With four beings possessing combat power comparable to the early stages of the eighth rank, suppressing the world of the Legend of the White Snake would be a piece of cake.
Without Wang Xuan's orders, Laozi and the others had already taken action, either to help suppress the Heavenly Dao of the Legend of the White Snake world or to help calm down the gods and demons of this world.
Everything is developing in a positive direction. The Heavenly Dao of the Legend of the White Snake world has gradually lost its power to resist and is being devoured by the Heavenly Dao of the Xuan Tian world.
Only after Wang Xuan confirmed that everything was on track did he have the energy to check on the situation in the world of Legend of the White Snake.
Decades had passed since he left the world of the Legend of the White Snake. Not long after his departure, the plot of the Legend of the White Snake was forcibly brought back on track, with Bai Suzhen still imprisoned under Leifeng Pagoda. Twenty years later, Xu Shilin, the God of Literature, descended to earth to rescue her. His filial piety moved heaven and earth, and he finally freed Bai Suzhen from under Leifeng Pagoda.
Xu Xian followed Wang Xuan in cultivation for so long that when Bai Suzhen was suppressed, although Xu Xian's power was not as great as Fahai's, it was only two minor realms behind. Therefore, Xu Xian did not become Fahai's disciple.
Decades have passed, the story of the Legend of the White Snake has completely come to an end, and Xu Xian has awakened the whole world, transforming into the Ziwei Emperor.
What made Wang Xuan frown was that he had clearly left behind a martial arts legacy in this world back then, but as soon as he left the world of Legend of the White Snake, all the traces he left behind were erased, including the path of martial arts!
The martial arts that Wang Xuan had painstakingly spread had been exposed as nothing by the immortal and Buddhist masters of this world.
Clearly, Wang Xuan, this visitor from outside the realm, was not welcomed by the Heavenly Dao in the world of Legend of the White Snake. Even the lineage he passed down was gradually dismantled by the Immortal Dao and the Buddhist Dao, its essence and profound meaning being integrated into the Immortal Dao and the Buddhist Dao, becoming nourishment for their growth.
"This is truly a heartbreaking thing," Wang Xuan muttered, no longer paying attention to the situation in the Legend of the White Snake world. Instead, he began to activate the world fusion function of the Eternal Tower of Heaven and Earth, allowing the Legend of the White Snake world to merge with the entire world.
The Heavenly Dao in the world of Legend of the White Snake has been completely refined. Even if the two worlds merge, the Heavenly Dao authority that Wang Xuan holds will not be diluted.
Another month later, the world of the Legend of the White Snake was finally fully integrated into the Xuan Tian world. This caused the Xuan Tian world to tremble, with flowers falling from the sky, golden lotuses blooming in the sea, and purple energy spreading for millions of miles in the east, and all sorts of strange phenomena appearing.
This is because the laws of the world are constantly being improved, and the changes in these laws inevitably give rise to some unusual phenomena!
Amidst these endless phenomena, the world is undergoing a complete transformation, slowly evolving towards a multiverse.
After closing his eyes and sensing for a while, Wang Xuan discovered that this transformation would not be completed in a short time; it would probably take hundreds of years to complete.
At that time, the Xuan Tian World that Wang Xuan controls will be completely transformed into a multi-dimensional world, capable of accommodating eighth-order God Kings and Great Luo Golden Immortals, and the Heavenly Dao will be able to transform to a level comparable to a ninth-order supreme powerhouse!
The ninth rank is measured according to Wang Xuan's ranking system. If this were applied to the myriad realms, it would be equivalent to a God Emperor or a Primordial Golden Immortal!
Wang Xuan was extremely excited about this. In the following days, he studied the laws of heaven in Kunlun while teaching his disciples and teasing Cai Yan and Diao Chan whenever he had free time.
Time flies like an arrow, and years pass like a shuttle; for practitioners, time always passes very quickly.
