Chapter 187
Chapter 187
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Translator: Ace
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Chapter Title: Blood Demon Island
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“Damn it!”
Seeing that he had been instantly teleported tens of thousands of li away, killing intent surged wildly in Ye Xingfeng’s eyes, nearly overflowing.
It wasn’t just because he had been sent away almost as if toyed with by Lu Yang. More importantly, it was Lu Yang’s cultivation.
“Foundation Establishment mid-stage?”
From what he knew, Lu Yang had only reached Foundation Establishment for a century at most. To comprehend a natal divine ability, accumulate enough merit and destiny, and find a Tian Gang Di Sha heavenly star in such a short time...
Exceptional talent!
“But he’s still no match for me.”
As a sword cultivator, Ye Xingfeng’s judgment of both sides’ strengths was exceedingly precise. He had long seen that Lu Yang had no means to counter his flying sword.
Though he didn’t know what method Lu Yang had used to seal one layer of profundity in his flying sword, it seemed that sealing even one was his limit. It affected his sword qi somewhat, but not much—at most, it could teleport him away, but it couldn’t truly harm him, let alone defeat him.
With this thought, Ye Xingfeng’s killing intent grew even firmer.
This boy must not be left alive!
The next second, he merged once more with his sword pellet and fled through the air toward Lu Yang’s direction. With his sword escape technique, tens of thousands of li would take little time.
Meanwhile, over the Star宿 Sea.
Ancestral Master Tingyou looked at Lu Yang with a strange expression.
“Didn’t you say you wouldn’t dodge his edge?”
“Don’t misunderstand, Ancestral Master.”
Lu Yang shook his head, his thick-skinned face utterly calm.
“I was merely sparing his life for the moment. Now’s not the time to take him down.”
Before his words finished, Lu Yang first used the Heaven-Scrutinizing Instrument to clear the karmic lock on his body. Then, he swiftly concealed his entire aura with [Mountain-Embracing]. Only after that did he follow the vague karmic link and cast [Determining Kinship and Distance], piercing through the void and vanishing in a flash, swift as thunderclap sparing no ear.
A dozen breaths later, sword light arrived in flight.
“.he ran?”
Ye Xingfeng’s face turned ugly. He immediately pinched his fingers to divine, trying to calculate Lu Yang’s whereabouts through karma. But this time, all he got was a blank void.
Amid the radiant glow of a divine ability’s splendor.
Lu Yang’s figure emerged, with Ancestral Master Tingyou standing behind him, sighing.
“You brat, that escape art of yours is world-shakingly outrageous.”
“I wasn’t escaping. I was competing with him in escape speed.”
“The facts prove he’s far inferior to me!”
Lu Yang’s tone was utterly serious, without a hint of bluster. Seeing his solemn expression, Ancestral Master Tingyou almost believed it for a moment.
“By the way, where did you escape to?”
Lu Yang shook his head.
“I directly burned the remaining merit and destiny to lock onto the karmic location of the [Avici Sword], then fled here.”
With that, Lu Yang pinched his fingers to divine. With the Heaven-Scrutinizing Instrument’s aid, plus his deep karma with the [Avici Sword], he had come precisely to resolve it. Thus, he effortlessly grasped the causes and effects. At the same time, [Determining Kinship and Distance] ceased its operation.
Whoosh...
The divine ability’s splendor quietly dissipated. Lu Yang looked around and found himself on an island, surrounded by hazy crimson glow.
Beyond the island stretched unending soul-melting winds.
“This is the Foundation Establishment Realm!”
Surprise flashed in Lu Yang’s eyes. This was his first time seeing something beyond a Dao foundation in the Foundation Establishment Realm. Someone had actually built an island here?
“This place is called [Blood Demon Island].”
Rubbing his fingers, Lu Yang continued divining intelligence.
“Every century, [Blood Demon Island] falls from the Foundation Establishment Realm toward the present world, devouring nearby living beings to sustain the array within the island.”
“And the one who built this island is the original owner of the [Avici Sword], a late-Foundation Establishment grand true person of the Primal Saint Sect in the past, Dao title Blood Demon. His soul is inside the island, in deep slumber. What I need to do is help him reincarnate back... back... damn it, I’ve been had!”
