Make the Immortal Sect Great Again

The Transformation of Illusion and Reality.

This was Daoist Master Hanguang Danyang’s signature technique, yet no one could have anticipated he had mastered it to such a profound level!

The most brilliant part was that he had completely bypassed the restrictions of the Eight Trigrams Furnace!

His method was exactly how he had previously used the Transformation of Illusion and Reality to extract ten years of time from the Eight Trigrams Furnace and obscure Wang Ping’s memories within the Cauldron Interior Grotto-Heaven.

It was not a direct strike, but an indirect influence.

He did not interfere with the Wang Ping inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace. Instead, he used the Transformation of Illusion and Reality to turn the phantom projection of Wang Ping left on Dao Proving Mountain into reality.

Across the heavens and the earth, a single entity could possess only one absolute ’truth.’ Therefore, when Wang Ping’s phantom on Dao Proving Mountain shifted from illusion to reality, the Wang Ping inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace was forced to shift from reality to illusion. Fundamentally, this reversal amounted to an unstoppable spatial transposition!

”Rumble!”

An instant later, profound reverberations exploded layer by layer across Cosmic Deep Space. Wang Ping’s figure shuddered violently as etherealization spread halfway across his body—only to abruptly grind to a halt.

”Hehe.”A clear laugh echoed from within the twenty-four-colored radiant light, unbothered by the failure. ”He indeed harbors a formidable treasure. Otherwise, the transposition would not have stalled.”

With his cultivation and mastery, personally gathering such profound power to strike should have instantly dragged a mere Tribulation Transcending Third Layer inferior cultivator right before him.

Yet Wang Ping did not appear. The etherealization halting halfway could only mean he harbored a treasure of impossibly high caliber, one intimately bound to him. To pull Wang Ping from illusion into reality, Daoist Master Hanguang Danyang would have to pull that supreme treasure across with him, or the entire effort would fall short.

’Perfect. Let’s test the caliber of this supreme treasure of his!’

At that thought, Daoist Master Hanguang Danyang instantly intensified his profound arts. The twenty-four-colored radiant light began to gradually collapse toward Dao Proving Mountain.

Meanwhile.

Wang Ping’s gaze remained icy. While continuing to drive the condensation of his True Martial holy physique, he sank his consciousness into the Taiping Sutra space.

Before his eyes, the towering book flipped open rapidly. Every scripture scroll he had finalized up to this point suddenly erupted with blinding white light!

All eight scrolls—Outer Heavenly Demon, Perish Together with the Sun, a promise worth a thousand gold, Courage of the Noble Gentleman, Invoking Deities, Plum Substituting for Peach, Golden Sea Desiccation, and fate makes fools of people—lit up one after another. Each presence was heavier than the last, acting as the very anchor holding his rapidly etherealizing body in place.

’Just like that time with the Heaven-Stealing Thief...’

Wang Ping felt a surge of tension. Without a doubt, the more profound the Taiping Sutra appeared right now, the easier it would draw the covetous gazes of the True Persons.

This was likely Daoist Master Hanguang Danyang’s exact intention—a probe.

If the Daoist Master personally acted and still couldn’t shake him while the Taiping Sutra protected him, he would inevitably conclude that the sutra was the treasure of a True Monarch, or perhaps even an immortal!

If that happened, the entire Immortal Gate would likely be thoroughly alarmed!

However, Wang Ping soon breathed a sigh of relief.

He suddenly realized that the scrolls activated by Daoist Master Hanguang Danyang’s Transformation of Illusion and Reality were only the eight that had already been settled.

The ninth blank scripture scroll—the one that had condensed just after he refined the Water-Fire Striking Profound Maces—showed no reaction, remaining deeply hidden.

’This is an unexpected joy!’

Wang Ping instantly understood the advantage of this twist.

’The greatest strength of the Taiping Sutra isn’t how profound its individual scrolls are, but that it can continuously spawn new ones, elevating its own grade in the process!’

From this perspective, exposing the current grade of the Taiping Sutra was actually a good thing. It would cause Daoist Master Hanguang Danyang and anyone else suspecting its nature to misjudge it, leading them to believe the sutra’s grade had capped at its current level.

If he had waited until later...

If he had produced a few more new scripture scrolls and further elevated the Taiping Sutra’s grade before the True Persons came to probe him—that would be a true disaster.

A moment later, Wang Ping returned his focus to reality.

Casting aside all concerns, he poured his entire being into the condensation of his True Martial holy physique.

Things had already reached this point, and he had no way to commit suicide to rewind time. The path was set; whether he lived or died, he had to press forward without looking back.

Continue!

...

”Rumble!”

The Cosmos trembled. Arhat Shengle could no longer sit still, realizing that if things kept progressing like this, Daoist Master Hanguang Danyang might actually succeed!

This made him rather uncomfortable.

As he had noted before, the unearthing of the Tianzhu Cave Abode might benefit the Brahma Nation, but for arhats like himself, it held a hundred harms and not a single benefit.

’Perhaps I should exert a bit more effort?’

Up to this point, he hadn’t truly taken action. He had merely engaged in a lively but superficial spell battle with Daoist Master Hanguang Danyang’s Xun Trigram clone.

However, Daoist Master Hanguang Danyang’s cultivation was clearly too high. Even with one Xun Trigram clone pinned down, he still controlled the overall situation with absolute ease, and that didn’t sit well with Arhat Shengle. After a brief moment of thought, the arhat decided he really ought to try and obstruct this.

With that thought in mind, Arhat Shengle immediately made his move.

In an instant, the shift from a higher dimension triggered another drastic change within Cosmic Deep Space. One by one, the bright stars dimmed entirely into darkness.

In the Cosmos where no sound should exist, a melodious Buddhist chant suddenly echoed.

