Chapter 69: Sage Body Attained Perfection
Chapter 69: Sage Body Attained Perfection
Within the Refinement Realm...
Lv Yang’s main body remained unscathed, seated cross-legged in meditation within his cultivation cave. Ji Xiongying’s dying curses meant nothing to him—he felt only boundless joy.
“The Sage Body Theft Cultivation Technique has succeeded!”
Lv Yang stood, lifting his gaze. Above, a river of violet qi stretched endlessly across the sky. This was the collective karma of one hundred forty million souls within this Secret Realm—the very essence of the Martial Dao. Now, Lv Yang stood bathed in it, its radiant glow making him the axis of heaven and earth itself.
At that moment, every soul within the Refinement Realm—from common mortals to Celestial beings—felt an inexplicable shift. One by one, they raised their eyes to the heavens. In the sky, a towering golden figure seemed to rise from the mortal world, its form majestic and awe-inspiring, ascending as if carried by the weight of countless destinies.
“Law enfolds him; the Sage Body is perfected!”
Lv Yang’s eyes snapped open. Once more, he felt the same transcendent Daoist resonance he’d only sensed before in supreme experts or Foundation Building cultivators. His very “altitude” was rising!
Infinite karma surged into his body, leaving not a single thread behind. Within him, this energy wove into an intricate, unfathomable ritual structure.
“Hmm?”
He suddenly looked upward.
At the same time, in the Heavenly Capital, Ji Xiongying followed Lv Yang’s Skyshatter Ascension with one of his own. Seeing this, the Yun Clan Patriarch’s face contorted with shock and rage.
“No good!”
Only now did he grasp Lv Yang’s true scheme. By fabricating the “Skyshatter Ascension” realm above the Celestial stage—with himself as proof—and now Ji Xiongying joining him, the world would believe this path viable. Countless cultivators would chase it, one after another.
The system was complete!
The Martial Dao’s Fourth Step, which he himself had pioneered, had been seamlessly integrated into Lv Yang’s framework. Rather than hindering the Sage Body Theft Cultivation Technique, it had amplified its power.
Alone, Lv Yang’s Martial Dao could barely reach the late Refining Qi stage. But with the Yun Clan Patriarch’s “guidance,” it now stretched to Refining Qi Perfection—the resulting karmic bounty was limitless!
Worse still, he could no longer dismantle the Martial Dao system. Theoretically, Martial Dao Celestials at Refining Qi Perfection were a dead end—not just for Lv Yang, but for him as well. And the Skyshatter Ascension realm? He couldn’t find a flaw if he tried.
After Skyshatter Ascension came death itself. Who could dispute its legitimacy posthumously?
To break this stalemate, he’d need to forge an entirely new method to let Martial Dao cultivators transcend to Foundation Building. But before his reincarnation, he himself had only reached early Foundation Building. How could he create such a path? Even Golden Core Junzi might struggle.
Alternatively, he could kill everyone who’d witnessed Lv Yang’s ascension. But what would that achieve? Only expose his interference.
In short, Lv Yang’s triumph was inevitable.
“Damned! Damned!”
The Yun Clan Patriarch clenched his teeth until they ached. He’d invested so much to manipulate karma, only to have his efforts turned against him. His painstaking schemes had become another’s stepping stone.
Unacceptable!
Gritting his teeth, he channeled the Ultimate Heaven Instrument to amplify his control over karma. “The Sage Body Theft Cultivation Technique has a destined calamity—one that should’ve struck me. But if I sever it and redirect it as heavenly tribulation, I can summon heaven’s power to kill him!”
“Stealing karma is defying heaven itself. Heaven’s wrath will follow!”
With a roar, he unleashed his will. Above Lv Yang’s retreat, the sky darkened, thunderclouds churning. Lightning serpents slithered through the air.
Boom!
The heavens split. A blinding bolt tore through the clouds, striking faster than thought. In an instant, it slammed into Lv Yang.
When the light faded, Lv Yang stood untouched.
The Yun Clan Patriarch stared, incredulous. That thunder could annihilate even a Refining Qi Perfection expert—but Lv Yang remained unharmed.
“Is this the Sage Body Theft’s Law?”
He recalled the Sage Body Theft Cultivation Technique’s secrets. The gap between its minor and major achievements was like night and day.
Minor achievement merely strengthened the physical form.
Major achievement forged an absolute “Law.”
In cultivation, altitude—or “status”—determined hierarchy. Higher status rendered lower beings powerless. A Foundation Building cultivator could crush a Refining Qi expert effortlessly.
The Sage Body Theft’s Law was such a status.
Now, Lv Yang stood on a different plane entirely. Any attack from a lower status couldn’t even graze him.
The Patriarch’s karma-summoned thunder had immense power, but without matching status, it was like a two-dimensional force striking a three-dimensional one—futile.
Of course, Law’s strength varied. The Primordial Sacred Sect had countless disciples, and Lv Yang wasn’t the only one to master the Sage Body Theft. Yet his Law was the strongest ever recorded.
Law’s strength depended on the system that forged it. If the system peaked at Refining Qi Mid-Stage, the Law could only ignore attacks below that. Even Refining Qi Late Stage could breach it.
But under the Patriarch’s “guidance,” Lv Yang’s Martial Dao had reached Refining Qi Perfection.
Thus, his Law rendered him untouchable to all below Foundation Building—unless an opponent wielded a supreme ability that elevated their own status.
Crackling thunder fell in relentless waves. Lv Yang stood unmoved as the surrounding formation shattered around him. The Patriarch watched, fury and helplessness clashing within him.
“...I have no choice but to let him go,” he sighed at last. “Fine. Let him leave. The sect leader’s mission is more important.”
Then—a voice, cold and distant:
“Senior, are you watching me?”
The Patriarch froze. From the karma’s perspective, Lv Yang suddenly turned his head, meeting his gaze with calm eyes.
He can see me?! No—he knows I exist!
Instinctively, the Patriarch severed his karmic link, concealing his presence with all his might.
But Lv Yang was no longer who he was before.
“Trying to flee?”
Lv Yang lowered his gaze, his pupils rippling. His Sage Body was perfected. Though not yet at Foundation Building, neither was the Patriarch. Their statuses were nearly equal.
In an instant, his soul left his body, soaring into the heavens. From above, the entire Refinement Realm sprawled beneath him.
The Patriarch’s Ultimate Heaven Instrument masked his aura flawlessly. Lv Yang couldn’t divine his location. Yet this was his domain—he didn’t need to seek. He simply had to find the one life force none had touched.
A ripple.
With a mere thought, a thousand auras flooded his mind, vanishing as he filtered them. Only one remained—a seemingly frail thread in the Heavenly Capital.
Then, the void split open.
The Patriarch, believing himself hidden, looked up in shock as a single black-robed figure stepped through a rippling tear in space.
“Found you.”
(End of Chapter)
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