C1148 Ling Xiao
Yang Junqi's cultivation had already reached the pinnacle of the Astral Reaching Realm long ago, but because of the fact that she carried the Six Armors with her, she had never taken the risk to break through. Now that she and Su Bao Zhang's son, Su Chang Le, were born, she could finally cultivate in seclusion, and her cultivation could naturally advance to the Heavenly Dipper Realm.
However, Yang Junshan did not expect that she would have such a great opportunity, gaining the favor of Daoist Sang Wuji and taking him in as her personal disciple.
Yang Junshan felt that this wasn't a good idea and tried to persuade Sang Wuji otherwise. However, it turned out that this was Yang Junqi's own opportunity, and it was also beneficial for the growth of the Yang family's background. Yang Junshan couldn't do anything about the evil man, so he had to let Sang Wuji do as he pleased.
In the end, Sang Wuji still had his reservations. Although he had always looked down on Yang Junhao, when he accepted Yang Junqi as his disciple, he did not forget to tell Yang Junshan not to inform his daughter about this.
Even if Yang Junshan didn't say anything, but no matter how successful Yang Junqi's cultivation was, one day she would have to show off her abilities. With her experience as a mulberry girl, how could she not recognize those supernatural powers? When that time came, it would definitely create a gap between Yang Junqi and Yang Junhao's family.
Since obstructing was useless, Yang Junshan no longer cared about it. In fact, he himself also knew that with the continuous growth of the Yang Family, it was only a matter of time before all the factions would split. If Yang Junshan died one day, or if Yang Junshan lost his life, or if Yang Junshan's descendants failed to succeed, or if some other branch had a genius suddenly appeared, they might challenge Zongzheng Zheng's position.
Not long after Sang Wuji came to the West Mountain, Yang Junshan received news from his disciple, Ding Rulan, that he had been saved by a sacred art senior during his exploration of the cave. Furthermore, he had met with some fortuitous encounters in the ruins, and the matter that Yang Junshan had handed to her before they left the sea had been settled.
However, because she didn't want to miss the chance she had gotten from this expedition, she needed to continue training in seclusion in a hidden place in the ocean for a period of time. It would take her about two to three years to return to Yuzhou.
Yang Junshan thought for a moment, then called for Yang Junxin, Lan Xianming, and Su Changan. He gave them a few instructions and sent them on a trip overseas to meet up with Ding Rulan.
Sang Wuji had been in the West Mountain for about a year. During this time, besides Yang Junshan and Yang Junqi, no one else in the entire Yang family knew about his whereabouts.
When Sang Wuji found Yang Junshan again, he was in the pavilion on the mountainside, playing chess.
Even though Sang Wuji was not an expert in array formations, he had been involved in it. Furthermore, the person playing chess was one of the few Grandmasters in the world of cultivation. Naturally, he was very interested in it.
Therefore, he didn't say anything and just sat down in the pavilion, focusing on observing the process of Yang Junshan's deducing the array on the board.
Yang Junshan glanced at him but still allowed him to watch. Apparently, Yang Junshan's deduction had reached a critical juncture. Sang Wuji had been sitting in the pavilion all day and Yang Junshan had only left twenty-three marks on the board.
However, these twenty-three sons had already made Sang Wuji feel dizzy and nauseous. He circulated the true essence in his body with all his might and took a few deep breaths before he finally looked better. He then immediately praised, "Amazing!"
Yang Junshan smiled and said, "Senior, to be able to last for a day on this chess board is already a rare feat. It looks like senior's attainments in array formations are quite impressive."
Sang Wuji's own family knew about his family. He waved his hand and said, "Don't try to put money on my face. Grandmaster is the Grandmaster. I appreciate it today."
Yang Junshan smiled but didn't say anything more.
However, Sang Wuji continued: "But from what I saw, your chess game seemed to have something to do with the Dao of Stars?"
Yang Junshan was shocked, but he did not deny it and said: "Good eye, senior!" This junior might be going to the Foreign Lands today, but I do not know what the boundless starry sky is like.
"You want to go to the Foreign Lands?"
Sang Wuji looked at Yang Junshan in surprise, but then he nodded and said, "That's true. Only Grandmaster Yang would have the ability to cause an exception for cultivators below the Huaguai Realm to travel to the Foreign Lands."
Sang Wuji paused for a moment before continuing, "I don't know much about the alien starry sky. I just know that to go there, we have to go to the Hall of Soaring Sky first. There is the only way for this world to go there."
"Passages?"
Yang Junshan looked surprised, "Does that mean those who are powerful enough to enter the Hall of Soaring Heavens can leave at any time?"
"It's not that simple!"
