Entry: I Secretly Cultivate Immortality in the Martial Arts World

88: Chapter 88 A Golden Core cultivator dares to destroy a sect? What about a Mahayana cultivator undergoing tribulation?Gu Yan watched with great interest.

It was easy to imagine that once that kid Feng Jiuge finished his secluded cultivation, the Qingyun Sect would be in trouble.

He smiled slightly, and with a thought, the images in the haotian mirror shifted.

Let’s see what that kid Ye Chen is up to.

An image emerged.

Ye Chen’s figure appeared in the mirror.

Gu Yan’s gaze swept over him; this kid... was at the Golden Core Stage.

He looked closely; yes, a genuine Golden Core Early Stage.

This speed would be considered fast even in the Spirit Realm.

Gu Yan pondered for a moment, then with another thought, he set the haotian mirror to calculate and deduce.

A moment later, he came to a sudden realization.

So that’s how it is.

Ever since Ye Chen entered the Spirit Realm, his luck had been so good it was as if he were using cheats.

Back when he was at the Taiyi Dao Sect, he didn’t seem to have such incredible luck.

Could it be...

That I was suppressing him?

A flash of inspiration struck Gu Yan’s mind.

No, to be precise, was it that my existence as a variable suppressed certain protagonist statuses in this world?

While Ye Chen was at the Taiyi Dao Sect, he had some small opportunities, but they were nowhere near as exaggerated as they were now.

Once he went to the Spirit Realm and got away from Gu Yan, he became like a runaway horse, encountering one stroke of good luck after another.

The more Gu Yan thought about it, the more sense it made.

He began to calculate carefully.

It seemed that this Mortal world he was in originally had many people with protagonist roles.

For example, the siblings Xu Gang and Xu Yue.

Gu Yan had once seen another timeline through the haotian mirror where he didn’t exist.

In that line, the Taiyi Dao Sect was destroyed, and Xu Gang and Xu Yue were left to wander the Jianghu.

Eventually, the two were taken in by Demonic Path Cultivators, falling step by step into the Demonic Path and becoming terrifying Devil Heads.

Then there was Ji Yingying.

In that timeline, to avenge the Ji Family’s abandonment and to gain great power, Ji Yingying took the initiative to join the Demonic Path.

In the end, although she was pulled back by her elder brother Ji Canghai, she had already committed boundless slaughters, and her regret came too late.

But in the current timeline where Gu Yan was...

Before Ji Yingying could even take revenge on the Ji Family, they were wiped out by the Great Love Alliance founded by Gu Yan’s good body, Fang Yuan.

Since the Ji Family had colluded with the Great Gan back then, they were naturally included in the purge.

Ji Yingying wanted revenge?

Her enemies were already gone.

Before she even had the chance to act, the debt had been settled by someone else.

After finding out, the girl was stunned for several days.

Now she was peacefully serving as a Disciple in the Taiyi Dao Sect, her cultivation steadily improving.

It was said she had even made a few friends recently and was no longer as cold as she used to be.

She apparently also had an elder brother named Ji Canghai.

Back then, because he was away performing heroic deeds, he escaped the Great Love Alliance’s liquidation of the Ji Family.

Later, hearing that his sister was at the Taiyi Dao Sect, he came looking for her.

The Taiyi Dao Sect’s current recruitment was eclectic, no longer just starting from childhood.

Occasionally, they would select Mortals with good Heart-Nature to join the Sect.

Ji Canghai had a pure Heart-Nature and was skilled in martial arts, so an exception was made to accept him.

Now both siblings were in the Taiyi Dao Sect, and it was said their relationship was quite good.

Gu Yan didn’t have any particular opinion on this.

This was quite good.

The tragedies from that other timeline didn’t happen in this one.

As for Ji Canghai, it was even more impossible for him to become enemies with the entire Righteous Path to save his sister as he did in that timeline.

Now, what he thought about every day was how to earn more taiyi currency to exchange for Medicinal Pills for his sister’s cultivation.

Gu Yan withdrew his thoughts and looked at Ye Chen in the haotian mirror.

The kid was still cultivating, with Spiritual Qi surging around him; clearly, he was at a critical stage.

He smiled and put away the haotian mirror.

