50: Proton (12)

Chi Yun snapped his eyes open, his consciousness forcibly dragged back as if from the brink of drowning in the deep sea.

He discovered he was in an extremely crude Immortal Cave.

The surrounding stone walls were covered in scribbled runes that had long lost their spiritual light, and the air was filled with the scent of decaying time.

In the deepest part of the Immortal Cave, a withered corpse sitting in meditation instantly seized all of his attention.

Chi Yun's breath hitched for a moment.

The corpse had long since lost its flesh, but the bones possessed a warm, jade-like luster; even after unknown eons of death, it still exuded an ancient and terrifying pressure.

Just by looking at it, Chi Yun felt his Divine Soul trembling instinctively.

This pressure surpassed the Earth Spirit Realm and even the Heavenly Spirit Realm he was familiar with.

It was a powerhouse of the Three Origins Realm!

A monstrous wave surged in Chi Yun's heart.

How could he have been randomly teleported to the place where a Three Origins Realm powerhouse had passed away?

He cautiously stepped forward, one step at a time.

The moment he came within three feet of the corpse, two points of ghostly blue Soul fire suddenly ignited in its empty eye sockets!

Hum!

A majestic will that was impossible to resist, like a landslide or tsunami, instantly enveloped Chi Yun's entire body.

Following that, a flood of information, violent to the extreme, savagely and unreasonably surged into his Sea of Consciousness.

That was the life's work, insights, Cultivation Techniques, and secret arts of a Three Origins Realm powerhouse!

Chi Yun's Sea of Consciousness felt as if it were about to burst on the spot; a tearing pain surged through him, and his Soul let out a wail of unbearable strain.

"Puff!"

He spat out a mouthful of blood, and fine beads of blood began to seep from his seven orifices.

If it had been any other Spirit King Realm Cultivator, or even an Earth Spirit Realm powerhouse, under such unprepared and brutal forced transmission, they would likely have had their Divine Soul destroyed by now, becoming a complete idiot.

On the verge of his Soul collapsing, his resilient Divine Soul, tempered through several lifetimes of Reincarnation, desperately held onto the last shred of clarity.

Under the scouring of this terrifying energy, his Pure Origin Dao Body let out an unbearable "clucking" sound, yet it managed to barely withstand the power without shattering on the spot.

He did not know how much time had passed, but when the flood of information finally subsided, Chi Yun had become a blood-soaked person, collapsing limply on the ground, without the strength to even move a finger.

That was close.

It was really just a hair's breadth away from him dying and vanishing.

He calmed down and began to organize the vast amount of information that had appeared in his mind.

This Three Origins Realm powerhouse, whose Daoist title was "Qianshan Daoist," had once founded a Sect within the territory of an Imperial Dynasty called the "Daze Imperial Dynasty," named the "Qianshan Sect."

As the Legacy ended, an ancient jade pendant appeared silently in his hand; the pendant was carved with a pattern of continuous mountain ranges and exuded an aura originating from the same source as Qianshan Daoist.

This was the best proof of identity.

Chi Yun's eyes flickered.

A powerful background, a place where he could Cultivate in peace and which could provide massive resources.

This Qianshan Sect was exactly what he needed, like being handed a pillow when sleepy.

"Luck points… there is indeed something to it." Chi Yun muttered to himself.

This fortuitous encounter was too coincidental, so coincidental that it felt like a deliberate arrangement of fate.

He no longer hesitated, completely wiped away the traces remaining in the Immortal Cave, identified the direction, and sped off toward the location of the Daze Imperial Dynasty.

Relying on the Legacy jade pendant as a token, Chi Yun encountered almost no obstacles and successfully entered the Qianshan Sect.

When he brought out the jade pendant and declared himself the Old Ancestor's successor, the entire Qianshan Sect was stirred.

The current Sect Master and several Grand Elders who had been in seclusion appeared in person. After confirming the pure Legacy aura on him and discovering his one-in-ten-thousand Dao Body Aptitude, the entire upper echelon of the Sect fell into ecstasy.

The Old Ancestor's successor! And a Dao Body Genius at that!

Under the blessing of this dual halo, Chi Yun was directly granted the status of a True Disciple, second only to the Young Sect Master.

Ten years passed in the blink of an eye.

During these ten years, Chi Yun Cultivated frantically within the Qianshan Sect.

Utilizing the vast resources of the Qianshan Sect, combined with his Cultivation experience from several lifetimes, the Heaven-Defying Aptitude of his Dao Body, and the Legacy of Qianshan Daoist, his cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds.

The place where Chi Yun was in seclusion.

On this day, a terrifying aura surged into the sky, stirring the winds and clouds within a hundred-mile radius.

Inside the Immortal Cave, Chi Yun slowly opened his eyes, a sharp gleam flashing and then vanishing.

Earth Spirit Realm.

Success.

An Earth Spirit Realm at thirty years old!

Looking across the entire Tianyan Continent, this was the existence of a true Prodigy.

