Just a Useful Pawn in the Stain Sect

Chapter 95: Chapter 95: Let Senior Sister Yu Suffer a Little More

Acting on the thought, Lü Yang immediately transformed into a streak of Flying Light and soared into the sky.

He raised the Myriad-Soul Banner high. Its Banner fluttered, blotting out the sun as a vast shadow rapidly spread from Lü Yang, covering the Vast Skull Mountains.

Especially over the Wu Ghost Secret Realm.

One by one, Lü Yang converted the Wu Ghosts into Banner Spirits, including the eight Red-clothed Ghosts that formed the Yama Hall, as well as the Avatar Guardian, Su Nu.

’Even the color has changed.’

As thousands of Wu Ghosts poured into the Myriad-Soul Banner, its originally pure-white fabric gradually darkened, turning the same purplish-black as Guardian Su Nu.

This way, as long as he took the Myriad-Soul Banner with him when he restarted, the Yama Hall could also be perfectly inherited. This would ensure he began his next life with a Foundation Establishment Avatar Guardian to conceal his karmic signature.

The effect, he imagined, would be no worse than the Primal Qi Divine Talisman, and he wouldn’t risk alerting the Master of Heaven Mending Peak again.

’Oh, right. I almost forgot about you.’

At this thought, Lü Yang suddenly shook the Myriad-Soul Banner and pulled out an old Daoist with a numb expression, vacant eyes, crane-white hair, and a youthful face.

The Master of Heaven Mending Peak!

To be precise, it was a Split Self of the Master of Heaven Mending Peak—one he had personally severed from his own Soul to escape the suction force of the Yama Hall.

Immediately after, Lü Yang summoned Chen Xin’an.

This figure was also just a Split Self of the real Chen Xin’an, not his main body. Upon appearing, he and the Split Self of the Master of Heaven Mending Peak stared at each other blankly, their faces filled with disbelief.

”How is this possible...”

”Nothing is impossible.” Lü Yang smiled faintly. ”Your father-son bond is so deep. I’m a kind-hearted person, so I made a special effort to invite him into the Myriad-Soul Banner for a reunion with you.”

Speaking of which, a very interesting question occurred to Lü Yang. Now that the Split Selves of Chen Xin’an and the Master of Heaven Mending Peak had become his Banner Spirits, if he chose the Myriad-Soul Banner after restarting, would they still be there? And if so, would it affect the real Master of Heaven Mending Peak and Chen Xin’an?

’Interesting.’

Lü Yang’s mind raced, and in an instant, he came up with several excellent ways to exploit this. In his next life, he might even be able to saddle the Master of Heaven Mending Peak with some major blame...

Of course, that was a matter for his next life.

Pulling back his thoughts, Lü Yang looked at the Split Selves of Chen Xin’an and the Master of Heaven Mending Peak. ”I plan to cultivate the Soul Splitting Technique. You two will act as my protectors.”

...

The Soul Splitting Technique was a Legendary Technique for transforming one’s Qi Refining Spirit into Foundation Establishment Divine Sense. To master it, one had to sever nine Split Selves from their own Soul.

According to the technique’s description, these represented the nine extreme emotions that plagued Lü Yang’s ”True Self”: Joy from sight, Anger from hearing, Love from smell, Longing from taste, Desire from thought, Sorrow of the body, Greed for form, Hatred and rage, and Ignorance and delusion. They were known as the ”three poisons and six desires,” and only by severing them all could one see their True Self.

”The first: Joy from sight.”

Lü Yang silently formed a Daoist Hand Seal, his Spiritual Perception transforming into a blade. Then, aided by the deductive power of his Avatar Guardian, Su Nu, he precisely struck the first blow against his own Soul.

In the next second, Lü Yang felt his Soul lighten. A sliver of Spirit Light was severed from him. It took root upon landing and transformed into a Soul Shadow that looked identical to him.

”HAHAHAHAHA!”

As soon as this Soul Shadow appeared, it clapped one hand over its eyes, placed the other on its hip, and threw its head back, letting out an indescribable, maniacal laugh.

Almost simultaneously, an overwhelming wave of emotion flooded Lü Yang’s mind.

The joy of cultivation, the joy of breakthroughs, the joy of Dual Cultivation, the joy of successful schemes... Countless moments of elation from his past and present lives all surfaced at once!

Although Lü Yang had prepared himself, the intense emotional onslaught still made his eyes turn red.

Just then, Chen Xin’an and the Master of Heaven Mending Peak, who were tasked with protecting him, suddenly moved. They both exhaled sharply, unleashing a thunderous cry:

”STILL!”

The sound wave was like a clear spring washing over him, instantly soothing the countless waves of wild joy that had risen inexplicably in his heart and restoring the calm to his expression.

