Chapter 139: Prodigy Roll? Heaven's Wanted List!
The Palace of the Boundless, one of the Great Vehicle sects of the Spirit Realm.
Originally, it had been a fairly powerful sect in the Spirit Realm.
But the destruction of the Palace of the Boundless in the Upper Realm led to the decline of the Palace of the Boundless in the Spirit Realm.
Because of this, the current Palace Master of the Palace of the Boundless began widely searching the world for geniuses in order to revive the sect.
Lu Qingyang happened to catch this wave.
Thus, the exceptionally talented Lu Qingyang was established as a Core Disciple not long after joining the sect.
The timing was not much different from the Simulation.
And as the sun rose and set, more than ten years passed in the blink of an eye…
“Hoo… Last year, at thirteen, I already reached Golden Core Great Perfection. That’s a full three years faster than the Simulation.”
“And on this trip down the mountain, according to how the Simulation played out, I should be able to make a windfall!”
Inside his cave residence, Lu Qingyang opened his eyes, a sharp light flickering within them.
As a Core Disciple of the Palace of the Boundless, once he broke through to Golden Core, he could go down the mountain to visit his relatives.
Today was the day he would go down the mountain to visit his family.
But whether he visited his relatives or not did not actually matter to him.
After all, he had gone to the Palace of the Boundless right after he was born in Return to True, and he had little affection for his parents in this life.
What he wanted was that spirit mine!
“No time to waste. I’ll go now!”
Lu Qingyang rose, left his cave residence, and summoned a flying sword.
His entire body transformed into a streak of rainbow light, leaping past the pavilions and towers of the Palace of the Boundless as he shot toward the foot of the mountain.
Although he did not know the exact location of that spirit mine from the Simulation, some inexplicable feeling told him where to go.
As if he were being guided by something.
Sure enough, half a day later, mid-flight, Lu Qingyang suddenly felt something dazzling on the ground below.
He looked down and found that in a mountain hollow, several scattered top-grade spirit stones lay in a pit.
“This is?”
Lu Qingyang’s heart skipped a beat.
Could this be the place? Let’s go down and take a look!
He drew a deep breath, leaped down into the valley, and charged toward where the spirit stones were scattered.
…
“Boom!”
With a tremendous crash, Lu Qingyang landed on the ground.
Sure enough, several top-grade spirit stones lay at his feet.
Seeing this, he summoned his flying sword and began digging directly!
As a Core Disciple of the Palace of the Boundless, though he was only at Golden Core, he carried a fourth-tier flying sword. In the blink of an eye, he had carved a massive hole in the ground!
Within it, chunks of crystal-clear spirit veins emitting dense spiritual power appeared before his eyes.
“So it really is here!”
Seeing this, Lu Qingyang felt somewhat excited.
A top-grade spirit vein was an extremely important asset even for the Palace of the Boundless.
Now that he alone occupied an entire spirit vein, it was practically a一夜暴富 — a sudden fortune overnight!
In the Simulation, after I dug out and consumed the entire spirit stone vein, I left.
I even gave some to my parents along the way. But…
Such a feng shui treasure spot — why should I leave?
Isn’t it better to just cultivate here? Stay for a few hundred years, and I’ll conveniently dodge that hurdle at fifty-eight!
This spirit vein is mine!
Lu Qingyang thought this, his gaze burning.
He then directly pulled out his Storage Ring, took out formation flags one after another, and planned to conceal this spirit mine.
At the same time, so that he could stay longer.
Lu Qingyang even expended great effort to carve a Cyclic Spirit-Gathering Formation atop the spirit mine!
All for the sake of maintaining spiritual power density for the long term!
“Hoo… Seclusion here and there, absorbing spirit stones. This life isn’t bad either.”
Inside the cave residence converted from the spirit mine, Lu Qingyang adjusted his posture, drew a deep breath, and slowly entered a cultivation state.
From then on, time became as nothing to him.
In the blink of an eye, five years, ten years, twenty years passed.
When Lu Qingyang was thirty-three, a strange fluctuation rose from within his body.
