Although slightly horrified at first, Lu Yang soon regained his calm.
Because something like "[Sky-Shrouding] having a backup plan" wasn't actually difficult to understand. After all, he knew the flaws of the Grotto-Heaven Method.
Since he knew, how could he stubbornly insist on one path?
Moreover, Saint Sect Perfected Lords always had three burrows for a cunning rabbit. He himself left an initial anchor point for rebirth; how could [Sky-Shrouding] not leave a way out?
Rather, it would be strange if he didn't! Having one is normal.
That being said, Lu Yang still didn't quite understand one point: "Senior just said I am now also a target of public criticism. What does this mean?"
"Hmm?"
Hearing this, [Sky-Shrouding] instantly raised his eyebrows slightly, his expression looking at Lu Yang becoming odd: "...Fellow Daoist, you actually don't know?"
Know what?
Although Lu Yang didn't reveal anything on his face, this question itself already revealed his background, making [Sky-Shrouding] smack his lips uncontrollably.
Why wasn't he angry facing Lu Yang?
To be fair, he was very angry at first, wishing he could tear Lu Yang into ten thousand pieces... then he saw the live broadcast of Lu Yang's breakthrough.
Regaining control of the Dharma Body Great Dao, publicly provoking the Primordial Saint.
That cry of "Who can kill me?" was still echoing in the Immortal Nexus right now!
So [Sky-Shrouding] wasn't angry anymore. After all, you've gone to this extent. He considered himself a magnanimous person, not getting angry with a dead man.
The next second, [Sky-Shrouding] spoke, his tone even carrying a bit of playfulness: "Fellow Daoist is unaware. The matter of you regaining control of the Dharma Body Great Dao has spread to become known by all under heaven. Fellow Daoist's heroic posture, and even more heroic tone... The entire light sea probably knows Fellow Daoist is already a dead man..."
Lu Yang: "?"
What do you mean I'm already a dead man?
Under [Sky-Shrouding]'s gaze, Lu Yang tilted his head. Was there something wrong somewhere? What regaining control of the Dharma Body Great Dao, what spread to become known by everyone under heaven...
Only until the next second did he finally react.
In an instant, Lu Yang's pupils shook violently!
"Everyone… they all know?" Lu Yang's mouth opened slightly.
"Otherwise?"
[Sky-Shrouding] chuckled: "Fellow Daoist caused such a big commotion. Eighty percent chance that lord of the Saint Sect is casting his gaze over. Fellow Daoist is blessed!"
Lu Yang: "..."
He subconsciously began to recall what he did after regaining control of the Dharma Body Great Dao. Immediately after, his teeth were almost chattering, uncontrollably whispering: "Then the words I said..."
"'Who can kill me?'" [Sky-Shrouding] smiled even happier, even giving a thumbs up: "Fellow Daoist's courage is seen only once in a hundred thousand years!"
At this moment, seeing Lu Yang's completely losing his composure, [Sky-Shrouding], who had just been plotted against to fall from the Great Perfected Lord position and had his Netherworld Dao path severed, suddenly felt much better. Looking at Lu Yang again, he even felt this unlucky guy was quite pleasing to the eye. Compared to him, he himself was actually quite good.
In his eyes, Lu Yang was already a talking corpse.
After all, his plan just failed, and it wasn't beyond salvage. The one opposite had both feet in the coffin, just short of closing the lid.
Thinking about it, [Sky-Shrouding] laughed out loud again.
On the other side, Lu Yang's mood wasn't so wonderful.
Fuck me! Regaining control of the Dharma Body Great Dao actually gets live broadcasted? Is it because of the [Sea of Bitterness]? Because the Dharma Body Great Dao is one of the foundations of cultivators?
Lu Yang felt a bit dizzy.
Immediately after, he looked at the [Immortal Nexus Survival Guide] again. He was so angry thet his hands were shaking.
Didn't you say no trap? Such a big pit, damn it, why didn't you remind me?
The next second, he heard [Sky-Shrouding]'s laughter.
"...What is Senior laughing at?" Lu Yang looked abruptly at [Sky-Shrouding], baring his teeth. Everyone is mid-Golden Core now; still think I'm afraid of you?
So what if [Great Forest Wood]? So what if high Dao comprehension?
You can't kill me!
Although they only clashed for an instant, Lu Yang already had a rough judgment of [Sky-Shrouding]'s strength: Very strong, terrifyingly strong.
