Chapter 149: He Shall Surely Be a Pillar of the Saint Sect!

Northern Frontier, Divine Martial Gate.

Lu Yang strolled leisurely among the pavilions and towers, even taking the time to admire the surrounding scenery, as if he were merely a young scholar out for a spring outing.

Yet above his head, at some unknown moment, rolling clouds had already covered the entire Divine Martial Gate; strangely, the cultivators within the gate noticed nothing at all, still cultivating, battling with spells, and conversing, as if those clouds were mere illusions to their eyes and did not truly exist.

Within the clouds, thousands of electric snakes writhed.

From start to finish, this strange phenomenon killed not a single disciple of the Divine Martial Gate; it merely brushed past them, taking away some intangible things.

— Merit, fate.

Every disciple of the Divine Martial Gate touched by the clouds, even though they noticed nothing, found their bodies inexplicably much heavier, as if an extra thousand-pound burden had been added.

Immediately after, Lu Yang raised his head to look at the sky.

The 【Sky-Seeking Instrument】 in his brow glowed, allowing him to see clearly; at this very moment, he did not know how many gazes were fixed upon this land of the Divine Martial Gate!

He saw the approving gaze of True Person Chongguang.

He saw the Luo Han of the Pure Land shaking his head and sighing.

Of course, none of these people had come in person; they were calculating cause and effect, relying on the omnipresent great net of causality in heaven and earth to see from afar.

Under their gaze, Lu Yang smiled easily.

The next second, the clouds condensed, like the tide rising and falling, finally all flowing into Lu Yang's palm, transforming into a fruit woven from merit and fortune.

"Chomp!"

Lu Yang placed the fruit in his mouth, swallowing the flesh in large bites; with crimson lips and white teeth, he feasted heartily, eating up every last bit of the merit and fortune accumulated by the Divine Martial Gate over many years.

While gnawing, Lu Yang did not forget to go to the treasury of the Divine Martial Gate, casually open it, then grab storage bags and swallow them whole, storing them away; among them were not lacking spiritual treasures, techniques, and even various pills, sweeping clean all the treasures of the Divine Martial Gate.

Such a drastic change in fortune naturally alerted the two True Persons of the Divine Martial Gate.

"The sect... the sect has been stolen!"

True Person Huanwu almost immediately took out a magic mirror, projecting the scene inside the sect; seeing Lu Yang's leisurely figure, his eyes nearly burst from their sockets:

"It's Lu Yang! He's not at Skeleton Mountain, he's at the Divine Martial Gate!?"

In an instant, whether True Person Huanwu or True Person Xuanwu, both felt their hearts turn icy, all their boiling blood turning into bone-chilling, unspeakable cold.

It's over! All is lost!

Hearing this, Luo Han Luo Han Fu Long suddenly turned his head, then immediately activated his divine technique, sparing no cost to unleash his innate divine technique, wanting to return to the Divine Martial Gate immediately.

Soon, the familiar resistance struck.

Clearly, this was Lu Yang using 【Binding of Intimacy and Distance】 to block him; however, this time Luo Han Luo Han Fu Long was prepared, and vast magic power instantly surged forth.

"You cannot stop me!"

Luo Han Luo Han Fu Long transmitted his voice with full killing intent; after all, he was mid-stage Foundation Establishment, while Lu Yang was only early-stage Foundation Establishment; what could he use to fight him in magic power?

Then he heard a light laugh:

"Thank you, Daoist friend, for the send-off; I take my leave here."

The next second, Luo Han Luo Han Fu Long pierced the void, taking a single step to arrive at the Divine Martial Gate, only to see Lu Yang departing gracefully, with the lingering splendor of the divine technique remaining in place.

Departing gracefully, free and at ease.

Luo Han Luo Han Fu Long saw clearly; the place the other had fled to was none other than the Saint Sect's Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea; the causality of the eight-hundred-li Skeleton Mountain had not tainted it at all!

"Unbelievable... Unbelievable!!!"

Luo Han Luo Han Fu Long was so angry his Golden Body nearly exploded; he almost lost his reason and chased into the Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea, but the final kick brought him back to his senses.

After all, if he truly dared to kill into the Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea, it would be seeking his own death; even the Bodhisattvas of the Pure Land would not save him, let alone kill Lu Yang.

"Luring the tiger from the mountain... What a clever luring of the tiger from the mountain!"

