Everyone raised their head and looked at the sky. However, the sky seemed unchanged; there was nothing strange about it.
Gu Hai surveyed the surrounding islands and found they were trembling slightly. More importantly, the seawater flowed faster.
“Hah! It is indeed sealed. Old Mister Guan Qi, what an excellent ritual array! The Thirty-Three Line-Pair World Ritual Array? It is indeed perfect!” Gu Hai said with narrowed eyes.
“We are sealed in a ritual array?” Kong Xuan raised his eyebrows.
Despite Kong Xuan’s strength, he unexpectedly could not see what was wrong.
“The outside world looks calm and peaceful, but that might not be the case. It is an illusion. What is Old Mister Guan Qi trying to do?” Gu Hai said.
“No matter what he is planning, it is time to determine who will be possessed,” Mo Yike said.
Gu Hai nodded.
Then, everyone looked at Guan Qi’s nine inheritors.
Outside the Thousand Islands Sea:
“Meow!”
A black cat stood in the air, glaring at the sky.
Dark clouds covered the sky, and lightning flashed. A destructive might charged down as thunderbolts lashed down on the Thousand Islands Sea area.
However, a powerful barrier covered the entire Thousand Islands Sea.
While Gu Hai and the other experts saw a calm scene on the inside, in reality, the outside was cataclysmic.
Heaven raged. Lightning flashed, and thunder roared.
The black cat stood in the air, looking at the Thousand Islands Sea’s barrier with an uncertain expression.
“I arrived a little late, and the Revival Convention already started? Meow! What is Old Mister Guan Qi doing? He laid out such a plan again. This is his second time clashing with the Six Paths Immortal?” The black cat glared.
The black cat hesitated before the colossal barrier. Based on the dark clouds in the sky, it could tell that there would be a massive battle later. Perhaps Heaven would cast his gaze here again.
Attend the Revival Convention? Or avoid it and flee?
“Meow! Six Paths locked me up for eight hundred thousand years. If I keep hiding from him after I come out, how is that different from being locked up? Screw it! Even that Old Mister Guan Qi, whom I had never heard of before, dared to face Six Paths. Why should I run? Humph!” the black cat snorted coldly.
Boom!
The black cat swiped its claw, tearing the barrier.
Whoosh!
Then, the black cat entered through the tear, which immediately healed afterwards.
The moment the black cat entered, it discovered that the inside was completely different from what it saw outside.
“Interesting. Hahaha! Old Mister Guan Qi tricked everyone? Well tricked! Humph! The Spirit Mountain Holy Land? The Myriad Age Daoist Sect? Back then, I trusted you, but you betrayed Heaven in the end, betrayed us! Humph!” The black cat charged toward Tengen Island with a ferocious expression.
The black cat did not feel any fear. However, countless experts lingered outside the Thousand Islands Sea.
The Revival Convention?
Not just Gu Hai noticed Old Mister Guan Qi’s determination. There were countless intelligent people in the world. Naturally, many others also noticed. Some participated, but even more just waited outside and watched.
When they saw dark clouds fill the sky, lightning flash, and thunder roar, they knew that something major had happened inside and rejoiced that they had not participated.
Everyone waited patiently, wanting to know what would happen.
Heavenly Go Platform:
Each of the nine inheritors held a black Go stone. At this moment, worry could be seen in all their eyes.
After all, there was no way to know who had obtained more heavenly souls by looking at the black Go stone. Everyone looked at Murong Yan.
Who would Old Mister Guan Qi possess?
Although the experts sensed that their consciousness connection to Guan Qi’s nine inheritors remained intact, they suppressed their doubts for now. Even those who discovered they were in an enormous ritual array like the Severed Sect’s Heavenly Access did not care.
Old Mister Guan Qi was about to come back to life.
“Mistress, who among us was chosen?” Wu Yazi asked worriedly.
“Mistress, who is it? When will Master do it?” Bodhisattva Han Shan asked with a frown.
Guan Qi’s nine inheritors felt extremely anxious.
However, Murong Yan showed a faint, bitter smile. Then, she bowed deeply to the nine inheritors, apparently feeling guilty.
“Mistress, you can’t!”
“Mistress, what are you doing?”
Guan Qi’s nine inheritors suddenly had a bad feeling.
“Husband’s revival does not require possession. Sorry!” Murong Yan suddenly said.
“What?” The nine inheritors and everyone else appeared shocked.
Whoosh!
Just then, beams of rainbow light appeared in the sky, exposing the ritual array covering the Thousand Islands Sea.
The surrounding seawater stilled, becoming like a mirror. The surroundings fell silent.
“Yan`er, you don’t have to feel guilty towards them!” A voice that seemed to come from the sky spread throughout the ritual array.
All the light above the Heavenly Go Platform suddenly gathered at the coffin in the center, becoming incredibly piercing. Some smoke wafted out.
“Pavilion Master?” The Heavenly Go Pavilion disciples felt overjoyed.
“Old Mister Guan Qi’s voice?” Kong Xuan narrowed his eyes.
No one knew what Old Mister Guan Qi was planning. They only felt that this development surpassed everyone’s expectations.
“Guan Qi, why are you overcomplicating things?” For some reason, Jiang Lianshan felt restless, having a bad premonition.
“Jiang Lianshan, it has been eight centuries. How have you been?!” Old Mister Guan Qi’s voice came from the white light.
“It really is you?” the Myriad Age Daoist Sect’s Heavenly Access said as his face sank.
