Chapter 1216: Qilin Child

After finishing his study of the sword and opening the heavenly gate, Lu Yang relaxed and continued researching cultivation techniques, as they determined his future path of cultivation; even with senior sister helping him rewrite the techniques as a safety net, he dared not slacken in the slightest.

In the blink of an eye, several months passed, and Lu Yang remained in the Sutra Pavilion, never leaving even the top floor.

Lu Yang had already memorized all the cultivation techniques on the top floor, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of others' techniques.

"Guan Shanhai's 'Mountain Sea Immortal Technique' can evolve heaven and earth, while Siming's 'Seal Gods Technique' can become the source of faith; whether it is an immortal-level technique or a tribulation-transcendence-level technique, they all come with a certain effect."

"The sole effect of the 'Clarify Mind and See Nature Technique' is to persist in self and recognize the original heart," said the immortal maiden, "isn't that precisely the condition for condensing the immortal Dao fruit?"

Lu Yang recalled the performances of Mengmeng Jie and the immortal maiden, and easily found their common point.

"You've always said I can condense the immortal Dao fruit—is this the reason?"

The immortal maiden circled Lu Yang, floating and swaying, and upon hearing this, she chuckled: "Indeed, it is one of the reasons."

"The most basic condition for the immortal Dao fruit is that the heart must remain immortal, not undergoing great changes in temperament due to the passage of time, or altering the original intention and such."

"Are there many such people?" Lu Yang thought he had never seen such a person.

The immortal maiden yawned and continued: "Many, indeed—just that you cultivated too fast, with no chance to meet such people. In ancient times, this immortal saw plenty: as people lived longer and longer, they single-mindedly pursued power, becoming less and less like humans."

"If you cultivate the 'Clarify Mind and See Nature Technique,' you need not worry about this."

Lu Yang suddenly understood, finally grasping his senior sister's painstaking efforts; she had initially had him cultivate the 'Clarify Mind and See Nature Technique' precisely for this reason.

Having understood the true meaning of the 'Clarify Mind and See Nature Technique,' Lu Yang gained a new idea for continuing to write the tribulation-transcendence chapter.

"Senior sister, this is my newly written technique."

Lu Yang took out the brush and ink, still wet, the technique in which months of accumulation and insight were entirely concentrated.

Recalling the experience of showing techniques to his senior sister before, Lu Yang felt anxious and uneasy, neither able to sit nor stand, fearing she would say again it was not good enough.

Until he noticed his senior sister reveal a faint smile, his heart trembled.

"Well written."

"Senior sister, has my technique passed?"

Yun Zhi did not directly answer this question, but returned the technique to Lu Yang: "Since you reached the Tribulation Transcendence stage, every action you take could become an opportunity to form the embryo of your Dao fruit; for the Dao fruit embryo, techniques are of utmost importance."

"If I were to interfere too much, it would only harm you; cultivation after the Tribulation Transcendence stage must ultimately rely on yourself."

Hearing senior sister say this, Lu Yang felt no great joy, but rather a sense of loss and disorientation.

The path senior sister had laid out for him ended here; he could now grow beyond her wings, meaning that henceforth, his cultivation would no longer receive her help.

Boom—A sudden thunderclap interrupted Lu Yang's sorrow.

"Is someone undergoing tribulation breakthrough?"

Lu Yang followed the sound of the tribulation lightning and saw, to his surprise, it was Old Meng's position.

"Indeed, Old Meng should also break through."

With the sun seal lifted, the power of sun and moon restored to ancient levels, Meng Jingzhou's fortune came in waves, his life worse than death.

Before Lu Yang entered the Sutra Pavilion, he had heard Old Meng ran off to somewhere unknown for worldly training.

Since he attracted tribulation lightning, it seems his training was very successful.

Bolts of tribulation lightning displaying heavenly might appeared; Meng Jingzhou's body, before the tribulation lightning, was tiny as an ant, his skin split and flesh torn, yet he stubbornly endured.

"Strange, why is Old Meng's tribulation lightning only eighty-one bolts?"

Lu Yang still thought he would encounter one hundred sixty-two bolts, but Old Meng should also be able to attract one hundred sixty bolts.

"Indeed, is Ying Tian Xian senior targeting me?"