Unbeknownst to him, Wang Xuan had been quietly cultivating in Kunlun for over two hundred years.
The transformation of the Xuan Tian world is not yet over. To transform into a multi-dimensional world, such a fundamental transformation is extremely difficult and can only be achieved through a slow and gradual fusion and transformation over time.
After all, for a multiverse, a few hundred years is just a blink of an eye. Compared to the lifespan of a multiverse, which is often hundreds of millions or billions of years, a few hundred years is nothing at all.
But Wang Xuan grew increasingly impatient as he waited. As the controller of the Heavenly Dao, even though the Xuan Tian World had not yet completed its transformation, he still could not stop his cultivation from breaking through.
"Early stage of the eighth rank, the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, break through for me!" Wang Xuan roared. In his soul stone sea, countless profound laws were intertwined, the Three Flowers Gather at the Top, the Five Qi Converge at the Origin, and finally condensed into a Dao Fruit.
Although he had only broken through one realm, Wang Xuan's power had increased more than tenfold. If he were to encounter his pre-breakthrough self, he could easily kill him with a single slap!
This is a Great Luo Golden Immortal, who has condensed the Great Luo Dao Fruit. Heaven and earth decay, but I am immortal; the sun and moon perish, but I am undying. I am eternally the same, unchanging through the ages.
But that's all there is to it. Even with the authority of the Heavenly Dao Controller, Wang Xuan only broke through to the early stage of the eighth rank. It's impossible for him to advance his cultivation further; the world's upper limit is there.
If we wait several hundred more years, the world will have completely transformed into a multiverse, and the bottleneck that is preventing Wang Xuan from advancing further in his cultivation will disappear.
But Wang Xuan couldn't wait any longer. He closed his eyes and focused his mind on sensing the Eternal Tower of Heaven and Earth in his sea of consciousness.
Within this supreme treasure, a brand new world coordinate system has been created.
This world's coordinates are different from other worlds; it's like a black hole, mysterious and unpredictable, surpassing even the mythological world.
This is a diverse world!
"Over the years, the Eternal Tower of Heaven and Earth has explored thousands of world coordinates, most of which are low-level and mid-level martial arts worlds, with less than a hundred high-level martial arts worlds. As for mythological worlds, only two have been explored in more than 200 years."
Unfortunately, the Heavenly Dao of the Xuantian World is currently undergoing a transformation and can no longer devour and refine other worlds. I will have the spare power to refine other worlds only after the Xuantian World has completed its transformation.
"The mythical world is of little use to me now. If I want to improve my cultivation, the only way is to go to the multiverse!" Wang Xuan focused his mind on the coordinates of that world, which was like a black hole. This was his greatest gain in more than 200 years.
Unfortunately, that world was shrouded in mist, and all of Wang Xuan's probing divine senses were absorbed, leaving him unable to sense any information.
Even a mythical world has its own inherent laws that obscure its coordinates, preventing outsiders from exploring them. The multiverse, however, is on a higher level than the mythical world, making it extremely difficult to determine its coordinates.
It's only because Wang Xuan possesses the supreme treasure of eternal heaven and earth that he could find a multiverse in the chaos with his own abilities.
"Now my cultivation has broken through to the early stage of the eighth rank, the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. Even if I go to the multiverse, I will have the power to protect myself!"
Wang Xuan was confident in his own strength. Instead of waiting in the Xuan Tian World, he directly activated the Eternal Tower of Heaven and Earth and traveled into that multiverse world.
As time and space rotated, unlike his previous world travels, when Wang Xuan was about to arrive at that multiverse, it seemed as if something was blocking him from entering.
Chapter 260 Water Curtain Cave!
Every world is protected by a world membrane, which not only keeps the chaotic energy out but also prevents external beings from infiltrating the world.
However, the worlds Wang Xuan had traveled through before were too low-level and had no power to resist the Eternal Tower of Heaven and Earth. In an instant, a passage was torn open, allowing Wang Xuan to successfully sneak into them.
