Mortal: Starting by looting Han Laomo's entire herb garden

Yin Yue's eyes darted around as she asked the question that concerned her: "Brother Lu, when do you plan to go to Kunwu Mountain?"

Lu Yan thought for a moment: "At least at the late Nascent Soul stage."

Yin Yue was taken aback: "Late Nascent Soul stage? When will that be?"

"There's no use in rushing," Lu Yan said slowly. "Your other half of your soul is still in Kunwu Mountain, and it possesses all the cultivation of your original body. I, a Foundation Establishment cultivator, am no match for it. Besides, you've waited all these years, a few hundred more won't make a difference."

Silver Moon paused for a moment, then asked, "Soul splitting? What soul splitting?"

Didn't I just say that?

Afterwards, Lu Yan embellished the story of how Tian Kui Wolf King had abused Yin Yue and driven her to schizophrenia.

That's roughly the gist of it; he couldn't remember the specifics, since he'd read the novels many years ago.

After hearing the whole story, Yin Yue's face fell: "You mean to say that my own body has now been taken over by my split soul?"

Lu Yan shook his head: "No, your body has been taken over by Yuan Sha."

"That's worse!"

Silver Moon was completely speechless and lay on the ground, unwilling to say anything.

Lu Yan comforted him, "Don't worry too much. At worst, I can use my abilities to get you to the True Immortal Realm and find you a True Immortal-level four-eyed spirit fox corpse to possess. Maybe you can return to the Spirit Realm with True Immortal cultivation in the future?"

Regardless of whether it can be done or not, let's just make a promise first.

Silver Moon's ears immediately perked up. Oh right, she had a powerful backer by her side! And returning to the Spirit Realm with the cultivation of a True Immortal was just too awesome!

She was thrilled and jumped onto Lu Yan's shoulder, nuzzling him: "I knew Brother Lu wouldn't watch me suffer."

"Of course, but before that, get the job done." Lu Yan grabbed her by the back of the neck and lifted her down.

"Get to work?"

Lu Yan revealed a ruthless capitalist's smile: "That's right, you know my abilities. From now on, when we're stealing things, we'll rely on you."

Silver Moon: "…………"

"Then it's settled. I'll find you an ordinary four-eyed spirit fox to possess first, and you can call yourself Silver Moon for now."

As soon as Lu Yan finished speaking, Yin Yue rolled her eyes and suddenly said, "Brother Lu, it's not just one spirit who knows your secret."

"Huh?" Lu Yan's heart skipped a beat. "What do you mean?"

Yin Yue chuckled: "Brother Lu, didn't you have a skeleton in your storage bracelet? There's also a remnant soul inside. You didn't know that all this time, did you?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Yan frowned, and a beam of light instantly flew out of the storage bracelet and landed on the ground. It was the remains of the ancient cultivator obtained from the blood-red forbidden stone tower.

He circled the skeleton twice, scanning it with his divine sense more than a dozen times, but still couldn't find any trace of it.

"Where?" Lu Yan looked at Yin Yue.

Silvermoon pointed with her paw at the skeleton's left hand: "It's inside the index finger bone. That finger bone was refined into a magical artifact, and that old guy is hiding inside pretending to be asleep."

Lu Yan looked down and saw that the finger bone was slightly longer than the others, and the surface of the bone was as smooth as jade.

"Come out, stop pretending," Lu Yan said to the finger bone.

No response.

Yin Yue rolled her eyes dramatically: "Old man, if you keep pretending, I'll throw you into the latrine, believe it or not? You see Brother Lu traveling around every day, don't think I don't know."

There was a brief silence.

A flash of blue light appeared on his finger bones, and a phantom figure floated out, landing on the ground and transforming into an old man with white hair. His figure was ethereal, but his demeanor was extraordinary, with a hint of arrogance in his eyes and brows, befitting someone who had long held a high position.

He stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze sweeping over Lu Yan, then looking at Yin Yue, and said indifferently, "Linglong Demon Consort, since when have you become so talkative?"

Silver Moon snorted: "My name is Silver Moon now."

The old man didn't argue, but simply looked at Lu Yan, sizing him up: "Not bad, not bad. Young friend, your foundation is solid, and your future is limitless. I wonder if you have any plans to become my disciple?"

Before Lu Yan could speak, Yin Yue objected, "Aren't you afraid of biting off more than you can chew? Brother Lu is a man of great stature; why would he take an old man of dubious origin like you as his master?"

"Of dubious origin?" The old man immediately bristled and glared upon hearing this.