Meng Jingzhou's tribulation transcending drew the same attention of all; the members of the Questioning Dao Sect still gazed upon Meng Jingzhou atop the mountain peak.

The tribulation lightning and heart tribulation, two rounds of heavenly tribulation, ended; heavenly sweet dew descended to nourish Meng Jingzhou's body.

Meng Jingzhou slightly clenched his fist, feeling the explosive power within his body, and let out an excited long cry.

He too had reached the Tribulation Transcendence stage.

As long as he condenses the Dao fruit embryo, then condenses the Dao fruit to become an immortal, he will be freed!

Becoming an immortal is imminent—how could one not be excited!

"Hahaha, good, good, good, the Meng family has successors!" Before the crowd could celebrate, Meng Junzi unexpectedly appeared in the Questioning Dao Sect.

As the Meng family's most outstanding rising star, Meng Jingzhou's tribulation transcending being so important, how could Meng Junzi possibly not come?

Lu Yang noticed senior sister's calm expression and was not surprised by Meng Junzi's appearance, thinking inwardly that Meng Junzi senior's visit to the Questioning Dao Sect must have been previously informed to senior sister.

"Ancestor." Meng Jingzhou performed the salute only after dressing, for eighty-one bolts of tribulation lightning had reduced any clothing material to ash.

"Indeed worthy of being my Meng family's qilin child!" Meng Junzi had never been this happy before.

No, defeating Jiang Ping'an before the founding of the nation was also this joyful.

"Ancestor, calling me qilin child isn't a bit—" Meng Jingzhou said cautiously, though qilin child sounds like praise, it seems only one qilin exists between heaven and earth, namely the qilin immortal.

Is he not then the son of the qilin immortal?

"That is also reasonable, never mind, it's unimportant; ancestor, I'll take you to meet a few old friends."

Meng Junzi, without hesitation, seized Meng Jingzhou and rushed straight to the imperial city.

Recently, the Great Xia royal family had a piece of uplifting news: the reclusive ancestor Jiang Ping'an had come out of retirement again,

to instruct the imperial princes and princesses in cultivation.

Xia Di selling his sons and daughters was quite decisive; the ancestor personally guiding cultivation—such a good thing should be enjoyed by the younger generation.

The imperial princes and princesses sweated like rain, suffering immensely.

Jiang Ping'an shouldered his hoe, pointing out one by one their nonstandard movements, very strict.

Meng Junzi dragged Meng Jingzhou to forcefully enter the imperial palace: "Ah, Old Jiang, you teach like this and won't produce anything."

"Look at this child Jingzhou—I hardly managed him, and carelessly he reached the Tribulation Transcendence stage."

Meng Junzi patted Meng Jingzhou's back: "Come, call grandfather."

"Grandfather Jiang, good." Meng Jingzhou called obediently; one look and he was a well-mannered child from another family.

Jiang Ping'an's eyes twitched, wishing he could snatch the iron autumn away.

"Old Jiang, the kids all call you grandfather now—you can't just not give a greeting gift, can you? I'm not asking for much; just casually bring out an immortal artifact and it'll do.

"I think your Taishang Sword is pretty good."

"Get lost, you calf!"

Meng Junzi left the palace satisfied, continuing to bring Meng Jingzhou to visit old friends.

The grandfather and grandson toured three of the Five Great Immortal Sects, having only missed the Question Dao Sect and the Moon Laurel Immortal Palace; at this point, Meng Jingzhou learned that the five half-immortals who originally founded the Five Great Immortal Sects were still alive.

Thinking of his old friends' envious and jealous gazes, Meng Junzi felt as refreshed as drinking a barrel of chilled sour plum soup in midsummer, his whole body feeling light and comfortable.

"Jingzhou, you have any wish? Just say it—I, Old Ancestor, will fulfill it!"

Upon hearing this, Meng Jingzhou rejoiced: "Old Ancestor, my good brother Lu Yang relies on the Senior Sister, and when he goes out to do things, he has more confidence than I do. Can you make him stronger than the Senior Sister? Then I'd have confidence too."

What did you just say?

"Can you become stronger than the Senior Sister?"

"The previous sentence."

"My good brother Lu Yang relies on the Senior Sister."

"The sentence before that."

"Old Ancestor."

"I'm not your Old Ancestor—starting today, you are the Qilin Child."