HPDBC Chapter 1194: Reaching the Great Encompassment Stage
Chapter 1194: Reaching the Great Encompassment Stage
Chapter 1194: Reaching the Great Encompassment Stage
Greater Golden Origin Immortal Region, Nine Origins Temple.
There was an undulating mountain range comprised of hundreds of mountains of different shapes and sizes, and among them was one that wasn't particularly tall, but stood out for its stunning scenery.
The mountain was partially concealed in the clouds with only a section of its lush surface exposed, and there were three majestic waterfalls flowing their way down the mountain like three bands of shimmering rainbow light, presenting a stunning sight to behold.
The sound of ape cries could be heard ringing out incessantly on the mountain, while cranes soared through the air overhead, giving the entire place the appearance of an immortal paradise.
On the mountain summit was a ring-shaped observation deck that extended out of the mountain, upon which stood a middle-aged daoist priest in a dark green daoist robe.
The man had a very upright posture and a square face that didn't bear the most remarkable facial features, but there was an ethereal, glowing quality about him that made it apparent that he was no mortal.
Despite the splendid scenery currently laid out before the daoist priest, his brows were slightly furrowed with concern.
Right at this moment, a thin, azure-robed elderly man arrived on the plaza on the mountain summit, then extended a respectful salute as he greeted, "Disciple Qing Xu pays his respects to Senior Martial Uncle Chun Jun."
The middle-aged daoist priest was known as Daoist Master Chun Jun in the immortal region, and he was the final disciple of the Nine Origins Temple's founding patriarch, so he was a very senior figure both in the sect and in the entire immortal region.
Most importantly, he was also a late-Great Encompassment cultivator, and he was temporarily serving as the abbot of the Nine Origins Temple.
"How did your investigation go?" Daoist Master Chun Jun asked.
"I have determined that the Heaven Controlling Vial has indeed reappeared, and that it's currently in the possession of a man by the name of Han Li," the elderly man replied.
"Han Li?" Daoist Master Chun Jun asked as he raised an eyebrow.
"He's a cultivator who ascended to the Northern Glacial Immortal Region from a lower realm, and he previously stayed in the Blaze Dragon Dao for a very long time," Qing Xu reported.
"All ascended cultivators are generally quite remarkable. Are there any records of him at the Ascension Platforms?" Daoist Master Chun Jun asked.
"I did manage to find some records, but... At the time, he was received by a Stone Ditch Palace cultivator by the name of Gao Sheng, but he intentionally withheld a great deal of information, seemingly intending to recruit Han Li to join the Stone Ditch Palace. However, Han Li didn't become a member of the Stone Ditch Palace. Instead, he disappeared on the way there," Qing Xu replied.
"Oh? What happened?" Daoist Master Chun Jun asked.
The clouds in the sky were being stirred up by a burst of tremendous force, forming a massive tornado of cloud and mist that funneled its way straight into a mountain in the mountain range.
Inside a cave abode that had only been recently carved out into the mountain, a handsome young boy and a silver fire raven were both looking around in alarm as immense torrents of the world's origin qi converged from all directions to surge into a door of silver light before them.
Xiaobai turned to the silver fire raven with a stunned expression, and the latter also took on its human form before nodding excitedly at Xiaobai.
"He's about to make a breakthrough after just twenty years! This is incredible!" Xiaobai exclaimed as he clapped his hands together in a joyful manner.
An unfathomably vast volume of the world's origin qi was gushing into the door of silver light, releasing such powerful energy fluctuations that the two of them had been forced to retreat far away.
Meanwhile, the enormous influx of the world's origin qi was testing the entire Flower Branch domain to its limits, and all of the spirit bamboo trees in the entire domain were absorbing the world's origin qi with all their might before distributing it throughout the domain through their root systems.
The newly constructed bamboo pavilion had grown three feet taller, as if it were a living being, and many of the spirit plants in the spirit medicine garden were also enjoying a period of rapid growth thanks to the extreme overabundance of spiritual qi.
Even the Twin Birth Tree, which had always been growing very slowly, was displaying a very encouraging rate of growth.
All of the water in the pond in front of the former bamboo pavilion was bubbling and churning incessantly, and the surface of the pond was filled with forty-nine golden lotus flowers that were in full bloom.
All of these changes had been brought by only a tiny portion of the world's origin qi that had entered the domain, while the majority of it was surging into the bamboo pavilion, which was trembling and swaying violently, but somehow managed to remain standing.
At this moment, the entire pavilion was glowing radiantly, and Han Li was seated inside with his entire body enshrouded in a layer of five-colored light.
All of his golden meridians were clearly visible through his translucent, jade-like skin, while his nascent soul was also seated with its legs crossed in his dantian.
The world's origin qi surging into the pavilion was rapidly flowing into his body, and while only twenty years had passed for Xiaobai, over two thousand years had already transpired for Han Li thanks to the Celestial Time Array.
Following the past two thousand years of tireless cultivation, he was finally able to establish a state of perfect equilibrium between his five time-attribute law treasures, and that was the moment that he successfully reached the Great Encompassment Stage.
All of a sudden, his eyes sprang open, and two beams of blinding golden light shot out of his pupils, while all of the lingering world's origin qi around him was sucked into his body at once.
All of his immortal acupoints were glowing radiantly, while a faint river of light suddenly appeared in the air above the bamboo pavilion.
Han Li slowly rose to his feet as he took a deep breath, and his senses had become unprecedentedly sharp, allowing him to observe every single one of the minute details in the space around him.