Urban Undying Lord
Chapter 267 - 267 266 Ten Years!

267: Chapter 266: Ten Years!

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(5th Update, Please Subscribe for Support) At the same time, Ye Xuan was seated cross-legged inside a stone house, his expression neither sad nor joyful, making it difficult for others to discern what he was thinking.

Only the murder aura that surrounded him was gradually fading.

Although Ye Xuan was still recovering from serious injuries, he had restored his cultivation to the level of a Heavenly Immortal.

Naturally, he saw this scene unfolding before his eyes.

“This young man is quite interesting!” Ye Xuan smiled lightly, his body gradually becoming ethereal until he disappeared from the stone house.

An hour passed.

When the young Li Jiangliu returned to his residence with a nervous heart, and upon finding that the stone house was empty, he was slightly startled before shaking his head and giving a wry smile.

It seemed that True Monarch Ye Xuan knew that the Heavenly Court was searching for him and had left without saying goodbye.

Although Li Jiangliu felt somewhat disappointed, recognizing that he had lost a tremendous opportunity, his thoughts remained pure and simple, harboring little regret.

After all, he knew that Ye Xuan, a great immortal of the Heavenly Court, would hardly keep a mere mortal in mind.

Chore’s peak, behind the mountain.

Ye Xuan established a cave dwelling and then sealed it with a huge stone, completely closing himself off.

This time, he did not want anyone to disturb him until he had recovered from his injuries and could step out of the cave.

It was evident that Ye Xuan tread cautiously in his cultivation, never placing himself in danger.

…

The sun rose and the moon set; the stars shifted.

The ocean turned into mulberry fields, and time transformed everything.

Time was a ruthless butcher’s knife—for mortals, a deadly weapon, and for cultivators, a motivation to press forward.

Ten years was neither long nor short, but in the vast Earth Immortal Realm, ten years were but a blink of an eye.

On this day, clear skies prevailed, and a sunrise ascended in the east.

The early sun lit up heaven and earth, and above the cave where Ye Xuan meditated, weeds had grown thickly.

No one would have imagined that such an earth-shattering person was hidden within this cave.

Suddenly!

Bang!

A dull, thunderous sound erupted.

The huge stone blocking the cave exploded dramatically, and a stream of Taiyi Immortal Light flowed from within.

A slender figure was seen slowly walking out.

Ye Xuan, dressed in a black Daoist robe with Taiyi Immortal Light swirling around him, had jet-black hair falling back over his head.

When his eyes opened and closed, Taiyi Immortal Light circled within, and the void seemed to twist wherever his gaze landed.

Ye Xuan stretched out his arms, taking in the morning light, and the Taiyi Immortal Light slowly dispersed around him.

His entire presence dissipated, making him appear like an ordinary mortal.

“Who would have thought this seclusion would actually take ten years!” Ye Xuan sighed.

Ten years ago, Ye Xuan had enclosed himself in the cave, anticipating that with the help of abundant Immortal Pills, he would only need two years to recover his cultivation and return to his peak condition.

Indeed, two years later, he had recovered from his injuries.

However, to Ye Xuan’s surprise, just as his cultivation had been restored, his Taiyin Mystic Immortal cultivation began to surge violently until it broke through to the middle phase of Taiyin Mystic Immortal, which excited him tremendously.

Ye Xuan instantly realized that his breakthrough to the middle phase of Taiyin Mystic Immortal was definitely related to his battle with Yang Jian.

In that life-and-death fight, both his spirit and cultivation had significantly improved.

Understanding this, Ye Xuan did not dare to slack off.

For the remaining years, he focused wholeheartedly on improving his cultivation until he stepped into the later phase of Taiyin Mystic Immortal.

Only when his potential was fully exhausted did he break away from the seclusion.

However, this time of seclusion took him ten years, which made Ye Xuan slightly lament the fact that time is truly merciless.

From this seclusion, Ye Xuan gained an understanding; there are only three ways to rapidly enhance one’s Cultivation.

