"Clean up this entire place and leave no traces of the battle today. Unless someone of the Void Refinement Realm comes to investigate, no one would figure out what happened here. With the amount of resources I’ve obtained today, making another breakthrough soon won’t be too difficult. " Kong Junyu said, looking at Qiao Lan.
A shiver jolted through Qiao Lan’s body as she met his gaze and nodded hastily.
Angering Kong Junyu was akin to inviting calamity upon oneself. She definitely didn’t want that.
She quickly left to call other subordinates of Kong Junyu and work with them to clean this place up.
Kong Junyu, on the other hand, was deep in thought.
Since he had killed an important member of the Qingyun Sword Sect along with multiple other powerful experts, they surely wouldn’t sit still. Sooner or later, this would come in light for sure.
However, he had to hide it just for a few centuries at most, and he was sure that by the time he entered the later stages of Void Refinement Realm, he would be able to completely eradicate the Qingyun Sword Sect and rule over the Qingyun Region.
And his cultivation speed may be even faster after getting the Heavenly Spiritual Root and the body of all these Void Refinement Realm cultivators.
World domination is in sight!
With a devious smirk, he turned into a streak of black mist and disappeared into the firmament.
...
3 years later.
The moonlight casted its glow on a valley, surrounded by mountains thousands of feet tall and dense forests, illuminating it as the Yin Qi around grew denser.
Occasional ghastly sounds could be heard everywhere, but the sounds dared not get close to the place at the corner of the valley which emanated more Yang Qi than anywhere else.
At that place, a figure clad in a purple robe could be seen sitting cross-legged, his eyes closed as he exuded a terrifying Yang Spiritual Energy, warding off all ghosts and evil spirits.
He was none other than Lu Qingfeng!
The secret realm had closed quite a while ago, but he had not left this place since then.
After Lu Sheng and his group escaped the secret realm, Lu Qingfeng just cultivated there for the entire time and waited for the opportunity to appear.
However, the opportunity was really not as simple as he had expected.
It was actually an inheritance left behind by a great cultivator who’s realm far exceeded his imagination.
The inheritance included a cultivation technique, Dharma Artifacts with ranks so high he couldn’t verify them, Pills, Array Formation layouts, Talismans, spells and quite a lot of other things.
All the spells and arts, including the cultivation technique, were all Yang based, perfectly suited for Lu Qingfeng, but he felt that his current cultivation technique, the Heavenly Grand Unity Method, was higher than the cultivation technique in the inheritance, so he didn’t cultivate it.
But the spells and other things were highly useful, so he still took all of them with him.
Since then, he had been cultivating here.
Due to the high concentration of Spirit Qi in the secret realm, he had already reached the Seventh Stage of Acquired Realm when he was in there, and despite the Spirit Qi not being as much as in the secret realm after coming outside, he still reached the Eighth Stage of Acquired Realm without much effort with the gains he had obtained from the secret realm.
Right now, he was cultivating the spells of the inheritance.
He had decided that he would leave this place to search for Lu Sheng after successfully cultivating these spells and techniques and increasing his strength so that Lu Sheng can’t escape a second time.
In 50 or so more years, if I still can’t find Lu Sheng, I’ll have to return home.
He thought silently, immersing into his cultivation.
He was truly missing the calm and optimal environment of cultivation that the Eternal Peak provided.
...
Meanwhile, at the Turquoise Lake Sword Manor.
Tian Yongheng was currently in another one of the many cultivation chambers inside of the main palace, comprehending the Sword Dao.
During the time he had been here, he had totally immersed himself into the Sword Dao and gained many insights from discussing the Dao with many other cultivators here, including Zhao Ye and Sun Hao.
But that did not mean he neglected his own cultivation as well.
From his estimation, he may be able to reach the peak of Golden Core Realm in less than 50 years.
Right now, he was trying to delve deeper into the essence of his Sword Dao Divine Power, the Heaven Earth Quintessential Sword Finger.
He knew that just mastering a Divine Power didn’t mean it had achieved its full potential.
A Divine Power could be improved even further. Specially active, offensive and defensive Divine Powers.
Some time later.
He emerged out of the palace, only to see Yan Jingfei and Sun Hao having a sparring session using only their flying swords without using any Spiritual Energy other than controlling their flying swords.
At this moment, Zhao Ye suddenly appeared besides him and said in a somewhat delighted tone of voice, "Fellow daoist, your disciple also seems to be a genius just like you. No one in the Innate Realm has ever been able to continue sparring against Hao’er for this long with just their flying swords and no usage of Spiritual Energy."
Zhao Ye suspected that Yan Jingfei herself was also a Chosen One, since she was only at the Fifth Stage of Innate Realm.
Facing Sun Hao at the Seventh Stage of Innate Realm, who could fight beings beyond his realm, she was actually doing so well.
Yan Jingfei was indeed a Chosen One, however, she did not possess heaven defying talent like the other Chosen Ones, but only had her foundation, experience, and knowledge of her past life as a cheat.
She wasn’t even able to remember much of the profound spells and techniques she had cultivated in her past life because of her limited cultivation.
But just having experience of being in the cultivation world for over a hundred thousand years and a foundation beforehand was enough for her to be able to fight against beings beyond her cultivation base, although not too much stronger than her.
Hearing Zhao Ye’s words, Tian Yongheng just gave a polite nod, though which seemed arrogant because of his expressionless face.
Zhao Ye did not mind that, as he had already come to known what kind of person Tian Yongheng was.
Tian Yongheng, on the other hand, couldn’t help but contemplate on whether should he impart some sword skills to Yan Jingfei.
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But at another thought, he did not have any other sword skills other than the 108 Celestial Swords and the Immortal Slaying Stellar Sword Formation, both of which were his main offensive arts.
He had also imparted the 108 Celestial Swords to Lu Qingfeng, and did not want multiple of his disciples to have the same kind of combat techniques.
He could impart the Heaven Earth Quintessential Sword Finger to her too, but the mental exhaustion and Spiritual Energy consumption of that Divine Power would be too great for her to handle, not to mention that it was a Divine Power which mortals should not wield, otherwise, it would cause them severe backlash.
He could wield them because of his great Providence, but Yan Jingfei’s Providence was not as powerful as his own.
As he thought of this, he noticed the moves both Sun Hao and Yan Jingfei made with their flying swords.
And soon enough, due to the influence of the Sword Heart, he got immersed in comprehension, and sat down in a lotus position right there, closing his eyes.
A few hours passed, and the spar ended, but Tian Yongheng did not move an inch from there. Seeing him like that, Yan Jingfei, Zhao Ye, and Sun Hao all understood that he had attained enlightenment.
Although Yan Jingfei was quite confused as to why a being who had already reached the position of an Immortal God once in the past would get enlightenment from a spar between mere junior cultivators, she did not doubt him.
They all left him alone, and a few months passed just like that.
At this moment, he slowly opened his eyes as he took a deep breath, watching the moon hanging high in the sky.
He had just created an entirely new and extremely overpowered sword technique, and couldn’t help but want to try it out.
He pulled his consciousness into the Simulation Battle Trial along with Zhao Ye, and the simulation started.
7 days later, he came out of the simulation.
His breathing was calm, but inwardly, he was extremely excited.
He knew that having a wide range of combat techniques could cause a major impact in any battle, but he didn’t know that a single sword technique could directly reduce the time it took him to defeat Zhao Ye from more than a month to a mere week.
From witnessing the power of the sword technique in the simulation, he had already decided on a name for it.
’Karma Severing Sword Art’.