In this era of declining magic, Gong Liexian, the proud daughter of King Gong, who learned the Heavenly Dragon Breaking City Spear and was a Sword Bearer, was unrestrained.
She immediately threatened Chen Jiuyang.
Ming Huatong giggled and said, "Young Master, would you like to join forces with me to deal with her?"
Gong Liexian's expression grew even colder, and the great spear in her hand circulated with strands of essence, as if brewing.
"Don't cause trouble..." Chen Jiuyang rubbed his forehead and said to Ming Huatong, "I'm here to stop you from harming each other."
"Huatong, you can't beat her, so don't provoke her. What's the point?"
Chen Jiuyang spoke to Ming Huatong with a natural, intimate tone, which made Ming Huatong pause in surprise. Did he know her?
Then, Chen Jiuyang turned to Gong Liexian, "Don't get agitated. Why the fighting? It was the Lotus Mother who attacked King Gong, not Ming Huatong."
"How do you know so much? Who exactly are you?" Gong Liexian asked coldly.
Chen Jiuyang smiled faintly, "You're the second person today to ask me who I am."
"Liexian, who do you think persuaded King Yan to trouble the Lotus Mother?"
"Who do you think can cure King Gong?"
Gong Liexian's brows furrowed, but she sneered, "Are you implying it was you?"
"That's right, it was indeed me," Chen Jiuyang nodded calmly.
Gong Liexian and Ming Huatong's expressions changed slightly.
How could this be possible? They had just arrived somewhere and encountered the mastermind behind this incident?
Gong Liexian frowned, staring at Chen Jiuyang, "Why should I believe you?"
Chen Jiuyang chuckled, "Isn't it obvious? If I hadn't informed King Gong about the whereabouts of his soul, how could King Yan have accurately found the Lotus Mother?"
"Before this, who could have imagined that the Lotus Mother in the forbidden area of the Immortal-Leaving Tribe had captured King Gong's soul and kept it as a fish, causing King Gong to be in a coma for nearly twenty years?"
Gong Liexian's heart was immediately stirred by a tidal wave of shock. "Since you are the one who is going to save my father, why are you stopping me from killing this demoness!"
Chen Jiuyang's expression remained calm, "The Lotus Mother deserves to die, but she is an old acquaintance of mine, and I have a karmic connection with her, so I cannot let you kill her."
"Besides, she is not entirely on the side of the Lotus Mother."
"Speaking of which, I have something to tell you."
Chen Jiuyang looked at Ming Huatong, "You probably don't know yet, but the Lotus Mother kept you by her side to teach you so that she could devour your body one day. You and your brother both seem to have some kind of special physique."
"Who are you?" Ming Huatong's large, watery eyes trembled.
He actually knew such a secret.
Chen Jiuyang said faintly, "Find some time to leave the Lotus Mother's side. It will save you a lot of trouble."
"Also, don't stay in the forbidden area of the Immortal-Leaving Tribe anymore."
"Young Master... you are truly overbearing..." Ming Huatong bit her red lips, looking at Chen Jiuyang with complex eyes, "Aren't you afraid I'll tell my grandmother?"
"If that old dog Lotus Mother comes, I'll just kill her."
"Before you leave, oh, right, you'd better go and deal with the head of the Lotus Flower Sect in Feng Province yourself."
Chen Jiuyang said calmly, "Go ahead."
"I will come to find you again, Young Master." With that, Ming Huatong stirred up ripples of essence and swiftly flew towards the horizon.
Gong Liexian seemed unwilling and wanted to pursue Ming Huatong, but Chen Jiuyang looked at her, and she finally gritted her teeth and stopped, saying,
"You'd better not be deceiving me, or I will surely kill you!"
"Sit down..." Chen Jiuyang waved his hand at her naturally, then patted the park bench beside him, "I happen to have something I need your help with."
Gong Liexian landed with her great spear, thrusting it into the ground, her eyes still wary as she looked at Chen Jiuyang.
"You have no martial cultivation, yet you know so much?"
"What is your origin and identity!"
"That's not important..." Chen Jiuyang said faintly, "You are a Sword Bearer, and I wish to meet Wu Mu."
Wu Mu was the contemporary Sword Bearer of Longjing, the commander of the Sword Bearer Legion, and the master of the contemporary Human King Sword 'Sun and Moon'.
Gong Liexian's eyelids twitched again, "We'll talk about this after you've cured my father."
"That's fine too..." Chen Jiuyang said faintly, "Strictly speaking, you are the one who can cure King Gong, not me. I cannot appear in this capacity..."
"En?" Gong Liexian looked confused. The next moment, Chen Jiuyang raised his hand and touched her forehead, transmitting a cultivation technique to her.
"With this, you can use this technique to heal your father."
"Go, return to City 318. In another day or two, King Yan will return with your father's soul."
Chen Jiuyang got up from the park bench and then slowly walked towards home, preparing to cultivate.
Chen Jiuyang did not have the Dragon Scale of Fortune by his side, so he could not heal King Gong, but Gong Liexian did.
Moreover, he currently lacked strength and status, and rashly stepping forward would easily attract danger.
He was determined to lie low and cultivate in obscurity.
Watching Chen Jiuyang gradually walk away, Gong Liexian's sense of doubt grew even stronger.
Who exactly was this person...
She pondered for a long time, and finally left the place, using her privilege as a Sword Bearer to summon a helicopter and head west towards City 318.
Upon returning home, Chen Jiuyang left a note asking his family not to wait for him for dinner, and then went underground to the spiritual spring to cultivate.
His current cultivation was at the Foundation Establishment stage. Vast amounts of spiritual energy poured into Chen Jiuyang's physical body, constantly washing and nourishing it, while the spiritual energy in his dantian was turning into liquid, preparing to condense into a pill.
After cultivating for an unknown amount of time, Chen Jiuyang slowly opened his eyes, his body expelling many impurities. "Foundation Establishment Great Perfection..."
This cultivation speed was already astonishing.
And Chen Jiuyang also caught a glimpse of a corner of the Book of Life and Death in his mind. It was firmly locked within his spiritual sea, shrouded in wisps of supreme immortal mist, unseen by the origin of all things...
"Is it really like this... cultivating the immortal path allows one to gradually see the Book of Life, and even later, perhaps even control its authority..."
"In that case, my previous life's martial path, which emitted pure Yang energy, was noticed, and my encounters with Zi Xuan and the others were deliberately arranged by beings of the Immortal King level..."
This was not impossible. Beings like 'Zhuang Wu' had the power of 'You, Wo, Wang, Zhou' (I, Self, Forget, Curse), capable of altering a person's memories and life.
"And I was constantly pushed to rapidly increase my cultivation, with the purpose of making me trust the forbidden areas and others, and completely turn against the five great sacred lands..."
"Now that I have cultivated to the Foundation Establishment stage, and 'Sanhua' has not yet descended, it seems I have completely escaped a calamity."