A Sect from a Spirit Vein

Chapter 417: Chapter 375: Return

Wang Yu’s Corpse Puppet Dao Pattern can control cultivators whose cultivation is higher than his by a small realm at most.

Wang Yu is currently in the Early-Stage Foundation Establishment, so he can at most control up to Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment. The number of corpse puppets he can control now is three.

However, the Dao Pattern is within his Spirit Flower, so he naturally senses it and knows that as he breaks through major realms, the number of corpse puppets he can control will continuously increase.

In short, the way for Wang Yu to enhance his combat power now is simple: Find three Early-Stage or Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivators and, at the moment they newly die, when their spiritual mechanism has not dissipated, convert them into his corpse puppets.

To catch them just after death, where would you find such coincidences, except to make them yourself.

In other words, personally kill Foundation Establishment Feather Scholars to create corpse puppets.

To safely hide this highly taboo and calamitous Dao Pattern, using nearby Foundation Establishment cultivators is certainly not feasible. Once a corpse puppet is made, if it happens to encounter acquaintances of its original self, it would easily expose the secret.

To be safe, the best way is to go to another state, thousands of miles away, to find suitable prey.

Lu Qian already has targets for the hunt in his heart. He summoned Wang Yu and the fully recovered Yang Jiye and wrote a few names on paper.

Wang Yu was slightly taken aback because he guessed the other names on the paper, but there was one he had never heard of. Moreover, Lu Qian listed it as the first target.

Looking at Yang Jiye’s expression, he was also confused.

”Senior Brother Wang, since it’s to collect corpse puppets, you can’t send disciples to accompany you, to avoid leaks,” Lu Qian said. ”I need to oversee Lingsha City and can’t travel far, so let Senior Brother Yang accompany you on this trip.”

”This sect is unfamiliar to both you and Senior Brother Yang, let me tell you about it...”

A few hours later, Wang Yu and Yang Jiye, who were fully prepared, quietly and silently left the city, heading to Plum Blossom Marketplace to rent a Wind-Controlling Beast. They would go to a familiar place.

Dispatching two senior brothers, now only Lu Qian and Du Yeming, and Tong Youx as Honored Guest Elders remain in Shuangye Alliance’s Foundation Establishment. While Tong Youx is currently stationed in Liuhua Valley, forming a crutch with Shuangye Square.

Afraid that Tong Youx alone might be insufficient and to strengthen the defense of Liuhua Valley, Lu Qian even sent Xiao Tianci there.

Xiao Tianci had recently been promoted right after joining the sect, thanks to his commendable performance in the last battle, rescuing Yang Jiye and attacking Foundation Establishment Mo Hua, and had been directly promoted from Outer Disciple to Inner Sect Ding Class.

He has now been awarded the Qi Cultivation part of the Rahu Fierce Sword from the Four Excess Star Nether Illumination Divine Sword True Technique, and is diligently practicing it.

The Four Excess Star Nether Illumination Divine Sword True Technique is divided into the Rahu Fierce Sword, Jidu Huie Sword, Moon Wei Sword, and Purple Qi Extreme Sword. These four sword scriptures have no particular order and are complementary and mutually advancing.

The general guideline of the True Technique clearly states that practitioners should not be greedy and start with one of the four sword scriptures, master one and then the others, to achieve a comprehensive understanding and achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Once the four sword scriptures are integrated, the True Technique will be brilliantly perfect, and the practitioner will naturally dominate and shine brilliantly.

Xiao Tianci immediately chose the Rahu Fierce Sword, which suited him the best. A Sword Cultivator must act with fierce killing intent and extraordinary combat power, and cannot practice in seclusion; the more intense the battle, the more it helps integrate the sword technique.

Therefore, sending Xiao Tianci to Liuhua Valley for training in the dangerous territory of hundreds of miles makes him quite content.

Hopefully, this battlefield full of deadly intent can make his sword sharper and help the opportunity for his Foundation Establishment to come again soon.

