599: fog

As Li Qi's strength grew increasingly powerful, he began to perceive more and more, drawing ever closer to the truth.

Countless minor details continuously pieced themselves together in Li Qi's mind, allowing him to reconstruct every hidden secret.

Just as Li Qi was constantly pondering over these various matters... a sudden change occurred!

Within the All Heavens and Myriad Realms, the Dao Manifestations of some Dao Source Realm experts began to fade and blur, as if they were being shrouded in a layer of mist...

...

Origin Realm.

Inside Gu Yong City.

Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor was currently comprehending the Three Thousand Great Daos, engaged in quiet cultivation within a secret chamber.

Li Qi and Qing Shang Saint King had previously told her that as long as she mastered a sufficient number of the Three Thousand Great Daos, she could break through the limits of a Dao Ancestor and achieve a Sacred Throne.

One could achieve a Breakthrough even without holding a Sacred Throne in hand.

Although the number of Three Thousand Great Daos required was indeed a bit ridiculous.

But Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor had one virtue: she was someone who heeded advice and prospered!

Since both the strongest Saint King of the past and the strongest Saint King of the present had said so, she could only accept this reality. She started anew from the level of a Dao Ancestor, comprehending and mastering the Three Thousand Great Daos one by one.

As for whether she could truly master six hundred of the Three Thousand Great Daos... that was up to fate.

With a faint sigh, Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor adjusted her state, calming her mind and heart. Her consciousness ascended infinitely, arriving at a peculiar dimension.

And there, she saw her own Dao Manifestation... a flower garden!

This was the unique Dao Manifestation of the Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor. Within this flower garden, which spanned a hundred zhang, exotic flowers and rare herbs competed in splendor. The vast expanse of reds and greens was exceptionally eye-catching.

And in the center of this flower garden... was an emerald-green pool!

With a shift of her consciousness, Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor descended into the garden.

She walked with graceful, light steps, opening her palms. Delicate and full blossoms brushed past her fingertips, accompanied by bursts of fragrant wind and the fluttering of bees and butterflies.

Soon, Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor reached the edge of the small pool in the center of the garden. She sat cross-legged on a large bluestone by the water and began her comprehension.

Before long, a peculiar rhythm emanated from the entire flower garden; it was a rhythm originating from the Dao.

Occasionally, Great Dao Texts would manifest, drifting up from the sea of flowers and flying toward the Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor.

Within Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor's heart, all sorts of profound Dao mysteries surfaced!

At the same time, the pool in front of her also began to undergo a change...

The pool water began to vibrate, and a slender lotus stem slowly extended above the surface. At the tip of this stem, there was actually a small lotus bud.

A flower blooms with a single thought...

This was Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor's method of comprehending the Three Thousand Great Daos.

As she meditated on the Dao mysteries here, a lotus would grow in the pool. Once the lotus blossomed... she would be able to comprehend a Divine Ability from it.

The lotus in this pool was the key!

Not only that, the lotuses in the pool were divided by quality. From lowest to highest, they were the Six-Petaled Red Lotus, the nine-petaled azure lotus, and the Twelve-Petaled Ink Lotus!

The more petals a lotus had, the stronger the Three Thousand Great Daos Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor would obtain once it blossomed!

Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor slowly opened her eyes and carefully examined the bud on the lotus stem. She saw nine very small, tender petals, and the bud's color leaned toward azure!

Clearly... this was a nine-petaled azure lotus!

Once this lotus blossomed, she would obtain a Three Thousand Great Daos that was not weak. While it couldn't compare to the Three Thousand Great Daos of a Twelve-Petaled Ink Lotus, it was still quite good.

After carefully inspecting the tiny bud, Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor smiled with satisfaction and closed her eyes again.

The blossoming time for a nine-petaled azure lotus would be somewhat long, taking as little as one or two years or as long as three or four. Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor was in no hurry, continuing her slow comprehension here.

In truth, comprehending the Three Thousand Great Daos on one's own was usually very slow, but it was also typically what suited one best.

Aside from this, Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor had also arranged for people to search everywhere to purchase Three Thousand Great Daos related to flowers and plants; she had not abandoned either of these two paths.

Just as Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor was quietly comprehending the Three Thousand Great Daos... an anomaly appeared.

Within her flower garden, a faint mist actually appeared!

Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor was startled and snapped her eyes open. When she saw this thin mist, she couldn't help but be horrified.

"What's going on?"

"How can there be mist here?!"

Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor looked around. She had been a Dao Ancestor for many years and had visited this garden countless times. There were only flowers and plants here, along with a few scattered bees and butterflies; there was nothing else.

It had never been misty here before!

This was the first time such a thing had happened, making Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor very uneasy. she rose from the bluestone by the pool and leaped, gliding through the air above the flower garden.

Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor continuously checked every corner of the garden, trying to find the cause of the mist, but no matter how she searched, she couldn't find the slightest abnormality.

Under her gaze, the flower garden shrouded in the thin mist appeared somewhat blurred, giving off a dreamlike, illusory feeling.

Suddenly, Nine Flowers Dao Ancestor felt something in her heart. When she turned back to look at the small pool in the center of the garden, she was even more horrified.

Under the shroud of the thin mist... the lotus bud in the pool water actually developed wrinkles and shriveled up at a speed visible to the naked eye!

In just a few breaths' time, the bud completely withered and then snapped off...

"Plop..."

The lotus bud, shriveled like a walnut, actually fell into the pool water just like that!