Chapter 296: Truly a Bunch of Sword Bastards!

A Great World Realm with a Dao Fruit!

Before the [Ancestor of the Yun Family] finished speaking, Lu Yang understood the importance of the Jiangnan Ten-Thousand-Man Pit. After all, a Great World Realm was equivalent to a new Rank 2 True Art.

“[Perfected One Vanquishing-Demon] is the Third Elder of my Sword Pavilion. He reached the Late Stage of Foundation Establishment, becoming a Great Perfected One, long ago, and has already begun planning for a Dao Fruit. However, most of the Rank 2 True Arts in the Great World Realms under the Sword Pavilion’s rule cannot satisfy his requirements. Only this newly appeared one suits him very well.”

“That is why [Perfected One Vanquishing-Demon] is leading this operation.”

“And if nothing unexpected happens, the Demonic Sect shouldn’t have discovered anything wrong with the Ten-Thousand-Man Pit yet, so [Perfected One Vanquishing-Demon] intends to strike first…”

Under the [Ancestor of the Yun Family]’s narration, Lu Yang quickly learned the secret of the Ten-Thousand-Man Pit.

To speak of this matter, one had to trace back to the predecessor of the Ten-Thousand-Man Pit, which was the Small World Realm captured by Perfected Lords of various factions to serve as a battlefield for the Battle for the Dao.

The origin of that Small World Realm was not simple.

Although it didn’t even have Foundation Establishment cultivators and was only fit to serve as a battlefield for the Battle for the Dao between Qi Refining disciples, it was a subsidiary of another Great World Realm.

Its name was [Mystic Spirit World Realm].

The predecessor of the Jiangnan Ten-Thousand-Man Pit was named [Falling Mortal World Realm]. Generally, after cultivators in the [Falling Mortal World Realm] reached the peak, they would ascend to the [Mystic Spirit World Realm].

However, because it was captured and turned into a battlefield for the Battle for the Dao, the [Falling Mortal World Realm] lost contact with the [Mystic Spirit World Realm]. A day or two might have been fine, but after ten or twenty years, the cultivators of the [Mystic Spirit World Realm] realized something was wrong and sent cultivators down to the lower realm to check the situation.

As a result, they walked right into the muzzle of a gun.

The cultivators from the [Mystic Spirit World Realm] were not weak; their cultivation was also at the Foundation Establishment level. However, the [Mystic Spirit World Realm] didn’t call it Foundation Establishment, but Human Immortal.

Unfortunately, that Human Immortal’s luck wasn’t very good.

That day, [Perfected One Vanquishing-Demon] of the Sword Pavilion happened to be passing by. The other party saw him and even wanted to search his soul, but was easily suppressed and captured by [Perfected One Vanquishing-Demon].

Thus, the [Mystic Spirit World Realm] could no longer be hidden.

“According to that captive, the [Mystic Spirit World Realm] is a supreme great world, the dwelling of immortals and gods. There are five grades of immortals surrounding the Heavenly Court, each performing their own duties.”

“The five grades of immortals are: Heaven, Earth, Human, God, and Ghost.”

“When lower realm cultivators ascend, their physical bodies shatter, and only their souls receive baptism. They become [Ghost Immortals]. Those granted fiefdoms to govern a region are [God Immortals].”

“Until their merit is complete, they reshape their physical bodies with the power of incense and wishes, returning to the human path. They become [Human Immortals].”

“Those who travel the three mountains and five sacred peaks, residing in the world but not governing it, are [Earth Immortals].”

“Those with merit in the Dao and deeds on earth, receiving the Heavenly Book to enter the Heavenly Court and govern the world and heavens, are [Heaven Immortals].”

As for what was above [Heaven Immortals], that Human Immortal didn’t explain further. But even without him saying it, Lu Yang could roughly deduce the corresponding realm.

Eighty percent chance it’s a Perfected Lord!

Lu Yang pondered in his heart. No wonder a Jiangnan Ten-Thousand-Man Pit could alert the Perfected Lords of both the Sword Pavilion and the Saint Sect. The value of the [Mystic Spirit World Realm] was evident.

After all, it was a Great World Realm with a Dao Fruit. For a Perfected Lord, it was a gluttonous feast. Just leaving some soup behind would be enough to fill a Foundation Establishment Perfected One. It was a pity that his cultivation was too low at this time in his previous life. Let alone participating, it was hard to even get specific news.

Thinking of this, Lu Yang’s mind became active.

“A Great World Realm… If I can take advantage of this opportunity to go in and loot wantonly, I can definitely speed up the incubation progress of my Immortal Spirit body significantly!”

But how to get in?

Lu Yang rolled his eyes and quickly had an idea:

I still can’t show myself in the Sword Pavilion right now, so trying to get in that way definitely won’t work. But if the Sword Pavilion route is blocked… I can go through the Saint Sect!

