One person: I, Daoist Master, am a cultivator of immortality!

As the divine flower above his head bloomed, Sun Yao's magical power, which had just reached the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, also began to rise accordingly.

The divine flower above Sun Yao's head slowly bloomed, but it stalled at the sixth rank. Compared to Sun Yao's essence flower and qi flower, the condensation speed of this divine flower was like that of a slow-moving tortoise.

After his Divine Flower reached the sixth rank of perfection, Sun Yao decided to take another gamble. After all, at this rate, even if he could condense his Divine Flower to the ninth rank, it was uncertain when that would be possible, let alone when.

Sun Yao couldn't wait any longer, and in a flash, he activated his innate divine ability, One Thought to Heaven and Earth. As Sun Yao used One Thought to Heaven and Earth, the speed at which his divine flower bloomed suddenly increased.

At the same time, a strange power slowly rose from his body. A force of the laws of heaven and earth belonging to the Yang path converged on Sun Yao's body in that instant. With the help of unimaginable Yin-Yang laws, Sun Yao successfully pushed the divine flower to the ninth rank.

"The Five Elements converge to form the Great Unity, the Three Flowers gather at the crown to prove the Great Luo! From this day forward, I, Sun Yao, have attained the Great Luo Dao Fruit!"

The three flowers of essence, energy, and spirit above Sun Yao's head swayed slightly under the blowing of the gale from the Thirty-Three Heavens, just like the gale from the Thirty-Three Heavens, which was enough to take the lives of some minor immortals, was merely a gentle breeze.

"You old scoundrel with long ears, wash your neck clean and wait for me, the Emperor. A hundred years from now, I will surely storm Mount Yule and take your life!"

Sun Yao looked westward and said these words. Then he used the Sun Rainbow Technique to fly back towards Dongsheng Shenzhou. In the blink of an eye, he returned to the Purple Mansion Palace.

Sun Yao landed in the Purple Palace and sat cross-legged on a twelve-petaled white lotus in the Pure World Lotus Pond. The twelve-petaled white lotus has the effect of purifying the soul; sitting on it can cleanse the soul and wash away impurities, eliminating any worry about demonic invasion.

With this twelve-petaled Pure World White Lotus in hand, Sun Yaocai was confident that he could catch up with the Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal, who had lived for countless years longer than him, simply through cultivation.

Sun Yao secluded himself here for a full eighty years. During this time, his main focus was on consolidating his cultivation and refining the other restrictions on the Sun and Moon Sword Box.

During that time, he did go out once. This time, he went to the Eight Views Palace of the Thirty-Three Heavens to hand over the Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd to his master for refining.

When the Soul-Scattering Gourd was handed to his teacher, the teacher was slightly surprised, but only slightly astonished. He already knew that Yun Zhongzi was the reincarnation of Hongyun, but he did not expect that Yun Zhongzi would not go to retrieve the Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd.

After the Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd was handed over to the Sage Taiqing, his teacher told him to simply return and wait. Refining such an innate object required far more time than a day or two. Therefore, the Sage Taiqing even made a special trip back to Shouyang Mountain from the Eight Views Palace of the Thirty-Third Heaven.

Time stands still in these mountains; the passing of years is unnoticed as the cold winter fades. Eighty years fly by in the blink of an eye, like a white horse galloping past a crack in the wall. How many eighty-year periods does an ordinary person have?

Sun Yao slowly stood up from the Pure World White Lotus, stretched his arms wide, and yawned. In the past eighty years, his cultivation had risen from the early stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm to the peak of the early stage, just one step away from the middle stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

He had already cultivated the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts to the seventh level, which was almost perfect. Although he had some understanding of the eighth level, he had not yet fully comprehended it.

Most importantly, over the course of eighty years, he had completely refined the Sun and Moon Sword Box, which became the first innate spiritual treasure that Sun Yao had refined himself.

"Having stayed for so long, it's time to go out and travel. Although only eighty years have passed, it's time to fulfill that hundred-year promise. After the Sage Zhunti was rejected when he went to the Eight Views Palace, I suppose the Buddhist sect prepared something to give me a surprise."

During these eighty years, although Sun Yao was in seclusion in the Purple Mansion Palace, he still knew some of the things that were happening in the outside world. After Sun Yao broke through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, the Sage Zhunti paid a visit to the Eight Scenery Palace.

Unfortunately, Sage Zhunti couldn't even get into the Eight Trigrams Palace before his teacher turned him away on the grounds that he was in seclusion for cultivation.

Sun Yao roughly understood what Zhunti wanted to do. He simply wanted to mediate the conflict between himself and Chang'er Dingguangxian. If his bold words were easily resolved, what prestige would he, the Eastern Emperor, have left?

However, if Sun Yao didn't give face to the sage Zhunti, he would be branded as disrespectful to a sage. But since Sun Yao had a sage teacher, the sage Zhunti had no choice but to go to the Eight Trigrams Palace to see if he could annoy Sun Yao.

But he forgot that the Supreme Saint was just as protective of his own as his two brothers, and perhaps even more so.

The Primordial Celestial Venerable was protective of his own, and could distinguish between those close and those distant. Among his twelve direct disciples, there were always a few who were not so well-liked.

However, the Taiqing Sage was different; he only had two direct disciples. Therefore, when Zhunti went to him, he was turned away. He dared not bypass the Taiqing Sage and go directly to Sun Yao. So, they could only try various methods to improve the strength of Chang'er Dingguang Xian in order to avoid bringing shame to Buddhism.

"There's no time like the present. Since we're leaving the pass today, let's storm Mount Yule today."

After stretching, Sun Yao joked. Then he transformed into a rainbow and shot straight into the sky, heading directly towards Mount Yule in the west.

Outside Mount Yule in the west, a Vajra Guardian Formation blocked Sun Yao's path. Sun Yao was certain that the Vajra Guardian Formation was not the protective formation of Mount Yule, because Vajra and Mount Yule were completely incompatible.

The so-called Mountain of Desire and Pleasure, with "desire" as its name, is also the sacred site of the Buddha of Dipankara. One can only imagine how licentious and depraved this mountain must be.

How could Buddhist Vajra be mixed up with these things? This must be a trick by the two Western saints to increase the chances of victory for the Long-Eared Immortal.

"You think a mere protective array can stop me? I said I would attack Mount Yule back then, and I, Sun Yao, will definitely keep my word. Fu Guang, Wang Shu, form the Sun and Moon Filling the Sky Array!"

As soon as Sun Yao finished speaking, Fu Guang and Wang Shu rushed out of the Sun and Moon Sword Box.

The two flying swords split into a total of twenty-two flying swords in mid-air. These twenty-two flying swords combined to form a huge sword formation in mid-air, covering the entire Yule Mountain.

The next moment, an unforgettable spectacle appeared in the sky. It was high noon, yet the sun and moon shone together in the heavens.

The Sun and the Moon appeared in the sky at the same time, and their light was simultaneously drawn to the Sun and Moon Filling the Sky Formation. Within the Sun and Moon Filling the Sky Formation, countless Moon and Sun sword energies emerged, continuously attacking the Vajra Guardian Formation.