Chapter 232
Chapter 232
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 0
Chapter Title: Malice Before the Blessed Land
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This time, nothing happened. Lu Yang walked straight out.
You're joking. For something this major, you think a single day is sufficient payment? Do you take me for a fool? What I want are solid, tangible benefits!
Moreover, Lu Yang suspected there was scheming involved.
Perfected Being Miaoyin's words couldn't be trusted entirely. After all, by her account, the man only wanted to rescue Chongguang. Yet here in the Primal Saint Sect, you're telling me it's about undying marital devotion?
Who do you think you're fooling!
Especially after seeing Chongming, Lu Yang grew even more suspicious.
Though Chongming had reached Foundation Establishment, he was merely at the early stage. Everyone who'd come this time was mid-stage or higher. An early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator was little more than dead weight.
Bringing along dead weight—Chongguang's son no less. The story she spun for outsiders sounded fine, but if you claimed there was nothing fishy about it, Lu Yang wouldn't buy it. This was all a setup, involving Chongguang at peak Foundation Establishment. Lu Yang had no desire to get schemed against by him again.
Not to mention, this time, he was the one holding all the cards.
For the sake of his next life, he naturally wanted to maximize his gains. That was why he'd demanded a first-grade true technique. Yet Perfected Being Miaoyin was powerless to provide it.
By her account, she hadn't even laid eyes on the Primal Saint Sect's first-grade true techniques.
If she'd never seen it, how could she hand it over?
But Perfected Being Chongguang had once been the sect's acting Sect Master. With the True Lords in seclusion, he'd overseen everything, wielding near-absolute power.
As his dao companion, Perfected Being Miaoyin's status in the sect back then had been far from insignificant. Even scraping off a fraction would tempt Lu Yang. After several rounds of haggling, she finally produced a reward to his satisfaction: a secret second-grade true technique from the Primal Saint Sect.
"Its name is—'Grand Heaven Primordial Unity Subjugating All Heavens Divine Method'!"
Lu Yang scrutinized the technique's contents in his sea of consciousness.
"Pity it's only a fragment. She says she'll give me the rest after I rescue Perfected Being Chongguang."
That said, even the fragment offered a glimpse of the whole.
"If going by the fragment alone, the second-grade true qi cultivated from this technique is comparable to that of Biyang Cultivation World Dao-Harmonizing cultivators."
This also proved the viability of Great Vehicle first-grade true qi, indirectly.
What intrigued Lu Yang, though, was that before establishing the Dao foundation, this second-grade true technique included an extra step compared to others he'd seen.
It was called [Gathering External Qi to Refine the Spirit].
"What is 'external qi'?"
Just as Lu Yang moved to read on, he found it cut off.
Lu Yang's brows furrowed. He cursed inwardly—this was definitely Perfected Being Miaoyin's doing, deliberately stopping there to make the rest impossible to relinquish.
Vicious woman!
The thought sparked malicious intent in Lu Yang.
Perfected Being Miaoyin's demands were clearly problematic. He had no wish to be played, yet he craved that second-grade true technique. It left him in a bind.
'Once inside the blessed land, maybe find an opportunity to set an ambush, take her down outright, then use a harvesting art to extract the rest of the technique. While I'm at it, I can cultivate that [Seven Emotions Heart Refining Incantation] she mentioned. Two birds with one stone! Far easier than busting my ass to bring Perfected Being Chongguang back.'
As for Perfected Being Chongguang's "favor"? Please.
We're all Perfected Beings of the Primal Saint Sect. You used me as your sacrificial pawn and shifted heavenly punishment my way—haven't settled that score yet. Time to collect some interest from your wife first!
At the thought, Lu Yang narrowed his eyes.
'That said, with the True Lords watching the blessed land clashes, killing Perfected Being Miaoyin isn't impossible, but I need to handle their task first.'
Uncover the reason for Chongguang's failure!
Looks like he'd still need to meet the possibly undead Perfected Being Chongguang. Simple enough. In the True Lord's eyes, after failing his metal-seeking, Chongguang had lost all value. Bereft of the True Lord's shelter and reduced to a remnant soul, Lu Yang had nine ways to pin him down!
