This cultivation world was never serious from the start.

This is a long story.

Mr. Yang sighed.

"It's alright, take your time," Su Zhe quickly said.

He's not afraid of long stories; after all, when it comes to gossiping, who doesn't find it troublesome?

"I was quite mischievous when I was a child..." Yang took a deep breath and began to recount his story.

When Yang was born, an unusual phenomenon occurred: a total of eighty-one bolts of lightning struck the Yang family mansion, almost shattering half of it.

When Yang was three years old, he had already shown extraordinary talent in cultivation. He not only drew qi into his body, but also angered a family patriarch who had been famous for many years to death.

When Yang was five years old, he became obsessed with stories about tomb raiding. In one night, he dug up 180 large tombs in his ancestral cemetery and left the words "Yang Huanyu's son was here" on the tomb. As a result, Yang's older brother was almost beaten to death.

However, after Yang's elder brother took the blame, Yang himself was blessed with good fortune. A ring he found in an ancestral grave turned out to contain a remnant soul of an ancestor.

The ancestor was awakened by Yang and, through the power of bloodline, sensed that this was his descendant. So he passed on the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Technique, which was not yet completely lost at the time, to Yang.

Over the next few decades, under the tutelage of that ancestor, Yang actually learned a fragment of the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Technique.

This is the entire process by which Yang obtained the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Technique.

After listening to Yang's account, Su Zhe and Yun Shuiyao both had complicated expressions.

So this Lord Yang was a child prodigy from a young age! No wonder I took a liking to him at first sight.

"In short, that's the whole process of how I obtained the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Technique," Yang sighed and said.

This is his deepest secret, and to this day, no one else in the entire Yang family knows it.

Two other people now know his secret.

"I see. So, what about the remnant soul of your ancestor?" Su Zhe asked.

He was still somewhat unwilling to give up and wanted to obtain more clues about the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Technique from the remnant soul of the Yang family patriarch.

After all, he is a magic genius recognized by the guardian spirits of the Heavenly Inquiry Sect. What if he accidentally completes the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Technique?

Yunshuiyao's eyes lit up again.

She understood what her senior brother meant!

It turns out that it wasn't about incorporating Yang's soul into the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, but rather about incorporating the soul of that Yang family ancestor into the Ten Thousand Souls Banner!

This guy's thinking is much better than mine. He truly deserves to be my senior!

"Dead." Yang spread his hands. "That ancestor has been dead for over 80,000 years. The only remaining wisp of his spirit was attached to his true bones. After I brought him out of the ancestral land, he only existed for 20 years before he could no longer continue and dissipated into the world."

Upon hearing Yang's words, Su Zhe couldn't help but sigh.

However, he wasn't too disappointed. After all, he had great faith in his status as a genius in magic. Even if Yang's Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Technique was incomplete, he was confident that he could complete it!

"This is a closely guarded secret of my Yang family. I originally intended to reveal it to the public after further completing it, in order to solidify my position as a prodigy in the Yang family. But now... I'll leave it to you for now."

Mr. Yang sighed deeply and spoke reluctantly.

He would rather give this cultivation technique to Yun Shuiyao than to Su Zhe.

"Don't mention it, it's what you should do." Su Zhe smiled and took the jade bottle from Yang's hand.

The jade tablet shimmered with a faint light, and contained a vast amount of knowledge, namely the cultivation method of the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Technique.

Yang gritted his teeth and gripped the jade piece tightly in his hand, so much so that Su Zhe couldn't pull it over the first time.

But Su Zhe is no ordinary person either. He possesses an indestructible golden body at the Foundation Establishment stage, and in terms of physical strength alone, he is in no way inferior to some cultivators at the Golden Core stage.

After several attempts, he managed to pull the jade piece into his hand.

"Thank you very much, Lord Yang. I will definitely keep this item safe for you. The light of the Phoenix Tribulation Rebirth Technique will shine throughout the entire continent!" Su Zhe said with a smile.

"Stop talking nonsense. What about what you promised me?" Yang said with a dark face, reaching out his hand to receive the so-called Heavenly Demon Sect token from Su Zhe.

Su Zhe didn't delay. He took out a jade piece and wrote two lines of text on it with a wave of his hand.

[From the moment the wind and thunder rise from the earth, spirits are born from piles of white bones.]

"That's it?" Yang took the jade piece, looked at it over and over again, and found that there were only two sentences inside. He couldn't help but ask suspiciously.

"That's enough," Su Zhe said calmly.

Although Tianmo was a long-time anime and manga fan, Su Zhe wasn't part of the community. He didn't understand any of the coded language used by veteran anime and manga fans.

However, once this sentence is written down, the Heavenly Demon will know who wrote it immediately.

After all, how could someone who transmigrated to another world and, despite bearing the name of a demon, still try to live like a modern person?

"Alright, I'll trust you this once!" Yang carefully placed the jade piece close to his body.

After the transaction was completed, Yang looked at the Yang family ancestral graves and suddenly couldn't help but sigh, "Thirty years ago, I stood right here and single-handedly dug up the graves of more than a hundred ancestors..."

"And then you didn't leave your own name, only Yang Huanyu's son, which almost got your older brother beaten to death?" Su Zhe couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"Go away, go away, I'm feeling sentimental right now, what are you doing?" Yang said with a dark face, waving his hand hastily.

After a brief moment of remembrance, he stood up and prepared to head to Linshui City.

There is a mechanical ascension branch of the Heavenly Demon Sect there; if he wants to go to the Heavenly Demon Sect, he has to go through there.

Su Zhe accompanied Yang to Linshui City, and then returned to Tianwen Sect with Yun Shuiyao.

In Linshui City, Yang looked at the banners welcoming the new city lord and felt a pang of unease.

He experienced the same thing when he took office, but now he can only watch helplessly as his deputy takes over.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a surge of anger and malice. He dropped his disguise, revealed his true self, and found an old man squatting by the roadside tying up a banner.

"Old man, don't I look like the former city lord who died a tragic death...?"

The old man was tying up a banner when he turned around shakily, only to see a familiar, pale face rushing towards him with a strange smile.

"Ah..." the old man wailed, his eyes rolled back, and he lay down on the ground.

Yang's expression softened somewhat.

Before he could even lift his leg to head to the Mechanical Ascension Division, a deep voice suddenly reached his ears.

"Brother, you don't seem like a good guy either. How about joining our Heavenly Demon Sect?"

……

At Tianwen Peak, Su Zhe returns.

He had just jumped off the flying boat when he brandished the jade piece and rushed into the mourning hall.

"Senior sister! Senior sister! Look what amazing thing I found!!"