Chapter 76: The Superhuman Immortal Cultivation Legend

"As expected, the prettier a woman is, the better she is at lying."

Watching Liu Xin's miserable fate in this life—poisoned by Yu Suzhen, then drained dry by her dual cultivation art—Lu Yang felt only satisfaction in his heart:

'Serves you right for harming me in my second life.'

Immediately after, Lu Yang turned his gaze toward Yu Suzhen. He did not reveal himself, but cast an illusion, swapping out the Innate Qi Myriad Spirits Banner.

As for the *Innate Dao Scripture*, Lu Yang still left a copy for Yu Suzhen—he had only deleted the section on the Myriad Spirits Banner, then added in the art of Stealing Heaven's Secrets. The result was just as he had predicted: the moment Yu Suzhen saw this dual cultivation secret art, she was almost immediately captivated.

"Stealing Heaven's Secrets only requires dual cultivation with another to seize their cultivation and destiny."

Yu Suzhen's eyes burned with fervor as she flipped through the contents of the Stealing Heaven's Secrets art, feeling that this technique was simply tailor-made for her!

Thinking of this, Yu Suzhen's ambition instantly surged.

If before she had merely harbored the aspiration to cultivate immortality and longevity, yet did not know how to achieve it, now she had found a way.

After all, for Yu Suzhen, sleeping with men was far easier than cultivating.

With her aptitude, after staying in the Hehuan Palace for so long she had only broken through to the first layer of Qi Refining—even if she spent her whole life, she was probably fated to reach only the third layer of Qi Refining.

Yet if she could master this Stealing Heaven's Secrets art, with her looks, all she had to do was cast a wide net, haul in plenty of fish, specifically target cultivators with good aptitude, build a great big fishpond, gather them to cultivate together, and her progress would surely advance by leaps and bounds! Even reaching Foundation Establishment was not impossible!

The more Yu Suzhen thought about it, the more her heart burned.

Immediately after, she used corpse-dissolving water to deal with Liu Xin one by one, as well as the young disciple's corpse, gradually cleaning up the scene.

Three months later, inside the cave abode.

"You bitch! You actually poisoned me?"

Looking at the man who was already covered in wounds and swaying on the verge of collapse, Yu Suzhen could not even be bothered to reply, only continuing to press the attack.

For a moment, the man's wretched screams echoed throughout the cave abode.

Just like that, the man's body shriveled up at a speed almost visible to the naked eye, while Yu Suzhen's complexion grew increasingly rosy.

Boom!

At a soft sound, Yu Suzhen's qi suddenly surged, violently breaking through the bottleneck of the third layer of Qi Refining and reaching mid-stage Qi Refining.

At this moment, nourished by true qi, Yu Suzhen even appeared somewhat sacred, yet her movements did not stop, lending this sacredness a few shades of depravity and carrying an extremely strong visual impact.

And Lu Yang, hidden nearby, witnessed the entire process.

In just three months, he had watched with his own eyes as Yu Suzhen climbed into the beds of disciples from all quarters, advancing from the first layer of Qi Refining to the third, and finally surpassing them one by one.

Sleeping with men could make one stronger!

Moreover, Yu Suzhen still cared greatly about her reputation, only indulging in secret affairs, while on the surface she remained aloof and proud, maintaining the persona of someone who gave no man the time of day.

The more aloof and proud Yu Suzhen was, the more people fell for it.

Thus, in just three months, Yu Suzhen had lured in quite a few lust-struck fools, then used the Stealing Heaven's Secrets art to drain them all dry.

"Looking at it this way, in the first life if my venereal disease death message hadn't killed her, she could have killed Liu Xin, and even without the Stealing Heaven's Secrets art, she could still have obtained the Innate Dao Scripture and the Myriad Spirits Banner, and might still have taken off. The workings of human destiny and cause-and-effect truly are wondrous."

"Regardless, this bait has been cast."

Without a doubt, Yu Suzhen had potential.

Ruthless enough, vicious enough, and utterly shameless—willing to do anything so long as it benefited her, she was simply a born disciple of the Holy Sect.

She only lacked an opportunity.

And now, Lu Yang had given her that opportunity, allowing her to grow rapidly. More importantly, this way she would eventually cross paths with Xiao Shiye.

Lu Yang wanted to see whether she had a chance to climb into Xiao Shiye's bed.