Boom!
In that instant, a thunderous roar echoed as the glow between heaven and earth blazed to its zenith, like a true sun plummeting to this spot.
"The [Cave Yang Blessed Land] is emerging!"
"From its descent into the mortal realm to its collapse and dispersal into heaven and earth, it'll take about one or two hours. Perfect chance for us to plunder!"
In a flash, the former site of the Qing Kingdom trembled, earth and mountains quaking as myriad hues wove into jade towers and pearl pavilions. Every Perfected Being's eyes burned with greed.
The next instant, escaping lights streaked skyward. Lu Yang, unfazed, leisurely picked a middle spot to enter.
This way, if trouble hit up ahead, he could bail instantly. Yet he wouldn't trail at the end, reduced to slurping soup while others devoured the meat.
Mountains sprawled everywhere, the rising sun hanging in the sky.
Lu Yang stepped from a shaft of heavenly light, surveying his surroundings. A hint of感慨 crossed his face.
"Truly a grand banquet."
Chongguang dead, the cultivators feasted on him.
Even the Primal Saint Sect made no exception. Waste not, want not. Your metal-seeking failed, prior investments sunk—time to claw back what you can.
Lu Yang raised a hand. Out of caution, he skipped absorbing and refining the spiritual qi. This was Chongguang's [Cave Yang Blessed Land]; the so-called heaven-earth spiritual qi was fundamentally Chongguang's own mana. No fusing it rashly into his body—especially with Chongguang possibly not fully dead.
"This spiritual qi... it's toxic."
The sensation resembled that small bounded heaven from the Dao-seizing battle, only far superior in quality.
"The blessed land's greatest prize? Undoubtedly, the lord's pre-death innate divine abilities."
In this [Cave Yang Blessed Land], that meant Perfected Being Chongguang's [Immortal Cypress], [Yin Dragon Water], [Fear of Hewing], and [Rigid Flame Furnace]!
Post-fall, innate divine abilities solidified.
Untended, they'd reintegrate into heaven and earth upon collapse. Extracted beforehand, they became premium spirit embryos.
Fuse one into your spirit treasure? Gain one or two wonders at least. Forge a new one from scratch? A standout among premium spirit treasures. Or refine into pills for cultivation boosts. Uses without end.
"Perfect timing. My Avici Sword still needs that final tempering."
The Vimalakirti Venerable One's divine sense from his fishing trip was long spent, but mere divine sense fell short of triggering a qualitative leap in the Avici Sword.
Like how three innate divine abilities birth a Great Perfected Being—a hurdle for Foundation Establishment Perfected Beings.
For premium spirit treasures, three wonders marked the same threshold.
Surmount it, and achieve transformation!
Snag one spirit embryo from Chongguang's innate divine abilities, fuse it into the Avici Sword, and his battle power would soar.
'At that point, maybe I can take down Perfected Being Miaoyin.'
After all, the second-grade true technique she held—"Grand Heaven Primordial Unity Subjugating All Heavens Divine Method"—touched his future Dao path. Lu Yang was set on claiming it!
With that in mind, Lu Yang pinched his fingers, divining.
The Heaven-Scrutinizing Instrument whirred to life.丙 fire light pierced the six harmonies, swiftly locking a innate divine ability within the blessed land. Peering over, a vast deepwater lake.
"That's... [Yin Dragon Water]?"
Aligned to Earth Sha [Zhixu], the world's utmost yin-soft earth. Interacting with Heavenly Gang [Gui Water], it birthed this innate divine ability.
Earth qi by nature, manifesting as water.
Like the [Heavenly Corpse Baleful Qi] Lu Yang once acquired—also [Zhixu], but from Heavenly Gang [Ji Earth].
"...Hm?"
The thought stirred a faint discord in Lu Yang.
Something felt off.
Just then, the Myriad Spirits Banner quivered. Lu Yang's divine sense swept over, delight blooming on his face. The long-silent Ancestor Tingyou had emerged from seclusion!
Had he results from pondering first-grade true qi?
Perfect. Lu Yang had plenty of questions now, ripe for that peerless intellect!