Chapter 51: Flourishing Growth!

Within a certain space.

Yang Yu, his aura vigorous and powerful, sat with eyes closed in cultivation.

"Kid, are you really planning to go out?"

"You should know, the Xuanji Clan is still searching the entire Demon Domain for you."

An aged voice sounded within his sea of consciousness.

"And whose fault is that?!"

"You just had to say that Xuanji Sacred Maiden's tail feather was useful, and now you've landed me in deep trouble!"

Yang Yu's face was ashen.

"If not for you, I definitely wouldn't have been detected through karma by that Xuanji Clan sacred treasure."

"I wonder how things are within the sect right now."

"Old Jian, you don't think the Xuanji Clan will really find their way to the Chaotian Sect, do you?"

"Rest easy. I saw long ago that your Senior Brother Lu is no ordinary person."

"With him around, nothing major will happen."

"That's good."

Hearing this, Yang Yu let out a breath of relief.

"So, you don't need to rush out right now."

"For now, just cultivate in this small world. Once you've refined my first sword, go to the Central Region to temper yourself."

"Within a thousand years, you will surely attain Great Vehicle!"

"The Central Region?"

"Correct. The Central Region's Qingnan Shengzhou hides a Secret Treasury left behind by your Master before his death."

"Once you break through to Nascent Soul, go and retrieve it."

Hearing this, Yang Yu's eyes lit up…

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, five years had passed.

"Bzz!"

Tiangong Island, the Inner Gate.

By the shore of a lake with beautiful scenery, a handsome black-robed man sat at the water's edge.

Before him, a humanoid puppet shining silver all over was on display.

"Boom!"

As the humanoid puppet raised its right hand, a strange cylindrical Dharma Artifact on its arm slowly charged.

At the muzzle, a white glow grew brighter and brighter.

"Bzz."

"Bzz bzz."

Accompanied by a somewhat frightening rumbling of compressed spiritual power, the humanoid puppet finally fired a thick white beam.

"Boom!"

A terrifying pressure radiated from the white light, causing the surrounding lake water to twist, rise, and evaporate.

The towering waves on the lake surface turned to vapor in an instant.

"Success!"

Lu Qingyang stood up, a smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

A Foundation Establishment Puppet, paired with a Tier-Two Dharma Artifact Module, its charged strike could actually withstand a blow from a cultivator who had just entered Golden Core.

"The energy provided by this high-grade spirit stone should be equivalent to a full-power strike from an early-stage Golden Core cultivator."

"And this is only the power of the first version of the new Battle Puppet. It will continue to grow."

Lu Qingyang was very satisfied with this experiment and summoned the puppet back.

After five full years, he had finally developed an artifact-refining production line.

Though the daily output was only a single puppet, compared to the past when refining an artifact took dozens of days, it was already far better!

"At present, I have developed the Tier-One Production Puppet, the Tier-Two Battle Puppet, and the Tier-Three Puppet is still in experimentation."

"And in at most five more years, the Tier-Three Puppet will certainly be successfully developed!"

Lu Qingyang's eyes gleamed with brilliance as he looked down the mountain, at the thousands of Tier-One Production Puppets on the island, bustling like worker bees.

In recent years, it was precisely because of these puppets that the Chaotian Sect could develop at a pace that changed with each passing day.

At present, the entire Outer Gate region of Tiangong Island had pavilions, towers, vermilion walls, and grand halls—every kind of building imaginable.

Rows of towering wooden structures surrounded the Chaotian Sect's Inner Gate main peak, now known as Chaotian Peak.

Among them, Tier-One Puppets of various types ceaselessly shuttled between the buildings.

Busy with construction and repairs.

At this moment, a Floating Dharma Ship roughly a thousand meters long and several hundred meters wide slowly sailed in from the sea beyond Tiangong Island.

That Floating Dharma Ship was the Chaotian Sect's only one.

It was also the one Lu Qingyang had built in imitation of the Dharma Ship above the Vast Sea City.

However, this ship was still different from a true Floating Dharma Ship.

It was said that a true Floating Dharma Ship was equipped with various Dharma Artifacts and formations, and when activated.

Even Return-to-Void Stage great cultivators dared not block it.

The shrunken version of the Floating Dharma Ship docked at the harbor on the outer edge of Tiangong Island.

A streak of flowing light rose from the Dharma Ship.

Racing toward Lu Qingyang's direction at extreme speed.

"Sect Master!"

The newcomer wore a green robe, a jade crown on his head, and a jade tablet at his waist.

It was Old Huang!

In five years, Old Huang had been completely transformed.

Now, as an Outer Gate elder of the Chaotian Sect, he had not only succeeded in Foundation Establishment.

He was also responsible for recruiting disciples.

And so, having just finished recruiting disciples, he hurried over to report.

"Old Huang, you've worked hard. Sit first."

Lu Qingyang waved his hand and asked with a chuckle, "How are the disciples recruited this time?"

"Reporting to the Sect Master, this voyage out to sea recruited a total of over two thousand eight hundred new disciples."

"Most of them have ordinary aptitude, but there are a few Three Spiritual Roots seeds."

Old Huang replied respectfully.

After speaking, he took out a spell jade tablet and projected the identity images of those few disciples.

"Hm, metal, fire, lightning—a mutated Three Spiritual Roots, not bad, not bad. A good sapling."

"And this one, metal, wood, fire—a natural seed for artifact refining and pill concocting."

Looking at the information of each disciple, Lu Qingyang nodded, quite gratified.

"But though their aptitude is good, we must also mind their temperament."

"Those of improper conduct, my Chaotian Sect absolutely will not accept."

Having said that, Lu Qingyang pulled out a jade mirror from his Storage Ring.

"This is a Tier-Two Dharma Artifact I refined, the Heart-Questioning Mirror."

"It can shallowly test a disciple's temperament."

"The moment there is any ill intent, this mirror will react."

"Take it and use it."

"Yes!"

Old Huang's eyes lit up, and he accepted it respectfully.

Lu Qingyang stood up and stretched.

Watching the thousands of Tier-One Production Puppets on the island rapidly constructing under the lead of Li Buqun and Ma Han, he could not help but feel some emotion.

"Five years, and every mortal on Tiangong Island with a Spirit Root has entered my Chaotian Sect."

"With this batch of disciples, my Chaotian Sect's Outer Gate disciples must already number over ten thousand?"

"Far more than that, Sect Master!"

"Tiangong Island has over a hundred thousand ordinary citizens, and those with Spirit Roots of suitable age number over ten thousand."

"Add the disciples gathered these past two years from the surrounding small islands and reefs, and my Chaotian Sect's disciples have long since broken past twenty thousand!"

Old Huang's excited voice rang out over the lake.

During this period, every three months he would return to the Chaotian Sect to report the situation to Lu Qingyang.

And each time he returned, the changes in the Chaotian Sect left him amazed.

Lu Qingyang smiled and waved his hand. "Good, good. Keep it up, and one day my Chaotian Sect will establish itself in the Seven Stars Sea."

Having said that, with a wave of his right hand, a hundred brand-new silver puppets appeared on the lake surface.

"These are the latest model Battle Puppets, all equipped with Tier-Two Dharma Artifact Modules. Deploy them to the War Execution Bureau."

"With these puppets, the remaining demon beasts on the island can begin to be cleared out."