Ning Jun shook his head with a bitter expression: "Brother Yun, if you have important business to attend to at Yantian Palace, you should take care of those matters first."
"I have 180 years left in my 200-year cycle of duty, so I won't be able to reunite with you for a while."
[Then a voice transmission entered your ear: "Fortunately, Brother Yun, you didn't intend to participate in the Supreme War, otherwise..."]
The transmission abruptly ended.
[You saw Ning Jun's expression suddenly change, and instinctively probed him with your spiritual power, discovering that his body was covered with purple-gold seals, restricting his actions and monitoring his emotions.]
[Similar to the lie detection arrays in Qingyu, he would be punished if he showed any corresponding emotions.]
[His telepathic transmission just now violated the seal, causing damage to his internal body and directly harming his life essence. It will take him at least 50 years to fully recover on his own.]
Your brow furrowed.
There's a problem, there really is a problem!
[If it weren't for the backlash from Ning Jun's seal, you might have thought that he was being tempered by the Heavenly Martial God, meant to be a gatekeeper for 200 years to temper his carefree nature before being carefully nurtured.]
[Or perhaps they simply recruited him as a gatekeeper, but as a gatekeeper of a celestial-level power, his treatment is better than before.]
But this is clearly going too far.
Without hesitation, you stepped forward, your palm striking his body as your Yuan energy surged into him, violently invading every corner of his being.
"What did I just say?"
"Flavors of Nantong"
[That seal has considerable binding force and comes with its own code. Too lazy to use your Daoist vision to crack it bit by bit, you simply have your adopted sons, the True Immortals, take action in the future and beat the Yantian Palace until it reveals the code.]
[They severed all the seals with unstoppable force.]
[This was followed by a soft sigh: "I'm sorry, I'm a little late."]
"Nantong Railway!"
[From the future where you learned the seal unlock code, you now know all the behind-the-scenes truths and related secrets, even more than Ning Jun himself.]
[It's not a very complicated story; it's just a very common, simple ascension scam.]
Those chosen and taken away by the God of Heavenly Martial Arts did not receive glory or greater opportunities for advancement; instead, they were implanted with seals and forced to be treated like slaves.
This behavior is difficult for normal people to understand. Since the other party has emerged from a continent, it means that they possess sufficient potential and willpower. With careful nurturing, the probability of them becoming an immortal is more or less certain.
[It's not like a scenario where "powerful beings from the upper realm treat our ascended beings as food." Both sides are human. Even if they weren't human, there are no absolute racial grudges in the vast expanse of space. Instead of locking them up and using them like dogs, why not nurture them properly?]
[Because the God of Heavenly Martial Arts has a somewhat twisted mindset.]
She was once one of the "Holy Son/Holy Daughter Candidates" of the Yantian Palace. If she succeeded in the competition and became the Holy Daughter, she would receive the full support of the entire Yantian Palace and have the hope of ascending to immortality through those vast resources.
Then she lost the competition.
Not only were they severely humiliated by the victors, but they were also exiled to the Tianwu Continent, located at the edge of the universe.
[How difficult is it to become an immortal? The Yantian Palace selects a Holy Son every 500,000 years (most beings in the sixth realm of the 36th Heaven only live for about 500,000 years), meaning that on average, only one True Immortal is born every 100 million years. This means that even if you become a Holy Son, you only have a 1 in 200 chance of becoming an immortal.]
[Not to mention the Heavenly Martial God who lost the competition!]
However, fate is unpredictable. The holy son who surpassed her in fame died during the tribulation of immortality, dissolving into the universe at the very moment he stepped into the gates of immortality, leaving not a trace.
[However, the God of Heavenly Martial Arts experienced several extraordinary encounters, eventually surpassing others, breaking through to the seventh realm, and returning to the Yantian Palace, presenting a grand drama of a king's return.]
After the God of Heavenly Martial returned to the Yantian Palace and regained her rightful powers, she did not regard the newly risen Heavenly Martial Continent as a place of remembrance and reminiscence. Instead, she saw it as a shameful place that symbolized the marks of her defeat.
The thought of the Tianwu Continent filled her with unhappiness and only deep sorrow; she felt an almost overwhelming urge to destroy it.
[She ultimately did not destroy the Tianwu Continent, but instead imposed upon others what she herself would not have them do to her.]
[Hold a selection competition to choose the most outstanding individuals in the Six Realms from every ten thousand years on the Tianwu Continent and bring them into the Yantian Palace.]
Then, when the victors arrived at the Heavenly Palace full of joy, they were not faced with a boundless future, but with a bleak one.
Although the God of Heavenly Martial Arts did not kill them, he treated them in the same way that the Heavenly Palace treated prisoners and those who had committed crimes.
[A seal was set up, prohibiting them from rebuilding the structure and from revealing their situation; they were simply treated as gatekeepers.]
Having someone at the tenth level of the Heavenly Realm, a sixth-realm expert, serve as gatekeepers is somewhat extravagant for the Yan Tian Palace, but the Heavenly Martial God doesn't care; she only cares about her own happiness.
No one else is allowed to get up from where she did!
Even if a genius is produced on the Tianwu Continent, they will be implicated, leaving a criminal record in her mind. Although it won't lead to death, they will only be fit to guard the gate or undertake suicidal scout missions in conflicts with other star systems, thus jeopardizing their future.
[You're a little angry because you realize that without you, Ning Jun and his son would have both fallen into this trap.]
[Uh, no, if you hadn't appeared in the first place, Ning Tian wouldn't even have been born, and Ning Jun might not have had the chance to break through to the fifth realm; they might have already died from exhaustion.]
The moment the seal was broken, Ning Jun felt a sense of relief, but his expression also changed drastically: "Brother Yun, let's go quickly!"
That seal has a sensing function; once it's broken, it means that its creator—Yan Tian Palace—will become aware of it!
"No need to worry."
You reassured her.
"Although it's different from what I imagined, this scene can still be staged."
Look up and look ahead.
[Yantian Palace, a first-rate power of Guangchenyuantang, has 1,303 True Immortals, among whom the strongest possesses 729 Dao Principles.]
They spent billions of years piling up countless substances, weaving them into a unique domain, creating this colossal star palace complex spanning nine thousand light-years in length and width.
[Incomparably glorious, incomparably prosperous.]
True kings are like rain, true emperors are like clouds.
They are the rulers of a vast star system spanning hundreds of billions of light-years.
...
(Fourth update, will we be opening up other universe maps tomorrow? (ˉ﹃ˉ?))
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