However, Wang Xuan was traveling to a multiverse this time, and the world's membrane was incredibly strong. Even the time travel function of the Eternal Tower of Heaven and Earth was blocked for a moment.
Ultimately, Wang Xuan is still unable to fully control the power of the Eternal Tower of Heaven and Earth. Moreover, he is separated from that unknown multiverse by endless space and time. By the time Wang Xuan traveled to the outside of the world's membrane, most of his power had already been consumed.
"Buzz!"
The Tower of Eternity trembled slightly, emitting an eternal and indestructible divine light, which directly caused the membrane of the world before them to melt away like snow under the scorching sun, revealing a two-meter square hole.
Wang Xuan dared not delay and immediately rushed into the unknown multiverse through the hole.
At this moment, dark clouds filled the sky, and streaks of purple divine lightning struck the void, signifying the wrath of the Heavenly Dao of this world.
Someone forcibly created a hole in the world's membrane. Although the area was small and the Heavenly Dao could repair it instantly, it was a provocation and meant that extraterrestrial beings had infiltrated the world!
As a multiverse world, with a hierarchy surpassing that of the mythological world, it naturally has no shortage of beings like Heavenly Saints.
When extraterrestrial demons invaded this realm, the Heavenly Dao quickly relayed the news.
Wang Xuan quickly sensed that several incredibly powerful thoughts were sweeping across the area, searching the heavens and the earth, seemingly looking for something.
Wang Xuan knew without guessing that it must be the saints of this world searching for his existence. If he, this unexpected visitor, were captured, his fate would definitely not be good.
When it's time to be cowardly, you should be completely cowardly. Wang Xuan concealed all his aura and even hid his soul fluctuations!
The divine senses that swept back and forth across the heavens and earth ultimately failed to find the whereabouts of the extraterrestrial demon. After a stalemate for a long time, they finally withdrew their divine senses.
Given the sheer size of this multiverse, even if extraterrestrial demons were to infiltrate, they wouldn't be able to cause much of an impact on this world.
It should be noted that in Wang Xuan's perception just now, those Heavenly Dao Saints were all eighth-order Great Luo Golden Immortals, and each of them was much stronger than Wang Xuan.
Ordinary extraterrestrial demons are generally only at the seventh level of cultivation. Those who reach the level of Great Luo Golden Immortal will not leave the world that nurtured them in most cases.
Because once you leave the world that nurtured you, trying to find a multiverse world that can accommodate a Great Luo Golden Immortal in the vast chaos is countless times more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack.
That is why the Heavenly Saints of this world were somewhat careless and did not regard Wang Xuan as a great threat.
Perhaps in the eyes of those sages, if Wang Xuan were to lie low obediently, that would be fine. But if he dared to cause trouble, he would immediately face a thunderous strike from the Heavenly Dao Sages, erasing him from the root!
"The Heavenly Saints of this world are not easy to deal with. Even the Xuan Tian World is undergoing a transformation and is unable to receive the Xuan Tian Heavenly Dao. From now on, we should be more obedient and timid." Wang Xuan sighed, feeling somewhat depressed.
Only after ensuring his personal safety for the time being did Wang Xuan have the mind to observe his surroundings.
He found himself on a huge island, where the spiritual energy was so rich that it was at least 10 times more concentrated than that of the Xuan Tian World. Rare and precious materials and exotic fruits were everywhere, and countless mountain spirits and monsters roamed around!
"What a wonderful spiritual mountain and immortal island! Even in the multiverse, places with such abundant spiritual energy are probably rare!" Wang Xuan was somewhat surprised, it seemed that he had descended into a good place.
However, what worried him was that every sacred mountain and immortal island was inhabited by powerful gods and demons. Unclaimed sacred islands were practically impossible to exist.
Do you really think the gods in the multiverse are just sitting around doing nothing? After billions of years of exploration, what sacred mountains, fairy islands, or blessed lands haven't been discovered yet?
