Chapter 164: 【The Yonghua Alliance, Such Integrity】(First update, begging for)

Puqing Tianjun naturally did not doubt the words of Taisu Xianren, so he immediately consumed that Dao Seed, refined it, and obtained the Supernatural Power of 【Law of Heaven and Earth】.

With this Supernatural Power in hand, he immediately sensed the opportunity for his tribulation.

After discussing it with Taisu Xianren, he underwent the tribulation the very next day.

The Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation descended, and Puqing Tianjun, who had already accumulated a full foundation, used the 【Law of Heaven and Earth】 Supernatural Power to cause his strength to surge, forcefully resisting the final nine tribulation lightning bolts and stepping into the level of a Three-Tribulation Heavenly Monarch.

He also adopted the method of using the tribulation lightning to help temper his Primordial Spirit, but he did not take the final step directly to become a Land Immortal.

This did not matter.

Having succeeded in the tribulation, he would definitely be able to step into the Land Immortal Realm in at most a hundred years or so.

And since he had now tempered his Primordial Spirit once, he estimated that twenty or thirty years would be enough.

The news that Puqing Tianjun had passed the Heavenly Tribulation using the same means as Kunshan Daoren spread rapidly to every Immortal Sect, and they were all very envious of such a Supernatural Power.

In fact, it was not the case that obtaining a great Supernatural Power guaranteed success in passing the tribulation.

Back then, the Sect Master of Tianyu Immortal Sect, Nong Yunqian, and the Supreme Elder Chiyangzi, both obtained the 【Size as Desired】 Supernatural Power, which was similar to 【Law of Heaven and Earth】, yet they did not pass the Heavenly Tribulation, while Miaoyun Fairy of Luoyun Immortal Sect, who also obtained this Supernatural Power, did pass.

Supernatural Powers are merely the final booster; to pass the tribulation, one must have deep accumulation, and both Kunshan Daoren and Puqing Tianjun had thousands of years of accumulation.

Nong Yunqian and Chiyangzi were forced into it because of the impatience of Yuntuan Xianren, which led to the outcome of their deaths and the dissipation of their Dao.

If they had the same accumulation, there would still be a high probability of achieving the Land Immortal Realm with the 【Size as Desired】 Supernatural Power.

Past matters aside, their transformation into Dao Fruits could be considered a contribution.

The successive Patriarchs of the Lu Family would remember their merits.

With the push from Puqing Tianjun, the Land Immortals of the various sects doubted the existence of Xuanjizi even less, and they sent replies one after another, indicating they would arrive on time.

The 14th day of the 6th month, 1433 of the Supernatural Power Era, was a time point worth recording in the history of the Immortal Sects of Donghua Zhenzhou.

On this day, at Yonghua Hall, a total of twenty-one cultivators of the Land Immortal Realm gathered; besides Lu Runping of the Lu Clan, Lv Gong of Tianyu Immortal Sect, Miaoyun Fairy of Luoyun Immortal Sect, and Kunshan Daoist of Wuyue Immortal Sect, fifteen Land Immortals from other Immortal Sects and six Land Immortals from the Demon Clan gathered here.

History calls this the "Yonghua Alliance."

The lower-level cultivators only knew that on this day, the Land Immortals of the various Immortal Sects reached an alliance to cooperate and jointly resist evil paths and crooked ways; they were not clear about anything else.

But the high-level members of the various sects knew that everyone who attended this meeting received two Dao Seeds.

One was refined by themselves on the spot, and the other was given to their most valued juniors.

The Supernatural Powers they obtained were 【Law of Heaven and Earth】 and 【Three Heads and Six Arms】; Xuanjizi's reason was to enhance their combat effectiveness.

In reality, Lu Runping just wanted to cast a wide net and get them to consume the Dao Seeds.

The Dao Seed is truly a good thing; everyone who has used it says it is good, and no one has offered a negative review.

But getting these people to accept it reasonably was not easy.

