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"I noticed Junior Brother Lu seems to have an interest in the Cyan Simurgh Sect's Scripture Pavilion. After the True Disciple ceremony is completed, I will petition the sect for a Supreme Scripture Transmission Order. Once obtained, Junior Brother Lu can peruse the texts below the eighth level."

Lu Yan's eyes lit up; the texts from the first three levels of the Cyan Simurgh Sect had already provided him significant assistance.

If he could peruse the texts below the eighth level of the Cyan Simurgh Sect, alongside the capabilities of the Ghost God Computer, he could essentially empty out the entire Scripture Pavilion, enriching his knowledge substantially.

Moreover, among the texts below the eighth level, there might be the third or fourth level Arrays and Talismanic Magic Lu Yan needs. There might even be additional chapters of the "Profound Yellow Daoist Collection" and the cultivation techniques of the Ancient Daoist Sect.

As an outsider, accessing the texts below the eighth level of the Scripture Pavilion would surely be costly, making Ji Xingyao's offer especially generous.

Lu Yan did not refuse and accepted with the words:

"Thank you very much, Senior Sister Ji."

Upon hearing Lu Yan's acceptance, Ji Xingyao finally showed a slight smile.

Without lingering further, Lu Yan gave a few brief instructions and left the Spirit Peak where Ji Xingyao's Cave Mansion was located. Su Yan, who watched from afar, approached actively.

Lu Yan glanced at Su Yan. Although this internet-famous fairy's intentions weren't pure, her initiative in greeting and her previous attitude when facing the Xiao family father and son were indeed earnest and diligent.

He waved his hand to take out thirty Sunstones from his storage bag and dropped them into Su Yan's Flying Ship, afterward instructing:

"If you encounter any issues in the Cyan Simurgh Sect, you can mention my name and go to Senior Sister Ji."

With those words, Lu Yan gave up on using the Flying Ship and transformed into a beam of escape light in the direction he had come.

Su Yan, holding the thirty Sunstones, gazed in a daze towards the direction Lu Yan left.

A moment later, as Su Yan turned to re-board the Flying Ship, she suddenly found that Ji Xingyao, who had already broken through to the Golden Core, was inexplicably on the Flying Ship.

Su Yan was instantly terrified, hurriedly kneeling to pay respect to Ji Xingyao.

"Su Yan greets Senior Sister Ji!"

Within the Cyan Simurgh Sect, only those promoted to the Golden Core Realm are considered true True Disciples.

The gap between Su Yan and Ji Xingyao was not just about strength and status. More importantly, Su Yan had previously antagonized Ji Xingyao in a bid for the True Successor Position, making their relationship hardly amicable.

With Su Yan now in such a position, it would be challenging to ensure she wouldn't take the opportunity to retaliate.

However, Ji Xingyao seemed to pay Su Yan no mind and instead asked on her own:

"Tell me everything about Junior Brother Lu, in detail."

Su Yan honestly recounted the matters concerning Lu Yan and about the Xiao family, who were punished to fill the Sea Eye by Wu True Monarch.

After listening, Ji Xingyao was lost in thought for a long time.

She had never expected that the mortal servant she had once met in the Bamboo Forest Marketplace had grown to such a level, where even a Golden Core True Person was helpless against him.

Subsequently, Ji Xingyao gave Su Yan a meaningful look.

While it's true that she had a cold personality, she was not entirely ignorant of worldly matters. She was fully aware of the role Su Yan played in all this.

However, her relationship with Lu Yan was more akin to fellow Daoists than Dao companions, so she naturally would not interfere with Lu Yan's private life.

"If you encounter trouble, you can come find me."

Leaving behind those words, Ji Xingyao gracefully departed. The originally shattered array in the Cave Mansion activated again, and Sword Intent and mist shrouded the entire Spirit Peak.

...

After leaving the Qingwu Blessed Land, Lu Yan first made a trip to the marketplace within the Cyan Simurgh Sect's mountain gate, where he gathered information on the Taiyi Sect's branch where Chu Zhuoqun resided.

As a Golden Core True Person, Chu Zhuoqun's information was widely circulated, making him relatively easy to locate.

Chu Zhuoqun was a Steward Elder of the Taiyi Sect's Mang Mountain Branch, which was located in the Southern Wilderness beyond the Southern Borders, so Lu Yan headed straight for the Southern Wilderness upon leaving.

To outsiders, Chu Zhuoqun appeared to be just an ordinary Steward Elder, but Lu Yan knew that in the urban version, Chu Zhuoqun was quite familiar with Mu Chunqiu, and through him, Mu Chunqiu's whereabouts could be confirmed.

Leaving the Cyan Simurgh Sect, Lu Yan proceeded directly towards the Mang Mountain Branch, not even bothering to conceal his departure trace.

After traveling thousands of kilometers, the escape light that Lu Yan transformed into finally stopped in a vast and boundless wilderness.