"I am the Heavenly Talisman True Man of the Heavenly Talisman Sect in Huayun Continent of the Great Jin Dynasty! Back when the Demon Realm invaded, countless demons of the same rank were slain by my hand. If it weren't for the sneak attack by the avatar of the Yuan Sha Demon Ancestor, I would have ascended to the Spirit Realm long ago!"

Lu Yan's spirits lifted. What? This guy is the Heavenly Talisman Immortal? He hasn't dissipated even after tens of thousands of years.

Silver Moon curled her lip and said disdainfully, "Tch! In the end, isn't it just a dying remnant of consciousness?"

"you!"

The two souls seemed to be incompatible from birth, and once they started arguing, they couldn't stop.

Lu Yan wasn't in a hurry; he just watched the two souls fight it out.

Luckily, he had learned quite a few languages, otherwise he really wouldn't have been able to understand what the two of them were arguing about.

However, as he listened, he gradually understood the gist of it.

When the Heavenly Master Fu was invaded by the Demon Realm, he was ambushed and severely injured in both his soul and body.

However, he did not pass away as rumored. Instead, he possessed a body and secretly went to the Crimson Forbidden Land to find a spiritual medicine to heal his soul.

Before he could recover his strength, he was killed by the restrictions inside the stone tower. Before dying, he used a secret technique to entrust his remnant soul to the skeleton, where he slept until Lu Yan brought him out.

I don't know what kind of secret technique he used, but he was able to stay in the storage space unharmed in his remnant soul form.

In the original story, when Nangong Wan went to the Crimson Forbidden Land after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, she did not find him, presumably because Tianfu Zhenren had already completely disappeared by then.

The good news is that Master Tianfu has already possessed another body once.

In the cultivation world, it's an ironclad rule that a cultivator can only possess one body. That means there's no need to worry about him trying to take advantage of my body. Otherwise, I'd just have to uphold the traditions of the Extreme Yin Island.

"I'm so angry!"

Master Tianfu was now completely devoid of his previous air of superiority; his hair was practically standing on end.

"How did the granddaughter of the dignified Patriarch Ao Xiao turn into such a vulgar and shameless person?"

Yin Yue glanced at him sideways, her tail practically wagging in the air: "What Ao Xiao Ancestor? I don't know him. I'm going to go to the Immortal Realm with Brother Lu to become an immortal and an ancestor, commanding all the immortals."

Master Tianfu: "…………"

Lu Yan coughed, interrupting their bickering: "Um, Senior Tianfu, I have a question."

Master Tianfu straightened his expression and said, "Please speak, young friend."

"Since you've been awake for a long time, why haven't you come out to meet me?" Lu Yan's tone was casual, but his eyes held a hint of scrutiny.

Master Tianfu coughed, somewhat embarrassed: "I... just wanted to examine the character and virtue of my successor before accepting him as my disciple. Now it seems I was right. Only a cautious person like you, young friend, is qualified to be my successor and go further on the path of cultivation."

Yin Yue, her face full of disbelief, leaned close to Lu Yan's ear and nudged him, "Brother Lu, I think this old man is clearly a toad trying to eat swan meat—ugly but skillful. Does someone as gifted as you, Brother Lu, really need guidance from someone as mere late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator?"

"You!" Tianfu Zhenren's eyes widened in anger at Yinyue's words.

Judging from his expression, Lu Yan believed that if the other party wasn't a remnant soul, he would definitely be so angry that he would die on the spot.

Lu Yan flicked Yin Yue on the forehead: "Don't talk nonsense. Senior Tianfu is a reclusive master. How could I, a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator, have the right to be picky? Besides, the path of cultivation is one of gradual progress. Learning more knowledge might come in handy someday."

Upon hearing this, Master Tianfu's expression softened slightly, and he stroked his beard and nodded gently.

Yinyue covered her head, pouted, but didn't say anything more.

However, Lu Yan then changed the subject: "But senior is a master at the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm. Even if only a wisp of your soul remains, it is not something a junior can resist. How can I allow someone else to snore beside my bed? It is normal for a junior to be a little worried."

He paused, looked into Tianfu Zhenren's eyes, and said sincerely, "As you just said, only by being cautious can one go further on the path of cultivation, and I wholeheartedly agree. If you would agree to let me place a restriction as a restraint, I think we can both feel at ease. What do you say?"

The expression that Master Tianfu had just calmed down instantly crumbled again.

He stared at Lu Yan, opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word for a long time.

Silver Moon, standing to the side, was laughing so hard she was doubled over, rolling around on the ground.