It wasn't that Lu Yang hadn't met Zou Yu descendants before. It was just that his cultivation base was low at that time, having just established his Dao Foundation, and his Dao comprehension was far from sufficient.
Therefore, he didn't see anything strange at that time.
However, it was different now. Lu Yang's eyes shone with golden light. Under his thorough illumination, Yu Zhou before him seemed to be merely a shadow under the sunlight!
Hiss.
Almost simultaneously, Yu Zhou also sucked in a cold breath, only feeling that the gaze of this "esteemed cultivator" before him was terrifying, almost piercing through him.
"May I ask... esteemed cultivator, which faction do you belong to?"
Yu Zhou bit his lip, sweating like rain. He could only glance at Chong Guang with a pleading look. Seeing him unresponsive, he looked towards Lu Yang again.
As his voice fell, Lu Yang withdrew the strange light in his pupils, smiling kindly:
"I am Du Huan, holding a tiny bit of status in the Dao Court."
"So it's the Dao Court?"
As soon as these words came out, Yu Zhou was stunned instantly. Immediately, a chill rushed straight from the soles of his feet to his forehead. The feeling of horror was even greater than being stared at by Lu Yang just now.
The reason was simple:
Its over!
Du Huan... is that demon dragon! That demon dragon who attained [Heavenly Fire]. He must have known my family's specialness and coming to eliminate us completely!
As the current leader of the Zou Yu descendants, Yu Zhou understood his family's specialness quite well. But he dared not speak of it, only able to hold it in his heart, muddling along, living day by day. Only some juniors at the early and middle stages of Foundation Establishment below in the family were still dreaming of restoring the country.
In Yu Zhou's view, the family still continuing was already heavenly fortune.
After all, compared to his own family, the "Zou Yu descendants" here were wiped out by the Tianwu Dao Court when usurping the throne fifteen thousand years ago.
His own family was considered fortunate.
Therefore, seeing Lu Yang come looking now, Yu Zhou had almost no hesitation, kneeling directly on the ground: "Lord, Lord... the Zou Yu Clan is innocent!"
Such behavior actually made Lu Yang suprised:
Zou Yu Imperial Family... can't be counted as an Imperial Family anymore. They've been kept in the Saint Sect for five thousand years, what Imperial Family is there? What remains is just a declined family!
But this was normal.
After all, this branch of Zou Yu descendants was incompatible with heaven and earth. If they were really a powerful and ambitious family, it would instead give the Saint Sect Ancestor a headache.
Like this now was just right.
The Saint Sect kept this branch of Zou Yu descendants like parasite. The Saint Sect Ancestor could use them to threaten the World Honored One without making the World Honored One reacted negatively.
"Get up."
Lu Yang raised his hand, smiling: "Dont worry, I'm not here to kill you... killing you won't solve the problem, instead bringing countless troubles."
"Thank you for the grace of sparing my life, sir!"
Yu Zhou kowtowed again, and with great sincerity. The muffled thuds were so loud that his Foundation Establishment body was covered in bruises.
Lu Yang didn't mind. He saw Chong Guang open a hall for the two of them to discuss the matter, then stepped aside. He then spoke slowly:
"I wish to seek [Heavenly Fire]. The problem lies with your lineage."
"Does Fellow Daoist have any method?"
Lu Yang went straight to the point. Yu Zhou instantly felt his scalp tingle again.
Fortunately, ever since hearing that Emperor Huan Ming of the Dao Court cultivated [Heavenly Fire], he had been tossing and turning for ten years, thinking hard, and had long prepared a plan.
The next second, the old man sighed:
"Your Excellency, in the past, our clan's emperor also studied the [Heavenly Fire] in great detail and even received a legacy. He devoted the entire dynasty to deducing and repairing it countless times."
"Thus, there came to be that [Kan-Li Correct Position Phase Shift True Technique] brought to you by Lord Chong Guang. The original copy of that true technique was actually even cruder, with many wildly imaginative parts. It was only after our clan's emperor deduced it for many years that it became a complete method and finally had a place to be used."
