What on Earth Did You Four Ancient Celestials Resurrect?

"Huh? Why does this person look exactly like this immortal?" The Immortal Fairy was also stunned, completely baffled. Looking at that familiar and peerlessly beautiful face, Lu Yang's head throbbed, and he gave a wry, helpless smile. What on earth did you Four Ancient Celestials actually resurrect?! Back when Senior Ao Ling said that the purpose of establishing the Xinhuo Dynasty was to resurrect the Immortal Fairy, Lu Yang had already formed a rough hypothesis. The Four Celestials had founded the Xinhuo Dynasty with immense momentum, spending a full hundred thousand years on the endeavor. They could not have failed to make even a ripple. Taking Daoist Sanshan as an example, how many half-immortals could be created in a hundred thousand years? If there was an outcome, what would that outcome be? According to Senior Ao Ling, the purpose of establishing the Netherworld was to recreate the Immortal Fairy's Dao fruit. That recreation had definitely failed; otherwise, it would never have fallen to him to resurrect the Immortal Fairy. Furthermore, connecting this with the fact that the immortal who had fought Immortal Kirin possessed the Extinction Dao fruit—the very Dao fruit the Immortal Fairy had once prepared to condense... And the Immortal Fairy had said that the Extinction Dao fruit was exceptionally difficult to condense, with no one having ever succeeded in the ancient era. The likelihood of an immortal suddenly springing up in the Xinhuo Dynasty and obtaining the Extinction Dao fruit was extremely low. Most likely, through some freak twist of fate, the Netherworld had managed to condense the Extinction Dao fruit. Meanwhile, the purpose of establishing the Heavenly Court was to use the power of faith to sculpt an immortal physique. That immortal physique would naturally look identical to the Immortal Fairy. In other words, if establishing the Xinhuo Dynasty produced a result, that result was very likely the birth of an immortal bearing the Immortal Fairy's appearance, whose Dao fruit was the Extinction Dao fruit. The Gray Mist Immortal—or rather, Gray Doudou. Gray Doudou's earlier actions had also corroborated Lu Yang's guess. Because Lu Yang had guessed accurately, Gray Doudou wanted to kill him. And that action allowed Lu Yang to see another truth clearly: Gray Doudou's erasure of the Xinhuo Dynasty's existence was not done to make the dynasty vanish, but to keep the world from knowing of her existence. After all, Gray Doudou was the Lord of the Heavenly Court during the era of the Xinhuo Dynasty, and everyone in the dynasty knew of her. However, Lu Yang had not yet figured out why Gray Doudou had gone to such lengths, nor what she truly pursued. *Could it be that, like Daoist Sanshan, she was controlled by the power of faith, so she wanted to snip the source of that power of faith?* Lu Yang came up with a reasonable hypothesis. The Immortal Fairy shook her head. "I don't know, but that is a possibility. If Ying Tian and the others were still alive, the only sources of the power of faith left would be those few immortals and Xiao Ling. "Their realms were high enough and their influence vast, so there truly is a possibility of killing people to break free from those shackles. But why would she kill you?" Thinking it over, Lu Yang agreed. He did not believe in Gray Doudou. He could not possibly have generated faith in her merely from knowing about her—Gray Doudou could not be *that* narcissistic. Besides, inside his body resided the genuine Lord of the Heavenly Court, Huang Doudou. Wait... judging by Gray Doudou's earlier demeanor, her personality was very similar to the Immortal Fairy's. Narcissism actually seemed entirely possible. Furthermore, from Gray Doudou's perspective, his cultivation was merely at the Nascent Soul stage. It was not out of the question for a Nascent Soul cultivator to revere an immortal. Yet Lu Yang still felt something was off. For instance, Gray Doudou had told him: "Since you know this seat's identity, you must die as well." How did Gray Doudou know that he had guessed her identity? Could she actually sense it? Lu Yang tossed the question to the Immortal Fairy in hopes of an explanation, but in return, he received two faces staring blankly at each other. "Oh, right. You don't believe in her, so how could she sense you?" Lu Yang nodded inwardly. As expected, he could not count on the Immortal Fairy; he was better off using his own brain. Seeing the true face of the Gray Mist Immortal, Ao Ling felt just as bewildered as Lu Yang. *No wonder my husband couldn't defeat the Gray Mist Immortal.