Chapter 427 – Placing a Piece on Shangqing, Forging Supreme Sword Bone with One Province's Land…

Yi Hanqing failed to grasp the profound meaning behind Lu Chen’s words.

After all, if he had possessed such emotional intelligence, he might have long ago brought his childhood sweetheart Qu Linghong to the Azure Cloud Sect.

Then so many subsequent events would never have occurred.

Though Yi Hanqing didn’t understand, Qu Buhui—who had been shaken aside during their exchange—clearly comprehended the implication.

Contrary to her youthful appearance, the girl’s Heart-Nature was unexpectedly mature.

“Uncle Yi, who is this?”

“You never told me you had such an ill-mannered Junior Brother.”

“What kind of Junior Brother would ambush his Senior Brother upon arrival, then presumptuously occupy the host’s seat without regard for others’ wishes?”

Driven by ulterior motives, Qu Buhui immediately began sowing discord against Lu Chen.

Her words appeared to defend Yi Hanqing, but actually served to imply to him that Lu Chen was discourteous and best kept at a distance.

Unfortunately, Yi Hanqing knew Lu Chen all too well.

He understood even more clearly that Lu Chen’s appearance at this moment undoubtedly carried hidden purposes.

Thus, upon hearing Qu Buhui’s remarks, Yi Hanqing not only refused to agree but sternly rebuked her: “Buhui, mind your manners! If not for what happened back then…”

Yi Hanqing nearly revealed the past events to Qu Buhui.

But considering the latent hostility within her, he ultimately swallowed his words.

He feared that learning about her mother’s past suffering would cause the girl’s inner anger to spiral out of control.

However, Yi Hanqing’s unfinished sentence only intensified Qu Buhui’s curiosity.

Truth be told, she had always wondered about her father’s identity all these years.

Various circumstances had prevented Yi Hanqing from disclosing the truth.

Moreover, the Supreme Purity Dao Palace stood deep within Eastern Divine Continent, far removed from Central Province.

Naturally, few remained who knew about Yi Hanqing’s past or Qu Buhui’s true origins.

“Uncle Yi, what exactly happened back then? Why did you stop mid-sentence?”

Faced with her persistent questioning, the inarticulate Yi Hanqing could only retreat into silence.

This response inevitably fueled Qu Buhui’s determination to uncover the truth.

Just then, Lu Chen interjected.

“If I hadn’t intervened back then, you might have been captured by several demonic monks for Alchemy purposes.”

“Ah?”

Qu Buhui stared at Lu Chen in astonishment.

She didn’t doubt his capabilities—though their exchange had been brief, the collision of Sword Intent and Yi Hanqing’s subsequent reaction clearly demonstrated Lu Chen’s superior strength.

And no one in the entire Supreme Purity Dao Palace understood Yi Hanqing’s power better than she, being both his half-disciple and quasi-family member.

Realizing Lu Chen was essentially her savior, Qu Buhui’s Aura noticeably softened.

After all, she had somewhat assumed the role of hostess earlier.

Seizing the opportune moment, Lu Chen lazily rocked the rattan chair and remarked leisurely: “Alright, little niece, no need to keep testing me. I mean you no harm.”

“As for your little schemes—I suspect you’re the only person in all of Supreme Purity Dao Palace who could fool my wooden-headed Senior Brother here.””You should leave first. Your Uncle Yi and I have matters to discuss, and these matters… are not for your ears at present.”

With that, Lu Chen waved his hand.

Immediately, Qu Buhui felt the world spin around her.

When she regained her senses, she found herself already at the foot of the Main Peak of the Supreme Purity Dao Palace.

This filled her with both shock and fear.

After all, if Lu Chen could casually make her leave her original position,

he could just as easily kill her with a wave of his hand.

The gap between them was immeasurably vast.

After Qu Buhui had left,

Lu Chen turned to Yi Hanqing, his previous laziness gone, and said seriously, “Senior Brother, it seems you still haven’t found a way to suppress the Heart Demon within you.”

“Judging by your current state, you probably haven’t dared to use your sword for many years, right?”

Seeing that Lu Chen had seen through his condition at a glance,

Yi Hanqing smiled bitterly and nodded.

Although Lu Chen had just praised his Sword Path highly,

in reality, he could only deliver that one sword strike.

After that one strike, he needed to meditate intently to suppress the restless Heart Demon within him.

This situation had persisted for fifteen years, and he still hadn’t found a suitable solution.

After all, back then, the Heart Demon had invaded his being.

Not only had it fused with his True Spirit, but they had become inseparable.

Unless Yi Hanqing could sever his own True Spirit, there was nothing he could do about that Heart Demon.

“Junior Brother’s insight remains as sharp as ever. Yes, after all these years, I still haven’t found a solution.”

“With no other choice, I sealed away my lifebound Spirit Sword and replaced it with bamboo.”

Hearing this, Lu Chen said abruptly, “I have a method here that might completely eradicate your ailment, Senior Brother. Would you like to try it?”

