Chapter 148: A Future Pillar of the Saint Sect!

Northern Frontier, Divine Martial Sect.

Lu Yang strolled leisurely among the pavilions and terraces, still in the mood to admire the surrounding scenery, as if he were just a young scholar out for a spring outing.

However, above his head, rolling clouds and mist had already covered the entire Divine Martial Sect at some point. Yet, the group of cultivators inside the Divine Martial Sect were completely unaware of this. They were still cultivating, fighting, and conversing, as if these clouds and mist were just illusions in their eyes, fundamentally nonexistent…

Within the clouds and mist, thousands of lightning snakes wandered.

From beginning to end, this strange phenomenon didn’t kill half a Divine Martial Sect disciple. It just brushed over them, taking away some invisible things.

—Merit, qi destiny.

All Divine Martial Sect disciples tainted by the clouds and mist, even if unaware, discovered their bodies inexplicably became much heavier, as if carrying an extra thousand catties of burden.

Immediately afterward, Lu Yang raised his head to look into the sky.

The [Investigating Heaven Sphere] at the center of his eyebrows blossomed with brilliance, allowing him to see clearly. At this moment, countless gazes were falling upon this place of the Divine Martial Sect!

He saw Perfected One Chong Guang’s approving gaze.

He saw the Pure Land Arhat shaking his head and sighing.

Of course, these people didn’t come here in person. Instead, they calculated karma and looked over from afar through the ubiquitous great web of karma between heaven and earth.

And under their gaze, Lu Yang smiled effortlessly.

In the next second, the clouds and mist converged, rising and falling like tides, finally all flowing into Lu Yang’s palm, transforming into a fruit interwoven from merit and qi luck.

Squish.

Lu Yang put the fruit into his mouth, swallowing the fruit flesh in big mouthfuls. With red lips and white teeth, he feasted heartily, eating and wiping clean the merit and qi luck accumulated by the Divine Martial Sect for many years.

While gnawing, Lu Yang didn’t forget to come to the treasure vault of the Divine Martial Sect. Opening it casually, he then picked up a storage bag and stored everything indiscriminately like swallowing dates whole. There was no lack of Spirit Treasures, cultivation methods, and even various pills. It could be said he scraped the many precious collections of the Divine Martial Sect completely clean.

Such a drastic change in qi luck naturally alarmed the two Perfected Ones of the Divine Martial Sect.

“The sect… the sect has been stolen!”

Perfected One Huan Wu took out a precious mirror almost immediately, illuminating the scene inside the sect. Seeing Lu Yang’s leisurely figure, his eyes instantly split with rage:

“It’s Lu Yang! He is not at Skull Mountain; he is at the Divine Martial Sect!”

For a time, whether it was Perfected One Huan Wu or Perfected One Xuan Wu, they only felt cold in their hearts. All their hot blood turned completely into a bone-piercing, unspeakable chill.

Finished! All finished!

Arhat Fu Long turned his head abruptly upon hearing this. Immediately afterward, he performed a hand seal directly, casting his Life-Bound Divine Ability at all costs, wanting to return to the Divine Martial Sect immediately.

Soon, a familiar resistance struck.

Clearly, this was Lu Yang using [Determine Intimacy and Distance] to block him. However, this time Arhat Fu Long was prepared. Majestic spiritual power surged out instantly.

“You can’t stop me!”

Arhat Fu Long transmitted his voice with full killing intent. After all, he was at the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment. Lu Yang, a mere Initial Stage Foundation Establishment, what did he have to compete in spiritual power with him?

Then he heard a light chuckle:

“Many thanks to Fellow Daoist for sending me off. I bid farewell here.”

In the next second, Arhat Fu Long pierced through the void and arrived at the Divine Martial Sect in one step, but only saw Lu Yang leaving gracefully, and the brilliance of the Divine Ability remaining in place.

Floating away, free and unfettered.

Arhat Fu Long saw clearly that the place the other party escaped to was impressively the Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea of the Saint Sect. The karma of the eight hundred li Skull Mountain hadn’t tainted him even a bit!

“Preposterous… Preposterous!!!”

Arhat Fu Long was so angry his Golden Body was about to explode. He almost lost his reason to chase into the Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea, but stopped at the last moment, calming down.

After all, if he really dared to charge into the Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea, that would be seeking his own death. Even the Bodhisattvas of the Pure Land wouldn’t save him, let alone killing Lu Yang.

“Luring the tiger away from the mountain… What a ‘luring the tiger away from the mountain’!”

