Chapter 154: The Peak Master's Wife
Mount Nether Capital, inside a quiet room.
Lu Yang sat cross-legged, silently circulating a secret method to contact Banner Spirit Chen Xin’an inside Heaven-Mending Peak. Soon, he saw Banner Spirit Chen Xin’an’s situation.
At this time, Banner Spirit Chen Xin’an was completely different from the beginning. The Heaven-Mending Peak Master spent a huge sum to condense a physical body for him and helped him improve his cultivation. There was no lack of heavenly treasures and earthly rarities. After so many years, he had now achieved great accomplishment in cultivation, reaching Great Perfection of Qi Refining, and could already charge at Foundation Establishment.
“This is quite an opportunity for you.”
Lu Yang nodded. Actually, most of the Banner Spirits in the Myriad Spirits Banner couldn’t improve their strength. After all, strictly speaking, Banner Spirits were already dead.
However, the few leading Banner Spirits were different.
Su Nü, Patriarch Nether Whisper, the Divided Spirit of the Heaven-Mending Peak Master, Chen Xin’an, and the newly collected soul of the Yun Family Ancestor—essentially, they all entered the banner as living people.
Such Banner Spirits had a chance to return to life.
And for them, the Myriad Spirits Banner was more of a restraint, preventing them from harming Lu Yang, but not restricting their own cultivation progress.
It was just that among these Banner Spirits, Chen Xin’an was the weakest. After all, other Banner Spirits had a Foundation Establishment foundation, only he didn’t. If the Heaven-Mending Peak Master hadn’t made great efforts, smashing an unknown amount of spiritual resources and materials before and after, he probably wouldn’t have his current cultivation.
“All thanks to the Master’s promotion.”
Inside Heaven-Mending Peak, Banner Spirit Chen Xin’an took out the Golden Body Relic just sent by the Heaven-Mending Peak Master without a word: “Master, this is subordinate’s harvest…”
Lu Yang was very satisfied with Banner Spirit Chen Xin’an’s attitude.
Although he didn’t care about a mere Golden Body Relic, this was a matter of attitude. He could refuse it, but Banner Spirit Chen Xin’an couldn’t not give it!
Seeing Banner Spirit Chen Xin’an understanding the way so well, he was also much relieved.
“Keep it.”
Lu Yang shook his head: “Since you have an opportunity, you must grasp it. If you can achieve Foundation Establishment this time, it will count as a help to me in the future.”
“…This subordinate understands.”
Hearing this, Banner Spirit Chen Xin’an also felt somewhat emotional about his good luck. If Lu Yang hadn’t personally selected him back then, he would probably still be an ordinary Banner Spirit in the Myriad Spirits Banner now. Actually, being an ordinary Banner Spirit wasn’t bad, but a Foundation Establishment Banner Spirit had a broader sky and ocean for him!
Seeing this, Lu Yang also nodded.
In the next second, his lips opened and closed. A Divine Ability brilliance burst forth between his words, and he decreed loudly: “Myriad Spirits Banner, Chen Xin’an, can build a Great Dao Foundation!”
[Clarify Right and Wrong]!
Lu Yang previously used this Divine Ability to enhance Zhao Xuhe, helping him increase his chance of Foundation Establishment by ten percent. Now he used it on Chen Xin’an as well.
“This body of Banner Spirit Chen Xin’an is made of Foundation Establishment rare treasures, having a ten percent chance itself. Plus the Rank 3 [Heaven-Mending True Qi], Great Divine Ability, and Golden Body Relic, that’s a forty percent chance. With my Divine Ability enhancement, fifty percent chance. It counts as a high chance even among Direct Disciples.”
Thinking of this, Lu Yang’s expression became somewhat strange.
After all, he just said a sentence with his Divine Ability, while the Heaven-Mending Peak Master spent money and effort, racking his brains to help him cultivate a Foundation Establishment…
Would this hurt him too much?
Just then, Lu Yang suddenly raised his eyebrows. He saw the evening breeze blowing, but a fragrance appeared out of thin air. A graceful woman walked over riding the fragrance.
The woman was as beautiful as a flower and moon, wearing a fiery red long dress, delicate and charming like a blooming rose. Yet her demeanor was dignified; at a glance, she was a noble lady who had occupied a high position for a long time.
At this moment, she curtsied slightly, her red lips parting: “This concubine Ruoxiang greets Fellow Daoist Yuan Tu.”
Lu Yang raised his eyebrows slightly upon seeing this. He immediately calculated with his fingers, then revealed a look of surprise: “Heaven-Mending Peak actually has a second Foundation Establishment Perfected One?”
Never heard of it before!
