Chapter 575: Ancestor's Instructions

This sea of thunder originated from an immortal thunderbolt struck down by Xu Wangu. The immortal thunderbolt not only struck the physical body but also attacked the Sea of Consciousness. As a result, not only was the wisp of immortal thunderbolt that entered the Human Realm's Renjian Yanhuo swallowed in one gulp by the three-eyed bird head of the moon, but the immortal thunderbolt attacking the physical body was also implicated, with a small half being dragged away and likewise falling into the mouth of the three-eyed bird head.

The bird head swallowed the immortal thunderbolt, brewed on it, and then spat it out, seemingly finding it unpalatable. However, the immortal thunderbolt that had been swallowed by it turned into the thunder paste before them, transforming into this small sea of thunder, condensing without dissipating, and no longer leaking thunder light.

This change made Wei Yuan overjoyed. The immortal thunderbolt had turned into thunder paste, but its essence hadn't changed at all. This was a great opportunity to study the methods of immortals at close range. He immediately used the authority of the Creation Immortal Venerable to take a cup of thunder paste and sent it to the Central Research Institute, ordering them to study it with all their might.

This time outside Hanyang Pass, Wei Yuan finally saw Xu Xu Lanshan at close range and gained an intuitive understanding of this woman. Although they hadn't fought directly yet, Wei Yuan already felt the pressure. This woman's strength was likely only half a notch inferior to Su Xuejing; if they were to fight in a fair environment, Wei Yuan had no certainty of victory.

However, this woman seemed to have quite a bit of integrity. Wei Yuan liked this kind of opponent who had principles and a bottom line, and he was most annoyed by enemies who were just like himself. A gentleman can be deceived by his own rectitude; as long as Wei Yuan could find a way to trick her into Qingming for a decisive battle, it would be easy to handle.

In Qingming, even Su Xuejing could only fight Wei Yuan to a draw, let alone Xu Xu Lanshan. Relying on the causal markers of the Peerless Dao Domain and automatic counterattacks, Wei Yuan could directly pile up hundreds of Daoist techniques to kill her. Looking across the Great Tang world, Wei Yuan felt that no human Dharma Form cultivator's Daoist power could exceed his own while he was squatting in Qingming, excluding the alien races.

Alien races had strange and varied body types; some races that were a thousand *zhang* long in their youth had far more magic power at the Dao Foundation stage than Wei Yuan currently did.

Qingming was originally an Immortal Stone, but without considering the power of the realm, its various special effects were at least equivalent to more than half an Immortal Treasure. Immortal Treasures were extremely rare; many immortals had experienced the awkward situation of having no Immortal Treasure to use in the first few hundred years after becoming an immortal. Most immortals, in their entire lives, would not handle more than three Immortal Treasures.

Not only were Immortal Treasures rare, but they weren't something everyone could use. Even if an Immortal Treasure were given to a Dharma Form cultivator, they would likely be drained into a dried husk the moment they activated it. Only Master Yu Jing cultivators, by activating it through their Mind-Reflection World, could possibly unleash a single strike with an Immortal Treasure.

But Qingming was special; it was originally a Realm Stone. Therefore, standing in Qingming, Wei Yuan, as the Realm Lord, was equivalent to having half an Immortal Treasure in hand, and he could use it at will. Looking across the world's Dharma Form cultivators, as long as they were fighting in Qingming, Wei Yuan didn't feel he would fear anyone.

Wei Yuan had already figured this point out himself. During the time Su Xuejing stayed in Qingming, he had actually seen it clearly later, so he no longer mentioned the matter of sparring. It was mainly because he had gained some understanding of Wei Yuan later and knew that if he accidentally lost a move or two during a spar, it would be easy for Wei Yuan to nag him until his Dao Heart collapsed.

What Su Xuejing worried about even more was that after Wei Yuan won a round, he would never be willing to spar again. Once this thought arose, it could no longer be suppressed, so Su Xuejing, who was already able to enter the Heavenly Dao, knew that this was not a guess but something that would inevitably happen, so he never sparred with Wei Yuan again.

At this moment, regarding Xu Xu Lanshan, Wei Yuan's trap had already been laid; it just depended on whether she would take the bait.

Wei Yuan studied the Thunder Pool for a while and took a tour around the Human Realm's Renjian Yanhuo, focusing on the small island in the planning stage. Countless deep pits had already been dug on the island, most of them square and upright, with bundled steel bars already erected at the bottom of the pits, and some pits had already begun to be poured with concrete.

Nothing else unusual could be seen for the time being, but Wei Yuan always felt that beneath the calm surface, some storm was secretly brewing.

But the source of any storm was with the girl Yin-Yang. Wei Yuan went to see the girl Yin-Yang and saw her standing quietly in place, motionless, with only a faint light flickering in her eyes, looking like she lacked sufficient fortune and couldn't do any work.

