Entry: I Secretly Cultivate Immortality in the Martial Arts World

41: Chapter 41 Fang Yuan, Heaven and Earth United by One Family!Upon hearing this, Gu Yan’s eyes showed a look of appreciation: ”This plan is excellent.”

”Establishing an alliance in the light to gather resources and information, while cultivating in the dark, can ensure the Sect remains pure and allow for devoted development away from the world.”

Just as his voice fell, the light and shadows within the Immortal Cave shifted slightly, and another figure emerged out of thin air.

This person also wore a black Daoist robe, but his expression was quite cold and calm.

It was exactly Gu Yan’s second severed Incarnation, the good body.

”This is my other Incarnation; he upholds conscience and righteousness, and can perform good deeds.”

Gu Yan introduced him to the two.

”He can accompany you both to the Central State to help facilitate this matter, and can also handle some mundane affairs within the Alliance on your behalf.”

”You may simply call him Fang Yuan.”

Xuan Chenzi and Yun Chenzi were overjoyed.

With the Longevity True Lord’s Incarnation personally assisting, the success rate of this matter would surely increase greatly, and it provided an extra layer of solid protection.

Fang Yuan greeted them gently at this time, saying: ”Greetings, Fellow Daoists. Since you wish to form an alliance, I wonder if you have thought of a name?”

Xuan Chenzi and Yun Chenzi looked at each other and shook their heads: ”We do not have a suitable name yet.”

Fang Yuan thought for a moment and said slowly: ”Since it is meant to gather the Righteous Path of the world and seek peace and prosperity for all, it should advocate for benevolence and mutual aid...”

”How about calling it the Heaven and Earth as One Great Love Alliance?”

Heaven and Earth as One Great Love Alliance?

Xuan Chenzi and Yun Chenzi repeated the name softly twice.

Although the name was straightforward, it felt grand and its intention was noble.

It encompassed the meanings of unity, equality, and universal love, which was exactly the bearing a Righteous Path alliance should have.

”Good! This name is very good!” the two praised in unison.

To the side, the corner of Gu Yan’s mouth twitched almost imperceptibly.

The evil body is called Spectral Soul, and the good body is called Fang Yuan... well, he admitted this was a bit of personal dark humor.

But the Heaven and Earth as One Great Love Alliance...

Forget it, let the good body do as he pleases.

After the group discussed the strategy of action in detail, Fang Yuan departed with Xuan Chenzi and Yun Chenzi, preparing to head to the Central State.

Tranquility returned to the Immortal Cave.

As Gu Yan felt his two Incarnations move further away, he felt that the Divine Ability External Incarnation was indeed very useful.

It was enough to handle many external mundane affairs for him and attract any potential eyes.

”Only the Self Body remains... I’ll keep it as a trump card for now.”

”If there truly are other cultivators lurking in this world, with Spectral Soul and Fang Yuan out front, I can sit securely in the strategist’s seat and respond calmly.”

Having made the arrangements, Gu Yan focused his mind and continued to immerse himself in Cultivate.

...

Time flew by; there were no years within the cave.

In the blink of an eye, three years had passed.

Gu Yan was now two hundred and thirty years old, and his cultivation had naturally reached the third layer of the Nascent Soul.

Once his Realm stabilized, he sank his mind in and began to sort through the experiences and memories of his two Incarnations over the past three years.

The first thing he sensed was the actions of the evil body, Spectral Soul, in the One Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

Over the three years, Spectral Soul had been like a life-taking ghost shadow, wandering through the vast and fragmented One Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

He was not walking aimlessly or just gathering information; he specifically targeted those ancient families and powers with notorious reputations for harming living beings, gathering the information he wanted along the way.

For example, the Chu Family that occupied Falling Maple Valley.

The Chu Family’s actions were no different from the Demonic Path, specializing in using the blood of living people to Cultivate evil arts.

Every year, they would kidnap hundreds of young people from various places, torturing them until they wailed in despair before extracting their blood.

Bones were piled like mountains in the depths of the canyon, and the resentment reached the heavens.

When Spectral Soul found them, they were in the middle of holding a blood sacrifice ceremony.

He didn’t say a word; wherever his sword light went, he slaughtered from the altar to the ancestral hall.

Seven hundred members of the Chu Family, including that Martial Dao Seventh Turn Early Stage Old Ancestor who was barely clinging to life with evil arts and failing blood Qi, were all executed.

Afterward, the evil art manuals and the blood pool were also destroyed.

Another example was the Tang Clan that dominated the Poison Dragon Marsh, who were skilled in using insidious poison techniques to control surrounding tribes, regularly demanding people for poison testing, leading to extremely miserable deaths.

They even discharged poisonous miasma into the water sources, causing the land for a thousand miles outside the marsh to become barren.

