From a Zhengyi Taoist Child to a Master of All Laws

Chapter 629: Moon Lord of Yaochi
"Jade Pool Immortal Castle, Luo Qiushui?"

Li Yang frowned slightly. This was the umpteenth time he had heard this name. Now that he heard that the high and mighty Yaochi Saintess had stepped in to protect the people from the Ancestral Star, he couldn't help but feel a little more favorably disposed towards her.

"I had heard before that the Divine Son of the Xuanhuang Palace intended to form a marriage alliance with Yaochi Immortal Castle, and now it seems that it is indeed true..."

Bai Yingluo murmured, her words carrying a hint of sourness.
"Jade Pool is immaculate, Taiyin is detached from emotions... It's hard to imagine that there are such women in the world. Not only is her cultivation unparalleled among men, but her beauty is also beyond compare. It is said that at their first meeting, she made the divine son of Xuanhuang Palace lose his soul and jokingly say, 'I wish to be the one gazing at the moon under the moon'..."

As the eldest princess of a nation and the de facto ruler of the Chongxuan Army, Bai Yingluo had reached the pinnacle of power and status among women in the mortal realm. Yet, even this remarkable woman spoke of the Moon Lord of Yaochi with a mixture of inferiority and envy.

"The Moon Lord of Yaochi?" Li Yang's face showed reminiscence: "It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say she was the most beautiful. I once knew someone whose talent and aptitude were second only to me in the whole world. In terms of looks and talent, ordinary women were like fireflies compared to the bright moon in the sky. She was truly a first-rate female immortal..."

As he spoke, Li Yang's mood gradually lightened, but at the end, his words carried a hint of melancholy and bitterness.

"A first-rate female immortal? How does she compare to that Moon Lord of Yaochi?"

"Far superior."

"I don't believe there is such a woman in the world, a woman even more stunning than the Moon Lord of Yaochi!" Bai Yinglu shook her head vigorously, her face full of disbelief.

Li Yang gave a wry smile: "If she were standing in front of you right now, you would know that what I said is true, and even more so than I said."

Perhaps it was her competitive spirit as a woman that made her eager to know about the 'first-rate female immortal' that Li Yang had mentioned. Bai Yingluo became interested and hurriedly asked:

"Then where is she now?"

"lost."

"What?! Lost?" Bai Yingluo's brows furrowed involuntarily.

"I lost her two years ago."

Li Yang's eyes were desolate, and his face showed a pain and vicissitude that Bai Yingluo had never seen before.

Looking up at the clouds drifting across the sky, Li Yang felt a deep sense of melancholy.

He risked his life to cross the boundary for two reasons: first, to retrieve Chi Yanhong's soul, and second, to find out about the situation in the Realm of Ultimate Truth and prevent its invasion of Blue Star.

But now it seems I can't accomplish either of the two things.

“I know everything now. I’ll trouble you, Sister Wang, to continue gathering intelligence on the Nine Sects. Please let me know as soon as you have any news.”

Composing himself, Li Yang turned to look at Bai Yingluo, completely suppressing the confusion and sorrow in his heart.

"it is good."

Bai Yingluo nodded briskly, and without lingering, got up and walked out of the courtyard.

Having reached the doorway, Bai Yingluo had already stepped out with one foot, but the other remained suspended in mid-air. After a long silence, Bai Yingluo frowned slightly, then turned around.

“Brother Wang, your aptitude and talent are very high. Even in the Nine Great Sects, you can be compared with the Dao Sons of each sect. Although I don’t know what you want to try, perhaps some of your ideas can be realized in a hundred or a thousand years, but definitely not now.”

"I will preserve this useful body for future use."

Bai Yingluo pondered for a long time before cautiously offering her advice.

"Sister Wang, I know."

Li Yang stood in the courtyard, looking at Bai Yingluo with a gentle nod and smile.

