Chapter 1079: Dual Ancestors Combine!

"Visiting family, Little Lu?" Celestial Master Gui Yuan noticed that Yun Mengmeng had kept talking about the Second Master all along the way, and his first reaction was that she had come to the Seeking Dao Sect to find Lu Yang.

"No, it's Little Zhi, oh, her full name is Yun Zhi. She is my good sister, and also the Eldest Senior Sister of the Second Master. She is exceptionally strong."

"Exceptionally strong? Stronger than you?" Celestial Master Gui Yuan was surprised. As Lu Yang’s Eldest Senior Sister, wasn’t she still just a disciple of the Seeking Dao Sect? She had not even reached the rank of an elder, so how could she deserve the assessment of being "exceptionally strong"?

"Stronger than you, too."

"Oh? That strong?" Celestial Master Gui Yuan was not used to hearing such words.

He had always believed that strength had no absolute relation to one's realm of cultivation. Whether one was strong or weak could only be known after exchanging blows. Ten thousand years ago, when he challenged Jiang Ping'an, who had already ascended to immortality, it was based on this very principle.

Regardless of winning or losing that battle, the most important thing was to adhere to one's own philosophy.

Ten thousand years ago, he had also wanted to challenge Meng Junzi, who had likewise ascended to immortality, but unfortunately, Meng Junzi did not accept the challenge.

Although at that time Meng Junzi firmly insisted that he had not become an immortal, that he was only a half-immortal, and that he had stopped fighting because he was disheartened after losing to Jiang Ping'an.

Celestial Master Gui Yuan simply did not believe Meng Junzi's nonsense.

If you were disheartened, shouldn't you go out pretending to be a weakling to catch people off guard and regain your confidence? What was the meaning of nesting at home every single day? Was Meng Junzi that kind of person?

Meng Junzi must have become an immortal and was harboring some wicked scheme to trap someone.

Having understood this point, Celestial Master Gui Yuan stopped pestering Meng Junzi.

"Grandmaster, calm down, please calm down. You really cannot beat Eldest Senior Sister; Grandmaster Han Hai lost to her too." Lu Yang hurriedly tried to dissuade him. It was already unfortunate enough for Grandmaster Gui Yuan to be struck by lightning and blown up right after getting out of his box; he could not afford another accident.

"You have condensed the prototype of the Spatial Dao Fruit, and yet you still cannot beat that junior named Yun Zhi?" Celestial Master Gui Yuan turned his head and asked.

"I cannot beat her," Daoist Master Han Hai admitted generously. Ever since he and Ao Ya became Dao companions, he had come to peace with it. Being unable to beat Yun Zhi was not a shameful thing, and there was no need to take it too much to heart.

"Where is Yun Zhi? I will go meet her."

"Little Zhi went out, but calculating the time, she should be back by now." Yun Mengmeng answered every question readily.

Lu Yang thought to himself, Sister Mengmeng, please stop adding fuel to the fire. Why did you have to tell Grandmaster that Eldest Senior Sister is about to return?

"Grandmaster, we still have other acquaintances we haven't seen yet." Lu Yang quickly changed the subject to draw Celestial Master Gui Yuan’s attention away.

"There are more?"

"Actually, there are quite a few half-immortals in our sect. It's not just three half-immortals to one sect; among them is an acquaintance of yours."

"Is that so? Let's go take a look." Celestial Master Gui Yuan's interest was indeed piqued by Lu Yang's words.

Then, led by Lu Yang, they walked further and further off the beaten path, all the way until they saw a very familiar place—the Prisoner Peak.

The child-like Martial Grandfather noticed Lu Yang's arrival, rose with a smile, and stepped out of the door to welcome him: "Little Lu, you've come. Who did you capture this time... Grand- Grand- Grand- Grandmaster Gui Yuan?!"

Has he captured even the founding ancestor? No, what am I thinking?

Prisoner Peak had never received so many guests at once: Yun Mengmeng, Dai Bufan, the Innate Daoist, Meng Jingzhou, and Daoist Master Han Hai entered one after another.