He walked out of the Immortal Cave; the Sect Master of the Qianshan Sect and several Elders had already been waiting outside.

"Good! Good! Good!" The Sect Master said excitedly, repeating the word 'good' three times. "It seems that it won't be long before my Qianshan Sect has another Three Origins Realm powerhouse!"

Chi Yun bowed to everyone, his expression calm.

"Sect Master, Elders, this Disciple wishes to go down the mountain to gain experience."

The Sect Master and the Elders exchanged glances and nodded with gratification. A towering tree could not grow in a greenhouse.

"Go," the Sect Master said in a deep voice, "From this day on, you are one of the candidates for the Young Sect Master of my Qianshan Sect. The Sect will always be your backing."

Chi Yun bade farewell to the Sect and, alone, set foot on the path down the mountain.

His first stop was the Xuan Yuan Dynasty.

Ten years had passed, and although the Xuan Yuan Dynasty had been severely injured in the turmoil at the Silver Gate, a camel that dies is still bigger than a horse; it remained the hegemon of this region.

Just as he stepped into the territory of the Xuan Yuan Dynasty, Chi Yun walked into a restaurant in a bustling city and heard news that made his heart shake.

"Have you heard? That Genius Disciple of the Yun Family, Yun Haitian, is about to break through to the Earth Spirit Realm!"

"What kind of big news is that? Yun Haitian is already the top Genius of the Imperial Academy; breaking through to the Earth Spirit Realm before forty is a certainty."

"Heh, that's not the point. The point is, Yun Haitian will soon take a collateral female member of the Yun Family as a concubine, seems her name is... Yun Xi!"

The hand holding the wine cup paused in mid-air.

His eyes instantly turned cold.

Yun Xi.

Although he did not have much interaction with this woman, those two accidental Dual Cultivations had long since branded this cold and aloof woman as his own in his heart.

Chi Yun drained the wine in his cup in one gulp, left a few Origin Crystals, and his figure disappeared from the restaurant.

Utilizing the influence of the Qianshan Sect, he quickly found out all the details and defensive forces for the Yun Family's wedding banquet.

Half a month later, on the day of the Yun Family's wedding banquet.

The Yun Family's main residence was decorated with lanterns and colored streamers, and powerhouses gathered. Numerous factions of the Xuan Yuan Dynasty had sent people to observe the ceremony, and even the Imperial Academy had sent a few Disciples; the scene was extremely grand.

The auspicious time had arrived, and Yun Haitian, dressed in bright red wedding attire, was in high spirits.

Beside him, Yun Xi wore a wedding dress, her face pale, her eyes hollow, like a puppet without a Soul.

After that mission failed ten years ago, she had been recalled to the Yun Family, and from then on, she was like a bird in a cage.

Just at the critical moment when the emcee shouted and they were preparing to perform the ceremony.

A figure appeared without warning in the center of the ceremonial hall.

The person was cloaked in black, their aura completely internalized.

"Today, I am taking this person away."

A hoarse voice rang out; it was not loud, but it clearly reached everyone's ears.

The entire venue fell into deathly silence.

"Who are you? How dare you come to my Yun Family and act presumptuously!" Yun Haitian was furious. Having someone come to snatch his bride on his wedding day was simply a huge humiliation. As a favored son of heaven, how could he endure this?

He could tell that the person's voice was young, and in his heart, he was even more disdainful, so he struck directly.

An aura of the half-step Earth Spirit Realm erupted, and he struck a palm toward the black-robed person!

However, the black-robed person did not move at all.

Just as Yun Haitian's palm was about to touch him, an even more terrifying power erupted with a boom.

Boom!

Yun Haitian was struck as if by lightning, flying backward and slamming heavily into a distant pillar.

Yun Xi stared blankly at the black-robed figure; inexplicably, she felt this back gradually overlap with that person from back then.

"Thief, you are courting death!"

Three Earth Spirit Realm Elders of the Yun Family struck simultaneously, attacking Chi Yun from different directions.

Chi Yun's figure swayed, executing a profound movement technique, maneuvering frantically amidst the three's encirclement.

Seeing that they could not take down Chi Yun for a long time, the Yun Family Head, a powerhouse at the seventh level of the Earth Spirit Realm, could finally no longer sit still.

He entered the fray personally, striking out with a palm, and the terrifying spiritual power instantly sealed off all of Chi Yun's paths of retreat.

Chi Yun could not withstand this palm.

Just at this critical moment of life and death.

"Who dares to touch the Young Lord of my Qianshan Sect!"

A terrifying pressure appeared that made all the Earth Spirit Realm powerhouses present tremble.

Heavenly Spirit Realm!

A figure tore through space and descended above the ceremonial hall, coldly looking down at the Yun Family Head.

Under this pressure, the palm power of the Yun Family Head shattered inch by inch.

"Qianshan Sect..."

"Heavenly Spirit Realm Elder..."