“You still want to resist?”
Guanghan Ancestor discovered a mysterious force originating from the region of the heart, and, greatly alarmed, summoned the sealed power within Xia Ningxue to suppress the Yin Yang Dual Cultivation Skills.
The Yin Yang Dual Cultivation Skills indeed had some mysterious aspects, but they could not dissolve the current crisis.
Guanghan Ancestor, with boundless magical power, had survived since ancient times, and her cultivation had become unimaginably profound.
With the last hope having failed, Xia Ningxue’s heart sank into despair.
Because of Lu Changsheng’s letter, she had been on guard against Guanghan Ancestor, but before the absolute gap in strength, Xia Ningxue’s defences were of no use.
“Soon, I will have a new vessel, this vessel will be even more perfect than my original body! I may actually have the chance to be truly undying and indestructible!”
Guanghan Ancestor, seeing her great work about to be accomplished, became increasingly ecstatic.
After countless years, she finally found a perfect, flawless vessel.
Just as Guanghan Ancestor was about to complete the soul possession ritual, a wisp of divine consciousness within Xia Ningxue suddenly blazed with light; a figure resembling a goddess appeared, blocking the powerful divine consciousness of Guanghan Ancestor.
This figure of the goddess, bearing some resemblance to Xia Ningxue, was like the ruler of heaven and earth.
In front of her, Guanghan Ancestor seemed as insignificant as an ant.
“No, it’s impossible! Could it be that you are…”
Guanghan Ancestor was horrified to see within the depths of Xia Ningxue’s Sea of Consciousness such a terrifying remnant soul.
If it had been ancient times, with her cultivation, perhaps she could have fought, but she was in the critical moment of the possession, and discovering Xia Ningxue’s unusual origins, she panicked.
The remnant soul of the goddess, with a flick of her willowy hand, caused Guanghan Ancestor’s powerful divine consciousness to rapidly disintegrate!
“No, no!”
Guanghan Ancestor struggled in despair, but before the goddess, her divine consciousness could not withstand a single blow.
“This was a trap you laid! I fell for it!”
Guanghan Ancestor, who had lived for countless years, was terrified to find the possession failed and her own divine consciousness dispersed completely, consigned to the Netherworld, while her lifetime of accumulated power was sealed within Xia Ningxue.
After thoroughly erasing all traces of Guanghan Ancestor’s presence, the remnant soul of the goddess disappeared within Xia Ningxue’s Sea of Consciousness.
…
It took a long time before Xia Ningxue finally came to her senses.
She looked at her hands in disbelief, then pinched her beautiful face to confirm she was not dreaming or in an illusion, “Weird, wasn’t I being possessed?”
Xia Ningxue hurriedly circulated her cultivation technique to check the situation inside her body.
Inside her, there was no longer even a trace of Guanghan Ancestor’s divine consciousness, and the power that Guanghan Ancestor had cultivated over countless years was securely sealed within Xia Ningxue’s Dantian.
This vast power, if fully refined, Xia Ningxue had no idea what realm she might reach.
“Could it be that Guanghan Ancestor’s possession failed?”
Xia Ningxue, still in shock, conducted several checks to find that indeed, not a trace remained of Guanghan Ancestor’s lifetime of power, only pure spiritual energy, which could be safely refined in the future.
But why did Guanghan Ancestor suddenly fail partway through?
Xia Ningxue was baffled.
The struggle between Xia Ningxue and Guanghan Ancestor for the body took place deep within the Wan Ren Glacier, unknown to the others of the Guanghan Holy Land.
“Although you passed on your power to me, your ultimate goal was still to possess me, so I won’t be thankful for your so-called kindness.”
Xia Ningxue looked towards the sea bottom, where the original body of Guanghan Ancestor had sunk into the depths.
This vessel was just the body of the previous Guanghan Holy Maiden and not the true original body of Guanghan Ancestor.
Having narrowly escaped death, Xia Ningxue calmed down and thought of meeting Lu Changsheng soon, which stirred some excitement in her.
She had cultivated hard for many years and survived the crisis of possession in order to see Lu Changsheng, no easy feat.
Xia Ningxue returned to Guanghan Palace first.
When her senior sisters saw Xia Ningxue return, they all came up to her, bombarding her with a flurry of questions.
“Congratulations, little junior sister, on advancing to the Immortal Emperor Realm.”
“Junior Sister Xia, having never left our Guanghan Holy Land in recent years, made a sensational ascension to Immortal Emperor status. Surely, she will be able to enter the top ten of the Qilin Ranking in the future.”
“I heard from Master that the Ancestor sealed all his lifelong cultivation within you, maybe in the future you could become the first person in our Guanghan Holy Land!” Your next journey awaits at empire
The many Senior Sisters, upon discovering that Xia Ningxue had smoothly become a newly ascended Immortal Emperor, offered congratulations, not forgetting to curry favor with this junior sister with limitless prospects.
“Hmph.”
