Chapter 1345

Tang Yu dragged his tired body home after a day's work, the house empty except for the black cat meowing.

Normally, Tang Yu would still have the mood to tease his pet, but now his heart felt hollow, his mind constantly flashing back to his boss's harsh reprimand today and his girlfriend's breakup text.

"Tang Yu, after two years together, you're too lacking in ambition, unwilling to flatter your superiors, only burying yourself in hard work—what good is that? I see no future for you, let's break up."

Tang Yu sighed; he simply couldn't bring himself to flatter that corrupt boss.

He glanced at the small bronze tripod on the TV stand, palm-sized, engraved with inexplicable patterns.

"If only you could fetch a good price," Tang Yu sighed helplessly, shaking his head.

This was something passed down from his great-great-grandfather's generation, said to have been handed down from his great-great-grandfather to his great-great-grandfather, who knows how many times it's been passed down, but the craftsmanship is exquisite, definitely an antique with provenance.

Yet he had consulted several antique experts repeatedly, all saying it was a modern craft, not even as old as he is.

"Pah, what useless experts, don't know good from bad," Tang Yu spat.

Tang Yu was exhausted from the day, half-undressed and too tired to bother, so he collapsed onto the bed and fell asleep.

After he fell asleep, spiritual energy revived, the small bronze tripod trembled slightly, the runes inside flickered, and at midnight, a drop of concentrated spiritual fluid gathered in the tripod—the condensed divine elixir of creation from the bronze tripod.

The black cat climbed onto the tripod's rim, licked up that drop of divine elixir of creation, and its fur grew ever darker and shinier.

Suddenly, the black cat's mind flashed with the origin of the bronze tripod: it was a sacrificial treasure cauldron used by ancient ancestors to worship immortals, capable of condensing the divine elixir of creation, which has many miraculous effects such as improving constitution and activating bloodlines.

"Da, Luo, Jue..." the black cat spat out human words in a female voice, haltingly uttering the name of a cultivation manual, which also appeared in its mind.

Many such cases exist like Tang Yu's—numerous ancient spiritual treasures, deprived of spiritual nourishment, have become ordinary objects, scattered across the human world.

With the revival of spiritual energy, these spiritual treasures have come back to life one after another, revealing various powers.

……

Upon entering the cave dwelling, everyone discovered it was actually a separate heaven within.

The cave dwelling was not barren like Kunlun Mountain, but instead teemed with vibrant life, immortal spiritual energy flowing—just one breath could extend longevity and benefit health, and this aura was useful even for Lu Yang now.

It's hard to imagine this is a cave dwelling that has endured four hundred thousand years; everything seems untouched by time, fresh as new, as if the owner had just left.

And now the owner of the dwelling has returned.

The soft large bed, casually placed chairs, blankets made from top-grade demon beast pelts, decorative bookshelves... Lu Yang looked at the furnishings in the cave dwelling and found them strikingly familiar—this is exactly what his mental space looks like!

"Ah, I'm home!" The Immortal Fairy's first act upon returning home was to pounce onto the soft large bed, feeling right at ease here.

"This is the home of the Immortal Senior," Bai Shuang and Xia He exclaimed repeatedly; according to myth, this place should be called an immortal abode, wonderfully extraordinary.

The two women were quickly drawn to the objects on the bookshelf—the books on the shelf are decorations, and these objects are likewise.

Though they couldn't discern the origin of these objects, aesthetic sense is universal; they merely glanced and felt these bronze mirrors, vases, and incense burners were exquisitely crafted, with patterns dazzlingly beautiful, leaving them unable to look away.

"These are all top-tier immortal treasures," Lu Yang sighed; a half-immortal possessing even one immortal treasure would regard it as life itself, yet here in the Immortal's abode, they're piled up like cabbages.

For instance, the vase contains some immortal dew—just one drop can let a demon beast transform and grow into a thousand-year-old great demon; this would be useless to the Immortal Fairy, placed here just for looks.

Lu Yang clicked his tongue; he's doing quite well now, yet the cave dwelling is still rather impoverished—where does the Immortal Fairy get such extravagance?

"Take whatever you like," the Immortal Fairy said generously, as the saying goes: "He who takes another's hand shortens himself; having taken something, don't dwell on her little Yangzi."

"That's not proper," the two women said awkwardly; they didn't know the Immortal Fairy's ulterior motives, merely hearing Lu Yang describe these things as precious, they felt embarrassed to take.

"What are these?" They accidentally stepped on the transparent stones on the ground, like glass, scattered everywhere, seemingly arranged according to some pattern.

"Empty spirit stones." Lu Yang picked one up and then casually tossed it aside; these are all top-grade spirit stones, their spiritual energy having already dispersed with the opening of the cave dwelling's seal, spreading to the outside world, improving Blue Star's environment.

Suddenly Lu Yang froze, picked up a spirit stone to study, then picked up several more in succession, discovering these spirit stones were completely intact, not as he had previously thought—spirit stones shattered, leaking spiritual energy that gathered in the cave dwelling.

In other words, these spirit stones were extracted by the former Immortal Fairy for her cultivation?

Soon Lu Yang realized something: this cave dwelling is not only the Immortal Fairy's home, but also her place of cultivation.

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When Lu Yang underwent the Soul Transformation tribulation, he encountered a thought left by Ying Tian Xian in the heavenly tribulation; according to that thought, after entering the cave dwelling, the Immortal Fairy was ambushed by the hidden hand half an hour later, and he didn't even notice how the hidden hand entered the cave dwelling.

This also means the Immortal Fairy's cave dwelling is likewise her place of immortal demise!

The hidden hand struck here!

Judging by the Immortal Fairy's relaxed state upon returning home, she likely hasn't yet realized this.

Lu Yang recalls the Immortal Fairy has always been amnesiac about the circumstances of her assassination, unable to remember what happened then.

Originally lying on the bed, the Immortal Fairy sat up, let out a soft "yi," stroked her chin and walked out of the cave dwelling, then re-entered, sat before the table and gestured twice, as if writing something, then counted the spirit stones on the ground, sat cross-legged on the bed—standard Dao-contemplation posture.

"Immortal, what's wrong with you?" Lu Yang saw the Immortal Fairy's strange movements, pulled Bai Shuang and Xia He to one side to prevent her from bumping into them.

Lu Yang vaguely sensed what the Immortal Fairy was doing.

"This immortal always feels like I've cultivated following this process—enter, write insights, retreat to bed for seclusion; strange, why does my impression feel so hazy?" She didn't hear Lu Yang's question, immersed in her own world, murmuring softly, making Lu Yang's heart skip a beat.

The Immortal Fairy sat cross-legged on the bed for a moment, drew out an "oh——" sound, then suddenly enlightened.

"I recall now—I did have some insight back then, so I hurried to the cave dwelling to retreat and cultivate."

"Let me think what insight I had then... ah, I recall—I thought of how to break through omniscience, preparing to break through to the Omniscience Realm in one go!"

Upon hearing this, Lu Yang felt as if struck by lightning; the terrifying thought flashed in his mind, and the long-standing puzzle that had troubled him finally clicked into place.

Wrong—his past reasoning was all wrong; the hidden hand's realm is not that of an immortal, but of transcendence!

(End of Chapter)