"Really? You're going to reveal your true form?"
Gu Qingfeng looked Huode up and down with suspicion, chuckling, "Show me this true form of yours, old man."
"Then you better brace yourself, kid. Don't get scared shitless."
Huode cleared his throat twice, straightened his expression, and then transformed. The Huode dressed in tattered, slovenly robes disappeared, replaced by a Huode clad in holy white robes, with snow-white hair and beard, holding a Buddhist whisk.
"Kid Gu."
Huode stroked his white beard, exuding an air of immortal grace, and smiled faintly, "How is this old Daoist's true form? Judging by your expression, you must be quite shocked."
To tell the truth, Gu Qingfeng's heart was indeed taken aback by Huode's current appearance. He circled Huode, looking him over again and again. After a moment, he exclaimed in admiration, "I say, Huode, not bad at all. No wonder they say clothes make the man and gold makes the Buddha. You, wearing this getup, at first glance really do have a bit of that immortal grace about you. If I didn't know you, I'd really think you were some senior expert who popped out of nowhere."
"Hahahaha! Now you believe me, right?"
Huode laughed triumphantly and said, "Moreover, I can tell you very responsibly that in the Lingluo Heavenly Domain, I truly am a genuine senior expert. Whether it's the ancestors of immortal realm families, or the great lords of various regions, even those blessed by Heaven's Mandate, when they see me, they must respectfully address me as Senior Yunxiazi."
Gu Qingfeng raised an eyebrow and asked, "Senior Yunxiazi?"
"That's right. Yunxiazi is my Dao Title in the Lingluo Heavenly Domain."
"Yunxiazi? Why does that Dao Title sound so familiar?"
Suddenly, Gu Qingfeng remembered something. "Isn't that the damn Dao Title of our Yunxia Sect's founding patriarch?"
"Precisely because Yunxiazi is our Yunxia Sect's founding patriarch's Dao Title, that's why I gave myself the Dao Title Yunxiazi."
"Why?"
"Kid Gu, you know I've always had one great regret in my life: failing to elevate the Yunxia Sect to glory."
Gu Qingfeng nodded. He also knew Huode cared deeply about the Yunxia Sect. If not for this reason, back in the Mortal World, Huode wouldn't have devoted most of his life's efforts to the Yunxia Sect.
"To this day, I still clearly remember how my master died depressed back then, precisely because the Yunxia Sect was declining day by day. From that moment on, I swore I would definitely elevate the Yunxia Sect to glory in the future."
"Unfortunately, in the past, I didn't have the capability. Under my hands, not only did the Yunxia Sect fail to prosper, but its legacy wasn't even passed down. In the end, you wiped it out with a single slap."
"The Yunxia Sect is your knot, and this knot has grown stronger and stronger in your heart. That's the fundamental reason your cultivation has stagnated."
Gu Qingfeng said, "If I hadn't destroyed the Yunxia Sect back then, you'd never have gotten over this hurdle in your entire life."
"I know you destroyed the Yunxia Sect back then for my own good, but..." Huode shook his head. "The Yunxia Sect carries too many, too many of my memories, and too many, too many of my dreams. I simply can't let it go. In the past, I didn't have the ability to elevate the Yunxia Sect. Later, thanks to you, kid, who reshaped my fleshly body, I finally gained some capability."
Gu Qingfeng asked, "And then?"
"Actually, kid Gu, there's one thing I've never told you."
"What is it?"
"Back when I woke up after my fleshly body was reshaped, I didn't rush to venture into the Great Desolate. Instead, I re-established the Yunxia Sect in the Mortal World. You know my reputation in the Mortal World isn't great; I've done quite a few sneaky, underhanded things. Many acquaintances know my background. I was worried that if I used the Dao Title Huode to establish the Yunxia Sect, people would gossip later. So, on a whim, I used the founding patriarch's Dao Title and falsely claimed to the outside world that I was the Yunxia Sect's founding patriarch, Yunxiazi."
"So, you created another Yunxia Sect in our Mortal World?"
Gu Qingfeng looked at Huode with a playful smile. "Judging by your smug expression, the re-established Yunxia Sect is doing pretty well in the Mortal World, right?"
"Hehe."
Huode smiled mysteriously. "Kid Gu, since we're in the Lingluo Heavenly Domain, do you want to go take a look at our homeland world?"
"Even if you didn't mention it, I was thinking of going back for a look."
"Then let's go."
In the Great Desolate, every Heavenly Domain contains numerous Small Chiliocosms, and the Lingluo Heavenly Domain was no exception.
In the Ancient Era, due to scarce resources, the Immortal Dynasty, which dominated the world's origin, feared people from other worlds competing for resources and worried about invasions by demons and monsters. Therefore, most Mortal Worlds were sealed. Once the spatial barriers were activated, it was difficult for people from outside the world to enter, and those inside found it hard to leave.
Now, in the Present Era, all things have revived, cultivation resources are everywhere. Moreover, with the Immortal Dynasty dominating the Great Desolate in the Present Era, they no longer worry about others competing for resources or invasions by demons and monsters. Therefore, all Mortal Worlds dominated by the Immortal Path are in an open state.
People from both inside and outside the world can come and go freely. Not only that, for trade and exchanges, worlds are interconnected. As long as they obtain permission from the Immortal Dynasty, various immortal realms can also establish presences there.
The homeland world of Gu Qingfeng and Huode was called the Primordial World.
That's right.
It was called the Primordial World.
A very peculiar and strange name.
As for why it had such a strange name, no one knew.
Among the many Mortal Worlds in the Lingluo Heavenly Domain, the Primordial World's reputation was not small; one could even say it was quite significant. At the very least, whenever the Primordial World was mentioned, most people had heard of it.
The reason was simple.
Mount Wudao had descended upon the Primordial World not just once, but multiple times.
As everyone knew, Mount Wudao belonged to the Daoless Age and, in a sense, even represented the Daoless Age. There were even rumors that by ascending Mount Wudao, one could uncover all the secrets of the Daoless Age.
Mount Wudao's multiple descents upon the Primordial World were definitely not coincidences.
Some said the Primordial World might have some connection to the Daoless Age; it wasn't impossible that the Primordial World was a fragment world of the Daoless Age.
Based on this alone, the Primordial World was enough to become famous throughout the Great Desolate.
Of course.
There was another, even more important reason for the Primordial World's great reputation.
In most worlds dominated by the Immortal Path, their origin was controlled by the Immortal Dynasty, and their World Honored Ones were appointed by the Immortal Dynasty's ruler.
Only the origin of the Primordial World was not dominated by the Immortal Dynasty. Instead, it had always been, from beginning to end, dominated by the World Honored Lady, Jun Xuanji. The Immortal Dynasty had never dominated the Primordial World's origin, not even once.