Chapter 69: Great Success of the Sage Physique
Inside the Refining Arts Secret Realm.
Lu Yang’s main body was safe and sound, sitting upright in his Cave Abode. As for Ji Xiongying’s dying curses, he didn’t take them to heart at all. At this moment, his heart was filled only with joy.
“The Sage Steals is accomplished!”
Lu Yang stood up and looked at the sky. All he could see was a long river of purple Qi. This was the Qi destiny gathered from the one hundred and forty million living people in the entire secret realm.
The Qi destiny of the Martial Dao!
And at this moment, Lu Yang was bathed in this Qi destiny. Poured over by the brilliant purple Qi, it felt as if he had instantly become the center of heaven and earth.
At the same time, the one hundred and forty million living beings in the Refining Arts Secret Realm—from ordinary mortals to Celestials—all felt something in their hearts. They looked up at the sky one by one, vaguely seeing a magnificent Golden Body rising from the ground, majestic and solemn, with the rolling red dust lifting him slowly upwards…
“Laws bless the body; Great Success of the Sage Physique!”
Lu Yang opened his eyes, feeling once again the Dao charm akin to ‘Ascension,’ which he had previously only felt from Great Divine Abilities and Foundation Establishment Perfected Ones.
His ‘Height’ was rising!
Infinite Qi destiny was completely swallowed by Lu Yang, not a single strand left. This Qi destiny slowly constructed an extremely complex ritual within his body.
“…Hm.”
Just then, Lu Yang suddenly raised his head and looked at the sky.
Meanwhile, inside Tianjing City. Following Lu Yang’s Shattering of the Void, Ji Xiongying followed closely behind. Seeing this, the Yun Family Ancestor’s face suddenly showed shock and rage.
“Not good!”
Only at this moment did he understand Lu Yang’s scheme. He had faked the realm of “Shattering the Void” above the Celestial realm. With Lu Yang himself as proof, and now adding Ji Xiongying, people of the world would henceforth firmly believe this path was feasible, chasing after it one after another!
The entire system was seamlessly integrated!
Even the Martial Dao Fourth Step he created was perfectly encompassed by it. In the end, not only did it fail to ruin Lu Yang’s cultivation, but it actually boosted its power!
Because relying solely on Lu Yang, the Martial Dao would reach the Late Stage of Qi Refining at most.
But with the Yun Family Ancestor’s help, the limit of the Martial Dao shockingly reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining. Therefore, the Qi destiny fed back by The Sage Steals would also be massive to the extreme!
Worst of all, at this point, even he could not break the Martial Dao system.
Because theoretically speaking, a Martial Dao Celestial comparable to the Great Perfection of Qi Refining was a dead end. This point applied not only to Lu Yang but to him as well!
And he couldn’t find flaws in the realm of ‘Shattering the Void.’
After all, once one Shattered the Void, the person was gone. With the dead unable to testify, it was always a case of ‘he said, she said.’ How could he find flaws?
To break the game, unless he could create a method distinct from Shattering the Void that allowed the Martial Dao to truly break through to Foundation Establishment.
But before his reincarnation, he was only at the Early Stage of Foundation Establishment. His ability was limited. What could he use to create a method for the Martial Dao to break through to Foundation Establishment?
Maybe a Golden Core Perfected Lord could do it!
Otherwise, he would have to kill everyone who saw Lu Yang Shatter the Void… but what would be the point of that? It would only expose his existence for nothing.
In other words, Lu Yang’s momentum in mastering ‘The Sage Steals’ was already unstoppable!
“Bastard! Bastard!”
Thinking of this, the Yun Family Ancestor ground his teeth so hard they nearly shattered. He never expected his layout would return without merit, and even turn into aiding the enemy!
Having painstakingly manipulated karma, only to toil making wedding clothes for others?
He could not accept it!
Thinking of this, the Yun Family Ancestor couldn’t help gnashing his teeth, his heart full of unwillingness. Then, he actually manipulated karma again, wanting to make a final attempt.
The Yun Family Ancestor urged the ‘Investigating Heaven Instrument’ to enhance his influence over karma: “The Sage Steals is destined to have a tribulation. This tribulation should have fallen on me, but as long as I strip it out and use the method of substituting tribulations, replacing the human tribulation with a Heavenly Tribulation, I can draw the power of heaven and earth to kill him!”
“Stealing the Qi destiny of the people under heaven is an act against heaven; it must suffer Heaven’s Execution!”
The Yun Family Ancestor shouted violently. Instantly, above the place of Lu Yang’s seclusion, the originally clear sky became densely covered with dark clouds, with snakes of lightning shuttling through.