As long as I tell the secret of the Ten-Thousand-Man Pit to the Saint Sect in advance and send it to [Perfected One Chong Guang], once the Saint Sect Perfected Lords verify my news, I can connect with the Saint Sect. Then I’ll just say… I am a Saint Sect Perfected One who infiltrated the Sword Pavilion after reincarnation and wishes to remain anonymous!

Although I am physically in the Sword Pavilion, I have always been a Saint Sect man at heart!

More importantly, [Perfected One Chong Guang] had told Lu Yang how to contact him in his previous life. A specially made flying letter spiritual book guaranteed delivery directly to his hand.

This point alone should be enough to gain [Perfected One Chong Guang]’s trust.

That’s the plan!

With this thought, Lu Yang acted immediately. He used his spiritual power to ignite the prepared flying letter spiritual book and watched it turn into a streak of spiritual light flying into the sky.

Only then did he let out a long breath.

Meanwhile, Yun Miaozhen, who had been cultivating under the desk for a long time, crawled out wiping the corner of her mouth. Her Late Stage Qi Refining cultivation showed obvious progress again.

Immediately after, Lu Yang’s expression became serious.

Since he planned to get a share of the Ten-Thousand-Man Pit event, he couldn’t be slow in improving his strength. He had to find a way to speed up the progress.

At least before the operation, I need to restore my cultivation to the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment!

Thinking of this, Lu Yang looked at the [Ancestor of the Yun Family], Yun Miaozhen, and Perfected One Xiu Xin. “Is there any way to get more Geng Metal spiritual objects?”

The three looked at each other.

Then Perfected One Xiu Xin whispered, “Replying to Master, this is actually not difficult… Just find a few more forces that collude with the Jiangbei Demonic Sect.”

“Can you find them?”

“I can arrange it.”

The [Ancestor of the Yun Family] thought for a moment and said, “As long as subordinate releases word that we are thoroughly investigating the Demonic Path, the sect forces in this vicinity will inevitably be in panic.”

“Using this pretext, we should be able to squeeze a lot of spiritual objects out of every family.”

Lu Yang: “…”

“Wouldn’t that be a bit too blatant?” Lu Yang looked hesitant. It wasn’t that he couldn’t bear it, but mainly that he was worried about attracting the Sword Pavilion’s attention.

After all, extorting subsidiary sects like this didn’t seem very righteous.

But in the next second, the [Ancestor of the Yun Family] looked at him with surprise. “Master, what is blatant about this? It is merely routine procedure.”

“Huh?”

Lu Yang was stunned. Seeing this, the [Ancestor of the Yun Family] had to explain, “In Jiangnan, my Sword Pavilion did not stop these forces from developing. It is they who owe karma to my Sword Pavilion. Settling it now can also be considered fulfilling them. What is there to be surprised about?”

You call this settling karma?

Lu Yang was speechless. In Jiangbei, Saint Sect Perfected Ones called this robbery, or more elegantly, “beating the autumn wind.” He didn’t expect it could be explained like this.

The Righteous Path was indeed different.

With the [Ancestor of the Yun Family]’s explanation, Lu Yang completely understood. In Jiangnan, if ordinary forces wanted to develop, most had connections with Jiangbei.

Everyone knew that open trade made it easy to earn money.

These forces might not collude with the Saint Sect, but they definitely had to travel to and from Jiangbei to transport goods in order to save up the first bucket of gold for their development.

However, according to the Sword Pavilion’s standards, this was colluding with the Demonic Path.

It was just that the Sword Pavilion usually wouldn’t bother, pretending not to see it. Only when needed would they bring this up to settle some karma.

This was actually the Sword Pavilion’s old routine. First, deliberately allow local forces to develop. Development required contact with Jiangbei, and contact meant colluding with the Demonic Path. Usually, they ignored it, but once the forces were fattened up, they would slaughter them. Meanwhile, the Sword Pavilion itself remained pure and innocent, still the leader of the Righteous Path.

As for Sword Pavilion disciples, they only needed to focus on practicing the sword.

Regarding pills, spiritual treasures, talismans, and other external objects, just like the Hidden Sword Villa, the Sword Pavilion handed them all over to subsidiary sects, letting them do whatever they wanted.

Others hoard grain, I hoard guns; their house is my granary.

This point was even more exaggerated than the Saint Sect. After all, Saint Sect Perfected Ones only went down the mountain to rob when they ran out of money. The Sword Pavilion was directly sucking Jiangnan’s blood.

The key was that they did it beautifully.

Exorcising demons and defending the Dao, upholding righteousness—no one could find fault with it.

After thoroughly understanding the operating mechanism of the entire Jiangnan region under the Sword Pavilion’s rule, Lu Yang couldn’t help but sigh with emotion: “Truly a bunch of sword bastards…”

It seems I must properly transform and develop the Sword Pavilion to return it to the Righteous Path!

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