* Unwilling to let the world behold her true self, Gray Doudou quickly allowed the gray mist to shroud her face once more, returning to her enigmatic appearance. "Did any of you get a clear look at that immortal's face?" Venerable Black Feather was the most curious about this. Unfortunately, after asking everyone around him, all answered that they had not seen clearly. Everything had happened too fast, far surpassing the reaction speed of the Tribulation Transcendence stage. The only ones who had seen Gray Doudou's face were Yun Zhi, Lu Yang—who was spectating by borrowing immortal sense—and Ao Ling, who temporarily possessed the vision of an immortal. Even Daoist Lord Hanhai had failed to see Gray Doudou's face clearly. "Falling Cloud Palm." Yun Zhi shifted from a fist to a palm. Like drifting white clouds, it shifted unpredictably, imbued with a wondrous force. The single palm strike battered Gray Doudou until she vomited blood, coughing it entirely into the gray mist. Gray Doudou's face filled with disbelief. She was the supreme first person of the immortal dao, undefeated since the ancient era, unmatched even by Ninefold Immortal and the others. How could she be beaten so miserably? "Immortal Dao Killing Fist!" Gray Doudou possessed a fist technique of her own. As her strike was unleashed, unmatched under heaven, the sky and earth changed color. The power of the Extinction Dao fruit contained within surged like a raging river, vast and boundless, while an invisible pressure bore down like a toppling mountain, freezing the very air in place. She had once made Ninefold Immortal spit blood with this fist technique! Yun Zhi remained unmoved, striking out with another palm. Fist and palm collided. In an instant, the spiritual energy in the sea waters above the Dragon Palace boiled over, triggering a colossal spiritual energy explosion. It simultaneously agitated the spiritual energy of the spectating cultivators, who had no choice but to sit down cross-legged on the spot to soothe their turbulent spiritual energy and meridians. *Boom!* A figure was sent flying backward out of the massive explosion, coughing up blood incessantly—it was Gray Doudou. Seeing that distance had opened between her and Yun Zhi, Gray Doudou seized the momentum to flee. Her attacks had been neutralized one after another by Eldest Senior Sister, she was outmatched in close combat, and her true face had even been seen. Since killing her targets was now out of the question, she might as well slip away. She had never planned to defeat Yun Zhi in the first place; unleashing the Immortal Dao Killing Fist had merely been an attempt to find an opportunity to escape. If she did not run now, she might very well lose her life right here in the East Sea! Where on earth had this Heavenly Court Cult come from, and who was this Cult Master Yun Mengmeng of the Heavenly Court Cult?! Yet how could Yun Zhi let Gray Doudou escape so easily? She executed Soaring Body and Entrusting Traces, a divine ability far more profound than Shrinking the Earth to Inches, allowing one to conceal oneself within heaven and earth to perform spatial leaps. Sensing with her immortal sense that Yun Zhi was pursuing relentlessly, Gray Doudou's expression turned vicious, and she hardened her resolve. "Cult Master of the Heavenly Court Cult, you forced my hand!" "Heavenly Demon Disintegration Great Art!" "Great Five Elements Escaping Technique!" At the cost of severe injury, Gray Doudou executed the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Great Art. For good measure, she also utilized the Great Five Elements Escaping Technique, transforming into the elements to merge with the world and flee into the distance. "Return Wind and Reverse Fire." Yun Zhi once again rewound time, returning to the moment before Gray Doudou had cast the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Great Art. Unwilling to concede, Gray Doudou cast the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Great Art again. Unfortunately, it remained useless; time rewound once more. Gray Doudou gritted her teeth and mobilized the Extinction Dao fruit: "Destroy the concept of 'time'!" She could temporarily destroy a specific concept. By destroying the concept of time, the time-reversal technique lost its effect. "Heavenly Demon Disintegration Great Art! Great Five Elements Escaping Technique!" Only then did she finally break free from Yun Zhi's grasp. Gray Doudou felt no sense of relief, only utter humiliation. She, the majestic Lord of the Heavenly Court, had been chased into frantic flight by the Cult Master of the Heavenly Court Cult! By rank, a Cult Master of the Heavenly Court Cult was supposed to be subordinate to the Lord of the Heavenly Court!