Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 1025 - 880: Moon-Chasing Body (Congratulations to the Lord of the River Alliance)

Chapter 1025: Chapter 880: Moon-Chasing Body (Congratulations to the Lord of the River Alliance)

"Fleeing..."

The Great Elder of the Feng Family looked at the circle of family disciples with a sigh in his heart.

These family disciples all possessed the talent of the Earth Grade or Heaven Grade Spiritual Root, and some even had a Spirit Body awakened.

They were the true essence of the Feng Family.

As soon as the invasion of a formidable enemy was detected, they were taken by the Clan Elders to the ancestral hall, into the treasure of the Cave Heaven for protection.

The preparation was for the event that should anything go awry, they could immediately flee and preserve the last vestige of the family’s lineage.

Due to their young age, they were inevitably a bit naïve.

That was perhaps their only flaw.

"Enough... Yingyue, come with me. The rest of you, withdraw."

The Great Elder of the Feng Family sighed and walked toward the depths of the valley.

"Yes!"

A young girl in green clothes stepped forward.

Her demeanor was pure, like a green lotus, with a crescent mark on her forehead.

Seeing the young girl follow the Supreme Elder into Wind Valley, the rest of the family’s disciples showed little jealousy.

After all, this was ’Feng Yingyue’, not only did she have a Heaven Grade Wind Spirit Root, she had also awoken the ’Moon-Chasing Body’, regarded as a once in a millennium genius of the Feng Family!

When the gap between oneself and another is not merely visible to the naked eye but a vast gulf apart, even jealousy becomes pointless.

"Supreme Elder... is the enemy very strong?"

Feng Yingyue quietly followed behind the Supreme Elder and suddenly spoke up.

"Indeed... Prime Taoist Mu’s cultivation is unfathomable, and he is skilled in array patterns, I am not his match at all."

The Supreme Elder of the Feng Family sighed, creating a cyan-colored light barrier.

They were now deep within the valley where countless Wind Blades swept in, each of them capable of easily slaying low-level cultivators.

But at this moment, the astonishing Wind Spiritual Power swirled around Feng Yingyue like a child fondly playing, forming a cyan halo.

The Wind Blades, before approaching, were dissolved by the halo.

"Yingyue... you were born with a Spirit Body and possess a Heaven Grade Spiritual Root. In the future, you will face milestones like forming a Nascent Soul or even transcending to Transcendent God, and perhaps even Integration and Returning to Emptiness will not be able to hinder you. I have long decided that you will be the future head of our family. Now it’s a good time to tell you many things..."

Looking at the silent Feng Yingyue, the voice of the Great Elder of the Feng Family was calm, "Today, I am no match for that person, I have promised to hand over the family’s Supreme Treasure—the Wind-Controlling Immortal Bead!"

Upon hearing this, Feng Yingyue suddenly looked up, her face showing a hint of determination, "Does Great Ancestor mean to tell me that after I grow up, I will avenge our family?"

The Supreme Elder of the Feng Family slowly shook her head.

"Or perhaps..." Feng Yingyue tilted her head, suddenly revealing a mischievously clever smile, "Our family has been thriving generation after generation, inheriting the bloodline. That Integration cultivator can live for tens of thousands of years, but sooner or later, one day, our family can outlast them, and we can then take revenge on their disciples and descendants?"

"The way of the family, the inheritance of bloodlines, indeed makes sense..." The Supreme Elder of the Feng Family sounded somewhat helpless, "But it’s not that either. I just want to tell you the real secret of the Feng Family... We are inside the Heaven Treasure here, and in this heavily prohibited ’Heaven Wind Valley’. I’ll be honest with you, due to our treasured bead, we of the Feng Family have long been coveted and have been attacked more than once..."

Even a powerful family has its moments of helplessness.

"More than once?" Feng Yingyue seemed to realize something.

