Chapter 326
Chapter 326
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Translator: Ace
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Chapter Title: I Am Mu Changsheng
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Looking at the cultivators from the Profound Spirit Realm gathered outside the boat at this moment, Lu Yang's face showed not the slightest joy.
Instead, there was only deep chill.
‘I actually guessed right. Bastards!’
The Primal Saint Sect had truly used him as bait!
No—spit—what Primal Saint Sect? It was clearly the Northern River Demon Sect! How could anyone cultivate properly alongside such a band of vile demons who committed every atrocity under the sun?
In that instant, Lu Yang's suspicions extended even to the Sword Pavilion.
After all, he had witnessed the sheer eccentricity of these sword seeds from Qi Refining all the way to Foundation Establishment.
Though Perfected Being Demon-Quelling appeared to be a good man, one could know a person's face but not their heart. Who knew if he might sell Lu Yang out too?
‘No. I have to find a chance to enter the Heaven of Non-existence!’
True, once his consciousness entered the Heaven of Non-existence, his main body would be utterly defenseless.
But Lu Yang could circumvent that flaw with the String Puppet Technique.
He felt confident in this decision.
The world was vast, heroes plentiful as carp crossing a river—he was far from the only one to break through the first tribulation. In fact, his progress lagged far behind many others.
With the Heaven of Non-existence now open on a large scale to the outside world, relevant intelligence had long since leaked.
Thus, Lu Yang already understood the second tribulation of the Heaven of Non-existence.
That was precisely why he believed he had a shot at breaking through.
‘Worth trying!’
With that thought, Lu Yang sank his mind into his sea of consciousness.
He circulated the Supreme Void Sacrificial Rite Marvelous Method, reaching out to connect with the Heaven of Non-existence amid the void.
“This seat is Minghua.”
High above the firmament, Celestial Immortal Minghua stood with hands clasped behind his back.
His gaze locked onto Perfected Being Demon-Quelling first.
Then reassurance filled his heart.
‘Only one!’
The entire boat held just Perfected Being Demon-Quelling, a single late Foundation Establishment great perfected being.
Beyond him, merely Ye Guyue and Ye Xingfeng at mid Foundation Establishment.
As for Yun Family Ancestor and the rest—over a dozen, sure—but all early Foundation Establishment.
They weren't even worth Celestial Immortal Minghua's notice.
By contrast, his own side had this celestial immortal presiding, three earthly immortals, and seven human immortals.
No matter how one sliced it, they held the overwhelming advantage.
‘We’ve won!’
That thought steadied Celestial Immortal Minghua.
“Fellow Daoist, hand over Ye Shao and the Shen Gold. Today, you and I can part in peace.”
In his eyes, this was Mount Tai crushing an egg.
Yet Perfected Being Demon-Quelling was late Foundation Establishment after all.
Celestial Immortal Minghua had no desire to corner him completely.
Hence the notion of subduing the foe without battle.
What returned, however, was a gaze of pity.
“Fellow Daoist, hurry back.”
Perfected Being Demon-Quelling sighed.
“As far as I know, you should have some understanding of this place. Haven’t you realized it yet?”
Celestial Immortal Minghua blinked.
Of course he knew.
A world bearing thirty fruit positions was terrifying indeed.
But before arrival, he had enlisted a supreme being to veil the heavenly secrets.
No one could detect their presence now.
Rob once and flee—what could anyone do to him?
The logic held firm.
What was wrong with it?
Celestial Immortal Minghua utterly failed to grasp the implication in Perfected Being Demon-Quelling's words.
He simply sneered coldly.
“So, Fellow Daoist refuses the toast and prefers the penalty drink?”
“Raise the array!”
The words had barely left Celestial Immortal Minghua's mouth when clouds rolled and parted.
Heaven and earth shifted.
In an instant, the vaulted cloud sea transformed into a thousand-li crimson wasteland.
A massive sun blazed in the sky, rolling heat waves suffusing the surroundings.
It felt as if one had been cast into a pill furnace, mana consumption surging wildly!
‘The Great Sun Patrolling Heaven Chart is complete!’
Elation surged in Celestial Immortal Minghua's heart.
This array drew power from a supreme treasure matched to the Profound Spirit Realm itself—capable of locking heaven and earth, burning mountains, boiling seas!
Yet at the same moment, everyone aboard the boat remained utterly calm.