Wei Yuan circled around her twice, lost in thought. As his mind stirred, the clothes on her body slid off one by one.

Wei Yuan felt a little more at ease, feeling that she was still under control. But when he stirred his mind again to have her put her clothes back on, it didn't work this time. It seemed the fortune she had accumulated was only enough for that one move.

Wei Yuan felt a bit self-reproachful, feeling he shouldn't have wasted precious fortune on such trivial matters. But now that the purple fortune was gone, Wei Yuan couldn't go and play a few games of chess with Cang Longshi and the others himself; that would be equivalent to lowering his own status, making it look like he couldn't get any fortune.

Now, Wei Yuan had gained a lot of insight into how to make people admire him and how to fish for fortune, deeply understanding the principles of playing hard to get, feigning refusal, giving before taking, and... The likes of Xuanjizi and Cang Longshi were high-minded and arrogant; making them admire him from the heart was harder than killing them.

Therefore, the matter of fortune could not be rushed. He had to wait until they thought they had studied Wei Yuan's chess thoroughly and had figured out all the responses, and then, when they came to Wei Yuan to play chess full of confidence, Wei Yuan would play a move like a flying immortal from beyond the heavens, shocking them beyond measure and causing their Dao Hearts to collapse. Only in this way could they be thoroughly convinced and contribute fortune to a higher level, and the girl Yin-Yang could take off more... no, do more things.

Thinking of this, Wei Yuan stopped competing. He checked the surrounding arrays and felt they were quite stable, so he left the place.

At this time, on the western seaside of the Central City, a pile of Nether Iron ore had appeared, weighing at least ten million *jin*. As long as one stood around the ore pile, phenomena like palpitations and accelerated blood flow would occur.

More Nether ore, because it couldn't be used for the time being, had all sunk to the western seabed. Wei Yuan's plan was to dig up the entire Nether Mountain and then place a small island here, conforming to the meaning of Western Refined Gold.

If this island were completed and the Langya Divine Wood were transplanted here, the Mind-Reflection World would be even more perfect, and a wisp of Sharp Metal True Intent would be added to Wei Yuan's Daoist power, greatly increasing his sharpness and killing power.

Just at this moment, Wei Yuan suddenly felt someone calling him from outside, so his consciousness returned. At this time, Wei Yuan had already quietly rushed back to Qingming from the Hanyang Pass front line and had assembled a two-thousand-man unit to head to the rear of Hanyang Pass to provide support.

Wei Yuan's plan was that if the Xu family became angry from embarrassment and started a war, then in the early stages, he would fight in the name of the Heaven-Extinguishing Band, mainly to inflict as much damage as possible on the Xu family's elite forces.

Once the Xu family's casualties exceeded one hundred thousand, he would escalate the war, letting the Qingming unit set up a defense line several dozen *li* behind the small hill to prevent the Xu family's army from moving west. By then, Wei Yuan would be defending, while the Xu family would be attacking.

Wei Yuan would record all the footage, on one hand to complain to the Jin Prince, and on the other to distribute it to the world, denouncing the Xu family for taking advantage of the chaos to attack just as he had finished fighting the Shaman tribe. If this matter were not stopped, then who in the world would be willing to resist the alien races?

Read every single word carefully!

As for the Heaven-Extinguishing Band provoking first and blowing up dozens of Xu family soldiers with a few shells, Wei Yuan naturally would not record that in the footage. He had learned the true meaning of the Sages editing the Spring and Autumn Annals.

Even if someone used this to accuse Wei Yuan, Wei Yuan would not be afraid. This was done by horse bandits; what did it have to do with him?

His consciousness returned, and Wei Yuan saw a woman in red sitting in front of him. On the table beside her were a few storybooks, the very ones she had fished out of his storage treasures.

Zhu Yuanjin took one out from the storybooks on the table and said, "Are there any more like this?"

Wei Yuan took it and looked; the storybook was about a woman who was framed by others, died unfortunately, and then, under the effect of some protective immortal treasure, was reborn back to ten years ago. But she still remembered what had happened in her previous life. Thus, her temperament changed drastically; she was no longer gentle and kind, but tore apart her romantic rivals all the way, finally continuing her good fate with the Emperor and the Imperial Prince.

Seeing that Ancestor Yuanjin finally had instructions, Wei Yuan hurriedly said, "Yes! Of course there are! It's just that you'll have to wait a day. Come and get them at this time tomorrow."

A rare smile appeared on Zhu Yuanjin's unchanging face. She nodded and then vanished.

Wei Yuan watched a wisp of purple energy slowly fall into his Sea of Consciousness, stunned! Afterward, he recovered his senses and hurriedly ordered the Human Realm's Renjian Yanhuo to start writing storybooks. With so many crouching dragons and phoenix chicks, what kind of storybooks couldn't they write?

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