Bound by Life and Death, Three Hundred Years!
345th year of the Great Qin Dynasty --
Northern Domain -- Northern Nether Capital -- Blood Sea Mountain!
This mountain is the Daoist temple of Ancestor Lu Ming. Ancestor Lu Ming was over a hundred years older than Qin Lu in the past, and although he has now formed his Golden Core...
But with over 660, they have already reached the limit of the Golden Core cultivator realm.
Back then, he was quite the formidable demon!
Everyone once revered him, the Blood Soul Ancestor, but now, in his old age, he sits alone atop the mountain, his limit being the Core Formation Early Stage...
As a cultivator of the Dao of Blood, he should have lived a long life.
Unfortunately, in his early years he was just a Rogue Cultivator who suffered many hidden injuries. Even though he rarely fought in the future, his ailments still could not be cured...
The foundation has been damaged; this is the will of Heaven!
The lifespan of Golden Core cultivator is 600-780 years.
The Golden Core Early Stage typically end around 600 years old, but he, despite his hidden ailments and injuries, lived to be over 660 years old, which is quite remarkable...
And today--
This former overlord of the demonic path has come to the end of his life...
He gazed at the twilight, the setting sun like blood!
Lu Ming recalled the days when he and Qin Lu were both at the Dao Foundation stage, fighting side by side against external enemies...
He recalled the days in Blood Plain when he led hundreds of thousands of troops to fight the Blood Demon...
He also recalled the first time he met Qin Lu, when they worked together to kill the remnants of the Qi Household and annihilate the last bloodline of the Qi Household...
He recalled that Qin Lu had given him the name: Lu Ming!
Let him shed his demonic identity and become the revered Ancestor Lu Ming, able to stand in the sunlight and no longer be hunted down and hidden from...
He also recalled those days.
He stood shoulder to shoulder with Qin Lu, fighting against the pressure from Medicine King Valley, and he also recalled the past, when they fought together against the invasion of the Ice and Snow Demon Race at the Great Wall...
Memories accumulate, yet become increasingly hazy.
He recalled his childhood, when his family was poor, and his parents and grandparents were willing to commit suicide so that he could succeed...
We must also help him cultivate the Dao of Blood and become a cultivator!
In his youth, he roamed freely throughout the various prefectures of the Da Zhou, committing countless atrocities and sacrificing countless lives; he was truly a heinous demon...
I met him when I was almost dead!
As a living legend, he saw a kindred spirit in Qin Lu; neither he nor Qin Lu were inherently bloodthirsty...
Instead, they were forced to go to extremes by the way the world is...
He followed Qin Lu for over four hundred years, eventually breaking through to the Dao Foundation and becoming a renowned patriarch!
Later, we witnessed Qin Lu's feat of Nascent Soul Formation and sacrificing half the continent in blood...
He thus fortuitous opportunity to enter the Golden Core stage!
Now, Qin Lu has become Spirit Transformation cultivator, the ruler of the world, and a future Soul Dao Immortal. One can spend half a lifetime with him...
He was content to have witnessed a legend.
He also left behind descendants; the Blood Sea Mountain is the foundation he left to his offspring, and many of his descendants have now become Dao Foundation cultivator...
They are a sixth-rank Immortal Clan among the nine ranks of the Immortal Clan in the Great Qin Dynasty, and their reputation is considerable!
He lived a legendary life, witnessed the vast world, saw many legendary figures, and made a legacy for future generations...
He left behind a vast family fortune!
He felt nothing for himself anymore, and he had lived up to the expectations of his parents and grandparents. It was time...
I'm saying goodbye to this world.
Lu Ming's lips curled up slightly, revealing a cold smile...
Perhaps he had long forgotten what a beautiful smile looked like, but he was already content, and finally he slowly closed his eyes...
Sitting quietly atop the mountain, it gradually lowered its once arrogant head!
At this point--
The founding father of the Great Qin Empire, the Ancestor Lu Ming, who had served the Qin Clan for over four hundred years, passed away peacefully atop a mountain, ending his glorious and brilliant life...
The entire empire mourned for three days, and Emperor Qin Yuan wore mourning clothes for him for three days!
He was posthumously honored as: King Lu!
He became the first non-royal cultivator in the history of the Great Qin Empire to be posthumously granted a royal title, and the word "Lu" (戮) became the surname of this lineage...
They are proud of the surname "Lu," because it was bestowed upon them by the Venerable One!
355th year of the Great Qin Dynasty --
The Ninth-Rank Immortal Clan of the Empire – The Fifth-Rank Immortal Clan – The Raging Sand Huang Clan!
Inside the Yellow Lotus Mountain Palace, Huang Liang, his hair already white and his breath weak, was only 580 years old, yet his spirit was already exhausted...
As a grandmaster of array formations in the Great Qin Dynasty, he dedicated half his life to the Great Qin and made indelible contributions to the art of Dao of Formations!
His involvement was evident in everything from the formations on the warships and the research into teleportation arrays to the development of Nascent Soul and Golden Core puppets...
Even many of the alchemy and weapon-making workshops were designed by him.
At this moment, Huang Liang's smile was bleak.
Years of mental and physical exhaustion had excessively depleted his lifespan. Despite being at the Golden Core Middle Stage, he was severely weakened due to the excessive strain on his mental energy...
In addition, his risky entry into the main battlefield between the Da Zhou and the Daliang years ago left him with lingering health problems, and now he's also grappling with formations...
The mental and physical strain have taken a toll on me, leaving me in this state!
Years ago, when Lu Ming passed away...
He had a premonition, and now, just ten years later, his life has also come to an end, his smile more painful than tears...
Back then, he was full of youthful vigor!
What arrogance, what confidence, what swagger, what extraordinary talent!
now--
He was dying; a surge of anger choked him up...
He knew that achieving the Golden Core was already an incredible fortuitous opportunity of luck, but he wanted to go further and see an even more vast world...
But he could never do it again!
He sat atop the Daoist temple, below him kneeling a multitude of the Huang Clan descendants, who were desperately trying to keep him alive...
Seeing their panicked and incompetent state, I realized they were completely lost.
Huang Liang felt a tightness in his chest!
Without Huang Clan, what is the Huang Clan? Just a bunch of spoiled brats. It seems his birth had already exhausted the Huang Clan family's fortune...
Today, within the vast Huang Clan, only a handful of people have cultivated to the Dao Foundation Realm.
They are even inferior to the Lu Clan clan!
Huang Liang's gaze finally settled on a small figure—his great-grandson, the eleventh generation descendant of the Qin Clan...
Qin Qianyu, a top-tier prodigy born with an innate talent of eight inches and one inch!
Born with a powerful Divine Sense, nourished by various treasures of the Qin Clan, and favored by the Soul Dao, he was only eleven or twelve years old...
He was already a Qi Condensation cultivator, and his spiritual sense was comparable to that of Qi Condensation Upper Layers Four Arts of the Immortals!
Huang Liang didn't know whether he felt envy or sorrow.
He gave a very awkward smile. Was Heaven so kind to the Qin Clan that it didn't even glance at the Huang Clan?
Truly, Heaven is so cruel to me!
But ultimately--
He finally understood. Huang Liang beckoned, pulled Qin Qianyu onto his lap, and took out a book titled: [True Explanation of the Dao of Dao of Formations]!
This is the Essence Blood of his life's work, a collection of Dao of Formations insights into the art of array formation...
It was also his legacy, passed down through a lifetime!