Entry: I Secretly Cultivate Immortality in the Martial Arts World

61: Chapter 61 The Spirit Realm, Changes at the Azure Wave Sect!Gu Yan felt not a shred of fear regarding the earth-shattering changes that his good body, Fang Yuan, had stirred up in the Mortal Realm, nor of the attention it might attract in the future.

Afraid that people from the Azure Wave Sect in the Spirit Realm would descend and discover the anomalies?

First, the only and most critical cross-Realm teleportation point established by the Azure Wave Sect in this Realm was located deep within the Endless Sea Region.

That vast ocean, crowned with the name ”Endless,” was by no means a misnomer.

Fang Yuan’s Great Love Alliance banner was currently planted mainly on the lands and near-shore islands where Mortals gathered.

As for the true deep-sea islands and perilous regions, he had yet to set foot there, nor was there any need to do so for the time being.

This meant that even if Azure Wave Sect Cultivators descended as per convention, their first stop upon appearing in this Realm would still be that isolated deep-sea teleportation point.

Without anyone to guide them or the initiative to head toward the continent, it would be difficult for them to perceive the drastic changes in the Mortal Realm immediately.

The natural geographical barrier formed the first line of buffer.

Secondly, the Azure Wave Sect usually had a fixed cycle for descending to recruit Disciples, and they mostly relied on Foundation Establishment Cultivators as their main force.

Cultivators at the Golden Core level or above rarely visited the resource-barren Lower Realm in person unless there was a special, urgent matter.

Even if a high-level Cultivator occasionally descended on a whim, by the time they crossed the Endless Sea Region and discovered the clues, the time difference would be enough for Gu Yan to make various preparations.

Of course, the most fundamental reason lay in Gu Yan’s recognition of and confidence in his own strength.

As for being so arrogant at the Soul Transformation stage?

What if a Cultivator above the Spirit Transformation Realm descended?

He was not afraid.

Why not afraid?

He just wasn’t afraid!

It was not that Gu Yan was blindly arrogant.

Over these past ten years, his rapid cultivation progress was merely superficial.

The deeper accumulation lay in his enlightenment of the Chaos Seed Green Lotus Dao Seed, his digestion of his own Great Five Elements Reincarnation True Scripture Legacy, and his control over the Nine Luminaries Star Pivot Array reaching a brand new Realm.

This array now not only locked away Qi, but was also connected to his mind.

When necessary, he could mobilize the entire Sect’s earth veins and even a portion of the Innate spirit mist’s power, combining offense and defense with unfathomable might.

On his home turf of Longevity Peak, he was confident he could fight a Late Stage Soul Transformation Cultivator!

Moreover, he was not alone.

His good body, Fang Yuan, sat in the Mortal Realm; although his primary energy was spent managing the Great Love Alliance, the seventy percent of strength and Dao techniques insights he shared from the main body were also a formidable deterrent.

His evil body, Youhun, was lurking in the Spirit Realm’s Azure Wave Sect, acting as a hidden piece.

When the time truly came to face visitors from the Upper Realm, whether to fight or negotiate, to deceive or to lure, there would always be room for maneuver.

Besides... who said he had to wait for them to come knocking?

Gu Yan’s Divine Sense looked out beyond the sea of clouds, his gaze seemingly piercing through the Realm barrier and casting toward the Spirit Realm.

Steadily improving his strength, continuing to lay out his plans, and grasping more initiative was his style.

A few potential risks were not enough to disturb his Dao Heart.

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Meanwhile, in the Spirit Realm, Eastern Continent, Azure Wave Sect.

Within the Sect, a strange atmosphere had been subtly flowing in recent years.

Several mid-level Elders of the Sect had successively noticed that some Disciples seemed a bit off.

When they investigated in secret and just touched upon some clues, before they could delve deeper, they would be entrusted with important tasks by higher-ranking Elders under various pretexts.

Whether it was patrolling remote mineral veins, negotiating cooperation with distant powers, or exploring newly discovered Secret Realm perilous lands.

In short, they needed to depart from the Sect immediately to execute the tasks.

At first, these Elders felt it was abrupt, but they only took it as a coincidence or normal Sect scheduling.

However, after several consecutive times, any colleague who tried to investigate that ”something off” would quickly be sent away.

And the task locations were often quite perilous or time-consuming.

Even more suspicious was that two of these Elders, while on their way to execute tasks after leaving the Sect, successively encountered ”coincidental” ambushes by experts of the same level from the Demon Blade Sect, with one dying and one being severely injured, and all their belongings lost.

Was this reasonable?