When Qing Ling heard Dong Wang Gong suppressing the world's luck with thirty-six Fixed Sea Divine Pearls in the West Kunlun in those days, his heart was already stirred.
On the Jianmu, Qing Ling slowly opened his eyes and looked towards Penglai in the east.
Crossing the sky and seas, three thousand mountains, opening his eyes to meet a single flower.
Dong Wang Gong's heart trembled violently. His primordial spirit emerged, suppressing the Luo Shen Dao seed within his body with the immense yang of wood. With one hand, he wielded the Staff of All Immortals, sensing the authority of heaven and earth. All male immortals in the world were under his dominion!
However, it depended on who he dominated!
The authority of the Heavenly Dao descended upon the Staff of All Immortals, and the divine light of the Earthly Dao's reincarnation shone upon it.
Immortal qi drifted through the nine heavens, and divine light flowed through the mountains and rivers.
The power of the Heavenly Dao and the Earthly Dao clashed. Heaven bore the ninefold might, and Earth united the eightfold vastness. The vital energies of heaven and earth intertwined countless times in the profound unseen, separating and rejoining countless times.
All beings in heaven and earth looked up at the Eastern Desolation. Above and below that land, there was a profound mystery that ants could not comprehend.
Although the Earthly Dao was weak and the Heavenly Dao strong, Dong Wang Gong only bore a fraction of the Heavenly Dao's power, while Qing Ling held all of the Earthly Dao's. The difference in their power was immediately apparent!
The Staff of All Immortals' ascent was repelled and shaken off, struck down by the Earthly Dao into Duguang!
But at this moment, the thirty-six Fixed Sea Divine Pearls arrived, like a vast ocean, engulfing the Staff of All Immortals. This prevented his treasure of becoming an immortal from falling into Qing Ling's hands.
Qing Ling pointed his hand, and the Dao of Wood transformed into a wheel, manifesting a wheel of the Dao of Wood, representing the origin of the Dao of Wood!
Of all the Dao of Wood in the world, Qing Ling alone occupied fifty percent!
The vitality of the Dao of Wood, inextricably linked, threatened to suppress even the Fixed Sea Divine Pearls.
Dong Wang Gong's expression changed. A wheel of the Dao of Wood!
He had already been far surpassed by Qing Ling in the Dao of Wood!
At this moment, Dong Wang Gong was in a dilemma. Despite his divine abilities, he dared not enter Duguang. Without entering Duguang, he could not deal with Qing Ling, that damnable enemy of the Great Dao!
Qing Ling, however, did not wait for him to hesitate. He stood up, his voice harmonious, and said with a smile, "Since you have brought the Dragon Clan's treasure, then leave it behind!"
As his words fell, Qing Ling beckoned. A golden divine dragon appeared in his palm. The divine dragon manifested, soaring through the sky and sea, roaming the vast ocean, its dragon claws controlling the four seas, commanding wind and water!
The thirty-six Fixed Sea Divine Pearls reacted to this golden dragon's form. The vast ocean trembled, and the spiritual treasures stirred.
Dong Wang Gong's face changed dramatically. At this moment, he could no longer bother with Qing Ling and instead hastily retrieved his spiritual treasures. He had never imagined that his spiritual treasures could be influenced by a mere golden dragon phantom.
In the distance, within the Yin Yang Cave, an old man sighed, "It seems the Dragon Clan truly placed their trust in him, even giving him the Dragon Seal. His destiny is even harder to fathom."
On the East Sea, Dong Wang Gong quickly recalled the Fixed Sea Divine Pearls and the Staff of All Immortals. But the Ancestor Huang Long was faster.
A sky full of green lotuses rose, white mist hung in the air, and golden light emanated in all directions. The green lotuses rotated and crisscrossed the East Sea.
At the same time, Qing Ling opened an umbrella above his head. It was also filled with blooming green lotuses, the sky filled with lotuses, rising, flourishing.
The lotuses on land and in the sea met, creating a world of green lotuses!
Lotuses bloomed in all directions, lotuses moved in all directions, lotuses were reborn, endlessly!
One was the thirty-one-layered supreme innate spiritual treasure, the Azure Jade Umbrella, and the other was the thirty-five-layered supreme innate spiritual treasure, the Green Lotus Precious Color Banner.
Though the two treasures were separated, they originated from the same source, both being the thirty-six-petaled Creation Green Lotus!
As the two treasures combined, a vast green lotus swayed amidst countless lotus seas. Lotuses bloomed, lotuses fell, and the heavens and earth rained green.
Dong Wang Gong's expression changed drastically. The thirty-six divine pearls flew back to Penglai in the East Sea with extreme speed, but they were obstructed by the enormous green lotus, which unfurled thirty-six lotus leaves.
The golden dragon roamed the divine pearl ocean, its dragon might immense, its roars unceasing. Twelve Fixed Sea Divine Pearls were swallowed into the dragon's belly!
