Chapter 113: This Young Master is Favored by Qi Luck

According to the common sense learned in class, an immortal tool recognizing a master was nothing more than a few conditions: Qi Luck, realm, bloodline bond, karma, and cultivation technique compatibility. Wei Yuan knew that apart from Qi Luck, he probably didn't meet any of them, and he was still far from meeting them. With Azure Void's status, probably even a Dharma Form True Person couldn't hold it, and only an Tinghai Xianjun could try one or two. To be stable, it had to be an Tinghai Xianjun.

After activating Azure Void, Wei Yuan knew the difficulty of Azure Void recognizing a master, and couldn't help but feel even more disdain for Yun Xihe.

That guy probably didn't know that there was such a thing as recognizing a master, so he conscientiously served as a flesh god for more than fifty years, until his Primordial Spirit was finally dissolved by incense wishes.

In fact, even if he eroded the Tinghai Xianjun's divine sense, Yun Xihe definitely had no way to make Azure Void recognize him as master. Moreover, the reason the immortal left a wisp of divine sense was originally to teach the activation formation and find a destined person for Azure Void. It was just that an accident occurred when he fell, and the divine sense also inherited the pain and madness before he died, turning from inheritance into a killing game. Yun Xihe eroded the divine sense, and also cut off the inheritance of the activation formation.

At this moment, it didn't matter if Azure Void couldn't recognize a master; Wei Yuan didn't intend to let Azure Void recognize him as master either. Such an immortal object wasn't something he, a newly promoted Dao Foundation, could possess. Even Zhang Sheng couldn't, and Fenhai couldn't.

Azure Void should be the object sought by the Tinghai Xianjun's move. With this thing, it didn't matter whether Yun Feifei was dead or alive; just leave her here to fend for herself.

Wei Yuan pressed and lifted lightly, wanting to pull Azure Void out, but as soon as he moved, the spiritual energy of the earth veins around him suddenly fluctuated at the same time. Wei Yuan was stunned and probed carefully, only to find that Azure Void didn't know when it had merged with this piece of land, equivalent to having been planted! After pondering again, he felt that it should be because Azure Void had been in contact with the earth for too long, and after tens of thousands of years, it had gradually planted itself into the earth spontaneously.

With this discovery, many questions had answers. For example, why were the tens of thousands of people in Quliu Town tortured by the environment until they were dying, while the seven or eight thousand people in several towns around Lan Shen Palace were all living quite well, and the townspeople were only a little weak. In fact, the root cause was because Azure Void had been planted. Although it wasn't activated, it was an immortal object after all, and it could already make the surrounding environment gentle, so people could barely survive.

Before, when the Wu Yu tribe army passed through, they had long since destroyed all the world stones that couldn't be pulled out in time, and then the wet wind and poisonous miasma would naturally take over here. Wei Yuan also thought it was the leakage of clear aura from the cave heaven fragments that made the surrounding area not so difficult to survive, but now it seemed he was wrong, and the reason should be Azure Void.

Wei Yuan was hesitant at this time, whether to pull it or not?

If the Azure Void were pulled out, the surrounding environment would rapidly deteriorate. The tens of thousands of commoners living around the Lan Shen Palace would all die one after another within a year. Then, Quliu Town would also be affected; to say nothing else, at least half of the poor in the North District would die within half a year, unless other boundary stones were used as replacements. But for the human race, expanding territory is a major undertaking, all done step by step, nibbling away at foreign lands along the borders. By the time the human race lays the boundary stones over here, who knows what year or month that will be.

But if he didn't pull it, this place was extremely close to the Wu tribe, and it was five thousand li away from Hanyang Pass. Unless the Xu family supported it with all their strength, they wouldn't be able to defend it at all, and in the end, they would still have to pull it. Wei Yuan didn't pull it, and the Wu tribe would also come to pull it.

Wei Yuan didn't expect to encounter such a difficult problem, so he pondered, his hand subconsciously stroking Azure Void. At this moment, the continent in his sea of consciousness suddenly vibrated slightly, and Azure Void also began to vibrate!