”Amitabha!”

Only at this moment did Arhat Shengle finally manifest his Dharma body. Channeling the Four Aspects of the Living Buddha, he prepared to strike, ready to endure the brunt of the Danyang Xun Trigram clone’s attacks.

’Just once.’

’One strike against Dao Proving Mountain to force Danyang to defend. That will interrupt the profound workings of his Transformation of Illusion and Reality. If it works, it will be very difficult for him to find another chance to cast it. If it fails, then so be it. I have no reason to risk my life for the immortal gate cultivators; it’s nothing more than stirring up trouble for Biyang’s lot...’

Arhat Shengle calculated with deadly precision.

In his eyes, if the price of enduring a direct hit from the Danyang Xun Trigram clone could cause their grand scheme to collapse and leave the True Persons of the Immortal Gate empty-handed, it would actually be a massive profit.

Yet a second later, he realized something was wrong.

The instant he launched his attack, the Danyang Xun Trigram clone—who should have taken the opportunity to strike him—did not move. Instead, a smile suddenly blossomed on the clone’s face.

”Hm?”

In a flash, Arhat Shengle realized the anomaly and tried to abort his strike—but he had already taken the step. How could he possibly pull it back?

”Rumble!”

In an instant, an incomprehensibly profound gale began to blow from a higher dimension. The Xun Trigram hung high in the sky, forcefully propelling Arhat Shengle forward!

Where the wind blew, all things yielded!

Fueled by the profound wind, Arhat Shengle’s attack on Dao Proving Mountain instantly transformed—his entire Dharma body plummeted headlong into it!

Almost simultaneously, Daoist Master Hanguang Danyang’s true body turned around. The twenty-four-colored radiant light suddenly collapsed, entirely augmenting Dao Proving Mountain. Fanned by that same profound wind, its power continued to climb, pushing the Transformation of Illusion and Reality to its absolute limit!

”Fellow Daoist, Fellow Daoist, I have awaited you for a long time!”

It was as if Daoist Master Hanguang Danyang had opened a giant sack, and Arhat Shengle had simply stumbled and pitched headfirst straight into it.

’A trap!’

Arhat Shengle roared in his mind. His Dharma body flared with power as he tried to forcefully arrest his fall, even preparing to discard his Dharma body entirely to escape this predicament.

Yet in the next second, an earth-shattering thunderclap pulverized all his thoughts of resistance. A blinding white bolt of lightning struck him squarely in the back.

Daoist Master Xuanxiao Yingyuan!

At this critical juncture, as if he had conspired with Daoist Master Hanguang Danyang from the very beginning, his strike became the final straw that broke the camel’s back.

”Amitabha...”

In the distance, a faint light seemed to flicker within the Brahma Nation. But just as Daoist Master Hanguang Danyang had been uniformly blocked by the arhats of the Brahma Nation earlier...

In this instant, a majestic will awakened from within the Immortal Gate, instantly severing the gazes cast from the Brahma Nation. Clearly, they had no intention of allowing the arhats a chance to intervene.

With this, there was no longer any room for salvage.

”Thump!”

Deep within Dao Proving Mountain, Arhat Shengle’s Dharma body crashed down. Given his exalted status as an arhat, a mere grotto-heaven would normally never have been able to contain his Dharma body.

However, Daoist Master Hanguang Danyang had evidently paid a massive price for this. Driving two trigram phenomena simultaneously, he forcibly stabilized the grotto-heaven on the verge of shattering. With a gentle sway, he cast the Transformation of Illusion and Reality onto Arhat Shengle, connecting him with the Wang Ping inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

An arhat. Was that enough?

In this instant, not only Daoist Master Hanguang Danyang, but Daoist Master Xuanxiao Yingyuan and many other existences inevitably cast their gazes over.

There was anticipation, and there was scrutiny.

A nameless supreme treasure highly likely obtained from the Great Rebellion. Could it be a True Monarch’s artifact? Or perhaps... a relic left behind by an immortal who had long since ceased manifesting in the mortal world?

The answer would be revealed in the very next moment.

Even Daoist Master Hanguang Danyang found himself inexplicably excited. If even Arhat Shengle wasn’t enough to drag Wang Ping out of the Eight Trigrams Furnace...

Then it was virtually set in stone that Wang Ping carried a True Monarch-level supreme treasure on him.

At that point, new True Persons would inevitably step in to join the fray. This was of no detriment to him; with the True Persons joining hands, Wang Ping would have no path of survival across the heavens and the earth.

He would still achieve his goal: stopping Wang Ping from using the Martial Dao to dissolve his Longevity Immortal Physique, thereby ensuring the unearthing of the Tianzhu Cave Abode.

And that was only if the transposition failed.

If the transposition succeeded, he would still reap tremendous benefits. He could borrow Arhat Shengle’s hand to test the Immortal Decree inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

After all, ever since the demise of the Great Rebellion and the last time an immortal had intervened, far too many years had passed in Cosmic Deep Space without the slightest trace of an immortal manifesting.

Everyone was curious. Everyone wanted to test the waters.

Yet no one dared to act.

Now that they had finally found a rare opportunity to drag an arhat of the Brahma Nation down with them, the True Persons of the Immortal Gate were naturally happy to see it happen. Even the Brahma Nation might not be entirely averse to seeing the results!

A second later, Dao Proving Mountain quaked violently.

Arhat Shengle’s figure instantly turned ethereal, vanishing from Dao Proving Mountain. When he reappeared, he had landed—utterly bewildered—within the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

On the other side, Wang Ping had also vanished.

Only a hazy, glowing phantom remained inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace, scattering with the wind. Wang Ping now stood right there, manifesting out of thin air deep within Dao Proving Mountain!