Chapter 1540: Pilgrimage

Hao Tianzun and Xiao Tianzun smiled faintly, stepping into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains. Hao Tianzun calmly asked, "Is Mu Tianzun not here? Why doesn't he greet us personally?"

Jiang Yunhuan replied, "Godfather is not here. He said Consort Qiang Tian is dead, and this is a rare opportunity, so he went to rescue Ling Tianzun."

The seven Celestial Venerables felt a chill in their hearts. Hao Tianzun stopped and looked at Fire Celestial Venerable and Palace Celestial Venerable. The two understood, turned, and left.

Xiao Tianzun pondered for a moment, then looked back at the two Grand Ultimate Ancient Gods, an inquiring look on his face.

The two Grand Ultimate Ancient Gods had sought him out this time, offering to assist him, and Xiao Tianzun had naturally welcomed them wholeheartedly. After all, he was currently isolated, with few masters by his side, putting him at a disadvantage when facing Hao Tianzun.

However, since they were here to see Grand Change, and these two Ancient Gods were also among the Five Primordial Supremes, the Grand Ultimate Ancient Gods would certainly stay. He also wanted to meet Grand Change.

Nevertheless, rescuing Ling Tianzun was crucial. Firstly, Ling Tianzun's death was related to him. Secondly, the one who killed Ling Tianzun was Celestial Venerable Ming Fangyu, who was transformed from the Primordial Emperor's primordial spirit. The physical body controlled by Ming Fangyu was precisely the true body of Celestial Emperor Grand Beginning!

If Qin Mu went to rescue Ling Tianzun, then it would involve his Grand Beginning true body!

The Grand Beginning true body was his capital to defeat Hao Tianzun and the other six Celestial Venerables!

With the true body and mastery of the method of attaining Dao, no one would be his match.

Lunar Maiden sensed his hesitation and suddenly said, "Brother, stay here. I'll go."

Solar Ancient God said, "Sister, take our accompanying supreme treasure, just in case."

Lunar Maiden departed, carrying the Grand Ultimate Sandpan.

Xiao Tianzun breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at Jiang Yunhuan, "Young man, you are handsome and your cultivation is impressive for your age. May I ask who your master is?"

Hao Tianzun's gaze also fell on Jiang Yunhuan, and his heart stirred. Jiang Yunhuan's cultivation wasn't particularly high, but his cultivation technique was truly strange, and his realm was also very peculiar. Even they couldn't discern what cultivation technique Jiang Yunhuan practiced or to what realm he had reached.

Jiang Yunhuan smiled and said, "My master is none other than Grand Change."

Everyone's expressions subtly changed.

Ancestral God King and Void Celestial Venerable exchanged glances. Ancestral God King suddenly chuckled, "Since Grand Change taught you, your abilities must be truly formidable. No wonder you possess such cultivation and strength at a young age. I've heard that Grand Change knows everything. Since you are his esteemed disciple, let me test you to see how much of Grand Change's skill you've learned."

Jiang Yunhuan was eager to try.

Ancestral God King smiled faintly and spread his palm. Jiang Yunhuan involuntarily fell into his palm.

"Don't worry," Ancestral God King said. "You are a guest from afar; I won't make things difficult for you."

Ancestral God King looked at his palm and smiled, "As long as you can break through my Heavenly Dao Firmament, I will acknowledge that you have learned Grand Change's abilities."

Jiang Yunhuan stood in his palm, looking up. He saw wisps of white clouds, a blue sky, and the Heavenly Dao stretching far, transforming into a world of heavens.

The Celestial Venerables stopped and all looked towards Ancestral God King's palm.

Ancestral God King was the foremost expert in the Heavenly Dao in the world today. He personally used the Heavenly Dao to test Jiang Yunhuan, setting up layers of Heavenly Dao seals in his palm. If Jiang Yunhuan was truly Grand Change's disciple, breaking these seals wouldn't be difficult.

And they could also observe Grand Change's cultivation techniques and divine arts as Jiang Yunhuan broke the seals, thereby inferring Grand Change's strength.

Jiang Yunhuan looked up and chuckled, "So it's a Heavenly Dao seal. I thought a Celestial Venerable's abilities would be extraordinary, but it turns out to be such a rudimentary divine art."

He simply walked outwards, and with a gentle tap of his hand, the core of the Heavenly Dao Firmament, the Heavenly Principle Seal, instantly appeared. As the Heavenly Principle Seal emerged, the other forty-eight Heavenly Dao seals also appeared one after another!

Within Ancestral God King's palm, the Heavenly Dao intertwined, and the seals changed in myriad ways, dazzling the eyes.

Jiang Yunhuan ignored the other seals and directly broke the Heavenly Principle Seal. Immediately, all Heavenly Dao transformations ceased.