"Exactly... Although our family is an Integration family, ultimately, we are hardly able to resist some true powerhouses, and we have had to compromise. Thankfully, such individuals are extremely rare, and may not appear even once in tens of thousands of years... Our family records all have entries on this, and we took our revenge afterwards," said the Supreme Elder of the Feng Family with a hint of coldness in her tone.

"Then our family treasure... Has it been lost many times and then always retrieved?" Feng Yingyue seemed confused.

The Supreme Elder of the Feng Family smiled but did not answer.

The two walked one after the other into the depths of the cave.

Within the vast cavern.

A fierce cyan bird sculpture with spread wings, each feather shimmering with a cold, metallic luster.

"This is..."

Feng Yingyue was startled by the bird sculpture.

Its demeanor, and the intimidating aura that faintly emanated from the sculpture, almost made her afraid to breathe, believing she had encountered a seventh-tier Monster Bird.

"This is a Phantom of an Immortal Realm fierce bird, the Nine-Origin Bird, seen by our ancestor in the Immortal Mansion..." explained the Supreme Elder of the Feng Family, "Later, our ancestor found the ’Nine Life Soul-Keeping Stone’, a kind of material that can perfectly replicate the inner charm of the sculptor... Our ancestor was a Stone Carving Master, so the sculptures he left behind carry a hint of the majesty of the Immortal Realm’s fowls!"

"After two impressions, with leaving an image and stone carving, to still have such might... could it be that the Nine-Origin Bird itself is a... True Spirit?" murmured Feng Yingyue, looking at the various shapes of Nine-Origin Birds.

"Within our tribe, the Nine-Origin Bird’s bloodline has been integrated, but it has become very faint..."

The Supreme Elder of the Feng Family said, "Occasionally among the descendants, there will be excellent individuals with bloodline returning to their roots, just like me, and like you..."

She walked to the center of the bird sculptures and with one hand performed a spell, releasing a jade amulet.

On the pad of the Supreme Elder’s finger, a drop of crimson blood flew out and landed in the center of the amulet.

The amulet suddenly erupted in a burst of red light, scattering in all directions.

The eyes of the sculptures were stained with a hint of crimson, and they began to move.

"Today... I shall entrust you with part of the family’s secrets and the core prohibition of the array formations."

The Great Elder of the Feng Family spoke while quickly forming one hand seal after another.

Accompanied by the flickering of array patterns, those gigantic birds suddenly flapped their wings, stirring up a fierce wind.

Within the hazy radiance, a void opened up, and a green orb could be faintly seen.

Within this orb, countless breezes intertwined and wound around each other... and it seemed to carry strands of an indefinable power.

"This is our family’s Supreme Treasure—the Wind-Controlling Immortal Bead."

Upon seeing this scene, the Great Elder of the Feng Family’s face lit up with a hint of a smile, "This bead is mystical, refined by our ancestor specifically with a unique bloodline prohibition. To wield the power of this bead, one must fulfill two major conditions—gathering sufficient blood of our Feng Family and possessing a special secret skill... otherwise, it’s entirely useless."

"Then, what about those strong individuals who snatched away the bead?" Feng Yingyue asked, stunned.

"Ha!"

As the Great Elder of the Feng Family changed her hand seals, next to the fist-sized Wind-Controlling Immortal Bead, suddenly there appeared several thumb-sized green beads.

These green beads were identical to the Wind-Controlling Immortal Bead, only much smaller in size.

"These are replicas of the Wind-Controlling Immortal Bead, or should I say, sub-beads... They possess the same ability to control the wind, just weaker..."

The Great Elder of the Feng Family sneered, "What’s more crucial is that their aura is exactly the same as that of the Wind-Controlling Immortal Bead... When those strong individuals came to our house, we truly couldn’t resist, so we handed over these beads... Such sub-beads are also extremely precious, able to condense only one in ten thousand years, perfectly suitable for a switch without the slightest issue..."

"Weakened by how much?"

Feng Yingyue was curious.

"The strange winds within some prohibitions and arrays of Immortal Mansions could certainly be resisted..."

