Chapter 314
Chapter 314
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Translator: Ace
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Chapter Title: Shared Fate Fortune Exchange
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For the position treasure *Shared Fate and Exchanged Luck Register Scripture*, Lu Yang had long coveted it. After all, it was the most domineering treasure he had ever seen in terms of its effects.
Qi fortune served as the brush, merit as the ink. The words inscribed upon the register directly invoked the power of heaven and earth to bring them to pass.
This was already a True Lord’s method, far surpassing ordinary position treasures. It showed just how much effort the Hongyun Daoist had poured into refining it back in the day.
“May I know your name, friend Daoist?”
“Yuantu.”
The moment Lu Yang spoke, Hong Ju extended his hand and lightly tapped the *Shared Fate and Exchanged Luck Register Scripture*. A line of brief characters appeared almost instantaneously.
[*Yuantu’s Dao cultivation is complete; may seek Shen Metal Qi*]
In the next instant, Lu Yang noticed Hong Ju’s merit and qi fortune plummet sharply. Meanwhile, a vague sense emerged in his own heart.
*‘It worked!’*
Joy surged in Lu Yang’s heart. Thanks to the *Shared Fate and Exchanged Luck Register Scripture*, he had directly fulfilled the merit and qi fortune requirement for locating his second Tiangang Earthly Sha.
To be precise, Hong Ju had paid that price on his behalf. And in this life as a natural immortal spirit, he faced no cultivation bottlenecks like ordinary cultivators. He simply needed to find the Tiangang Earthly Sha and fuse it into his immortal spirit body, and the breakthrough would come naturally!
“Thank you, friend Daoist.”
Seeing this, Lu Yang smiled in satisfaction. True to his word, he willed his divine sense to imprint the *Supreme Bright Golden Cup Jade Light* before handing it over to Hong Ju.
“No need for thanks. It was only fitting.”
Hong Ju accepted the secret art and skimmed it briefly. A smile bloomed on his face, and his gaze toward Lu Yang grew several degrees warmer.
*This is an honest fellow!*
*He didn’t turn on me!*
At that thought, the look in his eyes toward Lu Yang turned peculiar. Divine ability radiance began to gleam from his body as his divine sense locked onto Lu Yang.
He was planning to turn hostile.
“Friend Daoist... have you shared this art with anyone else?”
“No.”
Lu Yang replied indifferently. Divine ability splendor also blossomed from his body—two streams of gold and one of pink—as a disorienting, soul-beguiling fragrance wafted through the air around them.
*[*Marrow of a Hundred Flowers*]!*
At the sight, Hong Ju’s expression shifted subtly, as if he were reliving the humiliation of being utterly ravished by over a hundred heavenly nymphs in the *Heaven of Non-existence*.
This divine ability from the *Heaven of Non-existence* was a supreme art of mind enchantment. At its peak, it could bewilder not just living beings but even inanimate objects. As it unfurled now, it seeped into every crevice, instantly planting in Hong Ju’s mind the notion that the Daoist before him seemed decent enough—no need to harm him...
“Break!”
In the next breath, Hong Ju unleashed his own divine ability with a thunderous shout, shattering Lu Yang’s influence. After all, he was a great cultivator at the peak of Foundation Establishment.
“A divine ability bestowed by the *Heaven of Non-existence*?” Hong Ju’s eyes narrowed, his gaze turning icy.
Killing intent leaked through his words. Yet Lu Yang remained utterly calm.
“What, does friend Daoist intend to keep this clone of mine here as a guest?”
*‘Clone?’*
Hong Ju froze for a beat, then furrowed his brow. Probing cautiously, he said,
“Friend Daoist’s clone is profoundly subtle—I couldn’t detect it at all. Might I ask what wondrous method it is?”
Lu Yang replied calmly,
“*Immortal Embryo Worldly Residence Secret Record*.”
“Tsk!”
All traces of divine ability radiance abruptly vanished. Hong Ju’s face transformed into an effusive smile.
“With a method like that, you should have said so sooner, friend Daoist.”