Spectral Soul went directly into the core of the poison cave, appearing just as Sect Head Tang San was refining the Myriad Poison Gu, triggering a backlash from the thousands of poisonous insects within the cave.

The entire Tang Clan turned into pus and blood overnight, and the poison cave completely collapsed.

There were many similar incidents.

The process of Spectral Soul finding these targets was often very simple.

Either by following clues or through soul-searching.

More often, it was when the other party couldn’t resist doing evil and happened to run into him.

The powers in the One Hundred Thousand Great Mountains were complex and intertwined; the term ’one hundred thousand’ was just a figure of speech.

Those Spectral Soul had wiped out were but a small part of them.

Among these families, there were indeed more than one that had Old Ancestors at the seventh turn level.

However, most relied on secret methods, Medicinal Pills, or evil arts to forcibly extend their lives; their blood Qi was withered, and their strength was no longer at its Peak.

Spectral Soul was like a scavenger, specifically picking these tumors to strike, while also investigating if there were any traces of Immortals in the world.

But so far, let alone Immortals, even Martial Saints of the eighth turn level were rarely heard of.

Regarding the killings Spectral Soul had committed over these three years, Gu Yan’s original body felt no great discomfort while perceiving those bloody scenes.

Those Spectral Soul killed were all wickedly evil people who deserved to die.

This was not Karmic Obstruction; if the Heavenly Dao were aware, it should be recorded as Karma instead.

Moreover, on the other side, the good body Fang Yuan had also been continuously performing good deeds over these three years.

The accumulated Karma was enough to offset any possible Karmic Obstruction.

Under the joint efforts of Fang Yuan, Xuan Chenzi, and Yun Chenzi, the Heaven and Earth as One Great Love Alliance was officially established in the Central State Imperial City.

Fang Yuan, well aware of the original body’s steady style, did not take the position of Alliance Leader but remained behind the scenes.

He served as a Protector Elder with a transcendent status.

He was actually responsible for coordinating all parties, formulating the alliance covenant, and guiding the direction.

The position of Alliance Leader was held in rotation every fifty years by the leaders of the ten major Righteous Path Sects that joined.

The current first rotating Alliance Leader was the Grand Elder of the Heavenly Sword Sect, a highly respected sword Dao giant whose cultivation had reached the Late Stage of the martial Dao sixth turn.

The Heaven and Earth as One Great Love Alliance advocated for protecting all living beings, stopping wars for mutual progress, promoting limited equal cooperation, and opposing unprovoked conquest and oppression.

Its purpose won the support of a large number of small and medium-sized Sects and the common people.

Its power expanded rapidly, seemingly becoming a colossus within the borders of Great Gan.

To some extent, it even hollowed out part of the authority of the Great Gan Imperial Family.

The Great Gan Imperial Family felt this like a thorn in their throat, yet they were angry but dared not speak out.

No, they didn’t even dare to easily show any signs of anger.

Because any discerning person could see that the current Heaven and Earth as One Great Love Alliance fully had the strength to subvert Great Gan.

The Great Gan Imperial Family had no choice but to act cautiously within the framework of the alliance, barely maintaining a surface level of dignity.

This dignity was temporarily left by Fang Yuan because the current Emperor was still considered diligent and sensible, and had not lost the people’s hearts.

In his eyes, if the Imperial Family were still maggots sucking the people’s lifeblood, he would have personally removed them long ago.

Now the Imperial Family only had an empty shell of dignity without substantive privileges, and could no longer oppress the common people.

As for if a faint-hearted monarch were to take the throne in the future...

He wouldn’t mind doing a cleanup then; it wouldn’t be too late.

Meanwhile, the Taiyi Dao Sect quietly hid behind the scenes as planned.

Xuan Chenzi and Yun Chenzi were permanently stationed in the Central State to manage the alliance, while Sect affairs were left to Qin Su and other Elders.

The mountain gates were half-closed, focusing only on nurturing Immortal sprouts and Core Disciples.

They had truly begun the silent transformation from a Martial Ancestor influence to an Immortal gate.

After perceiving all this, Gu Yan slowly opened his eyes.

”In the One Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, Spectral Soul has investigated many areas. Since there are no clues, it’s time to change direction.”

With a thought, he simultaneously sent a new command to his two Clones.

[The One Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and the Great Gan territory are concluded for now.]

[Turn to the East and investigate the Endless Sea Region.]

As the command was sent, Spectral Soul, in a certain valley strewn with corpses, suddenly looked up.

He then transformed into a ghostly shadow and drifted away toward the direction of the Eastern Sea.

At the same time, inside an elegant pavilion in the Central State Imperial City.

Fang Yuan, who was discussing matters with the rotating Alliance Leader, paused slightly.

The gentle smile in his eyes remained unchanged, but he already understood in his heart.

”The main body has new arrangements... the Endless Sea Region?”

”That’s fine too. The chess game on land is stabilizing; it’s time to go see the scenery overseas.”