Thus, in Lingsha City, only Lu Qian and Du Yeming remain, making it quite stretched.

Fortunately, a major battle just ended, and Xuanguang Sect and its subordinate sects are severely damaged, with high-end combat strength diminished considerably, licking their wounds, and no major war is likely for some time.

After handling defensive tasks, the next step is sect external business and internal affairs.

Regarding external business, although Jiang Qingfeng nominally co-manages as Business Elder with Lin Le as Business Steward, Jiang Qingfeng is only in a part-time role. With the sect’s ongoing expansion, internal affairs become more burdensome, and Jiang Qingfeng finds it difficult to spare effort, so the business is now mainly handed over to Lin Le.

Even Lu Qian now only sets a general plan, controls the development direction, and occasionally monitors progress, while the rest is mostly managed by Lin Le himself.

Over the years, Lin Le has fully absorbed Lu Qian’s business concepts and has even surpassed him. Under his efforts, Yunshan Sect’s various business projects are thriving. A few years ago, Lu Qian still needed to guide and correct oversights for him, but now there is nothing left to teach.

Whenever seeing this elegant young man, Lu Qian feels both satisfied and fond, but also regrets his lack of talent in cultivation.

Lin Le has been in the sect for nine years, but now is still at Qi Cultivation third level, and with such poor Five Spirit Roots aptitude, it’s truly lamentable.

At this rate, even if Lin Le mastered the Pure Glazed Body, he couldn’t achieve much.

Especially when Lu Qian sees Lin Le and Wu Yan closely and intimately together, he always feels an infinite sigh.

Really unsure how it will develop in the future.

This is also why Lin Le can only serve as a Steward, unable to receive an Acting Elder title like Zheng Duan to slowly become an Elder.

In the cultivation world, ultimately cultivation is what matters. With the current situation, even if he were appointed Elder and brought into Yunshan Sect’s decision-making circle, he could hardly stand out.

And regarding internal affairs, there is even more to handle.

This includes disciple education and training, Spirit Seed collection and cultivation, various production tasks such as Spirit Medicine cultivation, Talisman making, Elixir refining, Magical Artifact forging, task distribution, internal and external duties rotation, disciple rewards and punishments, treasury management, facility construction, and more.

These were primarily managed by Jiang Qingfeng, Yang Jiye, and Wang Yu in line with their elder duties, but now Yang Jiye and Wang Yu have secretly left, and Senior Sister Qingfeng is also overwhelmed, leaving Lu Qian to take charge personally.

Fortunately, the two are affectionate and sweet, and now fighting side by side, they do not feel tired.

Just as Lu Qian was dealing with internal affairs intensively, preparing for secluded hard cultivation. Wang Yu and Yang Jiye are already flying back and forth, tracing a triangle in Cangzhou, Ningzhou, and Qingzhou.

With Yunshan Sect now quite wealthy, and both are Foundation Establishment Feather Scholars, they naturally don’t have to squeeze into Sky Ray with the general public, but directly hire a Hanging-Winged Falcon.

They first entered Ningzhou from Cangzhou, visiting the increasingly declining Xianyou Sect.

Witnessing the shaky source of Lu Qian’s Array essence, and Yunshan Sect’s thriving vitality progressing steadfastly on the path of revival, Yang Jiye could not help but feel sighs, both alarmed and fortunate.

The elderly Sect Leader of Xianyou Sect, on hearing of the joint visit by two Foundation Establishment Feather Scholars, hurried to welcome them. After exchanging names, he was greatly surprised.

He naturally remembered Yunshan Sect, which had exchanged for his own Wave Array Secret Manual!

After some exchange and reaching an agreement, the two went from Ningzhou to Qingzhou, and the Hanging-Winged Falcon swiftly entered Qingzhou territory, pressing a thousand miles forward, finally reaching the destination of this trip.

Shengyi Sect.