The little Tsukuyomi Lolita nodded seriously, stretched out her hands, and carefully took Bai Xue, afraid that any of her movents would hurt her.
Having put the two little ones down for the mont, Shen Yuan's gaze then fell on Gong Buyu and Xia Yunqiu, who stood by.
"Greetings, Master, for your return!"
"Greetings, Teacher, for your return!"
Shen Yuan nodded, first speaking to Gong Buyu:
"You need not worry about the possible Taiyin Path power leftover within you, nor should your cultivation slow down. I've had quite the harvest this trip, and once there is a chance, I can rid you of it."
Gong Buyu's beautiful eyes flickered as she respectfully replied, "Thank you, Master!"
"Also, you can exchange insights on the Taiyin Path cultivation with Tsukuyomi. Strictly speaking, she is also your junior sister."
Hearing this, Gong Buyu curiously looked towards the Tsukuyomi Lolita holding the cat on the side.
When his gaze shifted to Xia Yunqiu, Shen Yuan then asked:
"Is there any cultivator within the Great Xia causing trouble with the monster tribe? If there are any, notify as soon as possible, and I will take care of them all together."
Xia Yunqiu shook her head repeatedly:
"The deterrence from Teacher has only just passed a year, and all great demon realms and cultivator forces dare not cross that line, all acting within the rules."
"How is the rebuilding of the Mortal Path's fate in various states going?"
"The power handovers in each state have been completed. However, it's hard to improve the people's lives in an instant; it will take so ti to be fully achieved.
Within two years, the Mortal Path's fate should be mostly stabilized."
Shen Yuan calculated the ti; two years would just about allow them to catch up before the world's rejuvenation.
At the sa ti, two years would allow Ying Island to establish a new order, solidifying the Mortal Path's fate.
By then, once both the Great Xia and Ying Island have stabilized, Shen Yuan's control over the Mortal Path's trend could climb to a new level, giving him more confidence when facing Great Yin's Mortal Emperor again.
"I will be in seclusion in the Imperial Capital for a while. The sooner we can stabilize the Mortal Path's fate, the better the chance we'll have to safely get through the upcoming catastrophe."
As soon as Shen Yuan said this, it imdiately caused a startled look on Xia Yunqiu's face.
"Is the great catastrophe Teacher speaks of referring to the Dusk Realm?"
"Aside from the Dusk Realm, there are other crises."
Shen Yuan didn't reveal the whole truth. Although Xia Yunqiu was the Mortal Emperor of Great Xia, her foundation was still too shallow, and knowing too much would not be beneficial.
Thus, after returning to Great Xia, Shen Yuan went back to the days of racing against ti in seclusion.
Apart from occasionally leaving seclusion to supervise Tsukuyomi's cultivation and helping Bai Xue digest her inherited mories, his other tis were all spent in seclusion, preparing for breaking through to the Unity Realm Stage.
The various powers that trembled at Shen Yuan's return actually breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as Shen Yuan, the god of slaughter, did not act, it was a good thing for all parties involved.
Great Xia maintained a facade of calmness on the surface, and the originally declining fate of humanity began to flourish again due to the return of order.
As for Shen Yuan in seclusion, as early as the third month after his retreat began, he had deduced his realm to the peak of the Void Refinent Realm, reaching the stage where no further progress could be made.
One more step would be the Mortal Peak Stage of Tao Harmony, but the Primal Chaos Realm had no soil for breaking through the Unity Realm Stage, and to complete this step, he had to return to a ti thousands of years before.
So, in the remaining ti, Shen Yuan began trying to advance his Great Tao Manifestation even further.
After confronting the Judge of Life and Death and the Moonlight Bodhisattva, Shen Yuan gradually perceived the formidable nature of the Great Tao Manifestation.
Unlike a trump card such as replacing the pantheon position of the Donghua Shaoyang Emperor, this strategy could only be used thousands of years later. If Shen Yuan rashly replaced it before thousands of years, it would be tantamount to seeking death.
In contrast, after undergoing one transformation, the Great Tao Manifestation allowed Shen Yuan to confront Heavenly Immortal power experts even under the suppression of heaven and earth, and its embedded Eternal True Intent could shatter the will of a Heavenly Immortal.
If he could undergo another transformation and break into the Tao Harmony Stage with his cultivation realm, Shen Yuan even had the confidence to contend with powerful experts at the realm of Major Heavenly Immortal.
Currently, Shen Yuan mastered the Rain Invocation, Nine Breaths Qi Absorption, Arrows Piercing Voodoo Strawman, Rebounding Wind Returning Fire, Heaven Patching Sun Drenching, and See Through The Wall—five and a half Heavenly General Great Divine Powers.
Since the Rain Invocation Divine Power originated from the fifth Heavenly General's Wind Summoning and Rain Invocation, with its extrely high pantheon position, it could be reluctantly considered a complete power.
With six Heavenly General Great Divine Powers aligned, which made up one-sixth of the 36 Heavenly Generals, Shen Yuan glimpsed an opportunity for transformation.
The future glimpse from See Through The Wall gave Shen Yuan so foreknowledge—that the Great Dao Manifestation, once it underwent the Heavenly General Transformation, would undoubtedly reach an unimaginably high level.
