“Greetings, Sect Leader Qing Ling”

Chu Kuangren looked at Master Daoist Qing Ling and greeted him.

As Master Daoist Qing Ling looked at the young man before him, a conflicted look flashed across his eyes. Then, he let out a helpless sigh.

“I suppose you must know why I’m here, Brother Chu.”

“Naturally.”

Chu Kuangren nodded gently, and a mysterious energy fluctuation soon emanated from his body. That was the energy fluctuation of the Prime Clarity Spiritual Scripture.

“As I suspected, it is the complete Prime Clarity Spiritual Scripture. May I know where you obtained this Immortal Scripture, young man?” Master Daoist Qing Ling asked seriously.

“Penglai.”

“Penglai… Penglai… It’s the Jie Sect!”

Master Daoist Qing Ling’s eyes widened as if he finally understood something. “I can’t believe you obtained the Jie Sect’s inheritance.”

“I suppose you can put it that way.”

Chu Kuangren nodded.

“Frankly speaking, my sect’s Prime Clarity Spiritual Scripture has been incomplete due to some circumstances. That’s why I’ve come to request this complete version of the Prime Clarity Spiritual Scripture from you, and of course, I shall reward you tremendously for this.”

Master Daoist Qing Ling immediately stated the purpose of his visit.

“I don’t mind giving you the Immortal Scripture, but I have one simple request in return. In exchange for this, I want you to give me the complete version of the Primeval Jade Clarity Scripture.” Chu Kuangren stated his offer.

That was the reason he purposely revealed the Prime Clarity Spiritual Scripture’s energy fluctuation and kept Ye Zhu alive.

It was all because he wanted to create an opportunity for him to exchange Immortal Scriptures with the Three Clarity Daoist Sect.

“You want the Primeval Jade Clarity Scripture?”

Master Qing Ling frowned for a while before a thought hit him, and he widened his eyes in shock. “You want to combine the three Immortal Scriptures!”

“Oh, I was caught.”

“There’s traces of Gong Yue cultivating the Supreme Clarity Moral Scripture, which I suppose you must be responsible for. Seeing that you now want the Primeval Jade Clarity Scripture, you surely intend to combine all three of them!”

“It seems like people have attempted this before in Three Daoist Clarity Sect.”

If not for that, Master Daoist Qing Ling would never think about the idea of combining the three Immortal Scriptures right away.

“That’s right. Some resonance does exist between the three Immortal Scriptures. The great ones in this sect once suspected and attempted to combine the three Immortal Scriptures. However, all of them… ended up going mad and were reduced to nothing upon death!”

Master Daoist Qing Ling said seriously, “Brother Chu, you are a talented and powerful person, but I must warn you not to mess around with this.”

“There’s no need for you to worry, Sect Leader Qing Ling,” Chu Kuangren replied.

“As you wish.”

Master Daoist Qing Ling did not pursue the issue any further.

After exchanging the Immortal Scriptures with Chu Kuanrgen, he left.

Now, all three Immortal Scriptures were in Chu Kuangren’s possession.

“Going mad, huh?”

“Interesting. Let’s see how it’ll make me go mad then.” Chu Kuangren decided to start another closed-door meditation session after obtaining that Immortal Scripture.

During that time, he told Lan Yu and the others to guard him.

Although the Three Clarity Daoist Sect would not dare to do anything to him, he handed his last strand of Celestial Demonic qi to Lan Yu in case something happened.

Just like that, Chu Kuangren openly started his closed-door meditation session again in Three Clarity Daoist Sect.

Master Daoist Qing Ling, the sect elders, and others, who were watching his movements, could feel their mouths twitching in anger, and their faces were ashen.

He had already embarrassed them by killing their Heavenly Champion and an elder of theirs, and now he was having a closed-door meditation session in their sect?

How much more arrogant could he be?

“This person’s character is truly extraordinary!”

Master Daoist Qing Ling lamented. “He knows the Three Clarity Daoist Sect won’t dare to lay a finger on him, so instead of going into closed-door meditation somewhere else, he might as well stay in our territory and use us as protection!”

“Hmph! How bold of him.”

“If something bad happens to him, and we don’t deal with it properly, is he planning on putting the blame on us?” one of the elders said unhappily.

“I’m afraid he still has many tricks up his sleeve. Like the Celestial Demonic qi, if he has one strand, he’ll surely have another.”

“That’s right.”

