Chapter 182: Snitching on Hong Yun!

Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea, Sacred Fire Cliff.

In an extremely concealed palace hall whose heavenly secrets and karma were shielded by layers of formations, a figure was seen lighting a candle flame, sitting upright in front of a desk.

That person’s face was as if carved by a knife and axe. At first glance, he seemed full of righteous qi. More importantly, his Divine Abilities were perfect and full. At this moment, they manifested one by one, rampaging freely within this palace hall. If they landed in the outside world, overseas, even destroying a continent of the overseas regions would be nothing but ordinary.

Foundation Establishment Perfection Grand Perfected One, Hong Ju!

And at this moment, Hong Ju sat upright. On the desk in front of him were placed a book and a brush respectively. His eyes were slightly closed as if in deep thought.

Rustle—

Wind blew past, turning the pages of the book.

The entire book wasn’t thick or heavy, looking to have only a few thin pages. On the book cover was a line of seal script (Lu Wen) outlined by tadpole-like seal characters.

[Shared Fate Changing Luck Record Book]

The Dao Fruit treasure of the [Overtuned Lamp Flame], the only one under the heavens. Moreover, since its appearance, it had always been sealed in this place, never having left here.

To leave handwriting on this Record Book, one must use merit as the brush and qi destiny as the ink. The consumption was so great that those who weren’t Foundation Establishment Perfection Grand Perfected Ones couldn’t even afford to use it. Even if they could afford it, each use had to be careful, fearing that a slight carelessness would trigger a backlash, failing to steal the chicken and losing the rice instead.

Therefore, Hong Ju hadn’t used this secret treasure for a long time.

And just now, he wrote a line of words on the page: [Wu Cang kills Lu Yang]. Once the handwriting was formed, the Heavenly Earth killing intent would naturally emerge as the times require…

Crack!

In the next second, Hong Ju’s movement stiffened abruptly. On the [Shared Fate Changing Luck Record Book] before his eyes, the handwriting he just annotated actually turned crimson.

This is bad!

Before Hong Ju could react, a bolt of thunder light flashed within the hall. Impartially, without allowing evasion, it boomed and hit his true body!

Because this wasn’t ordinary thunder light.

This was Heavenly Punishment!

The thunder light lasted for a full quarter of an hour before dissipating, revealing Hong Ju’s slightly scorched figure, although in the blink of an eye he used Divine Abilities to restore his original appearance.

However, only the appearance was restored. In reality, his merit and qi destiny had been damaged by a full one-tenth at this moment, all shaved off forcefully by the Heavenly Punishment. Although this wouldn’t affect his strength, for a Perfection Grand Perfected One like him, the weakening of merit and qi destiny was actually more serious!

“How could this be.”

Hong Ju’s face was ugly. He immediately started calculating with his fingers. Only after a good while did he open his mouth: “…Middle Stage? That Yuan Tu broke through to the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment?”

How is this possible!

“Such an unreasonable event wasn’t calculated at all beforehand… Could it be the legacy of the Shaman-Ghost Dao? Was the Shaman-Ghost Dao of that year wealthy to this extent?”

Countless karmic threads flashed in Hong Ju’s eyes; his fingers were almost rubbing out sparks, yet he still gained nothing. He could only guess in his heart: “Shaman-Ghost Dao sat on the Skull Mountain earth vein, using earth vein qi to derive Wu Earth… Although not absolutely impossible, it’s a bit too coincidental. Could it be the Dao Fruit position is helping him?”

Similar situations weren’t unheard of.

For example, Perfected One Chong Guang. Why could a later generation contend with Hong Yun, a reincarnated Perfected Lord, for the Dao Fruit position, and even forcefully suppress the reincarnated Perfected Lord by a notch?

Dao Fruit favor!

And as the only Perfected One whose Dao Foundation pointed directly to [City Rampart Earth], it was normal for Lu Yang to receive Dao Fruit favor and be cherished by qi luck.

Rather, it could only be explained this way.

It was just that Lu Yang’s breakthrough and killing of Wu Cang brought him huge trouble. The fate he previously annotated was directly broken.

Fate wasn’t omnipotent; everything had a glimmer of survival chance.

After all, cultivation was inherently going against heaven. Like an endangered species, it might go extinct, or it might usher in a brand-new evolution.

After the fate was broken, he even suffered a backlash.

After all, the Heavenly Earth killing intent targeting Lu Yang was catalyzed by him using the [Shared Fate Changing Luck Record Book]. And the Lu Yang targeted at that time was only at the Initial Stage of Foundation Establishment.