In the center of the Ten Thousand Li of Mountains and Rivers, the Jade Mountain began to change, gradually becoming transparent, slowly changing shape, actually becoming a larger Azure Void. And Azure Void transmitted a feeling of joy, and a point of light in the core gradually bloomed.

Was this about to recognize a master? Wei Yuan was startled. Didn't this stone just reject him very crisply? Why did it suddenly not be reserved?

Wei Yuan hurriedly raised his hand and interrupted the process of recognizing a master. He couldn't afford such an immortal tool! It was a big trouble to recognize a master.

Azure Void had been planted, and was activated by Wei Yuan. If it recognized a master, it would really merge with this region, and it wouldn't be something Wei Yuan could pull with his little Dao power. Moreover, Wei Yuan recognized the master in the form of Dao Foundation resonance, so Azure Void recognized the Ten Thousand Li of Mountains and Rivers, not Wei Yuan. So once it recognized a master, Wei Yuan could leave if he wanted to, but the Ten Thousand Li of Mountains and Rivers had to stay.

Wei Yuan didn't know if he could leave the Ten Thousand Li of Mountains and Rivers behind and run away alone, but he thought it was impossible. Even if he could, the master would definitely clean up the sect afterwards. Wei Yuan had self-knowledge; what was precious was the Ten Thousand Li of Mountains and Rivers, not him, Wei Yuan. If the Dao Foundation couldn't leave, Wei Yuan still wanted to leave?

Fortunately, after breaking contact, the process of recognizing a master was indeed interrupted, which made Wei Yuan breathe a sigh of relief. He circled Azure Void several times, not knowing how to deal with this trouble for a while. The best of both worlds was to pull Azure Void away, and then let the Xu family take the mortals away. But such a big event as relocating tens of thousands of mortals wasn't something Wei Yuan was qualified to discuss, and it required the high-level of the Grand Void Palace to come forward and coordinate.

But at present, the Xu family clearly didn't want to relocate the mortals in the shattered domain; otherwise, they would have had plenty of time to do this in the past two years.

At this very moment, in the small house outside, the red-clothed woman changed several ways of saying it, but Xu Waner refused to erase the Soul-Detaining Formation, no matter what she said, it was just one sentence: "It's better to wait for Senior Brother to come back and make a decision."

The red-clothed woman was ashamed and angry, shouting: "It's just that he touched you a few times, and you've become like this?"

Xu Waner's little face turned red, and her speech became stuttering, but her attitude was very firm: "Of course it's not like that... It's better to wait for Senior Brother... to make a decision..."

The red-clothed woman stomped her feet in anger, but calmed down and prepared to persuade her again. She knew Xu Waner had a gentle temperament and didn't have much of an opinion, so it was easy to persuade. As for Wei Yuan, she wasn't worried about how he was; she believed Wei Yuan was just bragging and couldn't find the Ancestor's Secret Treasure at all. When the Wu Yu tribe army and those people came back and forth to search for so many days, and dismantled the entire Lan Shen Palace, didn't they also find nothing?

The top priority was to escape first. After Wei Yuan left empty-handed, she would come back to find a way to open the Ancestor's Secret Treasure.

Thinking of the secret treasure, the red-clothed woman gritted her teeth secretly, cursing in her heart: "Old thing, you deserve to die! You die if you want to, but you wouldn't hand over the secret to me before you died! Good death!"

In the Ancestor Hall, Wei Yuan carried the paralyzed Xu Wenwu to the side, and paced in the hall, observing the reactions of different karma light points. The most intense one was still underground, about ten zhang deep. Another one was in the relatively well-preserved goddess statue, and another one was in the ruins of the disciple area. Because it was far away, it was already at the edge of the formation disk.

Wei Yuan came to the goddess statue and observed it carefully, but whether it was with the naked eye or divine sense scanning, there was no abnormality. Only the Qi-gazing technique could see that there was still a lot of incense wishes. It seemed that even if Lan Shen Palace was destroyed, there were still many people worshipping these gods.

Wei Yuan pointed his hand, a water flow technique, washing away the accumulated soil and rotten leaves on the ground, allowing the entire relief to be fully revealed.

The giant snake in the relief entangled seven women in total, each with different expressions and charms, all lifelike. The giant snake was even more like it was about to come alive from the carving, with a pair of snake eyes, lewd on the left and tyrannical on the right, each with different expressions.

