Chapter 323 Xiao Yan's baptism lasts eighty-one days, shocking the Celestial Court!
"Roar!!!"
Wanlong Immortal Continent, deep within the nest of the true dragon.
As the dragon roar resounded, a dark golden sound wave swept out instantly.
In an instant, countless chaotic cliffs collapsed under the sound wave, and the flowing golden dragon energy waterfalls were instantly reversed and shattered into nothingness.
Clearly, it was the old dragon king who had been asleep for three eras who went completely mad after discovering that the Nine-Turn Dragon Blood Immortal Fruit he had left for his beloved grandson had vanished!
Meanwhile, in a desolate star field a million miles away from the True Dragon's Nest.
The void rippled slightly, and Li Changsheng's 13,506th clone, grabbing Zi Yan by the back of her collar, emerged disheveled from the void.
"My goodness, this old mudfish has such a bad temper when he wakes up."
Li Changsheng's clone wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and glanced in the direction of the True Dragon's Nest with lingering fear.
According to normal human thinking, escaping a million miles, or even crossing a continent, would make one absolutely safe.
But in Li Changsheng's dictionary, there was never the word "absolute safety".
"Little girl, hold your breath!"
After he finished speaking, Li Changsheng's clone did not pause at all.
As if by magic, he pulled out a handful of colorful talismans and bottles from his storage ring.
"Whoosh!"
He first affixed a total of thirty-six Heaven-Deceiving and Breath-Concealing Talismans to himself and Zi Yan.
Then he opened a jade bottle and poured out a gray powder that emitted a pungent odor, sprinkling it all over the two of them from head to toe.
Achoo!
Zi Yan sneezed from the powder, then asked in confusion, "Big brother, what is this? It stinks!"
"Shut up!"
"This is the 'Severing Fruit and Seeking Cause' Powder, which can erase all traces and causal relationships we just left behind!"
After saying that, Li Changsheng's clone glared at her with some annoyance.
He wondered how someone from the lower realm could be so carefree.
But that wasn't all. He then pulled out three small wooden figures carved from wood struck by lightning thousands of years ago.
Then, he forced out three drops of blood essence from his fingertips and placed them on the wooden figure's forehead.
Soon, the three small wooden figures swelled in the wind and instantly transformed into three people who looked exactly like Li Changsheng's clone and Zi Yan.
"go!"
Li Changsheng's clone changed the hand seals.
The three substitutes instantly transformed into three streaks of light, fleeing desperately in three completely different directions: east, west, and north of the Immortal Realm.
Moreover, while running, he deliberately emitted a faint aura of the True Dragon Fruit.
After doing all this, Li Changsheng's clone finally let out a long breath.
"Hoo... We're employing a three-pronged approach: preventing tracking, severing causality, and using a substitution illusion."
"Now even if that old mudfish turns the entire Immortal Realm upside down, he won't be able to find us."
On the other side, Zi Yan was already dumbfounded by Li Changsheng's smooth and dazzling actions.
She blinked her big eyes blankly, looking completely bewildered, and asked:
Why are you so skilled at this?
"nonsense!"
Li Changsheng's clone rolled his eyes, and while pulling Zi Yan to continue tearing through space, he lectured her in an annoyed tone:
"The Immortal Realm is a very complex place! Do you think you're playing in the mud in your mortal world?"
"In this world, if a dog on the street glances at you, it might be plotting how to extract your soul to refine into a pill."
"And you, you just came up and started eating the True Dragon Clan's most precious treasure!"
"If you hadn't met a kind and honest person like me, you would have been made into dragon meat sashimi by now!"
Upon hearing this, Zi Yan shrank back and rubbed her stomach in a somewhat aggrieved manner.
"But I'm hungry..."
"Eat, eat, all you ever do is eat."
...
The two bickered as they swiftly traversed the void passage.
Suddenly, the spatial barrier in front of them began to twist violently.
A violent void storm suddenly blocked their path without warning.
"Oh no! It's a void turbulence!"
Li Changsheng's clone's expression changed slightly.
His clone is weak; if he gets caught up in it, the clone shattering is a minor matter, but all the immortal herbs he painstakingly collected will be wasted.
He was just about to grit his teeth and unleash a forbidden artifact to save his life.
Just then, Zi Yan, who was being held in his hand, suddenly let out a burp.
"belch!"
As the burp was released, a faint purple-gold dragon pattern flickered between Zi Yan's eyebrows.
Immediately afterwards, a natural, seemingly innate spatial law fluctuation, as if it could control all things from birth, also gushed out from the little girl's mouth.
In an instant, the void storm, upon contact with this spatial fluctuation, became as docile as a puppy seeing its master.
They even proactively parted to the sides, making way for a flat and wide void avenue for them.
"this..."
