Chapter 1 What a Strange Statement

　　Ji Ning was stunned on the spot. What kind of weird logic was this? The reason others weren't suitable was because his master was? Was this even a valid reason to reject others?

　　However, he also thought about Jiang Xuan's identity. A direct descendant of the Shennong lineage, and also the number one monstrous talent in the Three Realms, he must have a Dao Ancestor backing him. His master... wouldn't that mean...?

　　But he didn't agree immediately, after all, he had to consider the Yellow-Furred Bear. It followed Daoist Sanshou, and had enemies among powerful experts in ancient times. What if he ended up under the tutelage of those experts? That would be the end of him!

　　"Senior Heng Wang, may I know who your master is?" Ji Ning asked. He wasn't familiar with the Dao Ancestors of the Three Realms, but the Yellow-Furred Bear was.

　　The other party was an old monster who existed since ancient times. Even though times had changed and many new experts had emerged in the Three Realms, there couldn't be too many Dao Ancestors. Moreover, Daoist Sanshou didn't have that many great enemies, so there was no need to be too nervous.

　　"I'll give you a little hint," Jiang Xuan said playfully, "Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, Xieyue Sanxing Cave..."

　　"It's him, it's him, Xieyue Sanxing Cave, the most mysterious Dao Ancestor! Ji Ning, you're in luck, haha... You're really in luck, Bodhi Dao Ancestor actually knows you, he actually knows of your existence, how does he know?" The Yellow-Furred Bear's voice echoed in Ji Ning's mind, clearly extremely excited.

　　Upon hearing the words "Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, Xieyue Sanxing Cave," the Yellow-Furred Bear guessed it. In the Three Realms, it might be difficult to determine which Dao Ancestor was the strongest.

　　The Suiren Clan of the human race, the Buddha of the Buddhist faith, and the Three Pure Ones of the Daoist faith, these were all leader-level existences famous throughout the Three Realms. Unless they were to fight, no one could determine who was the strongest.

　　But the most mysterious Dao Ancestor had always been Bodhi Dao Ancestor. The strongest in the Dao of space-time in the Three Realms, coming without a shadow and leaving without a trace, he had a reputation in the Three Realms, but few had ever seen him.

　　"Is there a need to be so excited?" Ji Ning was rather calm. He also knew Bodhi Dao Ancestor, wasn't that Sun Wukong's master?

　　"What do you know?!" The Yellow-Furred Bear scolded, and began to instill in Ji Ning how amazing Bodhi Dao Ancestor was. After a long time, Ji Ning finally understood how powerful Bodhi Dao Ancestor was in the Three Realms.

　　"My master dreams of the Three Realms, and he watched the Immortal Destiny Meet of the Xia Dynasty as if he were there in person. At this Immortal Destiny Meet, my master didn't take a fancy to anyone else, only you."

　　Jiang Xuan said. Why did he take a fancy to him? Wasn't it because of Daoist Sanshou's Water Mansion? After all, although Ji Ning had talent, if he wanted to become a disciple of a Dao Ancestor, it also depended on the Dao Ancestor's mood.

　　Otherwise, with his first-place achievement in the Immortal Destiny Meet, he would have already become a disciple of Chiming Dao Ancestor.

　　"How about it? Do you choose Evergreen Sword Immortal, or leave with me?" Jiang Xuan asked with a smile. Ji Ning wasn't stupid, how could he not distinguish the difference between a "Dao Ancestor" and a "True Immortal"? Plus, the Yellow-Furred Bear had spoken, so he naturally agreed.

　　"Good, in that case, after you get the sword talisman of Evergreen Sword Immortal, we'll leave the Xia Dynasty," Jiang Xuan said.

　　"Why do I still need to get the sword talisman of Evergreen Sword Immortal?" Ji Ning was stunned. He wasn't going to become a disciple of Evergreen Sword Immortal.

　　"It's better to be low-key. After all, this Xia Dynasty is the territory of Chiming Dao Ancestor, and even my master has to give him some face," Jiang Xuan said with a smile. "Moreover, Evergreen accepting disciples also depends on your willingness. If you take the sword talisman but don't go in the end, it will just be seen as you not wanting to become his disciple."

　　"As for the future, when your strength is great enough, even if people find out, there's no need to worry about anything."

　　Ji Ning nodded, and listened to Jiang Xuan's advice. After receiving the sword talisman sent by the Xia Emperor, he bid farewell to Yuchi Xiyue, and then quietly left with Jiang Xuan.

　　Jiang Xuan obtained the true inheritance of Bodhi Dao Ancestor, and already grasped the Gu Clan's precious technique. He was very accomplished in the Dao of space-time. Now that the Great Daos of time and space were complete, if he wasn't waiting for the advancement of the Chaos Golden Core, he could have already broken through to the True Immortal level.

　　Because of this, if he wanted to leave, there really weren't many people in the Three Realms who could stop him. Plus, this time there was Bodhi Dao Ancestor to receive them. As soon as they left the Xia Dynasty, they directly stepped onto the space-time channel to enter the Xieyue Great World.

　　……

　　"This, is this the Great Mo Eternal World?"

　　Outside the Three Realms, in the endless chaos, Jiang Xuan's true body walked out of the space-time teleportation array, looking at this vast and boundless world, his heart filled with emotions. He spent so many years to finally come to the Great Mo Eternal World from the Three Realms.

　　The Great Mo Eternal World was the core of the entire Great Mo Domain, and it gathered the most powerful forces in the entire Great Mo Domain. There were more than 80,000 chaos worlds in the Great Mo Domain, and there were also many World Gods, but most of the truly powerful World Gods lived in the Great Mo Eternal World.

