Chapter 93
Chapter 93
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 93
Chapter Title: Don't I Look Like a Good Person?
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"Hmph!"
Re-entering the Hall of Yama, the Heaven Mending Peak Master's expression grew even fouler. His body of earth and stone constantly shed gravel, looking as if it would collapse at any moment.
"To force my hand to this extent!"
The Heaven Mending Peak Master took a deep breath, swallowing a torrent of emotions. The Great Dao Diagram of Yin and Yang, which had manifested in the air by borrowing Qi, returned to the spot between his brows.
The next second, his lips parted, and he exhaled with a thunderous voice:
"Geng Metal is the Taibai of the heavens, imbued with killing intent, yet firm and robust. When the robust meets water, its qi flows clear; when the firm meets fire, its qi becomes pure and sharp—this is called the Supreme Chapter!"
The celestial sound was resonant, shaking heaven and earth in an instant. Lu Yang looked up to see his vision filled with a vast golden light, so brilliant and fierce it was impossible to look at directly. Only by probing with his spiritual sense could he vaguely discern a mighty, majestic, pure white tiger, perched upon a mountain ridge, staring straight at him.
"Roar!"
With a tiger's roar, a torrent of sand and dust descended from the sky. It was formless and intangible, yet weighed more than ten thousand catties, as if a billion blades were hacking down upon the Hall of Yama all at once!
Outside Skull Mountain, Daoist Grand Fortune's eyebrows shot up at the sight.
"The Mountain-Sitting Monarch? For his Heavenly Dipper position, he cultivated the Supreme Chapter?"
"It seems that old freak Chen Taihe has truly been pushed to his limit. After hiding his Dao Path for so many years, he's finally revealed his hand by accident!"
Only after Foundation Establishment is a cultivator considered to have truly entered the Dao. From then on, it is a long road to attaining the Golden Core. However, Heaven and Earth have their limits, as do the positions of attainment. Each Golden Core attainment is unique, and so are the Dao Paths leading to them. Once revealed, others can immediately deduce it.
Therefore, for a cultivator, their Dao Path is an absolute secret.
If it becomes known, opponents can make specific arrangements to obstruct your path. Worse still, if a True Lord already occupies the attainment your Dao Path leads to...
The Shamanic Ghost Sect is a cautionary tale.
On the other hand, the Dao Path itself is a potent weapon for a Foundation Establishment cultivator, as it is achieved by gathering Heavenly Dipper and Earthly Baleful Qi.
Heaven is the stem, Earth is the branch.
Where the stems and branches intersect lies the true fruit of the Golden Core.
To form a Dao Path, one must gather the Ten Heavenly Dippers and the Twelve Earthly Fiends, taking one of yin and one of yang from each, for a total of four great medicines.
Obtaining one of the four medicines means reaching the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment. Obtaining three means the late stage. With all four, one reaches the peak of Foundation Establishment, the Great Dao is formed, and one can seek the Golden Core.
"The Mountain-Sitting Monarch belongs to the Supreme Chapter of the Ten Heavenly Dippers. A Dao Path that begins with the Supreme Chapter... it seems the Dao Fruit Chen Taihe intends to attain is one of these six: Roadside Earth, Hairpin and Bracelet Gold, Pine and Cypress Wood, Pomegranate Wood, White Wax Gold, or Wall Earth!"
Daoist Grand Fortune's eyes burned as he silently made his calculations.
Just then, a damp vapor suddenly filled the air, accompanied by the sound of surging waves, which finally coalesced into a crimson merman.
It had a human face and a voice like a mandarin duck. With a flick of its tail in the air, it turned the void into a tidal wave that crashed down upon the Hall of Yama, causing the entire hall to shake violently, almost to the point of disintegration. The ghost soldiers and generals guarding it were scattered in droves.
"It's the Red Ru Scales!"
Daoist Grand Fortune immediately came to a conclusion upon seeing this: "When the firm Shen Metal meets its month branch, water and earth find long life in this palace... For his Earthly Fiend position, is he seeking Tuitan?"
"Supreme Chapter and Tuitan... he's aiming for the Pomegranate Wood attainment!"
Boom!
At that moment, with a loud crash, the Heaven Mending Peak Master finally broke through the Hall of Yama again. Riding the man-faced, fish-bodied Red Ru, he vanished in an instant.
But his expression was now ashen to the extreme.
"Damn it! Damn it!"
Though he aimed for Pomegranate Wood, he had always hidden it well, never revealing his hand, lest other cultivators who had chosen the same Dao Path find out.
But now, everything was exposed. From this day forward, every cultivator in the world seeking the Pomegranate Wood attainment would see him as a thorn in their side. It would be one thing if they were further along the path than him, but the most terrifying prospect was facing those at the same mid-stage of Foundation Establishment. That would make them truly irreconcilable enemies.
At this thought, killing intent surged in the Heaven Mending Peak Master's heart.
Meanwhile, Lu Yang also reappeared and sighed helplessly. "Pseudo Foundation Establishment is still a bit lacking compared to the real thing."
Besides that, the gap between Foundation Establishment cultivators also startled Lu Yang.
One must know, he was fighting at full strength against the Heaven Mending Peak Master, who had less than a tenth of his power left due to the Golden Core sword qi. It was no exaggeration to say he was kicking a man while he was down.