Seeing this picture, Wei Yuan felt a stir in his heart. In the storybooks of the Lying Flat Inn, there was one about a giant snake achieving Dao and transforming into a human, turning into a scholar to take the imperial examination in the capital. On the way to the capital, the scholar met seven young ladies one after another, each with their own merits, and the experience of staying overnight was completely different, each making people reluctant to part with them.

The next day before leaving, the scholar told each young lady that he only loved her, and that he would definitely come back to marry her after passing the examination, and swore a poisonous oath that if he broke his promise, he would suffer and die.

The imperial list was posted in the capital, and the scholar failed the examination.

It wasn't that the scholar intended to break his oath, but that the human examiners set questions that were too tricky. The giant snake had just transformed and hadn't seen the treachery of the human world, so he answered the questions in a mess. Since he didn't pass the examination, the oath naturally didn't count.

The giant snake then transformed into a scholar again, preparing to return home while traveling, to see if he could meet a few more different young ladies on the road next year. Not long after leaving the capital, the scholar saw a large manor, and a maid recruited him in familiarly, saying that the young lady was waiting in the back courtyard to spend the night together.

The giant snake was familiar with this storybook, so he went to the back mansion happily, only to find a particularly festive main hall, and found seven young ladies sitting at the table together. That night, the room was filled with heat, infinite spring, and harmony.

Snake meat was very nourishing, and the seven young ladies all ate until their faces were flying red, and more than half of the snake meat was left uneaten.

This storybook was written without a beginning or an end. Wei Yuan only treated it as a bit of fun at first, as a cover for practicing the Heaven and Earth Madman in his sea of consciousness. But he didn't expect to see the relief from the storybook at the old site of Lan Shen Palace, and this painting was on the ground of the front hall, which could be said to be quite important.

Lan Shen Palace was also a fourth-rank sect, only a line away from a third-rank blessed land. The mountain gate was a hundred li in radius, not a small family. Even if the sect was destroyed at this moment, there were still many human villages and towns around, and several tens of thousands of people lived there. Such a sect would naturally not be bored enough to spend a lot of effort to carve storybook stories in the front hall. It should be that the relief existed first, and then the storybook. There must be an important story behind this relief.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 114 =====

The Eldest Senior Brother listened, feeling more and more that something was wrong, and said, "Third Fei Shimei, you..."

A vicious look appeared on the Third Fei Shimei's face as she said, "Little Sister was deeply in love with you back then, but it's a pity you not only didn't appreciate it, you even humiliated me. Now you want me to save you? Why don't you ask your dear Fei Shimei Feifei to save you? Oh, I know, Senior Sister Feifei likes the Little Junior Brother, not you, who has no family background, no looks, and is getting on in years!"

The Eldest Senior Brother was so angry that his eyes spewed fire, but he could not move at this moment and could only continuously scold and curse.

The Third Fei Shimei was not at all flustered. She looked toward the woman in red and said, "It's rare that we senior and junior brothers and sisters are gathered together today; it just happens to save the Young Master some trouble. The Young Master has the means to enter a soul into a physical body, and your appearance shouldn't be wasted; being a plaything is just right. It's only a pity the old ghost died early; otherwise, no matter what, I would have had to make him suffer decades of living torment!"

The woman in red darkened her face and said, "So it was you who betrayed the sect! That so-called Young Master, he's right outside the door now, isn't he?"

The Third Fei Shimei laughed and said, "Good birds choose their trees to nest in. My Young Master is famous, as you all know—he is the Jade-Faced Immortal Sword, Young Master Xu Jingfeng!"

A cough came from outside the room, and the young swordsman pushed the door open and entered, smiling, "I am the Jade-Faced..."

He touched the bandage on his face that was still seeping with foul blood, feeling that the words "Jade-Faced" were somewhat inconsistent with reality, and thus he hated that Li Zhi three parts more in his heart.

Xu Jingfeng skipped the self-introduction segment he used to like best and said, "It's rare that you are all gathered here, saving this Young Master the trouble of running around. It seems that what the Master said about me being favored by destiny and having all my wishes come true is indeed not false!"

(End of chapter)