For a moment, she wondered whether she was hallucinating.
She silently recited a clarity incantation.
Nothing changed. The person before her, like her reflection in a mirror, still stood there in Qingyun Prefecture.
What on earth was going on?
Ye Qingcheng certainly did not remember having an identical twin sister.
Noticing the strange expression on Ye Qingcheng's face, Chen Mu ended his transformation.
He returned to his original appearance in the blink of an eye and said, "You're back."
She watched Chen Mu sit back down on the lounge chair and recline, as calm as still water.
Ye Qingcheng's heart was anything but calm. She approached him and asked curiously, "Young Master, what was that just now?"
"Oh! That? I just learned the Transformation Art and was trying it out. Don't worry, I meant no offense," Chen Mu clarified.
"No, I don't mind that. I'm simply amazed that your mastery of the Transformation Art has already reached such a perfectly tempered state. You could easily rival, or even surpass, the legendary Thousand Transformations Devil Lord."
Ye Qingcheng spoke with admiration.
Chen Mu did not pursue the topic. Instead, he asked Ye Qingcheng, "By the way, didn't you seem to have something to tell me earlier?"
"Right!" Ye Qingcheng suddenly remembered that she had important business to report, and anxiety returned to her face.
"Young Master! Something terrible has happened! Word has it that the entire Five Poisons Holy Land has mobilized and is heading for our Tianyuan Holy Land!"
"Some say they can't bear to see the Holy Lord prove his Dao and become a Great Emperor, upsetting the balance of the Southern Region, so they intend to interfere."
"Relax. Nothing will happen. I have arrangements in place." Chen Mu worked out the timing. With Chen Tianlin's strength, along with the Enlightenment Tea...
And the auspicious clouds filling the sky overhead, the purple qi... the Five Poisons Holy Land would have no chance to act at all.
On the contrary, this move would only bury the Five Poisons Holy Land's future for nothing.
It gave the Tianyuan Holy Land the perfect opportunity to strike.
You started the war, so how could you blame me for bullying the weak with my strength, or crushing the small with my might?
Was a strong person supposed to silently take a beating whenever a weak person provoked them?
Then what the hell was the point of cultivating?!
Seeing how composed Chen Mu was, Ye Qingcheng hesitated to speak.
She wondered whether the young master and the Tianyuan Holy Land's reserves were far more astonishing than she had imagined!
How many people in the world could remain so unruffled when an entire holy land came pouring out of its nest against them?
"By the way, how did today's trip to the Trial Tower go?" Chen Mu changed the subject.
"Young Master, I climbed twenty floors higher than yesterday," Ye Qingcheng replied.
After Chen Mu lay down, she voluntarily moved behind him and began massaging his temples, shoulders, and neck.
Chen Mu wore an expression of pure enjoyment...
Meanwhile.
At the foot of the mountain, inside a guest room at an inn.
Shan Yurong gently pushed open the door, afraid of disturbing his younger sister Shan Yuchan's rest.
But Shan Yuchan still heard him. Her pale lips parted slightly as she asked, "Brother, are you back?"
"Yes, I'm back." Shan Yurong closed the door and came to her bedside, unable to hide his excitement. "Yuchan, I finally found medicine to extend your life! Here, let me help you up."
With Shan Yurong's support, Shan Yuchan sat up and leaned against a pillow, looking puzzled. "Medicine to extend my life?"
"Yes, pills that increase your lifespan! Each one can add at least ten years, and a veined pill can even add a thousand!" Shan Yurong's voice trembled with excitement.
He had waited far, far too long for this day...
"Ten years? A thousand years!" Shan Yurong looked thoroughly sickly. Although his voice was weak, it could not conceal the astonishment within him.
Could such miraculous pills really exist?
"That's right." Shan Yurong popped the stopper off the bottle and poured out several pills.
Looking at the patterns glimmering with golden light on the pills, then at the stunned Shan Yurong, Shan Yuchan asked, "Brother, are those Pill Veins?"
"Yes, those are Pill Veins," Shan Yurong answered instinctively, still reeling from the shock.
He had never expected the pills Chen Mu gave him to be veined pills.
And there were ten whole pills—equivalent to ten thousand years of life!
Countless powerful cultivators could toil their entire lives and still never come across something like this.
Yet Chen Mu had simply given them to him?
Shan Yurong's resolve to follow Chen Mu grew even firmer.
Such immense kindness had to be repaid!
Little did he know that by giving him those ten pills, Chen Mu had not only netted a thousand pills but also gained his loyalty.
"Here, Yuchan, take them quickly. Once you do, you'll be back to normal."
"Brother, let's split them equally. I don't want to live in this world alone."
"All right!"
Afterward, each of them took five Veined Longevity Pills, adding five thousand years to their lifespans.
Bwooom!! Bwooom!! Bwooom!!!
Shan Yurong was just about to ask how Shan Yuchan felt when he heard horn blasts overhead, like fierce winds tearing through the sky.
Seeing that Shan Yuchan's complexion was rosy, no longer deathly pale...
Shan Yurong walked to the bedside, leaned out, and looked upward.
His pupils contracted slightly. "Where did all those Warships come from?"
"Wait! That's the Five Poisons Holy Land's emblem! They're here already? A Transport Array?"
He turned toward Shan Yuchan. "Yuchan, stay here. I have something to do. I'll be back later."
"Brother! Be careful. You must come back alive." Shan Yuchan did not press him or say anything more. She only offered that reminder.
How could she not know that these pills could never have been easy to obtain?
There was no such thing as a free pie falling from the sky.
"Yes! I promise."
He turned and vanished from the guest room.
On the Tianyuan Holy Land's side, hundreds of Warships rose into the air.
They numbered several times those of the Five Poisons Holy Land!
Not only was their fleet larger, but the Warships themselves were several sizes bigger.
Not to mention the tens of thousands of powerful cultivators beside them, standing on flying swords, their ranks as dense as a forest!
Martial Saints and Human Immortal Realm cultivators emerged together, their presence and aura carrying the threat of destroying heaven and earth!
Even the winds and clouds changed color!
At the sight, many disciples of the Five Poisons Holy Land were nearly scared out of their wits.
Before coming, they had never heard that the gap between the two holy lands was so vast.
How could they have known that this was merely the tip of the Tianyuan Holy Land's iceberg?
Most of the Tianyuan Holy Land's disciples and powerful cultivators were still traveling in the outside world.
The elders simply felt that dealing with a mere Five Poisons Holy Land did not warrant calling them back from afar and mobilizing everyone.
Those overhead were more than enough!
"What a shame that we Outer Court disciples aren't qualified to participate."
"Obviously. Fights are rare, so the senior brothers from the Inner Court get to go first. Their hands have been itching for ages."
"And even with this many, plenty of the Inner Court's senior brothers and sisters haven't joined in."
"Our Tianyuan Holy Land truly is terrifying!"
"Yes, being able to join..."
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!!!
Before the sentence was finished, heaven and earth shook violently.
A pillar of golden light shot straight into the sky!
It punched a vast hole through the thick clouds, and golden radiance spread outward, dyeing the blue sky and white clouds.
One glance upward revealed a boundless golden ocean that blotted out the sky and sun!
"Such powerful Great Dao Fortune! Has the Holy Lord successfully proven his Dao?!"
"..." Huo Yicheng's expression turned troubled. He had just been about to order the disciples to buy their ancestor time to break through to Great Emperor and turn the tide.
At the same time.
Qingyun Prefecture.
Watching the spectacular sight fill the sky, Chen Mu stood up, thinking it was time for him to use his Great Emperor Cultivation Experience Pack.
Time to give those people—and this world—a little surprise!
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