From a Zhengyi Taoist Child to a Master of All Laws

Chapter 608 Success in Obtaining the Twin Swords
Li Yang's face turned pale instantly, and his body trembled slightly.

The island lord was right; Li Yang's real reason for searching for the 'Kunlun Tunnel' was to enter the Realm of Ultimate Truth through another path.

There's not much intention to launch a counterattack or directly invade the Realm of Ultimate Truth, because that's simply not realistic right now.

The cultivation civilization of the Ultimate Realm has endured for generations, accumulating countless experts, including numerous Human Immortals and Earth Immortals, with even Celestial Immortal giants hidden behind the scenes. If he were to rashly enter the Ultimate Realm without any preparation, he would be simply throwing his life away.
However, he still needs to revive Chi Yanhong, seize the Jianmu Tower, and plunder the resources of the Jizhen Realm to rapidly evolve. He must go to the Jizhen Realm.

Just like the plundering at Fangzhang Mountain this time, this small island, relying on the accumulation of scarce spiritual energy over thousands of years, was enough to allow his new self to break through to the Human Immortal realm. If Li Yang were to reach the Ultimate Realm, in that world with a highly developed cultivation civilization, Li Yang could hardly imagine how rapid his evolutionary speed would be.
He had a feeling that when he attained the Earth Immortal realm again this time, that would be the strongest state of the Dual Root Method, no weaker than Futu, who was in the late stage of Earth Immortal three years ago, and might even be able to challenge the real Heavenly Immortal giants!

However, all of this depends on finding an ancient path to the Realm of Ultimate Truth in a low-key manner. Otherwise, all will be lost, and we will be forced back into a passive defensive state, anxiously awaiting repeated invasions from the Realm of Ultimate Truth on Earth.

"Kid, don't think you can keep winning just because you won once! I know your record outside—a human immortal defeating an earth immortal, even able to defeat a Buddha—but you can't keep winning forever. For example, right now, you're already on the verge of death!"

The island lord's face was no longer mocking; instead, it was shrouded in desolation, his eyes cloudy and empty. Ancient memories from thousands of years ago flashed before him.

"Five thousand years ago, the ancient emperor Zhuanxu also created miracles. I was also full of vigor and ambition, but what was the result? You can't imagine the great demons that covered the sky and sun on the sea during the Investiture of the Gods, nor have you ever seen the divine weapons that could even split this planet, or the endless stream of celestial giants!"

"You are too young and too successful. Extremes beget their opposites, and excessive wisdom begets harm! The Realm of Ultimate Truth is far more ancient and powerful than you imagine. Seize the day and enjoy everything you have. That is the way of Heaven!"

Li Yang gritted his teeth, his face contorted as if he wanted to crush them, staring at the island lord with an almost beastly gaze: "That's your Heavenly Dao, not mine! You've lost! But I won't!"

"I see my former self in you."

"I am younger and stronger than you were before, and I will be stronger than anyone throughout history!"

The island lord squinted: "You are even more arrogant and conceited than I was back then! The crushing defeat three years ago still hasn't woken you up!"

Li Yang coldly said, "You are more cowardly and depraved than I imagined! Five thousand years of lingering on the verge of extinction have completely corrupted the once glorious Feng Yu to ashes!"

"Humph!"

The island lord snorted coldly, no longer willing to engage in a war of words with Li Yang, and turned and left.

Long after the island owner left, Li Yang remained standing upright in the cave, and then, first his arms, and finally his whole body, began to tremble slightly.

Although his faith remained strong, the Great Abyss Sword, lost for thousands of years, seemed to have buried his entire future.
He survived, but he still couldn't save Chi Yanhong, couldn't protect Baiyun Mountain, and couldn't bring Zhu Ling and Xiao Zhuoma back.

"Stay calm! There must be a way! There must be a way!"

Taking a deep breath, Li Yang forced himself to calm down, his forehead covered in a fine layer of cold sweat!

"The Great Abyss Sword is the sacred sword that guards Yingzhou Island. It was passed down to Yingzhou Island by the ancient emperor Zhuanxu. Yingzhou Island must also know that the Great Abyss Sword is an indispensable key to opening the 'Kunlun Tunnel'! They will absolutely not allow the Great Abyss Sword to be lost so easily or stolen by the Realm of Ultimate Truth!"

Li Yang paced back and forth in the cave, muttering to himself, forcing himself to imagine himself on the verge of destruction of Yingzhou Island three thousand years ago, and to ponder their thoughts.

"I will hide the sword!"

"But that's not right. The other side, the Realm of Ultimate Truth, has Celestial Immortal giants. No matter where you hide the sword, it will be found and dealt with!"

"Then, under these circumstances, in order to prevent the Great Abyss Sword from being taken away by the Realm of Ultimate Truth, I will... destroy the sword!"

