My Dreams Connect to Ancient Times

Chapter 517: Chapter 11: Reversed Celestial Spirits, a Primordial Demon

"Why are we going to Taishan? The Zhuge Lineage is entrenched there now."

Kunpeng Zi said expressionlessly, "I have no wish to offend them."

"That’s not up to you." Beside him, the Great Saint of the Demon Country smiled nonchalantly and said lightly, "According to the Demon Ancestor, a Supreme Treasure is hidden within Taishan."

After a pause, the Demon Race Great Saint, whose awe-inspiring reputation echoed through the ages, glanced sideways and said, "That Supreme Treasure is not something I can covet, but you are different. You are the legitimate son of Kunpeng and have a shred of Cause and Effect with this treasure. It will not harm you. Therefore, I will suppress Taishan while you retrieve the Supreme Treasure."

Kunpeng Zi said coldly, "And what if I do not wish to?"

"As I said, it is not up to you."

The Demon Race Great Saint spoke with a smile, "My old friend Kunpeng has already been captured outside the realm. If you do not obey, you will incur the wrath of the Demon Ancestor and the Buddha Mother. I fear your esteemed father will be in grave danger..."

Kunpeng Zi gritted his teeth and said no more, simply following behind this Demon Race Great Saint towards Taishan.

... ... ... ...

「Taishan.」

Lu Xuan’s incredibly juvenile face was terrifyingly grim. He felt helpless, yet at the same time, somewhat gratified.

Even though the workings of heaven were now indistinct and Cause and Effect was in chaos, he could still see the bloodline aura on this little girl with a single glance, and could even faintly perceive the Innate Physique she possessed...

’Good, very good.’

Raising his head, Lu Xuan glanced at Zhong Xiaoyu’s dazed and blank face. Perceiving their karmic connection, his expression flickered slightly.

’Is this the little girl I met by chance all those years ago...? She’s all grown up?’

Lying in Zhong Xiaoyu’s arms, Lu Xuan suddenly felt a bit awkward. However, he was not in a hurry to reveal his true form and shed this physique he had acquired after "balancing" with that Sun Monkey.

He could feel a profound and mysterious quality emerging within his body and True Spirit. If he wasn’t mistaken... it must be the Celestial Intent Dao Rhyme that Sun Wukong possessed.

’The Path of Great Balance can even take Transcendent Traits?!’

As a thousand thoughts raced through his mind, Lu Xuan lowered his small head again. He looked gently at Lu Nian and said softly, "Xiaonian, it’s me. I’m your father..."

"Hey, now!"

Lu Nian was so angry her little face scrunched up. She glared with her big, dark, round eyes, very displeased. "You’re so rude! You little brat, if I don’t teach you a lesson today, you’ll never learn to respect your elders!"

She mimicked her mother, rolling up her tattered sleeves menacingly. Before the horrified gazes of Zhong Xiaoyu and some onlookers, this tiny tot leaped more than a meter high, her soft little hand forming two knuckles, and rapped them hard towards Lu Xuan’s forehead!

"Take this knuckle-knocker!"

The corner of Lu Xuan’s mouth twitched. Holding back his strength, he unleashed a palm strike that arrived before her attack, intending to swat the little girl down, but... it missed.

Lu Nian shifted sideways through the air, and just like that, to everyone’s dumbfounded amazement, she stood on empty space with her hands on her hips, glaring.

"You dare to fight back? No wonder they say you should beat your little brother while he’s young..."

"Hmm?"

Little Lu Xuan was clearly startled. He had held back with that palm strike, but given his current mastery of the Primordial Body, that slap had clearly contained a hint of Cause and Effect Determined. Before the palm even left, it had essentially already landed. Not even a powerhouse at the level of the Weak Celestial Realms could have dodged it!

’This girl...’

A gratified smile appeared on Lu Xuan’s face. He climbed out of the stupefied Zhong Xiaoyu’s arms, laboriously crossed his short little legs, and sat cross-legged in the void, facing Lu Nian who stood with her hands on her hips.

He said with a gratified smile, "The name Xiaoyan gave you... it’s Lu Nian, right? Not bad, not bad at all..."

A young man waiting to have his aptitude tested rubbed his eyes. Looking at the two toddlers—one standing, one sitting—in mid-air, he felt a little dizzy.

The member of the Zhuge Family in charge of the tests also stared wide-eyed. He finally reacted, exclaiming in shock, "Standing in the void without any sign of surging vitality... A Celestial Human?!"

The entire testing ground was in an uproar. Two children, one two or three years old, the other three or four, were displaying the traits of a Celestial Human, sitting and standing in the void without borrowing from their vitality or gathering Primordial Qi!

