Chapter 1730: Ceremony

Three days passed by in the blink of an eye. The three elders of Golden Dragon Mountain gathered in the Ancestral Hall. An extremely complicated ceremony was going to be conducted there, and the main character was none other than Lu Qing'er. She was dressed in regal and luxurious robes, her icy blue hair tied up. Her gorgeous hairpin shimmered with every step, reflecting light on her beautiful features, giving her a completely different charm.

Under the lead of Mountain Leader Lu Sui, the icy Lu Qing'er completed the steps required of her with utmost precision. The elders then bowed, and the atmosphere turned solemn.

Li Luo watched quietly as an outsider. He could feel a sense of urgency through the entirety of Golden Dragon Mountain. This was something he was very familiar with, as he had felt it in the East Divine Continent, the Dragons' Domain, and even from the Radiant King himself.

The world had changed greatly ever since the Origin Reversion War started, and there was another half a year before the concealed withering glory resonance would show itself. At that point in time, the entire situation would boil over. The ten Divine Continents, the Shadow World, and the Origin Reversion Institute would begin the decisive battle that would determine the survival of them all.

Once the ten divine continents were breached, the countless Heavenly Emperors on the Nobles' Battlefield would have their attention split, and they would likely lose the Realm Wall. At that point in time, with enemies on both sides, the annihilation of all living creatures in the divine continents would be inevitable. Thus, Golden Dragon Mountain had to make preparations in order to avert this fate. As a result, pushing Lu Qing'er's acquired Genesis Seed to perfection was absolutely critical. Thus, she had a heavy burden to bear.

Li Luo sighed in his heart as he looked at her. The world had changed and they were no longer the kids who attended Southwind Academy. All of them had grown up with responsibilities to uphold. As his mind was filled with these thoughts, he gingerly brushed his fingers across his pocket sphere. Lu Sui had paid him his remuneration two days ago, giving him the three portions of upper ninth-grade spirit liquids and purifying lights. With the one that Qi Huang had given him, he now had four of them. This was an unbelievable amount of cultivation resource.

That said, he didn't know if he had enough to upgrade his middle ninth-grade woodearth resonance to the upper ninth-grade. Even so, he had to give it a try. The decisive battle was coming, and there was no room for error.

Li Luo took a deep breath. The ceremony within the hall had been completed and Lu Sui's voice was transmitted to him. "Are you ready, Federation Chief Li Luo?"

Li Luo nodded. When Lu Sui saw this, he immediately formed a seal that caused the ancestral hall to rumble. A moment later, Li Luo could sense the space around him distorting and changing. He suddenly found himself in a starry space, and the roar of a Heavenly Dragon echoed from below him. When he looked down, he saw the golden dragon that carried countless mountains spewing out boundless golden light. The light meandered like a winding river with no end in sight.

As he was within the torrent of light, he could sense that it carried the blessings of heaven and earth. At the same time, it exuded an aura of prosperity and majesty, moving him greatly. Golden Dragon Mountain had accumulated this aura for thousands of years, and it was all for this moment.

The golden light then condensed underneath his foot, eventually turning into an altar shaped like a copper coin. There were three seats on the altar, occupied by Lu Qing'er, Zhang Lingsu, and Qian Yan. Clearly, Qian Yan and Zhang Lingsu were the other Sacred Seed inheritors of Golden Dragon Mountain.

Lu Sui's serene voice rang out from the flowing golden light. "Everyone, let's prepare to start."

A mysterious glimmer of light bloomed between Lu Qing'er's brows. Next, an indescribably ancient and primordial aura surged, like the first seed that appeared when the world was formed. Along with that flicker of light, an endless stream of icy source origin energy poured out, causing the void around her to freeze. The ice condensed and transformed into a gigantic ice lotus beneath her.

An Acquired Genesis Seed! Li Luo could identify it instantly, as he was quite familiar with the aura of Genesis Seeds. After all, he had spent much time engaged in the Divine Knowledge state with Jiang Qing'e.

Zhang Lingsu and Qian Yan roused their own Sacred Seeds as well. A bright moon emerged from between Zhang Lingsu's eyebrows, and her eyes changed. A full moon could be seen in her left eye and a waning moon in her right, giving her an esoteric appearance. The moon between her eyebrows began to rise into the air, becoming larger and larger, eventually resembling the actual full moon. This was the Lunar Sacred Seed, which originated from Heavenly Emperor Zhang.

Qian Yan's body produced booming thunderclaps, and his hair and beard started to crackle and stand on hand. Mysterious thunder runes spread across his skin, giving off violent and astonishing energy fluctuations.

Bang!

As the sound of thunder rumbled through the void, thunder energy began to condense around him, turning into a silver thunder ball that contained nigh infinite thunder seals. The ball pulsed, causing the void to literally explode around him. That was the Thunder Sacred Seed.

As Li Luo looked at the Sacred Seeds, he couldn't help but sigh in amazement at the wondrous foundation Golden Dragon Mountain had built. An ordinary Heavenly Emperor power was only capable of producing a single Sacred Seed, capable of ensuring its bloodline's prosperity for thousands of years. Golden Dragon Mountain, on the other hand, had three of them! Furthermore, one of those seeds had turned into an acquired Genesis Seed. If Lu Qing'er was given enough time, Golden Dragon Mountain would produce its fourth Heavenly Emperor!

Alas, time was precisely what she lacked most. That was why Golden Dragon Mountain had decided to accelerate the process with this ceremony. They would consume the accumulated blessings of Golden Dragon Mountain to polish her Genesis Seed to a state of perfection.

"Federation Chief Li Luo, you've already been informed of the details of the ceremony. Please proceed as per the agreement. There is no need to worry about outsiders disrupting our ceremony, as no one from the Shadow World or the Origin Reversion Institute would dare to barge in here," Lu Sui said loudly.

The confidence in his tone allowed Li Luo to heave a sigh of relief. After experiencing the tumultuous chaos with the Dragon Race, he had enough excitement for a while. Besides, Golden Dragon Mountain indeed had the right to speak this way, as the Golden Dragon Formation was easily powerful enough to resist a Supreme Triple Crowned King. Furthermore, Lu Taiyi was watching over them.

"Mountain Leader Lu Sui, you can rest assured, I will do my best to ensure Qing'er's safety," Li Luo replied. In a sense, his goal was to weaken the power of the other two Sacred Seeds, which would enable Lu Qing'er's acquired Genesis Seed to consume them. However, Sacred Seeds had their own sentience, so if they realized they were being drained, they would undoubtedly resist and even counterattack.

The counterattack would be too powerful for the inheritors to hold back. Furthermore, their power would be controlled by the seeds and used to suppress Lu Qing'er. Although she had obtained an acquired Genesis Seed, she was merely a peak seventh-grade Transcendent Duke, while the other two were peak Triple Crowned Kings. With such a large gap in power, Lu Qing'er would not be able to perfect her Genesis Seed and would even suffer grave injuries.

Thus, Li Luo's role was to protect her, shielding her from the Lunar Sacred Seed and the Thunder Sacred Seed. After which, he would use the Greater Void Resonance Flame to assist her in refining the blessings of heaven and earth within the golden light, perfecting the Genesis Seed.

Bang!

The void behind Li Luo trembled as the archaic Absolute Resonance Halo manifested. Within it, five resonant palaces rumbled and ten types of resonant power poured out.

Lu Sui, Zhang Lingsu, and Qian Yan couldn't hide their awe. Was this the legendary Absolute Resonance Seed? A person wielding ten types of resonances was incredibly rare.

Li Luo sat in the middle of the altar and said, "Everyone, it's time to begin."