Chapter 350: From Now On, I Am Hong Yun!

[Calculating the experience of “Hong Yun”…]

[You are born with immense luck and fortune, beloved by heaven and earth. Cultivation is as simple as eating and drinking for you, devoid of any difficulty.]

“…I actually succeeded.”

Looking at Hong Yun, who had been completely captured by [The Book of a Hundred Lifetimes], Lu Yang finally breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that this reincarnated Golden Core Perfected Lord had truly fallen to his scheme.

From ancient times to the present, I can be considered the first.

When a Perfected Lord reincarnated, the traces were washed away by the cycle of reincarnation in the [Netherworld], and karma was obscured. Absolutely no one could calculate their whereabouts. Theoretically, it was flawless.

But he just happened to meet a freak like Lu Yang, who didn’t bother calculating at all. Instead, he directly followed you into reincarnation, tailing you, and then launched a sneak attack. Even [Sky-Shrouding] couldn’t pull off such an operation. After all, besides Lu Yang, no one else could keep their split soul conscious during reincarnation.

This time, [The Book of a Hundred Lifetimes] really had a feast.

Lu Yang stared intently at Hong Yun’s soul before him. Golden light flowed all over it, being devoured voraciously by [The Book of a Hundred Lifetimes] like a wolf or tiger.

This golden light seemed ordinary.

However, when Lu Yang truly focused his attention on it, he couldn’t suppress a trace of desire rising within him. He swallowed involuntarily.

Golden Nature! A Perfected Lord’s Golden Nature.

Perfected Lords are different from Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivators. Their Golden Nature has completely fused with their soul, intertwining nature and life. The Golden Nature is the soul, and the soul is the Golden Nature!

The more he gazed at that golden light, the more he could sense the mysteries within. It was the result of Hong Yun’s lifelong cultivation. Let alone consuming it, even just sniffing it would bring continuous insights into his mind. These were Hong Yun’s cultivation attainments, his understanding of heaven and earth, and the Great Dao.

…No, hold back!

In the next second, Lu Yang suddenly restrained all his emotions and took a step back, revealing a trace of apprehension in his eyes. Truly an evil thing!

Golden Nature wasn’t something just anyone could eat.

Especially the Golden Nature of a Golden Core Perfected Lord—it was the essence of their soul. While swallowing it would certainly increase one’s cultivation attainment, it would also assimilate the consumer step by step.

In the end, who could say if you refined the Golden Nature, or if the Golden Nature assimilated you?

This isn’t something a lower cultivator should covet.

I’m afraid only Golden Core Perfected Lords with higher cultivation attainments can take a bite of this Golden Nature… like Perfected Lord Qingcheng Feixue in the previous life.

But fortunately…

Lu Yang’s gaze gradually returned to calm. No matter how powerful a Perfected Lord’s Golden Nature was, facing [The Book of a Hundred Lifetimes] was like striking a stone with an egg. There was no comparison between the two.

Boom!

Finally, accompanied by a rising magnificent light, the interface of [The Book of a Hundred Lifetimes] suddenly displayed Hong Yun’s densely packed life trajectory.

On the other side, Hong Yun’s soul floated emptily in the air. All thoughts and ideas seemed to have never existed, vanishing completely and leaving only an empty shell. Seeing this, Lu Yang dared not delay. He swept it up with the [Myriad Spirits Banner] and stored it, then tore through the void and vanished from the spot.

At the same time, Lu Yang didn’t forget to examine Hong Yun’s experiences.

Hong Yun, Great Fortune… No wonder he’s called by this name. The first half of this Perfected Lord’s life can probably only be described as [Great Fortune Rivals Heaven]!

Born with immense luck.

In a sense, he is actually very similar to Perfected One Primordial. Both were favored by heaven and earth. However, he was even luckier than Perfected One Primordial.

Because he caught the last train for Seeking Golden Core.

Compared to the era of Perfected One Primordial Mu Changsheng, when Hong Yun sought the Golden Core, heaven and earth were far less rigid than today. There was still room for ascension.

But compared to the first half of his life, Hong Yun’s second half was simply unlucky to the extreme. First, he was plotted against by [Sky-Shrouding] and lost a huge chunk of his memory. Then Martial Uncle Chong Guang appeared out of nowhere to seize his Dao Fruit. In the previous life, he died at the hands of Perfected Lord Qingcheng Feixue, and in this life, he was reversely slain by me…

Why was it so?