Perfected Cultivator Chui Yue could not leave the Great Snowy Mountains, so she could not come.

Daoist Master Han Hai walked at the very end of the line. He had managed with great difficulty to take the Innate Daoist as his disciple to preserve his generational seniority, but with the return of Celestial Master Gui Yuan, he had become the second oldest again.

As the grand ancestor of the sect's revival, why is it so difficult for me to be number one in the Seeking Dao Sect?

"Gui Yuan, you are still alive?"

Hearing the familiar voice, Celestial Master Gui Yuan could not recall who the other party was for a moment. He searched along the sound and found an acquaintance who left him quite astonished.

"Void?"

Supreme Void, a half-immortal from the late period of the Great Yu Dynasty, one of the overlords of the continent, who had been defeated by Jiang Ping'an and Meng Junzi.

Celestial Master Gui Yuan was completely dumbfounded upon seeing Supreme Void. It was true that they were acquaintances, but the problem was that he couldn't find this acquaintance even if he wanted to eighty thousand years ago. How was he locked up in Prisoner Peak now?!

"Si Lei!" Upon seeing Sovereign Si Lei being dragged along like a dead dog, Sovereign Si Chen could not care less about the rule forbidding loud noises on Prisoner Peak and shouted out in shock.

Hearing someone calling his name, Sovereign Si Lei opened his eyes dazedly and saw Sovereign Si Chen, who had been missing for a long time.

"Si Chen, why are you here?"

Sovereign Si Chen's old eyes welled with tears. Wasn't that a foolish question? Couldn't he see that he had been captured?

Seeing that the two Sovereigns possessed deep and sincere feelings for each other, Meng Jingzhou handed Sovereign Si Lei over to the child-like Martial Grandfather, allowing the two Sovereigns to be neighbors on Prisoner Peak.

The prisoners of Prisoner Peak stirred slightly. It was Lu Yang again, capturing yet another half-immortal.

Duan Qinshui and Mo Xiaochou, who had been captured and brought here from the Buddhist Kingdom, had the strongest reaction. They had the lowest cultivation levels and were the last to arrive at Prisoner Peak, so they had not witnessed the gradual expansion of the peak's inmates.

Now they were witnessing it.

Being on Prisoner Peak broadened one's horizons far more than being in the outside world.

"Martial Grandfather, I captured a cultivator from the mid-period of the Great Qian Dynasty along the way." Yun Zhi’s voice echoed from outside Prisoner Peak.

Everyone turned around together and saw Yun Zhi dragging an unfamiliar cultivator into Prisoner Peak. Noticing that so many people were looking at her, she was slightly surprised.

However, she did not think too much of it until she saw Celestial Master Gui Yuan standing at the very front. Only then did she show a noticeable reaction, tossing the unfamiliar cultivator onto the ground and crossing her hands in a respectful salute.

"Junior Yun Zhi greets Grandmaster Gui Yuan."

"You are Yun Zhi?" Celestial Master Gui Yuan sized her up from head to toe. Her cultivation was unfathomably deep, and from the feel of it, she was stronger than Yun Mengmeng.

No wonder she was evaluated by Yun Mengmeng as "exceptionally strong."

"I heard that you are very strong?"

"How can I be called very strong? Grandmaster must be joking, it is merely flattery among acquaintances."

"Whether it is flattery or not, you and I shall know with a single test!"

"How would this junior dare to exchange blows with Grandmaster? If I happen to hurt Grandmaster, this junior would feel deeply guilty."

Hearing these words, Celestial Master Gui Yuan was moved to a laugh of sheer exasperation: "I would like to see exactly how you intend to hurt me!"

Seeing that Celestial Master Gui Yuan's battle intent was resolute and that she could probably not avoid it, Yun Zhi let out a soft sigh: "Since it is so, it would be improper for this junior to spoil Grandmaster's high spirits. However, this Prisoner Peak is narrow, and I fear we cannot fully deploy our limbs. I must ask Grandmaster to move to the outside world."

"Good!"