This scene was shocking. Even though the Great Era was in full recovery and Innate Material that had only existed at the Creation of Heaven and Earth was now appearing, the most they had heard was of some noble family’s child becoming a Grandmaster at seven or eight—and that was already considered a sign of supreme talent!

The most bewildered of all was Zhong Xiaoyu. She herself was only at the Jade Tower realm, not even a Grandmaster...

Zhong Xiaoyu rubbed her eyes, lowered her hand, then rubbed them again, her face a mask of bewilderment.

At that moment, Lu Nian stood with her hands on her hips, glared, and rolled up her sleeves again.

"Waaah, you little brat, you really need a good thrashing!"

She decided to establish her authority as the ’older sister’. To Lu Xuan’s astonishment, a faint Primordial Dharma Aspect appeared above her head!

The Dharma Aspect was dark and indistinct. It was clearly illusory and not particularly majestic, yet a single glance at it evoked a sense of infinite grandeur, as if one were looking up at a great being seated at an infinite height!

Immediately, the half-meter-tall Lu Nian held back her strength and brought two fingers rapping down, saying in a babyish voice, "Little one, watch and learn. This is the Path of Cause and Effect. Before the finger is even sent out, it has already landed..."

SMACK!

Lu Xuan, who was a head shorter than Lu Nian, smacked the girl to the ground with a single palm, making her face-plant.

"You! You! You!"

Lu Nian scrambled up from the ground, utterly infuriated, while Lu Xuan just smiled and said, "Continue."

He was somewhat shocked, realizing that Xiaonian’s Primordial Dharma Aspect seemed to be innate. He decided to probe the girl’s limits.

"You little brat, this is rebellion!"

Lu Nian spat out a mouthful of dirt. Being slapped down by her ’youngest brother’ was a huge loss of face, and a sense of crisis welled up in her heart...

’If he dares to do this when he’s little, what will he do when he’s older?’

’My authority as the eldest sister must not be diminished!’

The next instant.

Under the stupefied gazes of the crowd at the testing ground, and the astonished stares of Zhuge Shang and others who had rushed over, the little girl who looked three or four years old stepped into the air and, in a single stride, reached the highest heavens.

"Get up here!"

She reached out to grab him, her hand crossing space, but she missed again. Lu Xuan was, at some unknown point, already sitting cross-legged among the clouds.

"Come," he said with a smile, his voice that of a young child. "Let me see what you’re capable of."

"Reversed Celestial Spirits, Reversed Celestial Spirits!" Lu Nian was utterly furious. Her small hand slapped down, causing three hundred sixty-five Postnatal Great Realms to turn, accompanied by the rising and falling phantoms of all realms and worlds!

"The Celestial Realms!"

On Taishan, Zhuge Shang sucked in a cold breath. He rubbed his eyes and peered into the workings of heaven, discerning that the little girl in the Celestial Realms was only three years old!

’This is impossible.’

He glanced sideways at the other toddler, who was wearing an extra-small Daoist Robe, and the hairs on his body stood on end. ’This is... the one who nearly destroyed the Buddha Land?!’

Zhuge Shang felt dizzy, and his heart skipped a beat. ’Why has this terrifying existence suddenly appeared? And what is their relationship?!’

As he stood there in terror, Zhong Xiaoyu was also staring at the grand spectacle in the sky, muttering to herself, "I must be seeing things!"

... ... ... ...

"Hmm?"

The famously formidable Demon Race Great Saint furrowed his brow. "Why are two at the Celestial Realms level fighting? Interesting... Hmm? Is that Lu Nian of the Noisy Demon Country?"

A look of joy appeared on his face.

"Ha, a double blessing! The girl escaped that day, but today I’ve run into her by chance. If I capture her and use her to draw out the Goddess, it would be a great accomplishment... I might even be granted the status of Daluo!"

Kunpeng Zi said coldly, "Daluo? You’re having such a hard time even attaining Daluo? Besides..."

He paused before continuing, "You might not be able to capture her. You were in seclusion those few days and didn’t see what Xiaonian is capable of..."

"You don’t understand. We are cursed by the Dao Fruit and cannot easily enter the Daluo realm. At most, we can achieve a state comparable to it. But if the Demon Ancestor helps me, it might not be impossible... Also," the Great Saint said with a smile, "it is precisely because I was not out of seclusion that the girl managed to escape... This seclusion was a loss. I missed many things. I heard that Sun Wukong and Daji were brutally struck down by Supreme Profound Clarity."

He paused and shook his head lightly. "It’s just a pity I wasn’t there to witness that monkey head getting thrashed... If I had been there, capturing Supreme Profound Clarity would have been a simple matter."

Kunpeng Zi sneered again but said nothing.

