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Chapter 103: Switching the Pillars
Chapter 103: Switching the Pillars
Lv Yang felt completely at ease regarding Zhao Xuhe.
"Senior Brother Zhao has accumulated three lifetimes of karmic merit. His fortune is immense. Even before I assisted him, he nearly broke through to Foundation Building cultivation. With my help, success should be even more certain."
It was only a matter of time.
Lv Yang turned away and returned to his cultivation cave, summoning the guardian deity Su Nu before resuming his practice of the Corpse Liberation Art and the Heaven-Spanning Silkworm Secret under the Foundation Building status rank.
Ten days passed, and one moonless, stormy night arrived.
"Disciple Lv, are you home?"
Liu Xin had come knocking.
Lv Yang opened the cave entrance with a grin. "Right on time, Senior Brother. I've been waiting for you. Must be tiring to come all this way in the dead of night."
Liu Xin blinked. "Wait—what exactly are you expecting me to deliver?"
Lv Yang's smile faded as he acted on instinct honed from past lives. Before Liu Xin finished speaking, a massive palm of true qi erupted from his hand.
Liu Xin, who had been preparing to refine this new disciple to break through to the late stage of Refining Qi cultivation, hadn't even registered what happened before being crushed into ashes. The only thing remaining was his Ten-Thousand Spirit Banner clattering to the ground.
Lv Yang sighed at the sight.
By now, Liu Xin—the disciple who once tormented him in life after life—had become a reliable source of spiritual energy, a "supplier" he revisited in every reincarnation.
The Primordial Hunyuan Talisman was simply too convenient to use.
"Speaking of obscuring karmic causality... I almost forgot. The Yun Clan Patriarch, that reincarnated Foundation Building cultivator, still possesses an even more powerful heavenly instrument for concealing fate. Last life I left too early to claim it, but this time will be different."
This time, Lv Yang planned to retrace his previous path of cultivation within the Holy Sect, carefully crafting a reputation as a disciple with "pure roots and dark potential."
"The Yun Clan Patriarch's journey to the Refinement Realm isn't just about me—he's likely after the Secret Realm's treasures. That heavenly instrument of his can even deceive Golden Core Sovereigns. If I ambush him first and claim the treasure, it'll greatly benefit my future cultivation."
He hadn't forgotten how the Yun Clan Patriarch had schemed against him in the Secret Realm. Had it not been for his superior skill, he might have perished there, his cultivation undone. This grudge had to be settled—his very spiritual resolve depended on it.
Mentally circling the Yun Clan Patriarch as a key target for this life, Lv Yang returned to his meditation cushion inside the cave.
Before him lay Liu Xin's Ten-Thousand Spirit Banner, pure white in color—starkly different from Lv Yang's own banner, which was blackened to the point of purple in his dantian.
With a flick of his spiritual power, Liu Xin's banner trembled. Chen Xin'an emerged from it, glancing around in confusion before locking eyes with Lv Yang.
Lv Yang activated his own banner next. Another Chen Xin'an stepped out, facing his counterpart in mutual shock.
"Who are you?!"
"You're... me?!"
The two spoke simultaneously—Chen Xin'an's original body in genuine disbelief, the banner-formed clone mimicking him.
Since this clone was meant for infiltration, Lv Yang reinforced it with additional restrictions, ensuring its loyalty just as he had with Su Nu. A single thought from him could reduce it to ashes.
"Begin."
The banner-clone obeyed instantly, piercing the original Chen Xin'an's soul with a finger. The real Chen Xin'an died bewildered, his final thoughts a swirl of questions: Who killed me? What have I become?
As his soul scattered, his karmic causality transferred to the clone, adding a spark of vitality to its expression.
"From today, you are Chen Xin'an."
Nodding at the obedient clone, Lv Yang embedded the Primordial Hunyuan Talisman within it. The talisman contained a fragment of his divine consciousness, undetectable by Foundation Building cultivators thanks to the talisman's concealment. This allowed him to monitor the Heaven-Mending Peak Master through the clone, even taking control when necessary.
After sending the clone away, Lv Yang destroyed the second banner, merging it into his own to expand the inner realm of his Ten-Thousand Spirit Banner.
Atop the Heaven-Mending Peak, the Heaven-Mending Peak Master sat in a tea pavilion, brooding. The Panlong Heritage he'd coveted had slipped away.
"Pity. Though the inheritance relates to Jiangxi's secrets, I created the Six Realms Nirvana Phoenix Cultivation specifically for Qian'er to master it perfectly. Now the technique is lost, and she's missed a great opportunity. Who knows when she'll break through to Foundation Building?"
His thoughts darkened.
"If only my son were still alive..."
Chen Xin'an, his beloved disciple and son, had nearly perfected the Supreme Divine Ability at a young age. With a few more steps to completion, he would have reached Refining Qi perfection, cultivated the Three Grades of Nourishing Heaven Qi, and mastered the Supreme Divine Ability. With a Foundation Building Marvel artifact, he'd have had a 30% chance at Foundation Building breakthrough—even higher if he'd waited for the upcoming righteous-evil war in sixty years.
"My son Xin'an had the potential for Foundation Building!"
But fate had been cruel. A treasure-hunting expedition erased all traces of him. No matter how he calculated the karmic threads, he could only sense his son's soul still lingering on the edge of existence.
Suddenly, a ripple in karmic causality caught his attention. His divine consciousness surged through the Karmic Net—only to freeze.
"Xin'an's karmic thread?!"
His divine power surged as he traced the thread to a cultivation cave on Heaven-Mending Peak. Inside, a faint soul hovered on the brink of dissipation, its final words a fading whisper:
"Father... forgive me..."
The Heaven-Mending Peak Master tore through space, his immense power stabilizing the disintegrating soul. A spectral image of a mermaid materialized behind him—the Scarlet Nüwa Scales, a Terrestrial Omen linked to the Golden Serpent. Though Gui Water represented death for the Golden Serpent, its hidden celestial metal essence allowed rebirth from destruction.
This was why, even if Chen Xin'an's soul had shattered, the Heaven-Mending Peak Master believed he could revive him. With his Foundation Building mid-stage cultivation, resurrecting a mere Refining Qi soul was trivial.
(End of Chapter)
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