Boom!
Lightning emerged from the mountains; heaven and earth turned white!
A massive bolt of lightning struck directly from the dark clouds. Its speed was so fast one couldn’t react at all; in the blink of an eye, it landed on Lu Yang.
When the lightning dissipated, Lu Yang’s figure slowly appeared.
However, to the Yun Family Ancestor’s disbelief, facing this heavenly lightning that could potentially kill a Great Perfection of Qi Refining cultivator, Lu Yang was actually unharmed!
“This is… the Laws of The Sage Steals?”
Intelligence regarding The Sage Steals suddenly flashed in the Yun Family Ancestor’s heart. Small Success and Great Success of this body-refining method were completely different things.
Small Success of The Sage Steals was simply a physical enhancement.
Great Success of The Sage Steals, however, could condense ‘Laws’.
In Immortal Dao cultivation, ‘Height,’ or rather ‘stature’, often symbolized an absolute gap. As long as the stature was high enough, those below were ants.
Just like a Foundation Establishment Perfected One to a Qi Refining cultivator.
And the ‘Laws’ of The Sage Steals was actually a form of stature in a sense.
Therefore, the current Lu Yang was no longer on the same stature level as ordinary cultivators. Any attack with a stature ‘lower’ than his couldn’t even injure him!
For instance, the rolling heavenly lightning summoned by the Yun Family Ancestor by drawing upon karma. Although powerful, it lacked the corresponding stature. The result was naturally like a 2D object fighting a 3D object—no matter how great the power, it was merely empty talk, completely meaningless. Let alone injuring Lu Yang, it couldn’t even tear the corner of his clothes.
Of course, Laws also had strengths and weaknesses; not everyone was like this.
The Primordial Saint Sect had countless talents. Lu Yang was not the only disciple to master The Sage Steals, but the Laws he condensed were the strongest to date!
Because the strength of the ‘Laws’ is determined by the system created for cultivating The Sage Steals.
If the system stopped at the Middle Stage of Qi Refining, then the ‘Laws’ could only ignore attacks from the Middle Stage of Qi Refining. Encountering the Late Stage of Qi Refining, it would still be breached.
However, with the Yun Family Ancestor’s ‘help,’ Lu Yang’s Martial Dao encompassed the Great Perfection of Qi Refining!
Therefore, his ‘Laws’ meant that no cultivator under Foundation Establishment could break his defense unless they mastered a Great Divine Ability that could similarly elevate their stature!
Boom! Rumble!
Bolts of lightning smashed down one after another, yet Lu Yang turned a blind eye, remaining unmoved. Even the surrounding grand formations were pulverized, yet he remained unharmed.
Seeing this scene, the Yun Family Ancestor’s eyes nearly split with rage, but he was helpless.
“Things having reached this stage, I can only let him go.” The Yun Family Ancestor sighed: “Never mind, let him leave. The Sect Master’s task is more important…”
“Senior, you are watching me, right?”
An indifferent voice came over. The Yun Family Ancestor was stunned. Under his karmic vision, he saw Lu Yang suddenly turn his head and look at him calmly.
He can see me… No, he knows of my existence!?
The Yun Family Ancestor subconsciously took a step back, horrified. He instantly cut off the karmic sense, then restrained his breath and concealed all his heavenly secrets.
However, the current Lu Yang was vastly different!
“Trying to escape…”
Lu Yang lowered his eyelids, ripples appearing in his eyes. At this moment, his Sage Physique had reached Great Success. Although he hadn’t reached Foundation Establishment yet, the Yun Family Ancestor was also not at Foundation Establishment.
Between the two of them right now, there wasn’t much difference in stature!
The next second, Lu Yang’s soul escaped his body, shooting straight into the dome of the sky. Looking down from above at the entire Refining Arts Secret Realm, the boundless land was instantly taken in at a glance.
The Yun Family Ancestor had the ‘Investigating Heaven Instrument’ for protection, making his concealment of heavenly secrets invariably successful, so Lu Yang couldn’t calculate his position. However, Lu Yang mastered The Sage Steals in this place; this place was his home field. He didn’t need to calculate at all—he just needed to see which aura had never been stolen by him!
Whoosh—!
With a thought from Lu Yang, ten thousand aura reflected in his sea of consciousness but were rapidly eliminated. Finally, only one seemingly weak aura remaining in Tianjing City was left.
Immediately after, the void opened wide.
The Yun Family Ancestor, who thought he had already obscured the heavenly secrets, looked up in astonishment. He saw a ripple appearing above his head, and then a figure in a black robe paced out from within.
“…Found you.”
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