"Worthy of being the Fu Jun!" Li Cheng Yi seized the moment to reveal a look of shock. Aside from his identity as someone from beyond the heavens, everything else about his situation had been correctly stated by the old man before him.

Truly, his reputation was well-deserved!

"So it seems... you were able to develop your bloodline and achieve the Rongling True Imprint state without relying on external forces, using your own means. Your will and talent are both quite remarkable." Yin Yue rarely showed a hint of satisfaction.

"Eight hundred years ago, I was born with a dual-imprint bloodline. In terms of starting point, yours is only slightly weaker than mine."

Eight hundred years ago!?

Li Cheng Yi's heart skipped a beat. This sentence clearly indicated that the dried-up old man before him was already eight hundred years old.

"What? Surprised?" Yin Yue was in a good mood and smiled. "From the moment you successfully fuse an imprint, your lifespan will be greatly extended. One imprint adds a thousand years. You have now fused three imprints, which can add three thousand years. What is a mere eight hundred years?"

Having clarified Li Cheng Yi's origins, he sized him up. Although there were still many unclear auras and traces on the other party, these were all minor details, just personal experiences.

He didn't care.

"Since we're on the subject, are you willing to join my sect and become a disciple of my Tian Ju Ge (Heaven Gathering Pavilion)?"

"This disciple is willing!" Li Cheng Yi quickly reverted to his original form and knelt down.

Even if he smashed three thousand tons of weapons at this old man, he wouldn't even blink, and the ground wouldn't even crack.

He had no idea where such tremendous force was going, which clearly indicated that the other party's strength far exceeded his own.

If he didn't seize this opportunity to latch onto a powerful backer, when would he?

"No need for formalities. It is fortunate for you to enter my sect, and fortunate for me as well." Yin Yue stroked his beard. "Since the Cai Lin Rebellion of that year, my branch has become increasingly weaker... In the past few hundred years, we have only taken in a few of you."

"Since you are willing to join my sect, then sign this contract." He waved his hand.

Suddenly, ripples appeared in the air, and a simple scroll with black background and white characters flew out from the center of the ripples.

The scroll flew to Li Cheng Yi and automatically unfurled, revealing rows of strange characters and patterns.

"!!??" The moment he saw these words, Li Cheng Yi's heart was shaken.

'This is!?'

Black Sea Text!?

"What? You can understand it?" Yin Yue instantly noticed his emotional state.

"Yes." Li Cheng Yi's mind raced, and he respectfully replied, "This disciple has seen such characters in some ancient books. Their origin seems to be from beyond the heavens..."

He said this with a hint of probing.

A look of contemplation appeared in Yin Yue's eyes.

"This is Black Sea Text. It is an ancient text commonly used in all parts of my Tian Ju Ge (Heaven Gathering Pavilion). It is indeed not passed down from this realm. For you to be able to learn it... It seems your talent and opportunities are much better than I imagined."

He carefully sized up Li Cheng Yi. If before, this child was only slightly higher than Tian Can Zi (Silkworm) in his heart, then now, Li Cheng Yi's position was even higher.

"My Tian Ju Ge (Heaven Gathering Pavilion) has an extremely long history, rarely matched by the entire Shao Yin Kingdom. You will know later. Sign it now."

He didn't say much else.

Li Cheng Yi nodded and carefully read the Black Sea Text on the scroll.

'Illusory sea boundless, reality and illusion without interval, Heaven Gathering ten thousand names, crossing time should be complete.'

After the mind incantation-like text above, there were some detailed rules, all about joining the Tian Ju Ge (Heaven Gathering Pavilion) and what terms needed to be followed.

Things like not killing fellow disciples, ensuring that a lineage of inheritance is left behind before death, respecting the teacher and valuing the Way, and so on.

All relatively traditional rules.

In addition, at the very bottom, there were the consequences of violating the contract, saying that one would be countered by the contract and die by having the power of the Black Sea turn one's entire body into nothingness.

Although he hadn't seen what was going on, it seemed very powerful.

Li Cheng Yi carefully checked up and down, confirming that there were no overbearing terms, before reaching out and biting his index finger to press his seal.

Chi.

The moment his blood seal touched the scroll, the scroll instantly turned into nothing, becoming transparent and disappearing.

"Done." Yin Yue nodded in satisfaction upon seeing this. "There are many secrets hidden in the bloodline within you. In the future, when you cultivate the sect's martial arts, you may have the opportunity to seek help from the elders of the sect to unravel them. But for now, don't waste your martial arts talent and work hard in your cultivation."

After a pause, he pondered for a second, then added.

"From now on, your Daoist name will be Bai Lu (White Deer)."

"Yes, Teacher." Li Cheng Yi bowed again.

Well, he had gained another teacher here.

However, this old man had astonishing strength and his background seemed very strong. Perhaps he could rely on him for a long time...

When the National Preceptor was invincible, he defeated Yin Yue but did not kill him, only having him guard Qu Ling Prefecture. Judging from the contract just now, this was perhaps not unrelated to the profound background of the Tian Ju Ge (Heaven Gathering Pavilion).

"Alright, Qiu Ming." Yin Yue looked at his eldest disciple.

"Disciple is here." Qiu Ming quickly stepped forward.

"Take your junior brother to Yin Dian (Yin Canon) to find a cultivation method. His situation is different from Tian Can's (Silkworm). Although a dual-imprint bloodline is inferior to Tian Can's (Silkworm), he has already completed the development of his own bloodline, so I don't need to create a technique specifically for him. So he can choose any cultivation method he wants later."

"Yes." Qiu Ming bowed in response.

She turned around and looked at Li Cheng Yi.

"Junior Brother, please."

Li Cheng Yi bowed to Yin Yue again before leaping up with Qiu Ming, disappearing into the courtyard in the blink of an eye.