The fact that Lu Yang could name the *Immortal Embryo Worldly Residence Secret Record*—a peerless clone art—convinced Hong Ju by eighty percent. Paired with a superior-grade spirit treasure as the embryonic vessel, it could truly mimic a living person, traversing the world in the original body’s stead. Killing it would inflict no harm on the caster’s true self.
No point in making an enemy, then.
Better not to cut the grass if you can’t uproot it. As a Saint Sect great cultivator himself, Hong Ju now took the initiative to make amends, producing a spirit treasure and pressing it into Lu Yang’s hands.
“A token of my apology—please accept it, friend Daoist!”
Lu Yang glanced down. It was a mid-grade spirit treasure, radiant and lustrous. Infused with a strand of Tiangang Earthly Sha, it even held promise of ascending to superior grade!
“Then I’ll humbly accept.”
“Safe travels, friend Daoist!”
Amid Hong Ju’s hearty send-off, Lu Yang departed the mountain woods. He then summoned an escape light and streaked away, coming to a halt amid the clouds over ten thousand li distant.
“Hmph. Trying that trick on me?”
He weighed the spirit treasure Hong Ju had given him for a moment before sneering coldly. With that, he flung the priceless item straight off the edge of the cloud!
Only after that did he transform into light and depart once more.
Moments after Lu Yang’s departure, Hong Ju’s figure silently materialized, the spirit treasure he had just gifted cradled in his palm.
*‘This one must hail from my Saint Sect—not easily fooled.’*
Hong Ju sighed inwardly in resignation. He was confident his scheme was undetectable; the other had discarded the treasure like trash out of sheer caution.
Nothing to be done.
If the man had truly spotted something amiss, there might have been room for refinement. But pure wariness like this—that worldly savvy—left no exploitable flaw.
“...Very well.”
With those words, his form scattered into the breeze.
Jiangnan, Concealed Sword Manor.
Lu Yang’s true body opened his eyes. He felt no pang at having tossed away a spirit treasure with superior-grade potential—not even a second thought.
In truth, he hadn’t detected anything wrong, nor did he know Hong Ju had trailed him in secret afterward. But that didn’t stop him from branding the treasure a ticking time bomb in his mind. And it wasn’t just the treasure—even the clone was a ticking bomb to him.
What if someone tracked the clone back to his main body?
That was why he had no intention of recalling it. Instead, he had sealed it away someplace, ready to awaken it only when needed.
Just then, the door burst open.
Perfected Being Xiuxin—her face a mask of icy aloofness—stepped into the chamber. Her expression thawed like ice under spring winds, melting into warmth as her beautiful eyes shimmered with luster.
“Master... a letter from Sword Pavilion.”
“Oh?”
Lu Yang arched a brow and took the flying missive spirit tome from Perfected Being Xiuxin. Its contents were straightforward: a summons for all Foundation Establishment cultivators under Sword Pavilion’s command.
It was signed by [*Demon-Quelling*].
Lu Yang swiftly dredged the name up from the recesses of memory. In his previous lives, it was this Sword Pavilion expert who had conquered Jiangnan’s Ten Thousand Men Pit!
Which meant—
“Sword Pavilion is finally making a move on the Ten Thousand Men Pit?”
At that moment, Lu Yang’s heart stirred. A strange sensation emanated from the direction of his sealed clone, narrowing his eyes.
*‘My opportunity—the Shen Metal Qi...’*
Cross-referencing the clone’s sensed range, Lu Yang pinched his fingers to divine. His expression grew ever stranger.
*‘...In the direction of the Ten Thousand Men Pit? A Tiangang Earthly Sha is coalescing there?’*
An opportunity?
No!
Vigilance surged through Lu Yang in an instant. He gripped the [*Calamity Wave*] and deftly swept its [*Illumination*] marvel over his body.
*‘Phew. Good—no bewitchment.’*
With that thought, his budding impulse to head for the Ten Thousand Men Pit faded away.
*‘No rush. Send the puppet to scout first.’*