He saw the old Shaoling savage approaching.
Tang Yu glanced over and asked, "Is something happening?"
Of this person, Tang Yu had some impression; he only knew that he was a trusted man of Elder Ji Cheng.
Beyond that, he didn't know much more. After all, he had been busy scheming in the Yinming Sea region; how could he have time to pay attention to such nonsense?
"Can't I chat with Lord Tang even if I have nothing to say? Lord Tang has achieved a great merit fighting in the rear of the Yinming Sea. In my opinion, it wouldn't be unreasonable for the Litang Sect to choose you as the next leader."
The old Shaoling savage smiled with narrowed eyes.
Tang Yu simply looked at him without saying a word.
"Don't worry. Although Ji Cheng holds a high position, he is not aware of this. Wang Yuan won't tell anyone either."
The old Shaoling savage guessed what Tang Yu was thinking, paused, and continued.
"Besides, now that the Yinming Sea problem has been resolved once and for all, besides you and me, no third person will know about this matter."
Tang Yu immediately understood who the man in front of him really was.
Apart from the lord of the Yinming Sea, who else could have discovered what he was plotting there?
He looked at him suspiciously for a moment and said:
"Wasn't this incarnation of yours affected after you were sealed?"
"All good, all good. When reaching our level, there are always other methods. Creating a body outside the body isn't as problematic as what you did. If you're interested, I can teach you too."
The old Shaoling savage—or rather the lord of the Yinming Sea—showed a broad smile.
Seeing him so relaxed and in good spirits,
Tang Yu didn't rush to flee or seek reinforcements.
The Emperor had already left, and the Snow Leopard still remained in the Litang mountain range. It wouldn't be so easy for the other to take revenge on him.
Moreover, if he really wanted revenge, he would have chosen a sneak attack, not come deliberately to chat.
"If the senior has something to teach me, better get straight to the point. I have a weak heart."
Tang Yu got straight to the point.
"How did you manage to release the aura of your Great Dao?"
The lord of the Yinming Sea looked at him intently and asked without beating around the bush.
Once the seal was broken, reaching the Celestial Rino was only a matter of time.
But even so, the trace of the impregnated Dao wasn't something that could be eliminated.
And more so, Tang Yu had reached such a deep understanding of the Dao. If he reached that level of enlightenment, completing cultivation and ascending would be an easy matter.
"Didn't you deliberately leave a weak point so that I would contaminate the spiritual energy, sacrificing so many demon beasts and demon cultivators, precisely so that the Yinming Sea would no longer have any of them? And now you ask me to recover the aura of my Great Dao... What do you gain from this?"
Tang Yu frowned.
About the true identity of the lord of the Yinming Sea, and the direction of his understanding of the Dao,
Tang Yu had been pondering.
After all, in all the plans he had to execute, the greatest obstacle was precisely that lord of the Yinming Sea.
After thinking for a moment, Tang Yu came to a conclusion and asked the lord of the Yinming Sea:
"Is the Yinming Sea the manifestation of your own Dao? Are you not a demon beast, but the spirit of water embodying the fate of the Yinming Sea?"
The lord of the Yinming Sea smiled slightly, confirming the assumption.
In this world full of spiritual energy,
some existences arise due to environmental necessity.
Mountains have their mountain spirit, waters have their water spirit.
Their existence represents that the Yinming Sea has developed self-awareness and has gradually ascended on the Dao path.
The entire extent of the Yinming Sea is his Dao field, which is why he can be the lord of the Yinming Sea.
But after becoming the lord of the Yinming Sea, the countless demon beasts born in the Yinming Sea were both his assistants and his burden.
The existence of these demon beasts and demon cultivators only consumed the spiritual energy of the Yinming Sea, as if devouring its own flesh and blood.
And since he was the lord of the Yinming Sea, he couldn't act to eliminate these demon beasts and demon cultivators.
Because their fate was connected to his, and if he killed them with his own hands, it would only provoke a counterattack from fate.
To solve this dilemma, the war between the demon beasts of the Yinming Sea and the Litang Mountain Range began.
All of Tang Yu's actions, from beginning to end, were under his surveillance, and upon noticing the Great Dao that Tang Yu had comprehended, he devised this plan.
The intervention of Emperor Dingzhen was not his true objective.
His real goal was to create an opportunity for Tang Yu.
For Tang Yu to help him contaminate the spiritual energy of the Yinming Sea.
To cut off at the root the possibility that the Yinming Sea would once again breed demon cultivators!
Seeing that the lord of the Yinming Sea extended his hand, Tang Yu smiled and said:
"Recovering those traces of the Great Dao is very complicated. At my current level, it's not something I can solve in a short time, and besides, if there's no benefit, why should I do it?"
"Benefits? How many things did you take from my Yinming Sea? Aren't those benefits enough? Or do you expect that in a thousand years, when the seal breaks, I will chase you down to kill you?"
The lord of the Yinming Sea asked with a cold laugh.
After breaking the seal, he still had to remain in the Yinming Sea cultivating, absorbing all the spiritual energy.
But if the spiritual energy wasn't recovered, wouldn't his Dao stagnate?
"Then, why don't we make a deal? In a thousand years, my cultivation should have reached the appropriate level. By then, I will recover the trace of the Great Dao. In exchange, during those thousand years, how about you guarantee my safety?"
Tang Yu proposed with a smile.
"Go away."
The lord of the Yinming Sea was not crazy. That bastard had a death wish, and was he supposed to clean up his mess for a thousand years?
It's true his current cultivation was very high.
But in the Nine Heavens Continent, there were also plenty of old monsters, and although one day he might be invincible under the sky, in the Celestial Realm he was still awaited by a group of old Immortal Emperors.
He extended a finger and said: "For a thousand years, I will help you once. This incarnation of mine only has strength at the intermediate stage of the Great Ascension Realm. Judge for yourself."
After the demon beasts and demon cultivators of the Yinming Sea died, their flesh and cultivation were absorbed by him, significantly increasing his Realm.
If not, this incarnation of his wouldn't even have the Great Ascension Realm.
For a deal with such profit, Tang Yu, of course, was more than delighted.
He rubbed his hands happily and said: "That can be arranged, that can be arranged. By the way, what plans does this incarnation of yours have now? Since your main body will be sealed for a thousand years, if you have nothing to do, why not visit our Hehuan Sect?"
The lord of the Yinming Sea let out a dry laugh and turned to leave.
Go to the Hehuan Sect? To be the sect's bodyguard? What nice illusions.
"Senior! The season has changed lately, it's cold and it rains frequently. Don't forget to wear extra clothes when you go out and take an umbrella."
Tang Yu stayed where he was, waving his hand, flattering as sweetly as he could.
When he finally said goodbye to that old monster, Tang Yu felt somewhat melancholic.
The ten-thousand-year war had come to an end. Those cultivators who died in battle...
Wasn't it all for nothing?
But in this world where the strong devour the weak, talking about justice and morality is pure fantasy.
After calming his emotions a bit, Tang Yu descended from the clouds and discovered the elders of the Litang Sect coming out of the sect leader's main hall.
And the one walking at the front was none other than Ji Cheng.
Seeing him holding a very familiar pipe in his hand, Tang Yu knew that he was the new leader of the Litang Sect.
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