Soon, the Great Saint ordered Kunpeng Zi to follow. He strode through the air, Profound Mysterious Lotus blossoms appearing under his feet, and then asked in confusion, "Who is the other little one? He looks to be two or three, yet he also has the aura of the Celestial Realms and seems to have gone quite far within that level... Hmm? Like that Lu Nian, he has also achieved an Innate Physique?"

Kunpeng Zi stared at Little Lu Xuan in the clouds and recognized him at a glance—it was Supreme Profound Clarity, the one who had thrashed Sun Wukong!

’The guy next to me was in seclusion before, so he didn’t witness this and doesn’t know the details...’

Kunpeng Zi immediately fell silent.

The Demon Race Great Saint, however, was intrigued. He watched quietly from a distance and said, "Let’s just watch and see what’s going on."

As he spoke, high above Taishan.

"Again."

Lu Xuan flicked Lu Nian away with a finger and sighed. "Let me see what other moves you have."

He was rather astonished. ’Is this a bloodline inheritance? It seems that Xiaonian knows every Divine Technique and Magic Skill that I had learned up until my wedding night with Xiaoyan! I’ve never heard of inheritance working like this... Is it because of my and Xiaoyan’s Transcendent Dao Rhyme? Or is it because we are both Innate Divine Demons?’

Meanwhile, Little Lu Nian was dizzy from being flicked, and a large bump had swollen up on her fair forehead!

She trembled with anger, shouting in her babyish voice, "Reversed Celestial Spirits, this is truly Reversed Celestial Spirits! You dare hit your big sister today, you’ll dare to hit Mom tomorrow... I must teach you a lesson on Mom’s behalf!"

Far away, the Demon Race Great Saint hidden in the void showed a delighted expression: "So they’re siblings? A double blessing, a true double blessing..."

As he spoke, Lu Nian realized that this ’youngest brother’ of hers was no weaker than she was. Coming to a decision, she stopped holding back. After a soft shout, she immediately formed the Heaven-Flipping Seal with her left hand, unleashing Heaven and Earth Inversion. Her right hand brandished Slaying Sword Qi, causing the river of stars to tremble as she struck!

"I’ll beat you up!" Lu Nian said menacingly.

However.

"Too weak, far too weak!" Lu Xuan said with a smile. With a seemingly ordinary palm strike, he shattered the Immortal Slayer and Immortal Slaying Sword Qi and broke through the momentum of the Heaven and Earth Inversion.

His palm landed on Little Lu Nian’s forehead, making her dizzy and adding another bump.

Lu Nian grimaced, feeling the new bump on her forehead. The two large, swollen bumps, one on the left and one on the right, were perfectly symmetrical, making her look like she was sprouting horns.

"I’ll fight you to the death!"

Little Lu Nian was completely enraged. She pounced forward, flailing her arms and legs, only to be stopped by a single finger from Lu Xuan pressed against her forehead.

"That’s not how you fight a life-or-death battle," Lu Xuan said with a smile. "You should be using every trick at your disposal. Besides, the techniques you just used were all superficial. You don’t know how to truly apply them yet..."

CLAP, CLAP, CLAP!

A being applauded as it strode over from the distance. The long sky filled with Golden Lotuses, and the grand spectacle of the sun and moon standing side-by-side suddenly appeared in the Celestial Vault!

"They’re here!!" On Taishan, Zhuge Shang’s hair stood on end, his expression changing drastically. "Someone from the Demon Country has arrived!"

Horrified, he performed a divination of Cause and Effect, coughing up blood continuously. When he finally understood, his pupils contracted sharply. "It’s *him*!!"

The sun and moon coexisted in the Celestial Vault. A vast demonic aura surged over, plunging all of Taishan into chaos.

The crowd, which had been staring dumbly at the two toddlers fighting in the sky, was now in a panic!

From the belly of Taishan, an ancient Divine Spirit emerged, its expression solemn. "I was not aware of Senior’s arrival from afar..."

The Great Saint waved his hand, and Emperor Dongyue turned to dust.

He yawned.

"Ah, Taishan..."

As he spoke, the Great Saint extended his palm and struck. Taishan trembled, and countless Dead Immortals rose from the peak, only to fall back down again!

BOOM!!

The Divine Mountain shook. Zhong Xiaoyu staggered and nearly fell, her face filled with terror.

Zhuge Shang’s face was deathly pale as he trembled slightly. "A being Similar to Daluo, one who wields day and polar night, the Great Sun and the Taiyin..."

He whispered in near despair, "To think that it’s this ancient demon from primeval times..."

Ancient records state that at the beginning of heaven and earth, a Great Demon was entrenched.

Its breath created the seasons: exhaling brought spring, breathing out brought summer, a soft blow created autumn, and inhaling ushered in winter!

It wielded Yin Yang, controlled the sun and moon, and held the four seasons in its grasp. This was the Candle Dragon!