Longevity Martial Arts: Grinding Experience in the Chaotic World

Chapter 1815: Chapter 920: Holy Master’s Killing Intent Hidden Within Fate (Part 2)

"Even if not a direct inheritor, there must be a deep connection!"

The Master of Myriad Phenomena was resolute, standing up, inadvertently revealing a waning holy power that caused the space within the hall to subtly distort.

"Our Myriad Phenomena Holy Land has been dormant for too long! So long that the world believes us to have fallen to second-rate! My power, too, has stagnated due to past injuries linked to the Holy Land’s fortunes... this Fate Inheritance is the key to reversing everything! We must have it in our hands!"

He stared intently at Shi Wufeng.

"Gu Sheng is currently hiding in the Ten Thousand Treasures Hall, with Tantai Mingjing guarding it; attacking recklessly is unwise, and she won’t let us in to search. But the Ten Thousand Treasures Hall is not permanent, they will come out eventually.

This Holy Master has gone to the extent of exhausting my source to employ secret techniques to obscure the heavenly secret, making it difficult for Tantai Mingjing to precisely predict the external attempts on Gu Sheng’s life for a short time. You, tomorrow, will wait on the road outside Tianyuan Emperor City!"

Shi Wufeng’s mind was stirred.

"Master’s meaning is..."

"Kill him."

The Master of Myriad Phenomena’s tone was cold and unemotional, as if he were discussing crushing an ant.

"But the soul must be completely captured. The secret of Fate may very well be hidden deep within the soul, or the soul itself might have special characteristics."

With that, he waved his sleeve, and a dark light shot towards Shi Wufeng.

Shi Wufeng hurriedly caught it with both hands, feeling a cold and heavy item, a palm-sized, non-metal, non-jade bone banner. The surface appeared eerie gray-white, as if composed of countless small bones, engraved with densely packed black runes that caused dizziness upon a glance, emitting a cold, soul-devouring wave.

"This is the sub-banner of the ’Soul-devouring Bone Banner’, although only an imitation holy artifact, it’s more than enough to capture the residual soul of a junior below the Sect Realm. When their life ends, you simply shake this banner, and their soul will be drawn in, with the main banner in my hand, I can sense it."

The Master of Myriad Phenomena instructed.

"Remember, be clean and efficient, bring back the soul immediately, and don’t get entangled with the people from the Ten Thousand Treasures Hall, especially Tantai Mingjing; if she senses and pursues personally, you will surely die."

Shi Wufeng gripped the cold sub-banner of the Soul-devouring Bone Banner, feeling the eerie power contained within it, his heart settled, and he respectfully bowed his head again.

"Disciple obeys! The failure yesterday was due to my carelessness in underestimating, I ask Master for punishment! This time, I will spare no effort, no matter the cost, to bring back the soul of Gu Sheng, to atone for past mistakes, and assist Master and the Holy Land in capturing this heaven-defying opportunity!"

His words were filled with remorse and flattery, his stance very low. Seeing this, the Master of Myriad Phenomena eased his expression slightly and waved his hand.

"Enough, yesterday’s matter also had interference by a mysterious great power, not entirely your fault. But tomorrow’s matter only allows success, no failure. If successful, you will be the primary contributor to the revitalization of the Holy Land, and this Holy Master will not be stingy with rewards, even the next Chapters of the ’True Understanding of Myriad Phenomena’ might be granted to you early for insight."

Shi Wufeng’s eyes immediately lit up with surprise and greed.

"True Understanding of Myriad Phenomena" is one of the highest secret texts in the Holy Land, extremely tempting to him.

He hurriedly bowed.

"Thank you for the Master’s grace! Disciple vows to complete the task even at the cost of life!"

"Go, prepare well."

The Master of Myriad Phenomena turned around and looked at the gradually brightening sky outside the hall, as if already seeing the glorious future of the Holy Land’s rise in his hands.

Shi Wufeng bowed and retreated, tightly clutching the Soul-devouring Bone Banner sub-banner, his gaze turning cold and determined, with a hint of fervor.

Gu Sheng... this time, see where you can run!

Under the same daylight, Tianyuan Emperor City, beneath the top floor of the Ten Thousand Treasures Hall, in a luxurious guest room.

Spiritual energy swirled, flowing softly in the room like faint mist.

Gu Yuanyuan and Qidiao Yaoyao sat cross-legged at the center of the Gathering Spirit Array, eyes closed, with acupoints faintly glowing, absorbing and taking in the pure nature’s spiritual energy.