Eventually, everyone stopped caring about Chu Kuangren.

In reality, Master Daoist Qing Ling was very curious about Chu Kuangren’s closed-door meditation session this time. “Combining the three Immortal Scriptures, huh? No one in the history of our sect has ever managed to do this. What about you, I wonder?”

Master Qing Ling shook his head after thinking about it.

It was simply unbelievable.

There were quite a few Arch Gilded Immortals and even Embodiers that existed in the history of the Three Clarity Daoist Sect. Putting everyone else aside, the founding master of the Three Clarity Daoist Sect, Master Daoist Miao Qing, was someone close to becoming a Primordial.

However, there was no record of him ever combining the three Immortal Scriptures. If someone like him could not do it, what were the chances for Chu Kuangren, who was only a mere Earthen Immortal?

“I just hope he won’t go mad and die here. Otherwise, it’ll be hard to explain things to the Hundred Academy and the Celestial Demon Tribe.”

…

“Before I attempt to combine the Immortal Scriptures, I shall first upgrade my Nine-Cycle Trinity Soul Refinement to the Ninth Cycle,” Chu Kuangren murmured.

With that, he took out the Nine-leaf Soul Herb.

There were nine pieces of leaves on the herb, all brimming with mysterious Immortal Sparks.

It was a very top-tier Immortal Herb. Undoubtedly, it had the best quality among every herb Chu Kuangren had come across thus far.

After he consumed the Immortal Herb and started refining it, a powerful burst of herbal effect erupted and turned into Immortal Sparks that spiraled around Chu Kuangren. Soon, his Nine-Cycle Trinity Soul Refinement started to progress toward the Ninth Cycle.

As time went by, one month passed.

With the help of the Nine-leaf Soul Herb, Chu Kuangren had successfully raised the level of his Nine-Cycle Trinity Soul Refinement to the Ninth Cycle!

Inside his mind, his Heaven Soul, Hell Soul, and Earth Soul were sitting in a triangle formation. The three of them were radiating with mysterious and divine Immortal Sparks.

There was a faint trace of golden light circulating the three souls.

It was the Gilded Soul Trait!

The Gilded Trait was unique only to Gilded Immortals and above.

As long as the Gilded Trait remained, one’s Immortal body would not crumble, and their Immortal soul would not be destroyed!

However, Chu Kuangren was not yet at the Gilded Immortal Realm, but his soul already possessed a trace of Gilded Trait, which was simply out of the world.

“I’ve done it!”

Chu Kuangren opened his eyes, which flashed with a brilliant light.

He had finally cultivated that God-tier technique to its fullest potential. However, it would not be that easy for him to increase his soul’s level after that.

“Now that my soul has obtained a trace of Gilded Trait in advance, not even a True Immortal’s soul will be a match for me.”

The quality of a soul could be categorized as Normal Soul, Immortal Soul, True Consciousness, Gilded Soul, Desolation, Requiescence, Chaos, and Transcendence.

Chu Kuangren’s soul was now at the peak of True Consciousness level, and he even had a trace of Gilded Trait unique only to the Gilded Soul level.

“Once I can imbue this Gilded Trait all over my soul, I can achieve the Gilded Soul level. However, this won’t be an easy task, seeing that most ordinary cultivators would only use the Gilded Trait of their Immortal’s Core and physical body to affect the soul when they break through to the Gilded Immortal Realm.”

“Having the Gilded Trait affect the soul first is extremely rare in history.”

“Unless it’s a soul cultivator that specializes in advanced soul cultivation techniques. Alas, my Nine-Cycle Trinity Soul Refinement has already reached the peak of its level. It’ll be very hard to increase my soul level now.”

“Oh well, I’ll just put this matter on the backburner for now. Alright. It’s time I witness the true form of these three Immortal Scriptures combined,” Chu Kuangren murmured.

After that, he started combining the three Immortal Scriptures.

Inside the ocean of his mind, countless mysterious runes were hovering in the air. With the combined effort of his three souls, they gradually turned into a new cultivation technique.

“It doesn’t seem that hard to me.”

Chu Kuangren laughed. His level of cognizance and knowledge of the Dao was just too profound. Not everyone could possess the Moral Scripture and history of the world’s creation as he did.

Combining the three great Immortal Scriptures was undoubtedly an incredibly difficult task even for Arch Gilded Immortals, and that task might even be deemed impossible.

However, to Chu Kuangren, that was not the case.