Chapter 167: Su Nü's Endless Suffering

Chen Xinghai finally accepted reality with helplessness.

In his view, perhaps he was just unlucky this time, and the accident he encountered wasn’t covered by the Immortal Alliance’s insurance.

However, for Lu Yang, who had experienced hundreds of battles in the Saint Sect, he saw through this little trick of the Immortal Alliance almost at a glance. Speaking of which, it was nothing unusual.

“This Immortal Alliance’s Natural Disaster Insurance only covers natural disasters on the sea, but not the Ghost Cloud. Yet the ship has talisman protection, so ordinary natural disasters can’t do anything to it.”

This led to a paradox.

You encountered the Ghost Cloud. Why did you, a sea citizen, break into the Ghost Cloud? Did the Ghost Cloud come up to you itself? Evidence? None? Then you are defrauding insurance.

You encountered a sea natural disaster? Why could the sea natural disaster break through the protection of the ship’s talisman? This is obviously unreasonable; you still have suspicion of defrauding insurance.

Don’t ask; asking means claim denied.

Of course, the Immortal Alliance wouldn’t do it so blatantly. Lu Yang estimated that every year the Immortal Alliance should deliberately pay out to a batch of people, and then promote it vigorously.

Lu Yang was all too familiar with this style. Like Chen Xinghai, the million sea citizens were all “straw” planted by the Immortal Alliance, harvested once every period of time… Even after Lu Yang just understood this mechanism, his eyes rolled, and he thought of a plan to carry it forward.

So far, the Natural Disaster Insurance launched by the Immortal Alliance was very expensive.

Only helmsmen like Chen Xinghai who owned a large ship could afford it. The boat masters on the ship didn’t need to buy insurance, which was obviously a waste of “human resources.”

In Lu Yang’s view, the Immortal Alliance could totally launch personal insurance, reporting safety.

Of course, few people would buy this kind of insurance. After all, for sea citizens, being on the sea was already nine deaths and one life; a single careless mistake meant being buried in fish bellies.

Even if they bought personal insurance, they couldn’t receive the payout if they died.

So to promote sales, they could release rumors… buying personal insurance might be useless, but not buying it might lead to being dispatched by the Immortal Alliance to dangerous sea areas…

Doing it this way, wouldn’t the sales channel open up?

This wasn’t even Lu Yang’s original creation. On the Righteous-Demonic battlefield, a Saint Sect Perfected One had operated like this before, making a huge profit afterwards.

Retracting his thoughts, Lu Yang looked at that middle-aged man again.

He was very patient. Waiting until the other party finished communicating with Chen Xinghai and left riding an escaping light, only then did he quietly follow. He ensured no one was within a thousand li range before taking action.

Grabbing with one hand, instant soul searching.

As a bottom-level sea citizen, Chen Xinghai didn’t know many things. As a Sea Patrolling Envoy of the Immortal Alliance, the middle-aged man definitely knew more useful intelligence.

Under his soul searching, more information was dug out.

“This place is the northwest corner of the Turbulent Flow Sea. The corresponding Immortal Alliance port is currently controlled by the ‘Divine Firmament Sect’. There is a Core Formation Patriarch sitting in the sect…”

Seeing this, Lu Yang instantly sucked in a breath of cold air!

What kind of Divine Firmament Sect was this? Its strength could actually be mentioned in the same breath as the first-class great sects below the Saint Sect in Jiangbei, having a Golden Core Perfected Lord presiding over it.

Although the memory was somewhat vague, calling him Core Formation Patriarch, the core formed was also a Golden Core. Overseas and inland, different regions having different names was also normal. The only pity was that this person didn’t obtain the complete inheritance of the “Divine Firmament Sect,” and the cultivation technique in his hand only had the Qi Refining part.

“This person is named Situ Zheng, cultivation at Qi Refining… hmm?”

Searching the soul to this point, Lu Yang was suddenly stunned. Because in this Situ Zheng’s memory, the so-called “Qi Refining” actually had a full twelve levels of realm!

“How come there are two extra levels?”

Lu Yang frowned tightly, simply extracting the cultivation technique from his mind directly. Fortunately, the opponent’s sea of consciousness didn’t have any restriction methods either.

Soon, a cultivation technique came into Lu Yang’s view.

Treading Sea Art

“To cultivate this technique, one must possess a Water Spiritual Root. Using the Spiritual Root to breathe in and out sea water, only then can one refine True Qi. Then going through twelve revolutions, only then can one reach Foundation Establishment…”

Reading on, Lu Yang gradually frowned.

According to the description in the cultivation technique, only people born with Spiritual Roots could cultivate immortality. This point was completely incompatible with the common sense he had formed over a hundred years.

The difficulty of cultivating immortality lay on the road, but entry was extremely simple. As long as one was human, one could cultivate. How could there be differences like Spiritual Roots? Not to mention the content of the Treading Sea Art. Using Spiritual Roots to breathe in and out sea water? What about the cultivator himself? Is this refining Qi or refining the Spiritual Root?