If she really could dual cultivate with Xiao Shiye, then he would make a killing, because in the future Xiao Shiye would hook the colorful Merit Fish from the Merit Pool!

If he could use Yu Suzhen's hand to turn Xiao Shiye into a furnace for Stealing Heaven's Secrets, then when Xiao Shiye hooked the colorful Merit Fish and consumed and refined it, he could suddenly act, thereby swapping the peach for the plum—using Yu Suzhen as a relay station to steal all of the colorful Merit Fish's cultivation and destiny!

Daoist Daoist Hong Yun used Xiao Shiye as bait to fish for the Merit Fish.

He, on the other hand, used Yu Suzhen as bait to pull off a donkey theft!

This plan could be called snatching food from the tiger's mouth. One could imagine that if it truly succeeded, it would surely provoke the wrath of True Person Daoist Hong Yun, who would spare no cost to investigate.

"So I need to hide far away."

Taking the Myriad Spirits Banner with him, Lu Yang observed Yu Suzhen for a few more days. After confirming there were no problems, he quietly left the Holy Sect and sped toward the mortal world.

Staying in the Holy Sect brought a hundred disadvantages and not a single benefit.

After all, on the surface he was already dead now. Staying in the Holy Sect would only mean hiding in the shadows, silently waiting for the 'death and rebirth' and Yu Suzhen's cultivation.

That would be too much of a waste of time.

"Yu Suzhen is the most important scheme of this life for me, but not the only one. After all, even if I master Stealing Heaven's Secrets and the Grand Yin Transformation Corpse-Releasing True Art, plus the Sage Theft and Zheng San Pin True Qi, I only have a forty percent chance of breaking through to Foundation Establishment. I must find ways from elsewhere."

"And staying far away has its benefits too."

"After all, once Yu Suzhen's matter succeeds and the Foundation Establishment True Person flies into a rage, tracing cause-and-effect, hiding in the Holy Sect would be no different from seeking death."

"But if I'm far beyond the horizon, no matter how angry the Foundation Establishment True Person gets, finding me will still take time."

"That time difference is enough for me to charge at Foundation Establishment."

Lu Yang would not pin his hopes on 'possibly not being discovered.' After all, the Cloud Family Ancestor of his previous life had managed to divine him with a single Heaven-Investigating Instrument.

He would only plan for the worst-case scenario.

As for Yu Suzhen, Lu Yang only needed to occasionally deduce cause-and-effect and observe, ensuring her actions did not slip from his control.

After leaving the Holy Sect, Lu Yang instantly felt the sky was wide enough for birds to fly and the seas broad enough for fish to leap.

"My corpse is hidden inside the Myriad Spirits Banner. This wondrous treasure contains a world of its own, and only it can contain my corpse mid-transformation, allowing me to carry it with me."

Besides that, the Myriad Spirits Banner held another opportunity that stirred his heart.

Lu Yang formed hand seals, unfurled the banner, and instantly black smoke billowed out. Immediately after, a handsome young man in a black robe stepped down from the banner.

Holy Sect true disciple, Chen Xinan.

In the previous life, to verify the effect of the 'Innate Primordial Qi Divine Talisman' in obscuring heavenly secrets, and because his cultivation was too low at the time, he felt unable to control the man, so he had not kept him. But now things were different. Having mastered the Sage Theft and now bearing a station, Lu Yang was fully confident.

"Where is this?"

Having just emerged from the Myriad Spirit Banner, Chen Xinan still seemed not to have collected himself; instinctively searching for Liu Xin's figure, he then furrowed his brow.

"Liu Xin is dead?"

Chen Xinan thought for a moment, then his brow smoothed out, and he turned to look at Lu Yang: "Which sect's disciple are you? Was it you who killed Liu Xin?"

"That's right." Lu Yang nodded, his expression unruffled.

Unlike the previous life, where Chen Xinan had only needed one glance to know he was a disciple of the Holy Sect, in this life he showed no reaction at all.

Lu Yang understood clearly in his heart — it was because in this life he had not lit the Life-Burning Lamp at the Initial Holy Sect, but had instead bluffed his way through with an illusion technique; coupled with the fact that the art he now primarily cultivated was the "Nine Transformations Dragon Resolution," not the secret transmitted art of the Initial Holy Sect, it had caused Chen Xinan to misjudge him for the moment.

(End of chapter)