Struggling to Survive with Regression Power in the Primordial Saint Sect
Chapter 95: Let’s Make Senior Sister Yu Suffer a Bit More

As soon as the thought arose, Lü Yang immediately transformed into a stream of light, soaring into the sky.

The Myriad Spirits Banner was raised high, its flag fluttering, obscuring the sun, and casting a vast shadow that rapidly spread from Lü Yang's position across the eight hundred li of Skeleton Mountain.

Especially within the Witch Ghost Secret Realm.

One by one, the witch ghosts were successively transformed into banner spirits by Lü Yang, including the eight red-clothed ghosts that composed the 【Yama Palace】, as well as the guardian deity Su Nu.

“Even the color has changed, huh.”

As countless witch ghosts poured into the Myriad Spirits Banner, its originally pure white hue gradually darkened, turning blackish-purple like the guardian deity Su Nu.

In this way, as long as he carried the Myriad Spirits Banner upon restarting, the 【Yama Palace】 could be perfectly inherited, ensuring that in his next life, he would begin with a Foundation Establishment guardian deity to obscure the heavenly secrets—a setup likely no less effective than the nnate Primordial Qi Divine Talisman, and unlikely to alarm the Mending Heaven Peak Master again.

“Oh right, I almost forgot about you.”

With that thought, Lü Yang suddenly shook the Myriad Spirits Banner, and then retrieved from it an old Daoist with a numb expression, lifeless eyes, and white hair with a youthful face.

More precisely, it was a split soul of the Mending Heaven Peak Master, which he had personally severed from his soul to escape the suction force of the 【Yama Palace】.

Immediately after, Lü Yang summoned Chen Xin'an.

This was also a split soul of the real Chen Xin'an, not his main body; upon appearing, he stared wide-eyed at the Mending Heaven Peak Master's split soul, his face full of disbelief.

“How could this be?”

“There's nothing impossible about it,” Lü Yang said with a faint smile. “You two share a deep father-son bond, and I'm a kind-hearted person, so I specially invited him into the Myriad Spirits Banner to reunite with you.”

At this point, Lü Yang suddenly thought of an interesting question: now that both Chen Xin'an and the Mending Heaven Peak Master's split souls had become his banner spirits, if he restarted and chose the Myriad Spirits Banner, would they still be present? If so, would it affect the real Mending Heaven Peak Master and Chen Xin'an?

“Interesting.”

Lü Yang's mind raced, instantly coming up with many clever uses.

Perhaps in the next life, he could have the Mending Heaven Peak Master bear a significant blame.

Of course, that was a matter for the next life.

Pulling his thoughts back, Lü Yang looked at Chen Xin'an and the Mending Heaven Peak Master's split souls. “I plan to cultivate the 『Thought-Severing Heaven-Seeing Silkworm Secret』; you two will guard me.”

The 『Thought-Severing Heaven-Seeing Silkworm Secret』 was a great divine ability that transformed Qi Refining spiritual consciousness into Foundation Establishment divine sense. To succeed, one needed to sever nine split souls from their own soul.

According to the description of the divine ability, these represented nine extreme emotions that troubled Lü Yang's “ego”: joy upon seeing, anger upon hearing, love upon smelling, thought upon tasting, desire upon opinion, worry upon the body, greed upon form and color, hatred upon aversion, and ignorance upon delusion—collectively known as the “Three Poisons and Six Desires.” Only by severing them all could one see the true self.

“The first one: joy upon seeing.”

Lü Yang silently operated the incantation, transforming his spiritual consciousness into a blade, and then, with the guardian deity Su Nu's assistance in calculation, precisely severed the first split soul from his own soul.

In the next moment, Lü Yang felt his soul lighten, and a spiritual light was severed, taking root upon landing, transforming into a soul shadow identical in appearance to him.

“Ha ha ha ha ha ha!”

As soon as this soul shadow appeared, it immediately covered one eye with one hand, placed the other on its waist, looked up to the sky, and burst into an indescribable fit of laughter.

Almost simultaneously, a massive wave of emotion flooded into Lü Yang's mind.

The joy of cultivation, the joy of breakthroughs, the joy of dual cultivation, the joy of successful schemes... countless joys from past and present lives surfaced!

Despite being prepared, Lü Yang's eyes turned red from the impact of this intense emotion.

At this moment, the guardians Chen Xin'an and the Mending Heaven Peak Master suddenly acted. Both exhaled and shouted in unison, emitting a thunderous sound:

“Ch!”

