Chapter 134: Cultivating Qi-Eating Insects

Refining Arts Secret Realm, a superior secret realm of the Saint Sect.

In the past, Lu Yang had queued for decades just to use this secret realm, which shows how sought-after it was; almost someone was using it at all times.

However, with his current status and position, he didn’t need to queue anymore.

After greeting Perfected One Yin Shan, a Dharma decree was issued, and the Refining Arts Secret Realm was immediately closed for thirty years, specially sent to his Daoist Rite to assist his cultivation.

“This is the benefit of having someone behind you.”

Lu Yang sighed with emotion. Although he was a newly promoted Perfected One, ordinary newly promoted Perfected Ones didn’t have such privileges as him. The reason traced back was still Perfected One Chong Guang.

As the only Grand Perfected One at Foundation Establishment Perfection within the Saint Sect who currently intended to ascend to the position and attain the fruit, Perfected One Chong Guang not only had cultivation reaching the peak of perfection but was also deeply valued by Perfected Lord Qingcheng Feixue. He could be called the number one person under the Saint Sect Perfected Lords, and the current Lu Yang was his trusted aide.

This influence couldn’t be small.

“Many thanks, fellow Daoist.”

Looking at Perfected One Yin Shan, who personally delivered the secret realm, Lu Yang cupped his hands intimately. “I wonder if Perfected One Chong Guang has any important instructions recently?”

“Yuan Tu, no need to rush.”

Perfected One Yin Shan smiled slightly. “The urgent task for you and me is to first improve our cultivation. Once your cultivation is accomplished, Senior Brother naturally won’t forget you.”

Having said that, Perfected One Yin Shan still approved of Lu Yang’s proactive and willing attitude.

After the two talked for a while, Perfected One Yin Shan took his leave. He had already obtained the [Heavenly Corpse Baleful Qi] and was about to go into seclusion to refine it and break through to the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment.

Watching him leave, the smile on Lu Yang’s face gradually faded.

“Sure enough, haven’t broken through yet?”

In his sixth life, he went into seclusion for thirty years. When he came out, Perfected One Yin Shan had already broken through to the Middle Stage. So it seemed thirty years was a watershed.

Thirty years later, Perfected One Chong Guang would probably come with work.

Undoubtedly, this was an opportunity, but also a risk. To profit from it, he must raise his strength to the limit within these thirty years.

“Start with the Qi-Eating Insects first!”

With a thought, Lu Yang drove his escaping light into the Refining Arts Secret Realm. At the same time, he suddenly remembered a remarkably talented individual from his sixth life.

“Wang Boyuan…”

He created the Qi Gazing Technique himself, using human luck to observe heavenly numbers. His concept even allowed Lu Yang, who didn’t possess stature at that time, to discover the Yun Family Ancestor hiding in the dark.

Undoubtedly, this was a talent.

“I happen to lack a few usable people under my hand. And since I intend to reopen the Shaman Ghost Dao, it wouldn’t make sense without a few highly talented disciples.”

Thinking of this, Lu Yang immediately began to configure the settings for the Refining Arts Secret Realm.

Although he planned to use the one hundred and forty million living people in the secret realm to cultivate Qi-Eating Insects, Lu Yang wouldn’t roughly let the Qi-Eating Insects gorge themselves directly.

“After all, I’m not some great villain.”

Besides, letting the Qi-Eating Insects eat freely would result in too low a utilization rate of the “material.” It would be a one-time harvest akin to draining the pond to catch all the fish; once eaten, there would be no more.

One must know that people grow meat.

They didn’t even need to be raised, because they would fatten themselves up.

So the cultivation plan Lu Yang prepared for the Qi-Eating Insects was to let them coexist with the one hundred and forty million talents in the secret realm, cultivating them intensively and feeding them slowly.

“First, I need a cultivation system based on Qi-Eating Insects.”

“At the beginning of cultivation, everyone has an insect seed and nurtures the insect with their body. Let’s call it the [Fetal Breath Stage], after all, the Qi-Eating Insect hasn’t been born yet at this time.”