Sang Wuji shook his head with a wry smile and said, "If he could travel to the outer space at any time, then why would so many cultivators choose the path of the Golden Body Immortal in order to break the bindings of this world?"
Yang Junshan solemnly said, "Please advise me, senior!"
Sang Wuji said, "It's above this tunnel that leads to the outer space. Hanging on the wall is this world's number one immortal artifact, the Haotian Heaven-Mirror!"
"Haotian mirror! "A celestial item!"
Yang Junshan had a strange look on his face. Of course, he had seen the Haotian Heaven Mirror before. Back in the Offshore Storm Gorge, the main character of the Demon Immortal Island, Chi Zhen Long, was struck by a mirror light and was still unable to escape.1
Sang Wuji continued to say, "Anyone who wants to leave this space channel must first be exposed to this mirror before they can stay in this foreign land for three to five years. If not, you will not be able to leave this world. However, once you have reached this period of time, if you cannot return in time, this Celestial Mirror will be able to easily find your location in the foreign land and kill you."
Yang Junshan thought for a while and asked again, "Then, may I ask, senior, who created this passage to the foreign land, and who is the Haotian Spirit Mirror that is hanging in the sky? Why would they stop us from freely entering and leaving this world? This junior has heard before that the Immortal Palace was not called Immortal Palace but was called Heavenly Palace. Furthermore, the Heavenly Palace was in the Ruins of Buried Heavens back then.
Sang Wuji spread out his hands and said, "What you said is something from thousands of years ago. How would this old man know? If I tell you, it will only cause me to become even more confused, so why don't you wait until you advance into the Lightning Calamity Stage in the future, and then you can freely enter and leave the Soaring Sky Palace to search for these secrets of heaven and earth? "
Yang Junshan knew that Sang Wuji must know something. However, since he didn't want to say it, Yang Junshan wouldn't force him. He merely nodded his head in agreement.
Sang Wuji did not seem to want to get involved, so he changed the topic, "Did you know? I just received news a few days ago that the Purple Wind Sect's Xiao Sunflower has already passed through the thunder tribulation. You have quite a grudge with the Purple Wind Sect, be careful of him finding trouble with you."
Yang Junshan was stunned, "He came back to the West Mountain?"
Sang Wuji laughed involuntarily and said, "That's right. In the current cultivation world, there are very few people who would dare to come looking for trouble while you are in charge of the West Mountain. Unless it's an immortal."
After Sang Wuji had passed down the Daoist Tian Xian's legacy to Yang Junqi, he did not stay any longer in the West Mountain. From beginning to end, only Yang Junshan and Yang Junqi knew that Sang Wuji had come to the Yang Family.
It had been three years since Yang Junshan returned to the West Mountain from Yan Province. During these three years, his energy was not on cultivation, he had just broken through to the Hua Gai Realm, so it was impossible for his cultivation to improve substantially in a short period of time. Instead, he spent most of his time on three things.
The first was to regularly teach the clansmen about the Dao in the Yang family's official business hall and guide them on their cultivation. The second was to cultivate the Heavenly Transformation technique, but in the two years since he had obtained the complete inheritance of this technique, his progress was very little. He couldn't even master the small success of the Immortal Soul stage, not to mention his physical body, which symbolized the large success of this art.
The alien starry sky was vast and endless, yet Yang Junshan knew nothing about it. He could only rely on a few words that he exchanged with the Purple Garden Daoist, as well as the alien star map that he had obtained in the attic.
Above the western mountains, with the gathering of the Spiritual Aura within the mountain range once again, an overwhelming surge of Qi suddenly rushed up to the sky. However, in reality, it was suppressed by the great formation even though it was only a few hundred feet away.
Outside the grand formation in the sky above the western mountain, Daoist Violet Garden and Yang Junshan floated together in the air. They lowered their heads to look at the Qi flowing from the western mountain beneath their feet.
"Why don't you go down and take a look?" Daoist Violet Garden laughed.
Yang Junshan shook his head and said, "I have just broken through to the Mortal Realm, what's there to look at? I can't wait to go there and have a look."
"You can't enter Lingxiao Hall now!" Daoist Ziyuan said.
Yang Junshan looked at her and said, "That's your problem, right? However, this junior is a little curious as to why only those who are at the Lightning Calamity Realm or above are able to enter and leave the Soaring Sky Hall. "
"Because of the will of the world!"
"A cultivator can only refine and comprehend a part of the will of the world when they undergo a tribulation of thunder. Only under the guidance of the will of the world can a cultivator find the location of Lingxiao Hall in the immortal palace, so bringing you to Lingxiao Hall is not an easy matter, at least not by myself."
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