After Ling Qingzhu left, everyone began eyeing the place covetously. If she was right, the seal was gone now.
That made things easier, though the most precious thing inside was gone. But Lin Langtian and the others thought it over.
Since even Ling Qingzhu had come, their chances of obtaining the most precious opportunity had been vanishingly slim to begin with, not to mention that Wang Yan was dead now.
The Wang Family was about to withdraw. Wang Pan swallowed and was just about to order them to retreat when Lin Langtian glanced at him and said calmly, "Didn't you hear what Fairy Ling said? Everyone in the Lin Family, wipe out the Wang Family!"
Qin Shi hastily spoke up as well. "Qin Family, destroy the Wang Family!!"
"Lin Langtian, Qin Shi, our families have been friends for generations in the Great Yan Dynasty. How can we let an outsider tell us what to do? How-"
Before Wang Pan could finish, Lin Langtian waved a hand. A terrifying surge of Origin Energy erupted, turning into a flash of fire that killed Wang Pan in an instant.
"If you don't die, we will. A Death Profound Realm Dao protector isn't someone we can afford to provoke..."
Lin Langtian murmured, his voice full of lingering fear and astonishment.
Only after Ling Qingzhu left did Master Mu, who had been like a dead man the whole time, appear again. Panic-stricken, he told Lin Langtian that Wang Yan had just died to a wisp of death Qi.
Only someone in the Death Profound Realm could wield death Qi of that kind. In other words, this was a Dao protector, likely waiting here specifically for Ling Qingzhu.
Lin Langtian had once thought the only thing separating him from Ling Qingzhu was her status as a member of a super sect. With his talent, it wasn't impossible for him to join one of the Eight Great Super Sects.
But that Death Profound Realm Dao protector had shown him just how vast the gap was between him and the prodigies of the Eight Great Super Sects!
Lin Dong also joined the attack on the Wang Family. He had no choice; everyone else was doing it, and he would stand out if he didn't. But inwardly, he asked whether the gap between Three Yuan Nirvana and Eight Yuan Nirvana wasn't that large.
"What are you thinking? With someone like that, you'd be lucky to catch even a glimpse of his tail in the future. The gap between Three Yuan Nirvana and Eight Yuan Nirvana is far more than just five minor realms."
"Even with this heaven-defying stroke of luck, you'll still have to find an Ancestral Talisman before you might catch up to him..."
Little Marten mercilessly battered Lin Dong's confidence without a care. He hadn't expected someone like that to appear in this little place either.
An Ancestral Talisman...
Lin Dong murmured inwardly, his heart full of yearning for cultivation. For the first time, he was filled with longing for the world beyond the Great Yan Dynasty.
Yan City.
At the very center of Yan City, in the city lord's residence, was a youth in black-and-white Daoist robes. He was Fang Yi, the person Ling Qingzhu had spoken of.
He was playing with a ball of green light in his hand, looking at it with interest.
Had a Nirvana Realm expert been present, they would have recognized it as a Nirvana Heart, something even an ordinary Nirvana Realm expert was unlikely to condense after death.
But Fang Yi treated it as though he were looking at something ordinary.
"Young Sect Master, Ling Qingzhu is on her way here." At that moment, a figure appeared behind Fang Yi. His face was aged, and he looked no different from an ordinary old man.
Only his eyes were slightly clouded, seemingly without the slightest glimmer of light.
He was blind.
"Martial Uncle Mo, just call me Fang Yi." Fang Yi used the Great Five Elements Technique to sense the power of yin and yang within the Nirvana Heart.
Sure enough, amid the power of yin and yang, another power remained, keeping the two apart.
In other words,
this thing had been left behind to trap people.
After all, in the Yuan Dan Realm, a martial artist's Heavenly Yuan and Earthly Yuan had already fused into an Origin Pill. By the time they reached the Nirvana Realm, yin and yang had long since become one. How could the yin and yang in a Nirvana Heart left behind still be in conflict?
That was probably why Ling Qingzhu had fallen for the trap in the original story: she hadn't noticed it.
That was right. Fang Yi was a transmigrator. He had just gotten off work and was eagerly rewatching the Martial Universe anime,
when a supreme empress clad in four imperial weapons-the Two Modes Heaven-Peering Mirror, the Five Emperors Copper Coin Cover, the Gale Wave-Treading Shoes, and the Immortal King Burial Shroud-sent him straight here with an electric scooter.
