Chapter 48: Foundation Establishment Fixes Karma
Blood-Clad Tower, another morning.
Fairy Feixia leaned against the tower railing, her reflection revealing a graceful and beautiful silhouette that inspired endless reverie.
“Thank you for this period of time, Junior Brother Lu.”
The two had just finished cultivating. Fairy Feixia had reached her limit, and it would be difficult to make further progress in a short time.
“Today, I intend to leave the market.”
Turning her head, Fairy Feixia looked straight at Lu Yang. “My state of mind cannot compare to Junior Brother’s, and my talent is also inferior, yet I am unwilling to fade into obscurity like a mortal.”
“With my departure, I fear seeing Junior Brother again will be a long time.” Fairy Feixia raised her eyes and looked around, her appearance evoking pity. Suddenly, she sighed faintly. “In the future, perhaps the Dao path will be in sight, or perhaps my bones will be buried in a foreign land. The path of immortality is lonely, especially in the Saint Sect… Feixia only hopes to see an old friend again when that time comes.”
After speaking, Fairy Feixia smiled beautifully at Lu Yang.
Her glamorous face and clear, lovely smile seemed to open her heart to Lu Yang for the first time. “Junior Brother… are you willing to be that old friend of Feixia?”
“…” Lu Yang remained silent for a long time.
A stunning woman gazing at him with lingering affection was like a large net weaving around him thread by thread, enough to make any man swoon.
However, Lu Yang endured it.
He calmly raised his hand. “Senior Sister is welcome back for tea anytime.”
Seeing the guest out.
In that instant, the light in Fairy Feixia’s eyes flickered. It was hard to tell if it was disappointment or helplessness. Immediately after, she put away her smile and became cold and aloof again.
“I bid you farewell.”
As her voice fell, a streak of escaping light resembling rosy clouds rose into the air and dissipated on the horizon.
Only after she left did Lu Yang let out a breath. He turned and returned to the quiet room of the Blood-Clad Tower, hiding inside the formation and grasping the Primordial Chaos One-Qi Divine Talisman…
Finally, he stopped his body from trembling.
“Damn it, this is definitely a Foundation Establishment Perfected One plotting against me!”
With Fairy Feixia, everyone was just engaging in pure exchange and learning.
But just now, he was actually moved.
He was momentarily infatuated with Fairy Feixia and almost said “willing” several times. This emotion was clearly wrong and completely inconsistent with his true heart!
With the experience of his previous lives, Lu Yang quickly came to a conclusion— “The Foundation Establishment Perfected One behind the scenes is getting impatient and has started using crude methods. This is using Fairy Feixia as bait, forcibly trying to bind me to her… wanting to fish me out of the market!”
“Seclusion… I want to go into seclusion!”
Thinking of this, Lu Yang immediately announced a death seclusion to the outside world, refusing to see outsiders for a short time to minimize the chance of his karma being implicated by others.
“…Remarkable.”
Outside the Skull Mountain market, on a cliff, a figure stood with hands behind his back. Behind him stood a respectful young man in blood-red clothes.
In the next second, the figure with hands behind his back smiled. “An ordinary disciple with no background, yet he can walk out as such a talent with a firm Dao heart. It is truly rare. I cast spells to fish for him several times, but he never took the bait… Number Two, I really don’t know whether to say your judgment is good or bad.”
“Please forgive me, Senior Brother.”
The youth in blood-red clothes bowed respectfully, his tone somewhat helpless. “My original intention was just to find some cannon fodder; I just didn’t expect that shallow water could produce a flood dragon…”
The youth in blood-red clothes was named “Luo Wuya,” the “Second Senior Brother” of the Three Rivers Society.
His cultivation was at the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, and he had even mastered a Great Divine Ability. He was the strongest person of the Saint Sect in Skull Mountain on the surface, a veritable big shot.
And for someone he treated with such respect, the identity of the person with hands behind his back was self-evident.
The Head of the Three Rivers Society!
His Daoist name was “Yin Shan” (Yin Mountain). After successfully reaching Foundation Establishment ten years ago, he became a high-ranking member of the Saint Sect in one fell swoop and was granted permission by the Sect Master to establish the Yin Mountain Lineage within the Cloud Sea.
