Chapter 191
Chapter 191
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Translator: Ace
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Chapter Title: Within Mountain-Embracing
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Within Mountain-Embracing.
"This Blood Demon Island is no ordinary place. The suppressive force is incredibly strong—even Foundation Establishment Perfected Beings can only fly on escape lights here, with no way to use any instant teleportation techniques."
Ying Tongshou rode his escape light, surveying the surroundings.
Wherever his gaze landed, he saw mountain peaks rising one after another, yet not a single soul in sight—only scattered bones littering the ground, along with all sorts of peculiar treasures.
"Another one!"
Suddenly, Ying Tongshou reached out and grabbed. He swiftly pulled a pagoda-shaped treasure from between the trees and mountains. Wisps of pale white smoke still drifted endlessly from within the tower.
This haul brought a grin to Ying Tongshou's face. It was already the third treasure he'd claimed since entering the secret realm. Useless to a Foundation Establishment Perfected Being like himself, perhaps, but perfect for rewarding subordinates and winning hearts. After all, who ever complained about having one more treasure?
A moment later, Ying Tongshou's face lit up with excitement once more.
But this time, an escape light streaked in from the distance, colliding right into him. The figure who emerged was none other than the Great Cultivator of Harmonizing Dao, Old Lin.
Meanwhile, in the treacherous Soul-Seizing Valley that Lu Yang had so meticulously prepared.
At the valley's entrance, Mu Huan and four other Immortal Alliance Great Cultivators of Harmonizing Dao proceeded with utmost caution, meticulously gathering the Soul-Dissolving God-Seizing Miasma from within, bit by bit.
"These are fine treasures indeed."
Mu Huan sighed.
"Even we would lose our senses and have our souls thrown into turmoil if tainted by this miasma. Refine it into a treasure, and its power would be extraordinary!"
But just then, a beam of heavenly light descended.
As the brilliant glow faded, Lu Yang's figure appeared. He glanced at Mu Huan and the others, then nodded in satisfaction.
They had taken his treasure, after all.
Karma was established!
In the next instant, Lu Yang unleashed his Heaven-Deceiving Great Art. The heavenly punishment that Perfected Being Blood Demon had previously transferred onto him via the Avici Sword was now shifted onto Mu Huan and his group, using the karma of the Soul-Dissolving God-Seizing Miasma as the conduit. In a flash, Lu Yang felt his energy, essence, and spirit clear up completely.
"What did you do!?"
On the other side, Mu Huan bellowed sharply. Though he couldn't sense the shift in karma or the transfer of heavenly punishment, his instincts screamed that something was wrong.
"What did I do?"
Lu Yang narrowed his eyes at the words, then put on a righteous expression.
"You lot seize my treasure by force, then have the gall to demand what I've done?"
"Besides, you people treat the masses of the Biyang Cultivation World as mere materials—your crimes are heinous. Today, you face heavenly punishment, and all I'm doing is carrying out Heaven's will, righting wrongs, slaying demons, and protecting the weak by wiping you fiends out!"
Mu Huan actually laughed in fury at this.
"Righting wrongs? We're just overseas散修. If you want to right wrongs, go deal with that sword cultivator. Why target us?"
Lu Yang shook his head.
"Because he's too strong."
Pick on the soft persimmons first.
Mu Huan fell silent for a beat, then seemed to think of something. He eyed Lu Yang with a probing tone.
"You're a Primal Saint Sect cultivator?"
"......"
How did he figure that out? Do I not look like one of the good guys?
Lu Yang looked helpless. With a grand wave of his hand,
"You know far too much!"
Clang—!
The Avici Sword flew into the air, its sword light slashing down. Mu Huan and the others dared not meet it head-on and immediately tried to flee—only to feel an immense pressure crash down upon them.
Mountain-Embracing!
In that instant, the suppressive force on Mu Huan and his group multiplied several times over. Their movements froze stiff, leaving them to watch helplessly as the sword light descended.
