madnovel Chapter 72: Go for it! You're such a cool older sister wielding a sword!
Chapter 72: Go for it! You're such a cool older sister wielding a sword!
Upon seeing the sudden appearance of Dong Yan, the patriarch of the Dong family, Dong Mo's expression turned extremely grim.
The patriarch of the Dong family, Dong Yan. The biggest boss in the early stages of the game's storyline!
He is an ultimate old monster who has mastered the arts of talismans, arrays, poisons, and mechanisms.
The reason he possessed so much knowledge wasn't because he was exceptionally intelligent or talented. It was simply because he lived a long life.
His true identity is not the patriarch of the Dong family.
Instead, it was Tang Puchuan, the old monster who had usurped the throne and lived in the Dong family of the Western Wilderness for a full nine thousand years.
Under normal circumstances, the maximum lifespan of a Nascent Soul cultivator is only two thousand years. By relying on various secret medicines to prolong their life, they can live up to three thousand years.
But Tang Puchuan was different. He was once a peak Integration Realm cultivator, but after obtaining a Fruit Rank, he severed his own Fruit Rank and forcibly reduced himself back to the peak of the Divine Transformation Realm.
According to the game's setting, the limit that mortals can cultivate to is the Nascent Soul stage.
If one wants to break through after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, one needs to choose the most suitable path from the 365 paths and positions in the world and integrate them.
Simply put, these 365 paths are equivalent to the 365 official positions issued by the Heavenly Dao to cultivators.
For a Nascent Soul stage expert to continue breaking through to the next level, they must make a grand vow that receives a response from Heaven and Earth, thus gaining official recognition and a formal position in the cultivation process.
Furthermore, once you attain your position, you must act on behalf of Heaven and uphold the corresponding rules.
Yin Lingsu is a typical example of someone who doesn't have a desired rank and is therefore forced to remain at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.
In contrast, the Dong family patriarch was a typical example of someone who, after his Dao heart shattered, decisively abandoned his position and chose to feign death to prolong his life.
The reason he gave up his position was that he suffered severe injuries on the battlefield during the first war between good and evil nine thousand years ago, his Dao heart was shattered, and he no longer wanted to be a servant of the Heavenly Dao.
This led to the idea of finding a cultivation path that could bypass the Heavenly Dao and allow one to cultivate and even ascend.
Then he used a secret technique to forcibly separate a part of his soul, feigning death and rebirth, thus relinquishing his position.
By possessing the body of a young child from the Dong family, he was able to live a second life.
Under normal circumstances, a cultivator can only possess another body once in their lifetime.
But Tang Puchuan is different. The "Earthly Soldier Evil" position he originally held was related to the realm of the soul.
In addition, during the war between the righteous and the demonic, he obtained many secret techniques from those demonic cultivators, which enabled him to create a soul-fusion technique that allowed him to forcibly merge with the soul of the possessed by cutting off a part of the soul, and then continuously possess other souls.
Over the past nine thousand years, he has continuously integrated the most talented descendants he had in the Dong family, allowing himself to survive and eventually rise to a high-ranking position in the Dong family.
Of course, at first he didn't dare to show his face.
Because the Dong family had once produced great cultivators with high rank. He waited until after the second Great War between the Righteous and Demonic Realms a thousand years ago, when those great cultivators with high rank in the Dong family either perished or ascended to immortality, before he usurped the position of ancestor.
The decline of the Dong family over the past thousand years is also due to him.
Because he could only cultivate to the peak of the Nascent Soul stage at most, he could not sit idly by and watch the descendants of the Dong family obtain positions and escape from his control.
Therefore, for nearly a thousand years, many geniuses from the Dong family have mysteriously disappeared.
The constant merging of souls also left him with fragmented memories and drove him insane.
They even forgot their original ambition to bypass the Heavenly Dao system and attain enlightenment.
Even his various killing moves and backup plans as a fusion powerhouse were gradually forgotten as he continued to sever his soul and memories and merge with other souls.
The rest...
Only the obsession with preserving one's life and surviving.
In the original story, Tang Puchuan eventually possessed Dong Mo's body, gaining the two top-tier talents of double pupils and supreme bone, and believed that he was now invincible.
In the end, when he finally encountered Feng Ling Shuang, this unlucky guy was still used as a speed bump by Feng Ling Shuang and killed instantly.
