...

It seemed to be but a fleeting moment.

Yet with a flicker of Lu Qing's Divine Sense, without needing to pinch his fingers to calculate the heavenly timing, a full month had already passed in the outside world during the Time he stayed here.

Meanwhile, the eagerly anticipated True Inheritance Assembly was also preparing to convene.

This trace of Divine Sense had come and gone in a hurry.

Only in the realm of the Nether Sea.

Several True Spirits had a trace of void aura pervading their entire bodies, as if they did not exist in this heaven and earth at all.

Drifting across the Nether Sea, these True Spirits quickly plunged into that endless Reincarnation.

The luster on these True Spirits was mostly grayish-white.

When a person dies, the lamp goes out; when a Cultivator perishes, it can be called the lowest point of fate.

Otherwise, they would not have fallen.

At the lowest point of fate, having only a single True Spirit left to plunge into the Nether Sea was already the greatest fortune amidst misfortune.

Therefore, the True Spirits here were predominantly grayish-white, with only a sparse few whose lusters carried a faint trace of other colors.

Either normal white, pale cyan, or pale golden.

Normally, no living person would exist in the waters of the Nether Sea.

After Lu Qing left, these True Spirits were still a sea's distance away from the true aura of that Reincarnation.

A ferry came across the void, its uncanny nature carrying an aura that caused heaven and earth to fall into stillness.

There was no one on the boat, only a gray crow.

After this ferry appeared, those True Spirits also seemed to be guided, successively boarding the vessel.

There was not the slightest sound throughout the entire scene.

The gray crow at the bow of the ferry, which looked like a lifeless object, suddenly let out a caw.

The cry was shrill.

As the ferry departed, this gray crow turned its gaze, looking across the boundless and endless void of cyclical Nether Sea toward the place where Lu Qing had previously stopped.

Within its pitch-black vertical pupils, a thin line suddenly rose, and amidst twisting and rotation, a trace of an ancient and desolate aura was projected from its eyes.

It directly plunged into the place where Lu Qing had originally been.

There is a ferry in the Nether Sea, and there is a gray crow on the ferry.

Having endured through endless Time, the gray crow was extremely ancient, being the Incarnation of a Law of the Nether Sea.

"Caw, caw."

The gray crow's heart was shaken.

Rumble.

Everything seen before its eyes lost all color.

There was only a boundless and endless void of darkness, impossible to look at directly, impossible to peek into.

A vast and towering Reincarnation aura leaked out from a corner of the heavenly secrets of the future, blotting out the sky and covering the earth.

The gray crow withdrew its marvelous vertical pupils, its expression tinged with a trace of shock and solemnity.

"What kind of living being is that, why is even a corner of the future heavenly secrets so terrifying?"

Originally, it only wanted to spy on who the supreme existence could be that was able to come to the Nether Sea and witness the Reincarnation grounds of the Nether Sea.

Yet Lu Qing's aura was not surging, not resembling those supreme existences.

Being in the Nether Sea, countless Reincarnation Karmas were born from the Nether Sea, and ninety-nine percent of the world's karmic opportunities would ultimately fall into the Nether Sea.

It looked toward that sea area.

Yet it could not see the scenery of the present world; that was layer upon layer of weightless and endless Karma, as well as layers of concealment by heavenly numbers.

Living people do not enter the Nether Sea, and the Nether Sea likewise does not interfere with heaven and earth, just like a double-layered heaven and earth, each bearing a part of the Dao.

"That Reincarnation aura is too terrifying. In the future, the Great Dao of Reincarnation will inevitably have a place for this child. If so, I must also prepare myself."

The gray crow did not think of other possibilities.

With the Reincarnation aura permeating densely, it could only glimpse a trace of the aura, unable to see the other party's true face clearly, showing that the other party would inevitably become a supreme powerhouse in the future.

This probing gaze scattered the moment it touched.

Within the River of Time, a newly born Dao Seal that faintly manifested a few traces trembled gently.

Yet the heavenly secrets were unstained, and all Karma was severed right here.

Within the Daoist sanctum.

Lu Qing had already withdrawn this Divine Sense, and also saw the movement of the Dao Seal.

"It seems that although the Nether Sea is the reincarnation place of the world, it is not entirely devoid of other existences."

Ever since knowing that the Dao Seal could conceal heavenly secrets, Lu Qing now held two Dao Seals, yet his true body did not appear, and all deductions had fallen into the Dao Seals.

After all, such deductions required touching the Dao Seals in the River of Time. The Dao Seals and the Cultivator are like two sides of the same coin; any calculation of heavenly secrets and Karma would touch them both. Wanting to deduce heavenly secrets would more or less incur some backlash, though deductions by those with a higher Dao attainment would incur much less backlash.

Lu Qing knew the singularity of the Nether Sea.

He looked toward the Long River.

"The Reincarnation Dao Seal, this trip was truly worth it."