Thud!
The sword light circled their necks once, and the five Great Cultivators of Harmonizing Dao instantly became headless corpses, their true qi and flesh thoroughly drained. The Avici Sword's thrilled hum echoed through the clouds. Lu Yang nodded in approval at the sight. In his previous life, the twelve Harmonizing Dao cultivators had restored the sword's second wondrous ability, "Treading Peril." Killing them all over again in this life—would it restore yet another?
With that thought, Lu Yang extended a finger and traced a beam of heavenly light.
The glow flickered, illuminating every scene within Mountain-Embracing at that moment. This was his innate divine ability—he naturally had full command over its shifts.
And it was precisely his hidden manipulations that had forced everyone apart.
Otherwise, with them all clustered together, he'd have no chance to pick them off one by one. Only separated could he hunt them like this, freely roaming the field.
In the next second, Lu Yang vanished from the spot.
Tonight, he'd hunt to his heart's content!
At the heart of Mountain-Embracing, on the true Blood Demon Island.
Deep within Blood Demon Island stood a palace built entirely of white bones—a sight to behold, grotesque beyond belief.
There loomed a tree of utmost eeriness.
Its roots were writhing tendrils of flesh and blood, its bark like human skin, its trunk's leaves shards of bone that clattered sharply with every sway.
But in the next moment, the tree underwent a new transformation. Atop its crown blossomed a flower of vivid crimson allure. It bloomed and withered in an instant, bearing fruit—and the fruit's form was that of an infant, complete with limbs, eyes tightly shut!
"Mm... I'm awake?"
The infant opened its eyes, a visibly human confusion flickering across its undeveloped face.
"Why so soon?"
By his calculations, the heavenly punishment upon him would take at least three generations of sword masters to dilute. Only then could he recover to this state.
Yet now, he had awakened ahead of schedule!
And the heavenly punishment had mysteriously lessened.
"Could it be my luck turned? This generation's Avici Sword master is blessed with destiny and profound merit, siphoning off more of the punishment?"
With that in mind, he began sensing his surroundings.
Soon, the freshly awakened Perfected Being Blood Demon opened his eyes wide. Bewilderment filled the infant's tiny gaze, leaving him at a loss.
"Where am I?"
"Why has my Blood Demon Island grown so vast?"
Perfected Being Blood Demon's brows furrowed deeper as he tried to divine the karma—but Lu Yang had long concealed the heavenly secrets with the Heaven-Scrutinizing Instrument, yielding nothing.
Just then, a massive rumble echoed:
Boom!
Radiant sword qi slashed into Blood Demon Island. It was Ye Xingfeng, hacking his way straight toward Perfected Being Blood Demon!
"Something's off... I've been set up?"
Perfected Being Blood Demon's face darkened as realization dawned: someone had played him. This generation's Avici Sword master was a crafty one.
As an elder Perfected Being of the Primal Saint Sect, he wasn't fool enough to miss it. A quick ponder revealed Lu Yang's scheme: use others as knives to resolve his heavenly punishment and sever karma, while pitting foes against him for the mantis to stalk the cicada and reap the benefits?
"A fine grasp of Primal Saint Sect arts... Pity he's still too green!"
A smirk tugged at Perfected Being Blood Demon's lips.
"To scheme against a Great Perfected Being? Truly clueless about his own limits."
Even in his weakest state, not just anyone could plot against him.
For a Great Perfected Being, power wasn't just strength—it was status and backing!
Especially for a Primal Saint Sect elder like him, with a True Lord at his back!
Who could kill him under such circumstances?
Thus, even as Ye Xingfeng closed in, even knowing he'd been schemed against, Perfected Being Blood Demon felt no panic whatsoever.
"Once I release my own karma and drop the concealment, True Lord Good Fortune will sense it at once. With a True Lord intervening, rescue will be effortless."
As for that Primal Saint Sect junior's plot?
A laughable trifle!