Chapter 95: Let Sister Yu Suffer a Little More

Thinking and acting in one breath, Lu Yang immediately transformed into a streak of escaping light and soared into the vault of heaven.

The Myriad Souls Banner was raised high, its flag fluttering to obscure the sun and moon, as a massive shadow rapidly spread outward from Lu Yang as the center, covering the eight hundred li of Skeleton Mountain.

Especially within the Witch-Ghost Secret Realm.

One by one, the witch-ghosts were transformed by Lu Yang into banner spirits, including the eight red-robed ghosts that composed the 【Yanmo Hall】, as well as the Dharma Protector Goddess Su Nu.

"Even the color has changed."

As thousands of witch-ghosts surged into the Myriad Souls Banner, the originally pure white banner gradually turned the same color as the Dharma Protector Goddess Su Nu: black to the point of appearing purple.

In this way, as long as he carried the Myriad Souls Banner when he started over, the 【Yanmo Hall】 could be perfectly inherited, ensuring that at the very start of his next life he would have a Foundation Establishment Dharma Protector to obscure heavenly secrets; the effect should be no worse than the Innate Mixed Primordial One Qi Divine Talisman, and he wouldn't need to alarm the Senior Butian Peak Master again.

"Oh right, I almost forgot about you."

Thinking of this, Lu Yang suddenly shook the Myriad Souls Banner, then drew out from it an old Daoist priest with a numb expression, lifeless eyes, crane-white hair, and a youthful face.

The Senior Butian Peak Master!

Or rather, a fragment of the Senior Butian Peak Master's divine spirit, which he had personally severed from his own soul to escape the absorbing power of the 【Yanmo Hall】.

Immediately after, Lu Yang summoned Chen Chen Xinan.

This figure was also truly a fragment of Chen Chen Xinan's divine spirit, not his main body; upon appearing, he stared wide-eyed at the Senior Butian Peak Master's fragment, his face filled with disbelief.

"How is this possible?"

"Nothing is impossible." Lu Yang smiled faintly: "Your father and son share deep affection; I am kind-hearted by nature, so I specially invited him into the Myriad Souls Banner to reunite with you."

Speaking thus, Lu Yang suddenly thought of a very interesting question: now that both Chen Chen Xinan and the Senior Butian Peak Master's fragment had become his banner spirits, if he chose the Myriad Souls Banner after starting over, would they still exist? And if they did, would it affect the true Senior Butian Peak Master and Chen Chen Xinan?

"Interesting."

Lu Yang's mind raced, instantly generating many excellent methods of utilization; perhaps in the next life he could make the Senior Butian Peak Master carry a huge black cauldron of blame.

Of course, that was a matter for the next life.

Gathering his thoughts, Lu Yang looked at the fragments of Chen Chen Xinan and the Senior Butian Peak Master: "I intend to cultivate the 'Secret Art of Severing Thoughts to See My True Self through the Heavenly Silkworm'; you two shall guard me during cultivation."

The Secret Art of Severing Thoughts to See My True Self through the Heavenly Silkworm was a great divine ability that transformed Qi Condensation spiritual sense into Foundation Establishment spiritual sense; to cultivate it successfully, one had to sever nine fragments of divine spirit from one's own soul.

According to the description of the divine ability, they represented the nine extreme emotions troubling Lu Yang's "true self": eyes seeing joy, ears hearing anger, nose smelling love, tongue tasting thought, mind perceiving desire, body originating worry, form and color representing greed, hatred and resentment representing rage, and ignorance representing folly; these were called the "Three Poisons and Six Desires," and only when all were severed could one see the true self.

"The first: eyes seeing joy."

Lu Yang silently circulated his technique, transforming his spiritual sense into a blade, then, borrowing the calculating power of the Dharma Protector Goddess Su Nu, precisely struck the first blow against his own soul.

The next second, Lu Yang felt his soul become lighter; a ray of spiritual light was severed from him, took root upon the ground, and actually transformed into a soul shadow identical to his own appearance.

"Hahahahaha!"

As soon as this soul shadow appeared, it immediately covered its eyes with one hand, placed the other on its hip, lifted its head to the sky, and then emitted an indescribable burst of manic laughter.

Almost simultaneously, a massive wave of emotion flooded into Lu Yang's mind.

The joy of cultivation, the joy of breakthrough, the joy of dual cultivation, the joy of successful scheming... from his past life to his present, countless joys surfaced all at once!

Although Lu Yang had prepared himself, he was still struck by this intense emotional impact until his eyes turned red.

Just then, Chen Chen Xinan and the Senior Butian Peak Master, ordered to guard him, suddenly moved; the two exhaled and shouted, abruptly releasing a sound like thunder from the heavens:

"Du!"

The sound wave was like a spring of clear water pouring down, instantly smoothing out the countless manic joys that had inexplicably arisen in Lu Yang's heart, restoring his expression to calm.

