“Is this still a phenomenon of Core Formation?”

“Nonsense! Damn it, Master Lu didn’t come back for his daughter’s Core Formation from the beginning. This is clearly him plotting for himself!”

“Heavens! For himself—doesn’t that mean Master Lu is currently…”

“There’s no mistake! First, the news of someone forming a Golden Core was spread, making the Three Major Sects in the Yue Kingdom drop their guard, then the Mountain Protection Array was activated to cut off contacts…”

At this stage, even a dog would know what Master Lu is up to.

Outside the cave, Lin Chang’an and two others couldn’t conceal the shock in their eyes either.

“Nascent Soul Formation!”

This time Lin Chang’an’s mind was buzzing; everyone thought Master Lu was about to fail.

Who could have imagined that the disregarded Master Lu was the final change?

“There’s no mistake! It’s undeniably true!”

At this moment, Old Hu was extremely excited, trembling as he pointed to the air where multicolored spiritual light was visibly appearing.

“Old Hu!”

“Hahaha, it turns out the old ancestor didn’t speak blindly, the celestial phenomena during Nascent Soul Formation really do show such visible spiritual light.”

Old Hu laughed with excitement, his face covered in tears.

No one knew the pressure he bore; ever since he was sensible, his parents taught him their ancestor was a once-prominent powerful figure, nearly forming a Nascent Soul.

In his youth, he admired them, but as he grew up and his cultivation deepened, he gradually realized that perhaps the ancestor was just boasting.

Even his parents were silent, believing their ancestor was self-glorifying.

Otherwise, how did their Hu Family end up in this state?

As it turns out, all of this was true.

It means the path they walked was not wrong!

“Our Hu Family isn’t lacking either!”

At this moment, Old Hu laughed heartily, not for himself but for his deceased parents.

Now he could tell his parents that the legends of their ancestor were real, not just boastful talk.

“Nascent Soul Formation!”

Lin Chang’an and Yun Yao were intensely watching the phenomena in the sky, daring not to miss a single detail.

Even as their path to Core Formation was still uncertain, they were witnessing a Nascent Soul Formation.

The Yue Kingdom, one of the Seven Kingdoms, was witnessing someone forming a Nascent Soul for the first time in hundreds of years.

Meanwhile, the turbulent situation in the Yue Kingdom over the decades replayed in Lin Chang’an’s mind, and suddenly he recalled the words of Blood Evil True Master.

The world’s most untrustworthy person, Lu…

“Just how long has this scheme been in the making…”

At this time, Lin Chang’an couldn’t help but feel a tingling on his scalp; offending people in the Demon Beast Abyss, then spreading the news of being injured while hunting Demon Beasts.

Returning to the Yue Kingdom was supposed to serve as a buffer, but somehow ended up capturing Celestial Profound City.

Looking at it now, this wasn’t accidental at all—it was clearly a calculated plan.

Then planning his daughter’s Core Formation time and again, everyone thought the master’s lifespan was running out, never expecting Master Lu to pull off such a move.

“Scheming for a hundred years for Nascent Soul Formation isn’t terrifying! What’s terrifying is when did Master Lu break through in cultivation?”

Supposedly mid-stage Core Formation cultivation—he’d kept that hidden for centuries!

“No wonder Blood Evil True Master had such deep resentment at the last moment.”

Lin Chang’an couldn’t help but sympathize with Blood Evil True Master.

Losing to this person wasn’t unjust.

But it was suffocating.

Now the entire Celestial Profound City was sealed by the array, meaning no news could get out.

Plus, the initial phenomena clearly allowed spies to first spread false news of someone forming a Golden Core in Celestial Profound City.

Then activating the Mountain Protection Array.

Even the Three Major Sects wouldn’t suspect it much, at most despising Master Lu for being cowardly and cautious to activate the Mountain Protection Array at this time.

Above Celestial Profound City, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy was howling, forming a vortex tide of spiritual energy.

Because of the array’s isolation, outsiders were unaware.

One day! Two days! A full half month passed!

Only then did outsiders feel something was off, as the Mountain Protection Array of Celestial Profound City was maintained for such a long time.

“Look, Old Lin, there’s another change!”

Finally, three months later, the spiritual energy vortex above Celestial Profound City suddenly began to expand, as if swelling to the extreme compression.

From tens of miles, to hundreds of miles, until thousands of miles.

At this moment, the Mountain Protection Array of Celestial Profound City could no longer conceal this astonishing phenomenon.

…

Li Huo Palace.

The great elder, who had been waiting for Master Lu’s failure, suddenly sensed something, his face turned deathly pale, and he soared into the sky in shock and anger.