During this time, the heavenly virtue that Lu Yan sensed, entangled with Xiao Shang, had been constantly changing position. Now it had reached the clouds ahead of his route.

Elder Xiao was supposed to have gone to the South Sea, but from the current outcome, it was clear that Elder Xiao was unwilling to accept the fate of suppressing the South Sea Sea Eye.

Yet, if he did not go to suppress the South Sea Sea Eye, it would mean betraying the Cyan Simurgh Sect and facing pursuit from the entire sect.

Lu Yan did not know why Elder Xiao made such a decision, but it was apparent that before defecting from the sect, Elder Xiao wanted to kill Lu Yan, the main culprit.

Looking up at the clouds, Lu Yan revealed a slight smile at the corner of his mouth.

"Just as I wanted."

As the escape light moved forward, at the moment it passed through a cloud layer, a powerful imposing force suddenly locked onto the space within several kilometers.

There was no verbal irony, nor was there any appearance shown; the attack came with the most direct killing move.

Elder Xiao and another mid-Golden Core female cultivator slashed through the sky like two black bolts of lightning, carrying the majestic true essence of the Golden Core Realm straight towards Lu Yan.

Although both of them wore black robes, Lu Yan couldn't see their faces, but he could easily confirm that it was Elder Xiao's Dao partner, Xie Nianci, who was punished along with him to suppress the Sea Eye.

In an instant, Elder Xiao formed a spell, and the sky changed colors instantly. Numerous lightning bolts slithered like silver snakes, turning the surrounding kilometers into a purgatory of thunder.

Xie Nianci waved her jade-like hand, causing the earth veins to tremble, and countless sharp rock spikes broke through the earth, extending hundreds of meters like a forest of long spears aimed at Lu Yan's vital points.

The joint attack technique of the two Golden Core cultivators was naturally seamless, intertwining the power of thunder and earth veins into a Heaven and Earth Net, filled with suffocating murder intent.

Under the divine techniques of the Golden Core cultivators, the Human Emperor Banner that had been suppressed within Lu Yan's Profound Vagina Door moved.

Emerging from that mysterious stone door, a Black Gold Ancient Banner appeared in Lu Yan's hand, with the heavenly virtue flowing on the banner's surface. The Human Emperor's Qi, refined from tens of millions of zombies, instantly enveloped this world.

With the injection of magical power, a thunderous war drum sound suddenly erupted.

Instantly, the void shattered like a mirror, and six hundred Ghost Generals wielding war halberds rode Yin Horses, treading on the void, followed by six thousand armor-clad Yin Soldiers emerging from the rift in a continuous stream.

The Yin Soldiers and Ghost Generals assembled into a battle array, shaking the heavens and earth, directly confronting the Heaven and Earth Net intertwined by thunder and earth veins.

In one breath!

Before the two Golden Core cultivators could react, an even more powerful presence suddenly emerged from the Soul Banner.

These were five majestic ghost gods, surrounded by the vast Human Emperor's Qi, manifesting the appearance of ghost gods dozens of feet tall.

Though they were only at the early stage of the Golden Core, the ghost gods' ability to borrow the Human Emperor's Qi far surpassed that of the Yin Soldiers and Ghost Generals. As they appeared, the world within tens of miles changed color, even stalling the divine techniques of the Golden Core cultivators.

"Underworld!"

The terrified voice echoed from Elder Xiao; the Underworld had consecutively slain dozens of Nascent Soul True Monarchs and Demon Kings. Its infamous reputation was known even among the elders of the top ten sects.

Without hesitation, all the lightning in the sky was absorbed into his body. Elder Xiao transformed himself using the Thunder Method, revealing a divine technique of not low rank.

However, Elder Xiao, in his lightning form, was not counterattacking but harnessing the omnipresent lightning to attempt escaping from the world enveloped by the Human Emperor's Qi, disregarding Xie Nianci entirely.

The lightning spread, almost instantly tearing apart the Underworld Battle Array.

In two breaths!

At this moment, the Yin Soldiers and Ghost Generals changed their formation, transforming the previous battle array into a Ghost God Array.

Forming into the Ghost God Formation, the six thousand Yin Soldiers and six hundred Ghost Generals were led by the five ghost gods, all cultivation concentrated on the Silver-robed Ghost God in the front, elevating the aura to the peak of the Golden Core Realm.

Five fingers slowly spread, seemingly covering the sky, the entire world seemingly gripped by that one skeletal hand, the space gradually stagnated, and even though the escape technique reached heavenly levels, it was still confined by the limitations of space.

The dimensions of the space continually shrank, and the two Golden Core cultivators struggled like fish in glue, yet ultimately to no avail.

As the Space Amber completely formed, the originally vast space was entirely absorbed into the grasp of the Sky Abyss God, including the two Golden Core cultivators.

The five fingers clutched, and the Space Amber shattered instantly, and the irresistible spatial turbulence utterly devoured the two Golden Core cultivators.

By then, three breaths had passed!