　　The reason for this was naturally that there was Da Mo Dao Lord here, a powerhouse who had reached the third step in the Dao of deduction. His deduction skills were even more powerful than some Eternal Emperors.

　　Moreover, not to mention the Dao of deduction, Da Mo Dao Lord also had the strength of a third-step Dao Lord. The Dao Lord realm was a lifetime for each step. The first and second steps might be simple, and some monstrous talents could even become second-step Dao Lords within a thousand years of entering the first step.

　　But from the second step to the third step, the difficulty increased geometrically. Even in the Yanlong Domain, a third-step Dao Lord was considered a master, and managing an eternal territory was naturally not difficult.

　　The reason it was called "Eternal" was because the Eternal World was mostly opened up by Eternal Emperors, and it contained the Dao of the Eternal Emperor. As long as the Eternal Emperor's Dao didn't collapse, the Eternal World could exist forever.

　　Moreover, unlike the chaos world form of the Three Realms, the Great Mo Eternal World was a world similar to a round sky and a square earth. It was also divided into countless realms, but it was even more vast, and its territory was far wider than the Three Realms.

　　"Just like in my memory, the Great Mo Eternal World completely prohibits flying. You can't fly. It really is like this."

　　Jiang Xuan tried it and couldn't help but smile wryly. When he tried to fly, a mysterious and unpredictable force of rules descended on him, making it impossible for him to fly.

　　But other methods could be used normally. It was said that this Eternal World was set with the rule of "no flying" from the beginning, and even World Gods couldn't break this rule.

　　Therefore, in the Great Mo Eternal World, no matter what kind of creature, even birds, couldn't fly, unless their strength was as great as the current master of the Great Mo Domain, "Da Mo Dao Lord," who could resist the rules, otherwise it was impossible to fly.

　　But it was very comfortable in the Eternal World. The Eternal World was incomparably thick, gentle, and tolerant of every comer, and the mind would naturally be peaceful. This was also why many cultivators liked to live in the Great Mo Eternal World.

　　"Go directly to the Great Mo Academy!"

　　The Great Mo Academy was a force personally created by Da Mo Dao Lord, with countless experts. Even the most ordinary disciples had to be Ancestral Gods, and the truly core disciples were almost all World God Completion, all preparing to open up their own Dao.

　　Jiang Xuan quickly arrived at the area where the Great Mo Academy was located, a lake with a radius of a million miles.

　　For mortals, this was already an unimaginable ocean, but for powerful cultivators, it was indeed just an inland lake.

　　And in the center of this lake, there was only one building, a courtyard, naturally formed with Daoist charm, with many buildings inside. Outside the entire courtyard, there was also a huge stone tablet.

　　The stone tablet was a thousand zhang tall, with two large characters on it: Da Mo!

　　Its aura was majestic and heavy, spreading waves that shook the heavens and the earth. Even if Jiang Xuan didn't recognize these two characters, he could understand their meaning. Every stroke seemed to be connected to the rules and order of the Heavenly Dao.

　　"Great Mo Academy..."

　　Jiang Xuan looked at the scene before him, and his heart couldn't help but yearn for it. Although he came here to find a solution to the control of heartforce, one thing must be admitted, being able to learn stronger divine abilities, secret techniques, and secret manuals was also what he hoped for.

　　While thinking, Jiang Xuan also walked towards the Great Mo Academy.

　　One could join the Great Mo Academy at any time, because its assessment only had one level, and it didn't require any strong person to control it. But this one test blocked countless Ancestral Gods and Ancestral Immortals, and even blocked many World Gods and Chaos Immortals who wanted to join.

　　"Someone's trying to pass the test again."

　　"Never seen him before, looks like a newcomer."

　　"Alas... It's been over a hundred million years, and I still haven't passed this test. Am I really not destined for the Great Mo Academy?"

　　……

　　Jiang Xuan wasn't disturbed by these voices. He came to the lakeside, looked at the clear and waveless, ethereal and profound lake, recalled the information he had inquired about on the way, and directly stepped into it.

　　"It's starting!"

　　A creature said. The test of the Great Mo Academy was under this lake. This lake was not only a natural beauty, but also a chasm separating the Great Mo Academy from the outside world.

　　A lake, spanning a million miles in radius. Jiang Xuan遁 (dun - entered) into it, his eyes filled with divine light, faintly containing the rumbling of heavenly sounds.

　　The bottom of this lake was completely different from the outside. This place seemed to be another space-time, but it was shrouded in cold, bone-piercing lake water. Stars floated in it, the large ones with a diameter of 100,000 li, and the small ones with tens of thousands of li, scattered under the seemingly bottomless lake.

　　From the outside, one couldn't see all of this at all, but once one entered the lake, it was as if one had crossed space-time to an unfathomable ancient land.

　　"Ancestral Gods and Ancestral Immortals must pass through at least eighty stars to become the most ordinary disciples." Jiang Xuan recalled the information. The assessment of the Great Mo Academy was this bottomless lake.

　　On each star, a Star Will would be evolved as Ji Ning's test, and the deeper he went, the stronger the evolved Star Will would be!

　　According to legend, the stars under this Star Lake were divided into nine levels in total. In just the first level, the strongest Star Will was comparable to a fifth-grade Ancestral God or Ancestral Immortal.

　　In the endless chaos, Ancestral Gods and Ancestral Immortals could be roughly divided into five levels: ordinary level, top level, peak level infinitely close to the World Realm, surpassing the peak level, and the monstrous level that could match the World Realm.

　　Of course, the matching of the World Realm here only referred to those weak World Realms. In the Desolate World, the realm was not the only standard of combat power. The strength of the Dao was. The stronger the understanding of the "Dao", the lower the realm might be, but the strength might not be weaker than those in a higher realm.