Chapter 102: It Had to Be You, Senior Brother Zhao
The plan was perfect, but reality was cruel.
“I didn’t choose the cultivation base from my previous life, so the progress for the two great Divine Abilities, the Grand Yin Corpse Liberation Transformation True Method and the Severing Thoughts to See Self Silkworm Secret, hasn’t been inherited either. Recultivating them will take time.”
Fortunately, with the Protector God Su Nü, he didn’t need to go through all kinds of twists and turns like in the previous life. By directly using the stature of the Foundation Establishment realm to boost his cultivation of Divine Abilities, it would take at most a few months to refine his Divine Sense back to the Foundation Establishment level and regain the stature of a [Corpse Liberation Immortal], restoring his cultivation to the peak state of his past life.
Thinking of this, Lu Yang wasn’t in a hurry to execute his plan.
After all, this was throwing sand right under the eyelids of a Foundation Establishment Perfected One. Just in case, it wouldn’t be too late to execute the plan after he returned to his peak.
He walked out of the Cave Abode and met up with Liu Xin.
From Liu Xin’s hands, he obtained half a volume of the Primordial Dao Scripture.
After watching the other party leave, Lu Yang used a camouflage technique to hide his figure, performed a divination with his fingers, and then arrived at a remote Cave Abode on Heaven-Mending Peak.
At this moment, roars of anger were coming from inside the Cave Abode: “My opportunity! That was my opportunity, but it was stolen by someone else… Be rational? How can you ask me to be rational? What do I have left to be rational with?”
That was Zhao Xuhe’s voice.
Sure enough, with Lu Yang’s appearance, the inheritance of Perfected One Coiled Dragon had vanished. Zhao Xuhe had once again fallen into the trough of his life and was currently cursing loudly.
Not long after, the door of the Cave Abode opened, and Zhao Xuhe’s old lover, Fairy Qinghe, walked out with a cold expression on her pretty face. She turned back to say, “Zhao Xuhe, we’re breaking up,” then strode away without any lingering affection. Lu Yang calculated with his fingers; she was likely heading towards Liu Xin’s Cave Abode…
Sounds of smashing and crashing came from inside the Cave Abode again.
Lu Yang opened his spiritual eye and soon saw Zhao Xuhe venting his anger inside. He then smiled faintly. “Senior Brother Zhao, it really had to be you!”
In this life, his greatest enemy was undoubtedly Arhat Fu Long.
Because he didn’t intend to scatter his cultivation and start over—after all, Rank 3 True Arts were rare to begin with. Aside from the Nine Transformations Dragon Art, the rest were all Saint Sect cultivation methods.
But the Saint Sect’s cultivation methods… felt even more unstable.
At least with the Nine Transformations Dragon Art, he already knew what the hidden danger was. As for the Saint Sect’s Rank 3 True Arts, they were still like flowers seen through the fog to him.
Therefore, he might as well try to find a solution within the Nine Transformations Dragon Art.
“Although the cultivation method does indeed have hidden dangers, this danger should only target Qi Refining cultivators. Otherwise, why would Fu Long come specifically when I was breaking through to Foundation Establishment?”
“Wouldn’t the yield be greater if he came to harvest me after I reached Foundation Establishment?”
“But he didn’t do that… The only possibility is that once I successfully reach Foundation Establishment, I can escape his control, so he had to stop me beforehand!”
In other words, as long as he could break through to Foundation Establishment under Fu Long’s obstruction, he could break the deadlock!
Having said that, Lu Yang had plenty of self-awareness. Arhat Fu Long had already refined one Heavenly Spirit; a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivation base was absolutely not something he could contend with.
At least, not something he could contend with before reaching Foundation Establishment.
So he couldn’t fight hard; he had to fight smart.
“Although I plan to try and secure a Direct Disciple position in the Saint Sect to protect myself in this life, I can’t pin all my hopes on the Saint Sect.”
After all, that was the Saint Sect.
A cunning rabbit has three burrows, so how much more so should a human?
So Lu Yang needed to have a backup plan, or even several backup plans, to ensure he could handle it when Arhat Fu Long inevitably came for him.
And Zhao Xuhe was one of the backup plans Lu Yang had selected.