Only at this moment did Arhat Fu Long truly understand Lu Yang’s scheme— from beginning to end, Lu Yang probably never thought of fighting him head-on!

Using Zhao Xuhe to fish him away, then detonating the earth vein, using Heavenly Punishment to severely damage his merit and qi luck. Meanwhile, he took this good opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the Divine Martial Sect, swallowing all the benefits alone, and finally floating away… Even though Arhat Fu Long suffered such a big loss, he had to admit Lu Yang’s formidability.

Truly a coward, a living old turtle.

This was something Arhat Fu Long completely hadn’t expected. After all, before today, looking at Lu Yang’s experiences, who dared to say he wasn’t a proud son of heaven?

Such a genius should be advancing bravely and diligently.

In fact, Lu Yang also behaved this way on the Dao Seizing battlefield, slaughtering Qi Refining cultivators, high-spirited and vigorous, entering the myriad armies as if entering an uninhabited land.

Looking back now, it was all fake!

This bastard was clearly only advancing bravely and diligently against lower realm cultivators. Against the same realm, or even higher realm cultivators, he was treading on thin ice, cautious and timid.

“Miscalculated!”

Arhat Fu Long sighed to the sky, yet was unwilling to reconcile… Because Lu Yang’s scheme was indeed formidable, but fundamentally, a problem still existed—

This move couldn’t kill him.

Thinking of this, Arhat Fu Long couldn’t understand no matter how much he thought: “My qi destiny is now severely damaged by Heavenly Punishment. Even an Initial Stage Foundation Establishment might possibly kill me…”

“With such a good opportunity, why didn’t he take action?”

If Lu Yang really chose to fight a great battle with him, Arhat Fu Long would just fight desperately at worst. However, now, he felt he couldn’t exert his strength anywhere.

“What exactly does he want to do?”

Primordial Saint Sect, Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea.

Lu Yang used [Determine Intimacy and Distance] to return to Mount Nether Capital in one step. He had already thrown the matter of the Northern Frontier to the back of his mind because he had perfectly achieved his set goal.

Plundering the merit and qi luck of the Divine Martial Sect.

As for Perfected One Huan Wu and Perfected One Xuan Wu, one didn’t have long to live, the other had limited strength, and both had their merit shaved off. They were not worth mentioning to the Saint Sect.

Besides, weren’t Yu Zhong and the others still there? Lu Yang believed they could handle it well.

Returning to Mount Nether Capital, while counting the spoils of war, Lu Yang made up his mind: “For the next fifty years, I’ll stay in the Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea and won’t go out.”

As for Arhat Fu Long?

“Are you kidding? Why should I fight desperately with a Middle Stage Foundation Establishment? The realm gap is there. If an accident happens, wouldn’t I suffer a huge loss!”

He just needed to wait patiently.

Because he was still young. Breaking through to Foundation Establishment before eighty, he was now only a little over a hundred years old. There were still nearly two hundred years to enjoy slowly.

“Compared to me, Arhat Fu Long has at most thirty or forty years of lifespan left in this life. And with his merit and qi luck completely scattered, after dying in this life, he can only reincarnate as a pig or dog. It’s impossible to return to the Foundation Establishment position. So I just need to wait patiently for thirty or forty years, and naturally, I can sit back and relax!”

From the beginning, Lu Yang saw it very clearly.

Compared to Arhat Fu Long, his cultivation had no advantage, his Spirit Treasures might not be more than the opponent’s, and his experience was far inferior. The only advantage was that he was young!

Time was his biggest capital!

Therefore, all his plans were based on this.

Using the self-destruction of the earth vein to destroy Arhat Fu Long’s chance of reincarnation, and then waiting him out! Wait until he dies of old age, then go dance on his grave.

Fighting with people? Fighting desperately?

Small! The perspective is small!

“Fighting with spiritual power, fighting wih Divine Abilities, in the end, is not as good as fighting with lifespan!”

Thinking of this, Lu Yang could be said to be composed and at ease: “Arhat Fu Long… Hmph! Wait until you die of old age; I’ll go fight a death match with your reincarnated body then!”

Meanwhile, inside Sacred Fire Cliff.

Perfected One Chong Guang withdrew his gaze from the great web of karma. Looking in the direction of Mount Nether Capital, while having a strange expression, he also sighed with emotion. Finally, he couldn’t help but praise—

“This child, in the future, will surely be a pillar of my Saint Sect!”

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