“But Senior Brother, I still don’t understand. Must it be a disciple of the Saint Sect?”
“Number Two, there are things you don’t know.”
Perfected One Yin Shan shook his head. “The ancient Shaman-Ghost Path was a major sect of the Demonic Path. The karma involved with its secret realm is heavy. Even I am unwilling to be easily tainted by it.”
In this world, karma was everywhere.
If you received benefits and formed karma, you had to repay it.
The ancient Shaman-Ghost Path set up the secret realm intending to find someone with great destiny, planting karma with the sect’s inheritance to seek a chance for the revival of their orthodoxy.
“If I acted personally, finding the Shaman-Ghost Secret Realm would naturally be effortless. I wouldn’t even need to search; the Shaman-Ghost Secret Realm would appear on its own. But in that case, the karma of the Shaman-Ghost Path would fall on me. Who knows how much trouble there would be then, hindering my cultivation…”
Simply put, Perfected One Yin Shan wanted the goods but didn’t want to pay the money.
“That is why I need someone to open the Shaman-Ghost Secret Realm for me. The Shaman-Ghost Path is a major sect of the Demonic Path, so choosing a Saint Sect disciple is most suitable.”
“I originally selected that ‘Master of the Blood-Clad Tower’ and even specially lured quite a few significant enemies for him. As long as he was willing to step out of the market, I would become his backer, helping him kill his enemies and accumulate fate energy. Once his fate energy was sufficient, the Shaman-Ghost Secret Realm would be attracted by it…”
If Lu Yang were here and heard these words, he would definitely find them familiar.
Because that was exactly how Xiao Shiye died back then.
An artificial Child of Destiny, seemingly with luck as high as the heavens and invincible in battle, was in reality just bait used by a Foundation Establishment Perfected One to fish for opportunities.
And once the opportunity was fished out, the bait was useless.
Behind Perfected One Yin Shan, the blood-clad youth Luo Wuya lowered his head deeply, secretly palpitating with fear at the terrifying means of a Foundation Establishment Perfected One manipulating karma and fate.
“…Forget it.”
Suddenly, Perfected One Yin Shan shook his head. “Since that ‘Master of the Blood-Clad Tower’ is unwilling to cooperate, then we’ll just switch to another one. It doesn’t have to be him.”
Speaking of this, Perfected One Yin Shan chuckled lightly. “Number Two, do you remember how the ancient Shaman-Ghost Path was destroyed?”
“I know, it was the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion.”
Luo Wuya nodded. “The Sect Master of the Sword Pavilion of that generation, a Golden Core Perfected Lord, slashed out one sword from the Seven Star Cliff of the Sword Pavilion, and the mountain gate of the Shaman-Ghost Path immediately sank…”
“Correct, just one sword.”
Perfected One Yin Shan sighed with emotion. “In its prime, the ancient Shaman-Ghost Path had double-digit Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones and even a Grade 4 formation suppressing its destiny.”
“Even so, they still couldn’t block a single sword slashed by the Golden Core Perfected Lord from tens of thousands of li away.”
“In fact, that sword energy is still inside the secret realm of the Shaman-Ghost Path to this day!”
At this point, a trace of fear appeared in Perfected One Yin Shan’s eyes. “The Perfected Lord’s decree, the sword energy resides in the world. As long as the Shaman-Ghost Path is not extinguished, the sword energy naturally will not be extinguished.”
This was also the reason he refused to enter personally.
That was the sword energy of a Golden Core Perfected Lord, and from the leader of the Orthodox Path, the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion, no less. What if he went to open the secret realm and the sword energy inside chopped him up in passing?
So it was safer to find a pathfinding stone.
“That streak of sword energy and the Shaman-Ghost Secret Realm have been entangled for countless years and have long become one. So, since we can’t open the Shaman-Ghost Secret Realm through a Saint Sect disciple, let’s change direction. Find a way to lure a disciple of the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion over to obtain that sword energy. The effect will actually be the same…”
Speaking of this, Perfected One Yin Shan’s gaze shifted, and he finally left the vicinity of the market.
Almost simultaneously, Lu Yang, who was in seclusion inside the market, suddenly felt his body lighten, as if an infinite burden had been lifted. He revealed a look of surprise.
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