Being a talent in the Chusheng Demon Sect

Chapter 917 You're testing me with this?
Lu Yang opened his eyes and calmly surveyed his surroundings.

The immense power that once overturned the heavens has now completely vanished, leaving only a mortal body powerless to even kill a chicken, and he is even afflicted with a serious illness.

Even breathing is painful.

“The person whose name was called came up to me.”

A familiar voice rang out from the stage. Lü Yang looked up and found himself once again as that ordinary, handsome young man who had just joined the Holy Sect.

"Drop your blood into the life lamp beside me and ignite the life fire. From now on, you will be registered disciples of my Chusheng Sect."

Senior Brother Liu Xin on the stage was still speaking when, after a short while, he began calling out names:

"Chen Liang."

"To!"

With a shout, a young Taoist boy with rosy lips and white teeth walked up, his brows filled with spiritual energy, clearly indicating that he had excellent aptitude.

Unfortunately, aptitude is the most useless thing in the Holy Sect.

The next second, just like Lü Yang's memory, the Daoist boy's name was directly crossed out by Senior Brother Liu Xin, and then he was sent to the outer sect's fourth hall to be redone as a talent.

'interesting.'

Lu Yang chuckled inwardly, but did not act rashly. Instead, he listened attentively to the instructions given by his senior brother Liu Xin on the stage until his name was called. Only then did he step forward. As expected, because he had no other talents besides being handsome, he was assigned to the Hehuan Hall.

The distribution was completed, and I received the cultivation method.

Soon, he followed the crowd to the Hehuan Hall, where he listened to the disciples chatting and talking, filled with beautiful fantasies about the path to immortality.

Everything felt incredibly real.

It was as if he had truly returned to the past.

Just then, a voluptuous and beautiful woman wearing a long dress with a slit up to her thighs, exuding charm and allure, walked out.

Yu Suzhen.

Unsurprisingly, the other party immediately chose him, who stood out from the crowd like a crane among chickens.

"I think you're quite good-looking, come with me."

"You are lucky to have entered my Hehuan Palace. You don't have to suffer like the other three palaces. After all, the tests in my Hehuan Palace are much easier."

"Junior brother, you're amazing."

"I never expected that you, a beginner, would have such a high level of skill in the Yin-Yang Great Music Ode. If it weren't for my superior skill, I would have been forced to learn it from you."

"Unfortunately, I was ultimately one step ahead."

Yu Suzhen chuckled lightly, her beautiful eyes filled with smugness and mockery. At the same time, she twisted her slender waist, further accelerating her actions to drain Lü Yang's energy.

However, Lü Yang remained unmoved.

Even on the verge of death, he felt no anger or fear, but was completely immersed in his dual cultivation with Yu Suzhen, and finally sighed sincerely:

"Lifelike".

Upon hearing this, Yu Suzhen was immediately stunned.

Even the light stopped.

Inside the cave, candlelight and lamplight illuminated the room, revealing every speck of dust, and everything seemed to fall into an eerily still state.

Only Lü Yang.

He merely stroked Yu Suzhen's delicate body gently, feeling the warm, smooth texture like white jade, without any impure thoughts, then shook his head disdainfully:
"You devil, you're using this to test me?"

The senses, actions, and words were all exactly the same as in my memory. To be able to do this, the power of the causal network is truly well-deserved.

Unfortunately—it's useless to me.

"As everyone knows, I am not interested in beautiful women. Which Holy Sect True Lord would not be able to withstand such a test?"

"Boom."

At that moment, accompanied by a crisp sound like shattering glass, the scene before them began to crumble, finally plunging into boundless darkness. The next second, light reappeared.

Lü Yang opened his eyes for the second time.

What he saw was exactly what the Heavenly Court's meditation room looked like before he entered meditation, and in front of him, a black-haired youth holding colorful light was staring straight at him.

"I never imagined that you, fellow Daoist, would be so well-versed in cause and effect."

The Primordial Demon fiddled with the [Time-Shifting Instrument] in his hand, his dark eyes like bottomless abysses, filled with undisguised astonishment:
"On the contrary, I was the one who tried to teach a fish to swim and made a fool of myself."

Upon hearing this, Lü Yang nodded: "Indeed, it's like showing off one's limited skills before an expert."

Upon hearing this, the composed smile on the face of the Primordial Demon froze instantly. I was just being polite, and you actually dare to talk back to me like that?

However, Lü Yang, with an air of self-righteousness, continued his commentary:
"The mystery of the [City Wall Soil] is wonderful, but you don't know how to use it at all. You're like buying the box and returning the pearl. You have a mountain of treasure but don't know it. It's really lamentable."

The primordial demon's eyes gradually darkened:

"Fellow Daoist, you seem to know a lot about [City Wall Soil]?"

"Know a thing or two."

Lu Yang smiled. In his previous life, he had shared Yuan Tu's cultivation level with the "Disciple with a Teacher" technique. That was the cultivation level of the orthodox "City Wall Soil" True Lord!

Otherwise, coupled with the protection of his mind by the True Treasure Yellow Court, which inherited the imagery of "City Wall Soil," he wouldn't have been able to remain conscious just now.

Normally, Lü Yang should have been like Emperor Jiayou before him, trapped in the past karmic landscape while also having all his future memories sealed.

However, he was not affected.

This is why the Primordial Demon said earlier that he was proficient in cause and effect; only those who are favored by the great net of cause and effect can remain clear-headed in the realm of cause and effect.

Of course, this is only one aspect.

On the other hand, the reason why he is not afraid of the karmic severance of [City Wall Soil] is that [City Wall Soil] cannot trace his karma.

'What's going on with this person?!'

At the same time, the Primordial Demon was becoming somewhat impatient.

In fact, under normal circumstances, he would not directly trace back to the point in time when the target was just a Qi Refining disciple, because the corresponding cause and effect were too far in the past.

The longer the cause and effect are in the past, the more troublesome it is to change.

Otherwise, why would he go through all that trouble? He could have simply gone back to when the target was still an infant and strangled him. Wouldn't that have been much simpler and more direct?
It’s not that I don’t want to do it, it’s that I can’t do it.

For example, when dealing with Emperor Jiayou, he simply went back to when Emperor Jiayou was still in the early stage of the Golden Core realm, making it much easier to change the cause and effect.

He did the same thing to Lü Yang.

But here's the problem—after going back and forth, he discovered that this Immortal Lord who controlled tribulations and traversed karma was just a mortal before he became a Golden Core True Lord!

What about Qi Refining? What about Foundation Establishment?
None!

'What a joke! This person must have used some kind of causal severance technique to prevent me from going back in time. This person's background is terrifyingly powerful!'

Similar situations have occurred before, such as with [Angxiao]. The Primordial Heavenly Demon had no doubt that if he were to trace back the cause and effect of the other party, the result would only be that he would run headfirst into the white mist, or even die. Now, the fact that he could not trace back the cause and effect was already considered good.

The Primordial Demon was frantically searching for a solution.

However, before he could make a move, Lü Yang preemptively formed a hand seal, and a layer of misty, colorful light rippled out from his fingertips:

"Demon, there's no need to overthink it."

The colorful light surged like waves, instantly engulfing the entire quiet room.

"The World Honored One is really too kind to you. He gave you the [City Wall Soil] and the Heavenly Demon Body, and made you think you are invincible after killing Emperor Jiayou."

“But you don’t use ‘holding onto the past and present’ like that. Didn’t the World-Honored One teach you that?”

"Fine, I'll teach you this lesson on his behalf."

(End of this chapter)