The first is through the insights gained from life-death battles.

The second is by falling into a state of sudden enlightenment.

The third, which Ye Xuan had been continuously undertaking, was to consume a large number of Heaven and Earth Holy Objects and Immortal Elixirs.

Of course, Ye Xuan had a fourth method, which was his practice of “Tribulation Immortal Skill”, capable of devouring an Immortal’s Dao Fruit and Divine Skills, transforming them for his own use, allowing his Cultivation to surge wildly.

In ten years, Ye Xuan not only had his Cultivation restored, but he also advanced to the late stages of the Taiyin Mystic Immortal, just one step away from reaching the realm of Taiyi Golden Immortal.

Still, Ye Xuan understood that without relying on the Heavenly Punishment Halberd, he had to tread carefully in the Earth Immortal Realm.

It should be noted that the Earth Immortal Realm is vast and boundless, filled with countless Heavenly Demons and powerful Immortals.

Although the Heavenly Court sits exalted, compared to the Earth Immortal Realm, it is scarcely worth mentioning.

Ye Xuan sorted through his thoughts, now possessed with a clear direction, as a glint of cold ruthlessness quietly passed through his eyes.

“I wonder how that young man is doing now?” Ye Xuan muttered to himself, merging into the void, and strolling towards Chores Peak.

Ye Xuan, a man who reciprocates both favors and grudges, has constantly borne in mind the life-saving favor of Li Jiangliu.

When he departed those years ago, he didn’t leave any opportunity for the young man, solely because he didn’t want his whereabouts to draw attention.

However, now that his Cultivation had returned to its peak, he was determined to repay this debt of gratitude.

…

Chores Peak!

Drums and gongs filled the air, firecrackers resounded, and each stone house had a large character for “happiness” affixed to it, with thousands of chore disciples toasting and exchanging cups, occasionally bursting into cheerful laughter and jokes.

Haoxuan Mountain had ninety-nine peaks in total, and Chores Peak was only one of them.

The other ninety-eight peaks were also hosting banquets, making the entire Jiuhua Immortal Sect seem extraordinarily lively.

Ye Xuan walked through the void unnoticed, until he arrived in front of the stone house where the young Li Jiangliu resided, only to find cobwebs formed over the stone door, showing that this house hadn’t been inhabited for some years.

Ye Xuan’s eyebrows lightly furrowed, and with a flick of his finger in the air, he directly summoned a chore disciple.

Before the disciple could scream, Ye Xuan shot a beam of Immortal Light into the disciple’s forehead, employing the Soul-searching technique, directly accessing the disciple’s memory.

After several tens of moments, Ye Xuan slowly opened his eyes, now fully understanding the causes and consequences, and casually sent out a beam of Immortal Light, turning the chore disciple to dust, then he stepped through the void towards Jiuhua Peak.

From the memory of the chore disciple, Ye Xuan learned some news regarding Li Jiangliu: after he had left, the young man broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage two years later and even won the outer sect disciple’s competition, being directly accepted into the inner sect.

Ye Xuan was not surprised by the young man’s breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage, as during his time healing, not all essence of the Immortal Elixirs he consumed was absorbed; some remnants were expelled from his body, inadvertently benefiting the young man.

However, according to the memory of the chore disciple, after Li Jiangliu entered the inner sect, his journey wasn’t as glorious as imagined.

In the fifth year, he faced unimaginable adversity, not only was his entire Cultivation destroyed, but he also fell to become the most despised Medicine Slave on Jiuhua Peak.

Today was the day of betrothal for the fairy daughter of Jiuhua, hence the banquets across all peaks, creating such a joyous scene.

Regarding the young man’s plight, Ye Xuan felt neither much sympathy nor pity, because everyone’s path is of their own making.

Ye Xuan merely wanted to repay the young man for saving his life and bestow upon him a chance before leaving this Jiuhua Immortal Sect, nothing more beyond that.