435: Chapter 435 Primordial Purple Qi, Taking the Initiative!

Lu Yuan had not even finished speaking, nor had he finished laying out his suggestive rhetoric.

"I get it! I get it! Father, you don't need to say any more; my heart is as clear as a mirror!"

Lu Li jumped up suddenly as if his tail had been stepped on.

He thumped his sturdy chest hard, making a loud thudding sound. With a generous and heroic wave of his hand, he looked so righteous and awe-inspiring that it seemed as if he were giving up a roadside pebble rather than a supreme treasure of the Immortal Realm.

"My sister's rations are the most important thing in the world! I'm thick-skinned and sturdy now, so what do I need this thing for? This innate purple qi was won specifically for my sister, so naturally, it's all up to you, Father. Take it and give it to her! I don't care for such mere icing on the cake!" Lu Li held his head high, his eyes full of doting and expectation for his unborn sister.

"Hahaha, good! As expected of my, Lu Yuan's, son. You truly are a good child who knows how to love his sister."

Seeing his son being so sensible, Lu Yuan was delighted. He clapped his hands and laughed with gratification.

He stood up, walked down from the divine throne, and patted Lu Li heavily on the shoulder. Then, under Lu Li's "righteous" gaze, he naturally and with a clear conscience swept the jade box containing the innate purple qi into his private storage space with a "shua" sound.

The moment the jade box entered the storage space, the smile on Lu Yuan's face vanished, replaced by an unprecedented look of solemnity and anticipation.

[Ding! Successfully intercepted the Son of Destiny Lu Li's purple Opportunity 'innate purple qi'. Triggered ten-thousand-fold critical hit return. Obtained the supreme divine object 'hongmeng purple qi'.]

[Reward: 10,000 Destiny Points.]

"hongmeng purple qi?"

Even for Lu Yuan, whose Heart-Nature was as steady as a rock and who would remain calm even if Mount Tai collapsed before him, his heart skipped a beat the moment he heard those four words. His breathing involuntarily became a bit heavy.

A piercing light erupted from his deep eyes, a brilliance born of both shock and wild joy.

That was a supreme divine object rumored to reign above all the Daos of the heavens, representing the visualization of the Universe's Profound Truth and the Dao's Origin!

In the oldest and most secret records of the Immortal Realm, this hongmeng purple qi was known as the "Foundation of the Dao."

It was the Foundation that could allow a living being to instantly become a Saint, an Ancestor, or transcend the Reincarnation of this Universe's era! Let alone a whole wisp, even if a negligible trace of its aura were stripped away and fell into the Lower Realm, it would be enough to evolve into a small Universe with complete Laws of heaven and earth!

The wisp of "innate purple qi" produced by the Taiyi Immortal Sect was merely a wisp of relatively pure energy born at the beginning of the Universe when heaven and earth first separated.

But this "hongmeng purple qi" was the most primal Origin from before the Universe was even born, when everything was nothingness and Chaos! The gap between the two was countless times greater than the gap between a Mortal and an Immortal King; they simply could not be mentioned in the same breath!

"Using such a divine object, which even an Immortal Emperor would go mad for and fight to the death over, as nourishment for my unborn daughter's gestation?"

Lu Yuan slowly turned his head. His gaze seemed to penetrate the thick walls of the main hall, looking deeply toward the depths of the Formation in the rear hall where Gu Qingxue was resting peacefully.

The corners of his mouth curled into an extremely proud arc as he thought to himself: "This girl already possesses the dual peerless Origins of Taiyin and Chaos; her talent is already ridiculously high.

"If the hongmeng purple qi is further used as a Foundation to nurture her divine fetus and shape her true spirit... good heavens, once my daughter truly descends into the world, I'm afraid she will be directly Heaven-Defying the moment she is born! The entire Daluo Heaven, and even the broader endless Immortal Realm, will tremble because of her birth!"

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After carefully and completely sealing the hongmeng purple qi, which radiated a terrifying Dao pressure, in the deepest part of his Divine Soul, Lu Yuan was not blinded by the immense joy, nor was he in a desperate rush to head to the rear hall to nourish Gu Qingxue's pregnancy.

His gaze gradually shifted from the tenderness of a loving father back to that of the decisive and calculating leader of the Qingyun Dao Sect.

He paced slowly to the towering jade gates of the grand hall.

With his hands behind his back, his eyes as deep as an abyss looked across thousands of mountains and rivers, past the endless sea of clouds, coldly toward the distant direction of the Taiyi Immortal Sect, which was shrouded in layers of immortal mist.

A breeze brushed against the hem of his black and gold robe, bringing a hint of the chill from the high altitudes.

"Taiyi Immortal Sect... Yuan Xuji..."

Lu Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly and muttered to himself, his voice carrying a bone-chilling killing intent.

"Passively taking hits and reacting to moves is not my, Lu Yuan's, style, nor is it a long-term solution."

Lu Yuan's mind rapidly calculated the current situation in Daluo Heaven.

Although the Taiyi Immortal Sect suffered a great loss on the arena this time and their prestige was swept away, they definitely wouldn't dare to blatantly assemble an army to launch a full-scale war against the Qingyun Dao Sect at this juncture. This was because they feared him, a "Golden Immortal" with unfathomable combat power, and were deterred by the Immortal King's iron Law hanging over their heads.

However, while an open spear is easy to dodge, a hidden arrow is hard to defend against. For an old-brand hegemon Sect like this—one that had been passed down for countless eras, possessed deep Foundations, and acted despicably—underhanded tricks like assassinations, poisonings, and sabotage of Sect industries would surely be as persistent as maggots on a bone.

Rather than defending day and night and being on guard against a thief for a thousand days, leaving the entire Sect constantly on edge and living in fear...

It would be better to take them by surprise and take the initiative. By finding a high-sounding excuse, he could directly uproot the Taiyi Immortal Sect—this massive hidden danger coiled like a venomous snake at his side—and completely erase them from the map of Daluo Heaven!

However, Lu Yuan was also clear-headed. To completely destroy a hegemon-level Sect that possessed a protective immortal Formation, unfathomable Foundations, and a multitude of experts by relying on his own strength alone... while he would certainly win in the end with his terrifying Physical Body of eight hundred million Yuanxiang Particles and his Golden Immortal cultivation, the process would inevitably be a bit tricky.

In a chaotic battle of that level, it would be difficult for him to cover everything. If the opponent were driven to desperation and fought to the death to take others from the Qingyun Dao Sect down with them, there would inevitably be oversights, causing casualties he could not accept.

"Since I'm going to remove this tumor, I must strike like a thunderbolt and leave no future troubles."

Lu Yuan withdrew his gaze and turned to look at the empty hall. "Before that, it seems I must first find a way to raise their overall strength to a whole new level."

Lu Yuan made his decision, and orders were quickly dispatched from the main peak.

In the following three months, the Qingyun Dao Sect, which had been at the height of its power and bustling with visitors, suddenly announced to the entire Daluo Heaven without any warning that it was completely sealing its mountains!

They declined visits, alliances, or probes from any force. All Core Disciples traveling abroad were recalled, and the Sect's protective Formation was activated at full power, as if entering the strictest state of combat readiness.