Chapter 1318

The Candle Heaven Civilization is about to launch a large-scale invasion of the Cultivation Realm, and the news that the Cultivation Realm has entered a state of war readiness quickly spread throughout the Cultivation Realm, causing a great uproar.

"I've long said that the outside world is full of dangers, don't go out lightly, and now it's come to this, the cosmic overlord has taken a fancy to our Cultivation Realm and is coming to attack us."

"What's there to fear if they come? Our Grand Completion, Tribulation Transcendence, and half-immortal masters are not vegetarians—we'll slap them away with one palm!"

"This is the best-case scenario, and I hope it is, but after all, they are the cosmic overlord—anyone who can bear that name must be extraordinarily powerful; we're probably no match for them."

"What's there to fear? At worst, we'll perish together."

"You still have leisure to chitchat here? All forces are temporarily recruiting, no thresholds—anyone can go test their spiritual roots, and even if they fail the trial, they'll be given free basic cultivation and body-refining techniques—hurry up and bring your children over!"

"What? There's even such a thing?"

"Hurry up and go—if you're late, you'll just be eating dust."

For those cultivators with a modicum of talent, they pay even more attention to the Cultivation Realm's war readiness. Limited by resources, their progress has been slow—this is an excellent opportunity for them to leap the dragon gate, and each is rolling up their sleeves, determined to make a name for themselves in the Cultivation Realm.

"Those secret realms that open only once every hundred or thousand years will be opened during the war readiness period—a heaven-sent opportunity!"

"As long as one's realm reaches the standard, the imperial court will still distribute cultivation techniques and spirit stones—I was worried about insufficient cultivation resources, but now it's settled!"

"Moreover, elders from all major sects will go out to preach, and Grand Completion masters will preach—being able to hear it once in a lifetime is worth it!"

This is an unprecedented spectacle in the Cultivation Realm: facing an unknown enemy, all major powers of the Great Xia Buddhist Kingdom have set aside all grudges, solely to rapidly enhance the Cultivation Realm's strength in the shortest time, and without relying on immortals, to stand a fighting chance against the Candle Heaven Civilization.

The entire Cultivation Realm is ablaze, raging like fire and oil.

As the person in charge of the Cultivation Weekly, Lu Yang holds first-hand intelligence on the Cultivation Realm, and his speed in obtaining information from Dai Bufan is basically the same.

The information of the heaven-chosen ones is even more abundant, sprouting like bamboo shoots after spring rain.

As the foremost heaven-chosen of the present age, seeing the juniors so active, he feels greatly relieved.

"The loose cultivator Gong Master Sun Hai stormed through three Golden Core-level secret realms, emerging as champion each time; in the ancient battlefield arena, facing eight cultivators of the same level challenging in rotation, he wielded his sword with Qi, crushed strong foes, successfully defended his platform, and earned the title 'Little Lu Yang'."

"Zhang Ding of the Eastern Sea, born with a heavenly treasure cauldron, opened his glabellar immortal bone, acquired three ancient inheritances, fought the Kunpeng, defeated the dragon son, and since his debut has never known defeat—people all praise him as having Lu Yang's talent."

"Long Tianyang joined the Mei Sect to temper himself, becoming its sole male disciple; facing the seductions of his senior and junior sisters, he preserved his chastity, his qi and blood reversed, blood flowed from his seven orifices, broke through and was reborn, advanced to the Nascent Soul stage, and people gave him the nickname 'Little Meng Jingzhou'."

Lu Yang rubbed his forehead—you lot became famous just fine, but why do you still have to glom onto me and Old Meng?

But these are trivial matters, not worth his concern.

"Is this Zhao Po of the Corpse-Raising Sect your friend?" The Innate Daoist handed over a piece of information.

"Zhao Po—is he still at the Void Refinement stage now? What information could he possibly have that's worth reporting?" Lu Yang wondered, taking the information and beginning to read it.

"Zhao Po of the Corpse-Raising Sect, with the Dao Protectoress Female Corpse, developed mutual affection and became Dao companions… huh?" Lu Yang's face turned strange; he rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things.

