Star Palace, Azure Dragon Constellation.
The Zhu Xuan Clan Head was currently examining the clan's treasury. Suddenly seeing a rainbow light flying over, it was a flying letter. He took it and swept his eyes over it.
Then he was stunned, seemingly in disbelief.
In an instant, the star where the Zhu Xuan Clan resided began to vibrate slightly. Majestic spiritual power, like a monstrous wave, seemed about to surge out.
But soon, all anomalies were restrained.
The Zhu Xuan Clan Head took a deep breath, then operated his divine intent to look in the direction of [Horn Wood Flood Dragon], only to see that Star Chart had also dimmed.
Matters having reached this point, he naturally understood that the news received was correct. Whether it was Zhu Xuanhao, the person with the most noble bloodline of their Zhu Xuan Clan in this generation, or [Star Lord Clear River], both had died and their Dao dissipated, seemingly both dying in the [Heavenly Being's Remnant Consciousness]. This was obviously problematic!
"This matter must be reported to the Star Palace."
With this thought, the Zhu Xuan Clan Head stood up immediately. But just before setting off, he suddenly stopped. With a turn of thought, he thought of a more important matter:
[Star Lord Clear River] is dead, [Horn Wood Flood Dragon] is vacant.
Speaking of this, [Horn Wood Flood Dragon] has no one to protect it. Isn't this a good opportunity for my Zhu Xuan Clan to take advantage of the void and enter, bringing it completely under the clan's control?
Looking at it this way, good riddance!
Just two Star Lords. To others, they might be very important, but in his eyes, they were just so-so. He could select people to fill the vacancies at any time.
Even for Zhu Xuanhao, although there was indeed no one to replace him in this generation, the population of the Zhu Xuan Clan was right there. If the person with the noblest bloodline in this generation died, then just wait for the next generation. One of the valuable experiences his family had learned from that wretched place named the Immortal Nexus, was that human lives were always the least valuable!
Moreover, those who died were just Star Lords!
Star Lord, Star Lord... compared to years past, the name has changed after all. They cannot bear the name of [Perfected Lord]. A difference of one character is often the difference between heaven and earth!
Thinking of this, the Zhu Xuan Clan Head acted immediately.
"Men, follow me to [Horn Wood Flood Dragon]!"
Previously [Star Lord Clear River] came to him to take a 'cut'. Now don't blame him for eating up his family inheritance. Star Palace struggles have always been like this!
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[Heavenly Being's Remnant Consciousness], Supreme Imperial World.
Lu Yang opened his eyes. There seemed to be thunder and lightning in his eyes, but he looked far away beyond the heavens, grinning: That old bastard hid far away this time...
Ultimately, he had the upper hand.
Otherwise, given the gap between him and Sky-Shrouding, in the end, it would definitely be Sky-Shrouding taking the lion's share and him taking the smaller share, or even whether he got any would depend on the situation.
However, the result was that both sides split equally. Sky-Shrouding also translated four ancient method scriptures for him. Now, because he was injured by the [Tribulation Evil Profound Light], he wouldn't recover for a while and didn't dare to stay in the same place as him, choosing to travel far beyond the heavens to hide. It could be considered actively taking a step back.
Moreover, I also hid a treasure.
Lu Yang shook his sleeves lightly, operating divine intent to size up a jade stone hidden in his sleeve. Forming his fingers to calculate, he soon learned the specific utility of this item.
[Horn Wood Heavenly Gate Star Core]?
Lu Yang touched his chin. Since he decided to hide this thing privately, he naturally had already secretly tested it once with the [Immortal Nexus Survival Guide].
The result was [No Trap].
If not for this, he would have gifted the item to Sky-Shrouding under the name of trading just now. How could he hide it privately to find unhappiness for himself?
This is a top-grade dharma body embryo.
Using it to refine a [Life Form Body], it can be called superb. The downside is needing to cultivate it anew, sending it into the mortal world for experience, easily costing several hundred years of time.
Of course, there were also concise usages.
[Sword Edge Gold]!
Now I have inherited Perfected One Subduing-Spirits' Dao Foundation and Divine Abilities. If I use this as a base, perhaps I can find a way to enlighten another [Life Form Body].
Lu Yang thought that with his current situation, it was definitely impossible to leave the [Heavenly Being's Remnant Consciousness]. In this case, a new [Life Form Body] would be very useful, not to mention cultivating a Supreme Dao Fruit. If he could use this to swallow [Sword Edge Gold], it would be much more profitable than [Overturned Lamp Flame]!
But... no rush!
He pondered slightly, then with a flick of his finger, he took out the four jade slips translated by Sky-Shrouding. These were all Ancient Method scriptures collected by the Star Palace.
On this point, [Star Lord Clear River] still played a little trick.