Li Yang suddenly raised his head, took out the Zhuyin Sword from his storage ring, and examined it closely.
"This sword possesses far less spiritual power than the Southern Sea Sword. For a Celestial Immortal giant, it might be barely worth plundering, but if the sword shatters, it will become somewhat dispensable to them..."

"Suppose, suppose that the Great Abyss Sword or its fragments were not taken away three thousand years ago, but remained at the ruins of Yingzhou Island, sinking into the sea, then where would they be now?"

Li Yang muttered to himself, but the light in his eyes grew brighter and brighter, and his right hand, gripping the candlelight, clenched so tightly that his knuckles turned white.
"Three thousand years ago, the earliest and most historically recorded person to search for the immortal mountain at sea was only one person: Zu Long!"

"After the First Emperor's death, there was one person who was the first to enter Xianyang and inherit the First Emperor's treasure trove in Guanzhong! And after that, he happened to forge a sword, a divine weapon known as the Emperor's Sword!"

Li Yang's speech became faster and faster, and his voice began to tremble involuntarily.
Most of these were just Li Yang's guesses, but in Li Yang's mind, a certain possibility was becoming increasingly likely!

It should be noted that the spiritual energy had only just begun to recover after the First Emperor unified the six kingdoms, and there were not many powerful masters during the reign of Emperor Gaozu of Han, which was only a few decades later. Under such circumstances, how could Emperor Gaozu of Han have forged a divine weapon like the 'Ji Sword'?

There is only one possibility: the predecessor of the 'Ji Sword' was originally an extraordinary divine weapon!

The Great Abyss Sword! Forged by the ancient Emperor Zhuanxu! Representing the vast fortune of the ancient human emperor! And this perfectly matches the characteristic of the Ji Sword, which recognizes fortune as its primary element and can only be wielded by the bloodline of the ancient emperor!
Li Yang didn't believe it was all a coincidence, and couldn't help but laugh heartily!
"Hahahaha! Feng Yu! Of the forty-nine Heavenly Cycles, one has vanished! In the darkness, a glimmer of hope still remains in this world!"

It's still just speculation. Now that the Ji Sword is in the hands of Li Yang's disciple Liu Ming, Li Yang is eager to return home and leave the island as soon as possible to verify his conjecture!

With a sense of urgency, his feet seemed to be flying through the air, and in a short while he rushed out of the cave and headed straight for the Taoist temple.

"Island Master, I can leave the island now! But you have to agree to one more condition!"

The island lord had just returned to the Dao Palace when he saw an excited Li Yang hurriedly following him:

"There are conditions?! Li Yang, you really don't take Fangzhang Mountain seriously at all!"

At this moment, Li Yang was behaving very strangely, exuding an aura that the island lord greatly disliked.
He thought Li Yang's dream had been shattered, and his hard-won pursuit had vanished, causing him to go insane from the blow.

"Did I just hit him too hard?" the island lord murmured to himself, vaguely regretting his earlier mockery of Li Yang.

"My request is simple, I want one person from you," Li Yang said loudly.

"Who?!"

"Him!" Li Yang raised his left arm and pointed in the direction he had come from!

"Huff, huff!" Just then, a streak of light appeared in the direction Li Yang was pointing. It was Feng Yun, who had come to catch up with Li Yang because Li Yang had promised him that if he took Li Yang to the cave, he would return the Zhuyin Sword to him.

The island lord frowned, but dared not offend Li Yang at this moment. In his view, Li Yang was in his final moments before death, and his words and actions were unpredictable. He was afraid that Li Yang would impulsively take him down with him.

"I can't give it to you, but I can lend it to you for a hundred years!"

The island owner said coldly, giving in once again.

"Good! One hundred years is enough!"

"Humph!"

The island lord snorted coldly, then looked at Feng Yun, who had just landed on the ground.
"Feng Yun, you will go with Li Yang to the island for a hundred years, and then return to the island. Do not make a mistake!"

Feng Yun: "?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the island lord soared into the sky as if avoiding a plague god and disappeared without a trace.

"By the way, I don't want outsiders to know that I'm still alive! Tell the people on the island, especially that Jiang Huan, not to reveal my situation outside the island, otherwise, I'll come to your island as a guest again!"

"Also, you can tell Jiang Huan and Ji Chengyue that while they may attack my disciple if they are of the same realm, I will never interfere. But if they continue to bully the weak, don't blame me for breaking a few more of their arms!"

Li Yang shouted loudly, and when he heard the words "come back to the island as a guest," the island owner, who was far away in the sky, paused and almost fell into the air.

To the island owner's delight, Li Yang truly kept his promise this time, taking Feng Yun off the island in the evening.

As Jiang Huan reluctantly activated the magic array, Li Yang and Feng Yun crossed layers of clouds and mist, just like when they first entered the island.

When I looked back, the smoke had dissipated, and the fairy mountain in the sea had vanished without a trace. All I could see was the vast expanse of sea, a boundless expanse of blue.