Jiang Yue Fairy snorted coldly, invariably attributing such a demonic genius like Xia Ningxue to her incredibly good fortune.
Xia Ningxue herself possessed a special physique, the “Lingwa Holy Body,” and also has the lifelong cultivation of the Guanghan Ancestor.
After Xia Ningxue’s Dao companion, Lu Changsheng, defeated Buddha Lord Xingwang of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple, who ranked fourteenth on the Qilin Ranking, he currently held the eleventh position on the Qilin Ranking.
Since Xia Ningxue had never made a move outside, she hadn’t entered the Qilin Ranking yet.
But with her current strength, entering the top twenty of the Qilin Ranking would be a breeze.
This meant that Xia Ningxue’s strength already surpassed that of Jiang Yue Fairy. Unless Xia Ningxue perished along the way, it was impossible for Jiang Yue Fairy to reclaim her position as the Holy Maiden.
The Guanghan Palace Master was very pleased, looking over this junior disciple with satisfaction. Xia Ningxue’s talent promised that she might replace her as the new Palace Master of Guanghan in the future, ensuring the Holy Land had a successor.
“What about the Ancestor?”
“The Ancestor, having passed on his cultivation, reached the end of his lifespan and has submerged into the depths of the icy seas.”
Xia Ningxue did not mention to the Guanghan Palace Master the matter of the Ancestor wanting to seize her body.
Had the Guanghan Holy Land known that the Ancestor, using the “Supreme Forgetting Emotion Art,” a Supreme Skill, had continuously seized the bodies of the peerless geniuses of Guanghan Holy Land to continue living in their stead, the entirety of the Holy Land would have been shaken, and everyone would have feared for their own safety.
Moreover, this Ancestor was one of the Great Experts who founded the Guanghan Holy Land. This matter would have brought disgrace to Guanghan.
Xia Ningxue entered the Guanghan Holy Land also with the intention of looking out for the Holy Land.
The Guanghan Palace Master trusted her disciple, “The Ancestor has also passed away peacefully – there’s no need to be sad over this.”
“Master, may I ask if I can leave the Holy Land for a while?”
“Are you perhaps planning to meet that boy from Tai Hua Holy Land?”
“Yes.”
Xia Ningxue was somewhat anxious, worried that the Guanghan Palace Master might object.
To her surprise, due to the disciple’s breakthrough to the Immortal Emperor Realm and the prospect of a successor, the Guanghan Palace Master was in a particularly good mood and smiled faintly, “I heard from your junior master-uncle, Jin Yun Immortal Fairy, about this person. He was capable of defeating Buddha Lord Xingwang, who is at the first level of Immortal Emperor Realm, even while he was still in the Quasi-Emperor Realm. He is extremely talented and matches you very well.”
Xia Ningxue secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed Master approved of Lu Changsheng.
“It’s perfect timing, our Guanghan Holy Land is planning to join forces with Tai Hua Holy Land to investigate the Candle Dragon Clan in the Nether Sea. The Holy Sons and Holy Maidens of Tai Hua Holy Land will be going out for training, and if you go as well, you can meet with him. Before that, you should first solidify your cultivation at the first level of Immortal Emperor Realm.”
“Yes.”
Xia Ningxue was not in a rush. With the two great Holy Lands, Tai Hua and Guanghan, joining forces to explore the forbidden territory of the Nether Sea, she could soon reunite with Lu Changsheng.
…
In Tai Hua Holy Land, Lu Changsheng, having received the cultivation and insights returned by his Dual Cultivation System, knew that Xia Ningxue had also ascended to the status of Immortal Emperor.
“Soon, Tai Hua and Guanghan, the two great Holy Lands, will join hands to explore the territory of the Candle Dragon Clan in the Nether Sea. By then, Xia Ningxue will likely appear, and we can finally meet.”
Before heading to the territory of the Candle Dragon Clan, Lu Changsheng continued to teach his students, attempting to create several more Emperor Soldiers.
The Dragon Tiger Emperor Seal had been completely damaged during the confrontation with the Great Dao Gold Thunder, and Lu Changsheng had lost an Emperor Soldier.
Lu Changsheng called over his disciple, Dugu Aotian, and awarded him a Demon Sword.
[Ding, you have awarded your disciple Dugu Aotian a mid-grade Holy Artifact “Five Prison Demon Sword,” earning a reward of a million times return: a mid-grade Emperor Soldier “Myriad Phenomena.”]
A black Demon Sword appeared within Lu Changsheng’s body, its demonic Qi sweeping through the heavens.
With the emergence of this Demon Sword, the Inner World within Lu Changsheng trembled.
A mid-grade Emperor Soldier, its power even surpassing that of the Primordial Dao Banner, Five Elements Immortal Cauldron, and Dragon Tiger Emperor Seal!
With his Innate Taoist Body, Lu Changsheng could make use of this Demon Sword too.
Lu Changsheng began to attempt refining the Emperor Soldier Demon Sword.