And yet, he still hadn't managed to kill him.
He had thought the situation was settled, but the Heaven Mending Peak Master's sudden display of the Mountain-Sitting Monarch and the Red Ru Scales had truly been an eye-opener for Lu Yang.
"But I can't just let him escape like this."
With a thought, the shattered Hall of Yama expanded once more. Its gates opened and closed, about to snatch back the Heaven Mending Peak Master who had just fled.
This was the wonder of the Hall of Yama. Within the eight hundred miles of Skull Mountain, no soul could escape its grasp. If the Heaven Mending Peak Master still had his physical body, capturing him might have been much more troublesome.
But with only his soul remaining?
It was a guaranteed catch every time!
Boom!
The sound of the gates opening and closing was like a clap of thunder rolling through the air. Seeing this, the Heaven Mending Peak Master immediately turned back, an indescribable look of humiliation on his face.
The next second, he didn't hesitate, forming a sword finger and slashing.
*Schwing—!*
A sharp, explosive sound erupted from the Heaven Mending Peak Master's soul. Then, like a flash of lightning, his soul split in two!
Lu Yang was stunned. "Is that... the Heavenly Silkworm Secret: Severing Thoughts to See the Self?"
But on second thought, it made sense. The *Heavenly Silkworm Secret: Severing Thoughts to See the Self* was a great divine ability mastered by Chen Xin'an. It was only natural that his father, the Heaven Mending Peak Master, would know it as well.
After splitting in two, one half of the Heaven Mending Peak Master's soul charged recklessly towards the Hall of Yama, using itself as a shield to block Lu Yang's pursuit. Meanwhile, his true self, riding the great man-faced fish formed from the Red Ru Scales, escaped the bounds of the eight hundred-mile Skull Mountain in just a few flickers.
"Shedding his tail to survive? Such decisiveness. As expected of a cultivator from the Saint Sect."
Lu Yang's brows furrowed slightly, but his actions were swift. He operated the Hall of Yama, suppressing the divided soul that had thrown itself into the net, and accepted it with a smile.
Immediately after, he absorbed it into the Ten Thousand Spirits Banner.
Refined in an instant!
"Pfft!"
The next second, the Heaven Mending Peak Master, who had just escaped and was about to cast a spell to recall his divided soul, suddenly spat out a mouthful of soul essence and looked back with venomous hatred.
Lu Yang, however, paid him no mind. He returned to the main seat in the Hall of Yama and formed a hand seal. The eight hundred miles of Skull Mountain's earth veins immediately channeled waves of yin qi, which poured down like nourishing rain. Wherever it passed, the scars on the Hall of Yama vanished. It would be fully repaired in a few months at most.
This was another advantage of the Hall of Yama.
Because the Pseudo Foundation Establishment was based on the earth veins of Skull Mountain, it was nourished by them, allowing its injuries to heal much faster than a normal Foundation Establishment cultivator's.
Compared to him, the Heaven Mending Peak Master was in a miserable state.
First, his physical body was destroyed. Then, after a great battle with Lu Yang, his Dao foundation was damaged and his soul was split. It would be impossible for him to recover without thirty or forty years of rest.
"The Heaven Mending Peak Master is a cultivator of the Saint Sect, after all. If I really killed him, I wouldn't get off easy. Severely injuring him and taking that finger earlier can be considered collecting some interest."
When I truly break through to Foundation Establishment, I'll settle the score with him for good!
Thinking this, Lu Yang calmed down. Leaning back against the Hall of Yama, he watched the Heaven Mending Peak Master and Daoist Grand Fortune outside Skull Mountain with a cold gaze.
However, he soon noticed that Daoist Grand Fortune's expression was off.
His expression was grave as he looked up at the sky, completely devoid of the calm composure Lu Yang had seen before. A strong hatred even emanated from between his brows.
Someone's coming?
The next second, Lu Yang saw a ball of rosy light rolling through the sky from the horizon. It illuminated the colorful clouds as it passed, revealing a valiant man clad in armor and holding a weapon.
The man wasn't handsome, but he possessed a certain air. His brows were dashing, and though he had the face of a middle-aged man, he carried the sharp spirit of a youth. A profound light shot up from the crown of his head—it was the manifestation of his Dao Path, completely unconcealed. The four great medicines within the profound light were clearly visible.
"Chongguang...!!!"
Daoist Grand Fortune gritted his teeth. This was his greatest rival in the Saint Sect, solely because the Covered Lamp Fire he sought to attain had once been his own.
The enmity of a contested Dao is irreconcilable!
What infuriated him even more was that with the passage of time, he had long since fallen from his attainment. In a real fight, he was actually no match for this junior before him.
"...Hmph!"
With a cold snort, Daoist Grand Fortune vanished on the spot, clearly unwilling to see the man. The valiant man in the sky likewise paid him no heed.
His gaze fell, first sweeping over the wretched Heaven Mending Peak Master before finally turning to Lu Yang, a satisfied smile gracing his lips.
The next second, a voice sounded in Lu Yang's ear:
"May I ask, fellow Daoist, which True Lord of my Saint Sect has returned through reincarnation?"
Lu Yang: "..."
Wait, why does everyone think I'm a disciple of the Saint Sect?
Don't I look like a good person?