After everyone accepted this item, they all felt a sense of mission, and the various Immortal Sects began to investigate the matter of evil auras in a flurry of activity.

Lu Runping had investigated it long ago, but he could not find key information with his 【Round Light Manifestation】 Supernatural Power, so he did not delve deeper; he did not expect that these people would actually find something.

Deep down, he did not want these people to actually find anything; if there really were a great catastrophe and this group of people were to die, failing to ascend, his timing for obtaining the True Immortal Dao Fruit would be indefinitely delayed.

But these Immortal Sects of Donghua Zhenzhou were worthy of being righteous sects; they were more than a grade stronger in their sense of justice than those small, black-path cultivation sects in Beihuang Yu, and they investigated this matter very diligently.

Zhuoming Xianren, one of the three strongest Land Immortals in Donghua Zhenzhou, intercepted a strand of evil Spirit Qi and read a piece of information from it, so the Land Immortals of the various Immortal Sects held an emergency meeting within their respective sects.

Inside the newly established "Yingxian Cave" of the Lu Clan, the figures of the Land Immortals of the various sects appeared on the Floating Light Stone; once everyone was present, Zhuoming Immortal, who was far away at Ditong Immortal Sect in Xuantong Domain, recounted his findings and even gave a demonstration.

Simply put, a True Immortal from the Upper Realm was killed and infected by an Outer Realm Demon, and the corpse fell into Dongli Hai in this world.

All the evil aura infection incidents in Donghua Zhenzhou now were formed by this strand of evil True Immortal remnant soul.

Once this strand of remnant soul was found and destroyed, the disaster in Donghua Zhenzhou would be over.

Of course, the safest method would be to go and destroy the True Immortal's remnant corpse as well.

But if they approached something that could even pollute a True Immortal, they would likely be infected before they could even purify the True Immortal's remnant corpse.

Therefore, after everyone discussed this matter, they decided to be conservative first.

They would destroy the infected True Immortal will first.

Lu Runping's avatar, Lv Gong, had the persona of a light of the righteous path who hated evil and defended the Dao, so he immediately expressed that he would thoroughly investigate this matter, track down the Demon True Immortal, and destroy it.

That was what he said, but Lu Runping intended to just go through the motions.

He did not want to provoke any trouble; at a critical stage in the development of the Lu Clan, if he were to attract any huge trouble, it would be very unfriendly to the development of the Immortal Clan.

The others, however, looked eager to try.

After Xuanjizi chatted with them once, they all felt they were people of destiny, and they regarded eliminating such a scourge as one of their own tribulations.

Yet the real purpose behind it was just to make them consume the Dao Seeds.

The two matters had absolutely nothing to do with each other.

Lu Runping did not want these people to suffer too many casualties because of this; after all, his plan was to have them ascend so that he could have the greatest possibility of obtaining the True Immortal Realm Dao Fruit.

But they were clearly a bit obsessed with the matter of "destiny" and threw their energy into tracking down the remnant soul of the Demon True Immortal.

In the blink of an eye, fourteen years later, on this day, bad news arrived.

Lingdong Xianren was infected by the will of the Demon True Immortal and summoned the surrounding Land Immortals to come and help kill him.

Regardless of the truth of the matter, everyone arrived here at the first moment.

Lu Runping was the second to arrive.

The first to arrive was Taisu Xianren, who had already suppressed Lingdong Xianren.

But at this moment, Lingdong Xianren's strength and aura were constantly rising, so this suppression could not last long.

"Quick! Kill me! The Demon True Immortal aura within my body is the source!!"

Lingdong Xianren, having briefly regained his sanity, shouted at the top of his lungs.

Taisu Xianren did not move, because he could not kill a Land Immortal on his own without a third person to witness it; this would violate their original alliance.

And just as Lu Runping arrived, Taisu Xianren finally said:

"Things have come to this, there is no other way. Fellow Daoist Lv, please assist me; we absolutely cannot let that Demon True Immortal's aura escape, and we cannot let Lingdong Xianren sacrifice himself in vain!"

