Dealing with the Poisonblood Demon Sect

One day later.

Deep within the Hundred Spirits Sect, in a quiet room brimming with Spiritual Qi.

The Pseudo-Core Realm Ma Yuan Zhenren, who was sitting cross-legged cultivating, suddenly opened his eyes. He waved his hand and patted the Storage Bag at his waist, taking out a bronze mirror from it.

As he channeled his spiritual energy into the bronze mirror, a scene from a location in the Hundred Spirits Mountain Range appeared on its surface.

At that location, a blue streak of light was rapidly gliding across the sky, heading ever deeper into the Hundred Spirits Mountain Range.

When Ma Yuan Zhenren saw the scene appearing on the bronze mirror, his eyes widened in surprise.

"Flowing Light Escape Technique?"

"Golden Core True Person".

Upon closer inspection, he realized that the person who had transformed into Flowing Light Escape Technique was an old acquaintance of his.

"Ling Pengyun...!"

"Unexpectedly, after six years, this person has actually broken through to the Golden Core realm."

"Judging from his aura, he is not mixed with anything else. This person is probably not like me, who achieved the pseudo-core realm by refining the Golden Core core of Demon Beast."

For a moment, Ma Yuan Zhenren's face was filled with envy.

Although he also entered the Golden Core realm, he only refined the Demon Beast Golden Core, achieving the Pseudo-Core realm.

Although those in the False Core Realm still possess the strength and lifespan of Golden Core Golden Core cultivators.

However, True Person at the Pseudo-Core Realm has no possibility of making any progress.

On the other hand, a true Golden Core True Person like Ling Pengyun has great potential. Even if his future is not particularly bright, he can at least improve his cultivation through practice.

"Ling Pengyun is truly fortuitous opportunity. I wish I had such fortuitous opportunity back then."

"Why!"

True Person Bai Yuan looked helpless and sighed.

Then, he couldn't help but become curious about how Ling Pengyun had broken through to the Golden Core.

There are two difficulties in Golden Core: one is condensing the Golden Core, and the other is undergoing the Golden Core Tribulation.

The fact that Ling Pengyun was able to condense the Golden Core True Person Bai Yuan can be understood as Ling Pengyun having extraordinary fortuitous opportunity. He found a spiritual object in the outside world that could increase the success rate of condensing the Golden Core, and with other fortuitous opportunity, he successfully condensed the Golden Core.

However, the Golden Core Tribulation is extremely powerful, and 99% of cultivators resist it by using external objects.

Back then, when he refined that Demon Beast Golden Core and reached the pseudo-core realm, the lightning tribulation triggered by it was extremely terrifying. He only managed to block the lightning tribulation by relying on several Law Treasure from the sect and the Guardian Array.

"The Ling Clan, from which Ling Pengyun comes, is merely a Foundation Establishment Family with a weak foundation. Ling Clan certainly do not possess such precious items as third-tier Law Treasure and Third Rank Array Formation."

"Even when the Poison Blood Demon Sect's Poison Blood Old Ancestor entered the Golden Core stage, he spent a great deal of effort refining two third-tier demonic treasures before he could pass the tribulation of lightning."

"Thinking about it this way, could it be that Ling Pengyun was able to enter the Golden Core because of the help of a powerful force? Or perhaps fortuitous opportunity and found the ruins of some ancestor's cave abode?"

As soon as this thought came to mind, he recalled how Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong had gone straight to the "Yuan Yang Country" after leaving the Hundred Spirits Sect territory and used the Teleportation Array to reach the Boundless Sea Region.

As a Golden Core sect, Hundred Spirits Sect could easily gather information about Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong in the Northern Wilderness Cultivation World if they deliberately set out to do so.

"The Boundless Sea Region Cultivation World resources, and there are also ruins of the cave abode of our ancestors. It is very likely that Ling Pengyun, with his fortuitous opportunity, will find the ruins of our ancestors."

"Given his age of over seventy, his breakthrough to the Golden Core demonstrates his considerable talent, and it is possible that a powerful force could nurture him."

"Whichever of these two possibilities it is, Ling Pengyun is not to be underestimated."

"True Person Bai Yuan thought to himself."

As for Ling Pengyun's fortuitous opportunity, he dared not get involved. If Ling Pengyun had a powerful force behind him, he would have to give up.

He then retrieved the bronze mirror, stood up, and transformed into a Qing Feng, leaving the quiet room.

When he reappeared, he had already arrived outside the gates of the Hundred Spirits Sect.

