Chapter 103
Chapter 103
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 103
Chapter Title: Stealing the Beams and Changing the Pillars
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For Zhao Xuhe, Lu Yang still felt quite at ease.
"Senior Brother Zhao has merits from three lifetimes, with abundant destiny. Even without my help before, he had attempted Foundation Establishment once. With my assistance now, his chances should be even higher."
It was merely a matter of time.
Lu Yang withdrew his gaze and turned back to his cave abode. He then summoned his dharma protector goddess Su Nü and began retraining in the corpse liberation method and the Heavenly Silkworm Secret using a Foundation Establishment rank.
Just like that, time arrived at a moonless, windy night ten days later.
"Junior Brother Lu, are you in?"
Liu Xin had come calling.
Lu Yang opened the cave abode in response and grinned at Liu Xin. "You're here, Senior Brother. I've been waiting for you for ages. Sorry to trouble you coming all this way in the dead of night."
Liu Xin was taken aback. "Delivering what?"
Having done this in a previous life, Lu Yang's movements were practiced and smooth. Before Liu Xin could finish speaking, he extended a true qi hand.
The ambitious Liu Xin, who had been eager to refine this newly initiated disciple to break through to late Qi Refining stage, didn't even have time to react before Lu Yang's true qi hand seized him. In an instant, he was reduced to flying ash, leaving only his Myriad Spirits Banner clattering to the ground.
Seeing this, Lu Yang felt a touch of感慨.
To this day, the Senior Brother Liu who once filled him with resentment yet left him helpless had become a stable supply point he visited in nearly every lifetime.
After all, the Innate Primordial Primal Qi Divine Talisman was simply too useful.
"Speaking of concealing karma, I almost forgot—the Cloud Family Ancestor, that reincarnated Foundation Establishment cultivator, seems to have an even more powerful heavenly secrets treasure in his possession!"
He hadn't lasted long enough to get it in the previous life.
This life was different. Lu Yang planned to replicate the cultivation path from two lifetimes ago, carefully crafting a righteous, orthodox disciple persona within the Primal Saint Sect.
"The Cloud Family Ancestor heading to the Dharma Refinement Secret Realm can't just be targeting me—he must have designs on the secret realm itself. That heavenly secrets treasure in his hand can even fool Golden Core True Lords. If I enter ahead of time and set up an ambush to seize it, it'll greatly benefit my future cultivation!"
And he hadn't forgotten.
Back then, the Cloud Family Ancestor had schemed against him in the secret realm. If not for his superior skills, not only would his cultivation have been ruined, but he'd have died inside.
This grudge unresolved—his Dao heart would never stabilize!
With that thought, Lu Yang silently circled the Cloud Family Ancestor on his mental grudge notebook, marking him as one of this lifetime's key targets.
Inside the cave abode, Lu Yang sat cross-legged on a prayer mat.
Before him lay Liu Xin's Myriad Spirits Banner, pure white in hue—a world apart from the black-to-purple Myriad Spirits Banner in Lu Yang's dantian.
The next moment, Lu Yang channeled his mana.
Liu Xin's Myriad Spirits Banner trembled slightly, and Chen Xin'an promptly emerged from it. He first glanced around, then looked at Lu Yang with utter bewilderment on his face.
Immediately after, Lu Yang activated his own Myriad Spirits Banner. Soon, the banner spirit Chen Xin'an stepped out as well, coming face-to-face with his original self.
"Who are you!"
"You are me?"
The two spoke nearly identical words at the same time. The difference was that the original Chen Xin'an was far more shocked, while the banner spirit Chen Xin'an seemed merely to be mimicking him.
Since he intended for the banner spirit Chen Xin'an to carry out an undercover mission, Lu Yang naturally ensured his absolute loyalty. He subjected the banner spirit to additional refinements, implanting numerous restrictions just like with Su Nü—guaranteeing no betrayal, and allowing Lu Yang to annihilate him with a single thought.
"Get to it."
With a wave of his hand, the banner spirit Chen Xin'an obeyed without hesitation. He thrust out a finger, piercing the original's soul.
Even in his final moments, the original Chen Xin'an remained dazed.
Who killed me?
And whom did I kill?
Clinging to these heavy questions, his soul abruptly shattered. The karma, however, was inherited by the banner spirit Chen Xin'an, lending a spark of vividness to his expression.
"From now on, you are the real Chen Xin'an!"
Lu Yang nodded in satisfaction at the deferential banner spirit Chen Xin'an. He then imprinted the Innate Primordial Primal Qi Divine Talisman into his body.
The talisman contained a strand of Lu Yang's divine sense, shielded from detection by Foundation Establishment cultivators. It allowed him to monitor Heaven Mending Peak's master via the banner spirit and seize control of his body if needed. It also helped the banner spirit mask his own karma.
Only after all this did Lu Yang send him off.
As for the second Myriad Spirits Banner, Lu Yang destroyed it and refined its essence into his own, expanding the inner cave heaven of the banner.
Atop Heaven Mending Peak, inside a tea pavilion.
The master of Heaven Mending Peak's mood was far from pleasant. The Coiling Dragon inheritance, which he had already considered his for the taking, had flown away like a cooked duck.
"What a pity. Though that inheritance concerns Jiangxi and shouldn't be lightly practiced, I specially created the Six Paths Nirvana Phoenix Technique for Qian'er to cultivate perfectly and harvest it. Now the technique is gone, Qian'er has lost a great opportunity, and who knows when she'll attempt Foundation Establishment..."
With this thought, Heaven Mending Peak's master sighed again.
"If only my son were still here..."
Chen Xin'an, the son of Heaven Mending Peak's master and his most prized disciple, had forged a great divine ability at a young age, needing just one final step to perfection.
Given time, once he reached peak Qi Refining and cultivated third-grade Heaven Mending True Qi to complete his great divine ability, with a Foundation Establishment treasure from his father, he'd have a thirty percent chance at Foundation Establishment! And if he waited for the orthodox-devil war sixty years hence, that chance could rise by another ten percent!
My son Xin'an has the talent for Foundation Establishment!
Alas, heaven envied the talented. A treasure hunt led to his disappearance—no amount of karma divination could locate him, only a faint sense that he hadn't fully perished.
"Sigh."
Heaven Mending Peak's master sighed once more. Suddenly, a ripple of karma emerged. He jerked his head up and instinctively swept his divine sense toward the karmic web.
"This is... Xin'an's karma!?"
The next instant, Heaven Mending Peak's master shot to his feet. His vast divine sense traced the karmic web back to the source, landing on a cave abode on Heaven Mending Peak.
There, in the empty cave abode, a feeble soul drifted in the air, on the verge of dissipation.
Its consciousness was fading fast—on the brink of annihilation at any moment—yet a lingering remnant echoed in desperate struggle:
"Father... forgive me."
Boom!
Heaven Mending Peak's master instantly traversed the void into the cave abode. His surging mana forcibly stabilized the scattering soul, forcibly reassembling it!
Behind Heaven Mending Peak's master, the phantom of a mermaid surfaced.
[Chi Yu Scale]!
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