"But there was once an Integration Peak cultivator who borrowed the ’Wind-Controlling Bead’ to transcend the Mahayana Immortal Tribulation... In the end, he perished under the Wind Tribulation."

The Great Elder of the Feng Family said, "This is a great thing! If our treasured bead could counter the Mahayana Wind Tribulation, I’m afraid such a treasure would have long been out of our grasp, taken away by the clan under some pretext..."

"So that means, is the ancestor planning to use a sub-bead to deal with that villain?" Feng Yingyue pondered aloud.

"Exactly... Heh heh, this secret is known by almost no one, and that person certainly can’t tell the sub-bead from the main bead... I will entrust you with the prohibition of this place, and from now on, you shall cultivate in the Qing Xun Secret Realm. Don’t leave seclusion until you reach Returning to Emptiness!"

The Great Elder of the Feng Family muttered, "Although that person calls himself Prime Taoist Mu and his magic power is unfathomably deep, he could easily pinpoint the flaws in our family’s arrays, his mastery over the array path is simply the first under heaven... Heh heh, how many cultivators like this exist in the world? What’s more crucial is, our family can’t afford to offend any of them, so we can only resort to this expedient strategy."

"In other words, you are preparing to deceive me?"

Just then, within the secret realm, a clear voice suddenly echoed.

"Who is there?"

Feng Yingyue was startled.

The Great Elder of the Feng Family was even more astonished, looking at Fang Xi who emerged from the void, "Impossible... How could you sneak in here?"

This was a Heaven Treasure of the Feng Family cave, with many layers of prohibitions near the valley!

"You are too confident in your own arrays."

Fang Xi, with his hands clasped behind his back, said with a faint smile.

Armed with the ’Treasures of All Heavens’, his understanding of the Void now could be called the first among all paths, infiltrating into the interior of a Heaven Treasure was not too troublesome.

"How dare you!"

The Great Elder of the Feng Family shouted angrily, forming a hand seal with one hand. Countless runes flew out from the ’Wind-Controlling Immortal Bead’, forming a phantom of a huge green bird.

By its shape, it vaguely resembled the Nine-Origin Bird.

"Go!"

With a flick of her finger, the green Nine-Origin Bird flew towards Fang Xi, with an awe-inspiring momentum!

This ’Wind-Controlling Immortal Bead’ actually possessed combat abilities as well, and its power almost matched that of those incomplete Immortal Mansion Rare Treasures!

’Indeed, one must not underestimate any Cultivation noble family, who knows what trump cards they hold?’

Fang Xi’s expression turned cold, as a pitch-black seal appeared in his hand. A ferocious demon head roared, clashing with the Nine-Origin Bird.

Cheep cheep!

The green Nine-Origin Bird and the demon head with Snake Dragon hair entwined midair, the green and black brilliance alternated uncertainly on the cliff wall.

This seal, naturally acquired from Old Meng, was an eighth-rank semi-immortal artifact.

Although it was somewhat damaged, it could still be used after some repairs.

The key point was that there was too great of a disparity between their magical powers.

Fang Xi had already reached the late stage of Integration, but the Great Elder of the Feng Family was only at the early stage.

With a sweeping gesture of his big sleeve, two pitch-black beams of light fell onto the seal, the demon head quickly enlarged, and abruptly bit into the green Nine-Origin Bird.

The Nine-Origin Bird cried out in agony as numerous green and phantom-like feathers fluttered down...

Fang Xi continued with his hand seals, the demon head opening its gaping mouth and astonishingly swallowed the Wind-Controlling Immortal Bead in one gulp!

"Pfft!"

The Great Elder of the Feng Family’s face paled, and she immediately coughed up a mouthful of essence blood.

"Supreme Elder..."

Seeing this, Feng Yingyue couldn’t help but have her eyes well with tears, standing in front of Fang Xi, "You villain, what do you intend to do?"

"Hmm?"

Fang Xi glanced at the girl’s forehead, revealing an interested expression, "A Moon-Chasing Body?!"