In the next second, Lu Yang directly circulated his divine sense and brutally surged into Zhao Xuhe’s mind.
As the influence of drunkenness faded, Zhao Xuhe suddenly opened his eyes. Between half-dream and half-wakefulness, a flood of fragmented memories abruptly surged into his heart.
“Where am I…”
Zhao Xuhe looked around blankly. It took a long time for him to come to his senses. It wasn’t until the fragmented memories in his mind gradually became clear that he revealed a look of sudden realization.
“…These are my memories from my previous life!”
In the memories, Zhao Xuhe saw a young man who looked eighty percent like himself, riding the wind, laughing proudly at the world, simply high-spirited and vigorous.
“So that’s how it is… My previous life was actually Perfected One Coiled Dragon!”
Zhao Xuhe had an epiphany.
“No wonder I have an affinity with the cultivation method of that Perfected One Coiled Dragon; that was mine to begin with! As for the merit of three lifetimes, that was also accumulated when I was a Perfected One.”
“As for why I don’t have more memories, nor the aptitude a reincarnated Perfected One should have… that is also normal. The Dao Fruit of a Perfected One is severed after five generations, and I am already the fifth generation of Perfected One Coiled Dragon. My time is approaching its limit, and many divine wonders have been lost. Otherwise, how could I have fallen to such a desolate state?”
Zhao Xuhe had not the slightest doubt about the memories.
After all, the memories were logical and well-founded, interlinked with one another. Even parts that seemed flawed to him could be given a reasonable explanation with a little deduction.
More importantly, one thing in the memories was authentic and true.
“Nine Transformations Dragon Art!”
Zhao Xuhe focused his mind to recall, and the content of the Nine Transformations Dragon Art immediately surfaced in his heart, word for word, even accompanied by corresponding understanding and annotations!
There was no mistake; this was definitely his comprehension of the cultivation method from his previous life!
Besides that, he even had the Dragon Sovereign-Ascension Scripture, which made Zhao Xuhe ecstatic, almost dancing with joy inside the cave abode.
However, his expression soon became grave again.
“In this life, someone is definitely plotting against me!”
Zhao Xuhe thought for a moment, and his clever brain quickly seized upon the mastermind behind the scenes:
“Peak Master of Heaven-Mending Peak!”
If Zhao Xuhe previously held a bit of awe and respect in his heart as a disciple of the Peak Master of Heaven-Mending Peak, now only resentment remained.
“That old thing is a Perfected One himself, so what right does he have to take me, a reincarnated Perfected One, as a disciple? He’s clearly taking advantage of me. Furthermore, the inheritance I left for myself suddenly disappeared, and when I went to ask that old thing, he actually said my fate with the inheritance had ended? He was clearly speaking nonsense and talking drivel…”
Could it be that he took a kickback from the inheritance I left for myself?!
The more Zhao Xuhe thought about it, the angrier he got. It was a long time before he gradually calmed down. “…The old thing is powerful; I can’t let him discover that I’ve awakened my previous life’s memories.”
Endure the humiliation for now!
Wait quietly for the right time!
Zhao Xuhe’s gaze was firm, as if he had truly become that Perfected One Coiled Dragon from his memories who could summon wind and rain. “In this life, I will inevitably return to Foundation Establishment!”
“Even if there are thousands of difficulties and dangers, I will defy the heavens!”
Watching Zhao Xuhe pointing at the sky and swearing an oath inside the Cave Abode, pulling himself together again, Lu Yang smiled with satisfaction.
The so-called “previous life memories” were naturally all fabricated by Lu Yang. With Su Nü’s boost, the current him could also influence others’ thoughts invisibly.
Strictly speaking, the current Zhao Xuhe had already become Lu Yang’s bait.
And the big fish Lu Yang wanted to catch was Arhat Fu Long!
“In this life, I will first help Zhao Xuhe charge towards Foundation Establishment, letting him attract all of Arhat Fu Long’s attention, and then I will charge towards Foundation Establishment.”
This way, he could buy himself time to break through.
To put it plainly, he was using Zhao Xuhe as a shield.
“Senior Brother Zhao, just go in peace. If you can block this calamity for me in this life, I won’t calculate the interest on the Contribution Points you owed me from the life before last…”
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