At these words, Yi Hanqing was first stunned, then immediately overjoyed.

“Junior Brother truly has a method to help me subdue the Heart Demon?!”

Lu Chen smiled. “If I weren’t at least ninety percent confident, I wouldn’t say such things lightly.”

“However, if Senior Brother accepts my method, you’ll have to do some things for me in return, to repay this debt of teaching.”

Upon hearing this, Yi Hanqing laughed heartily.

“Junior Brother, you’re being too formal. Even without this method, do you think I wouldn’t help you?”

“True enough.”

Without further elaboration, Lu Chen used his divine sense as a medium

to impart the ‘Ancient Moon Three Blossoms’ he had learned from Gu Yue True Immortal to Yi Hanqing.

The essence of Ancient Moon Three Blossoms was the unification of good and evil.

In a sense, Yi Hanqing had already completed the first step of Ancient Moon Three Blossoms.

What he needed to do next

was to split the Heart Demon and his True Spirit into three parts,

thereby condensing the ‘Three Blossoms.’

After absorbing the ‘Ancient Moon Three Blossoms,’ Yi Hanqing opened his eyes, all traces of his previous despondency gone.

As the former chief disciple of Hidden Sword Peak in the Azure Cloud Sect,

Yi Hanqing’s cultivation talent and Comprehension Ability were among the very best in the entire Central Province.

He could naturally discern the profundity of the Ancient Moon Three Blossoms and its potential benefits for him.

With this method, the Heart Demon that had invaded him would not only cease to be an obstacle to his cultivation

but could even become an asset.

The method was so profound that Yi Hanqing felt calling it an Immortal art was no exaggeration at all.

To impart an Immortal art—this was a debt of immense magnitude.

Yet, after understanding the value of Ancient Moon Three Blossoms, Yi Hanqing hesitated and said, “Junior Brother, this method must be something you obtained from some Immortal, right?””As the saying goes, the method of Immortal Ascension should not be shared with six ears. By teaching me this immortal technique like this, won’t it cause trouble?”

Looking at Yi Hanqing’s furrowed brow, Lu Chen smiled and said, “Don’t worry. The master of this method has long discussed this with me and permitted me to teach it to anyone. There won’t be the slightest trouble.”

“Is that true?”

Lu Chen nodded, “Naturally, it’s true.”

As if recalling something, Lu Chen added, “Actually, it’s not just you. If you’re willing, you can also teach this method to others in the Supreme Purity Dao Palace.”

“However, this method is quite special. Unless one possesses great perseverance and great Opportunity, it’s best not to practice it lightly.”

“After all, gathering the Three Flowers at the Crown is difficult, while allowing the Three Corpses to enter the body is easy.”

“If one isn’t careful, this Supreme Purity Dao Palace you’ve worked so hard to establish might just become a Demonic Path Sect.”

Yi Hanqing replied, “Junior Brother speaks wisely. From now on, I will carefully observe the Disciples of the Dao Palace. If there are no suitable candidates, I would rather let this method be lost in the Dao Palace than teach it lightly.”

“But Junior Brother, aren’t you at all worried that I might fail in my cultivation and turn the Three Flowers into Three Corpses?”

Lu Chen seemed to have heard something ridiculous and couldn’t help but laugh aloud.

This laughter seemed contagious, and moments later, Yi Hanqing found himself laughing along.

Though neither of them spoke it aloud,

they shared the same view regarding whether Yi Hanqing could successfully cultivate this method.

That was: if even Yi Hanqing couldn’t master this method, then few in this world could.

After all, Yi Hanqing was the most talented chief among all generations of Hidden Sword Peak.

This talent wasn’t just about his cultivation Aptitude, but more about his Dao Heart.

Because even when reduced to his current circumstances, Yi Hanqing firmly believed he was one of the most brilliant among all Sword Cultivators throughout history.

It should be noted that before this, he didn’t even have “one of” in his mind – such was the pride ingrained in his bones.

Teaching Yi Hanqing the immortal method was merely something Lu Chen did incidentally during his visit.

His true purpose lay elsewhere.

“Senior Brother, the main reason for my visit this time is to ask a favor of you.”

As he spoke these words, Lu Chen had already sat up straight, his expression very serious.

Seeing this, Yi Hanqing also became serious and said, “Please speak, Junior Brother.”

Lu Chen extended his hand, and an Immortal Sword immediately appeared in his grasp.

In just an instant, Yi Hanqing sensed the astonishing Sword Intent emanating from this Immortal Sword.

Faced with this Sword Intent, Yi Hanqing felt his own Sword Intent was as insignificant as a mayfly facing the vast ocean.

Fortunately, this was Lu Chen’s life-bound Spirit Sword.

As Lu Chen restrained the Sword Intent from the Immortal Sword, Yi Hanqing quickly regained his composure.