Upon witnessing this unbelievable scene, even Li Changsheng's clone, who had reached into his robes to retrieve a forbidden artifact, froze.
He looked at Zi Yan, who had just finished burping and was innocently rubbing her eyes, his eyes filled with disbelief.
"Spatial affinity?"
Li Changsheng's clone couldn't help but gasp.
The bloodline of the Ancient Dragon Clan is actually not considered particularly significant among the many divine beasts in the Immortal Realm.
But the talent that Zi Yan just displayed was not about using strength to fight against space, but rather that she herself seemed to be a part of this void!
"No wonder the Immortal Lord wanted me to send this clone to wander around the outskirts of the True Dragon's Nest. It turns out he had already foreseen this variable!"
Li Changsheng's clone suddenly realized.
The Primordial Celestial Court governs countless territories, and every day a massive number of personnel and resources need to be allocated through inter-state teleportation arrays.
Although the Celestial Court has countless array masters, maintaining those super teleportation arrays is still extremely complicated.
If a being with a natural affinity for the origin of space could serve as the array's core or oversee those spatial nodes, the Celestial Court's operational efficiency would definitely increase a hundredfold!
"Little girl."
Li Changsheng's clone looked at Zi Yan, and the disdain on his face instantly disappeared, replaced by a kind smile that resembled that of someone who had abducted a child.
"Wouldn't you like to eat and drink delicious food every day? And have that kind of fruit at every meal?"
Upon hearing this, Zi Yan's big eyes immediately lit up like light bulbs.
"Yes! Do you have anything good to eat?"
"I don't have it, but my master does!"
After saying that, Li Changsheng's clone also burst into laughter.
Then, carrying Zi Yan, they sped off towards the Primordial Immortal Court.
...
Half a day later.
The outer perimeter of the Primordial Celestial Court.
With a spatial fluctuation, Li Changsheng's clone appeared above the sea of clouds, bringing Zi Yan with him.
As soon as she peeked out, Zi Yan's gaze was completely drawn to the vast and boundless architectural complex below, which radiated endless celestial light.
But the next second, her face turned deathly pale.
Because she spotted a sacred mountain below the Celestial Court at a glance.
On Mount Ling, a true dragon, thousands of feet long and covered with dark gold scales, was wearing a bronze collar and laboriously pulling a huge bronze chariot across the sky.
The bloodline pressure emanating from the true dragon caused the ancient dragon bloodline within Zi Yan's body to tremble instinctively.
"Big, big brother..."
Zi Yan clung tightly to Li Changsheng's leg and burst into tears, smearing her tears and snot all over his linen clothes.
"Ziyan, don't go pull the cart!"
"Ziyan is too weak to plow the land! Waaah..."
Li Changsheng's clone twitched at the corner of his mouth and disdainfully pried her small hand away.
"Pulling a cart? You wish!"
"That dark gold dragon is a pure-blooded divine beast; it does all the heavy lifting."
"A lower-class mudfish like you with mottled bloodlines is probably only fit to work in the kitchen chopping onions."
Listening to their somewhat comical conversation.
Outside the light screen, the old dragon emperor Zhu Kun, who was in the magma beneath the Dou Qi Continent, couldn't help but shed tears.
"She wasn't eaten! My daughter wasn't eaten as a snack!"
For a moment, Zhu Kun's enormous body was also rolling around in the magma, as excited as a child tens of thousands of years old.
He had just watched Zi Yan being teleported away, and then saw her stealing fruit in the True Dragon's Nest; his heart was practically leaping out of his throat.
That's a real dragon's nest!
Any random dragon that runs out could turn the Dou Qi Continent upside down.
Unexpectedly, at the last moment, it was that clone of the first rank of the Celestial Court who intervened and saved Zi Yan.
"It's good that we went to the Primordial Celestial Court, it's good that we went to the Celestial Court..."
Zhu Kun let out a long sigh of relief.
Having witnessed the terror of this perfect world, how could he dare to hope that Zi Yan would fight for any world domination?
To be able to work as a lowly onion-chopping servant in that supreme celestial court, without having to live in fear, is already a blessing that beings of the lower realm have accumulated over several lifetimes!
...
Meanwhile, in the Primordial Celestial Court, in the Celestial Lord's Hall.
Li Changsheng, carrying a sword box on his back, stood respectfully below the main hall.
As soon as the clone returned to the Celestial Court, it handed Zi Yan over to the main body and then transformed into a sword aura, merging back into Li Changsheng's body.
In the center of the main hall.
Ziyan stood there awkwardly, like a kitten that had done something wrong, nervously clutching the hem of her clothes with her two small hands, and secretly looking around.
When she saw the young man on the throne, dressed in white and exuding supreme majesty, she quickly lowered her head and didn't even dare to breathe loudly.
"Is this the lower realm creature that mistakenly entered the true dragon's lair?"