Lu Runping immediately guaranteed:

"I will seal this place with all my might and not let a single strand of energy escape."

Upon hearing this, Taisu Xianren immediately began to act.

He rapidly channeled the Immortal Spirit Qi and condensed it within himself; the next moment, an invisible sword light slashed onto Lingdong Xianren's body.

"Great Profound Pure Heart Sword"

This was the most powerful inherited immortal art of the Yonghua Immortal Sect; once the sword was swung, both body and soul would be annihilated!

At this moment, Lingdong Xianren was controlled against the opposite cliff face by the Eight Trigrams talisman seal and the three Dharma Treasures; with this sword strike unleashed, it was impossible for him to dodge.

When the sword light landed on the latter's body, his body suddenly stiffened, and the remnant soul of the True Immortal demon as well as Lingdong Xianren's consciousness were almost simultaneously extinguished.

At the same time, a Dao Fruit emerged within Lu Runping's Treasure Mirror.

Lingdong Xianren had the cultivation of the mid-stage Great Vehicle realm perfection, but the Dao Fruit Lu Runping harvested exceeded the level of an ordinary Great Vehicle realm perfection; this seemed to be because it had fused with the energy of that remnant True Immortal soul.

After achieving True Immortal, the level of the primordial spirit reached a new stage; even if it was only a tiny remnant soul, the high-quality energy it contained caused the essence of the Dao Fruit to change.

He did not take the time to carefully distinguish what was different for now, choosing to handle the matter at hand first.

Lingdong Xianren was dead, and after the various Earthly Immortals arrived, they sighed endlessly over this.

Kunshan Daoren lamented:

"Bearing the mandate of heaven means being prepared for sacrifice. Lingdong Xianren died for the mandate of heaven, concluding this cause and effect, yet this cause and effect has now fallen upon each of our heads.

I, Kunshan Daoren, ask everyone here to bear witness: as long as I live for one day, I will protect the Wanling Immortal Sect for one day, and I will certainly ensure its heritage is preserved to repay this cause and effect."

Zhuoming Xianren spoke up:

"This is as it should be. Lingdong Xianren's actions this time can be considered as answering the tribulation for each of us. He entered the game with his own body and sacrificed his life for righteousness, allowing us to eliminate the remnant True Immortal demon soul within such a short time and avoiding a situation of devastation for all living things.

I believe we should erect a monument to commemorate the contribution he made to Donghua Zhenzhou, allowing future generations to look upon it with reverence.

One who bears the mandate of heaven should have such integrity!"

Taisu Xianren nodded and said:

"It should be so! I will handle this matter. This place is where he met his end, so this mountain peak shall serve as his monument."

As he spoke, Taisu Xianren began to refine the entire mountain peak using artifact-refining techniques, then shattered Lingdong Xianren's body, turning it into ashes to be fused into the mountain.

Three days later, the entire mountain peak had transformed into a stone monument seven hundred and thirty-two zhang tall, standing upright in this wilderness.

This place was not within the territory of the Wanling Immortal Sect, but rather in the Huishi Huangyuan, the territory of the demon race.

After the inscription was completed, an Earthly Immortal of the demon race who had arrived, Huangfeng Daxian, spoke up:

"Please rest assured, fellow Daoists. I will certainly let the demon race here know that this place is a sacred site for all races of Donghua Zhenzhou; they will all treat it with piety and know that Lingdong Xianren bore everything for us."

Watching this scene, Lu Runping also felt moved.

These righteous sects of the Central Continent Thirteen Domains truly all had faith; even the demon race was so solemn in treating this matter.

If they discovered that all of this was merely a play he had directed, and that the so-called True Immortal demon was also just a coincidence, I wonder if these people would be so angry they would fall into demonic paths?

Forget it, never mind; the counter-master plan is over.

Uh, it should be over, right?

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