Entertainment over; it was time to continue cultivating.

He wanted to strive for a Breakthrough to the Tribulation Crossing Realm within forty years.

...

Years cut down prodigies like a blade; time flies like an arrow shooting a great eagle.

Thirty years passed in the blink of an eye.

Inside the Immortal Cave of Longevity Peak, the aura circulating around Gu Yan was many times more profound than it had been thirty years ago.

In thirty years, he had gone from Mahayana First Level to Mahayana Eighth Level.

Ordinary Mahayana Cultivators would have to endure for thousands of years just to get from the first level to the second.

Those with poor Aptitude could be stuck at the Peak of the first level for thousands of years without making any progress.

Yet Gu Yan, in these thirty years, had advanced like a rocket—one level per year, completely unobstructed.

The credit went entirely to that chaos green lotus phantom dao seed.

This thing was truly a treasure; as time passed, the Innate Spiritual Qi it produced daily became increasingly dense.

With this cultivation speed, it would be strange if he didn’t go fast.

Gu Yan stretched, his bones popping and cracking.

Having not moved for thirty years, mushrooms were almost growing on him.

Of course, that was an exaggeration.

With his current cultivation, let alone thirty years, even if he didn’t move for three hundred or three thousand years, not a single blade of grass would grow on him.

He stood up, hands behind his back, sensing the surging dharmic power within his body.

Mahayana Eighth Level.

Further up was the Mahayana Ninth Level, and then the Breakthrough to the Tribulation Crossing Realm.

After Undergoing Tribulation, one would become a Human Immortal.

Only after Human Immortal would it be the true Dao of Immortality.

The road was still long.

Gu Yan shook his head slightly and stopped thinking about it.

...

At the same time, in the Eastern Continent of the Spirit Realm.

The Azure Wave Sect.

Inside the Sect Master’s main hall, Ghost sat high on the main seat, his expression indifferent.

Standing below was an old man with white hair and beard; he was the current Grand Elder of the Azure Wave Sect, with a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivation.

At this moment, the old man looked worried as he bowed and reported something.

”...According to the news sent back by the Disciples, the Eastern Continent’s Righteous Path Alliance and the Demonic Path Alliance have both been secretly mobilizing manpower recently, and their target is aimed directly at our Azure Wave Sect.”

Ghost’s brow twitched slightly. ”The reason?”

The Grand Elder hesitated for a moment before speaking, ”Because of... Feng Jiuge.”

According to this Grand Elder, after Feng Jiuge left the Sect decades ago, he began to kill his way across the land.

First, it was the one hundred and thirty-seven members of the Qingyun Sect—the entire Sect was wiped out overnight.

In the following years, he successively challenged seven or eight more Sects, both Righteous and Demonic; any that he could defeat suffered the calamity of extermination.

He would flee when meeting the strong and slaughter when meeting the weak.

It was said that several Nascent Soul Old Ancestors had personally set out to hunt him down.

Yet he managed to escape each time like a cicada shedding its skin, and to this day, no one could figure out his mysterious and secretive methods of movement.

Now, in the Eastern Continent’s cultivation world, whether Righteous or Demonic, everyone gnashed their teeth in hatred at the mention of the name Feng Jiuge.

It just so happened that an expert deduced the heavenly secrets and calculated that this person originated from the Azure Wave Sect.

Those Sects then used this as an excuse, intending to first slaughter the Azure Wave Sect to force him to appear.

Ghost fell silent after listening.

He knew this kid could cause trouble.

He also knew this kid had a heavy killing intent.

But he didn’t expect the kid to cause trouble this quickly.

He was only at Foundation Establishment when he left; he wandered around for a bit, reached Golden Core, and then started exterminating Sects?

He’s only at the Golden Core Stage and dares to destroy Sects?

What would happen if he reached Mahayana or Tribulation Crossing?

Ghost rubbed his temples.

When the main body told him to take this Disciple, had he seen all this through the haotian mirror?

He probably had.

Unfortunately, he was only the evil body Incarnation, and the haotian mirror was in the main body’s hands.

The main body never detailed exactly what he was plotting.

However...

Ghost looked up, his expression returning to normal.

”No need to worry about them.”