After all, what fell was the realm, not Dao comprehension. And with [Sky-Shrouding]'s Dao comprehension, plus [Great Forest Wood], even at only mid-Golden Core, his combat power would inevitably far exceed Perfected Lord Feixue. So fighting him, Lu Yang estimated he had no power to fight back and would only be unilaterally beaten.
But that was all.
Relying on the Dharma Body Great Dao's high defense and HP stats, plus the shameless mechanism of the [Three Lives Primordial Qi Method], it was absolutely impossible for [Sky-Shrouding] to kill him.
Even suppression was impossible.
He believed [Sky-Shrouding] also saw this point, so he changed the topic and actively proposed cooperation. Otherwise, with his character, he would have killed him long ago.
This is the unchanging law of the Saint Sect: Only the strong are qualified to cooperate.
Therefore, facing Lu Yang's questioning, [Sky-Shrouding] only responded indifferently: "I thought of something funny. Seems Fellow Daoist has clarified the current situation?"
"...Hmph!" Of course Lu Yang clarified it.
First, self-destructing was impossible. Lu Yang felt he hadn't reached the step of resetting yet; he could still be salvaged.
Second, on the basis of not resetting... [Sky-Shrouding]'s proposal was very reasonable.
Because he and [Sky-Shrouding] currently had no essential conflict anymore. At most, there were some small grudges, like him cutting off the other's Dao path.
But the past is past.
I'll just apologize. And since I've apologized, if you still don't forgive me, it's your fault.
As Saint Sect Perfected Lords, whether Lu Yang or [Sky-Shrouding], both were people who looked forward. They could pick things up and put them down. In the end, it was still about discussing benefits..
And undoubtedly, the two of them now—one was the former number one Perfected Lord in the world, sitting in the Netherworld watching the world, and a figure capable of entering the Dao Lord's eyes; the other, needless to say, was securely the thorn in the Dao Lord's eye. The two were actually people on the same boat, it was precisely the time to cooperate.
"...How does Senior want to cooperate?"
Hearing this, [Sky-Shrouding] instantly narrowed his eyes, saying: "The person who acted to protect Hong Yun at the last moment before was Mu Changsheng, right?"
"Correct." Lu Yang decisively sold Mu Changsheng out.
[Sky-Shrouding] nodded hearing this, continuing: "You said at the time, the place he had been to, you knew the second location... It was referring to this [Heavenly Being's Remnant Consciousness]?"
"Correct."
Lu Yang smiled: "At the time I actually wasn't sure. It was just treating a dead horse as a living horse. However, since Mu Changsheng acted... that confirmed it instead."
"Senior wants to act against him?"
"Does Fellow Daoist still not understand the importance of [Heavenly Being's Remnant Consciousness]?"
[Sky-Shrouding] asked back: "In the whole world, besides [Heavenly Being's Remnant Consciousness], only the Netherworld can isolate the Dao Lord's sight. It is the life of the Great Dao!"
"This streak of life is the Great Dao principle."
"Even the Grotto-Heaven Method set up by the Ancestor must still follow this principle. No matter how the road to Dao Lord is forbidden, there will inevitably be a glimmer of life."
"Because if this glimmer of life isn't left, if it's not fitting the Great Dao principle, then things will fail instead. Otherwise, do you think the World Honored One really couldn't completely stomp out [Heavenly Being's Remnant Consciousness] back then? The problem is if he really wanted to stomp it out completely, he wouldn't be able to shake this place instead!"
"Precisely by harboring the intention of splitting, he could succeed."
"Because splitting isn't destroying. Although it further lowered the hope of impacting the Nascent Soul through [Heavenly Being's Remnant Consciousness], it still left an opportunity."
[Sky-Shrouding]'s words made Lu Yang feel enlightened.
The Great Dao is fifty, Heaven derives forty-nine, and one escape... Everything, if it has the fixed number of forty-nine, it must have that one variable to be perfect!
Thinking of this, he glanced at [Sky-Shrouding] again.
Undoubtedly, from the perspective of intelligence, this person was even a greater treasury than Sisui. After all, Sisui was only a remnant thought of a remnant thought.
While [Sky-Shrouding] was complete.
Especially since this person lived for so many years and dared to point his sword at the Nascent Soul, he must have certainty.
It showed he inevitably mastered key intelligence at the Nascent Soul level.
Really want to find out…
His intelligence!