“Brother Mingyuan, you are truly amazing! How did you do that?”
After snapping out of her daze, Shen Ningyan stared at Zhang Mingyuan with infatuation, wishing she could melt this man into her very body and love him with all her heart.
Her Brother Mingyuan was simply too incredible—he had actually managed to rob the Gate of Ascension!
This was completely unheard of since ancient times!
He was truly the most extraordinary man in the world!
She tried to hug him again, but he pushed her away once more.
“Please behave yourself. Do you want the source energy or not? If you don't, I'll let my Big Brother take all of it!”
She gave Zhang Mingyuan a coquettish, reproachful look, grumbling in her heart.
Brother Mingyuan is still putting on an act!
Still, Brother Mingyuan was right. She should absorb the immortal Dao source energy first!
There was no rush for her and Brother Mingyuan to be intimate.
Then, she sat cross-legged in the void and closed her eyes, absorbing this supreme fortune from the upper world.
As the days passed, the sun rose and the moon set, and the stars shifted in their courses.
A full forty-nine days went by.
Shen Ningyan absorbed a whopping twenty percent of the immortal Dao source energy filling the sky.
As the final wisp of source energy sank into her dantian, a vast pressure unique to a Red Dust Immortal rippled outward from her like a wave, washing over the entire Xuanling Realm.
Today, the third Red Dust Immortal of the Xuanling Realm in ten thousand years was officially born.
Shen Ningyan opened her eyes in delight. In her deep, night-like purple eyes, the supreme divine light of the Disillusionment Great Dao flickered.
Sensing the immense power within her, she immediately looked toward the figure she had been yearning for.
“Brother Mingyuan!”
She cheered, her figure transforming into a streak of purple light.
A gust of intoxicating fragrance rushed toward Zhang Mingyuan.
Zhang Mingyuan was quick to react and raised a hand.
Immortal energy surged in his palm, instantly forming a giant hand that pressed against Shen Ningyan's forehead, keeping her at a distance.
Zhang Mingyuan did not want to have too much to do with this woman. If Little Xuexue saw this, she would definitely get the wrong idea.
“Stop right there!”
Zhang Mingyuan asked with a straight, cold face, “Are you done absorbing?”
With her forehead held back, Shen Ningyan flailed her arms in the air, unable to reach Zhang Mingyuan no matter how hard she tried.
Yet, she was not annoyed in the slightest. Instead, she found Brother Mingyuan's overbearing gesture filled with an indescribable charm.
She closed her eyes, carefully sensing the changes in her Dao body after being cleansed by the immortal Dao source energy.
Inside her dantian, the majestic immortal Dao source energy had transformed into a dense sea of stars, perfectly blending with her laws of disillusionment.
The source energy coursed through her limbs and bones in an endless cosmic cycle.
With every major cycle, it felt as though a miniature universe was being created and destroyed within her body, cycling endlessly.
“Mm-hmm!”
Shen Ningyan nodded obediently, her purple eyes filled with tenderness, “Thanks to Brother Mingyuan, Yan'er's Dao foundation is as solid as it can possibly be.”
“Alright, now that you're done, go stand to the side.”
Zhang Mingyuan withdrew his hand mercilessly, then turned toward the ground below and bellowed at the top of his lungs, “Big Brother! Dinner is served!”
The moment his voice fell, a violet-gold figure instantly tore through the void and appeared in the sky.
It was the Heavenly Dao.
Looking at the remaining eighty percent of the immortal Dao source energy, His eyes gleamed with excitement.
“Excellent, Worthy Brother! Big Brother won't stand on ceremony then!”
The Heavenly Dao opened His massive mouth and took a deep breath.
Instantly, wild winds raged across heaven and earth. The sky-covering immortal Dao source energy surged into His belly like hundreds of rivers returning to the sea.
Burp—
The Heavenly Dao let out a loud, highly human-like burp.
The violet-gold glazed luster around His body deepened, and faint, even more profound law chains began to weave together in the void.
“That was amazing, Worthy Brother!”
The Heavenly Dao patted His belly and leaned in close to Zhang Mingyuan, slinging an arm over his shoulder.
“If we can do this another ten or eight times, our Xuanling Realm can undergo a direct realm ascension!”
“When that time comes, I'll be the boss of the entire Xuanling Realm, and you'll be second-in-command!”