"Zhao Po, you little brat—what's going on? I gave you the Female Corpse to let you do this?"

"Ming Tai of the Sword Tower advanced to the Grand Completion stage, triggering a phenomenon of myriad swords paying homage; in the phenomenon, he confessed to the Sword Tower's Supreme, and the two became Dao companions?"

Lu Yang's expression grew ever stranger—he remembered that Ming Tai was the Sword Tower's Supreme's sword spirit that had gained sentience, and after the Sword Tower's Supreme fought Liu Ningxuan, exhausting his soul power, he transformed into Ming Tai's sword spirit, making them master and servant.

Now you two aren't pretending anymore—you've directly become Dao companions, right?

"How wonderful—you've both become Dao companions." The Immortal Child leaned on Lu Yang's shoulder and whispered, like a ghostly female ghost—only Lu Yang could see her; the Innate Daoist and Gu Junye could not.

"Yes, also counts as lovers finally becoming family." Lu Yang felt that Ming Tai and the Sword Tower's Supreme becoming Dao companions was reasonable.

"The White Horse Dynasty and several other stars have also moved to the Cultivation Realm—quite swift." Lu Yang clicked his tongue in wonder; the information also came with a shadow-recording ball, recording the White Horse Dynasty's move, which was carried out by six Grand Completion cultivators working together.

If it were only moving a planet, one Grand Completion cultivator would suffice, but during the process of moving a planet, the environment on the planet changes—this is no less than an apocalypse for mortals, requiring multiple Grand Completion cultivators to act to ensure no harm comes to mortals.

"Have those cultivators who went out also been recalled? Indeed, with a great enemy at hand, encountering the Candle Heaven Civilization while out would be troublesome."

Among the gathered information, mention was also made of several old acquaintances of the Silent Daoist.

"Minister of Justice Xu Xin has also broken through to the Tribulation Transcendence stage—how fast." Lu Yang sighed; he and this Minister of Justice had deep ties, when he was possessed by the Immortal Child in the imperial capital, it was he who arrested him.

No typo, no missing character, no omission, no extra, no lack, no absence, no mistake—look closely!

Perhaps the opportunity has arrived, or perhaps they sensed the tense atmosphere of the Cultivation Realm—more than one Peak Grand Completion cultivator has broken through to the Tribulation Transcendence stage.

"It's merely following the trend—why must the Xuanyuan Sword Master make such a fuss?" Gu Junye handles affairs without surprise; few things can affect his Dao heart.

Even the Innate Daoist cannot match this—he has always believed Gu Junye is truly a reincarnation of some great figure.

Lu Yang originally didn't want to pay attention to Gu Junye, but Gu Junye gazed at him eagerly, his eyes conveying meaning without words, hoping Lu Yang would act as the straight man.

Lu Yang lowered his head and could still feel Gu Junye's fervent gaze, so he reluctantly followed his intent and asked: "Following the trend? How so?"

"All worldly affairs are in reincarnation—the primordial, ancient, and high ancient eras all had great worldly struggles; heaven-chosen ones gathered, heroes contended for passage, the Dao's suppression loosened, and breakthroughs became extraordinarily easy."

"Now it's merely a reenactment of those eras' great worldly struggles."

"Opening the Cultivation Realm is following the trend, following the Mandate of Heaven—although the so-called cosmic overlord is nothing to worry about, people are ignorant—how could they know the Cultivation Realm's strength?"

"Things have yin and yang; this also counts as a good thing—the Cultivation Realm has long been peaceful, lacking external pressure, and the emergence of the Candle Heaven Civilization has just given them sufficient pressure to aid their breakthrough."

Lu Yang's eyes twitched—Gu Junye's whole set of theories really is quite impressive.

In the dark, a pair of gloomy eyes fell upon Gu Junye.

The mastermind behind the scenes observed Gu Junye with doubtful uncertainty, wanting to see the truth.

Logically, after reincarnation, one would retain some impression of the previous life; although Gu Junye's words are not entirely correct, he also got some right about ancient matters hidden in history—no one has ever told him these things.

"Could it be that he is the reincarnation of that person whose body I seized?"

(End of Chapter)