Chapter 1078: Never Thought My Wind Order Sect Would Have Three Half-Immortals in One Sect

Celestial Master Gui Yuan felt as though he had not yet fully awakened.

Before being trapped in the box, he was the founding patriarch of the Dao Seeking Sect, its most venerable elder.

How was it that after emerging from the box, his seniority had actually dropped?

And where on earth had the Primordial Daoist come from?

"Wait, how is it I remember the Primordial Patriarch passed away? Every year I would go to his grave to offer incense, and neither this appearance nor this cultivation base matches up!" Celestial Master Gui Yuan was brimming with a bellyful of questions.

Initially, he had been overcome with melancholy, lamenting that there was no one left in the Dao Seeking Sect whom he recognized; yet now, look at this, the very founder of the sect had suddenly cropped up, leaving him no room to indulge in sadness.

"The Primordial Patriarch merely feigned his death. He only woke up a short while ago, and due to peculiar circumstances, he was pursued by enemies, forcing him to disperse his cultivation and start anew to evade capture." As the primary discoverer of the Primordial Daoist, Lu Yang stepped forward to explain.

"Greetings, I am Qi Tongtian." The Primordial Daoist offered an honest and simple greeting. Celestial Master Gui Yuan's statue was still displayed in the sect's grand hall, so even without an introduction, everyone knew this was Celestial Master Gui Yuan.

"Paying respects to the Primordial Patriarch. My name is Wang Daoyi; you may call me Little Wang from now on." Though Celestial Master Gui Yuan was fond of bravado, relished challenging the strong, and acted regardless of consequences, he was nonetheless a cultivator who understood propriety.

"I heard you had been missing for eighty thousand years. Where did you go?" The Primordial Daoist was deeply curious about Celestial Master Gui Yuan's origins; after all, it was the latter who had truly elevated the Dao Seeking Sect from an ordinary sect into the ranks of the Five Great Immortal Sects.

"Er—" Celestial Master Gui Yuan felt that relying on his great prowess to break into a secret realm, only to trigger a restriction and be imprisoned for over two hundred years, was not a particularly glorious affair.

Especially when recounting it before the founding patriarch.

Perceiving Celestial Master Gui Yuan's awkward predicament, Lu Yang took a step forward to explain:

"Eighty thousand years ago, Senior Gui Yuan ventured into an immortal's secret realm and was inadvertently imprisoned within a rift in time. However, this was a blessing in disguise, freeing him from the worry of an exhausted lifespan and allowing him to appear in the present world. After Senior broke free, he fought a fierce battle against Heavenly Lord Si Lei of the Great Gan Dynasty, rescuing the Mountain-Moving Sea-Filling Sect from dire straits—a truly heroic deed. Regrettably, his injuries were too severe afterward, and he fell into a coma. We brought him back to the sect, and he has only just awakened."

"Ah, yes, yes, yes, that is precisely how it happened." Celestial Master Gui Yuan nodded vigorously, thinking that this junior, Lu Yang, was truly excellent.

"The one who struck me with lightning was Heavenly Lord Si Lei of the Great Gan?" Hearing Lu Yang's words, Celestial Master Gui Yuan finally learned the identity of Heavenly Lord Si Lei; his battle with the man had merely been to demand an apology.

When Celestial Master Gui Yuan was blasted, Heavenly Lord Si Lei had fallen into a coma but still failed to escape the fate of being caught in the explosion. His physical constitution could not match Celestial Master Gui Yuan's, so he remained comatose even now.

"You mentioned earlier that there are still a few people I know in the sect. Aside from the Primordial Patriarch, who else is there?"

"Would you like to see Senior River Spirit?"

"Let us go." He and the River Spirit could be considered old friends, bound by a deep and enduring affection.

...

"Senior River Spirit, it has been a while since we brothers last met." Seeing his old acquaintance, Celestial Master Gui Yuan felt a wave of warmth, and even the axes in the River Spirit's hands looked endearing.

Treading upon the waves, the River Spirit emerged from the stream, hoisting his gold and silver axes and swinging them straight toward him.

"Vanishing for eighty thousand years without a single word—you certainly have a lot of nerve!"

Knowing he was in the wrong, Celestial Master Gui Yuan did not dare to strike back; he could only laugh apologetically while dodging the axes.

After hacking away for a long time and realizing he could not hit him, the River Spirit simply stopped.

Seeing Celestial Master Gui Yuan once more, the River Spirit could not quite discern the flavors of his own emotions.

If one were to ask who in the Dao Seeking Sect possessed the finest relationship with the River Spirit, it was undoubtedly the Three Patriarchs. His awakening of spiritual wisdom was entirely thanks to the assistance of the Primordial Daoist, while Celestial Master Gui Yuan had been active for twenty thousand years and Daoist Master Han Hai for fifty thousand, both spending vast amounts of time with him.

