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Chapter 1794 - Chapter 1794 Chapter 782 Age Candle Returns Hair-Raising _2

Chapter 1794: Chapter 782: Age Candle Returns, Hair-Raising _2 Chapter 1794: Chapter 782: Age Candle Returns, Hair-Raising _2 As he approached the Immortal Court, he could tell from a distance that the Tao Arrays of the Immortal Court were different from before. The arrays were like enhanced versions, emitting fluctuations that even he found startling.

He knew that this should be because Age Candle Heavenly Venerate had truly returned. The Tao Array that he had laid out, once bolstered by his strength, naturally exhibited a might that was much more powerful than when Calamity Tao Ancestor was stationed there.

As he drew closer, the Tao Array autonomously split open to allow him passage.

Without hesitation, Han Yi moved swiftly through it, heading straight for Age Candle Mountain.

Inside Age Candle Hall, nearly eight thousand years had passed since he was forced to part ways in the Chaotic Ancient Dao Domain because of the Chaotic Ancient Immortal Tomb blocking the path, but now he finally saw Age Candle Heavenly Venerate again.

“Han Yi pays his respects to the Heavenly Venerate!”

Han Yi respectfully saluted. To him, Age Candle Heavenly Venerate was the protector of his path of cultivation. Without the Age Candle Immortal Court, without Age Candle Heavenly Venerate, he would not have had such a stable shelter, and his cultivation would not have been so smooth.

To acknowledge the favor and attempt to repay it had always been the principle he strictly adhered to.

Seeing Han Yi, Age Candle Heavenly Venerate’s face revealed unabashed joy, his smile broadening.

“Han Yi, I just knew you would return alive.”

“And moreover, in these mere few thousand years, you have directly broken through to the Outer Path Realm. Your combat power is terrifying to the extreme, nearly approaching that of a Heavenly Sovereign.”

“Good, really, it’s just too good.”

“Given a few more thousand years, perhaps you might be able to ascend to Heavenly Sovereign. Then, with your protection over the Immortal Court, I can free my hands to do more.”

“For the Immortal Court, this is an earth-shattering joy.”

Age Candle Heavenly Venerate’s tone was anything but calm, hardly concealing his excitement.

At this moment in Age Candle Hall, only Age Candle Heavenly Venerate, Han Yi, Xuan Zang, Myriad Calamities, and Feather Light – these five individuals were present.

These were all the current cultivators of the Immortal Court above the Tao Realm.

After Age Candle Heavenly Venerate’s aura manifested, Feather Light Dao Ancestor had excitedly returned from the Eternal Life Territory’s Xuling Sect.

With a Heavenly Sovereign present, all the imminent hidden dangers of the Immortal Court vanished in an instant, dissolving into formlessness.

Xuan Zang Taoist Ancestor, too, was awakened. He had initially recovered to the Outer Path Realm hundreds of years prior, but was still planning to spend enough time to stabilize his realm. However, with the arrival of the Heavenly Sovereign, he naturally had to leave seclusion. This was a major event for the entire Immortal Court.

As for Myriad Calamities Tao Ancestor, he had always been diligently guarding the Immortal Court, stationed in Candle Hall, constantly lending the Tao Array’s protection to the Immortal Court, guarding against anyone sneaking in or launching a sudden attack.

Before Han Yi rushed back, Age Candle Heavenly Venerate had already learned about the current situation of the Immortal Court and Han Yi from the Age Candle Spirit. Of course, before that, he had seen Han Yi holding the Ancient Artifact and struggling against Su Xi from the True Holy Palace in Purple Mountain. He understood Han Yi’s combat power much more clearly than any other cultivator within the Immortal Court.

Upon hearing the Heavenly Venerate’s words brimming with such excitement, the expressions of Xuan Zang, Myriad Calamities, and Feather Light in the hall were all greatly shaken.

Among them,

Xuan Zang’s face showed the most noticeable change. Among the three, Myriad Calamities and Feather Light knew that Han Yi wielded the Divine Reverence Ancient Artifact and fought slightly superior to Su Xi of the True Holy Palace, along with the Ancient Holy Sword.

However, Xuan Zang had been in seclusion all along and was unaware of this matter. It was only a little over a half-hour ago when the Heavenly Venerate returned and Xuan Zang left his seclusion. And after leaving, he had no time to learn about the events concerning Han Yi in the past few hundred years.

Before his seclusion, he was aware that Han Yi could utilize the Outer Path to harmonize the Tao, but he would never have imagined that Han Yi had become so extremely powerful, even nearing the category of Heavenly Sovereign.

One must understand that it took him so many ten thousand years to be promoted to the Outer Path. Back when he was transcending the Tao Trace, he clashed with a Harmonizer, was wounded by the adversary, and fell from his Tao Fruit status. After consuming miraculous medicine and spending nearly ten thousand years, he rebuilt his strength to the Outer Path.

Yet Han Yi, in a mere ten-thousand-year span, advanced from the initial entry into the Tao Realm to being elevated to Outer Path, and his combat power was nearing that of a Heavenly Sovereign.

This disparity astonished him, and in the face of Han Yi’s prominence, he felt all too mediocre.

Of course,

This astonishment was not born of jealousy but was a respect for the strength of a powerful individual.

