Chapter 152
Chapter 152
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 152
Chapter Title: Lu Yang Is Actually a Pretty Good Person
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With the Dragon-Subduing Arhat's body falling and a strand of his soul reincarnating, the crumbling golden body left behind a perfectly round, brilliantly shining golden pill at the spot.
The next second, the pill was about to shoot into the sky and flee.
"Hm? Trying to run?"
Lu Yang was quick-eyed and quick-handed. He immediately reached out with a massive hand and snatched the golden pill.
"This is... a relic? Brother Fulong, you're too generous!"
Lu Yang's eyes lit up at the sight. He clearly recognized this treasure unique to Buddhist cultivators. As a foundation establishment wonder, it was top-tier whether used to aid foundation establishment or for refining artifacts. His food qi bug had recently hit a growth bottleneck and could use something good to nourish it.
With that thought, he pocketed the relic.
He then ransacked the place but found nothing else worthwhile. Shaking his head in disappointment, he set the cave ablaze with a wave of his hand and drifted away.
Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea, Heaven Mending Peak.
"Panlong... is dead after all. And Lu Yang took the relic."
The Heaven Mending Peak Master gazed into the distance, a trace of regret in his eyes. He then turned toward Luofeng Mountain, his expression turning to one of deep wariness.
In just fifty years, Lu Yang's name had spread throughout the Primal Saint Sect.
Almost every disciple knew their sect harbored a rare old turtle who had hunkered down for fifty whole years just to outlast a great foe.
Even some Perfected Beings looked down on Lu Yang.
Only the Heaven Mending Peak Master, who knew the full story, feared Lu Yang to the extreme. He understood that Lu Yang had barely survived a deadly crisis through sheer endurance.
Other Perfected Beings might think that even if Lu Yang left the sect, as long as he focused on fleeing, the Dragon-Subduing Arhat couldn't touch him. But the Peak Master knew the Arhat truly hated Lu Yang to the bone and had prepared targeted methods specifically to eliminate him.
If Lu Yang had gotten careless and left the sect alone...
The outcome, even if not death, would have been severe wounds requiring at least a century to recover. Compared to that, fifty years was nothing.
"This kid... cannot be offended!"
The Peak Master let out a long sigh. The one silver lining was that his two interventions had been from the shadows, so Lu Yang theoretically hadn't spotted him.
As for the Wind-Avoiding Pills, losing three had pained him greatly. And thanks to Lu Yang, he hadn't even gotten the relic from Fulong's passing. But at least Fulong had dual cultivated with his daughter Chen Shuqian once, and now she had cultivated the Six Paths Nirvana Art to completion.
Meanwhile, his son Chen Xin'an's progress was also promising.
"If it were before, just one foundation establishment would let me take a shot. But now, with my merit and luck both depleted, one isn't enough."
At that thought, the Peak Master's heart ached again.
The trip to Skull Mountain had been a total loss—not only had he gained nothing, but he'd ended up disheveled and humiliated.
What galled him most was that Fulong's relic was now in Lu Yang's hands. To boost his children Chen Xin'an and Chen Shuqian's chances of breaking through, he needed that extra foundation establishment aid. He had to go buy the relic from Lu Yang at a steep price...
Paying three times over for one item!
He was losing his shirt.
The Peak Master took a deep breath, suppressing all negative emotions.
"Fine, fine. As long as I break through to the late stage, it's all worth it."
With that resolve, he summoned an escaping light and flew toward Luofeng Mountain.
By the time he arrived, his face bore a warm, enthusiastic smile.
"Friend Lu, are you in? Chen Taihe of Heaven Mending Peak here to visit."
The next moment, Lu Yang appeared atop Luofeng Mountain.
His face likewise beamed with a brilliant smile. He stepped aside welcomingly and cupped his hands.
"Senior is here in person—I've failed to greet you from afar. Please, come to the peak for a chat."
"No need for such formalities! No need!"
The Peak Master descended on his escaping light. The two entered the grand hall together, sat facing each other, and without beating around the bush, the Peak Master got straight to it:
"Friend Lu, have you already slain that Fulong?"
