Chapter 94: The Return to True Progress!
In the year Lü Yang turned one hundred and sixty, the Sword Cloud Sect launched a sect war rarely seen in a millennium.
And it was in that same year that Lu Qingyang’s reputation reached its peak.
Everyone was shaken by Lu Qingyang’s ruthless methods and decisive killings.
For a time, sects across the world were stunned by Lu Qingyang’s actions.
The strength of the Sword Cloud Sect also rose tremendously that year.
Within the Sword Cloud Sect, the disciples were all stirred up, vowing to defend the sect’s dignity and the honor of the Sect Master to the death.
Heh. In the Simulation, I chose forbearance, and the result was a broken family and the loss of the people’s hearts.
Now I have finally changed the course of the Simulation.
A cold gleam flickered in Lu Qingyang’s eyes.
Once the sect war began, there was no longer any room for reconciliation.
From that point on, the Simulation’s progress no longer held any reference value.
All Lu Qingyang needed to do was rely on himself and the Sword Cloud Sect’s strength to deepen the Simulation process to the greatest extent possible.
In this life, he did not want to be some Void Return True Lord, nor some Dao Integration True Venerable, nor a Mahayana Venerable.
What he wanted was… ascension!
And as the war between the Sword Cloud Sect and the Soul Sect kicked off, the name of Sect Master Lu Qingyang resounded throughout the East Sea within that very year.
Lu Qingyang had reached the perfection of Soul Transformation.
The Soul Sect’s Sect Master had also stepped into that realm several hundred years earlier.
The war between the two sects erupted, and it could truly be called a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering battle!
That war lasted a full thirty-seven years!
And in the year Lü Yang turned one hundred and ninety-seven, the Sword Cloud Sect annihilated the Soul Sect in the East Sea.
That same year, Lu Qingyang successfully stepped into Void Return, achieving the position of Void Return True Lord!
“Boom!”
At the Shore of the East Sea, upon the ruins of the Soul Sect.
Lu Qingyang stood in the air, a terrifying aura radiating from his body.
Like an ancient primordial beast!
“Hah… so this is the Void Return Stage?”
“Truly formidable!”
Feeling the terrifying power within his body, Lu Qingyang’s eyes burned with intensity.
He had finally felt the true essence of Void Return, and he now knew just how weak the previous Soul Transformation realm had been!
Once the Return to True ends, I’m afraid the insights from these breakthroughs alone will be enough to raise my true cultivation by two minor realms.
A faint smile curved at the corner of Lu Qingyang’s mouth, his mood extremely pleasant.
“Husband, have you broken through?”
Just then, a gentle voice came.
The newcomer was none other than the direct daughter of the Flying Cloud Sect’s Sect Master, Lu Qingyang’s wife, Liu Qian’er.
Lu Qingyang had annihilated the Soul Sect, and naturally Liu Qian’er had followed him here.
Hearing Liu Qian’er’s question, Lu Qingyang turned and smiled. “I’ve broken through. Just now.”
Hearing this, Liu Qian’er let out a breath of relief, and delight surfaced on her face.
But then a trace of worry appeared as she spoke. “Husband, now that the Soul Sect has been destroyed, shouldn’t we rein in the disciples?”
“I’ve observed that after years of continuous warfare, all of them are now steeped in killing intent. If we don’t keep them strictly in check, it will surely lead to great disaster in the future!”
After Liu Qian’er finished speaking, a hint of worry appeared on her pretty face.
“Mm, you’re right.”
Liu Qian’er’s words gave Lu Qingyang a reminder.
Now the Simulation’s progress no longer held any reference value, and every step he took from now on had to be taken with caution.
However, in this Return to True world, the Void Return Stage was already a rarely seen existence.
As for Dao Integration and Great Vehicle cultivators, they were even harder to find.
With that thought, Lu Qingyang’s eyes flickered slightly.
With his current strength, as long as he did not incur the wrath of the masses, there would basically be no great danger.
So Lu Qingyang immediately soared into the air, and shouted at the Sword Cloud Sect disciples.