Buzz!
Suddenly, the white light withdrew as though sucked into a body.
A white-robed old man appeared on that coffin. He looked ordinary, not giving off a powerful aura, no different from a neighborly old man as he ambled off the coffin.
“Husband!” Murong Yan walked over with some excitement in her eyes.
As she walked over, tears flowed down her face in two trails.
“Salutations, Pavilion Master!” Guan Qi’s nine inheritors saluted respectfully.
The Heavenly Go Pavilion disciples loudly saluted their pavilion master in an excited frenzy.
Old Mister Guan Qi used his thumb to wipe away Murong Yan’s tears. Then, he smiled faintly. “Alright. Stop crying. If you keep crying, you won’t be beautiful anymore!”
“Husband, stop fighting, alright? I’m afraid. I’m afraid of losing you!” Murong Yan said with tears in her eyes.
Old Mister Guan Qi stared at Murong Yan for a while, then finally revealed a bleak smile. “You won’t lose me. I need to do certain things. I have been waiting for this day for so many years. How can I give it up?”
Murong Yan bit her lips, helpless to do anything about this. She buried her head in Old Mister Guan Qi’s embrace.
Old Mister Guan Qi stroked Murong Yan’s fine hair. As he hugged Murong Yan, he looked at the experts in the surroundings.
“Jiang Lianshan? Ji Dihong? Sect Master Heavenly Access? The Three Lives Buddhas? Unfortunately, the Supreme Singularity is gone. Long Zhanguo is gone as well. However, it is sufficient with just you lot,” Old Mister Guan Qi said with a faint smile.
Although Old Mister Guan Qi appeared somewhat aged, he had a slim figure and looked scholarly, still extraordinarily charming.
“Old Mister Guan Qi? This means you could return to life on your own, recreating a physical body? Why did you host this Revival Convention, then?” The Present Buddha looked at Old Mister Guan Qi with misgivings.
“Because I was waiting for you all,” Old Mister Guan Qi said with a smile.
“Waiting for us?” Everyone looked at Old Mister Guan Qi in confusion.
On the other side, Jiang Lianshan and the Flame Monarch showed sullen expressions, appearing extremely uncomfortable, when they saw Old Mister Guan Qi hugging Murong Yan.
“You are Gu Hai?” Old Mister Guan Qi looked at Gu Hai.
When Old Mister Guan Qi looked at Gu Hai, he also saw the Severed Sect’s Heavenly Access, and some surprise flashed in his eyes.
“Gu Hai greets the Heavenly Go Pavilion Master. Previously, I received pointers on Go from you and benefited greatly,” Gu Hai said with a deep breath.
“Pretty good. Your Go Dao is quite surprising to me. I have come to understand from the nine inheritors’ memories that you managed to comprehend the Thirty-Two fully. You probably also comprehended the Thirty-Three, right?” Old Mister Guan Qi suddenly smiled.
“I just have a shallow understanding of the Go Dao. If Heavenly Go Pavilion Master does not think it beneath you, Gu Hai is willing to have an exchange with Heavenly Go Pavilion Master and seek Heavenly Go Pavilion Master’s guidance,” Gu Hai said.
“There will be time. There’s no rush,” Old Mister Guan Qi said with a smile.
“Meow!”
Suddenly, a black cat leaped over from a distance.
Boom!
The black cat landed in the nearby sky and glared at Old Mister Guan Qi.
“Am I late? You revived already?” the black cat said with a frown.
“No. You came just in time. The Revival Convention is just beginning!” Old Mister Guan Qi smiled.
“Just beginning? Old man, what are you trying to do by making things so troublesome?” the black cat asked in confusion.
“You know everyone here, right?” Old Mister Guan Qi smiled.
The black cat looked around. When it saw Sect Master Heavenly Access and the Three Lives Buddhas, it immediately glared and said, “Humph! Lackeys who betrayed Heaven. How can I not know them? Had I known about their wild ambitions back then, I would have swallowed them whole!”
“Amitābha!” the Present Buddha chanted with a sullen expression.
“Humph!” the Myriad Age Daoist Sect’s Sect Master Heavenly Access snorted coldly as though extremely upset with the black cat.
“There’s no rush. You can deal with your grudges later. For now, you are comrades-in-arms!” Old Mister Guan Qi smiled.
“Comrades-in-arms? Who is their comrade?!” The black cat glowered.
Old Mister Guan Qi did not get angry. “Mao Tianyun was one of the five great divine beasts charged with protecting all life by the previous Heaven eight hundred thousand years ago. Back then, you weren’t this rash.”
[TL Note: Mao Tianyun can be translated literally as Cat Heavenly-Cloud.]
“Humph!” the black cat snorted coldly, apparently unhappy with Old Mister Guan Qi’s indifferent attitude.
“Comrades-in-arms? Might I ask Heavenly Go Pavilion Master in what sense?” Gu Hai said with a frown.
Old Mister Guan Qi looked at everyone. Then, he looked at the nine inheritors and showed a faint smile. “Comrades-in-arms to kill them!”
“What?” Guan Qi’s nine inheritors’ expressions changed.
The countless experts also appeared shocked.
“Old man, are you crazy? They are Guan Qi’s nine inheritors—your disciples—yet you want us to kill them?” Mao Tianyun glared.
“Pavilion Master, we received your inheritance. Why do you want to kill us?” Wu Yazi exclaimed as his expression changed.