"Um"

Bai Yingluo said nothing more, turned and left the courtyard, closing the wooden door behind her. The sun was high in the sky, illuminating the courtyard brightly. Li Yang stood with his hands behind his back, silent for a long time.

"So, I couldn't hide it from you after all..."

Li Yang muttered to himself, gazing in the direction Bai Yingluo had left.

Although he had changed Bai Moro's appearance and had Bai Moro's memories, he was not the Crown Prince of Da Li Kingdom after all. Li Yang never thought he could hide it from Bai Yingluo, Bai Moro's older sister who grew up with him.

Moreover, as the crown prince of a mortal kingdom, his constant monitoring and investigation of the movements of the nine immortal sects and the ancestral star is inherently dangerous and differs from Bai Moluo's style.

However, Li Yang didn't care whether Bai Yingluo knew or not. As long as Bai Yingluo could continue to provide him with information about the Nine Upper Sect and a steady stream of cultivation resources, that would be enough.

"Knowing it's impossible, yet still doing it, after a year and a half, perhaps all you'll achieve in the end is 'a clear conscience'."

Li Yang murmured, showing no interest in going out to interpret divination slips. He selected a fine spirit stone from the basket and began to cultivate cross-legged.

Since Zhang Hengming took the initiative to back down and gave up all the spirit stones offered by the Great Li Dynasty, Li Yang's cultivation speed has increased dramatically again, by about 60%.

At this rate, Li Yang is confident that he can re-condense the Earth Immortal Dao Fruit within six years.

Once one reaches the realms of Dao Seed and Human Immortal/Earth Immortal, a single meditation session is measured in months and years. However, with Li Yang's mastery of the Dao Treasure Mirror, he could already achieve the automatic circulation of the cosmic energy and did not need to sit in meditation to comprehend the Dao.

In stillness, one does not count the setting sun; sitting within, who knows how many years have passed?
When he felt the abundant moonlight and spiritual energy in the world again, Li Yang slowly opened his eyes. The cold moon hung high in the sky, and another day had passed.

The basket beside him, which was full of high-grade spirit stones, now only had a thin layer of crystal powder at the bottom, as all the spiritual energy inside had been absorbed and refined by Li Yang.

He poured the powder from the bucket into the flowerbed in the yard, and as he pushed open the gate to put the empty bucket away, he saw a dark figure sitting in front of the stone steps of the gate under the moonlight.

Upon hearing the sound of the courtyard gate opening, the black-clad figure was startled at first, then quickly stood up and looked at Li Yang with a slightly awkward expression.

"The Immortal of White Clouds..."

Erniu's wounds had been completely bandaged and treated with the finest herbs from the palace, and she was recovering quickly. Apart from her eyes still being red and swollen, she looked like she had regained the vitality of a sixteen-year-old girl.

"What do you want from me?"

Li Yang looked up at the awkward girl standing in front of the door.

Erniu felt even more uncomfortable under Li Yang's gaze. She lowered her head timidly, but then, as if she had thought of something, she raised her head and met Li Yang's gaze firmly.

"Immortal, I want to... become your disciple..."

"Apprenticeship?"

Li Yang frowned, somewhat surprised.

"Mmmmmmm!"

Erniu nodded hurriedly, then took out a tattered cloth bag from her waist and pulled out a dozen small red coins.

This is Da Li Fire Coin, but with the amount of money Er Niu has, it's not even enough to buy a single flower or plant in Jian Ruo City, especially in this courtyard. However, for a little girl herding cattle in the countryside, it's a huge sum of money.

"I know I don't have enough money, but... but I can write an IOU, I can be your slave, I can do anything..."

Knowing her apprenticeship ceremony was ridiculous, Erniu, seeing Li Yang's unchanged expression, anxiously explained...
Li Yang gave Erniu a deep look, and after a long while, when the girl looked uneasy and dejectedly put away the money bag she was holding, he finally spoke slowly.

"Come in with me first."

(End of this chapter)