water and the twelfth-grade Purifying White Lotus.
After completing all of this, Chu Yuan finally exited the secret realm of the lotus pool and ascended to the summit of the sacred mountain. He chose a location with a wide view and the densest spiritual energy to establish his palace and Daoist sanctuary.
With his current cultivation as a Taiyi Golden Immortal, shifting mountains and filling seas was trivial. In just a few short days, a vast and magnificent palace complex—grand in scale, with an ancient and mysterious style—rose from the ground!
The palace was constructed from various divine metals and celestial jades acquired from Mount Buzhou, featuring intricately carved beams and columns, shrouded in immortal aura. Its layout subtly followed the profound principles of formations, harmonizing with the ley lines and spiritual energy flow of Penglai Immortal Island. It formed a self-contained whole with formidable defensive power.
Above the palace’s main gate, Chu Yuan waved his hand and inscribed three majestic characters full of Daoist charm.
[Gu Xuan Palace]!
Behind Gu Xuan Palace lay a vast medicinal garden, arrayed with a Spirit Gathering Formation. There grew supreme-grade innate spiritual roots—Huangzhong Plum, Banana Tree!
Mid-grade innate spiritual root: Fire Origin Fruit Tree!
Lower-grade innate spiritual roots: Biling Fruit Tree, Moyun Bamboo!
More than thirty postnatal spiritual roots, each with unique uses, along with a great number of spirit mushrooms and immortal herbs, were relocated from the Creation Tower and planted here.
Nine drops of Divine Trilight Water were sprinkled, and amidst the tri-colored mist, the spiritual roots swayed instinctively. Even the innate spiritual energy across Penglai Immortal Island grew significantly denser.
Thus, Chu Yuan finally established his own true Daoist sanctuary upon the Eastern Sea of the Great Desolation!
After settling the palace affairs, Chu Yuan summoned Nüwa and Fengling.
“Greetings, elder brother!”
“Greetings, my lord!”
The two stepped forward to pay their respects.
“Rise now. I have established a Daoist sanctuary here in the Purple Mansion Continent. Although you two have only formally entered my sect recently, you have followed me loyally through countless ages.”
“From now on, you may cultivate here with me.”
As he finished speaking, Chu Yuan pointed with his finger. Two beams of white light fell into the hands of the two women.
“These are the Nine-Petaled White Lotus I obtained earlier—top-grade innate spiritual treasures.”
“Take them and refine them well. They will serve you as protection when you roam the wilderness of the Great Desolation.”
“If suitable offensive treasures come my way in the future, I will grant them to you as well.”
“Thank you, elder brother (my lord)!”
The two women quickly bowed in gratitude.
Especially Feng Ling—when she first entered Chu Yuan’s sect, she had only offered a mid-grade innate spiritual treasure: the Soul-Capturing Bell. Now, having followed Chu Yuan on his journey, she had gained many opportunities and her cultivation had advanced by an entire major realm.
On top of that, she had been granted a top-grade innate spiritual treasure. Though the Nine-Petaled White Lotus was not as supreme in defense as the legendary Twelve-Petaled Purifying White Lotus, it was still one of the rare protective treasures of the Great Desolation. Even a quasi-saint would be tempted to seize it.
It also had mystical properties for suppressing and stabilizing one’s fortune. While it might not be powerful enough to anchor the fortune of a great sect, it was certainly sufficient to prevent personal destiny from leaking away.
“Go now. I must enter seclusion to refine this treasure. When I emerge, I will preach the Dao to you again.”
After bestowing the treasures and offering a few words of encouragement, Chu Yuan finally allowed the two women to leave and find palaces they liked for their own cultivation.
After settling the two people, Chu Yuan extended his right hand, and the Twelve-Petal Pure World White Lotus appeared in his palm. In an instant, he felt a refreshing, pure, and peaceful aura enveloping his entire being.
His soul calmed, all distracting thoughts vanished, and he felt as if he had drawn closer to the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.
“As expected of a supreme-grade innate spiritual treasure! Cultivating on this lotus platform yields twice the result with half the effort!”
Chu Yuan praised it with admiration, then focused his mind and poured in his mana, attempting to refine this powerful defensive treasure.
One hundred years!
Two hundred years!
He spent a full eight hundred years before he was finally able to refine twenty-one of the thirty-nine innate divine restrictions contained within the Twelve-Petal Pure World White Lotus.
Just as Chu Yuan was about to begin comprehending the trace of innate undying spiritual light hidden within—
“Rumble!”
“Rumble!”
The Yin-Yang Reversal Labyrinth Grand Formation surrounding Penglai Immortal Island suddenly began to quake violently!
Terrifying waves of mana surged like crashing tides, relentlessly battering the formation’s barrier!
Clearly, an incredibly powerful being was attempting to forcibly break the formation!
“Hmm!”
“This is the arrival of karma?”
Chu Yuan suddenly opened his eyes, his brows slightly furrowed.
He stretched out his hand to divine the situation, but in the midst of the great tribulation, the heavenly secrets were in chaos and difficult to calculate. Still, he came to understand the origin of this incident!
It turned out that this Penglai Immortal Island was prepared by the Heavenly Dao for future rogue cultivators, yet had been occupied by Chu Yuan.
This formed karmic entanglement, and now trouble came knocking—calamity brought forth by karma. If he failed to overcome it, he would naturally perish, body and soul. But if he succeeded, then it would mean the Heavenly Dao acknowledged that the Immortal Island belonged to Chu Yuan!
However, when he divined the identity of the visitors outside the island, a faint smile appeared on his face.
“As expected, in the midst of disaster, opportunity always follows!”
“This time, not only will I overcome the tribulation, I’ll seize the fortune that comes with it!”