He didn't bring Ancient Methods involving Star Palace secrets. None of the four jade slips was an ancient method pointing directly to [Spiritual Power], but all were dao arts or technique.
Dao arts, also one of the three foundations of cultivators.
These four jade slips are all dao arts used by Ancient Method Perfected Lords in the past... Before the Grotto-Heaven Method, this was the means for Ancient Method Perfected Lords to fight.
Grotto-Heaven Method Perfected Lords fought based on Dao Fruits.
Either Dao Fruit concepts or Dao Fruit wonders. Even if there were dao arts, the wonders within were quite superficial, rarely having truly powerful means.
However, Ancient Method Perfected Lords were not like this.
Ancient Method cultivation swallows Dao Fruits, turning them for one's own use. Naturally, one won't rely on the power of Dao Fruits, but instead needs Dao Fruits to cooperate with one's own divine ability.
Lu Yang read briefly, and soon had a plan in his heart.
So-called [Dao arts] are divine ability means refined by borrowing external objects like rare treasures, pills, souls, etc., and then refining them with heaven-reaching means.
To refine [Dao arts], a Golden Core Perfected Lord needs to entrust their life, supplemented by many external objects, spending long years to refine. However, once refined, it immediately possesses tremendous power. If refined to a high enough level, it can even slay a Perfected Lord of the same rank!
At first, Lu Yang was somewhat delighted.
After all, if [Dao arts] could really slay Perfected Lords of the same rank, it would also be of great help to him.
But soon, he frowned, understanding why [Dao arts] were so powerful yet [Star Lord Clear River] was willing to take them out.
Lack of external objects, unable to refine...
Of the four jade slips given by [Star Lord Clear River], the four [Dao arts] were all Star Palace secret teaching. The external objects needed for refining it were only available in the Star Palace.
In the end, only one of the four [Dao arts] was usable.
[Great Might Kui-Gang Righteous Qi]
Wanting to refine this [Dao arts] requires a soul of Perfected Lord stature as an external object, spending forty-nine years to initially refine it.
Lu Yang pondered in his heart, summoning the Righteous Dao Banner.
Soon, amidst rolling purple Qi, two souls emerged. They were precisely [Star Lord Clear River] and Zhu Xuanhao, whom he had refined effortlessly before.
However, looking at them, Lu Yang frowned tightly:
...They actually fell in rank.
Different from Immortal Nexus Perfected Lords who possessed Golden Nature, for others, whether from the Celestial Court or the Star Palace, after death and losing connection with the Dao Fruit, the soul's stature would fall.
Looking at it this way, the pit of the Star Palace Cultivation Method is probably not small either!
Thinking of this, Lu Yang suddenly felt somewhat absurd. Because looking at it this way, the value of the Grotto-Heaven Method and Immortal Nexus Perfected Lords was actually the highest!
So the Saint Sect Ancestor was actually a good person?
"Haha!"
Lu Yang couldn't help laughing.
But soon, he restrained his smile. After all, without a true Perfected Lord soul, he couldn't refine the [Dao arts]. This made it difficult for him.
However, just when Lu Yang was frowning.
Outside the Supreme Imperial World, a stream of flowing light suddenly sped over, then transformed into a jade box landing in front of Lu Yang, a seal manifesting on the box.
Immediately after, Sky-Shrouding's voice came:
"I guess Fellow Daoist should currently be lacking this item... If Fellow Daoist wants it, use all the [Sun Moon Profound Fluid] in your hand to exchange with me."
"Oh?"
Lu Yang raised his eyebrows slightly upon hearing this. He was in the prime of his youth; life-extending items like [Sun Moon Profound Fluid] were useless to him, so he didn't mind trading them.
But the problem was, what price did Sky-Shrouding offer?
Thinking of this, he immediately looked at the jade box in front of him with burning eyes... Soon, the object in the box emerged. It was shockingly a soul.
The soul of [Bodhisattva Coiled Dragon Shadow]!
Alive!
Holy shit...
In an instant, Lu Yang was greatly shocked in his heart: He took back [Bodhisattva Coiled Dragon Shadow]? No wonder he also stayed in the [Heavenly Being's Remnant Consciousness] without going out!
But the next second, Lu Yang cast aside his concerns.
Although an outer heaven Perfected Lord, it was still a Perfected Lord... The soul could be used!
"Deal!"
Lu Yang immediately took out the two drops of [Sun Moon Profound Fluid] in his hand, raised his hand, and sent a spiritual light towards the outer heavens, then hurriedly put the jade box into his robe.
This Perfected Lord soul truly solved his urgent need.
Had to admit, although one needed to guard against the other turning hostile at any time, in the absence of conflicting interests, Sky-Shrouding was still very reliable.
Although our alliance broke before, the past is the past. Now we are still the best of friends in the world!
Rest assured, once I refine the [Great Might Kui-Gang Righteous Qi], the first one I test the move on will be you!