Old Friends Reunite, Golden-Horned Beast!
"Xiangze and Fuxi, you two proceed to the Eastern Wasteland and Southern Marsh as planned. As for the three of us, we will remain inactive for now..."
"The Venerable One's third incarnation has returned to the Nascent Soul and reclaimed everything."
"But the plan also took an unexpected turn. The Great Qin was established hundreds of years ahead of schedule, and Zhao Gao and Qin Hui, who should have been replaced by us..."
"This change also led to their premature birth..."
"We need to slow down our actions."
"And Liu Ji's fate is currently also locked up by the Great Qin..."
"The Venerable One has sent word that the spirit from beyond has broken free from its predetermined fate and attained the position of Nascent Soul True Lord. It cannot be forced..."
At this moment, the Heavenly Fate True Lord read the message that Meng Yu was conveying to them from the Long River of Fortune Dao, clearly indicating that he had been separated from the Northern Nether Domain for a long time...
This resulted in an information gap between them.
According to the established plan, the Qin Clan should still be just a Dao Foundation power at this time, but unexpectedly, that extraterrestrial spirit...
It actually defied their expectations and turned out differently!
Even before they launched their plan, they had already achieved the Nascent Soul...
The True Lord Leyin lightly waved his feather fan, his fingers calculating, clearly gauging something. His smile remained unchanged as he calmly said:
"Don't worry, it's still under control."
"With Your Excellency's talent, it's impossible that you didn't have a backup plan. Although Qin Lu has escaped our control, the Great Qin doesn't..."
"If we take a hard line, we can suppress the power of Qin, Qin Clan can survive, but the Great Qin cannot be allowed to remain."
"If Your Excellency adopts a conciliatory approach, even without the destiny of Northern Qin, then we will offer the life of the Extreme Dharma True Lord as compensation. This fellow is a naturally born protagonist of destiny..."
"If the Great Qin, Extreme Dharma cannot kill it, then we will slaughter all the humans and demons in this world who cultivate ice and snow-related Dao Law, weakening the ice and snow-related Dao..."
"In this way, weakening the Great Dao of Ice and Snow will indirectly enhance our Fortune Dao!"
"Given this ebb and flow, even if the Fortune Tide Plan doesn't fully succeed, it should still be enough to fulfill the Venerable One's destiny for a breakthrough..."
"If all else fails, we're still here, aren't we?"
"And then there's the entire Fortune Heaven Domain. With the destinies of our many Nascent Soul cultivators and the fuel of countless lives, we can surely accumulate enough destinies..."
There are always more solutions than problems; it's just a small variable.
"It's harmless."
What the True Lord Leyin said was light and casual, but clearly every plan he proposed would stir up a storm that would affect the entire Northern Nether Domain...
Even a world-class war!
In comparison, Qin Lu's blood sacrifice of hundreds of billions of lives seemed somewhat benevolent in the eyes of the Fortune Heaven Sect...
As long as it helps the Venerable One ascend to immortality, even if all living beings in the entire world die...
That's worth it!
They would give their own lives for it...
Speaking of this--
The three True Lords of Heavenly Fate True Lord, True Lord Leyin, True Lord Huang De found a secluded place and settled down for the time being...
Awaiting further instructions from His Excellency.
South of the Northern Continent lies the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
At this moment, Meng Yu sat atop the mountain, a Golden-Horned Beast at the Nascent Soul Late Stage lying affectionately beside Meng Yu, occasionally purring softly...
It looks exactly like a big golden cat!
"It's been a long time. Seeing you still looking so energetic, Jin Yao, puts my mind at ease. You've waited so long, twenty thousand years, you must have suffered so much..."
Meng Yu stroked the Golden-Horned Beast's fur as intimately as if it were a family member...
This Golden-Horned Beast named Jin Yao was brought from the upper realm by Meng Yu. It was later hatched in this realm and is also Meng Yu's Natal Spirit Beast.
He is also the strongest being in this world today, ruling over the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, and is the undisputed King of All Demons within the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains...
"Master, should I just slap Qin Lu to death?"
"Wouldn't it be easier for the master of the province to lower himself and negotiate with a junior, and directly control Northern Qin?"
Jin Yao murmured, and Meng Yu smiled, but carefully explained to him:
"You're underestimating this little guy. The concept of Heavenly Fate is mysterious and profound. In the end, I'm just a Spirit Transformation cultivator..."
"Although I can manipulate fate and control others, how can I directly control destiny? I can only guide it closer to the result I desire..."
Even if one becomes an immortal, one is not Dao Integration.
"Moreover, in this world, if there is anyone who can determine fate and control Heavenly Fate, it is probably only those above the Dao Lord, the legendary gods..."
"Not to mention..."
"This Qin kid is no simple character. Even with my current abilities, I can't say I can completely eliminate him..."
"If we rashly make enemies, it will be too much of a hassle to start a war."
"I've never liked trouble. Why complicate things when you can solve them simply? Let's explain everything clearly..."
"I trust that kid will make the right judgment."
"If it's truly impossible to change their minds, then we can resort to forceful measures. We're sitting on the sidelines, so why rush things..."
Upon hearing this--
Jin Yao didn't say anything more, and the facts were just as Meng Yu had said...
Soul Dao cultivators are among the most difficult to kill in the world. Even Venerable Mieyang couldn't see through Qin Lu's hidden tricks...
Meng Yu, of course, wasn't entirely confident either.
Killing Qin Lu was easy, but eliminating him was difficult. Nobody knew if he might suddenly reappear and stab them in the back...
With the chance to become an immortal within reach, Meng Yu didn't want to take any risks.
"I'm leaving. You can continue your slumber."
"The next time I awaken you, that will be the day you break through to the Spirit Transformation stage..."
After Meng Yu finished speaking, he vanished in an instant.
After Jin Yao watched its master depart, its body emitted a faint golden light, eventually slowly turning into a golden boulder...
Like a waiting-for-husband stone, it anticipates being awakened by its owner next time.
In the blink of an eye--
Within the Northern Continent — Northern Nether Capital — the Heart Sea Secret Realm!
At this moment, Qin Lu sensed something, and then escaped from the secret realm, tearing through the void, heading towards his northern homeland, which was once the Yingchuan region...
When Qin Lu emerged from the void once more.
Beneath my feet lies my former homeland; in the distance, the vast lake was once the Yunmeng Marsh, and a low, sacred mountain...
That was Cloud Dream Mountain back then!
With lifeless eyes and dressed in white, Meng Yu had been waiting for Qin Lu's arrival for nearly two hundred years...
Both of them look exactly the same as they did back then!
Compared to Meng Yu's composure and air of complete control, Qin Lu's expression was clearly not as calm...
"Fellow Daoist Meng Yu?"
"You've actually advanced to the Nascent Soul?!"
"No... that's not right..."
"You are not Meng Yu, nor could you be, you are the Venerable Shenji?!"
Qin Lu wasn't stupid. After Venerable Mieyang revealed the truth of the world to him, how could he forget the Venerable Shenji...?
And right now--
A fellow Daoist he had known and spent a long time with suddenly left him, then suddenly achieved Nascent Soul and reunited with him...
This is extremely bizarre no matter how you look at it!
More importantly, Meng Yu is about the same age as Qin Lu, yet he, a non-spirit being, was able to form a Nascent Soul at the Nascent Soul Formation of two hundred...
Even a pig could guess who this person is!