The more Lu Yang looked, the more wrong he felt.

Especially after witnessing the Immortal Alliance’s style of action with his own eyes just now, he couldn’t help but generate suspicion. This so-called Emerald Sun Cultivation World…

Could it be a large-scale “human resource” cultivation base of the Saint Sect overseas?

Thinking of this, Lu Yang concealed his figure again. At the same time, he erased Situ Zheng’s memory of seeing him, then took out the Myriad Spirits Banner and called out Su Nü.

“This slave greets the Master.”

As soon as Su Nü appeared, she bowed gracefully, looking at Lu Yang half-resentfully, seeming to ask why he hadn’t let her out for fresh air for so long.

Lu Yang turned a blind eye to her gaze, pointing at Sima Zheng: “Go with him on a trip.”

The details of the “Divine Firmament Sect” behind this person were unclear. If there really was a Golden Core Perfected Lord, it would be too dangerous for him to follow rashly. Better to be steady.

Let Su Nü scout the path first!

“This slave accepts the order.”

Su Nü didn’t ask much, or perhaps was used to her Master treating her as a tool. Immediately, she transformed into a clear breeze and followed behind Situ Zheng.

Situ Zheng was completely unaware of this, still flying with escaping light.

Not long after, clouds opened and mist dispersed.

In Lu Yang’s vision, a vast and boundless huge island impressively emerged. Spiritual light flowed freely on the island, and figures of cultivators could be seen at every moment.

Situ Zheng flew all the way onto the island, soon arriving in front of a pavilion.

During this time, quite a few cultivators struck up conversations with him, but they were all small characters at the Qi Refining Realm, naturally unable to discover Su Nü standing right beside him.

Immediately afterward, Su Nü followed Situ Zheng and searched around the island.

However, as he watched, Lu Yang frowned.

“Why are they all Qi Refining?”

Through Su Nü’s perspective, he already knew most of the situation inside and outside the island by heart, but discovered there wasn’t a single Foundation Establishment Perfected One on this island.

Where were the Foundation Establishment cultivators? Where did they all go?

Just when Lu Yang was doubtful, suddenly, the entire island shook with a boom. Subsequently, streams of spiritual light shot into the sky, actually constructing a formation.

Immediately afterward, a large number of figures emerged outside the island.

“Hahaha! Today is the day your Divine Firmament Sect is wiped out!”

Among the numerous figures, the leader had a huge aura, shaking the spiritual qi of the region. Lu Yang looked at a glance; the opponent’s cultivation was roughly at the Late Stage of Qi Refining.

No, crazy right?

Lu Yang completely couldn’t understand. The Divine Firmament Sect was a sect with a Golden Core Perfected Lord presiding. You, a Late Stage Qi Refining, dare to shout about wiping out the sect in front of someone’s mountain gate?

But soon Lu Yang thought of the example of the Divine Martial Sect. Wasn’t the Divine Martial Sect also wiped out by him in the end because the Late Stage Foundation Establishment Sect Master was fished away by Perfected One Yin Shan with a trap, besieged and died violently, causing less than one in ten Perfected Ones of the Divine Martial Sect to survive? Perhaps the Divine Firmament Sect encountered the same thing?

This could explain why there wasn’t a single Foundation Establishment Perfected One on the island!

Just then, from a magnificent jade palace in the center of the island, a spiritual light shot into the sky. It was also Late Stage Qi Refining, voice rumbling and spreading:

“Green Thunder Sect has wild ambitions; do you want to violate the laws of the Immortal Alliance?”

As the voice fell, dozens to hundreds of spiritual lights flew up from the island again.

Lu Yang looked roughly; they were all Middle Stage Qi Refining cultivators. It looked like a big momentum, but in reality, they couldn’t withstand a single blow, purely just to keep up appearances.

“This might be my chance!”

In his view, the Divine Firmament Sect should have encountered a crisis. The Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones probably died by more than half, but he didn’t believe they were wiped out completely. Even the Divine Martial Sect had two escapees.

At most, they were heavily injured and hiding temporarily.

“If I help the Divine Firmament Sect a bit at this time, maybe I can connect with the Perfected Ones or Perfected Lords behind it… This will definitely be of great help for me to find the Heavenly Spirit.”

Of course, Lu Yang himself wouldn’t take action.

After all, being able to deal with the Divine Firmament Sect’s Golden Core Perfected Lord, this Green Thunder Sect probably also had a Perfected Lord behind it. The risk of his real body taking action was too great.

Compared to that, as a Banner Spirit, being difficult to track without karma and cause, and also able to self-destruct, Su Nü was very suitable.

Thinking of this, Lu Yang made a decision immediately.

Let Su Nü suffer a bit; she will carry the karma.

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