64: Leaving the pass, the Yin-Yang Covenant

Soon, five Celestial Venerable palaces with distinct styles stood in the Heavens Beyond Heaven, each constructed based on Laws such as Fire, Wood, and Wind as their Foundation.

The Heavens Beyond Heaven gradually formed a power structure centered around the five Celestial Venerable palaces. The Burning Heaven Palace of the Celestial Venerable of Divine Fire was surrounded by raging flames all day long; the Azure Emperor Palace of the Celestial Venerable of Wood was shrouded by towering ancient trees; and the Wind Cloud Pavilion of the Celestial Venerable of Wind floated within a storm.

Two newly ascended Celestial Venerables—the Celestial Venerable of Thunder, who mastered the Law of Lightning, and the Celestial Venerable of Cangming, who comprehended the Law of Water—established the Thunder Bright Pagoda and the Cold Abyss Palace, respectively.

Although you were in seclusion, you could still perceive the Law fluctuations caused by them competing for Heaven And Earth Treasure.

The xuanhuang dao soldiers diligently performed their duties. Whenever the Celestial Venerables' conflicts affected the mortal world, golden-armored figures would traverse the sky, forcibly separating the battlefield with the Xuanhuang Law.

At the age of 6500, the world already possessed eight Celestial Venerables in the Law Realm, and at this moment, you also left seclusion.

The moment you left seclusion, you summoned the other eight Law Realm Celestial Venerables to the Xuanhuang Dao Palace to discuss matters.

Facing the summons of you, the Lord of the Xuanhuang Dao, not a single one of these Celestial Venerables dared to disobey, because only upon reaching the Law Realm did they truly understand the gap between themselves and you.

Moreover, before they became Law Realm experts, they were all considered your Disciples and had to address you as Ancestral Master.

After the eight Celestial Venerables arrived, each condensed a meditation cushion using their own Law and sat before you.

You did not speak, but instead first imparted to them a harmonization technique, which allowed them to harmonize their Law power with each other.

As for why you imparted this technique to them, it was naturally because this was the very reason for their disagreements.

Celestial Venerables who comprehended different Laws would trigger Law conflicts if they stayed together for too long, and the more people there were, the greater the conflict would be, unless the Laws these Celestial Venerables comprehended belonged to the same Dao.

This harmonization technique could make their Law power converge to the same frequency, briefly aligning them to form a balance and eliminate conflict.

Relying on their profound Realm, these Celestial Venerables quickly learned the technique. After operating the technique, the various Law halos swirling around them gradually became consistent, and the originally repelling Law fluctuations began to resonate harmoniously.

Afterward, you imparted two more techniques to them: the Yin and Yang Harmony Pact and the Head-Cleansing Initiation Technique.

The Yin and Yang Harmony Pact was a work of Major Achievement from your comprehension of the Yin and Yang Dao, enabling Law Realm Martial Artists whose Physical Body had transformed to have offspring with ordinary Martial Artists.

It also significantly increased the probability of two Law Realm experts conceiving offspring together.

For Martial Artists below the Law Realm, after Cultivate it, they could greatly increase their fertility rate and improve the talent of their descendants.

Not only that, during the process of Cultivate the Yin and Yang Harmony Pact, it could significantly increase a Martial Artist's cultivation speed; even Law Realm Martial Artists could improve their speed of comprehending Laws.

As for the Head-Cleansing Initiation Technique, the name itself suggests it is a method to increase strength.

Law Realm experts using this technique could transform Martial Saints into their own Law dependents. Law dependents could mobilize the Law power of the Law Realm Martial Artist they belonged to.

Furthermore, their bodies would be cleansed by the Law, forming a semi-Law body; at this point, the Martial Artist's Lifespan could reach five thousand years.

However, from then on, this Martial Saint would never be able to advance to the Law Realm.

Therefore, the main targets of this technique were those Martial Saints whose Lifespan was coming to an end but who had not yet touched the threshold of the Law.

When you mentioned this, you noticed the pupils of the Celestial Venerable of Divine Fire constrict slightly—he happened to have a close friend who was a Martial Saint whose Lifespan was coming to an end.

After imparting the techniques, you had only two requirements for these Celestial Venerables; the first was to have as many children as possible.

To make them more proactive, you told them that the talent of offspring born to Law Realm Martial Artists was far superior to ordinary people.

Their probability of advancing to the Law Realm was much higher than that of ordinary people, and there was a high probability they would comprehend the same Law as their parents.

And according to your speculation, as long as a Law Realm Martial Artist could grasp all the mysteries of this one Law, they would be able to wield this Law and become a Dao Lord like you.

For this method of advancement, the fastest way was to Cultivate a Law Realm expert who comprehended the same Law as oneself, then mutually verify their insights, and then it would be a matter of who became the Dao Lord first.

And cultivating strangers, no matter what, could not compare to cultivating one's own descendants, right?

The second requirement was naturally to recruit more Law dependents.

Because Law dependents could also improve a Martial Artist's comprehension of Laws, although every Law Realm expert had a limit on the number of dependents they could recruit, you told them to try to recruit as many as possible.

Regarding your requirement to have more children, the Celestial Venerables present looked at each other in dismay.

To be honest, the fact that they could become Celestial Venerables was certainly not just because of their high talent; their Martial Dao heart was definitely far superior to ordinary people's.

Therefore, they rarely experienced relations between men and women; after all, maintaining a state of chastity in the early stages of the Martial Dao could accelerate the speed of cultivation.

And by the Late Stage, they were even more devoted to cultivation, so they paid even less attention to those matters between men and women.

However, hearing you say this, this matter also concerned their path of cultivation, so the eight Celestial Venerables had varying expressions, clearly struggling internally.

You must know, that was the title of Dao Lord! Once one achieved the status of Dao Lord, they could stand side by side with you and share in the supreme glory.

Long before they were even born, your prestige had already resounded throughout the world. To them, you were the eternal beacon on the path of cultivation.

And being able to stand on equal footing with you was their lifelong supreme dream; how could they easily let it go?

The Celestial Venerable of Divine Fire was the first to respond, with raging flames churning around him: "Dao Lord, your words are excellent! This Venerable will return immediately to take three thousand concubines, and the Burning Heaven Palace will surely see a flourishing of descendants!"

"The Dao Lord's words are absolutely correct. I comprehend the Law of Wood, so it is only fitting that I spread my branches and scatter my leaves." At this moment, the Celestial Venerable of Wood also chimed in.

After some thought, the male Celestial Venerables expressed their agreement with your decision one after another, and then they left the Xuanhuang Dao Palace one by one.

In the end, only you, the Celestial Venerable of Cangming who comprehended the Law of Water, and the Celestial Venerable of Taiyin who comprehended the Law of Yin remained in the Xuanhuang Dao Palace. These two were the only female Celestial Venerables.

The Celestial Venerable of Cangming was draped in azure gauze, with hazy water mist lingering around her, while the Celestial Venerable of Taiyin wore a plain white dress, the crescent mark on her forehead shimmering with cold radiance. They lowered their eyes, a faint blush appearing on their stunningly beautiful faces.

"What, could it be that you look down on the others and want to Cultivate the Yin and Yang Dao with me?" Watching the two of them not leave, you teased them deliberately, your voice echoing in the empty Dao Palace.