At first, he hadn't known where he was, and he had also been a baby. Later, a passing middle-aged man took him in.
The man was a cultivator, and he usually had Fang Yi temper his body. Fang Yi broke through the so-called Body Tempering Realm.
That was when his golden finger appeared: a choice of three upon breaking through a realm.
Three balls of light appeared before him.
One shone in five colors, as though the five elements were cycling endlessly, generating life without end.
[Great Five Elements Technique: Five Emperors Great Devil, the five elements cycle, generating life without end]
One seemed to possess boundless kingly hegemony, with soldiers from every direction beneath its feet.
[Great Kingly Hegemony Technique: supremacy over a dynasty, defeat enemies with military formations]
The last seemed to have emerged from a dragon scale, with the roars of a Heavenly Dragon sounding from time to time.
[Great Dragon Form Technique: imitate a Heavenly Dragon to obtain its fleshly body and divine abilities]
Fang Yi was stunned. If he remembered correctly, these three things should have come from the Eternal Life Great World.
In that world, eating people was the orthodox way to cultivate. The supremes and the Ruthless Empress from the Shrouding the Heavens World would be little lolis in comparison.
At the same time, that world's Three Thousand Great Daos were also terrifying, especially the Great Five Elements Technique and the Five Emperors Great Devil, which were the foundation of the world.
Fang Yi didn't need to think about it at all. The Great Kingly Hegemony Technique required establishing a dynasty and gathering kingly hegemony, and those who knew about the dynasties of the Tianxuan Continent knew!
As for creating a super dynasty, why put himself through that when there was clearly a better path? He had already suffered enough in his previous life.
He just wanted sweetness, sweetness, and more sweetness!
The same went for the Great Dragon Form Technique. The dragon race was indeed badass, but before the Great Five Elements Technique, it was just a little loach.
The moment he made his choice, a sudden change occurred. A five-colored lotus appeared beneath him and a five-colored canopy above his head, frightening Ying Huanhuan, who was cultivating with him, into hurriedly calling Ying Xuanzi over.
After that, his cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds. While still in the Body Tempering Realm, he began cultivating with Earth Fiend Cold Qi and Heavenly Dipper Yang Qi, breaking through to the Earth Yuan Realm.
The choice of three appeared again.
This time, however, it didn't come from the Eternal Life Great World, but from the Shrouding the Heavens Great World, a world renowned for its reckless fools.
[Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo], [Heavenly Demon Sacred Body], [Origin Spirit Sacred Body].
It was practically a great family of sacred bodies, bloodlines evolved by blending together Great Emperors.
There was no need to hesitate. The other two sounded impressive too, but with the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo there, who could turn it down?
From then on, he comprehended the Heavenly Emperor Scripture while still in the Earth Yuan Realm and was publicly appointed Young Sect Master by Ying Xuanzi. Later, he even comprehended the scriptures of the other three halls, including the Desolate Hall's Great Desolation Scripture.
Because of his constitution, however, his once meteoric cultivation speed slowed down, though he was still faster than ordinary people, even Ying Xiaoxiao and the others.
After more than half a year, he broke through to Heavenly Yuan.
The choice of three appeared again. This time, however, it took Fang Yi by surprise. It actually came from the local world, just a higher-dimensional version of it.
[Mystic Dragon War Emperor's inheritance], [Heart Demon Thunder Emperor's inheritance], [War Emperor's inheritance].
Fang Yi hesitated for a moment before choosing the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor.
Although they were all among the ancient Nine Emperors, the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor was second only to the Ancient Heavenly Emperor.
Besides, the War Emperor's inheritor, the Western Heaven War Emperor, was still around.
If the War Emperor's inheritance appeared inside him, he worried that before long, a single palm strike would wipe out this Lower Plane.
Given the Western Heaven War Emperor's temperament, it wasn't necessarily impossible.
From then on, he switched to cultivating the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor's cultivation technique, the Supreme Heart Demon Scripture, while also following the path of a Talisman Master.
Cultivating both paths caused his progress to slow a little further, and he didn't break through to the Yuan Dan Realm until he was twelve.
Of course, that speed was already unmatched in the entire Dao Sect. As expected, the choice of three appeared again.
This time, the three choices came from the Perfect Great World.
[Thunder Emperor Precious Technique], [Willow Deity Precious Technique], [Phoenix Precious Technique].