In the remaining year and more, Shen Yuan had been constantly attempting to complete the Heavenly General Transformation of his Great Tao Manifestation, but ultimately he had never fully succeeded.
Even with the Rain Invocation Divine Power, which boasts a high pantheon position, it was still not the complete Heavenly General thod, containing certain flaws.
Shen Yuan was well aware that the cause of all this was that the number of Heavenly Generals had not been perfected. If he could acquire one more Heavenly General Great Divine Power, he would truly complete the Heavenly General Transformation.
However, according to Shen Yuan's plan, achieving this feat would likely require annihilating all the Demons' Realm or, following the system's prompt, seizing the dragon seal from the Four Waterways Dragon Palace.
In reality, given Shen Yuan's current strength, dealing with all the Demons' Realm and the Four Great Dragon Palaces was not a difficult task.
No matter how strong the Demons' Realm and the Four Great Dragon Palaces were, they could not possibly have a powerful expert in the Heavenly Immortal Realm. With the support of Amaterasu and the Mount Luofeng 6 Hell Deities, plus the strength Shen Yuan himself could wield, acquiring a Heavenly General Great Divine Power was no problem.
But the crux lay in the fact that the world was ever closer to a revival that could accommodate those at the Tao Harmony Stage. At such a sensitive ti, if Shen Yuan truly incited turmoil that affected the entire monster tribe and the Four Waterways Dragon Palace, it might very likely provoke a fierce reaction from Golden Immortal Bai Yun.
Such an accident, disrupting the original plan, would undoubtedly be bad news for Shen Yuan.
Thus, Shen Yuan could only hope that upon his return to a ti tens of thousands of years earlier, he would be able to find a solution.
Nonetheless, Shen Yuan's seclusion was not completely without gain; although he could not complete the true Heavenly General Transformation, with the aid of five and a half Heavenly General Great Divine Powers, the Great Tao Manifestation could still temporarily enter the process of the Heavenly General Transformation.
Even the temporary transformation was enough to shock Shen Yuan with the strength it unleashed, adding another card in his hand for dealing with the crisis from tens of thousands of years earlier.
In this period, the only side note was probably the Moonlight Bodhisattva who had been sealed by Shen Yuan within the boundless void.
That trace of Eternal True Intent could not be destroyed, and even though it was banished to the boundless void, the Moonlight Bodhisattva was still able to send ssages across spatial boundaries to Shen Yuan, continuously harassing him.
The content of these ssages was invariably the sa, nothing more than offers of great benefits if only he would submit to the Dusk army—with even the possibility of returning to his peak and commanding the Incense Offering Divinity Path of all realms.
Clearly, the Moonlight Bodhisattva mistook Shen Yuan for Donghua Shaoyang Emperor.
Shen Yuan did not bother to explain to the Moonlight Bodhisattva, tacitly accepting the title, and instead learned many secrets from the occasional harassnt of the Moonlight Bodhisattva.
...
Two years passed in the blink of an eye.
On this day, Shen Yuan suddenly felt that above the Great Xia Imperial Capital, the Mortal Path energy that had returned to its splendor transford into a golden dragon circling the sky.
The Mortal Path grand montum within Shen Yuan thus climbed to its peak, making him realize that the ti was ripe.
With his perception of the world of Primal Chaos Realm, Shen Yuan could see that this world had reached a critical point and would break through the Tao Harmony Stage in at most a month's ti.
With his current ans, Shen Yuan definitely lacked the qualifications to confront Golden Immortal Bai Yun.
Returning to a ti tens of thousands of years earlier to find the ans to confront Golden Immortal Bai Yun was imperative.
Inside the cultivation chamber, Shen Yuan reached out his right hand into the void, taking that trace of Eternal True Intent from the Moonlight Bodhisattva into his palm.
The voice of the Moonlight Bodhisattva, surprised and pleased, rang out at once.
"Has the Emperor figured it out?"
Shen Yuan chuckled.
"No, I'm just taking you to see an old friend."
As his words fell, Shen Yuan disappeared from the cultivation chamber in an instant, using the Heaven's Decree Secret Order as a dium to activate the Rebounding Wind Returning Fire Great Divine Power.
The scene before his eyes changed, and Shen Yuan reappeared in the river of history.
"The river of history?"
"How is that possible? You're rely at the Void Refining cultivation, how could you set foot on the river of history?
Moreover, wasn't the river of history sealed by the Original Ancestor Great Exalted One in the Ancient Era because the Candle Dragon disrupted the sequence of ti?"
The doubtful words of the Moonlight Bodhisattva had just sounded when a voice of horror imdiately emanated from that Eternal True Intent.
"Stop! What are you doing!"
Shen Yuan flicked his finger, casually tossing that Eternal True Intent into the river of history.
Without the guidance of the Dragon Gate Secret Order, the Eternal True Intent, being foreign, could not sink into the river of history to reach a specific ti node. What awaited it was only the unceasing onslaught of the surging tides of history within the river.
In those tumultuous historical waves, the radiant Eternal True Intent rapidly dimd, and the eternal will perished forever within the confines of ti.
Shen Yuan, with a smile on his face, bowed respectfully to the Sky-Obscuring Giant Hand above the river of history.
Afterward, he strode into the river of history.
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