Li Yang spent only ten days on the island, but it felt like a lifetime had passed. He learned too many secrets on the island and gained tremendous fortune.

Aside from the Candle Yin Sword and the Kunlun Tunnel, the greatest fortune for Li Yang was the seemingly wooden Feng Yun beside him.

Even Li Yang himself couldn't have imagined that the island master of Fangzhang Mountain would so easily agree to let him leave.

The Supreme Immortal is a top expert who can rival the Earth Immortal when he reaches a certain level. At this moment on Blue Star, apart from Zhang Daoling and himself, no one is Feng Yun's match.

However, when Li Yang suddenly took Feng Yun out of Fangzhang Mountain, he looked at this unfamiliar world and breathed the sea breeze, which had a spiritual energy concentration several times lower than that on the island. For the first time, he felt helpless.

The last time he was taken off the island, he was only taken around for two years, and most of that time he was a servant to Jiang Huan and Ji Chengyue.

But this time, it's a hundred years.

For the first time, Feng Yun felt fear.

"There's no way around it. You've been too harsh on my apprentice these past few years, so I have to collect some interest."

Li Yang patted Feng Yun on the shoulder, his expression meaningful: "But don't worry, I didn't lie to you this time. I will definitely return the Zhuyin Sword to you, but not now. I have a great use for this sword."

"Your island lord has sold you to me over the past hundred years, so you must listen to me! Go east from here to a place called Qingcheng Mountain, follow their arrangements, but don't say that I arranged it. After a hundred years, I won't care where you want to go."

Li Yang patted Feng Yun on the shoulder again, smiled, and then immediately fled, leaving Feng Yun standing there silently, like a helpless child.

At this time, the world was still unaware that Li Zhenjun had been resurrected. Li Yang did not want to make a fuss about it anymore. The only people who knew about his resurrection, Zhang Daoling, Song Ling, Li Mengyuan, and Zhao Ziyao, had all been instructed by him not to reveal it to the outside world.

Li Yang enjoys his current state. Although he is still doing things that are on the verge of life and death, he is no longer under so much scrutiny and feels incredibly relaxed.

His destination this time was actually Mount Qingcheng.

He had learned from Zhang Daoling that during the three years of his disappearance, Liu Ming, Wang Shuhuan, and Li Ling'er were hunted down. Jiang Huanji searched the entire planet Blue Star by moonlight but could not find the three. It was Qi Qianshu who secretly hid the three in the mountains, using Zhang Daoling's identity as a deterrent, so that Jiang Huanji and the other two dared not search the mountains.

Li Yang felt a bit emotional about Qi Qianshu. He was a great talent who had pushed his internal alchemy cultivation to the flawless level when he was in the Innate Realm, which was no less than that of other cultivators in the same realm. However, later, as the leader of the Dao Alliance, he was entangled in worldly affairs, and his cultivation progress was gradually slowed down.

Hidden in the clouds of Qingcheng Mountain, it was dusk, and the setting sun was like blood. Taoist priests and students of Qingcheng Taoist Academy were meditating and cultivating in various places on the mountain. The heavy, solemn drumbeats rang out from the mountaintop. It was the evening drum from Lao Jun Pavilion. The drumbeats slowly disappeared into the green and secluded mountain scenery.

After hesitating for a long time, Li Yang ultimately did not descend from the clouds. The time was not yet ripe, and he did not want to disturb his three disciples.
After pondering for a long time, he reached out and beckoned, and a three-foot-long ancient bronze sword rose from a secluded spot in the Qingcheng Mountains below and fell into his hand.

He almost became the master of the Ji Sword at the Yuanjun Temple on Yaji Mountain, and had a faint connection with the Ji Sword. When he tried to summon it, he actually managed to do so.

Having obtained the Ji Sword, Li Yang did not linger. He stored it in his storage ring to isolate it from the outside world, and then fled far away with extreme stealth.

After a long while, an extremely shocking and shrill scream rang out on Mount Qingcheng, followed by a chaotic scene of chickens and dogs running wild, with the faint sound of a white-haired man cursing.

Afterwards, Zhang Daoling, Qi Qianshu, and a group of old Taoist priests flew up to the sky above Qingcheng Mountain as if facing a formidable enemy. They used their supernatural powers to shatter and disperse all the clouds and mist on the mountain, their expressions extremely tense.

Wang Shuhuan, Li Ling'er, and Liu Ming, whose face was full of gritted teeth, were also mixed in. Li Ling'er's spiritual eyes emitted a dazzling light, illuminating the entire Qingcheng Mountain, the clouds, and the sky, but she found nothing.

Only Zhang Daoling's nostrils twitched slightly as he caught a lingering familiar scent in the air. The tension on his face vanished instantly. Then, he mysteriously stroked his beard, smiled, and rode a black ox, gracefully descending back onto Mount Qingcheng.

(End of this chapter)