Jiang Yunhuan calmly broke the remaining Heavenly Dao seals, stepped out of Ancestral God King's palm, and leaped down to the ground. He thought to himself, "It's embarrassing. If my master hadn't taken me to the Heavenly Sea to experience the heart of heaven, and guided me there to comprehend the Heavenly Dao, explaining it thoroughly, I wouldn't have been able to break Ancestral God King's divine art at all."

His master was naturally not Grand Change.

Grand Change had never taken a disciple, never taught cultivation techniques or divine arts to others, nor had he ever propagated any Dao.

Jiang Yunhuan's master was Lan Yutian, and it was Qin Mu himself who asked Lan Yutian to accept him as an inner disciple.

Although Lan Yutian had many disciples, Jiang Yunhuan was his only inner disciple.

Jiang Yunhuan was also the first, and currently the only one, to practice the Five Primordial Supremes system created by Lan Yutian.

Among the younger generation in Yankang, his strength was the highest, even surpassing many of the older generation.

This was also why Qin Mu chose him to welcome the guests.

God Emperor Lang Xuan coughed, "Young man, your abilities are not bad; you have indeed acquired some of Grand Change's skills. I also want to test you, don't be shy."

He was very polite, yet as soon as he acted, it was a Grand Beginning divine art.

Xiao Tianzun's eye twitched. Although the Grand Beginning divine art God Emperor Lang Xuan used relied on the Dao fruit behind his head, it was extremely subtle, making Xiao Tianzun secretly praise his "wicked son's" formidable skill.

The Grand Beginning divine art displayed by God Emperor Lang Xuan was a Grand Beginning seal, a Dao-entry divine art. Besides testing Jiang Yunhuan, it also served as a display of skill to Xiao Tianzun.

Xiao Tianzun naturally understood this perfectly.

He also very much wanted to see if Jiang Yunhuan, this supposed successor of Grand Change, could break the Grand Beginning divine art.

Jiang Yunhuan walked back and forth within the divine art, chuckling, "This is your Grand Beginning divine art. It's a bit strenuous to break. However, judging by the Grand Beginning Dao my master taught me, this divine art isn't entirely your own comprehension. Even you only understand it superficially."

God Emperor Lang Xuan couldn't help but laugh, "What arrogance!"

Soon after, his expression involuntarily changed.

He saw Jiang Yunhuan actually find the weakness of his Grand Beginning Seal and calmly break the divine art!

God Emperor Lang Xuan's face fluctuated between dark and light, then he suddenly said coldly, "Mu Tianzun, is that you? Do you think you can fool me by transforming into this young man?"

Jiang Yunhuan was puzzled and laughed, "What nonsense are you talking about, Celestial Venerable? Mu Tianzun is my godfather; how could he impersonate me?"

God Emperor Lang Xuan grunted, still suspecting that Jiang Yunhuan was Qin Mu in disguise.

"Interesting!"

Void Celestial Venerable said with interest, "Does Grand Change understand my Youdu Great Dao?"

Jiang Yunhuan looked at her and saw that she was missing a horn on her head, as if it had been cut off. He chuckled, "You are Void Celestial Venerable? Where did the horn on your head go?"

Void Celestial Venerable snorted, having no liking for the young man, and directly unleashed a formidable demonic divine art, saying faintly, "Your godfather cut it off. Can't you recognize the sword wound on my horn?"

"I haven't learned swordsmanship from godfather," Jiang Yunhuan said cautiously.

He observed Void Celestial Venerable's divine art, and after a moment, he also broke it.

Void Celestial Venerable praised, "The one who taught you is indeed incredibly powerful!"

Suddenly, Solar Ancient God said, "I'd like to test you as well."

Everyone displayed their divine arts to test Jiang Yunhuan, but without exception, all were broken by him. Even when Hao Tianzun and Xiao Tianzun personally tested him, they couldn't stump him. Only then were the Celestial Venerables and Ancient Gods truly convinced.

"A disciple of Grand Change should naturally possess such abilities," they thought, their doubts now gone.

Jiang Yunhuan glanced at the sky and suddenly said, "You've tested me for so long, so now I'll test you to see the caliber of you Celestial Venerables!"

Everyone burst into laughter.

Ancestral God King laughed, "It's only because you are Grand Change's disciple. If anyone else spoke to me like that, I would have killed them long ago!"

Jiang Yunhuan sneered, "So-called Celestial Venerables, are you afraid to be tested? What I'll use to test you is a Dao rune array drawn by my master. I was stumped by it. If you can solve it, I'll naturally kowtow and apologize to you! If you have the guts, follow me!"

The Celestial Venerables' hearts stirred slightly: "A Dao rune array drawn by Grand Change? This is not to be missed!"

They followed Jiang Yunhuan to a cliff face in the Hundred Thousand Black Mountains. There, they saw some Dao runes carved onto the cliff, forming an array that was truly profound!

