Chapter 95
Chapter 95
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 95
Chapter Title: Let Senior Sister Yu Suffer a Bit More
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Acting on the thought, Lu Yang immediately transformed into a streak of light and flew into the sky.
The Myriad Spirits Banner rose high, its pennant fluttering, obscuring the sun. A vast shadow centered on Lu Yang rapidly spread across the eight hundred miles of Skull Mountain.
This was especially true for the Shaman Ghost Secret Realm.
One by one, the shaman ghosts were converted into banner spirits by Lu Yang, including the eight red-robed ghosts that formed the Yama Hall, as well as the Guardian Deity, Su Nü.
"Even the color has changed."
As thousands of shaman ghosts poured into the Myriad Spirits Banner, its originally pure white color gradually turned the same as the Guardian Deity, Su Nü—a deep, purplish black.
This way, as long as he restarted with the Myriad Spirits Banner, the Yama Hall could also be perfectly inherited, ensuring he would have a Foundation Establishment Guardian Deity to conceal heavenly secrets right from the start of his next life. The effect would likely be no worse than the Innate Primordial Primal Qi Divine Talisman, and he wouldn't startle the Heaven Mending Peak Master again.
"Oh, right. I almost forgot about you."
Thinking of this, Lu Yang suddenly shook the Myriad Spirits Banner and pulled out an old Daoist with a numb expression, vacant eyes, white hair, and a youthful face.
The Heaven Mending Peak Master!
To be precise, it was a sliver of the Heaven Mending Peak Master's divine sense, which he had personally severed from his soul to escape the suction force of the Yama Hall.
Immediately after, Lu Yang summoned Chen Xin'an.
This was also just a sliver of the real Chen Xin'an's divine sense, not his main body. After appearing, he and the Peak Master's divine sense stared at each other, their faces filled with disbelief.
"How is this possible..."
"Nothing is impossible." Lu Yang smiled faintly. "Your father-son bond is so deep. I'm a kind person, so I specially invited him into the Myriad Spirits Banner to reunite with you."
At this point, Lu Yang suddenly thought of a very interesting question. Both Chen Xin'an and the Peak Master's divine senses had now become his banner spirits. If he chose the Myriad Spirits Banner after restarting, would they still be there? And if they were, would it affect the real Heaven Mending Peak Master and Chen Xin'an?
"Interesting."
Lu Yang's mind raced, instantly coming up with many good ways to use this. In his next life, he might be able to make the Heaven Mending Peak Master take the fall for something significant...
Of course, that was a matter for the next life.
Pulling his thoughts back, Lu Yang looked at the divine senses of Chen Xin'an and the Heaven Mending Peak Master. "I plan to cultivate the *Heavenly Silkworm Secret: Severing Thoughts to See the Self*. You two will act as my guardians."
The *Heavenly Silkworm Secret: Severing Thoughts to See the Self* was a great divine ability that transformed one's Qi Refining spiritual sense into a Foundation Establishment divine sense. To master it, one needed to sever nine slivers of divine sense from their own soul.
According to the divine ability's description, they represented the nine extreme emotions that troubled Lu Yang's 'true self': joy from sight, anger from hearing, love from smell, longing from taste, desire from thought, sorrow from the body, greed from form and color, hatred and rage, and ignorant delusion. These were known as "the Three Poisons and Six Desires," and only by severing them all could one see their true self.
"The first one: joy from sight."
Lu Yang silently circulated the art, his spiritual sense becoming a blade. Then, with the help of the Guardian Deity Su Nü's calculation abilities, he precisely made the first cut on his own soul.
The next second, Lu Yang felt his soul lighten. A sliver of spiritual light was severed from him, taking root on the ground and transforming into a soul shadow with a face identical to his.
"Hahahahahaha!"
As soon as this soul shadow appeared, it immediately covered its eyes with one hand, placed the other on its hip, and looked up at the sky, letting out an indescribable, wild laugh.
Almost simultaneously, a torrent of emotions flooded Lu Yang's mind.
The joy of cultivation, the joy of breakthroughs, the joy of dual cultivation, the joy of successful schemes... Countless feelings of joy from his past and present lives all surfaced at once!
Although Lu Yang was prepared, the intense emotional impact still made his eyes turn red.
Just then, Chen Xin'an and the Heaven Mending Peak Master, who had been ordered to stand guard, suddenly moved. They opened their mouths and let out a thunderous heavenly sound:
"Halt!"
The sound wave was like a clear spring, pouring down and instantly soothing the countless wild joys that had inexplicably risen in Lu Yang's heart, allowing his expression to return to calm.
