Among the Immortal Officials and Immortal Nobles who descended from the Immortal Dynasty this time, who was the most dazzling, the most praised?
It was neither the dozen-plus True Immortals, nor those several dozen nine-tribulation Scattered Immortals.
Qingyan, Wan Huaiyu, Qin Hao, and Bei Changqing—these few Purple-Gold Immortal Nobles were relatively low-key, so they naturally didn't count either.
Long Qianren, the Purple-Cloud Immortal Noble from the Cloud-Top Long Family, who possessed the imposing might of the Azure Dragon Dominating the Sun and gathered the Minor Natural Order, Minor Heavenly Mandate, and Minor Immortal Edict within himself, could perhaps be considered dazzling and praiseworthy. But if speaking of the most dazzling and most praised, it wasn't him. It was Liu Guangque, also a Purple-Cloud Immortal Noble, from the Flowing Light Family.
To tell the truth, the Flowing Light Family's background and status couldn't compare to the Cloud-Top Long Family.
As for Fortune, Liu Guangque possessed neither the Minor Natural Order nor the Minor Heavenly Mandate, and of course, no Minor Immortal Edict either. The reason he was called the most dazzling was because his existence was truly radiant, especially his body of 811 layers of Great Natural Order Color Spirit. When he appeared, ten-thousand-zhang brilliance blotted out the sky and sun, and the sky full of rainbows was like a deity descending.
The world knew that the Great Natural Order Color Spirit was a relatively common type of Fortune.
It was also a Fortune that ordinary people could touch.
But 'touch' was all.
Some had ten layers, some a dozen or so layers, some several dozen layers. Those who reached the extraordinary 81 layers of Great Natural Order Color Spirit Fortune were not many.
Those who could reach 180 layers, transforming into wind and cloud, were even fewer.
Those who could reach 270 layers were already top-tier existences in Yanluo Kingdom.
As for 360 layers, such prodigies might exist in Yanluo Kingdom, but definitely no more than three.
And 450 layers? In the past hundred years of Yanluo Kingdom's present-ancient era, there had never been one.
Yet now, among the Purple-Cloud Immortal Nobles descending from the Immortal Dynasty, came one with 811 layers, hailed as the ultimate of nines, a Great Natural Order Color Spirit prodigy.
What did 811 layers of Great Natural Order Color Spirit even mean?
No one knew.
Because no one had ever seen it. Forget seeing it, many hadn't even heard of it.
As was widely known:
Great Natural Order Color Spirit Fortune, at 81 layers, contained the might of the Great Natural Order storm.
At 180 layers, one could transform into cloud, into wind, coming and going without a trace.
If at 270 layers, it was the might of the Great Natural Order thunder. Every move and every strike carried the force of ten thousand jun. The Immortal Dynasty noble son Lü Tianze from the Yanluo Immortal Manor was like this before.
If at 360 layers, legend said it was the might of the Great Natural Order moving mountains and draining seas.
If at 450 layers, legend said it was the might of the Great Natural Order freezing heaven and earth.
If at the ultimate of nines, 811 layers of Great Natural Order Color Spirit, legend said one could grasp Pure Yang above and command Pure Yin below. Raising a hand could shift Yin and Yang, transform the Five Elements, determine life and death, seize the creation of heaven, ascend to the skies or enter the earth—there was nothing one could not do.
Precisely because of this, Liu Guangque also had an extremely resounding honorific title: Son of the Great Natural Order.
The main reason the Flowing Light Family was hailed as a family favored by heaven in the present-ancient era was largely due to Liu Guangque's ultimate-of-nines, 811-layer Great Natural Order Color Spirit Fortune.
And Liu Guangque, relying on this peerless, matchless Great Natural Order Color Spirit Fortune of the ultimate of nines, became famous throughout the world in one fell swoop. To this day, there was virtually no one who didn't know his name. The strength of his limelight far surpassed that of Long Qianren, who was hailed as gathering the favor of ten thousand upon himself.
Ever since the host of Immortal Officials and Immortal Nobles from the Immortal Dynasty descended, Yanluo Kingdom's previously gloomy atmosphere changed completely. Everywhere was filled with a boiling, lively air.
