Chapter 739 - 686: Yuebai’s Diary (1)

Chapter 739: Chapter 686: Yuebai’s Diary (1)

[Wuwu, Year of the Horse, June 28th]

Five days have passed, yet when I recall the scene of Lin Jingyue suddenly "vanishing into thin air," my heart is still filled with lingering dread.

This is the first time I have felt such fear.

When I achieved Nascent Soul, I faced the Heavenly Dao with a determination to die, even amidst the Purple Sky Divine Thunder, I was never this terrified.

Because back then I still had the Heaven-Swallowing Cauldron, the Dragon Suppressing Coffin, and the "Chaos Nirvana Skill," there was still a sliver of hope.

But this time, Lin Jingyue, a Great Power Cultivator with at least Integration Cultivation, even if it was just a clone, was killed in an instant, silently.

This kind of power is too terrifying!

The demise of Lin Jingyue’s clone was like a warning, cautioning me not to delve further.

Yann Hongyu doesn’t know what’s wrong with me, hiding in the inn room all day and not coming out, but I can’t tell her, nor can I tell anyone.

I clearly remember the feeling of that time, like my throat was being choked, unable to utter the four words "Immortal Cultivation Panel."

Even if I were to write those four words in the diary, when someone else sees the diary, those four words, along with related content, would vanish without a trace.

Even if I had a way to forcibly tell others about the Immortal Cultivation Panel, the fate of Lin Jingyue’s clone is a precedent.

Either I die, or the person who knows my secret dies.

This power, how is it different from the Heavenly Dao?

What is Lu Xingyun’s intention?

My mind is in turmoil, I must calm down.

If besides me, Lin Jingyue might also possess the Immortal Cultivation Panel given by Lu Xingyun, then could there be others who have it too?

I suddenly recall a sentence Hong Tao once said to me upon first entering the Heavenly Interence Sect.

In these hundred thousand years, among Five Spirit Root Cultivators in the Earth Spiritual Realm, only Lu Xingyun has ascended.

Back then, I only felt that cultivating with Five Spirit Roots was difficult, reaching the pinnacle of the Great Dao was even harder, and in a hundred thousand years, only Lu Xingyun was exceptional and solitary.

But what if the truth is not so?

However, Hong Tao’s words only pertain to the Earth Spiritual Realm. After Lu Xingyun, are there any Five Spirit Root cultivators in the Upper Realm who have reached Mahayana or even ascended?

This requires thorough investigation!

I suddenly remember mentioning the encounter with Lu Xingyun in my childhood in the mountains to my master, but nothing happened back then.

This means that apart from the Immortal Cultivation Panel issue, everything else I can speak about?

No, this still isn’t safe. In the future, this matter I will keep to myself, not saying a word to anyone, not even to the master.

Wait, the commonality between me and Lin Jingyue is the Five Spirit Roots, both walk the Great Derivation Path of Lu Xingyun, could my master also be targeted?

But the master knows those symbols and numbers, showing no abnormalities, indicating he doesn’t possess the Immortal Cultivation Panel, yet I still worry.

I never asked my master about his experiences in youth, his study only has two paintings hanging, one of Lu Xingyun, the other of Wuwei Mountain Man, he said he admired these two, outstanding as Five Spirit Root cultivators.

Could it be, this admiration has other reasons?

And the "Five Elements Rotation Technique" authored by my master, although it doesn’t directly connect with the "Five Elements Returning to Truth Skill," it indeed greatly aids cultivation of the "Five Elements Returning to Truth Skill," and he later refined a Lifebound Magic Treasure similar to Lin Jingyue’s, the path before Nascent Soul went smoothly...

Thinking about it, there’s a great possibility of some connection.

The more I think, the more chaotic it becomes, the more I feel frightfully uneasy, as though a pair of eyes is watching me from the shadows, feeling that every Five Spirit Root cultivator is a pawn.

The last three words Lin Jingyue’s clone said before vanishing were "Qingyun Conference."

She must have arranged to meet me at the Qingyun Conference, yes, there will be Mahayana Immortal Monarchs from the Nine Great Star Alliances, and many Integration Dao Lords, perhaps then, I can have a great talk with Lin Jingyue, clarifying the truth.

I can’t continue feeling fearful and anxious, but I can’t control myself.

Hiding for another day, tomorrow as the sun rises, I will suppress everything and walk out of the inn, continuing on my path.

Even the Divine Tree said, my fate is up to me at this moment, so no one can manipulate me, I will not willingly be a pawn, I will certainly break through the encirclement.

I will certainly, absolutely!

*

[Wuwu, Year of the Horse, July 7th]

I bought a horse in Yong’an City, taking the mortal official road, leisurely returning to the Heavenly Interence Sect.