Yu Zhou spoke very cleverly.
He deliberately starting with the [Kan-Li Correct Position Phase Shift True Technique] was to build connections, get close, hinting that my family actually contributed to the cause.
Lu Yang raised his eyebrows slightly upon hearing this:
"The [Heavenly Fire] inheritance in your hands, can you lend it to me for a look?"
"It's my utmost honor!"
Yu Zhou didn't hesitate at all, directly taking out a thick book from his robe. Its cover, pages, and spine were actually all cast from brass.
"This is the inheritance in my clan's hands, named [IImperial Heaven Illuminating the World Scripture]." The old man raised the book above his head with both hands, presenting it before Lu Yang, saying in a low voice: "This book records various grades of divine abilities, dao arts corresponding to [Heavenly Fire], and methods to seek corresponding Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiend."
"[Kan-Li Correct Position Phase Shift True Technique] is also within it."
"The person who wrote this inheritance back then was the great cultivator most hopeful of attaining [Heavenly Fire] in that era, also a Perfected Lord from outer heaven ..."
"Perfected Lord?"
Lu Yang's attention was attracted instantly. An Unorthodox Dao Perfected Lord could also seek an orthodox Dao Fruit; he knew this point. But why seek [Heavenly Fire] of all thing?
"That Perfected Lord was not ordinary person."
Speaking of this, Yu Zhou had a weird expression, whispering:
"That person was mysterious and unfathomable. It's said he had attained a Perfected Lord stature once in early years, but was betrayed and falling from the Dao Fruit, having to choose to reincarnate and start over."
"After reincarnation, instead of fading into obscurity, he defied the heavens, attaining Perfected Lord stature in the outer heaven and making a powerful comeback. His Dao comprehension was profound and unfathomable. Moreover, his means were cruel. Backed by the Saint Sect, he forcibly established a great foundation in Jiangbei not losing to the Dao Court..."
The more Lu Yang listened, the more he felt something was wrong.
Why does this experience sound so familiar?
After pondering for a moment, Lu Yang said tentatively: "Hong Yun?"
In another history, did Hong Yun who wasn't pitted to a tragic death by [Sky-Shrouding] and the Lord of Heaven, found another path of life? I dont quite believe it!
On the other side, Yu Zhou revealed an awkward expression: "It should be... but doesn't quite look like it. So I've been very puzzled over the years.."
Good heaven, even Zou Yu descendants themselves didnt believe it!
After all, the gap between the two was great. Compared to the Hong Yun of the present world, exactly what kind of historical trend change occurred to allow him to turn his fortune around?
For a time, Lu Yang felt a profound mystery of karma.
My use of [Kan-Li Correct Position Phase Shift True Technique] to shift [Overturned Lamp Flame] to [Heavenly Fire] is probably the initial idea of that different history Hong Yun.
He really had great ambition!
Is it really Hong Yun? or is it not?
Thinking of this, Lu Yang operated his divine sense again, looking at the [Imperial Heaven Illuminating the World Scripture] in his hand. Most of the content within was useless to the current him.
Only one was the lament of the writer:
[Heavenly Fire] is hard to seek, supreme and unique. [Heavenly River Water] is damaged and no longger profound. [Sword Edge Gold] is sheathed and its sharpness is not revealed. [City Rampart Earth], is not worth mentioning... Thinking over and over, I'm afraid only [Great Forest Wood] has a slim hope.
Besides this, there was one more thing Lu Yang was also very interested in:
Speaking of which, since Zou Yu descendants could come from that disordered history to the present world, it shows there must be a passage within the Saint Sect capable of interacting between the two places!
Thinking of this, Lu Yang suddenly looked up, looking at Yu Zhou and asking: "Hong Yun... that Unorthodox Dao Perfected Lord you just mentioned, what happened to him in the end?"
As soon as these words came out, Yu Zhou instantly tightened his expression:
"He failed in his attempt to attain [Heavenly Fire] and died. He should have been reincarnated."