”The Legendary Technique on Soul and Spirit ... truly bizarre.”

Lü Yang’s brow furrowed slightly. He could feel this was only treating the symptom, not the root cause. The Split Self’s influence was suppressed for now, but it would only erupt more violently later.

This was the challenge of cultivating the Soul Splitting Technique. The severed Split Selves would constantly unleash all sorts of extreme emotions to influence the cultivator. Only by relying on one’s own power to suppress all these emotions and achieve a state of ’Ice Heart’ could the technique be considered to have reached Major Mastery.

’These emotions are too much trouble.’

Lü Yang’s brow tightened. A karmic link existed between him and the Split Self, so even if he suppressed it, the emotions would continue to flow endlessly...

’...Hmm? A karmic link?’

After a moment of silence, Lü Yang turned his head to look at Su Nu, who stood guard beside him. If he remembered correctly, didn’t an Avatar Guardian have the ability to transfer karmic links?

Lü Yang gave it a try. The karmic link abruptly shifted.

In the next second, Su Nu’s mouth suddenly, without warning, twitched into a wide grin. She quickly suppressed it, a look of alarm on her face.

”Master?”

”Endure it. Don’t let it show!”

Lü Yang said sharply, unhesitatingly grafting the karmic link from the ”Joy from sight” Split Self onto Su Nu, forcing her to bear the emotional backlash for him.

”Continue!”

There was no time to waste. Lü Yang quickly made eight more cuts, severing the remaining eight Split Selves and immediately grafting all of them onto Su Nu.

In an instant, Su Nu collapsed to the ground, drenched in sweat. Her long, black hair was soaked through, sticking to her delicate, pretty face. Her former noble solemnity as an Avatar Guardian was completely gone, and her once-captivating, soul-stealing eyes were now just vacant and dull.

She was just short of drooling.

And watching Su Nu’s pained and conflicted expression as she suffered from the chaotic emotional onslaught of the Split Selves, Lü Yang suddenly felt much better.

’This is what an Avatar Guardian is for!’

’Otherwise, what use do I have for her?’

’I also need Su Nu to use her Foundation Establishment Position to empower the Corpse Shed Immortal technique and speed up my mastery of it... Oh well, I’ll just have to make Senior Sister Yu suffer a little more.’

With Su Nu’s help, Lü Yang was confident that he could reach Perfection in both the Taiyin Transformation Corpse Dissolving True Technique and the Soul Splitting Technique within three months at most—techniques that would have otherwise taken decades each to master. His chances of breaking through to Foundation Establishment would also shoot up to seventy percent!

”And with the agreement regarding the Celestial Corpse Fiend, I can also claim the Ascension Order from Perfected Yin Shan.”

”By then, I’ll have an eighty percent chance of success.”

’That’s not low at all!’

The thought made Lü Yang a little excited. After all, he wasn’t trying to achieve some ’Perfect Foundation Establishment’. An eighty percent chance was more than enough to go all-in.

...

Stain Sect, Sea of Clouds.

The Master of Heaven Mending Peak returned to Heaven Mending Peak in silence. First, he activated the peak’s Mountain Protection Grand Array, then he gathered some clay and molded a new body.

However, before he could even steady himself, a voice like silver bells rang out.

”Dad, didn’t you go to capture someone? How did you come back empty-handed?”

”...”

Hearing this, the Master of Heaven Mending Peak stiffened. With a helpless expression, he turned to his daughter, Chen Shuqian. ”Dad was careless for a moment. I didn’t catch him.”

Chen Shuqian paused, then raised a delicate eyebrow. ”You lost, Dad?”

”I didn’t lose.”

After a moment of silence, the Master of Heaven Mending Peak said sternly, ”That junior came to trick me, to launch a sneak attack! He destroyed my physical body, leaving me with less than ten percent of my usual power.”

”So you really did lose, Dad?”

”I didn’t lose!”

The Master of Heaven Mending Peak gritted his teeth. ”I’m just letting that junior be smug for a few days. Do you think he’ll meet a good end? He’ll learn his lesson when he tries to break through to Foundation Establishment.”

”That junior calculated everything, but his one miscalculation was coveting the so-called Third Grade Qi.”

The Master of Heaven Mending Peak sneered. ”Qian’Er, you’re still young. You don’t understand the wickedness of the human heart... Every opportunity in this world comes with a price.”

”If the legacy left by Panlong back then was truly so great, why do you think I would have left it for someone else instead of for you and Xin’an? Besides, Panlong was merely a Foundation Establishment Loose Cultivator when he was alive. Do you really believe his Cultivation Technique could be ranked as Third Grade and lead directly to the Golden Core?”