“Now that the enemy sect is destroyed, all of you return to the mountain and cultivate diligently at once. You are not permitted to leave the sect by even half a step. Those who defy the order will be executed!”
“Respectfully obey the Sect Master’s order!”
“Respectfully obey the Sect Master’s order!”
“Respectfully obey the Sect Master’s order!”
“……”
At Lu Qingyang’s command, all the disciples answered respectfully.
With his current prestige, the moment he gave an order, even if the opponent were an Immortal, these disciples would probably dare to charge forward and fight to the death!
“Husband, you’ve been in secluded cultivation all these years.”
“Now that you’ve returned, shouldn’t we celebrate properly?”
Liu Qian’er’s beautiful eyes blinked, brimming with eagerness.
“Celebrate?”
Lu Qingyang’s eyebrows rose slightly at the words…
……
He had stepped into Void Return at one hundred and ninety-seven, and at three hundred and two, Lu Qingyang proved his Dao Integration.
He had finally set foot at the peak of this world, and it was in this year that the Sword Cloud Sect and Flying Cloud Sect merged into one.
Lu Qingyang’s followers and disciples numbered into the hundreds of thousands.
The name was changed to the Sword Sect.
Lu Qingyang was also respectfully called True Venerable Qingyang!
Only after stepping into Dao Integration, the sect beneath him could no longer sustain his cultivation.
For that reason, Lu Qingyang had no choice but to wander everywhere.
“Hah… I really want to conquer the sects of the world and gather all the world’s resources for my cultivation.”
“The Dao Integration Stage, by the scale of this world, is already an invincible posture.”
“However…”
Within a ruin, Lu Qingyang exhaled a turbid breath.
“However, what if this world still has hidden Great Vehicle Venerables?”
“In that case, no matter how formidable I am, it wouldn’t be enough.”
Lu Qingyang’s gaze sharpened, his mind racing as he pondered countermeasures.
“Great Vehicle. Only by stepping into Great Vehicle, and reaching the pinnacle of invincible Great Vehicle, can I enslave and gather this world’s cultivation resources!”
“Otherwise, at my current pace, I’m afraid it will take a thousand years before I have any hope of ascending!”
“No, that’s too slow!”
Lu Qingyang’s eyes flickered.
He had already decided that as long as he stepped into Great Vehicle, his talent would surely make him an invincible Great Vehicle.
At that time, even if he could not command all the cultivators of the world, he would still take all the world’s cultivation resources into his own hands!
With that thought, Lu Qingyang collected the treasures from the ruin he had just finished exploring and rushed toward another location.
And as he wandered everywhere, the treasures Lu Qingyang collected grew more and more numerous.
Among them were no few eighth-rank Dharma Artifacts, though unfortunately, he had not found a single high-rank Spirit Artifact.
There were quite a few fourth and fifth-rank ones.
Still, relying on his own resources, Lu Qingyang had also personally refined a sixth-rank Spirit Artifact.
And with so many treasures, Lu Qingyang could not help but begin considering his plans for when the Return to True ended ahead of time.
“An eighth-rank Dharma Artifact. Even an ordinary Mahayana Venerable would hardly have a few of them. If I bring it back…”
“It would be enough to suppress Void Return.”
Lu Qingyang murmured to himself.
“However, those Dao-rank pill formulas are also truly tempting.”
“If I bring them back, at the very least I won’t have to worry about pills before Dao Integration.”
“Hard to choose. Not to mention those texts and secret techniques; any single one of them could fetch a sky-high price outside!”
Lu Qingyang’s brow was filled with a look of conflict.
The deeper the Simulation Return to True process, the more treasures he obtained.
Now, even he did not know what to choose.
And just as all kinds of precious Dharma Artifacts and the various secret arts recorded in the texts flashed through his mind like a revolving lantern, he suddenly lit up.
Something had occurred to him.
“By the way… can that Heavenly Fox Spirit Body’s constitution be brought back?”
“If it can be brought back, wouldn’t it be useful for my future breakthroughs?”
“It’s just that… for that, I’d apparently still have to find a Dao Companion…”