Hao Tianzun and Xiao Tianzun's gazes fell upon the array, and their expressions subtly changed. They thought to themselves, "Grand Change's divine arts are indeed unfathomably profound. I can't even comprehend this Dao rune array for now!"

The Celestial Venerables and Ancient Gods pondered deeply. As soon as their gazes fell upon the Dao runes, they were involuntarily drawn by the profound mysteries within, falling deeper and deeper into them. They felt endless wonder and infinite transformations, becoming completely engrossed.

Grand Prime saw the Dao of Grand Prime within it, Solar Ancient God saw the Dao of Grand Ultimate, and others also saw their own Dao methods. The more they looked, the more they became captivated.

Jiang Yunhuan breathed a sigh of relief, thinking, "Godfather told me to bring them here and use the Dao rune array on the cliff face to stall them until evening. It seems it will be successful. Strange, what exactly are these Dao rune arrays? Why do they stump even Celestial Venerables?"

The Dao rune array on the cliff face was personally carved by Qin Mu. Qin Mu had instructed him not to look at it, and to wake the Celestial Venerables only when the sun was about to set, leading them to the World Tree.

Therefore, he didn't quite understand what the Dao rune array on the cliff face truly was.

However, his master, Lan Yutian, had been here before, seen the Dao rune array on the cliff face, and told him it was a variation of the Primordial Chaos Vitality runes, also instructing him not to look at it, or he would become engrossed.

After an unknown period, Jiang Yunhuan noticed the sun setting in the west. He quickly coughed and loudly asked, "Esteemed Celestial Venerables, have you unravelled the mysteries of this Dao rune array?"

Hao Tianzun, Xiao Tianzun, and the others awoke. They saw the sun had set in the west. They had been standing there, and unknowingly, most of the day had passed!

Xiao Tianzun exclaimed with admiration, "Dao Brother Grand Change is indeed extraordinary. I haven't understood this Dao rune array, and I can't help but feel awe towards Dao Brother Grand Change."

Jiang Yunhuan sneered, "You tested me for no reason, and now you know how formidable I am, right? Let's go quickly. You came to see my master, yet you've dilly-dallied and delayed for so long, making my master wait for you. That's simply disrespectful!"

Ancestral God King was furious, thinking, "This little rascal is sharp-tongued. Is he really not Mu Tianzun in disguise?"

Everyone followed Jiang Yunhuan towards the World Tree. The World Tree in front of them grew closer, its unparalleled grandeur becoming ever more apparent.

"This tree looks like the one in Mu Tianzun's divine treasure!"

The Celestial Venerables and Ancient Gods looked at the tree, exclaiming in admiration. They thought, "But it's much, much larger than Mu Tianzun's tree. This tree is the grandfather, and Mu Tianzun's is the grandson!"

They arrived beneath the tree. The sun in the western sky gradually sank below the mountains, and the sun orbiting the World Tree also gradually lost its brightness, dimming.

Just then, a sudden earth-shattering roar echoed, shaking the Celestial Venerables so much that they could barely stand!

Everyone's expressions changed drastically. They saw the tremor coming from outside the Hundred Thousand Black Mountains. Looking outwards, they saw the area outside the Hundred Thousand Black Mountains as if the universe itself was being annihilated!

All heavens and myriad worlds collapsed and crumbled; everything was annihilated!

Everyone's faces turned instantly pale. This scene was too shocking, and at the same time, it left them bewildered, making them momentarily think the entire universe had truly been destroyed.

As they recovered their senses, suddenly, Daoist sounds resonated, emanating from the sky.

Everyone looked up to see the Ultimate Void emerging from the sky, and a Dao tree with thousands of branches and myriad roots appeared above them, flickering in and out of view.

The Dao tree was lush and vibrant, more robust than the Dao trees they had seen in Jade Capital City. On the Dao tree hung a Primal Chaos Dao Fruit, filling them with awe!

Just as their gazes fell upon the Dao fruit, suddenly, golden light shimmered below, and a resplendent golden hall abruptly appeared before them!

The gates of the golden hall burst open, and chaotic qi surged and swirled within the hall. Faintly, a figure could be seen seated inside.

Hao Tianzun focused his gaze, trying to discern the figure. He could only vaguely make out an old man and whispered, "Aunt, is that Grand Change?"

Grand Prime Goddess said, "Last time I saw him, he was a woman."

Solar Ancient God said, "Yi (Change) means myriad transformations. Grand Change can be male or female, can transform into all living beings, can transform into all things. This truly is an unfathomably profound Dao attainer!"

With that, he bowed deeply towards the hall, "Grand Ultimate bows to Dao Brother!"

"Dispense with the formalities."

From within the hall, Qin Mu's voice, aged and ancient, asked, "Why have you come to see me?"