"A grand divine ability of the soul... it truly is treacherous."
Lu Yang frowned slightly. He could feel that this was only a temporary fix. The influence of the divided soul had been suppressed for now, but it would only erupt more fiercely later.
This was the difficulty of cultivating the *Heavenly Silkworm Secret: Severing Thoughts to See the Self*. The severed divine senses would constantly generate all sorts of extreme emotions to influence the cultivator. Only by personally suppressing the emotions of all these divine senses and achieving a state where one's 'heart was as clear as ice' could the divine ability be considered mastered.
"These emotions are too troublesome." Lu Yang's brow was tightly furrowed. The divided soul had a causal link with him, so even if he suppressed it, these emotions would continue to flow in endlessly...
Hm? A causal link?
After a moment of silence, Lu Yang turned to look at Su Nü, who was guarding him. If he remembered correctly, couldn't a Guardian Deity transfer karma?
Lu Yang gave it a try, and the causal link abruptly shifted.
The next second, Su Nü's lips suddenly twitched into a wide smile without any warning, but she quickly suppressed it, a look of alarm on her face:
"Master?"
"Endure it! Don't let it show!"
Lu Yang said sternly, unhesitatingly grafting the causal link of 'joy from sight' onto Su Nü, letting her bear the emotional impact for him.
"Continue!"
There was no time to lose. Lu Yang quickly made eight more cuts, severing the remaining eight divine senses, and then grafted all of them onto Su Nü as well.
In an instant, Su Nü collapsed to the ground, drenched in sweat. Her long, dark hair, soaked through, stuck to her delicate, pretty face. The noble solemnity she once possessed as a Guardian Deity was gone, and her once captivating, soul-snatching eyes were now just blank and dazed.
She was just short of drooling.
And watching Su Nü's pained and conflicted expression as she suffered from the chaotic emotional assault of the divided souls, Lu Yang suddenly felt much better.
This is what Guardian Deities are for!
Otherwise, what use do I have for her?
"Also, for the 'Corpse-Liberated Immortal,' I need Su Nü to use her Foundation Establishment status to provide a blessing and speed up its mastery... Very well, I'll just have to let Senior Sister Yu suffer a bit more."
With Su Nü's help, Lu Yang believed that the *True Method of Corpse-Shedding under the Lunar Yin* and the *Heavenly Silkworm Secret: Severing Thoughts to See the Self*, which would have originally taken at least several decades each to master, could now be perfected in at most three months. His chances of breaking through to Foundation Establishment would also increase to seventy percent at once!
"And with the agreement regarding the Heavenly Corpse Baleful Qi, I can also get that Ascension Token from Perfected Being Yin Shan."
"By then, I'll have an eighty percent chance of success."
That's not low at all!
Thinking of this, Lu Yang felt a little excited. After all, he wasn't pursuing some 'Perfect Foundation Establishment.' An eighty percent chance of success was more than enough to go all in.
Primal Saint Sect, Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea.
The Heaven Mending Peak Master silently returned to Heaven Mending Peak. He first activated the peak's protective grand array before taking some clay to fashion a new body.
However, before he could even stand steady, a voice like silver bells rang out:
"Father, didn't you go to capture someone? How did you come back empty-handed?"
"..."
Hearing this, the Heaven Mending Peak Master's body stiffened. He then turned to his daughter, Chen Shuqian, with a helpless expression. "I was careless, Father failed to catch him."
Chen Shuqian was taken aback, then raised a delicate eyebrow. "You lost, Father?"
"I didn't lose."
The Heaven Mending Peak Master fell silent for a moment before saying seriously, "That junior used deceit and a sneak attack to destroy my physical body, leaving me with less than ten percent of my usual power."
"So you really did lose, Father?"
"I didn't lose!"
The Heaven Mending Peak Master gritted his teeth. "Let that junior be smug for a few days. Do you think he'll end up well? He'll learn his lesson when he tries to break through to Foundation Establishment."
"That junior calculated everything, but the one thing he miscalculated was his greed for the so-called third-grade True Qi."
The Heaven Mending Peak Master sneered. "Shuqian, you're still young. You don't understand the treachery of the human heart. Every opportunity in this world comes with a price."
"If the legacy left by Panlong back then was really so great, why do you think I would leave it for others instead of for you and Xin'an? Besides, Panlong was merely a rogue Foundation Establishment cultivator when he was alive. Do you really think his cultivation method can be ranked as third-grade and lead directly to the Golden Core Great Dao?"