“As long as it's a disciple from your Yunxue Immortal Territory ascending, Big Brother will bestow an extra ten streams of source energy upon them!”
Zhang Mingyuan teased, “Oh, Big Brother, the way you paint these grand illusions... just listening to you is making me feel stuffed!”
The Heavenly Dao chuckled. “Just tell me, is the illusion delicious or not?”
Zhang Mingyuan grinned. “Delicious!”
Standing to the side, Shen Ningyan watched the two of them with their arms over each other's shoulders, completely dazed.
She sized up the middle-aged man in the violet-gold robe from head to toe.
Who on earth was this?
To think he could swallow such a massive amount of immortal Dao source energy in one go without exploding!
And Brother Mingyuan actually called him Big Brother?
But... whatever.
Since he was Brother Mingyuan's Big Brother, then he was naturally her, Shen Ningyan's, Big Brother as well!
At this thought, Shen Ningyan quickly smoothed out her purple cloud flowing immortal gown.
She took a step forward, curtsied gracefully, and spoke in a voice as sweet as honey, “Little Sister Shen Ningyan greets Big Brother!”
The Heavenly Dao was busy bragging and chatting with Zhang Mingyuan. Hearing this sweet call of “Big Brother,” He immediately turned His head.
“Oh my, what a sweet mouth!”
“Since you've called me Big Brother, I can't be stingy.”
“In the future, if you establish a lineage in the Xuanling Realm, when your disciples undergo their tribulations, I'll bestow a few extra streams of source energy upon them too!”
Hearing this, a trace of confusion flashed across Shen Ningyan's beautiful face. “Bestow a few extra streams of source energy?”
The Heavenly Dao put His hands behind His back. “Because I am the Heavenly Dao's avatar of this Xuanling Realm!”
Boom!
Upon hearing this, a thunderclap seemed to explode in Shen Ningyan's mind.
To think that the middle-aged man in front of her was actually the Heavenly Dao's avatar!
No wonder!
No wonder he could swallow so much immortal Dao source energy in one go!
Other than the Heavenly Dao origin, who else in this world could withstand such a massive amount of energy?
After her shock subsided, Shen Ningyan looked at Zhang Mingyuan once more.
The admiration and love in her purple eyes were practically overflowing.
Her Brother Mingyuan was simply too incredible!
Not only did he dare to point his sword at the upper world's Gate of Ascension, but he could even become sworn brothers with the supreme Heavenly Dao of the Xuanling Realm!
Looking across the countless heavens and myriad worlds, what other man could possess such courage and capability?
“Brother Mingyuan...”
The affection in Shen Ningyan's heart welled up. She let out a soft cry and prepared to lean against Zhang Mingyuan again.
However, at this very moment—
A wall of ice, radiating extreme frost, suddenly materialized between the two of them.
The surrounding temperature plummeted, and even the void itself cracked with frozen frost marks.
“You dare lay a finger on my man?”
A completely cold, emotionless voice rang right next to everyone's ears.
Shen Ningyan's gaze turned sharp. She unleashed her laws of disillusionment, shattering the wall of profound ice into pieces.
Amidst the flying ice shards, she focused her gaze.
A woman clad in a gown redder than fire had arrived, stepping through the air at some unknown point.
She was barefoot, her skin fairer than frost and snow, and her three thousand strands of white hair danced wildly in the wind.
Her crimson eyes looked down upon everything as if she were the sole ruler between heaven and earth.
It really was that woman, Su Jinxue!
Shen Ningyan immediately sneered in ridicule, “How shameless! What do you mean your man?”
“Since when did Brother Mingyuan become your man?”
“Su Jinxue, we haven't met for hundreds of years, but your skin has certainly grown thicker than before!”
“Presumptuous!”
Instantly, an extremely cold intent pierced through heaven and earth.
Immediately after, blooms of purple epiphyllums drifted down beneath the sea of clouds.
One was clad in fiery red, aloof and freezing—the Snow Empress who ruled over extreme cold.
The other was in sunset-purple, bewitchingly beautiful—the Illusory Goddess who controlled creation and destruction.
Two peerless Red Dust Immortals confronted each other in the sky above Mount Mu, completely incompatible like fire and water.
Lingxuzi and Bai Lumian had arrived with Su Jinxue earlier. Looking at the scene before them, they smiled at each other, their eyes sparkling with excitement.
This trip was definitely worth it!
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