Protect Our Clan Leader

Chapter 3095: Chapter 96: Shocking! The Most Devoted Taoist Master in History (Part 3)

This ice-sculpted woman is the incarnation of the Goddess of Ice Origin, Yan Bingyun.

The reason the Ice and Fire Dao Sect is called the ”Ice and Fire Dao Sect” is naturally because from the day it was founded, the two Daos of Sun and Ice Origin have always coexisted.

It’s just that all along, the Sun lineage has always held the position of Taoist Master, while the Ice Origin lineage has served as Goddess—each side performing its own duty, together supporting the Ice and Fire Dao Sect.

In this generation, it fell to the Taoist Master Taiyang and the Goddess of Ice Origin Yan Bingyun to support the Ice and Fire Dao Sect together.

However.

Roughly more than seventy thousand years ago, the then Goddess of Ice Origin Yan Bingyun unexpectedly encountered a calamity, suffering grievous injuries and almost dying.

The situation at the time was far too urgent; not even the Taoist Master Taiyang knew exactly what had happened. He only knew that when the Goddess of Ice Origin Yan Bingyun hastily fled back to the Ice and Fire Dao Sect, her condition was already utterly terrible.

In that desperate situation, she relied on her incomparably pure Dao of Ice Origin to transform her physical body into an ice sculpture, thereby preserving her flesh; but most of her Divine Soul and True Spirit vanished without a trace.

Even the Book of Ice Origin within her sea of consciousness disappeared together with her Divine Soul.

If not for the fact that within this ice sculpture there still remains a sliver of the Goddess of Ice Origin’s Divine Soul, and that upon probing one can faintly sense a vague connection between this sliver of Divine Soul and her True Spirit, everyone would likely have believed that her Divine Soul had long since perished or entered Reincarnation anew.

”Bingyun, the time you’ve left me is already running short.” Taoist Master Taiyang gazed at the face that was no different from how it had been in the past, and a look of steely resolve appeared in his eyes. ”I’ve already gathered all the Spiritual Medicine for a furnace of Thirteenth Grade Reincarnation Divine Pills, but my Dao Pill cultivation base is still far from sufficient. Still, rest assured—before my lifespan is exhausted, I will definitely refine this furnace of Reincarnation Divine Pills, help your Divine Soul transcend Reincarnation, and return to your body.”

As his words fell, the ice-sculpted woman before him remained utterly silent, without the slightest change, as though she would never respond to Taoist Master Taiyang’s words.

Taoist Master Taiyang seemed already used to this. He continued to ramble on about his plans, about the gossip he’d just read in Truth magazine; when he truly ran out of things to say, he would sit down beside the statue, brew tea and read, or simply sit there quietly watching her.

Only after a full ten days did Taoist Master Taiyang leave the underground palace, returning to his own palace and entering a closed-door, desperate alchemy state.

Time flowed like water, hurrying by once more.

Without realizing it, it had already been a full fifteen years since Wang Baoguang arrived at the Ice and Fire Dao Sect.

During these fifteen years, Wang Baoguang and Sacred Supreme Cloud Peng seemed to have completely forgotten their true mission, devoting themselves single-mindedly to their careers.

On this day.

Taoist Master Taiyang put away his Dao Fire of Sun, looking with satisfaction at a newly refined furnace of Twelfth Grade Life-and-Death Taoist Pills—this furnace had actually produced five pills in total!

He hadn’t expected that he would have such a massive breakthrough in alchemy so quickly.

However, he still didn’t dare to rashly attempt the Thirteenth Grade Reincarnation Divine Pill, because he only had one chance; if he failed, everything would be over.

After leaving seclusion, Taoist Master Taiyang habitually went to the study.

This study was cleaned daily by Accepted Disciples, so it was naturally spotless. On the desk, there was a stack of pending affairs lists.

These were extremely important affairs of the Sect that the Elders had no authority to handle, so they were placed on his desk to be approved all at once after he came out of seclusion.

But this time Taoist Master Taiyang didn’t rush to deal with sect affairs. Instead, he first picked up the latest third issue of Truth magazine.

He couldn’t help feeling a burning anticipation in his heart.

The first issue had been Taoist Master Taichu, the second issue Tranquil Sky Divine King Ji Taichang; this third issue ought to be the Cangping God Emperor’s turn, right?

That brat Wang Baoguang really was daring beyond belief—but this Taoist Master appr...

What?!!!

Suddenly, Taoist Master Taiyang’s expression froze.

He saw that the cover of this issue of Truth magazine was actually an image of him standing before the ice sculpture.

Although the shot had been taken from rather far away, one could still clearly recognize from the flame Dao aura radiating from that back figure that this was him—Taoist Master Taiyang!

”Shocking! The most devoted Taoist Master in history!”

”Seventy thousand years of bitter waiting! All for the sake of seeing the Goddess smile back once more!”

”To save his Dao partner! Taoist Master Taiyang challenges the Cycle River alone!”

”The Cycle River and I shall never coexist under the same sky!”

One terrifying headline after another filled the cover of this issue.

”Fire Dragon!”

A roar of sky-piercing fury suddenly erupted, spreading far out from the Dao Palace.

”Get over here and see your Master, now.”

Very soon.

Saint Fire Dragon stood respectfully before Taoist Master Taiyang, his expression somewhat baffled. ”Master, what has happened?”

”What has happened?” Taoist Master Taiyang let out a cold snort, directly flinging the magazine into Saint Fire Dragon’s face. ”What is the meaning of the content of this issue of Truth magazine?”

”Is... is it some article that made things up and enraged you, Master?” Saint Fire Dragon’s face changed drastically at once, and he stormed toward the exit in a fury. ”Your disciple will go teach Brother Baoguang a lesson right now—no, that bastard Wang Baoguang...”

”Get back here!”

Taoist Master Taiyang was so angry that his face turned first green then red. ”Did I say the content was made up? What I’m asking is—on what grounds, on what grounds does he get to broadcast his Master’s private matters to the world?”

”Well... isn’t this magazine called Truth? Its whole theme is specifically exposing the unknown secrets of big figures.” Saint Fire Dragon said weakly.