Chapter 88
Chapter 88
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 88
Chapter Title: Patrolling Heaven on Behalf of the Heavens
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The Wugui Mystic Realm was empty.
Everyone had been cleanly slaughtered by Ancestor Tingyou during his possession attempt, and as the Golden Core Sword Qi descended, Ancestor Tingyou himself was smashed to pieces by the sword qi.
At this moment, only Lu Yang remained in the Wugui Mystic Realm.
However, the Golden Core Sword Qi did not strike down. Instead, it returned to the sky above the mystic realm, continuing to lie dormant, breathing in and out the world's primal qi as if it would never dissipate.
Yet, Lu Yang's expression didn't relax in the slightest. On the contrary, it grew extremely grave, for he could clearly feel a thread of karma on his body had been locked onto by the sword qi. In other words, if the sword qi were to erupt, it could take his head with a single strike, even from ten thousand miles away!
“Is it because I took the inheritance of the Wugui Dao?”
Lu Yang glanced at the soul thoughts of Ancestor Tingyou that he had collected. If he were to abandon these thoughts, he might be able to escape the karmic link to the sword qi.
“But... I insist!”
The soul of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and a former titan of the demonic path, the soul thoughts of a sect master—this was not something the soul of the Yun family's ancestor from his previous life could compare to.
After all, the soul of the Yun family's ancestor had been cleansed by Perfected Being Yin Shan.
But the soul of Ancestor Tingyou contained a full thousand years of his experience, including divine abilities, cultivation methods, and even various secrets concerning Foundation Establishment!
“This karma, I’ll accept it!”
With a thought, Lu Yang immediately rode a streak of escaping light and vanished. He then casually carved out an immortal's cave nearby and directly entered seclusion.
Several days later.
Inside the cave, Lu Yang opened his eyes. Before him lay the thoughts of Ancestor Tingyou, but now, he had refined them all.
In the process, he had also gained a deeper understanding of Ancestor Tingyou.
“This man was truly a genius of heaven-sent talent.”
Lu Yang sighed, then picked up one of the thoughts. Unlike the others, this thought shimmered with a brilliant light and was far more spiritual than the rest.
This was because this thought did not record Ancestor Tingyou's memories, but his last will and testament.
As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three burrows. Although Ancestor Tingyou was confident his possession would not fail, he had also made preparations and backup plans for the one-in-a-million chance it did.
This last will was his backup plan. In it, he clearly stated that he would preserve the Wugui Dao inheritance he held in its most complete form within his memory thoughts. If he died and Lu Yang survived, this inheritance would be given to Lu Yang, which could be considered a continuation of the Wugui Dao's lineage.
Of course, there were conditions.
To obtain this inheritance, Lu Yang had to accept the karma of the Wugui Dao, rebuild its mountain gate in the future, and train a Foundation Establishment cultivator for the Wugui Dao.
Otherwise, the soul thoughts would simply self-destruct.
Just as Ancestor Tingyou had said before, his lifelong wish was to continue the Wugui Dao. He absolutely could not let the Wugui Dao perish at the hands of its sect master.
Therefore, he had considered all possibilities, whether life or death.
He even explicitly stated in the thought that as long as Lu Yang accepted the inheritance, he had a way to let Lu Yang quickly possess the combat power of the Foundation Establishment Realm in a short time!
How could Lu Yang refuse this?
“I'll take the benefits first. In any case, no matter how heavy the karma of the Wugui Dao is, it's a matter for this life. What does it have to do with the me of my next life?”
Ancestor Tingyou, the last sect master of the Wugui Dao.
He was also the most talented person in the history of the Wugui Dao. He successfully established his foundation at a young age and then, in just over two hundred years, managed to unite the numbers of the Heavenly Stems, Earthly Branches, Yin, and Yang, achieving perfection in Foundation Establishment and seeking the position of "Wall-top Earth."
Alas, the heavens are jealous of geniuses.
