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Chapter 71: You Can Achieve Great Things!
Chapter 71: You Can Achieve Great Things!
The moment Lv Yang reported to True Man Yinshan, the Yun Clan Patriarch within the Secret Realm suddenly felt a chill race down his spine, as if catastrophe loomed.
"Is it your clone?"
The Yun Clan Patriarch calculated the odds with a flick of his fingers, instantly grasping the situation. Despair clouded his face: "So the calamity is finally here."
This reincarnation of his hinged entirely on secrecy.
Only by relying on the Sword Pavilion’s sect leader to obscure his fate had he managed to evade detection. But now that he’d been exposed, even the sect leader couldn’t save him. In other words, his last-ditch gamble had failed utterly. The mission was unfulfilled, his path back to Foundation Building realm obliterated. Worse, the Yun Clan’s standing within the Sword Pavilion would collapse, their status as an elite Foundation Building immortal family crumbling into ruin—and perhaps even annihilation.
"No! There’s still a chance!"
The Yun Clan Patriarch glared at Lv Yang, murder blazing in his eyes. His hatred for Lv Yang was bottomless, an abyss deeper than the oceans.
The next moment, his expression hardened.
With a thought, the Supreme Taiyi Golden Radiance swirling around him recoiled like a tidal wave, converging into his fingertip to form a razor-sharp Sword Qi.
This was a divine ability called World-Sharing Fate Severance.
Though the Sword Qi appeared unremarkable, it could lock onto an enemy’s karmic thread. Once unleashed, the blade would persist until its target’s karma dissolved.
In ancient times, the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion’s Golden Core Junzi had used this very technique to exterminate the entire Witch-Ghost Sect, leaving not a single soul alive. Even the sect’s hidden realm inheritance had been erased, its karma severed—yet the Sword Qi persisted for a thousand years.
But this move was no ordinary cultivation technique.
Involving karma itself, it required a Foundation Building cultivator to wield. Though the Yun Clan Patriarch had fallen from that realm, he now gambled everything, sacrificing his life to unleash it.
In other words, he sought mutual destruction.
"With the Ultimate Heaven Instrument obscuring my fate, I’ll slay this fiend and reincarnate. There’s still a sliver of hope!"
Though this was already his second reincarnation, failing to regain Foundation Building status forced him into a third—a desperate move that would ravage his cultivation. Even if he escaped, he’d face prenatal amnesia, doomed to live as a mortal, forever severed from transcendence.
"But first… I’ll kill you!"
The Yun Clan Patriarch fixed Lv Yang with a piercing stare before activating his ability. His essence, energy, and spirit exploded outward, merging into the blade of Sword Qi.
"Strike!"
A thunderous roar as the Sword Qi screamed toward Lv Yang. Instantly, a suffocating sense of peril engulfed him.
"Trying to gamble your life on me?"
Lv Yang’s mind shifted. His form dissolved into the Holy Sage Form behind him, which extended two colossal hands to seize the Sword Qi.
The clash was brutal. The Holy Sage Form’s hands were shredded to the bone, yet it tore a chunk from the Sword Qi. But as Lv Yang’s karma endured, the blade regenerated, mending itself in an instant.
The Holy Sage Form mirrored this cycle—though merely a manifestation of Lv Yang’s qi, it replenished itself with his relentless cultivation.
The duel stagnated.
Seeing this, the Yun Clan Patriarch sighed, unattached. His physical body was gone; only his soul remained.
With the Holy Sect’s elders yet to arrive, reincarnation was his best hope.
Suddenly, a cold dread gripped him. He turned, only to see Lv Yang smirking.
"Senior, why rush off?"
The next moment, Lv Yang held a clump of his qi, sketching a glowing circle that reflected his image.
"Not good!"
The Yun Clan Patriarch’s pupils contracted. Shock and fury warred within him: "The Dark Yin Soul Grasp Supreme Art… How did he capture my qi!?"
This art allowed long-range assassination once an opponent’s qi was captured. The Yun Clan Patriarch had anticipated Lv Yang’s mastery of it, shielding his presence meticulously. Yet now, his qi had been seized—impossible!
In his current soul-state, a strike would shatter his soul utterly, obliterating any chance of reincarnation.
"Heavenly mandate, aid me!"
He halted his reincarnation, channeling the Ultimate Heaven Instrument to block the incoming arts.
"Too late!"
Lv Yang swept his hand, severing the Yun Clan Patriarch’s reflection in the circle. The soul braced itself for impact…
…But nothing came.
The Yun Clan Patriarch blinked, stunned. The expected curse strike was absent, as if fake.
"Wrong—it’s a distraction!"
Realization struck. He hastily conjured a black portal, his soul surging toward it—
But the moment he moved, a vast qi presence erupted into the Refinement Realm!
"Seal the heavens!"
A thunderous voice resonated across realms. The golden decree shattered the black portal instantly.
"No—!"
The portal—the gateway to reincarnation—vanished. The Yun Clan Patriarch screamed, his soul trembling violently as he glared at Lv Yang: "You dare deceive me!?"
"And what will you do about it?"
Lv Yang smiled faintly. Outside the Secret Realm, another colossal hand descended, plucking the lingering Sword Qi and crushing it effortlessly.
Even the mightiest arts crumble before higher realms.
"This is the power of Foundation Building…"
Lv Yang marveled. Despite witnessing it countless times, the crushing dominance of Foundation Building cultivators over Qi Refiners never ceased to awe him.
True Man Yinshan materialized beside him.
"Well done", he commended, turning to the Yun Clan Patriarch’s soul with a smirk: "So it’s you, Yun Qingchuan."
"Yinshan…"
The soul’s eyes darted, but before he could speak, True Man Yinshan’s palm struck.
Boom!
The next instant, the Yun Clan Patriarch’s consciousness was erased, leaving only a blank soul grasped in True Man Yinshan’s hand.
Falling from Foundation Building had weakened him; though his soul retained traces of power, it paled before a true Foundation Building cultivator. Since the Skull Mountain incident, True Man Yinshan’s cultivation had advanced to mid-Stage Foundation Building—a gap no longer bridged.
Vibrating!
The Ultimate Heaven Instrument, now masterless, was swiftly seized by True Man Yinshan, who examined it with interest.
"What a treasure… Truly extraordinary."
The artifact had concealed the Yun Clan Patriarch’s fate, enabling his secret reincarnation. Its quality was unmatched, even stirring True Man Yinshan’s desire.
Yet this involved the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion and a Foundation Building soul. By sect law, he should report it to the sect leader. But disclosure meant relinquishing the treasure, exposing it to rivals’ covetous eyes—a prize he might not retain with his current status.
Suddenly, Lv Yang stepped forward, bowing:
"Senior Brother, I humbly ask a favor… May I borrow this righteous Foundation Building soul for ten years? I vow to return it intact."
"You want this old fiend’s soul?"
True Man Yinshan arched a brow, shaking his head: "Bold indeed. But with the Sword Pavilion involved, reporting it means the soul and treasure vanish. However…"
He paused, a sly grin spreading: "Many matters weigh lighter off the scale."
"If you help me conceal this, no report means no pursuit… Both soul and treasure stay."
Lv Yang hesitated, feigning confusion: "Conceal what matter?"
"Good! Truly my Holy Sect disciple—you can achieve great things!"
Their eyes met, understanding unspoken.
True Man Yinshan tossed the soul into Lv Yang’s hands, pocketed the Ultimate Heaven Instrument, and vanished into the horizon.
(End of Chapter)
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