After waiting for several dozen breaths, Ling Pengyun, who had entered the Hundred Spirits Mountain Range, finally arrived and landed in front of True Person Bai Yuan.

"Congratulations, Ling Daoyou, on achieving the Golden Core Great Dao. Our Yan Kingdom will have another Golden Core cultivator in the future, which is truly a blessing for the human race of our Yan Kingdom."

With a smile on his face, True Person Bai Yuan congratulated Ling Pengyun.

"Bai Yuan Daoist Friend, you flatter me. Enough of this idle talk. The Poison Blood Demon Sect originated in this Hundred Spirits Sect territory. What does your Hundred Spirits Sect intend to do with this demon sect?"

Ling Pengyun was not interested in the congratulatory words and simply said indifferently.

Upon hearing this, True Person Bai Yuan noticed a hint of Sha Qi flickering in Ling Pengyun's brows. He realized that Ling Pengyun wanted to avenge the Ling Clan, which had suffered heavy losses during the Small Demon Uprising, but he was unable to defeat the Poison Blood Demon Sect, which colluded with Demon Beast. Therefore, he came here to seek help.

This suited him perfectly. Back then, he had almost died at the hands of the Poison Blood Demon Sect's leader Poison Blood Old Ancestor.

He'll never forget this grudge.

"I understand what Ling Daoyou is thinking."

"It's just a pity that the Poison Blood Demon Sect is very powerful now. The sect master of this Golden Core, the Poison Blood Old Ancestor, even killed 300,000 mortals in the territory of the Ten Thousand Ten Thousand Beasts Sect last year and refined a third-order demon pill, raising his cultivation to the Golden Core Second Layer."

"With the two Third Rank Middle Grade magic treasures in the hands of that Poison Blood Old Ancestor, his strength is already comparable to that of Golden Core Middle Stage expert."

"Our sect's Golden Core Late Stage Hundred Spirits True Person and Bao Ling True Person, are currently unable to return due to the intense battle in the White Cloud Mountain Range."

"Under such circumstances, neither I nor Spirit Talisman Master, who is stationed at Serpent Dragon Lake, are a match for that Old Devil, let alone capable of dealing with this demonic sect."

"However, once the Demon Beast Uprising has passed in a few decades and the matter of the White Cloud Mountain Range has been resolved, and when our sect's Hundred Spirits True Person and Bao Ling True Person Baoling are free to act, our Hundred Spirits Sect will definitely send troops to punish the Poison Blood Demon Sect in order to demonstrate the prestige of our sect."

"At that time, I hope Fellow Ling Daoyou will lend a hand."

Bao Yuan Zhenren is the disciple of the Hundred Spirits Sect, the sect leader of Hundred Spirits True Person Sect, and also True Person Bai Yuan brother.

Both of them broke through to the Golden Core after the Hundred Spirits Sect occupied the territory of Serpent Dragon Lake.

The Evergreen Spirit Fruit, a three-hundred-year-old Golden Core Spirit Object, that grew from the sect's guardian spirit tree of the Hundred Spirits Sect, eventually ended up in the hands of Bao Yuan Zhenren.

Ling Pengyun had anticipated that the Hundred Spirits Sect would send troops to punish them, but the timing had not been confirmed until now.

Although the Poison Blood Demon Sect is no longer within the territory of the Hundred Spirits Sect, five years ago, the Poison Blood Demon Sect wiped out more than a dozen Foundation Establishment Family within the territory of the Hundred Spirits Sect.

This incident caused the Hundred Spirits Sect to lose prestige among the remaining dozens of the Foundation Establishment Family in this region.

Perhaps, in the Demon Beast Uprising decades later, these dozens of the Foundation Establishment Family will not go all out.

Furthermore, due to the mishandling of the Small Demon Uprising, the number of cultivators participating in the Hundred Spirits Sect's triennial disciple recruitment conference has decreased by more than half.

This is all because cultivators throughout the entire Hundred Spirits Sect territory and even the entire Yan Kingdom felt that Hundred Spirits Sect was unreliable.

After all, the Poison Blood Demon Sect was originally just a force with only one Foundation Establishment Completion Devil Cultivator.

Yet, this very force, with its strength, rose to prominence within the Hundred Spirits Sect.

This incident also became a laughing stock among the other four major Golden Core Elixir sects in the Yan Kingdom.

Even now, the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, which has been ravaged by the Poison Blood Demon Sect, has some members who are hostile to the Hundred Spirits Sect.