"I'll go take a look too!" Tian Can (Silkworm) left a sentence and quickly followed.

The remaining two bowed to Yin Yue one after another and were about to leave.

"Yun Shan, stay." Yin Yue suddenly spoke.

Yun Shan gestured to Du He (Ferry River), letting him go first, while he stayed in place.

Soon, after everyone had left, only he and his master were left in the courtyard.

"Does Master have any instructions?" He respectfully lowered his head.

"There are not a few secrets on your Junior Brother Bai Lu (White Deer). If you have time, you can befriend him more." Yin Yue softly instructed.

"What does Master mean!?" Yun Shan asked doubtfully. "Can Junior Brother Bai Lu (White Deer) help me complete that?"

"He has aura from beyond the realm, and may not be from this realm. But he was able to pass the contract's assessment, so his nature is not bad. Moreover, within him, there seems to be the aura of an extraterrestrial Shadow Dragon." Yin Yue replied.

"Shadow Dragon?"

"Remember the dragon pearl that your Eldest Senior Uncle wore around his neck when he visited last time?" Yin Yue said.

"That black and gold-edged dragon pearl, resembling a dragon's eye?" Yun Shan was somewhat surprised.

"Yes, that is the life-source dragon pearl of the Shadow Dragon King. That's why I told you to pay more attention to Bai Lu (White Deer). At first, I thought he was here to avenge the Shadow Dragon Kings that were wiped out by our sect, but the contract scroll verified that he has no hostility towards my Tian Ju Ge (Heaven Gathering Pavilion), so it is likely a coincidence. But extra observation is still needed. Pay more attention to him in the future. If his bloodline improves to the Shadow Dragon King realm, and you have a good relationship, it can provide great help for your cultivation technique. After all, a living Shadow Dragon King is much more valuable than a dead one."

Yin Yue said a lot in one breath.

Yun Shan's expression became even more solemn upon hearing this.

"In that case, this disciple obeys!"

"Don't worry too much. That kid has other evil auras on him, he's just a mixed bag. The Shadow Dragon is just one of them. With the contract in place, he is ultimately a disciple of this sect. The big picture can be determined, and everything else is secondary."

After leaving the last sentence, Yin Yue turned around and strode away, his figure suddenly turning into a phantom and disappearing in place.

Leaving Yun Shan in place, frowning and pondering, digesting the information he had just received.

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Between Earth and White Star.

Countless lasers, missiles, and artillery shells, accompanied by layers of explosions and fire, illuminated this originally empty and dark space.

White Star cyborgs mixed with various types of battleships, resembling huge white beehives, surrounded by a large number of bees, pressing down on Earth.

On Earth's side, gray unmanned airships controlled by Feyi Masters, flew and danced continuously on the battlefield at speeds exceeding a hundred times the speed of sound.

In a zero-resistance state, the speed amplification was terrifying.

But because of this, there were extremely high requirements for the airship's materials.

Led by Jiu Yi (Nine Rituals), the Feyi Masters completely blocked the White Star's large-scale assault.

Each neat and orderly airship pass brought out a burst of explosions.

On this vast battlefield that occupied all the space between the two planets.

The three Shadow Dragons stood out.

Boom!!

Another giant White Star battleship, more than ten kilometers long, was smashed by a huge Shadow Dragon.

The clones and officers inside were swept away by the shadows on the body of the Shadow Dragon, Saar, and completely devoured before the battleship exploded.

This kind of devouring was not directly devouring flesh, but devouring its shadow.

At this time, Saar was several times larger than when he first entered the battlefield.

He floated in space, skillfully avoiding a red beam of death, and laughed wildly as he watched the battleship gradually break apart and explode.

"Awesome!! So awesome!! Hahahaha!!" He laughed wildly, opening his mouth.

In just a few days, the number of shadows he devoured was several times the total he had devoured before!

One battleship had hundreds of shadows, and he had devoured tens of thousands of battleships so far without sleeping.

And this amount was only the loss of a small team for the White Star's massive fleet.

The massive army of millions of cyborgs and battleships was still frantically increasing its troops.

An endless stream of legions continued to rise from the surface of the White Star and approach here.

"Soon... Saar, I feel, I'm about to reach the threshold of the Dragon King Ritual!" Ying's voice entered Saar's mind.

"Me too. Then... we will work together, using so many shadows as the foundation, to ignite and lift the Dragon Shadow! We will definitely achieve the blood of the Dragon King!!" Fawn, who was always calm, was also excited by the extremely smooth progress.

Too smooth!

Since the start of the war, the three Shadow Dragons had devoured at least tens of millions of people's shadows. Although many of them were clones, there was little difference between clones and natural humans to them.

With such smooth progress, their strength was also soaring rapidly with the devouring, gradually reaching their own limits.

Once they reached the limit, and stored enough shadows, they could ignite and perform the Dragon King Ritual.

At that time... everything in this dead zone would belong to their rule.

The power of the Dragon King would be a terror that these inferior beings could not imagine!!

Just thinking about the beautiful vision that was about to be achieved in the future, the blood in the hearts of the three Shadow Dragons seemed to be ignited and boiling now.

"Kill!!"

Under a dragon roar, Saar roared and pounced on the White Star fleet again.

Far behind them.

Dong Jun frowned slightly, looking at the position where the Shadow Dragons left.

The speed at which these Shadow Dragons' bodies were expanding was a bit too fast. It was fine now, but if they continued to grow, he was afraid that they would soon be out of his control.

'It seems that I have to take some precautions in advance.'

Thanks to Gan Ni Niang for the 10,000 points of reward last week~ Autumn and winter are coming, everyone remember to add or subtract clothes~

(End of this chapter)