Once an invincible peak cultivator at the Integration Realm, he ultimately died a pathetic death, like a clown.
Looking at the old man who had been coveting his body, Dong Mo's face turned extremely ugly.
In contrast, Yin Lingsu was very calm, stepping on Dong Zhan's head while speaking to Dong Yan with composure.
"hehe……"
"You old coward, you've always been afraid to show your true face. What's gotten into you today, coming out of nowhere to show yourself?"
"Could the person standing in front of me be a fake?"
Dong Yan's smile froze: "Fellow Daoist is joking..."
However, before Dong Yan could finish speaking...
Yin Lingsu swung her sword backhand, and a sharp sword aura suddenly burst forth from her fingertips, slashing straight at Dong Yan!
"laugh……"
As the sword energy swept past, Dong Yan's body was split in two.
There was no blood, no screams.
Dong Yan's body was sliced open like a piece of paper, revealing the dense runes and the core of the array inside.
It was a puppet. The craftsmanship was so exquisite that it could almost be mistaken for a real one.
Yin Lingsu withdrew her hand and pursed her lips.
"Tch... It really was a fake."
As soon as she finished speaking, the air in front of her suddenly began to distort, and a crack was torn open in space.
Then an old figure emerged from the crack.
The same long robe, the same white hair and beard, the same otherworldly air.
Dong Yan. But this time, there was a hint of displeasure in Dong Yan's eyes.
Although he was still smiling, the smile had clearly turned colder. He was obviously angered by Yin Lingsu!
"Fellow Daoist Yin..." Dong Yan spoke slowly, his voice tinged with helplessness, "What you're doing is putting me in a very difficult position."
Yin Lingsu tilted her head, her golden eyes filled with a mocking look.
"Difficult to handle?"
Yin Lingsu's lips curled up, revealing a wild and unrestrained smile.
"If it's too difficult, then don't do it!"
After saying that, Yin Lingsu unleashed another sword strike!
This sword energy was more than ten times more powerful than the previous one. Wherever the sword light passed, the air was torn apart with a sharp whistling sound.
A fierce glint flashed in Dong Yan's eyes. He didn't dodge, but instead raised his right hand, and the wide sleeves of his Taoist robe suddenly opened!
"A universe hidden in the sleeve!"
The cuff seemed to have turned into a bottomless black hole, sucking in Yin Lingsu's sword energy without causing a ripple.
Immediately afterwards, Dong Yan waved his left hand, and the other sleeve opened!
Then, a sword light exactly the same as Yin Lingsu's sword energy shot out from the sleeve and slashed straight at Yin Lingsu!
Yin Lingsu dodged to the side, and the sword energy grazed her hair, blasting a deep crater in the ground not far away.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Dong Yan flashed and instantly appeared beside Dong Zhan. He grabbed Dong Zhan with one hand, tucked him under his arm, and then retreated ten feet away.
Yin Lingsu did not pursue, but stood still, her golden eyes calmly watching Dong Yan.
"What a clever trick," she said calmly. "Old ghost, your methods are still as disgusting as ever."
Dong Yan smiled and shook his head: "Fellow Daoist Yin, you flatter me."
On the spirit boat.
Feng Ling Shuang stared wide-eyed at the clash between the two peak Nascent Soul experts, her mouth agape enough to fit an egg.
"Is this how a peak Nascent Soul cultivator fights? I can't understand how they even made those moves."
Upon hearing Feng Ling Shuang's whisper, Gu Zi Yue looked smug.
"Is what you can tell still a Nascent Soul cultivator? My mother once told me that a peak Nascent Soul cultivator has already begun to touch the edge of the laws of heaven and earth."
"Those who are at the Nascent Soul stage or above directly utilize the ultimate principles of the Heavenly Dao. Each of these powerful individuals is, in themselves, an embodiment of a Heavenly Dao rule."
Feng Ling Shuang glanced at her, and although she was a little annoyed by the smug look on this stinky fox's face, she really couldn't say anything in rebuttal.
On the other hand, Dong Mo, the central protagonist of this turmoil, was staring intently at Yin Lingsu, silently cursing his cheap master in his heart!
Keep it up! You're such a cool older sister when you're wielding a sword!
I'll lend you all my light!
If you lose the battle, I'll be in big trouble...
At that point, I'll have no choice but to commit suicide!