This treasure once belonged to the Ancestral Dragon. The Dragon Seal commanded all dragons under heaven. As a treasure of the Ancestral Dragon, it contained the Ancestral Dragon's divine consciousness. Dong Wang Gong had possessed the treasure for only a few epochs and could not fully refine the dragon souls within the thirty-six Fixed Sea Divine Pearls.
Therefore, the Dragon Seal transformed into a dragon and recalled twelve Fixed Sea Divine Pearls.
Dong Wang Gong's face showed great anxiety. He spat out a stream of vital blood, which transformed into a giant ancient tree with thirty-six branches. Thirty-six twigs reached out to receive the thirty-six Fixed Sea Divine Pearls.
But Qing Ling had already suppressed those twelve Fixed Sea Divine Pearls beneath the Jianmu.
The remaining twenty-four Fixed Sea Divine Pearls and the Staff of All Immortals within them could no longer prevent their return to Dong Wang Gong.
Ancestor Huang Long let out a sneer and recalled his Tidal Spiritual Treasures with a wave of his hand. More than ten powerful beings fell into the sea, making a sorry sight.
He flickered and returned to his ancestral lair with the Green Lotus Precious Color Banner. Now, no powerful being dared to trouble Huang Long anymore.
Dong Wang Gong roared, "All immortals in the world, any being born in the Eastern Desolation shall not be allowed into Penglai, nor shall they obtain my great immortal arts!"
In the Eastern Desolation, Qing Lian retracted all phenomena and said coldly, "From now on, immortals of Penglai in the East Sea shall not set foot in the Eastern Desolation, or they shall be killed!"
Dong Wang Gong's heart seethed with rage. His three corpses were furious, almost losing control, but he still suppressed his anger and did not act rashly.
If he could enter the Eastern Desolation, taking advantage of Qing Ling's weakness while merging with the Dao, he might have a chance to avenge himself. But that towering Jianmu was too intimidating. A single wrong step could result in the Jianmu's suppression, which was the most awe-inspiring power in heaven and earth, second only to the Dao Ancestor!
At this moment, on Kunlun Mountain, Lao Zi shook his head and sighed, while Tong Tian chuckled gloatingly.
Yuanshi Tianzun frowned, "Senior Brother, are we not going to intervene?"
Lao Zi asked, "Why should we intervene?"
"Dong Wang Gong followed the will of heaven and was acting under the decree of the Dao Ancestor to teach and guide others. Now that he is being obstructed, as his teachers' disciples, we should offer some assistance."
Lao Zi shook his head, "Qing Ling had a connection with us from Pangu's time. We can only remain neutral."
Yuanshi Tianzun sighed, "But our paths differ, and we cannot conspire together. There will come a time when we must contend."
Lao Zi heard this, looked up at Yuanshi, and said, "That will only happen after all ties from Pangu's time are exhausted."
On the Jianmu, the flow of time continued unabated.
Qing Ling continued his process of merging with the Dao, specifically the Dao of his future self.
Qing Xuan ascended the highest point of the Bridge of Time step by step, his cultivation realm shedding layer by layer.
After the eleventh heaven came the tenth heaven, and after the tenth heaven, his Da Luo cultivation was dispersed.
The various lights of the Dao around Qing Xuan dissipated, leaving his true form pure.
The Dao was pure and singular.
His green robe billowed and transformed into white. The power of the Dao of Wood behind him vanished, the authority of the Earthly Dao dispersed, along with withered and flourishing, life and death, yin and yang...
Standing on the Bridge of Time, Qing Xuan smiled and stepped off the Bridge of Light. He landed outside the bridge!
Qing Xuan laughed heartily and said, "From now on, I am Qing Xuan Daoist, and only Qing Xuan Daoist!"
On the Jianmu, Qing Xuan's Da Luo power of the twenty heavens poured into Qing Ling's Dao body.
The Bridge of Time retracted, transforming into a circle of light that revolved around Qing Ling, accelerating the passage of time.
This period lasted for ten epochs!
After ten epochs, on the southwestern coast of the Primordial World, a spiritual mountain landed. The mountain was named Luoling. Within the mountain resided a powerful being named Qing Xuan Daoist, the first transformed being from a green snake, a primordial spirit.
This was the record of the Heavenly Dao, and it was also the truth.
Qing Xuan Daoist was a transformed Hong Ye Chun, or one could say he was a transformed green snake.
The Heavenly Dao only remembered him as a transformed green snake and would not know his true form was Hong Ye Chun.
This was because he existed before the establishment of the Heavenly Dao. This was Qing Ling's plan. Henceforth, even if a sage tried to divine it, the Heavenly Dao's result would only show Qing Xuan as the first transformed green snake in the world.
It was not that the Heavenly Dao was concealing it, but that the Heavenly Dao itself believed it to be so, and thus all beings naturally believed it as well.