The turning point was that millennium tribulation five thousand years ago!

A look of enlightenment appeared in Lu Yang’s eyes. In that great tribulation, Hong Yun also gained benefits from the conquest of the World Realms, but he didn’t integrate them into his Dao Fruit.

Instead, he integrated them into his own Grotto-Heaven!

This was the fundamental reason why Hong Yun’s life afterwards was so destitute and incredibly unlucky, with nothing going smoothly and his former luck ceasing to exist.

—Deceiving Heaven!

You were favored by heaven and earth, born with destiny and merit far exceeding ordinary people. It can be said that heaven and earth’s support accounted for at least a third of the credit for your becoming a Perfected Lord. Yet after you ascended to the position, you turned your back and refused to acknowledge anyone. You gained benefits but didn’t give even ten percent back to the heaven and earth that supported you. It would be strange if heaven and earth didn’t screw you over!

But… this can’t entirely be blamed on Hong Yun.

Generally speaking, the constraints heaven and earth placed on a Perfected Lord were already very small. Even if Hong Yun turned his back, it would actually be difficult for heaven and earth to significantly reduce his destiny and merit.

The problem was that there was also a [Sky-Shrouding].

With one scheme, [Sky-Shrouding] directly killed Hong Yun. This gave heaven and earth the opportunity to settle accounts with this “traitor.” The result was naturally self-evident.

So, people… if you want to sit securely, you have to figure out where you are sitting!

If you sit in the wrong place, or sit in one seat while thinking about another seat, the result will only be pleasing neither side. No matter how glorious, it is only temporary.

After his lamentation, Lu Yang looked at Hong Yun’s soul again.

[The Book of a Hundred Lifetimes] didn’t need to consume all the Golden Nature to calculate the experience. So after it had eaten its fill, it naturally left the leftovers for Lu Yang.

For a moment, fervor surfaced in Lu Yang’s eyes again.

Good stuff! After being thoroughly washed once by [The Book of a Hundred Lifetimes], Hong Yun’s consciousness has completely dissipated, leaving only the soul and Golden Nature.

As long as he put on this empty shell, who could see through his true body?

With a thought, Lu Yang draped Hong Yun’s shell over the outside of his Immortal Spirit main body. With it, he could even impersonate a Perfected Lord in the future!

From now on, I am Hong Yun!

After all, with the life experience of Hong Yun calculated by [The Book of a Hundred Lifetimes], he didn’t have to worry about being exposed at all. No matter who came, he could answer fluently.

Don’t forget, Hong Ju was still alive!

This Great Perfected One at Foundation Establishment Perfection lived entirely relying on Hong Yun’s Golden Nature. But now that Hong Yun had been refined by him, he could perfectly well use this to hoodwink Hong Ju!

And that [Shared Fate Changing Fortune Record Book]…

Lu Yang had been coveting this [Overturned Lamp Flame] Dao Fruit treasure for a long time.

Besides, with a Hong Ju acting as my insider in the Saint Sect, I’ll have a channel to obtain the [Xin Metal] left by Martial Uncle Chong Guang in the future.

However, these things required careful planning.

For now, there was still a huge harvest he hadn’t counted yet.

“…Talent!”

Shifting his gaze, Lu Yang looked at the interface of [The Book of a Hundred Lifetimes] before him. The data on it finally finished calculating and transformed into golden light—

[You have obtained the Golden Talent— Divining Luck Drawing Lots!]

[Divining Luck Drawing Lots: Select a task you want to do and draw a lot for luck. After drawing, you can obtain the corresponding luck enhancement, foreshadowing whether the task can be accomplished.]

[Great Auspice: Favored by heaven and earth, success is certain.]

[Small Auspice: Luck adds to the body, small gains.]

[End Auspice: Fortune and misfortune are interdependent; success depends on human effort.]

[Small Ominous: Bad luck looms overhead, difficult to achieve anything.]

[Great Ominous: Great disaster is imminent, ten deaths with no life!]

“It’s actually this kind of talent…”

Looking at the content on the panel, Lu Yang was stunned for a moment. But soon, from Hong Yun’s life experience, he understood why such a talent was generated.

“Ninety percent chance it’s because he’s been so unlucky for the past five thousand years that he doubted life itself. Nothing he did went smoothly, so he wanted to divine a trigram for himself before doing anything every time…”

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