He had watched with his own eyes as the Primordial Daoist vanished, and as Celestial Master Gui Yuan vanished. Though he showed little on the surface, his heart had actually been deeply melancholy, filled with the sentiment that the path to longevity was long and solitary, as old friends departed one after another—perhaps the inescapable destiny of an immortal being.

Yet now, look at this; the two who had vanished had popped up once more, rendering his grief entirely in vain.

Seeing that Celestial Master Gui Yuan and the River Spirit seemed wholly intent on sharing wine and making a night of it until drunk, Lu Yang murmured a reminder from the side: "Senior, you have not finished meeting everyone yet."

"There are more?" Celestial Master Gui Yuan was somewhat astonished. Could the Dao Seeking Sect truly contain yet another of his acquaintances?

...

"Daoist Brother Han Hai, it is not that I wish to lecture you, but when giving a gift to your Dao companion for a festival, what possessed you to simply present her with spirit stones?" Upon the great snowy mountain, Perfected Master Zhui Yue pressed a hand to her forehead, shaking her head helplessly. And to think Daoist Master Han Hai still wondered why his Dao companion was angry.

"Is it not because I did not know what to buy? Furthermore, the Dragon Race delights in wealth. I figured I would just give Xiaoya the spirit stones directly; if there is anything she wishes to purchase, she can simply use them to buy it himself. It saves trouble and serves multiple purposes."

After being kicked out of the Dragon Palace, Daoist Master Han Hai had hurried over to seek enlightenment from Perfected Master Zhui Yue. As a female cultivator who also possessed the embryonic form of the Seven Emotions Dao Fruit, she ought to be highly knowledgeable in such matters.

Perfected Master Zhui Yue rolled her eyes, wondering how Ao Ya had ever taken a fancy to Daoist Master Han Hai in the first place.

"Doing it this way will definitely not do. When you give a gift, it must be something unique and ingenious..."

Suddenly, Perfected Master Zhui Yue froze, staring blankly behind Daoist Master Han Hai.

"Daoist Sister Zhui Yue, what is the matter?"

"Good heavens, I am seeing your ancestor."

"Ah?"

"Haha, Zhui Yue, how did you turn into such a little tot?" Celestial Master Gui Yuan burst into tears of laughter upon seeing Perfected Master Zhui Yue sitting in her chair, her feet unable to even touch the ground.

"Gui Yuan, which grave pit did you crawl out of!"

"What does it matter which pit I crawled out of? You tell me first, how did you become so small?"

Perfected Master Zhui Yue despised this topic above all else. She immediately invoked the embryonic form of the Seven Emotions Dao Fruit: "You talk too much. Cry for me!"

Celestial Master Gui Yuan instantly dissolved into a torrent of wailing, kneeling on the ground and pounding the earth: "Zhui Yue, how did you become so small? I feel it is so unfair for you—"

Perfected Master Zhui Yue felt goosebumps rise all over her body at the sound. She hastily withdrew the power of the embryonic Seven Emotions Dao Fruit, allowing Celestial Master Gui Yuan to return to normal.

"You used the embryonic Seven Emotions Dao Fruit on me again!" Celestial Master Gui Yuan raged. Who plays pranks upon a reunion?

"Heh, the anger you feel right now is also part of my ability."

"I don't believe you!"

"Then try not to be angry right now."

"Fine."

Celestial Master Gui Yuan took two deep breaths, inhaling a fair amount of cold wind. His wrath vanished entirely, and he spoke with great delight.

"I knew you were tricking me. Look, I am not angry anymore."

"As long as you are not angry, that is fine."

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou watched from the side, feeling that their own patriarch was simply not on the same level as Perfected Master Zhui Yue.

"Patriarch Gui Yuan?"

Daoist Master Han Hai was slightly startled to see Celestial Master Gui Yuan. Noticing Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou as well, he roughly deduced that Celestial Master Gui Yuan's appearance was inextricably linked to the two of them.

"Junior Fang Wuya pays respects to Patriarch Gui Yuan."

"So you are the one Little Lu mentioned, the man who brought about the resurgence of our Dao Seeking Sect, Daoist Master Han Hai?"

"Indeed I am."

"Excellent, truly excellent. To think that our Dao Seeking Sect boasts three half-immortals in a single sect; we are destined to prosper! It seems that in this Great Xia, aside from Jiang Ping'an and Master Meng, our Dao Seeking Sect is the strongest!"

"Three half-immortals in a single sect?" This was the first time Daoist Master Han Hai had heard such a claim. Weren't the only half-immortals currently in the Dao Seeking Sect himself and Patriarch Gui Yuan?

"Precisely: you, myself, and her." Celestial Master Gui Yuan pointed toward Yun Mengmeng.

Yun Mengmeng raised her hand to clarify her stance: "Senior, you have it mistaken. Although I listen to the Second Chief, I am not a member of the Dao Seeking Sect."

"Then you are?" This time, it was Celestial Master Gui Yuan's turn to be dazed.

"I am just here to visit relatives."