The result was Lu Yang breaking through to the Middle Stage. Unexpected variables arose, leading to the breaking of fate… To put it vividly, this was equivalent to him spending money to ask Heaven to open a project. As a result, after Heaven invested, it found the project intelligence was wrong, the profits were falsified, and all the money was lost. How could this not attract Heavenly Punishment?

However, there was still room for salvation.

Hong Ju thought for a moment, erased the handwriting on the [Shared Fate Changing Luck Record Book]. Merit and qi destiny flowed away like a flood bursting a dam. In a blink, he wrote a new line:

[Lu Yang dies overseas]

Rumble!

Once the handwriting was formed, Hong Ju’s face showed a few more bits of decay. But to get rid of Lu Yang silently, this was the only method.

“…Close the cave abode. Starting today, I will go into seclusion.”

Hong Ju shook his head, put away the [Shared Fate Changing Luck Record Book], and said softly to the Formation Spirit outside the hall. With his qi destiny damaged, he couldn’t go out anymore.

Only by sitting quietly in the cave abode, wearing down the Tribulation Qi, and waiting until his mind was clear could he come out of seclusion again.

Otherwise, with his cultivation, he would inevitably fall deep into calamity. With good luck, he could reincarnate in exchange for a life. With bad luck, he probably wouldn’t even have the chance to reincarnate.

“Yuan Tu…”

Inside the dim grand hall, Hong Ju chewed on this name carefully. The voice spread faintly within the hall but gradually ceased, until it fell completely into silence.

Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea, Heaven-Mending Peak.

Until this moment, the surroundings were still silent. [Embrace and Guard Mountain] stood erect in the sky vault. On the mountain wall, a long trail of blood fell like a waterfall.

That was Wu Cang’s blood.

The situation at the time was quite chaotic. A bunch of Saint Sect Perfected Ones were huddled outside Heaven-Mending Peak, originally thinking to wait for Wu Cang to get the Perfected Lord’s manuscript and then come out to knock him out with a sap.

Who would have thought that in a blink, it was Wu Cang who was beaten into fleeing like a rat?

And while everyone was still immersed in the shock of Lu Yang breaking through to the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment, they saw Wu Cang suddenly crash brazenly towards the [Embrace and Guard Mountain] directly in front.

At first glance, it really looked like seeking his own death.

However, everyone was a Saint Sect Perfected One, each more skilled at underhanded methods than the last. So at this moment, most still harbored suspicion, looking at Lu Yang with strange eyes.

“What? You all don’t believe?”

Lu Yang remained expressionless seeing this, taking out the Myriad Spirits Banner: “If I had the heart to kill, why would I use this [Spirit Protecting Banner] to save Senior Wu Cang’s soul?”

“You call this a Spirit Protecting Banner? Seems a bit wrong, doesn’t it?”

“Why is it still emitting black qi?”

Lu Yang didn’t explain either. He shook out Wu Cang, who had already been reduced to a Banner Spirit, and let him fabricate a story about his mental journey of being unable to think straight just now.

Human witness and material evidence were both present.

Under these circumstances, even the Perfected Ones who still harbored doubts couldn’t say anything anymore. Moreover, this was the Saint Sect; what the truth was didn’t actually matter.

What mattered was that Lu Yang was still alive, while Wu Cang was dead.

Just then, a voice came suddenly:

“Yuan Tu, come to Sacred Fire Cliff to see me.”

It was Perfected One Chong Guang. His tone was hurried, carrying a few bits of irrepressible pleasant surprise. For a Perfection Grand Perfected One, this was undoubtedly extremely uncomposed.

Lu Yang had long expected this.

I broke through to the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment, ranking alongside Perfected One Yin Shan. It seems I barely met his requirements. Just don’t know what matter he needs me for…

But soon, Lu Yang adjusted his thoughts.

After all, Perfected One Chong Guang needing him was more beneficial to him. Especially at this juncture, Perfected One Chong Guang would absolutely not ignore his requests.

So Lu Yang had already made a decision.

I’m going to snitch on Hong Yun!

Overseas is so dangerous. Rather than going to the Emerald Sun Cultivation World alone to deal with that Dao Sin, better to tell Perfected One Chong Guang and let him find a way to handle it!

Primordial Rank One True Qi… I don’t believe Chong Guang won’t be moved!

As for the harvest, as long as Perfected One Chong Guang still needed him, and he possessed enough value, he believed Chong Guang wouldn’t mind sharing a portion with him.

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