He turned to look at Han Yi, and in his pupils, a trace of reverence involuntarily manifested.

For Myriad Calamities and Feather Light, their reactions were different. They knew of Han Yi’s strength and were aware of Han Yi’s earth-shattering battle against the formidable cultivator of the True Holy Palace in the Chaos. However, they would have never thought that they would hear from Age Candle Heavenly Venerate’s own mouth his hopes for Han Yi’s ascension to Heavenly Sovereign.

A few thousand years? Ascending to Heavenly Sovereign?

If it were any other cultivator, or even any other Heavenly Sovereign speaking, they might just laugh it off, thinking it was a joke, but when it came to their own Heavenly Sovereign, the two knew it was nothing as simple as a joke.

This indicated that Age Candle Heavenly Venerate acknowledged Han Yi’s strength and anticipated and speculated on Han Yi’s ascension to a Heavenly Sovereign.

They were thus shocked.

After listening to the Heavenly Sovereign, Han Yi humbly replied, “Only with the Heavenly Sovereign here does the Immortal Court remain the Immortal Court.”

“Han Yi will always be a disciple beneath the Heavenly Sovereign’s seat.”

In the Age Candle Immortal Court, all cultivators were disciples of Age Candle Heavenly Venerate.

Hearing these two sentences from Han Yi, Age Candle Heavenly Venerate laughed heartily, quite gratified.

“If you can think this way, this old man is deeply relieved.”

He waved his hand, signaling for the four individuals to sit back down at their Tao Seats, and then said, “I have already come to understand everything that has transpired at the Immortal Court over these years.”

“You all have done very well.”

“And, you have worked hard.”

This acknowledgement of their hard work by Age Candle Heavenly Venerate was a recognition and an affirmation of the four people’s thousand years of solitary guardianship of the Immortal Court.

The four felt a tinge of sorrow yet also felt that their years of effort had been worthwhile.

Before the four could speak, Age Candle Heavenly Venerate continued, “There is something I need to tell you.”

His expression turned slightly solemn, causing the hearts of the four in the hall to instantly suspend.

“In the past, a Heavenly Sovereign returning from the Ancient World encountered an assassination at the Chaotic Ancient Dao Domain by the Chaotic Ancient Immortal Tomb; I barely escaped with my life, and I was severely injured.”

“After I fled back to the Primordial Demon Dao Domain, I happened to encounter Purple Mountain, and within it, I entered seclusion and cultivated until a hundred years ago. After I emerged from seclusion a hundred years ago, I stumbled upon Han Yi fighting against the True Holy Palace from the Outer Path.”

“Subsequently, I used the special pathways of Purple Mountain to begin investigating the situation of the True Holy Palace…”

…

Age Candle Heavenly Venerate began recounting the events he experienced after the battle at the Chaotic Ancient Immortal Tomb.

When he mentioned that Heavenly Sovereign Yu Chang had left the Daoist God Continent and was headed towards the Fuheng Taoist Area, the four people’s hearts shook.

If Age Candle Heavenly Sovereign had not returned, facing a Heavenly Sovereign without backup would have surely spelled disaster for the Immortal Court.

The most likely outcome would have been utter destruction amidst blood and fire.

Myriad Calamities and Feather Light looked towards Han Yi; when Han Yi initially proposed sending a part of the cultivators to the Xuling Sect, after some consideration, they had agreed to this proposal.

Now it seemed, this proposal was quite reliable.

When Age Candle Heavenly Venerate mentioned inviting two Godly Venerables and two Heavenly Sovereigns to join him, the four people’s eyes lit up; they hadn’t expected their Heavenly Sovereign to have such strong connections and friendships amidst the Chaos.

When it came to preparing an ambush for the Second Palace Master of the True Holy Palace and Heavenly Venerable Yu Chang at the Ten Thousand Burial Origin, Han Yi’s eyes shone brightly.

Back then, at the edge of the Daoist God Continent, it was Heavenly Venerable Yu Chang who had attacked him, nearly bringing him to death’s door. He had a profoundly deep impression of this Heavenly Sovereign whose realm far surpassed his own but whom he would inevitably face in battle once he ascended to a Heavenly Sovereign.

And when Age Candle Heavenly Venerate talked about encountering the peculiar space within the Ten Thousand Burial Origin and the events that surpassed their initial-stage Heavenly Sovereign realm, the faces of the four in the hall drastically changed, and their hearts tightened up, filled with intense anxiety.

When, at last, he recounted unexpectedly encountering Heavenly Venerable Yu Chang and how they managed to slay her by combining their forces, Han Yi’s expression greatly stirred.

A Heavenly Sovereign that had traversed the Tao Domains and sought to kill him, only to be slain midway by his own Heavenly Sovereign in collaboration with the invited Godly Venerables and Heavenly Sovereigns.

Though he hadn’t been present at the scene, just from the words of Age Candle Heavenly Venerate, Han Yi could already imagine that entire scene, feeling incredibly moved.

And when, finally, Age Candle Heavenly Venerate revealed that the Heavenly Venerable Yu Chang they had slain had actually died long ago, having been refined into something akin to a puppet, and that the cultivator who refined her might just be the mysterious existence buried within the Ten Thousand Burial Origin,

Instantly, the four in the hall felt their hair stand on end.