Suddenly, Lu Yang halted his movements.
Because just now, he had finally divined the exact method for the karma he had assumed: how to help that Primal Saint Sect’s Blood Demon True Person reincarnate.
“This Blood Demon True Person had far too heavy a killing karma in life.”
“So much so that during one excursion, he actually slew a naturally nurtured immortal spirit, suffering heavenly punishment: to repay as pig and dog for three lifetimes.”
Yet having reached late Foundation Establishment, Blood Demon True Person was already in the late years of his third life. Foundation Establishment true persons had at most five lives. If he truly became pig and dog for three lifetimes, he’d be like the Dragon-Subduing Arhat—no chance of transcendence this life, and even his prior lives’ cultivation would be lost in an instant.
So he devised a method.
He sent the [Avici Sword] and [Three-Nines Soul-Melting Gourd] back to the Primal Saint Sect, then hid in the Foundation Establishment Realm via [Blood Demon Island], severing the reincarnation’s influence.
In plain terms, forcibly refusing reincarnation.
Of course, this was merely a delaying tactic—not unlike a vegetative state, worse than death—and in time, he still couldn’t escape reincarnation.
Thus, the key was the karma of the [Avici Sword].
Blood Demon True Person couldn’t reincarnate due to heavenly punishment, and whoever took the [Avici Sword] had to help him. So how?
“Damn it, make me the scapegoat!”
Everyone who assumed the [Avici Sword]’s karma would, upon entering Blood Demon Island, have Blood Demon True Person borrow the karma via secret art to shift a portion of his heavenly punishment onto them.
Over time, the punishment would be fully shifted.
Blood Demon True Person could then regain freedom, enter reincarnation debt-free and light, starting anew and swiftly returning to late Foundation Establishment.
Thus, successive [Avici Sword] masters all perished from various causes—they had shouldered Blood Demon True Person’s punishment, succumbing to calamity qi clouding the mind, falling one after another. In time, the Primal Saint Sect’s true persons naturally dared not touch it.
“Beast!”
Lu Yang trembled with rage, feeling he had still overestimated the Primal Saint Sect true persons’底线. To come up with such a shameless, vile scheme!
And specifically pitting fellow Primal Saint Sect true persons!
These people’s hearts were too black!
Compared to these Primal Saint Sect beasts, his own honest and kind self was like a pure white lotus, emerging unsullied from the mud, blooming pristine in clear ripples...
But soon, Lu Yang noticed something off.
“The [Heaven-Deceiving Grand Method]?”
That Blood Demon True Person had actually left behind the secret method for shifting heavenly punishment via karma—anyone assuming his karma could divine it!
Gazing at the secret method he had divined, Lu Yang fell into contemplation, his expression growing increasingly bizarre. “Deliberately leaving this secret method... damn granny, could it be he’s deliberately goading those pitted Primal Saint Sect true persons to use the same method to pit others?”
Even running a pyramid scheme!
At this thought, Lu Yang’s gaze shifted. “Speaking of which, I’m now beset by heaven and earth’s killing intent, and those with karma to me are all waiting outside...”
A bold idea struck him.
The principle of the [Heaven-Deceiving Grand Method] was simply using an object’s karma to make another bear heavenly punishment—invest one part capital, reap tenfold profit.
“If so, why not learn from the Primal Saint Sect true persons’ advanced experience? Blood Demon True Person made a [Blood Demon Island]; I’ll make one too... right, one that just emerged, brimming with heavenly materials and earthly treasures. Fill it with my treasures for entrants to take freely...”
Take them, and owe me karma!
“Then I’ll use the Heaven-Deceiving Grand Method to shift all heavenly punishment to those owing me karma, letting calamity qi cloud their minds as they slaughter each other for the secret realm’s treasures.”
“When most are dead and the survivors gravely wounded, I emerge to clean up, slaying them all and reclaiming the treasures I sent out... Pure profit with no cost. Blood Demon True Person was too conservative!”
“...”
Good grief!
Ancestral Master Tingyou stood beside Lu Yang, utterly helpless. Compared to a Primal Saint Sect pillar like you, what’s Blood Demon True Person? You’re the real beast!
(End of chapter)