Chapter 237: Chapter 211: Entering the Golden Core Realm
In the urban version, to promote the great trend of Spiritual Energy Revival, Lu Yan once ordered the Underworld ghosts and spirits to secretly construct a Beimang Tomb, intending to use it to alter history and unveil the arrival of Spiritual Energy Revival.
Most of the contents within the Beimang Tomb were fake artifacts forged after being deduced by the Giant Spirit God’s Path of Omniscience. Even professional archeologists couldn’t detect the problems, and would only regard it as a relic of a lost era of Spiritual Qi.
To increase credibility, Lu Yan left behind a Cultivation Technique in the Beimang Tomb, which was the most common ’Chang Chun Skill’ in the xianxia version.
Such a ’Chang Chun Skill’ did not stand out in the xianxia version, but in the urban version that had just sparked the revival of Spiritual Qi, it could be considered an invaluable treasure, directly making Mu Chunqiu the first mortal in the urban version to break through the Qi Refining Stage, aside from Lu Yan.
After successfully sparking the great trend of Spiritual Energy Revival and achieving the feat of substituting humans for the heavens, Lu Yan left the Spiritual Energy Revival version to grow unchecked, ignoring Mu Chunqiu, the first cultivator of the Spiritual Energy Revival version.
As for the impact brought by the ’Chang Chun Skill’ itself, it was also ignored by Lu Yan.
In Lu Yan’s vision, since the ’Chang Chun Skill’ came from the xianxia version, even if it became a supreme Immortal Technique in the urban version, with the version update back to the xianxia version, the essence of the ’Chang Chun Skill’ should remain unchanged.
If it could stack indefinitely, the system of version updates would have already collapsed.
However, from the information revealed by True Monarch Wu, the ’Chang Chun Skill’ Lu Yan left behind seemed to have indeed changed in the xianxia version, with hidden benefits so great that even True Monarch Wu was tempted.
"Both being Nascent Soul True Monarchs, if it were just to favor Mu Chunqiu, True Monarch Wu would only need to issue an order for Elder Xiao to step down. There’s no need to severely punish the Xiao Family with thunderous means."
"His actions are more intended to curry favor with Mu Chunqiu through me, undoubtedly related to Mu Chunqiu’s comprehension of the so-called Longevity Immortal Technique."
"Could it be that my conjectures about version update rules are wrong? Or is it just that this ’Chang Chun Skill’ is so unique?"
Lu Yan was somewhat clueless in his mind.
Temporarily suppressing his thoughts, Lu Yan looked at the pale faces of the Xiao family father and son.
From the results, the punishment Wu Zhenjun imposed on the Xiao family could not be said to be light.
The punishment of subduing the Sea Eye was extremely severe, second only to abolishing cultivation and execution on the spot.
The South Sea Sea Eye was a place where sea monsters thrived and Spiritual Qi was sparse, not a good place, and subduing the Sea Eye constantly involved battling with the sea monsters. It was not uncommon for even Golden Core cultivators to fall.
The suppression period was three hundred years, almost half of the lifespan of a Golden Core. If Elder Xiao and his wife didn’t fall at the hands of the sea monsters, they would be nearing their life’s end by the time they were released.
As for Xiao Shang, who was only at the Foundation Establishment Stage, if he couldn’t break through the Golden Core, he wouldn’t survive the three hundred years sentence and would perish, which was almost a death sentence for the entire Xiao family.
Especially Xiao Shang, who couldn’t bear such a vast disparity.
With his Golden Core real parents’ support, he was the most likely Direct Disciple to attain the True Successor Position, but he suddenly became a prisoner.
"Without Lu Yan, Ji Xingyao would have long fallen from her True Successor position, and I could naturally ascend smoothly. Not even a Nascent Soul True Monarch could easily dispose of a True Disciple in normal conditions."
"If Lu Yan hadn’t come to the Cyan Simurgh Sect today, I wouldn’t have coveted the opportunities on him or attempted to attack him."
"If Lu Yan didn’t have Mu Zhenjun behind him, Wu Zhenjun wouldn’t interfere in such trivial matters given my status as not being a direct descendant of the Taiyi Sect Main Lineage. My father and I wouldn’t have suffered this disaster."
"All of this, every bit of it, is because of Lu Yan!"
As if an unknown whisper sounded in Xiao Shang’s ears, Heart Demons burst forth, crazed desires filled Xiao Shang’s mind. His eyes turned red, staring intensely at Lu Yan, his hands gripping the Duster Treasure, ready to strike at any moment.
But at this moment, the pale-faced Elder Xiao raised his hand to block Xiao Shang.
"Return to the Cave Mansion, prepare to pack up and set off for the South Sea."
"But father!"
"Shut up! Did you not hear the content of True Monarch Wu’s order? We must set off today!"
After the words fell, Elder Xiao cupped his hands towards Lu Yan in salute, his eyes lacking hatred.
Then, with a wave of his sleeve, he took Xiao Shang and flew off into the distance.
Seeing this scene, Lu Yan couldn’t help but squint.
A reckless fool like Xiao Shang, who is desperate to charge up, is nothing to fear. Lu Yan even hoped that Xiao Shang would act recklessly and disrupt Wu Zhenjun’s decree.
In this way, Wu Zhenjun would inevitably impose further punishment, even if not executing on the spot, at least abolishing Xiao Shang’s cultivation, implicating Elder Xiao in the process.
But now it seems, Elder Xiao was even more enduring than Lu Yan imagined.
"A biting dog doesn’t bark!"
Lu Yan whispered in a voice only he could hear, and with a slight motion of his index finger, a wisp of Celestial Dao merit transformed into an invisible thread silently landed on Elder Xiao.
The ’Red Lotus Karma Fire Scripture’ once recorded a Spell called Karmic Entanglement, which unleashes one’s own karmic force onto the enemy, trapping them in a wave of misfortune.
However, this is just a first-tier high-grade Spell, and the traces of Karmic Force are too obvious. Lu Yan never used it in combat.
But thanks to the comprehension of omniscient spells during the substitution of humans for heavens, Lu Yan modified Karmic Entanglement by replacing the karmic force with Celestial Dao merit.