Chapter 482: I Want You to Aid My Cultivation, Furious, Six Desires Heart Demon Inheritance

Before coming to Immortal Ascension Island, Jiang Lan had You’Er go to the Business Alliance in advance to retrieve the items he needed, and the Six Desires Pearl was one of them.

This was a crystallization formed when a Great Cultivator from the Ancient Buddhism Sect renounced the mortal world—the Red Dust—and forsook the Seven Emotions and Six Desires. It was incredibly rare, and for cultivators with special Cultivation Techniques, it was even more precious than relics.

And for Tantai Qing at this moment, it was the one thing she craved above all else.

After Tantai Ming left, Jiang Lan didn’t remain idle. He had his subordinates watch the various docks, keeping a close eye on all the cultivators and other life forms arriving on Immortal Ascension Island.

Since the Barbarian Race planned to send men to secretly break the seal on the Demon Abyss, they would certainly try to infiltrate the island via merchant ships.

Jiang Lan was still uncertain of the barbarians’ whereabouts. Since he had promised Emperor Xia he would handle the situation here, he couldn’t very well return empty-handed. He had to have something to show for his efforts.

It wouldn’t be easy for the barbarians to infiltrate the Demon Abyss and break the seal. However, if they had colluded with the natives on Immortal Ascension Island from the start, things would be much simpler.

After giving these orders, Jiang Lan turned his thoughts to his own affairs.

He had come to Immortal Ascension Island for two reasons. The first was to deal with an old enemy of his father’s and seize the Book of Mediation and Creation. The second, and most important, was to condense his Heaven and Earth Dharma Aspect and break through to the Seventh Realm.

The transition from the Sixth Realm to the Seventh Realm, the Dharma Realm, was an incredibly difficult threshold to cross. Many Elders from great Immortal Sect Lineages were merely at the Sixth Realm, the Divine Power Realm. They would struggle for years, unable to advance even an inch, and remain trapped.

Thanks to his Destiny Dao Fruit, Jiang Lan had long possessed Magical Power on par with the Sixth Realm. It was for this very reason that his journey through the first six realms had been smooth sailing—a natural progression with almost no obstacles.

He had reached a realm in mere months that took ordinary people decades, if not longer, to achieve.

Of course, this was also thanks to the legacy of the Blood Immortal Sect, the wealth of cultivation experience from Lin Fan’s past life, and his Flawless Immortal Embryo constitution…

Any one of these legacies or strokes of fortune would have been enough to allow someone to soar to the heavens.

It was no surprise that he now possessed such a level of cultivation and strength.

However, the process of advancing from the Sixth to the Seventh Realm could not rely on the Destiny Dao Fruit as before. He would need to personally commune with the Power of Heaven and Earth’s Void and then use his condensed Lifebound Divine Techniques to give birth to his very own Heaven and Earth Dharma Aspect.

Lately, Jiang Lan had been drawing upon the vast knowledge and experience in his mind to formulate a plan, and a rough outline was beginning to form.

To fully flesh out this fledgling idea, he would need the help of one specific item: the Free Ancient Talisman.

In the original plot, Helian Wen hadn’t died after falling into the Demon Abyss. Instead, he had accidentally swallowed a Demon Essence Fruit, which transformed his physical body into a Demon Body, rendering him immune to the corrosion of Demonic Qi.

Thus, with the soul of a human and the powerful body of a demon, he could move freely through the depths of the Demon Abyss.

If the original protagonist, Lin Fan, hadn’t died, he would have won Emperor Xia’s favor and been dispatched to Immortal Ascension Island to investigate the unusual activity in the Demon Abyss.

During his investigation, Lin Fan would have been deceived by Tantai Qing’s appearance and accompanied her into the Demon Abyss. There, he would have been ambushed by a hidden Helian Wen. As he fled from his injuries, Tantai Qing would have caught him off guard, severely wounding him. Forced to use a Secret Skill, he would have escaped into the depths of the Demon Abyss, only to be saved by Helian Wen. The two would then turn from enemies to friends, becoming sworn brothers…

Afterward, with Lin Fan’s help, Helian Wen would have successfully cleared his name. Tantai Qing, on the other hand, would have become a pariah, forced to flee her home and escape far from Immortal Ascension Island.

‘In the original plot, a character named Huangfu Hao never appeared. But maybe that’s because the story was told from Lin Fan’s perspective, so it didn’t go into detail about the enemies of the Prime Minister’s Mansion.’

‘But the Book of Mediation and Creation ended up in Tantai Qing’s hands. Could it be that the number one prodigy of Celestial Central Province’s younger generation met a tragic end at her hands? Or did something happen to the original Huangfu Hao, causing him to become something like an Artifact Spirit residing within the Book of Mediation and Creation?’

‘Does he not have a physical body now?’

Jiang Lan’s thoughts returned to the present. He felt there were many suspicious aspects to this.

However, the most important task at hand was to meet with Tantai Qing and subdue her. With the help of the inheritance she possessed, the Free Ancient Talisman would be his for the taking.

Meanwhile, after leaving Prince Zhong’s Mansion, Tantai Ming rushed toward the Tantai Family’s Little World. He immediately contacted his older sister, Tantai Qing, and told her everything that had just happened.

‘What in the world is in this Purple Jade Box? It looks rather strange.’

He didn’t dare open the Purple Jade Box on his own. He was quite afraid of his sister, Tantai Qing, and wouldn’t dare touch her things without permission.

‘But as the son of the Prime Minister, why would Jiang Lan prepare a gift for my sister ahead of time?’

‘What were his intentions?’

‘Wasn’t marrying the Empress of Great Xia enough for him? Did he have designs on my sister too?’

Shaking his head, Tantai Ming didn’t dwell on it. Soon, he received a reply from Tantai Qing, telling him to bring the Purple Jade Box to her.

Tantai Qing hadn’t been in the family’s territory recently. Instead, she was stationed in a town outside the Demon Abyss, standing guard.

Upon receiving the message, Tantai Ming led his subordinates and hurried over.

This was also a good opportunity. The blue-skirted woman by Jiang Lan’s side had proposed some rather good terms for cooperation during their discussion. These terms were crucial for the long-term development of the Tantai Family, and he needed to discuss them with his sister, Tantai Qing.