Chapter 90: The Nine Great Golden Cores 2

Dream-Making Expert

The Azure Cloud Mountain Range, a nameless county town.

At sunrise, a group of three stood atop the mountain peak, overlooking the small county town below.

I thought I would never return here in this life.

Gazing at the familiar little hometown county town, the figure who had shed his soldier's garb and now wore a black Daoist robe could not help but murmur.

Beside him, the man still dressed as a physician, yet completely spotless, nodded. His heart was equally full of emotion, and his gaze unconsciously drifted toward the azure-robed Daoist among the three.

The azure-robed Daoist was as handsome as a heavenly god. In one hand, he held a lamp crafted from a palace. In the other, he held aloft a mass of dreamlike radiance.

Within the palace-lamp, a woman clad in snow-white robes slept peacefully like a lamp wick.

And within that dreamlike radiance, the figure of another woman in snow-white robes shifted and changed, as if undergoing a cycle of reincarnation.

Though at the outset they had not recognized the azure-robed Daoist's identity, Lin Qi had never intended to keep hiding it.

So the two quickly came to know Lin Qi's true identity.

There was shock and there was joy, but more than anything, there was bewilderment.

After all, when Lin Qi had left back then, he had commanded them to cultivate diligently.

Yet they had raised a rebellion that swept across the entire world.

They truly had no face to meet Lin Qi.

"A return to old grounds can also be considered a trial of the heart."

"While you still have the chance."

"Both of you, take a good look at your hometown."

Lin Qi's gaze was indifferent as he looked at the two disciples he had taken in years ago on a whim, originally intending only to keep them as a fallback, as chess pieces.

Fang Yun and Wan Teng.

Fang Yun and Wan Teng exchanged a glance, thinking Lin Qi meant to use this to teach them a lesson. So they silently nodded, widened their eyes, and gazed toward their hometown.

They stared like that for three days and three nights, until both their eyes ached terribly.

Wan Teng could not help it. He was just about to ask Lin Qi what he actually planned to do with them.

When suddenly, a heavenly phenomenon descended.

Starlight spread across the ground, golden lightning blazed, as if sun and moon had risen together.

Heavenly flowers rained down, golden lotuses surged from the earth.

Then, nine powerful and majestic figures manifested within the heavenly phenomenon, like gods and demons, overlooking the world, gazing toward them.

"So you are Lin Qi?"

A grand voice rang out, accompanied by thunder and lightning, as if a heavenly god were interrogating him.

"The Immortal Academy now has nine Golden Cores."

"Xingyue, Tianhe, Jinlei…"

"Hm, it seems all of you have come."

Lin Qi's gaze was indifferent as he raised his head to look at the nine great Golden Cores of the Immortal Academy who had appeared in the sky.

These nine Golden Core Ancestors were the strongest individuals in the Immortal Continent's cultivation world at present, presiding over its workings.

"What a Lin Qi."

"As expected of the first person in the Immortal Continent's cultivation world to cultivate an innate divine prohibition in ten thousand years."

"Indeed, you have