Chapter 1347

"Transcendence..."

Gazing at the burned-out cultivation notes, the mastermind behind the scenes couldn't help but recall events from ancient and primordial times.

After achieving transcendence, his very existence surpassed causality; his words, actions, and conduct remained untouched by causality, free and unbound, undetectable to all—he could do whatever he wished.

He could incarnate as millions, experience the myriad facets of life, become a tribal chieftain ruling a tribe for hundreds of years, leading it to prosperity and annexing other tribes, or become a lone cultivator, calling friends, drinking and making merry, wandering freely for a thousand years; once he had experienced enough, grown weary, and vanished, the world would correct what he had done.

In that tribe's memory, the chieftain was someone else; among his wandering cultivator friends, no one recalled his existence, and events were explained by other causes.

He had numerous wives and concubines, fathered offspring, and bore no responsibility for his actions.

He was lawless, indulged his desires, committed every conceivable evil, yet bore no responsibility for his actions.

"This is the true immortal—unbound by anything."

Even knowing that the five ancient immortals had successively attained immortality, he gave it no thought.

Becoming an immortal—what of it? The final result was merely the same transcendence as his; he remained untouched by causality, and his existence would not affect later cultivators achieving transcendence.

But he never imagined that after becoming an immortal, the path was not singular—besides transcendence, there was also omniscience.

To avoid affecting himself, he ambushed the immortal Bai Zi during her breakthrough, assuming it would be as before: his actions left no karmic trace, and the world would forget Bai Zi.

For ordinary immortals, he could achieve karmic detachment—for instance, during the Xin Fire Dynasty, he assassinated the Sui Yue Immortal, yet the Qilin Immortal's mind automatically surfaced a memory of him killing the Sui Yue Immortal—this was grafting his generated karma onto the Qilin Immortal.

Yet his target was precisely Bai Zi.

That event occurred long ago, and only then did the mastermind comprehend: Bai Zi was half a step into omniscience, her karma too heavy to be fully erased, causing the world to forget her, but the four ancient immortals had not entirely forgotten.

"Back then, I wasn't familiar enough with the omniscience realm." The mastermind sighed; after all, it was uncharted territory—had he known more, he would surely have chosen a different method against Bai Zi, not such a crude approach.

Four hundred thousand years passed, and his understanding of the omniscience realm had grown sufficient to know that no one in the present era would ascend to transcendence and expose his identity.

"Although Lu Yang is karmically entangled, each of his actions affecting the world, the Source Dao Fruit severs karma—it cannot achieve omniscience."

"Despite the immortal Bai Zi possessing the Immortal Dao Fruit and having undergone a breakthrough, that breakthrough was interrupted by me, and much of her accumulated karma dissipated with the fading of public memory."

"After her revival, she has remained attached to Lu Yang's mental space; during this period, the karma generated transferred to Lu Yang, making omniscience equally unattainable."

Naturally, he too could not achieve omniscience—he had already walked the path of transcendence; to become omniscient, he must abolish his cultivation and start anew.

……

After the four returned to the villa, several days passed before they noticed that the spiritual energy overflowing from the cave dwelling had actually plunged Blue Star into an era of spiritual energy revival.

Because senior officials had proactively approached Xia He, saying a mysterious energy had recently appeared, and according to the Zhengyi Sect, Long Hu Mountain, and other orthodox sects, this mysterious energy was called "spiritual energy," capable of cultivation, rendering one immune to all poisons and curing all diseases, making Xia He's illness potentially treatable.

"It's a good thing." Xia He said calmly, without further response.

She suspected the other party's purpose was not merely to inform her of this good news but also to express a desire to meet Lu Yang; Lu Yang considered his identity on Blue Star unique—having once ruled Blue Star, his prestige surpassed Xia He's, and meeting the current rulers of Blue Star might prove awkward, so he did not present himself.

The attention of Blue Star's senior officials involuntarily fell upon the fruit platter on the table; normally, when they of this rank met, a fruit platter here was merely decorative, yet he always felt this platter had a certain "fragrance"?

Not the scent of food, but more like a yearning rising from the depths of the soul.

He ate a piece of peach with a toothpick, astonished to feel his entire body become extraordinarily clear, his body much lighter, and various age-related ailments self-healed.

Was this the fruit brought by General Lu?

This reminded him of the mythical peach of longevity; the old Celestial Master of Zhengyi once said that mythical rarities were not merely legends but had once existed—only in the Dharma-ending age did they vanish.

Elder Xia could not possibly be unaware of these fruits' effects; her ability to consume such fruit—was it genuine, or was her time truly at an end?

After the Blue Star officials departed, Lu Yang finally appeared.

"I never expected that the Zhengyi Sect actually knew of spiritual energy—they likely obtained some ancient texts." Lu Yang smiled; spiritual energy's revival was undoubtedly a good thing for Blue Star.

Originally, his plan was to establish a spatial gate between the Cultivation Realm and Blue Star, but seeing Blue Star's current state, it might be better to let Blue Star develop on its own for a time.

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"I'll give Blue Star a push." Lu Yang said; now that spiritual energy had just revived, everyone stood at the same starting line, officials included, and during the revival phase, many problems might arise.

Cultivators fare well enough—low cultivation causes little disturbance—but the problem lies in the scattered spiritual treasures across the land, which are absolute killing weapons; given the officials' current capabilities, they struggle to resolve them, so Lu Yang decided to reside at his ancestral home for a while to help Blue Star through the initial phase.

"What do you need me to do?" Xia He asked.

"Write some basic principles of spiritual energy usage and spiritual root testing methods; once done, you will hand these materials to the senior officials."

Then Lu Yang produced another storage ring—the storage ring of the evil monk Ban Bu.

"Then let's add some spiritual energy to Blue Star."

A storage ring from an old Tribulation Transcendence cultivator, containing a considerable amount of spirit stones; Lu Yang forcibly removed the seal, took out piles of spirit stones, crushed them into fragments, released the spiritual energy, and made Blue Star's spiritual energy even denser.

"Wow, so many spirit stones." Bai Shuang saw these spirit stones and her eyes lit up; since encountering spiritual energy, she realized what bitter days she had endured before—though an innate spirit, she could not unleash even one ten-thousandth of her innate spirit's power, a disgrace to innate spirits.

"They've all scattered away." Bai Shuang stared, eyes wide, as waves of spiritual energy drifted off, her mouth watering.

"With me here, how could Bai Jie's spirit stones be lacking?" Lu Yang joked, producing piles of top-grade spirit stones from his identity jade tablet; though compared to Bai Zi he was penniless, compared to Tribulation Transcendence cultivators he was rich enough to make them envious.

"From now on, Bai Jie's cultivation resources—I'll cover them all."

Bai Shuang had never imagined that being kept could be so happy.

(End of Chapter)