Cultivation: Starting with a Dual Cultivation Technique at the Immortal Rank

98: Chapter 98 The Dao Heart of the Ice PalaceYes...

Is it choosing a problem that has a chance to be solved, or choosing a destined desperate end?

She looked at her fair and slender hands, accustomed to years of sword practice, as if she could already see them becoming withered and old a hundred years later, and herself helplessly approaching death amidst endless regret and unwillingness.

That fear instantly drowned all her pride and reserve!

Looking at her Disciple, who was deep in thought and struggle, Su Muxue finally slowly opened her eyes. In those Phoenix eyes, which could freeze all things, there was now a clear and transparent quality.

She looked at Jade Purity Cold, her voice returning to calm, yet carrying a power that reached directly into one’s heart.

”Qinghan, remember, on the Dao path, choices are not right or wrong, only trade-offs.”

”What you truly need to ask is not me, but your own Dao Heart.”

”Do what you most want to do, and bear all the consequences it brings. Only then can your Dao Heart achieve Perfection, and leave no regrets.”

”No regrets, no Heart Demon.”

After speaking, Su Muxue closed her eyes again, no longer speaking.

Jade Purity Cold stood rooted to the spot, repeatedly pondering her Revered Master’s last words.

No regrets, no Heart Demon...

Indeed, the biggest Heart Demon has never been about what one did, but the regret of ’could have,’ yet ’didn’t do.’

After a long time, the confusion and struggle in her eyes slowly faded, replaced by an unprecedented determination and resolve.

She bowed deeply to Su Muxue, straightening her proud back like a snow pine.

”Disciple understands.”

With that, she turned resolutely and walked out of the cold hall, step by step.

Her steps no longer held any hesitation.

Her Sword Heart, at this moment, underwent an unprecedented baptism. Not only was it not tarnished, but it became even more transparent and sharper!

Because she had clearly defined her ’Dao.’

In the face of longevity, everything can be weighed and chosen!

Under the moonlight, the white figure did not return to her Quiet Room, but transformed into a resolute Sword Light, speeding towards the mountain peak within the Qingyun Sect that was now known to everyone.

Its direction was Yifei Peak.

Deep within the Profound Ice Palace, after Jade Purity Cold’s resolute Sword Light disappeared into the sky, the palace, forged from ten-thousand-year-old profound ice, once again returned to a deathly silence.

After a long time, Su Muxue, who was meditating on the ice couch, slowly raised her head.

Her Phoenix eyes, which had frozen for eons, pierced through the palace’s dome, gazing at the clear and bright moon in the night sky.

The moonlight, like water, sprinkled across the human world, treating all things equally.

But for Cultivators, the moon hanging high in the Nine Heavens was more like the ethereal, unattainable great dao of longevity.

Countless Prodigies and heroes, throughout their lives, merely turned into a handful of yellow earth on the path of chasing this moon’s shadow.

”Unworthy Disciple...”

Su Muxue’s red lips slightly parted, uttering two words. In this voice, one could not discern if it was anger at her lack of ambition, sorrow for her misfortune, or an envy that she herself had not even noticed.

Envy for that resolve to abandon everything for the Great Dao, envy for that unyielding courage she had long lost.

”For a Golden Core, to even abandon her Sword Heart’s arrogance... let me see how far this path of yours can go.”

A fierce ripple appeared in her cold eyes.

Within it, there was apprehension towards Li Yifei, this variable, but more, there was an expectation that even she found startling.

Li Yifei... what kind of miracle could that little Disciple create?

Was a Golden Core Sect Master already the limit?

”Golden Core? Or perhaps...”

Su Muxue’s gaze became incredibly profound, as if she could see through the future.

Perhaps what he wanted was not a Profound Ice Palace filled with Golden Cores, but a future... that she didn’t even dare to imagine.

Finally, all emotions receded, and those Phoenix eyes once again returned to their ancient, unruffled coldness.

She slowly closed her eyes, and her entire being once again merged with this ice palace, as if there had never been any fluctuations.

Only, the cold Qi swirling around her seemed to be three points colder than before.

...

Meanwhile, in a hidden stronghold several thousand miles away from the Qingyun Sect.

A stunning young woman, dressed in a pink silk dress with a graceful and alluring figure, was pacing restlessly in her room.

She was Jade-like Beauty, the Hehuan Sect Core Disciple who had narrowly escaped earlier from Li Yifei’s Incarnation by using a ’Phantom Talisman’.

”This is infuriating! Absolutely infuriating!” She plopped down onto the soft animal skin rug, her two fair and slender legs swinging indignantly.

”That Eldest Martial Sister Yun Ni Chang, why her?! Isn’t it just a Heavenly Spiritual Root? She actually got ’made’ into a Golden Core True Person by that Li Yifei!”

She had just received a secret letter from the Sect, detailing the unusual phenomena of Eldest Martial Sister Yun Ni Chang’s Core Formation, and the rumors of her ’divinization’ now spreading throughout the Qingyun Sect.

And with it came her new mission from the Sect—to infiltrate Yifei Peak at all costs and uncover the secret behind Li Yifei’s ability to ’create’ powerhouses!

”Easy for them to say,” Jade-like Beauty pouted, a flicker of longing and fervor in her eyes.

”As long as I can obtain this secret and offer it to the Sect, I can be specially accepted as a Personal Disciple under the Sect Master, and cultivate the Sect’s highest secret scripture, the Profound Maiden Pure Heart Sutra...”

Becoming a Personal Disciple of the Sect Master was the supreme honor that all Hehuan Sect Disciples dreamed of!

It meant the top-tier resource allocation, the most powerful Cultivation Technique Legacy, a meteoric rise, and even the hope of eventually taking charge of the entire Hehuan Sect!

This temptation was too great, great enough for her to risk everything.

But as soon as she thought of the difficulty of the mission, Jade-like Beauty instantly deflated, her delicate pretty face filled with distress.

”How can it be so easy to get this secret?”

She irritably ran her fingers through her soft long hair, beginning to analyze.

First, Yifei Peak itself was an impenetrable fortress.

Last time, she merely probed from afar and was routed by that mysterious black-clothed man, even causing the Qingyun Sect’s Late Foundation Establishment Stage Elder to vanish without a trace.

Now that Li Yifei’s influence was even greater, the defenses would only be more stringent.

Moreover, according to the latest intelligence, the composition of Yifei Peak was extremely peculiar, practically an independent kingdom where not even a drop of water could get in.

”It is said that currently, Yifei Peak, apart from Li Yifei being the only man, the rest, from the managing maids to the noble Dao Companions, are all his own women... outsiders can’t even enter the mountain gate!”

A private domain composed entirely of wives and concubines meant that any outsider would be as conspicuous as a firefly in the dark.

Trying to sneak in would be as difficult as ascending to the heavens.

Jade-like Beauty bit her moist red lips, her thoughts racing, and soon she thought of two possibilities.