“This phenomenon at Celestial Profound City!”

Three Core Formation cultivators from Li Huo Palace were all shocked, staring at the celestial changes thousands of miles away.

Even within the sect, countless cultivators were in turmoil.

“Lu! Lu Wu… he!”

This great elder’s expression was one of terror, his lips trembled uncontrollably.

At that moment, the words “Lu Turtle” were stuck in his throat.

After a long while, this great elder finally burst out cursing: “Damn it! Nascent Soul Formation! We’ve all been fooled!”

They had already missed the best time to interrupt.

Divine Sword Sect.

“Haha, so that’s it, so that’s it, we’ve been fighting to the death, yet we were just a bunch of insignificant pawns…”

The late-stage Core Formation cultivator of Divine Sword Sect laughed out loud, but the laughter was filled with a sense of admiration and helplessness.

In the Immortal Cultivation Realm, strength prevails, and schemes and conspiracies never make it to the surface.

“We’ve lost, but Li Huo Palace has lost even more.”

An elder spoke viciously, considering that Li Huo Palace had purchased many spirit veins of Celestial Profound City, and now dared he drive them away?

Profound Sound Pavilion.

This breathtaking phenomenon had already alarmed all cultivators in the Yue Kingdom.

Early-stage Core Formation Fairy Ni Chang gazed at this scene with a stunned expression.

“Master, it’s Master Lu forming a Nascent Soul!”

The elder, whose face was pale, wore a constantly shifting expression.

There was anger at being manipulated by Master Lu, causing significant losses to Profound Sound Pavilion, but also admiration for this loose cultivator who had reached such a stage.

However, there was more schadenfreude.

“Haha, Li Huo Palace, Divine Sword Sect, you thought you won, but you all lost! Everyone’s a loser! Victory and defeat on the chessboard is merely superficial; the true victory and defeat lies outside the board.”

“Master!”

Seeing her master laughing, Ni Chang had a worried expression.

However, her master grabbed her wrist, and solemnly, word by word, said in a deep voice:

“Shang’Er! Remember this scene, conspiracies and schemes, however numerous, ultimately can’t make it to the surface.

Strength! Only strength can change everything, you’re the most talented successor in our Profound Sound Pavilion in hundreds of years, you must cultivate well, and don’t bear any grudges against Master Lu! Absolutely don’t!”

The terrifying celestial phenomena of Nascent Soul Formation was so overwhelming that even the Three Major Sects dared not harbor any grudges.

Outside the Yue Kingdom, although unable to witness the Heaven and Earth phenomena, cultivators could more or less sense the intense turbulence of spiritual energy between Heaven and Earth.

Especially Golden Core cultivators, who, even from thousands or tens of thousands of miles away, cast astonished gazes toward the Yue Kingdom.

…

At this time, above Celestial Profound City, an endless stretch of five-colored rosy clouds.

Within the clouds, sounds of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning echoed.

The rolling colored clouds were accompanied by a terrifying thunder tribulation, causing countless cultivators in Celestial Profound City to tremble in fear.

Especially the demon beasts in the Cloud Mist Mountain Range, shivering with dread.

Inside Celestial Profound Peak.

At this moment, Lu, the real person with an elderly scholar’s appearance, his cheeks thin, his hair and beard all white, his emaciated visage shining with a glow.

“Over six hundred years, all the prodigies and giants, eventually turned to dust. Only those who live long can go further…”

It was like a voice from ancient times, yet at this moment, Master Lu had his eyes closed, his face ruddy, as if he were in a slumber, while the voice emanated from above his head.

At the top of his celestial head, there was a miniature infant about an inch tall, its appearance identical to Master Lu.

The moment the Nascent Soul appeared.

The scenery outside, the myriad of colorful cloud clusters, and the terrifying thunder tribulation, all receded like a tide.

In an instant, Celestial Profound City was clear, without a cloud in the sky.

“Old Hu, do you think this means it’s successful?”

Outside the cave’s entrance, looking at the astronomical phenomena suddenly dissipating, Lin Chang’an was utterly confused, for this was his first time witnessing a Nascent Soul Formation.

Beside him, Old Hu was dazed, mumbling absentmindedly: “Old Lin, if I knew, I’d already be a founder somewhere.”

His ancestor recorded the phenomena of Nascent Soul Formation, but the problem was his ancestor failed!

Otherwise, how could he have ended up in such a situation?

But just at this moment, a throbbing wave suddenly emanated from Celestial Profound Peak.

A pure spiritual pressure aura, arising accordingly.

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