During the journey, I entered mountain forests, went down rivers, saw many magnificent sceneries, I even chased a newly spiritually wise young hedgehog in the mountains.

It thought I wanted to eat it, but actually, I just wanted to teach it a life-saving little demon technique.

After such playful days, my mood became much brighter.

While resting at a roadside tea shop, I heard someone mentioning a very efficacious Goddess Temple in the nearby mountains, if my guess is correct, it should be Miaoyin’s place of cultivation in the mortal world.

*

[Wuwu, Year of the Horse, July 17th]

I shamelessly stayed in the Goddess Temple for ten days, chatting idly with Miaoyin about everything under the sun, sharing my travel stories.

No matter how exaggerated I spoke, Miaoyin always listened intently with a gentle smile, never exposing me.

Seeing Sword Lord Guanghan’s increasingly loud chopping sounds in the rear courtyard, the temple visitors said it was growing colder by the day, I knew it was time for me to leave.

Otherwise, Sword Lord Guanghan in his mortal guise would no longer hold back and take me to spar in the mountains.

Before departing, I transferred all the accumulated Incense Fire Qi from the Imperial Decree Golden Book into Miaoyin’s body, helping her spare decades of hard work, allowing her to solidify her Dharma Body faster, officially stepping onto the Cultivation Path.

Sword Lord Guanghan is certainly not going to the Upper Realm with me to accompany her, just as well the Heavenly Interence Sect can be left to him to manage after the master’s departure.

This ten-day residence was wonderful, I even disguised as a fortune-telling Daoist nun with a stall in the temple.

The scholar failing the exams was because the study desk’s orientation was wrong; changing its direction would enhance reading.

The young lady lovesick, unwilling to follow matchmaking; choosing a betrothed means the current match restricts her, change the person.

Just say pleasant things, whatever the inquiry, it’s about doors not working or misaligned windows, blaming heaven or earth, if truly there’s nothing to blame, blame past lives.

In the end, don’t blame yourself.

Making those originally worried people become joyful and regain confidence.

Within just a few days, incense at the temple flourished remarkably, with many more coming to light incense and ask for fortune.

In the end of those days, with Sword Lord Guanghan pretending to sweep by my side, ears perked listening.

Sadly, with his temperament, he’s not fit for my work.

But before leaving, I compiled all my ideas for attracting temple visitors into a booklet, placing it in Sword Lord Guanghan’s room.

Methods like those taught to Yann Hongyu in the Iron Palm Realm, the person-to-person method, and making the Goddess Temple bloom everywhere; whoever is willing to open a temple locally will receive a cultivation technique, I casually gathered over thirty tips, enough for him to learn.

After seeing Sword Lord Guanghan and Miaoyin, I decided to detour and check on Guo Zhen and Hong Tao.

*

[Wuwu, Year of the Horse, September 13th]

Guo Zhen and Hong Tao are doing very well, their respective hometowns aren’t in the same place, I took a bit of a detour.

Their small families are developing excellently, they’ve already begun grooming a third generation of disciples, with the first generation having two or three in Foundation Establishment, capable of becoming family pillars.

On one hand, they’re like mortal escort agencies, taking missions from martial artists to earn silver taels and establish a local foothold.

On another, they cooperate with the Heavenly Interence Sect’s Daoist Temples in the mortal world, watching and helping temples oversee the populace, clearing occasional demon beasts in nearby mountains for disciple training and safeguarding the area.

The support provided by the Heavenly Interence Sect to their families is modest, but it’s sufficient for them now, after all Guo Zhen and Hong Tao, as their families’ Old Ancestors, are only at Peak Foundation Establishment Cultivation.

I secretly went to see them, leaving behind for each three top-notch Martial Arts Cultivation Techniques, along with some Magic Treasures, Five Elements Thunder Pearl, Thunder Talisman, and Array Plate refined on the journey.

I refined some Foundation Establishment Elixirs, Lifespan Extension Pills are hard to refine, attracting Tribulation Thunder when completed with a low success rate, I didn’t personally make them, I bought six capsules to distribute.

With these additions, along with support from the Heavenly Interence Sect, their families will surely rise to prominence in the future.

I didn’t let them see me, just left the items and departed, because I didn’t want them to feel the need to show overwhelming gratitude towards me.

After wandering for three months, I feel much less anxious and fearful, compared to mortals relying on providence, and those like Guo Zhen and Hong Tao at the bottom of the Cultivation Realm, I am formidable enough.

No matter if Lu Xingyun bears goodwill or malice towards me, she is only born ten thousand years earlier than me.

As long as I persist diligently, working hard and striving, I believe I can eventually close the gap with her.

Just like when the me who was merely in Qi Cultivation Stage faced Lin Xiangtian in Golden Core Stage, a humble ant once but ultimately overturning the board?

So, being fearful is inferior to cultivating!

Now, ride back to the sect!