The Grand Elder was stunned. ”Sect Master?”

”Let the Disciples do what they need to do; ignore the rumors outside.”

Ghost said indifferently, ”Whoever dares to attack my Azure Wave Sect, this seat will personally take action and wipe them out.”

The Grand Elder was completely dumbfounded.

Wipe... wipe them out?

He opened his mouth and took a long time to recover his senses, saying, ”Sect Master, if I may be so bold, you might not be fully aware of the current situation.”

”On the Eastern Continent’s Righteous Path Alliance side, three Sects have come forward this time, all of which are major Sects with several Nascent Souls in residence.”

”Two Sects from the Demonic Path Alliance have also joined in, and they are equally powerful.”

”Although our Azure Wave Sect has been flourishing under your management these years and now has three Nascent Soul Cultivators,”

”the other side is a coalition of five Sects, with over a dozen Nascent Soul Cultivators combined.”

”If we really start fighting, we...”

The Grand Elder paused, not finishing his sentence, but the meaning was clear.

They couldn’t win.

The Grand Elder braced himself and continued to advise, ”I believe it would be better to lower our heads first and publicly declare that Feng Jiuge has nothing to do with our Azure Wave Sect.”

”Although that kid came from our Azure Wave Sect, he has never used the Sect’s name while causing trouble outside these years.”

”As long as we stubbornly refuse to admit it, they can’t do anything to us.”

”Even if that kid returns in the future, we can have him hide his name and change his identity to be re-accepted into the Sect.”

”In this way, we can both preserve the Sect and avoid damaging the master-Disciple bond...”

”Oh, right.” The Grand Elder suddenly remembered something, and his tone relaxed slightly.

”I also heard that those besieging us are all Sects with Nascent Souls in residence.”

”Those Sects with old monsters at the Soul Transformation level don’t seem to have joined in.”

”This is good news. As long as the Spirit Transformation Realm doesn’t intervene, although we can’t win, we should be able to defend for a few decades. Then we can find another way...”

”Who said the Spirit Transformation Realm won’t intervene?”

Ghost suddenly spoke.

The Grand Elder was startled. ”Huh?”

Ghost looked at him and said, ”This seat is at Soul Transformation.”

The Grand Elder: ”...”

The Grand Elder: ”???”

Soul... Transformation?

The Sect Master?

Soul Transformation?

The Grand Elder swallowed hard and spoke with difficulty, ”Sect Master, you... you’re not joking, are you? Haven’t you always claimed to be at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage? How...”

Ghost couldn’t be bothered to explain.

He simply released a bit of his aura.

The next instant, a pressure as vast as the sea surged from within him, enveloping the entire hall.

The Grand Elder’s knees went weak, and he almost knelt on the spot.

Soul Transformation.

It really was Soul Transformation.

And it wasn’t the Early Stage; it was Soul Transformation... Middle Stage? Or Late Stage?

The Grand Elder couldn’t sense it; he only knew that in the face of this pressure, he was as tiny as an ant.

”Sect... Sect Master...”

Ghost withdrew his aura, his expression as usual.

”Are you relieved now?”

The Grand Elder nodded frantically.

Relieved.

Utterly relieved.

Nascent Soul Cultivators were nothing more than a bunch of clowns in front of a Soul Transformation Cultivator.

With their own Sect Master at Soul Transformation, what was there to fear?

The worry on the Grand Elder’s face vanished, replaced by uncontrollable ecstasy.

”Sect Master, you... you’ve hidden it too deeply!”

”No wonder you never bowed your head to those major Sects while managing the Sect all these years.”

”No wonder you said just now that whoever dares to attack, you will wipe them out.”

”It turns out you were playing a grand game of chess!”

Ghost: ”...”

He waved his hand, not wanting to hear the old man’s flattery.

”Go down and do as I said.”

”Yes!” The Grand Elder bowed and walked away with large strides.

When he reached the door, he suddenly turned back, his face full of smiles:

”Sect Master, I venture to ask, when did you Breakthrough to this Soul Transformation cultivation?”

Ghost glanced at him.

”Don’t ask what shouldn’t be asked.”

The Grand Elder gave a sheepish smile and quickly scurried away.