Jiang Chen leaned back on the throne, his gaze indifferently falling on Zi Yan.
Those deep eyes instantly pierced through the sealed Nine Revolutions Dragon Blood energy within Zi Yan's body, as well as the spatial talent deep within her soul.
"Yes, Master."
Li Changsheng reported respectfully:
"Although this woman's bloodline reigns supreme in the lower realms, it is considered inferior in my Immortal Realm."
"However, she has an innate affinity for the origin of space, so she can barely manage to create something."
Jiang Chen nodded slightly.
As a time traveler, he naturally recognized this gluttonous little Taixu Ancient Dragon.
"Meeting is fate."
Jiang Chen looked at Zi Yan, who was so nervous she was about to cry, and a gentle smile appeared on his lips.
"My Celestial Court's inter-state teleportation array is currently lacking a spirit to guard it."
"Since you are naturally compatible with space, then you shall join my Celestial Court and become a disciple of the Array Peak."
Upon hearing the words "disciple in name only," Zi Yan hadn't even reacted yet, but Zhu Kun outside the light screen was already roaring wildly, so excited that he almost smashed the door of the ancient emperor's cave.
A disciple under formal registration!
They are disciples of the Celestial Court too!
Just then, a round little head suddenly peeked out from the side door of the main hall.
It was Xiao Shihao, whom Jiang Chen had sent to baptize Xiao Yan.
He had just thrown Xiao Yan into the Dragon Pool when he smelled the scent and ran back to the main hall.
Xiao Shihao spotted Zi Yan standing in the center of the hall at a glance, sniffed hard, and his big eyes lit up immediately.
Wow! It smells so good!
Little Shihao ran up to Ziyan and circled her twice, drooling.
"You smell like dragon fruit! Did you sneak a bite of something delicious?"
Zi Yan was startled by the little kid who wasn't even as tall as her and quickly covered her stomach.
"I didn't! I didn't eat any!"
"You're lying!" Xiao Shihao relentlessly tried to pry Zi Yan's hand away.
"I can smell it! Give me some, or I'll have the big guy beat you up!"
Watching the two little ones tugging and pulling at each other in the main hall, Jiang Chen couldn't help but chuckle.
These two are, one is the number one glutton in the Dou Qi Continent, and the other is a well-known brat and glutton in the Perfect World.
With them all together, the Celestial Court is likely to descend into chaos.
"Alright, little one."
Jiang Chen interrupted their argument.
"Her name is Ziyan, and she will be your fellow disciple from now on."
Jiang Chen looked at Xiao Shihao, a hint of mischievousness flashing in his eyes.
"Didn't you always complain that it was too boring to go hunting ferocious beasts alone in the back mountains and wilderness?"
"From now on, let her stay by your side and be your companion."
"You two could go and wreak havoc together... cough, go and explore the endless territory of this immortal realm."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Shihao cheered and grabbed Zi Yan's hand.
"Great! Let's go raid bird nests and roast animal legs together from now on!"
Upon hearing that there was food, Zi Yan's initial fear vanished instantly, and her large eyes turned into crescent shapes.
"Yes, yes! I want to eat barbecue!"
Looking at the light screen, there were two little foodies holding hands and running happily out of the main hall.
An eerie silence fell over the entire Dou Qi Continent.
Go to the back mountain to catch ferocious beasts and barbecue them?
They recalled the pure-blooded beings they had seen in the light screen before, beings that could easily swallow clouds and smother stars.
Everyone couldn't help but feel a chill for the ancient ferocious beasts lurking in the back mountains of the Celestial Court.
At the same time, the scene changes.
The Primordial Celestial Court, the Immortal Valley in the Back Mountain.
Eighty-one days have passed since Xiao Yan leaped into the Dragon Transformation Pool.
Over these eighty-one days, the atmosphere in the Immortal Valley gradually evolved from initial jest to shock.
Until now, there has been complete silence.
The white jade platform surrounding the Dragon Transformation Pool was now filled with inner disciples of the Celestial Court.
Not only the dozens of people who made the bet at the beginning, but also the entire inner sect, spread the word about Xiao Yan's absurdity as he stayed in the pool for longer and longer.
Even some of the true disciples who had been in seclusion couldn't resist coming out to watch the spectacle.
The cold-blooded disciple who had confidently bet that Xiao Yan wouldn't last more than half an incense stick's time, even betting all his Immortal Marrow Pills, was now slumped on the ground with lifeless eyes and his hair a mess.
"Eighty-one days..."
He muttered to himself, his face full of existential doubt.
"That's the true blood of ten thousand beasts, which even cultivators at the Divine Fire Realm would have their skin boiled off if they went in!"
"How could a mere mortal ant that has never even absorbed a breath of immortal energy in the lower realm have remained unmelted after soaking in it for eighty-one days?"
(End of chapter)