At this very moment, a Perfected Being from the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion took the final step before him, attaining the fruition of "Wall-top Earth" and instantly severing Ancestor Tingyou's path on the Dao.
How could Ancestor Tingyou, how could the Wugui Dao, be resigned to this?
However, Ancestor Tingyou truly lived up to his heaven-sent talent, managing to forcibly carve out another path and create the method of the [Yama Hall].
Eight perfected Foundation Establishment cultivators would transform into the Black and White Impermanence, the Civil and Martial Judges, Ox-Head and Horse-Face, and the Day and Night Patrol Gods. With him presiding over them, they could temporarily assume the station of a Golden Core and manifest its fruit. This was something that sounded like a fairytale, but with the help of a third-party power, Ancestor Tingyou succeeded.
But it was precisely this achievement that brought a world-ending disaster upon the Wugui Dao.
That Golden Core Perfected Being who had attained "Wall-top Earth" sat in the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion and, from tens of thousands of miles away, unleashed a single sword strike, declaring the utter annihilation of the entire Wugui Dao.
“...”
The more Lu Yang read, the more terrified he became. Finally, he abruptly shut off the memory thought, not daring to look further, not even daring to think deeper. He decisively chose to stop there.
Because he could clearly feel that the more he understood the cause and effect of the Wugui Dao's destruction a thousand years ago, the clearer a thread of karma on his body became. One end of the thread was connected to him, while the other plunged into the great net of karma, bottomless like an abyss...
Fucking hell, that Perfected Being from a thousand years ago is still alive! Lu Yang was one hundred percent certain that the other end of the karmic thread was that Perfected Being! The moment he learned the details of the matter, that Perfected Being would also know of him!
“This is too fucking absurd. What kind of damn place is this, this damn place...”
After a long while, Lu Yang finally calmed his mind. Not daring to investigate the troubles of a thousand years ago any further, he turned to study the inheritance left by Ancestor Tingyou.
Among them, besides divine abilities like the "Nine Heavens Capital Register Secret Devil Yin Thunder," the most crucial was the [Profound Nether Lord Seizing the Nether Throne] that Ancestor Tingyou had used. The Wugui Dao's foundation was not as deep as the Primal Saint Sect's; the entire sect only had this one divine ability. However, Ancestor Tingyou had deduced it to its absolute limit.
After Lu Yang finished reading, his expression became increasingly amazed:
“No wonder he said in his last will that he could help me obtain Foundation Establishment combat power.”
With the Profound Nether Lord Seizing the Nether Throne, if nine perfected Foundation Establishment cultivators practiced this divine ability together and formed the [Yama Hall], they could temporarily assume the station of a Golden Core with a Foundation Establishment body.
Of course, finding nine perfected Foundation Establishment cultivators was impossible.
But if one settled for the next best thing, having nine perfected Qi Refining cultivators practice this divine ability together, supplemented by a massive infusion of destiny, they could also temporarily assume the station of Foundation Establishment!
The eight great elders of the Tingyou Cult were an example of this. Ancestor Tingyou passed down this lineage precisely to have others cultivate it with him. The entire value of the eight red-clothed wugui was to form the [Yama Hall] with him. Ancestor Tingyou had originally planned to use this method to achieve Foundation Establishment immediately after escaping.
Unfortunately, heaven does not grant all of men's wishes.
Of course, while this divine ability was shocking, it was not without its drawbacks. This was because the foundation of this divine ability was built upon the Wugui Mystic Realm.
“The so-called temporary assumption of Foundation Establishment isn't actually a true breakthrough to Foundation Establishment.”
“Instead, it's about transforming a region into an existence with the same status as the 'Foundation Establishment Realm,' and then taking command of that region to display the might of Foundation Establishment.”
This was not the path of refining the form to ascend.
“This is actually the concept of the 'Way of Patrolling Heaven on Behalf of the Heavens'...”
Lu Yang quickly recalled that when Ancestor Tingyou was perfecting this divine ability back then...