Ruoxiang seemed to have seen Lu Yang’s surprise as well and chuckled lightly: “This concubine attained the Dao long ago, but cultivation is not high, so for a hundred years I have always lived in seclusion and rarely went out.”
“Fellow Daoist Yuan Tu attained the Dao recently; it is normal not to know this concubine.”
Although she said so, it was probably also because Ruoxiang deliberately concealed her background. At this moment, however, she specifically opened up to Lu Yang, actively revealing her karma.
“So that’s how it is.”
With Ruoxiang’s active cooperation, Lu Yang quickly calculated the ins and outs and said strangely, “Fellow Daoist came to see me hiding it from Senior Heaven-Mending; this isn’t very good, right?”
“What’s not good?”
Hearing this, Ruoxiang curled her red lips: “That old thing is wholeheartedly protecting someone else; where does he have time to care about me? Relax, he won’t discover it.”
As her voice fell, this Heaven-Mending Peak Master’s wife first looked around, then took out a red gauze and offered it into the air. In an instant, the red gauze covered the entire grand hall. Being inside it, Lu Yang clearly felt that this Spirit Treasure actually had the effect of concealing karma.
At this moment, once the red gauze fell, inside and outside were isolated.
Unless one had a supreme heavenly secret treasure like the [Investigating Heaven Sphere] just like him, whatever happened inside the red gauze wouldn’t be detected by outsiders.
Lu Yang raised his eyebrows slightly upon seeing this: “What exactly does Fellow Daoist want to do?”
As soon as these words came out, Ruoxiang said faintly: “To be honest, this concubine wishes to kill Chen Taihe!”
As her voice fell, Lu Yang was instantly stunned, but soon reacted: “…Fellow Daoist wants to kill Senior Heaven-Mending; what does it have to do with me?”
“Because you also want to harm him!”
Ruoxiang smiled: “This concubine knows about the transaction between him and you. But as a Saint Sect Perfected One, if not for having other plans, how could you easily give that Relic to him?”
Lu Yang: “…”
Its the aftereffect of detonating the earth vein.
Fortunately, looking at this Peak Master’s wife’s words and attitude, she should be on his side… Having said that, Lu Yang still didn’t trust the other party easily.
“Fellow Daoist need not be suspicious.” Seeing this, Ruoxiang said softly, “Although this concubine and Chen Taihe became Dao Companions, it was actually just for cultivation. The son and daughter we raised also have their own uses… However, now Chen Taihe ignores this concubine’s needs, so this concubine naturally has to find another way.”
Needs not met?
“What do you mean by this?” Lu Yang asked curiously.
Ruoxiang sighed upon hearing this: “This concubine doesn’t have much lifespan in this life. In another thirty years, I will have to reincarnate, and this is already this concubine’s second reincarnation.”
“And this concubine’s cultivation is limited. In this third life, it will probably be difficult to break the Mystery of the Womb.”
Although Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones could theoretically reincarnate five times, in reality, only the first reincarnation was a sure thing, with a ninety percent hope of returning to the Foundation Establishment position.
But starting from the second reincarnation, the difficulty would increase drastically. Perfected Ones with insufficient Dao cultivation would very likely be trapped by the Mystery of the Womb after reincarnation, becoming ordinary people from then on.
Generally speaking, only at the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment could one return steadily in the second reincarnation.
Late Stage of Foundation Establishment, safe for four lives.
Only by reaching Foundation Establishment Perfection could one truly live for five lives, passing through a thousand years of time, like Patriarch Nether Whisper who survived in the secret realm until now.
And from Lu Yang’s perspective, Madam Ruoxiang hadn’t even condensed a Life-Bound Divine Ability.
With such Dao cultivation, the second reincarnation was indeed fraught with crisis. No wonder she was anxious… But what did this have to do with the Heaven-Mending Peak Master?
“This concubine knows my cultivation is shallow, Dao cultivation insufficient, and reincarnation difficult. Therefore, I specifically requested a secret method from the Saint Sect.” Madam Ruoxiang’s red lips parted slightly as she explained softly, “This method is named [Two Bodies One Heart True Method]. It allows this concubine to merge souls with a blood descendant.”
“Once the secret method is accomplished, this concubine can share all insights and experiences with the other party.”
“In this way, even if this concubine reincarnates, I can quickly break the Mystery of the Womb through the connection of the secret method, thereby awakening past life memories.”
Hearing this, Lu Yang already understood.
The Heaven-Mending Peak Master wanted to use his children to substitute for his tribulation, wanting his children to die. Madam Ruoxiang wanted her children to awaken her reincarnated body, wanting her children to live.
—This is a Dao Struggle!
Thus, it was no wonder this Peak Master’s wife said she wanted to kill the Heaven-Mending Peak Master as soon as she entered the door. After all, if she didn’t kill him, the one who died would be herself.
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