“Senior Brother, the purpose of my visit is to ask you and your Supreme Purity Dao Palace to become the guardians of this Immortal Slaughtering Sword.”

“I don’t trust others, but you, Senior Brother… I trust.”

Hearing Lu Chen’s words, Yi Hanqing felt complex emotions.

To be entrusted with guarding such an extraordinary Immortal Sword…

Most importantly, he himself was a Sword Cultivator.

And how attractive such an Immortal Sword would be to a Sword Cultivator went without saying.

This also demonstrated the trust placed in him.

However, as desirable as the Immortal Sword was, Yi Hanqing had his own Dao.

He would rather die than seize his Junior Brother’s Immortal Sword.

Therefore, Yi Hanqing said seriously, “Rest assured, Junior Brother. Unless my Soul Flies Away and Spirit Scatters, no one will be able to lay a finger on this sword.”Looking at Yi Hanqing’s serious expression, Lu Chen immediately sensed the sincerity in his heart.

Thus, Lu Chen began explaining exactly how this sword should be “protected.”

After hearing Lu Chen’s arrangement, Yi Hanqing was astonished.

What Lu Chen intended to do was simply earth-shattering.

In simple terms, Lu Chen planned to use the Sword Intent of an entire province to forge the supreme sword bones of this “Fiend-Slaying Sword.”

And the place Lu Chen had chosen was none other than the Eastern Divine Continent beneath their feet.

Of course, refining a sword using the Sword Intent of an entire province was no easy task.

For this purpose, they also needed to construct a special “Sword Tower” to house the Fiend-Slaying Sword.

If the Fiend-Slaying Sword truly achieved Major Achievement, the entire Eastern Divine Continent could essentially become Lu Chen’s Sword Domain.

Any being setting foot in the Eastern Divine Continent would be affected by this Sword Domain.

Calling it the work of an Immortal would not be an exaggeration.

What Yi Hanqing didn’t know was that Lu Chen didn’t plan to build just one Sword Tower, but four.

The sword bones he intended to create weren’t just one, but a full four.

The locations of these four sword bones would be precisely in the four provinces of east, south, west, and north.

This was also why Lu Chen had specifically come to the Eastern Divine Continent.

Lu Chen planned to completely transform the four provinces into his Fiend-Slaying Sword Formation.

As for the Central Province, Lu Chen had other plans for it.

If everything could proceed according to his vision,

the future Azure Cloud World would completely become a world in Lu Chen’s palm.

From the moment anyone stepped into this world, their life and death would be at Lu Chen’s whim.

However, realizing this grand vision required many conditions.

The most crucial among them was time.

At least ten thousand years to begin with.

Because this required the Sword Intent of the Fiend-Slaying Sword Formation to gradually permeate every aspect of the Azure Cloud World.

This was definitely not something that could be accomplished overnight.

Additionally, Lu Chen planned to control the Central Province using a similar method.

But due to the Central Province’s uniqueness, having already used the Four Fiend-Slaying Swords, Lu Chen could only use other Celestial Artifacts as substitutes.

What he selected was Gu Yue True Immortal’s Gathering Immortal Bell.

Or rather, he planned to fuse this era’s Gathering Immortal Bell with his own Soul-Suppressing Bell, then refine them into a special Celestial Artifact.

This would be used to control the Central Province.

Thus, the four divine provinces would be controlled by the Four Fiend-Slaying Swords, while the Central Province would be controlled by the Soul-Suppressing Bell.

The Azure Cloud World would then become a true fiend-slaying land, the burial ground of countless ancient fiends.

But all these were things that would take at least ten thousand years to achieve, with no methods to accelerate the process.

So for now, Lu Chen could only wait for the right opportunity to appear.

Before initiating this grand plan, Lu Chen had one more matter to complete first.

That was to create a Transformation Soul Stage Sword Cultivator Clone based on the Dao of the Fiend-Slaying Sword Formation.

Because only in this way could he,

using his own Dao as connection, summon sword shadows and deploy the Fiend-Slaying Sword Formation without the actual Four Fiend-Slaying Swords.

“Senior Brother, regarding the Sword Tower matter, please make preparations first. I will stay in the Supreme Purity Dao Palace during this period.”

“When the Sword Tower is completed, that will be the time for my breakthrough.”

“And from that moment onward, the task of guarding the Sword Tower… will be entrusted to you.”

Yi Hanqing nodded, then immediately began issuing orders.

If it were the original Supreme Purity Dao Palace, merely gathering the Materials needed to build the Sword Tower would have been difficult enough.However, this matter was originally Lu Chen’s affair, so he had brought the key items needed to construct the Sword Tower before arriving.

The remaining tasks were relatively much simpler.

Soon, the entire Supreme Purity Dao Palace became thoroughly busy with matters surrounding the Sword Tower.

Although they didn’t understand why this needed to be done.

But when the Sect Leader had specifically instructed it, what could the disciples in the sect possibly say?

(End of Chapter)