Considering Celestial Master Gui Yuan's cultivation level, Yun Zhi invited him to the depths of the Seeking Dao Sect, where the mountain ranges rolled continuously and they could fight to their hearts' content.

Everyone joined in the excitement and followed them in a single crowd.

"Come, armor!" Celestial Master Gui Yuan shouted fiercely. Placed in the grand hall to enjoy the offerings of incense, the blood-stained armor heard its master's call and came hurtling through the air.

This was Celestial Master Gui Yuan’s armor, and also one of the foundational heritages of the Seeking Dao Sect. A cultivator at the Body Integration Stage wearing this armor could rival someone at the Tribulation Transmutation Stage; it was peerlessly powerful.

Putting on the armor, Celestial Master Gui Yuan felt as though he had returned once more to those war-torn years one hundred thousand years ago.

"Grandmaster, after you."

"Letting me strike first? What an arrogant youth!"

Celestial Master Gui Yuan stomped fiercely on the ground. The earth fractured, and he merged into one with the land, transforming into a sky-propping giant that commanded the wind and rain!

He was unified with the earth; as long as his feet remained planted upon the ground, an endless stream of power would surge forth. This was the very move that had caused Sovereign Si Lei to suffer immensely!

Yun Zhi leaped up gently, yet she reached tens of thousands of feet high. Her face remained expressionless as her jade-like hand formed a fist, and the golden bell tied to her wrist jingled merrily.

Bang!

The fist hammered into the chest of the sky-propping giant, and the giant slowly collapsed, shattering into countless pieces upon impact.

Celestial Master Gui Yuan reverted to his original size and lay upon the ground, his eyes completely vacant.

Unbelievably strong, a foe he could not best.

Once more he recalled the glorious eras of a hundred thousand years past, an age when he fought drenched in blood, breaking through one bottleneck after another in the crucible of combat to become a master of peerless renown, laying the very bedrock for the later establishment of the Five Great Immortal Sects.

In those days, surrounded by companions called to his side, how many seemingly invincible adversaries had he overcome, and how utterly high-spirited he had been.

Was he truly to shrink back here, in the face of a mere junior?

No!

With the agile grace of a flipping hawk, Heavenly Venerable Guiyuan leapt to his feet.

If he could not defeat Yun Zhi alone, then they would face her together.

"Hanhai, come and aid me!"

"Ah? Oh." Though clueless as to what Heavenly Venerable Guiyuan intended, it was, after all, the command of his grandmaster, and it had to be obeyed.

Daoist Master Hanhai dutifully stepped onto the battlefield, catching the fiery, combative light burning within Heavenly Venerable Guiyuan's eyes.

As co-founders of the Single Dao Sect, a tacit understanding sparked between them at this very instant; without a single word spoken, each knew the other's mind, and a fervent heat surged within Hanhai's chest, reigniting his hope!

They would defeat Yun Zhi, and they would reclaim the dignity of the elders!

"Unite!"

Heavenly Venerable Guiyuan invoked the embryonic form of his Fruit of Unity, merging his form entirely with that of Daoist Master Hanhai!

The fusion of two half-immortals into a single entity unleashed a torrent of power, elevating their cultivation realm to an unimaginable height!

Daoist Master Hanhai had long heard rumors of Heavenly Venerable Guiyuan's methods, but only today did he profoundly experience just how formidable an art this truly was!

As they stood now, they felt entirely omnipotent!

This was the power of unity, the strength of cooperation!

When all minds are aligned, their collective sharpness can cut through metal; so long as those above and below share a single heart, there is no enemy that cannot be vanquished!

Heavenly Venerable Guiyuan had frequently encountered insurmountable foes, yet he had never stood alone; he always possessed trustworthy companions to whom he could fearlessly entrust his back!

"Yun Zhi, there is no need to show regard for our status, strike with all your might..."

"Cloudfall Palm."

The clouds overhead coalesced into the shape of a massive hand, and as the cloudy palm descended, it shattered layer upon layer of void, plunging straight down.

Boom—

As the smoke and dust cleared, the fusion dissolved, leaving the two founding masters lying at the center of a crater, their eyes vacant and lifeless.