"Indeed."
Lu Yang didn't hide it. He hadn't concealed the heavenly secrets when he struck, so any foundation establishment Perfected Being could divine the truth with a quick calculation.
The Peak Master knew the details already, so he ventured cautiously:
"I've heard that arhats from Jiangxi leave behind a golden body relic upon death, for use in future lives of cultivation. Now that Fulong met with heavenly punishment and has no hope of reincarnation, that relic should be in your hands, right?"
Lu Yang raised an eyebrow.
"Indeed, it is."
In the next instant, he produced the brilliantly golden pill and placed it on the table. The Peak Master's eyes narrowed, greed flickering briefly before he masked it.
"I'd like to trade for this item with you."
Here, the Peak Master's face softened with paternal warmth.
"To be honest, my son Xin'an is at a critical juncture for breaking through to foundation establishment."
"As his father, I naturally must lend him a hand."
Lu Yang wore a knowing half-smile.
Really?
I don't buy it.
The Peak Master flushed slightly at the look, knowing Lu Yang wouldn't budge without incentive. With a sigh, he asked:
"What do you want, Friend?"
Lu Yang smiled faintly.
"What do you have, Senior?"
Bastard!
The Peak Master cursed inwardly, then laid his cards on the table:
"I have a secret art I can trade with you. It'll be useful for you too."
With that, he placed a jade slip on the table.
Lu Yang swept it with his divine sense and revealed surprise. Though the jade slip held only part of the secret art, he could still infer its effects.
It was a calamity-transferring technique.
"Early foundation establishment endures the苦 of厉赑风, with a lifespan of three hundred years. But each step forward within the realm triggers the foundation establishment realm's sensory rejection."
"When breaking through from early to mid-stage, one must accommodate the heavenly gang and earthly fiends, refining them into an innate divine ability. But this process is extremely perilous. Once the realm senses it, it sends down blazing fire called [Yin]. The yin fire ignites from the Yongquan acupoint and burns straight to the Mud Nirvana Palace, incinerating the five viscera and six bowels."
This was both opportunity and crisis.
Survive it, and the heavenly gang and earthly fiends tempered by the [yin fire] fully become one's innate divine ability, inseparable from the Perfected Being's soul.
Fail, and one becomes a handful of ash.
Likewise, when mid-stage breaks through to late-stage, the realm sends down [heavenly thunder]. Survive for late-stage Perfected Being status.
Fail, and perish all the same.
As for late-stage to completion, the calamity differs. At that point, one can attempt ascension for the golden core.
The Peak Master's secret art was designed to counter these calamities.
"Using one's own flesh-and-blood offspring as the medium, transfer the calamity's karma outward. The other bears the cause and endures the tribulation, while you reap the fruit and enjoy the post-tribulation transformation..."
In an instant, Lu Yang grasped the Peak Master's scheme.
He planned to use this art, with Chen Shuqian and Chen Xin'an as proxies, to block the [heavenly thunder] and charge into late foundation establishment!
"No wonder..."
At that, Lu Yang's expression turned peculiar.
The reason was simple: Chen Xin'an was a fake!
In this life, the real Chen Xin'an had long been slain by him. The one surviving was the banner spirit Chen Xin'an, merely cloaked in the real one's karma!
So, if the Peak Master tried using the art to shift his calamity to "Chen Xin'an," and Lu Yang suddenly stripped away the real Chen Xin'an's karma, reclaiming the banner spirit...
The fallout would be hilarious!
With that thought, Lu Yang's face bloomed with utterly sincere warmth.
"Since Senior is doing this for his children, how could this junior refuse?"
He pushed the relic forward.
Seeing this, the Peak Master—who'd braced for a huge payout—stunned momentarily, then cupped his hands gratefully.
"Then many thanks, Friend!"
Who'd have thought—Lu Yang was actually a pretty good guy!
Amid the感慨, the Peak Master couldn't help but thrill inwardly. He planned to rush back and hand the relic to Chen Xin'an at once, for an immediate breakthrough attempt!
(End of chapter)