(A correction from yesterday: it should be thirty-six kinds of post-heaven Great Daos and seventy-two kinds of pre-heaven Great Daos. This has been amended.) In Shen Mu's palm, the Ancestral Court slowly revolved. The Four Great Heavenly Gates stood upon its front and back faces; each gate held different principles within it, and conveyed a different insight into the realm of the Dao. He released the whole sum of his insights gained from passing through the Four Great Heavenly Gates. The resonance of the Great Dao was so melodious, so stirring to the soul, that even Emperor Yanfeng was left listening in utter enchantment. As for Jiang Baigui, it was as though he had been struck by the very sound of the Dao. Gazing upon those four gates, he suddenly felt as if endless gloom had parted and the sun at last broken through — a sudden, clarifying opening of the mind! These four gates were like four unshakably stable foundations, bearing the vast power of the Heavenly Palace and the Heavenly Court, and bearing his Dao heart as well! With these four gates, the Heavenly Palace could be made firm, the Heavenly Court made firm, and there would no longer be any fear of collapse! "Junior Brother, the combat experience you have accumulated here is sufficient. But dwelling always in the Land of No Worries, never touching the outside world — you have still fallen behind." At a slight stirring of Shen Mu's thought, the Ancestral Court in his palm revealed scenes of exquisite subtlety: the Great Dao coursing through, forming the Jade Terrace; the primordial essence liquid transforming into the Jade Sea! Jiang Baigui at once perceived how this Jade Terrace and Jade Sea differed from those of other humans, gods, and demons, and could not help but gaze in rapt fascination. The principles hidden within stirred in him something like the urge to make a pilgrimage! "The Jade Terrace and Jade Sea, like the Four Great Heavenly Gates, contain extraordinary principles. They are one of the great marvels of the Ancestral Court, and a natural holy land of the Dao realm." Within the Ancestral Court in Shen Mu's palm, the Heavenly Sea that mirrors the heart of heaven and the heart of man emerged, followed by the Ancestral Court's God-Slaying Terrace and its Nine Hells Terrace. One by one, he gradually revealed realm after realm to Jiang Baigui — and at the last, the Five Pre-Heaven Ultimates: the five great veins; Chaos rising and sinking; the Primordial Qi of Taichu; the Azure Emptiness of Taishi; Taisu, formed yet formless, shifting beyond all prediction; and Taiji, from which ten thousand daos and ten thousand things unfold. Such divine subtlety left one gasping in awe. "Junior Brother, the path of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Palaces and Seventy-Two Precious Halls was not cultivated wrongly in itself. It was only your realm that was wrong, and that is why it is hard for you to advance another step." Shen Mu's gaze fell upon Jiang Baigui's white hair, then moved from the white hair to his aged face, and he said gravely, "The sage who was once unrivalled — his Dao heart was as deep as an abyss and as vast as the sea. And now, a trifling setback, and his Dao heart is defeated?" "No." Jiang Baigui rose slowly, took off the official robes of the Kaihuang Heavenly Court of the Land of No Worries, cast aside his seal of office, and changed into his everyday attire. Then he rose and walked out. With each step he took, the wrinkles on his face vanished one after another, and the white hair on his head regained its dark green-black strand by strand. His tone likewise returned to the elegance and composure he had once possessed as the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping, and he said, "I am going to the Ancestral Court, to seek my own path." Seeing this, Emperor Yanfeng hurried to catch up, saying, "Imperial Preceptor of Jingping, wait for me! Dear Minister Shen, go and seek the Moon Celestial Worthy yourself. I will accompany the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping to the Ancestral Court! His cultivation is low now; he cannot go without someone to look after him!" Shen Mu's divine consciousness rippled, telling the two of them the truth about the Jade Capital City of the Ancestral Court. Jiang Baigui and Emperor Yanfeng were profoundly shaken. They bowed farewell from afar, then departed together. "A ruler and his minister who met, and became companions on the Dao to each other — these two are truly enviable." Granny Zhu watched them go and sighed in admiration, "It was Jiang Baigui who made Emperor Yanfeng, and Emperor Yanfeng who made Jiang Baigui. The two of them supported each other; the road they have walked together has been far from easy." Shen Mu nodded silently. Then his divine consciousness suddenly erupted, connecting with the Spirit Realm that shrouded the entire Void of the Other Shore. After a moment, Shen Mu said, "The Creators of the Void of the Other Shore already know that I have come. They will notify the Moon Celestial Worthy and the others to hurry here. We will wait here." Granny Zhu smiled, "I hear you are also the Holy Infant of the Creator? What is that about? Could you tell me in detail?" Shen Mu had in fact already told her of this matter long ago, but she still worried that he could not walk out of his grief, and so she brought it up again, to keep him from dwelling on the matter of the Lame Old Man. Granny Zhu had always been a careless, straightforward sort, but when she grew attentive, she was incomparably considerate. The two of them stayed at Jiang Baigui's residence, and late in the night of the following day, the Moon Celestial Worthy arrived. Shen Mu had no time for pleasantries; he asked straight to the point, "Yue, is the Ancestral Ground of the Dao Fire still with you? I have urgent need of it." The Moon Celestial Worthy glanced at Granny Zhu, inwardly shocked by the woman's beauty, and took a moment to regain her senses before smiling, "During the battle of Xuandu, I seized the Ancestral Ground of the Dao Fire and sent it to Youdu. Later I worried that the Fire Celestial Worthy would find it there, so I hid the Ancestral Ground again in the Land of No Worries. Do you see that brightest star?" She raised a hand and pointed to the sky, and only then did Shen Mu notice that in the Void of the Other Shore there was a star of extreme brilliance, encircled by rings of light. From afar, it looked like an ordinary star, but when Shen Mu looked with the vertical eye at the center of his brow, he saw that it was the Ancestral Ground of the Dao Fire, and those rings of light must be the Nine Heavens of the Dao Fire. "That is the Ancestral Ground of the Dao Fire." The Moon Celestial Worthy said, "The Fire Celestial Worthy cannot strike at the Land of No Worries in a moment's time, so I hid it here. If you need it urgently, I will fetch it for you." "Much obliged." Shen Mu thanked her. The Moon Celestial Worthy chided him, "You still stand on ceremony with me? Wait here a moment; I will go and fetch it." She rose and hurried off. When dawn came, the Moon Celestial Worthy came flying back with the Ancestral Ground of the Dao Fire, swift as fire and wind. Shen Mu and Granny Zhu hurried to meet her outside the city. The Moon Celestial Worthy did not enter the city; instead she set the Ancestral Ground outside the walls and, beside it, used her spatial divine ability to try to shrink it and store it within space, so that Shen Mu might carry it conveniently. "This girl is attentive," Granny Zhu thought approvingly. Just then, a carriage drew near, and a lovely voice came from within. The carriage stopped, a maidservant parted the pearl curtains, and the Divine King Langwan stepped out. Granny Zhu had met the Divine King Langwan before, and seeing her again now, she could not help but be startled by her beauty. Emperor Yanfeng had not been wrong: Granny Zhu was a beauty, bearing the beauty of the mortal world. But the Divine King Langwan was different — she possessed an aloof, cold,