Only at this moment did Luo Han Luo Han Fu Long truly understand Lu Yang's scheme: from start to finish, Lu Yang probably never intended to battle him head-on!

Using Zhao Xuhe to lure him away, then detonating the earth veins, using heavenly punishment to severely damage his merit and fortune; he took this opportunity to raid the Divine Martial Gate, swallowing all the benefits alone, then departing gracefully. Even after suffering such a great loss, Luo Han Luo Han Fu Long had to admit Lu Yang's prowess.

Truly shameless, a veritable old turtle.

This was something Luo Han Luo Han Fu Long had never expected; after all, before today, looking over Lu Yang's experiences, who would dare say he was not a heaven-sent prodigy?

Such a genius should have been brave and advancing vigorously.

In fact, on the Battlefield of Seizing the Dao, Lu Yang had shown exactly this; slaughtering Qi Refining cultivators, full of spirit, moving through ten thousand armies as if through an empty land.

But now, looking back, it was all fake!

This beast was clearly brave and advancing vigorously only against lower-realm cultivators; against those of the same realm, or even higher realms, he was as cautious as walking on thin ice, extremely prudent.

"A miscalculation!"

Luo Han Luo Han Fu Long sighed to the heavens, yet was unwilling to accept it; although Lu Yang's scheme was indeed clever, ultimately there was still one problem:

This move could not kill him.

Thinking of this, Luo Han Luo Han Fu Long could not figure it out: "I have now been severely damaged by heavenly punishment in my fortune; even an early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator could kill me."

"With such a perfect opportunity, why did he not act?"

If Lu Yang had truly chosen to fight him to the death, Luo Han Luo Han Fu Long would have simply fought desperately; however, now, he felt his strength was unable to be unleashed.

"What exactly does he want to do?"

First Saint Sect, Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea.

Lu Yang used 【Binding of Intimacy and Distance】 to return in one step to Luofeng Mountain, already putting the affairs of the Northern Frontier behind him, because he had perfectly achieved his set goal.

Plundering the merit and fortune of the Divine Martial Gate.

As for True Person Huanwu and True Person Xuanwu, one was near death, the other limited in power, and both had had their merit stripped; they were not worth mentioning to the Saint Sect.

Besides, there were still people like Yu Feng and others; Lu Yang believed they could handle it.

Returning to Luofeng Mountain, Lu Yang counted his spoils while making up his mind: "For the next fifty years, I will stay within the Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea and not go out."

As for Luo Han Luo Han Fu Long?

"Joking? Why would I fight to the death with a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator? The realm gap is right there; if an accident happens, wouldn't I lose big?"

He only needed to wait patiently.

Because he was still young; breaking through to Foundation Establishment before eighty, he was now only a little over a hundred, with nearly two hundred years left to enjoy slowly.

"Compared to me, Luo Han Fu Long Luo Han in this life has at most thirty or forty years of lifespan. With his merit and fortune exhausted, after dying in this life he can only be reborn as a pig or a dog, impossible to return to the Foundation Establishment realm. So I only need to wait patiently for thirty or forty years, and naturally I can rest easy!"

From the very beginning, Lu Yang had seen it clearly.

Compared to Luo Han Fu Long Luo Han, his cultivation held no advantage, his spiritual treasures were not necessarily more numerous than the other's, and his experience was far inferior; his only advantage was that he was young!

Time was his greatest capital!

Therefore, all his plans were based on this.

Use the move of self-detonating the earth veins to destroy Luo Han Fu Long Luo Han's chance of rebirth, then outlast the old man! Outlast him until he dies of old age, then go dance on his grave.

Dueling in magic power? Fighting to the death?

Too small! The scope was too small!

"Dueling magic power, dueling divine powers, in the end none compare to dueling lifespan!"

Thinking this, Lu Yang was utterly composed: "Luo Han Fu Long Luo Han... Hmph! Wait until you die of old age, then I will go and fight a life-or-death battle with your reborn self!"

At the same time, inside the Holy Fire Cliff.

Master Chongguang, the True Person, withdrew his gaze from the Great Web of Cause and Effect, glanced toward the direction of Luofeng Mountain, his expression strange yet filled with emotion, and finally could not help but exclaim:

"This youth will surely become a pillar of our Holy Sect in the days to come!"

(End of this chapter)