The sound wave, like a clear spring, poured down, instantly calming the countless inexplicable ecstasies in Lü Yang's heart and restoring his expression to calm.

“Great divine ability of the soul... truly bizarre.”

Lü Yang frowned slightly. He could feel that this was merely a temporary fix; the influence of the split soul was only suppressed for now and would erupt more violently later.

This was the difficulty in cultivating the 『Thought-Severing Heaven-Seeing Silkworm Secret』: the severed split souls would continuously manifest various extreme emotions to affect the cultivator.

Only by suppressing all these emotions through one's own will, reaching a state of “a heart as clear as ice,” could the divine ability be considered complete.

“These emotions are too troublesome.”

Lü Yang furrowed his brows.

There was a causal link between him and the split souls, so even if he suppressed them, these emotions would continue to surge.

Hmm? Causal link?

Lü Yang fell silent for a moment, then turned to look at the guardian deity Su Nu beside him. If he remembered correctly, guardian deities could transfer causality?

Lü Yang tried it, and the causality suddenly shifted.

In the next second, Su Nu suddenly, without warning, pulled the corners of her mouth into a big smile, but quickly restrained it, her face showing panic:

“Master?”

“Hold it in! Don't let it out!”

Lü Yang sternly ordered, without hesitation transferring the causal link of “joy upon seeing” onto Su Nu, making her bear the emotional impact for him.

“Continue!”

Without delay, Lü Yang quickly severed eight more times, extracting the remaining eight split souls, and then transferred them all onto Su Nu.

In an instant, Su Nu collapsed directly to the ground, drenched in sweat, her long black hair soaked and clinging to her delicate face.

The former noble and solemn demeanor of a guardian deity was completely gone, and her once captivating eyes were now filled with confusion and daze.

Just short of drooling.

Seeing Su Nu's pained and conflicted expression from enduring the chaotic emotional impacts of the split souls, Lü Yang suddenly felt much better.

The guardian deity's job is precisely this!

Otherwise, what use would she be to me?

“Also, the 『Taiyin Body-Shedding Corpse Liberation True Method』 requires Su Nu to use her Foundation Establishment status to assist and accelerate the cultivation. Well then, let's make Senior Sister Yu suffer a bit more.”

With Su Nu's help, Lü Yang believed that the 『Taiyin Body-Shedding Corpse Liberation True Method』 and the 『Thought-Severing Heaven-Seeing Silkworm Secret』, each of which would normally take at least several decades to complete, could now be perfected within three months. His chances of breaking through to Foundation Establishment could increase to seventy percent in one go!

“And with the agreement of the 【Heavenly Corpse Fiend】, I can also obtain the Ascension Order from the hands of True Person Yinshan.”

“By then, the success rate would be eighty percent.”

Not bad at all!

Thinking of this, Lü Yang felt a bit excited.

After all, he didn't intend to pursue a “perfect Foundation Establishment”; an eighty percent success rate was entirely worth going all in.

Primordial Saint Sect, Sky-reaching Sea of Clouds.

The Mending Heaven Peak Master quietly returned to Mending Heaven Peak, first activating the mountain-protecting formation, and then fetching some earth to mold a new body.

However, before he could stabilize, a silver-bell-like voice rang out:

“Father, weren't you going to capture someone? Why did you come back empty-handed?”

“...”

Upon hearing this, the Mending Heaven Peak Master's body stiffened, then he turned to his daughter Chen Shuqian with a helpless expression. “Father had a momentary lapse and failed to capture the person.”

Chen Shuqian was taken aback, then raised her eyebrows slightly. “Father, you lost?”

“I didn't lose.”

The Mending Heaven Peak Master paused for a moment, then said seriously, “That junior used deceit and a sneak attack, damaging my physical body, leaving me with less than ten percent of my usual strength.”

“Father, you really lost?”

“I didn't lose!”

The Mending Heaven Peak Master gritted his teeth. “Let that junior be smug for a few days. Do you think he'll have a good end? He'll know the consequences when he attempts to break through to Foundation Establishment.”

“That junior calculated everything but made one mistake: coveting the so-called third-grade true qi.”

The Mending Heaven Peak Master sneered. “Qian'er, you're still young and don't understand the treacherous nature of people's hearts. Every opportunity in this world comes at a price.”

“If the inheritance left by Panlong in the past were truly that good, why would I leave it for others instead of keeping it for you and Xin'an? Moreover, Panlong was merely a Foundation Establishment rogue cultivator in his lifetime. Do you really think his cultivation method could be ranked as third-grade, directly pointing to the Golden Core path?”