Gu Yuanyuan’s cultivation was still shallow, only lingering at the Yellow Martial Realm, but her aura was calm, seemingly entering a wondrous state of enlightenment, occasionally causing her eyelashes to lightly tremble as if gaining some insight.

Beside her, Qidiao Yaoyao’s aura was much more thick and fierce, displaying Heavenly Martial Realm peak cultivation, with Spiritual Power surging within, faintly accompanied by the sound of thunder, seemingly just a step away from the threshold of establishing a sect at the Sect Realm.

More striking was the subtle and extremely sharp aura coursing around her, akin to a peerless deadly blade unsheathed within, something no ordinary Heavenly Martial Realm cultivator could possess.

Su Youwei sat on a cushion a bit farther away, not in deep cultivation, but quietly releasing a thread of Spiritual Sense, like the gentlest breeze, brushing over the two women cultivating.

She appeared to be in a tranquil meditative state, but internally calm and analytical.

"Qidiao Yaoyao... Heavenly Martial Realm peak, terrifyingly solid foundation, the refinement degree of Spiritual Power almost on par with those newly entering Sect Realm. That hidden fierce aura... is it some special constitution? Or has she cultivated incredibly dominating attack secret techniques?"

Su Youwei pondered secretly.

"This woman’s combat strength far exceeds her peers, capable even of threatening typical early Sect Realm. Her presence by Gu Yuanyuan’s side is clear, with evident protective intent."

Her Spiritual Sense then swept over Gu Yuanyuan.

"Yellow Martial Realm, with low cultivation. But observing her rhythm of breathing and occasional expressions, she seems highly perceptive... Just now, when Qidiao Yaoyao’s spiritual power had occasional obstructions, a brief suggestion from Gu Yuanyuan surprisingly brought her sudden enlightenment?

Interesting. But aside from this, no abnormal powerful bloodline fluctuations, hidden inheritance aura, or special spiritual soul traits were found."

After a prolonged observation, Su Youwei felt somewhat reassured.

"Looks like my identity has not been exposed."

She concluded.

"If the Ten Thousand Treasures Hall really suspected that I’ve come for ’that item’, or held extreme doubts about me, they wouldn’t only assign two young girls with cultivation inferior to mine for watching. At least, a Holy Realm Great Power’s Divine Thought would constantly envelop, or Tantai Mingjing would ’accompany’ personally.

The current arrangement seems more like ordinary guest treatment; Qidiao Yaoyao’s main duty is protecting the perceptive Gu Yuanyuan, while casually keeping an eye on me."

Upon reaching this point, Su Youwei relaxed completely, finally entering a cultivation state, silently absorbing the rich spiritual energy within the Ten Thousand Treasures Hall along with Gu Yuanyuan and Qidiao Yaoyao. The room was left with only the uniform sounds of breathing and the subtle flow of spiritual energy.

Just a wall apart, the atmosphere in another room was starkly different.

Here, there was no swirling spiritual energy, instead pervaded by an intangible mental pressure.

Gu Sheng was sitting on the ground, eyes tightly closed, brows furrowed, fine beads of sweat covering his forehead, his body subconsciously trembling slightly.

In his Sea of Consciousness, a great storm was raging!

Threads of unimaginably pure yet devoid of autonomous consciousness silver-white spiritual power were continuously drawn from a hazy source floating before him, following countless fine and resilient spiritual power threads, funneling madly into his Sea of Consciousness.

This source was the Source of Void Spirit, a spiritual power origin left by a fallen Holy Realm void spirit Great Demon, bestowed by Tantai Mingjing. The spiritual power contained within was as vast as the sea, and due to its ’sourceless’ nature, could be absorbed relatively safely by others.

However, this ’relatively safe’ meant slow and cautious for the vast majority. Like Gu Sheng, recklessly drawing as if unleashing a flood, was suicidal.

His Sea of Consciousness, under the infusion of such massive sourceless spiritual power, was expanding and stretching at an unprecedented rate! Originally, after his unexpected spiritual merging with Tantai Xueling, the capacity limit of his Sea of Consciousness had been elevated to a stunning degree, comparable to the Eighth Grade Spirit Talisman Master realm specialized in spiritual power.

Now, under the scouring of the Source of Void Spirit, the boundary barrier of his Sea of Consciousness groaned under the strain, pressing toward the vast degree of the Ninth Grade Spirit Talisman Master!

Ninth Grade! That is the critical threshold where spiritual power undergoes qualitative transformation, capable of affecting reality, conjuring laws with a thought!

But Gu Sheng did not dare to let the Sea of Consciousness expand naturally. Such a vast amount in such short a time, if allowing the Sea of Consciousness to swell unmanaged, the result could only be one — like an overinflated balloon.