A vast, majestic aura, filled with violent energy, radiated from him.
“Boom!”
“Crack…”
A thunderclap exploded, and Lu Qingyang’s eyes snapped open.
Nascent Soul… and it’s actually fifteen years slower than the Simulation!
Sensing his own aura, Lu Qingyang’s eyes flickered.
In the Simulation, he had participated in the sect’s Secret Realm at eighteen and stepped into Nascent Soul, making a name for himself in the Palace of the Boundless.
But precisely because of this, he became the youngest Nascent Soul Ancestor of the Palace of the Boundless, and the younger generation all regarded him as an idol.
This laid the groundwork for him later becoming the one who stuck his neck out.
Now, though he was more than ten years slower, he was still a nobody in the Palace of the Boundless.
“Hoo…”
Drawing a deep breath, Lu Qingyang ignored the message transmitted through the sect jade token at his waist. There was a concealment formation he had carved here anyway.
The sect would not find him. He would just keep cultivating for now.
Thinking this, Lu Qingyang casually grabbed another handful of top-grade spirit stones, held them in his hand, and continued cultivating.
Time flew, and in the blink of an eye, another ten years passed.
Lu Qingyang had completely consolidated his realm.
Moreover, he had broken through to mid-stage Nascent Soul!
And at this point, he was already forty-three, with exactly fifteen years remaining until the great hurdle of his life at fifty-eight…
At forty-four, Lu Qingyang cultivated in seclusion.
At forty-five, Lu Qingyang cultivated in seclusion.
At forty-six, Lu Qingyang cultivated in seclusion.
At forty-seven, Lu Qingyang cultivated in seclusion.
At forty-eight, Lu Qingyang cultivated in seclusion.
At forty-nine…
At fifty-five, Lu Qingyang stepped into late-stage Nascent Soul. Compared to the Simulation, where he had already reached Nascent Soul Great Perfection at fifty-five, he was only a single step slower.
At fifty-six, in the Simulation he had first turned danger into safety, taking the opportunity to step into Soul Transformation. In Return to True, however, he was still stuck at late-stage Nascent Soul.
At fifty-seven, Lu Qingyang cultivated in seclusion.
At fifty-eight… that great hurdle was finally artificially avoided by Lu Qingyang.
However, because he had been away from the sect for several decades, his family had their stipends cut off.
And he had even made it onto the Palace of the Boundless’s wanted list for defection. In a sense, he had made the Palace of the Boundless’s name known in another way!
After all, no one would have thought that a disciple so highly favored would actually run away…
Until another hundred years passed.
“One hundred and seventy-eight… I never imagined I would stay in this place for over one hundred and fifty years…”
At this point, Lu Qingyang’s face still showed no signs of aging.
After all, even though he had not stepped into Soul Transformation, a Nascent Soul Ancestor had a lifespan of a thousand years.
Without venturing out, breaking through through bitter cultivation alone is too difficult.
Over a hundred years ago, I was already at late-stage Nascent Soul. Over a hundred years later, I have only just stepped into Nascent Soul Great Perfection.
At this rate, it won’t do…
Lu Qingyang’s brow furrowed tightly.
The mine around him, once full of spirit stones, was now exhausted.
This place was definitely no longer suitable to stay.
And Lu Qingyang already knew he was on the Palace of the Boundless’s wanted list.
Even so, being on the Palace of the Boundless’s wanted list is better than being pushed out to be a sacrifice.
For now, I can conceal my name and go properly travel this world.
With my fortune, there will surely be other fortuitous encounters. At the same time, I won’t need to worry about following the Simulation’s course and going against the Sect of All Under Heaven.
Having thought these things through, Lu Qingyang could not be bothered to waste time.
He rose directly, picked up the few spirit stones scattered in the cave, removed the formations and concealment, and left the mine.
Little did he know that just after he left, the Palace of the Boundless announced to the world the Heaven’s Wanted List!
All those who betrayed and harmed the Palace of the Boundless were on the list.
And Lu Qingyang, the talented Core Disciple who had been vigorously cultivated by the Palace of the Boundless since childhood, sat at the very top of the list…