“Next, the cultivator needs to use the martial arts method to slowly refine blood qi to feed the insect fetus. When the insect fetus awakens and turns into a larva, it will provide the cultivator with the strength of a thousand jin and an indestructible vajra body, while also being able to devour the spiritual qi of heaven and earth to nourish the physical body… Let’s call this the [Larval Stage]…”

Soon, Lu Yang organized a system.

Larval Stage, Growth Stage, until evolving into the Complete Body, and even the Ultimate Body… the Qi-Eating Insect would break out of the shell, thereby thoroughly growing to its peak.

At that time, every single one would not be inferior to those on the Dao Seizing battlefield.

The quantity would far exceed it!

After all, this was cultivated using one hundred and forty million talents. With a scale of over a hundred million, it might really pose a certain threat to Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones.

And more importantly, when one hundred and forty million people carried insect seeds from birth and passed them down to their descendants when reproducing, the entire secret realm would be completely under his monitoring. As soon as the Yun Family Ancestor reincarnated here, he would discover it immediately!

Thinking of this, Lu Yang immediately opened the jade box.

“Hiss hiss…”

Inside the jade box, the Qi-Eating Insect King also gradually regained consciousness. However, it no longer had the ferocity of the past, instead carrying a bit of heartfelt timidity.

Lu Yang also felt somewhat emotional seeing this.

This was a Child of Destiny of a World Realm, with Heavenly Mandate on its body. If no Perfected Lord had taken action, under the enhancement of the World Realm, its Foundation Establishment would have been almost a certainty!

There was even a precedent for this.

Previously, when chatting with Perfected One Chong Guang and Perfected One Yin Shan, he heard Perfected One Chong Guang mention that an accident occurred in a Dao Seizing War six hundred years ago.

That time, the Perfected Lords of the four parties—Sword Pavilion, Saint Sect, Dao Court, and Pure Land—joined hands to seize a World Realm. At the same time, the level of that World Realm far exceeded ordinary World Realms, so much so that the participants were not Qi Refining cultivators, but Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones entering the field personally, each displaying their Divine Abilities. It was truly a great battle.

However, while the snipe and the clam fought, the fisherman indeed profited in the end.

The Child of Destiny of that World Realm used some unknown method to actually sever karma amidst the four-way chaotic battle and escaped from the World Realm.

Speaking of this, Perfected One Chong Guang sighed with emotion several times:

“Undoubtedly, among the four Perfected Lords presiding over the battlefield at that time, someone definitely helped secretly. Otherwise, how could a Child of Destiny have escaped?”

“It’s just that not a single Perfected Lord admitted it, so in the end, it was left unsettled.”

“As for that Child of Destiny, he fled far overseas.”

“It is said that even today, the other party is still carefree overseas. The Pure Land, Dao Court, Sword Pavilion, and even my Saint Sect all have disciples who fell victim to his poison hand.”

Lu Yang had a fresh memory of this.

Therefore, Lu Yang also placed high hopes on the Qi-Eating Insect. He immediately cast the Great Incarnation Universal Divine Method, preparing to refine it into a Protector God just like Su Nü.

“Hiss hiss…”

As Lu Yang’s spiritual power penetrated, the Qi-Eating Insect had no power to resist at all. Not long after, it was completely refined by Lu Yang and rubbed against Lu Yang’s hand affectionately.

“Go.”

Lu Yang placed the Insect King in his palm to nurture it. As spiritual power was continuously injected, the Insect King also cooperated actively, digesting the spiritual power and starting to reproduce Qi-Eating Insect seeds rapidly.

Only after several years, when the number was sufficient, did Lu Yang formally open the Refining Arts Secret Realm and send these insect seeds out one by one.

What needed to be done next was to wait.

Lu Yang always had plenty of patience. He could just try to condense his Life-Bound Divine Ability. What if he was naturally gifted and could succeed without a heavenly secret treasure?

Time flew by like a white steed passing a crevice.

In the blink of an eye, it was thirty years later.

He didn’t succeed.

“Like this, my talent simply cannot be displayed!”

Lu Yang woke up in exasperation, but suddenly his heart moved slightly… Inside the secret realm, the insect seed inside a newborn baby transmitted a sensation.

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