Some good places may seem like unclaimed lands, but in reality, they are places where powerful beings cultivate in seclusion.
Just like the island Wang Xuan is currently on, he doesn't believe that the gods of this world are blind enough to leave such a good place unclaimed.
"Let me see if there's anything on this spirit island that could threaten me." Wang Xuan released his divine sense and scanned the area, then exclaimed in surprise.
Because he did indeed discover quite a few demons on this island, including several demon kings at the sixth-order celestial immortal level.
However, these demon kings all occupied the outer perimeter of the island, leaving the best piece of land in the center of the island vacant and unclaimed.
“Something unusual must be going on. In the center of this island, there must be a powerful figure cultivating in seclusion.” Wang Xuan concealed his presence and searched the center of the island for a while, and sure enough, he found a cave.
The cave dwelling was located behind a waterfall, a self-contained world with stone seats, stone beds, stone basins, and stone bowls. Despite its seemingly ordinary appearance, the spiritual energy within was twice as concentrated as other parts of the island, and it was even able to block the divine senses of cultivators, clearly indicating it was the hermitage of some immortal.
However, Wang Xuan did not find any living beings in the cave. Either the cave was abandoned, or the owner had gone out on business.
The demons on the island feared the power of the cave's owner, and even though he had been gone for a long time, they dared not occupy the most precious area in the center of the island.
After looking around for a while, we jumped across the middle of the bridge and looked left and right. In the center, we saw a stone tablet. On the tablet was a line of large characters in regular script that read, “Blessed Land of Flower and Fruit Mountain, Grotto Heaven of Water Curtain Cave.”
"Looking up at the sky!" Wang Xuan looked at the bizarre couplet and immediately realized what kind of world he had entered!
This is the world of Journey to the West. The fairy island in the sea where he is located is Huaguo Mountain, which is known as the "ancestral vein of the ten continents and the source of the three islands"!
As for the cave in front of him, it was naturally the Water Curtain Cave Heaven!
There aren't any monkeys defecating or urinating in the Water Curtain Cave yet, which means the Journey to the West story hasn't started yet, and Sun Wukong is still inside the stone and hasn't jumped out.
"I just casually scanned the area with my divine sense and didn't examine it carefully. I didn't see Sun Wukong's presence. I'll go out and check again later."
Wang Xuan did not linger in the Water Curtain Cave and quickly turned and left.
Chapter 261 Wukong Becomes a Disciple
With Wang Xuan's current cultivation level, and with his intention to search, he quickly discovered Sun Wukong's whereabouts.
On the highest peak of Flower Fruit Mountain, there stood a giant golden rock the size of a reclining ox. The rock had nine orifices, constantly absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, drawing upon the essence of the sun and moon, and giving birth to great creations.
Wang Xuan also noticed that there was an array surrounding the nine-aperture boulder, which prevented outsiders from observing it and allowed Sun Wukong to grow peacefully.
This great formation was not set up by man, but was an innate divine formation automatically generated by heaven and earth. Even powerful beings at the level of gods, demons, and golden immortals would not be able to discover what was inside the formation!
Even though Wang Xuan's cultivation had reached the eighth level and he had attained the Great Luo Dao Fruit, he did not find anything unusual when he first checked.
It wasn't until Wang Xuan learned that this place was Flower Fruit Mountain and that Sun Wukong was still being nurtured inside the stone that he was able to examine it carefully and find the nine-aperture boulder.
"He was protected by a divine array even before he was born. Sun Wukong truly deserves the treatment of a chosen one of the world!" Wang Xuan exclaimed, reaching out to grab the nine-aperture boulder.
The innate divine array protecting the giant rock is mainly for concealing and isolating auras; in terms of defense, it still cannot stop Wang Xuan, an eighth-order Great Luo Golden Immortal.
His left hand passed directly through the barrier of the formation and landed on the nine-aperture boulder, carefully sensing the life force gestating within it.