"A great divine ability of the soul... indeed bizarre."

Lu Yang frowned slightly; he could feel this was merely treating the symptoms, not the root cause—the influence of the fragment had been temporarily suppressed, but would only erupt more violently later.

This was the critical hurdle in cultivating the 'Secret Art of Severing Thoughts to See My True Self through the Heavenly Silkworm': the severed fragments would continuously surge with various extreme emotions to influence the cultivator; only by relying on oneself to suppress all the emotions of these fragments, reaching the realm of "heart as clear as ice," could one be said to have mastered the divine ability.

"These emotions are too troublesome."

Lu Yang frowned tightly; since karmic ties existed between the fragments and himself, even if he suppressed them, these emotions would still surge forth endlessly...

Hmm? Karmic ties?

After a moment of silence, Lu Yang turned to look at Su Nu, who guarded beside him; if he remembered correctly, couldn't a Dharma Protector transfer karma?

Lu Yang gave it a try, and the karma suddenly changed.

The next second, Su Nu suddenly, without any warning, twitched the corners of her mouth, revealing a huge smile, yet quickly reined it in, her face showing panic:

"Master?"

"Hold it back, do not let it out!"

Lu Yang said sternly, without hesitation grafting the karmic tie of 'eyes seeing joy' onto Su Nu, making her bear the emotional impact in his stead.

"Continue!"

With no time to lose, Lu Yang quickly struck eight more blows in succession, severing the remaining eight fragments, and then grafted them all onto Su Nu as well.

In an instant, Su Nu collapsed directly onto the ground, sweating profusely; her head of black hair was soaked with sweat, sticking to her exquisite and pretty face; the noble solemnity she once possessed as a Dharma Protector Goddess was completely gone, and her formerly alluring, soul-stealing beautiful eyes now held only bewilderment and dullness.

She was just short of drooling.

Watching Su Nu, suffering the chaotic emotional impact of the fragments and revealing an expression of pain and conflict, Lu Yang suddenly felt much better.

This is what a Dharma Protector Goddess is for!

Otherwise, what use would I have for her?

"Also, the 【Corpse Liberation Immortal】 needs Su Nu to empower it with a Foundation Establishment grade to accelerate the speed of completion; well then, let us make Sister Yu suffer a bit more."

With Su Nu's help, Lu Yang believed that the 'Great Yin Form-Shedding Corpse Liberation True Method' and the 'Secret Art of Severing Thoughts to See My True Self through the Heavenly Silkworm,' which originally would each require at least several decades to cultivate, could now both be perfected within three months at most, and his chance of breaking through to Foundation Establishment could instantly reach seventy percent!

"And with the agreement of the 【Heavenly Corpse Fiend】, I can also claim that Ascension Order from Daoist Yinshan's hands."

"At that time, it will be an eighty percent chance of success."

Not low at all!

Thinking of this, Lu Yang felt a little excited; after all, he did not intend to pursue any so-called 'perfect Foundation Establishment,' so an eighty percent chance was entirely worth going all in.

Holy Sect, Cloud Sea Connecting Heaven.

The Senior Butian Peak Master quietly returned to Senior Butian Peak, first activating the mountain-protecting formation of Senior Butian Peak, then taking some earth to mold a physical shell.

However, before he could even steady his stance, a sound like silver bells came drifting over:

"Father, weren't you going to catch someone? Why have you returned empty-handed?"

"..."

Hearing this, the Senior Butian Peak Master's body stiffened; then, with a helpless expression, he turned to look at his daughter, Chen Shuqian: "Father lost his grip for a moment; I did not catch the person."

Hearing this, Chen Shuqian was stunned, then her embroidered eyebrows lifted slightly: "Father, you lost?"

"I did not lose."

After a moment of silence, the Senior Butian Peak Master said seriously: "That junior came with deception and launched a surprise attack, damaging my physical body and leaving me with less than ten percent of my usual power."

"Father, you really lost, didn't you?"

"I did not lose!"

Gritting his teeth, the Senior Butian Peak Master said: "Let that junior be complacent for a few days; do you think he will end up well? When he attempts to break through to Foundation Establishment, he will know the severity of it."

"That junior calculated ten thousand times, yet the only thing he miscalculated was coveting the so-called Third Grade True Qi."

The Senior Butian Peak Master sneered coldly: "Qian'er, you are still young and do not understand the treachery of the human heart; any opportunity in this world requires a price to be paid to obtain it."

"If the legacy left behind by Pan Long in the past was truly that good, why do you think I would leave it for others instead of keeping it for you and Xin'an to use? Moreover, when Pan Long was alive, he was merely a rogue cultivator at the Foundation Establishment realm; do you truly believe his cultivation method could be ranked Third Grade and point directly to the Great Dao of the Golden Core?"

(End of Chapter)