"As long as your sect is truly determined to destroy the Poison Blood Demon Sect, I will definitely join the battle." Ling Pengyun knew that destroying the Poison Blood Demon Sect, which colluded with the Golden Core Demon Beast, could not be rushed, so he said solemnly.

"That's excellent." True Person Bai Yuan said with a smile, then his expression changed slightly as he asked.

"Ling Daoyou, now that you have also entered the Golden Core realm, the battle in the White Cloud Mountain Range, the largest Demon Beast Gathering Ground in our Yan Kingdom, is quite intense. Do you intend to go and lend a hand?"

Ling Pengyun raised an eyebrow, realizing that True Person Bai Yuan was implying that he intended to be expelled from the Hundred Spirits Sect's territory.

He could understand that.

If a powerful cultivator were to reside within his Lineage's territory, it would be an unstable factor, and he naturally wouldn't want to see that happen.

"This is exactly what I wanted. The reason I came here to find you is to ask your sect to put in a good word for my Ling Clan with the other four Golden Core in the Yan Kingdom, so that my Ling Clan can also participate in the campaign against the White Cloud Mountain Range."

"In that case, my Ling Clan also wants to seize the Third Rank Spirit Vein of the White Cloud Mountain Range and relocate there." Ling Pengyun did not hide his thoughts and said meaningfully.

The White Cloud Mountain Range are a huge prize. Even though Ling Pengyun has reached the Golden Core, he cannot guarantee that he can lead the Ling Clan to conquer the White Cloud Mountain Range on his own.

After all, the five major Golden Core sects that are attacking the White Cloud Mountain Range are all quite powerful, with hundreds of Foundation Establishment among them.

Even the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, which was restrained by the Poison Blood Demon Sect and the Demon Beast of the Purple Scorpion Mountain region, still spared some strength and dispatched more than a hundred Foundation Establishment Cultivator and more than five hundred Qi Refining cultivators to the White Cloud Mountain Range.

In contrast, although the Ling Clan now has Golden Core cultivators, they only have a dozen or so Foundation Establishment among their disciples, and four of them are nearing the end of their lifespans.

True Person Bai Yuan was also an experienced man and understood Ling Pengyun's meaning.

He immediately agreed. "Helping your Ling Clan participate in the White Cloud Mountain Range matter is no problem at all. Our sect is currently ranked second among the five major sects of the Yan Kingdom, so we have that much influence."

"If you truly wish to obtain a Third Rank Spirit Vein from the White Cloud Mountain Range afterward, you will need to exert your utmost effort, as there are not many Third Rank Spirit Vein in the White Cloud Mountain Range."

"Understood, then thank you very much, esteemed clan." Ling Pengyun said with a smile.

"It's a small matter. Just remember that six years ago, when I sent you and Ling Yunhong, the Clan Head of the Gui Clan, out to seek the Golden Core Opportunity, you two promised that after the Gui Golden Core Family, you would form a thousand-year alliance with my sect," True Person Bai Yuan Baiyuan, waving his hand.

"I have never forgotten this matter," Ling Pengyun said.

Afterwards, the two chatted for a bit more.

Ling Pengyun also informed True Person Bai Yuan about the Golden Core Ceremony to be held three months later.

True Person Bai Yuan immediately stated that he would personally bring generous gifts to congratulate him.

After the two finished speaking, Ling Pengyun bid farewell to True Person Bai Yuan and headed to the other four major Golden Core Golden Core in the Yan Kingdom to invite them to the Ling Clan to attend the grand ceremony three months later.

The people from the four major sects were astonished that Ling Pengyun, a person from a prominent Lineage, could break through to the Golden Core realm.

It should be noted that in the past five hundred years, no Lineage- Golden Core cultivators have emerged in the Yan Kingdom.

Ling Pengyun is also the only cultivator in the Yan Kingdom who came from a powerful Lineage and eventually reached the Golden Core realm.

His Lineage could later be called the Golden Core Family, ranking among the Golden Core Force in the Yan Kingdom.

If Golden Core True Person from such Golden Core Force were to personally invite them to participate in the Golden Core Ceremony, they would naturally not refuse and would all agree.

Finally, Ling Pengyun returned to Falling Dusk Mountain, taking his Daoist partner, only son, and his parents with him, and headed to Serpent Dragon Island in Serpent Dragon Lake to find his cousin Yang Siling and her family who lived in the "Spirit Talisman Residence" on the island.

He shared the good news of his breakthrough to the Golden Core stage with his cousin Yang Siling and her family.