Even Lu Qing had not anticipated such gains beforehand. Previously, Lu Qing had only thought about whether he could trigger a wisp of inner comprehension; if he could attain enlightenment, that would be even better.

It was just unexpected that he did not fall into enlightenment...

"That's not right either. During that month, in what seemed brief but actually spanned over a month, how could I not have been experiencing enlightenment?"

Entering the threshold of enlightenment, the Reincarnation aura permeated the two realms he cultivated.

In an instant, winter passed and spring came, withered wood decayed and flourished, every flower and tree experienced a cycle of life and death.

"The True Inheritance Assembly is about to convene."

With a thought, Lu Qing summoned a piece of Spirit-Light Message Talisman.

Yet seeing the contents inside, his expression did not change, only his thoughts turning lightly in his heart.

"The True Inheritance Assembly is free and follows one's heart; those who wish to participate may do so. However, because this matter concerns the Nine Heavens, most of the disciples outside have already rushed back."

Looking at this message talisman, Lu Qing knew in his heart that he could also decline by using seclusion as an excuse.

However, the message talisman also mentioned another matter.

It was inquiring about Lu Qing's intentions.

Because this was a Small Realm task.

This message talisman came from that Senior Brother Bai Changshou, who served in the Assembly Hall.

As for why this task came to inquire of him, careful thought revealed it involved cultivation issues as well as manpower issues.

In the three days before the convening of the True Inheritance Assembly, there were roughly dozens of people competing for the True Inheritance rankings, while some were away and unable to return in Time, some were caught up in crucial tasks, and others were still in deep seclusion, wishing to break through that threshold before their Lifespan reached its end.

"Small Realm task."

In his mind, a hexagram reading stirred gently when Lu Qing looked at that task on the message talisman.

Lu Qing's expression turned serious; since a hexagram reading had appeared, it required attention.

"The tides triggered by the Tianyang Realm are driving issues concerning the defense of some Small Realm worlds."

The hexagram reading was even more concise and clear.

Yet there was no extremely ominous hexagram, nor a Great Ominous Hexagram.

【Continent Variable, True Inheritance Assembly, Small Realm World, Choose One and Follow It】

The premise of this hexagram reading made Lu Qing's eyebrows twitch slightly; it seemed the information involved in this task was related to the Tianyang Realm and the upcoming True Inheritance Assembly.

However, this Time there were no extremely dangerous hexagrams opened up, but rather several Neutral Divinations appeared one after another.

【Minor Omen of Misfortune: Accept the Mystic Tortoise Small World task, arrive at the Mystic Tortoise Small World three days later, settle down in Mystic Tortoise Mountain, suddenly encounter the Celestial Sun Continent passing by, suffer Dao injuries from heaven and earth, recuperate for a hundred years, minor misfortune.】

【Neutral Divination: Accept the Mystic Tortoise Small World task, arrive at the Mystic Tortoise Small World three days later, settle down in the Profound Heaven Lower Sect, encounter a trace of entanglement with the lower sect, no lingering troubles or disasters, neutral.】

【Neutral Divination: Reject the Mystic Tortoise Small World task, refuse to go to the True Inheritance Assembly, practice in seclusion within the Daoist sanctum, no disasters, yet fortune and misfortune are interdependent, leaving a trace of lingering trouble for the future, neutral.】

【Neutral Divination: Reject the Mystic Tortoise Small World task, go to the True Inheritance Assembly, encounter disciples of an external Dao Lineage provoking, suppress them with thunderous force, renown spreads far and wide, yet renown is too great, leaving behind karmic entanglements, handle with caution, no major trouble, neutral.】

【Neutral Divination: Accept the Mystic Tortoise Small World task, refuse to go to the True Inheritance Assembly, arrive at the Mystic Tortoise Small World three days later, land on Sunset Island, accidentally obtain a wisp of Sunset True Intent, slight minor gains, neutral.】

【Neutral Divination: Reject the Mystic Tortoise Small World task, go to the True Inheritance Assembly, participate in the True Inheritance selection, muddy the waters to fish, advance to the tenth True Inheritance, budding fame, neutral.】

The hexagram readings opened up this Time truly exceeded Lu Qing's expectations.

He had not expected that the message brought by this message talisman would lead to so many choices in the hexagram readings.

Neutral Divinations that involved karmic entanglements or the budding signs of lingering troubles were naturally to be eliminated by Lu Qing.

In fact, there was no need to choose; upon seeing "slight minor gains", Lu Qing knew what he should choose.

If this Neutral Divination did not exist, what he would naturally choose would be the Neutral Divination with the utmost safety and no lingering troubles.

After all, sometimes the hexagram readings opened up in Neutral Divinations were not completely free of risks forever.

Lingering troubles, entanglements, Karma—these would all appear in Neutral Divinations. However, because fate and cultivation had both improved, after Lu Qing's cultivation progressed, it had been a long Time since he encountered those pitfall-after-pitfall Neutral Divinations from before.