Especially the Four Great Families and Seven Great Sects. Because of the incident at Yunchuan Garden some days ago, not only had they lost all face, they were also filled with anger they dared not voice, not even daring to seek revenge against that self-proclaimed monarch swindler.
They had been waiting.
Waiting for the Immortals from the Immortal Dynasty to descend.
Upon receiving news of the Immortals' descent, the big shots of the Four Great Families and Seven Great Sects, even some inner-council ancestral elders, came forward to welcome them respectfully. In the following days, they further invited the Immortal Officials and Immortal Nobles of the Immortal Dynasty to be guests at their sects, taking the opportunity to present all sorts of rare treasures they had prepared long ago.
After all, these were Immortals from the Immortal Dynasty, and there were also heaven-defying prodigies like Long Qianren and Liu Guangque.
The Immortals of the Immortal Dynasty naturally went without saying.
And prodigies born in response to destiny like Long Qianren and Liu Guangque might very well become the influential figures ruling this world in the future.
Under such circumstances, who wouldn't try to curry favor?
Not to mention others, even the Taiji Sect, which had very good relations with the Yanluo Imperial Family, swaggeringly invited the Immortal Officials of the Immortal Dynasty into their sect.
Of course.
It wasn't just the Taiji Sect. With the Immortal Dynasty's Immortals descending, the Yanluo Imperial Family also had no choice but to go and welcome them respectfully. And the one who made the appearance was none other than the Yanluo Emperor, Tang Yunqi. Even though he knew this time the Immortal Dynasty had come to deal with the Yanluo Imperial Family, and even though he had a thousand, ten thousand reasons not to want to go, he still had to.
Not go?
That would be disrespectful to the Immortal Dynasty.
This big hat, the Yanluo Imperial Family could not afford to wear it. At least, not for now.
And just as Tang Laoguai had said, their Yanluo Imperial Family did not want to make things too tense with the Immortal Dynasty. Even though they clearly knew the Immortal Dynasty had come this time to deal with them, the superficial formalities still had to be observed.
Ever since the Immortal Officials and Immortal Nobles of the Immortal Dynasty descended, from the Immortals above to the Immortal Officials below—whether they were Purple-Gold Immortal Officials who were Scattered Immortals, or Purple-Cloud Immortal Nobles who were Fortune prodigies, or even ordinary Immortal Dynasty noble sons—almost all became honored guests of the Four Great Families and Seven Great Sects.
However.
Only two people were exceptions, declining all invitations from the Four Great Families and Seven Great Sects.
These two were both Purple-Gold Immortal Nobles: Wan Huaiyu and Qin Hao.
In their previous lives, both were Immortals, and famous Mysterious Immortals at that. Since reincarnating, they had always kept a low profile. They originally intended to continue this way, but Fortune played tricks on them. Nine years ago, during that storm in the Great Northwest belonging to the Blood of Original Sin, although the two did not participate, they witnessed the event's process. At that time, many experts from the Immortal Path went, including many acquaintances from their previous lives. Consequently, their identities were recognized.
Ever since then, the Immortal Dynasty had ceaselessly come to persuade them. Among them were not a few former friends from past lives, and even the Nine Heavens Ancient Elders from above the clouds came to persuade them.
The tree may prefer calm, but the wind will not cease.
The two wanted to hide but couldn't escape, wanted to leave but couldn't get away. In the end, with no other choice, they declined entry into the clouds above, and reluctantly agreed to temporarily join the Immortal Dynasty. The Immortal Dynasty originally wanted to confer upon them extremely noble and exalted statuses, but the two declined those as well.
In this lifetime, the two did not wish to involve themselves in any matters of the Immortal Path again. Since they couldn't avoid it, they could only temporarily join the Immortal Dynasty. After much thought, they proactively requested a position that was neither too high nor too low, and also relatively idle: that of Purple-Gold Immortal Noble.
Originally thinking the Purple-Gold Immortal Noble was an idle position, but in reality?
It wasn't idle.
To be precise, ever since the day they joined the Immortal Dynasty, the two knew the Immortal Dynasty would definitely not let them be idle.
Sure enough, before they could enjoy a few years of idleness, the Immortal Dynasty came knocking.
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