Even early Foundation Establishment cultivators like Yun Family Ancestor faced this pulverizing horror without a trace of fear.
Some even seemed amused.
“Uncle?”
Ye Guyue glanced at Perfected Being Demon-Quelling beside her.
Seeing his furrowed brows, surprise flickered across her face.
“These outworlders pose a threat to you?”
Perfected Being Demon-Quelling shook his head gravely.
“This array wounds heavenly harmony. Dawn Sun Patrolling Heaven—if uncontrolled, it will harm the mortals below.”
Ye Guyue understood at once.
Her uncle's old pedantry had flared up again.
She lowered her voice.
“Why so stubborn, Uncle? Mere mortals. Even if you truly cherish them, better slay these foes swiftly. Prolonging it helps nothing.”
“I know.”
Thought creased Perfected Being Demon-Quelling's face.
Soon, resolve hardened.
“No rush. First, withdraw. Pull the battlefield higher.”
Higher altitudes meant less risk to the mortal dust below.
With those words, Perfected Being Demon-Quelling pointed skyward.
He didn't even draw his sword.
He merely spat thunderous words, layers of radiant illusions blooming behind him:
“Disputing words to kill—valuing righteousness above one's own body. Thus: amid all things, none surpasses righteousness!”
In that instant, the layered illusions coalesced.
Jade towers and palaces manifested.
Pavilions and halls took form.
Finally, they burst into myriad golden radiances exploding outward!
“Boom!”
The eruption shattered nearly every divine sense present.
They reeled like a lone boat amid gale and downpour, tossed and swaying.
Even Celestial Immortal Minghua felt vertigo seize him, ears ringing, vision drowned in a vast, indescribable heaven and earth—
Profound Virtue Blessed Land!
‘What in the world is this!?’
Celestial Immortal Minghua couldn't comprehend what he had witnessed.
When his sight cleared, he realized the battlefield had been yanked into the void!
His pupils contracted sharply.
For the first time, something felt truly off.
‘This world... its people... all wrong!’
Nothing like this existed in the Profound Spirit Realm!
Now, it was no longer they who besieged Perfected Being Demon-Quelling.
They had fallen into his Profound Virtue Blessed Land!
Meanwhile, in the boat's quiet chamber.
Lu Yang sat cross-legged in meditation.
His split soul had already wandered afar.
His main body, controlled by the String Puppet Technique, kept vigilant watch on the outside.
‘Why haven’t they started fighting?’
Lu Yang felt surprise.
Perfected Being Demon-Quelling had acted, yet held back—showing no intent for all-out battle with Celestial Immortal Minghua.
Why?
Before Lu Yang could puzzle it out, the next instant—
Perfected Being Demon-Quelling split off a beam of blessed land radiance.
It plunged straight toward Lu Yang's closed-door chamber!
‘He’s after me!?’
Vigilance spiked in Lu Yang instantly.
His heart stayed calm, even vindicated.
I knew the Sword Pavilion harbored no good souls!
But then, his eyes widened.
The radiance enveloped his chamber.
Yet it didn't breach it by force.
Instead, it wrapped layer upon layer, shielding it impregnably.
‘He’s... protecting me?’
‘Ensuring my safety?’
Protecting me specifically—does he scheme against me?
Doubts lingered in Lu Yang.
But Perfected Being Demon-Quelling didn't stop.
Beam after beam descended, enshrouding every soul aboard the boat!
He was protecting them all!
For a moment, Lu Yang almost doubted his own eyes.
Yet his mind turned swift as ever.
Unable to fathom the motive, he seized the opportunity regardless.
‘Motive or not—irrelevant.’
‘If I claim the second Supreme Void divine ability now, briefly regaining great perfected being might... no situation will lack a way to self-preserve!’
‘Man must rely on himself!’
That thought banished all hesitation.
Lu Yang's mind plunged into the Heaven of Non-existence!
A brief daze passed.
His split soul opened its eyes.
Intense sorrow flooded the split soul's heart at once.
Emotions crashed like a breached dam, battering his sea of consciousness, deepening the bewilderment.
Who am I?
Where am I?
What is this place?
Long after, the split soul steadied at last.
Its gaze cleared.
As if all had sorted itself.
It murmured softly to itself:
“I am the Innate True Person.”
“I am Mu Changsheng.”