Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension-Chapter 317 - 245 Sword God Ancestor_2

Chapter 317: Chapter 245 Sword God Ancestor_2

Seeing this, Jian Shisan harbored doubts and couldn’t help but step up, stepping onto a platform with a sudden move.

In an instant, the scenery before his eyes transformed drastically, and he found himself in a new illusion.

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Eight hundred steps

Eight hundred and one steps

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Meanwhile, as Zhao Sheng ascended step by step toward the apex,

his astounding performance had already left the group of beauties at the base of the mountain dumbfounded.

Being the honored daughters of the Dong family, each of them was well aware of the terrifying nature of the Heart Refining Road.

It was precisely for this reason that they truly understood how steadfast that man’s Taoist heart must be!

Based on his performance today, it was certain that as long as he didn’t meet with a mishap and perish halfway, he had an eight or nine out of ten chance of advancing to a Golden Core Master.

The moment they thought of this, the eyes of the many beauties turned feverish, and most of them took an interest in Zhao Sheng.

The thoughts of the other three Reserve Weavers, Dong Xiaowan, Dong Yushu, and Dong Meizhen, also wavered slightly.

In the Central Continent Cultivation World, the status of a Golden Core Master is so high, it needs no further elaboration.

For a Heavenly Destiny Weaver of the Dong Family to marry a True Golden Core Master was already considered perfect merit, a cause for universal rejoicing.

As for Nascent Soul Ancestors, unless they needed to produce offspring, even if they wished to become a concubine, it would depend on whether the Ancestors were willing.

The Weavers of the Dong family were not so easily wed; marrying one meant tying major knots of cause and effect with the Dong Family.

For Golden Core Masters, it might not matter much.

But each Nascent Soul Ancestor was a top-tier figure at the level of a clan founder or Taoist Ancestor, and their choice of marriage partner could even affect the thousand-year Qi Fortune of their respective forces.

Because of the wide-ranging implications, careful consideration was mandatory.

Don’t assume that the hundred-plus participants of the Phoenix Meeting were all exceptional talents. Among them, at most three or four could become True Golden Cores.

What if it were a False Core Master?

Sorry! The highly discerning Weavers truly wouldn’t give them a second glance.

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At this moment, a noble and glamorous beauty with picturesque features quietly approached Dong Miaozhen and whispered, “Miaozhen sister, if you… don’t take a fancy to him, would you mind letting me have him?”

It was obvious who “he” was, without saying.

Before Dong Miaozhen could respond, the porcelain doll Dong Yuyi shouted angrily, “Dong Yushu, you’re shameless! Brother Zhao was clearly the one I took a fancy to first. How dare you compete with me!”

“Hmph, from childhood till now, there’s nothing you didn’t compete with me for; I just compete with you for once, what’s it to you!” Dong Yushu said contemptuously.

Though the two were not twin sisters, they were close as cousins, sharing a near kinship in terms of bloodline; however, their relationship was extremely poor.

“You… shameless! Sister, you must stand up for me!”

Dong Yuyi, being best at acting coquettishly, immediately sought Dong Miaozhen’s help with a pitiful face.

“Hehe! He doesn’t even spare you a glance; you’re wasting your time,” someone scoffed.

“Nonsense! Brother Zhao, he—”

Getting anxious, Dong Yuyi was about to defend herself,

but at that moment, Dong Miaozhen’s face suddenly darkened, and she shouted, “Enough, all of you, stop arguing! You’re acting as if you can’t get married off. There are plenty of good men in the world, not just Zhao Qingyang.”

As soon as her words fell, a wonderful voice of approval suddenly came from the sky,

“Well said!”

The lingering voice trailed off, and suddenly there appeared before the crowd a middle-aged man in plain clothes and with an iron sword, his face showing despondence.

“Ah, it’s the Ancestor!”

“Patriarch Lin, peace be upon you!”

“Ancestor, Yi’er greets you!”

The moment this person arrived, the beauties hurriedly paid their respects, fearing any slight impropriety.

This man was the Dong family’s greatest support and the only Divinity Transformation Independent Cultivator in the Tianzhu Realm.

This man, with the mortal surname Lin, given name Yizhi, had once joined the Carefree Sect in his early years but was later expelled.

A thousand years ago, due to a fateful encounter, he fell in love with a Heavenly Destiny Weaver of the Dong family.

Unfortunately, the Dong family forcefully separated the pair by beating the mandarin ducks.

After that, doomed by her beauty, the Weaver was wed to someone unworthy. She lived in melancholy and, not many decades later, died young in body but old in heart.

On her deathbed, she entrusted Lin Yizhi with caring for the Dong family.

For the next nine hundred years, Lin Yizhi had one fortuitous encounter after another, his qi fortune soaring to the heavens, consecutively ascending through the Golden Core and Nascent Soul realms.

Then, it became uncontrollable.

Two hundred years ago, Lin Yizhi, already a Great Cultivator, stepped into the Outer Void never to return.

Until a hundred years ago, when he reappeared in the Tianzhu Realm, he miraculously broke through the Divinity Transformation Heavenly Pass, becoming one of the pinnacle figures of the Tianzhu Realm.

The relationship between the Dong Family and “Sword God” Lin Yizhi was extremely complex, inscrutable to outsiders.

But because of him, the Dong Family was considered one of the several forces in the Tianzhu Realm that could not be easily provoked.

However, only the Dong Family members themselves understood that they were merely posturing using the name of the Sword God.

This ancestor only offered the Dong Family his casual protection because of a promise made to a loved one.

And his seclusion in the Yunhuang Mountain Range was also because before his ascension, there was a mere strand of worldly attachment left to resolve.

In order to settle the last thread of cause and effect, Lin Yizhi had holed up in the Yunhuang Mountain Range for nearly a hundred years, yet no one knew what he was waiting for.

Once everyone had steadied themselves, Lin Yizhi, looking somewhat nostalgic, waved his hand at the crowd and emphasized with profound meaning,

“Well said, the world is full of good men. However, it is said that priceless treasures are easy to find, but a lover with true feelings is hard to come by.

That lad is not bad, really suits my temperament. If I had his resolve back in the day, Yue Ru, you wouldn’t have ended up marrying that beast.”

Lin Yizhi spoke in a very calm manner, but Dong Miaozhen could hear that the ancestor still hadn’t completely let go in his heart.

Looking at the Sword God Ancestor who’d been as elusive as a dragon this year, Dong Miaozhen’s heart stirred with a bold speculation.

She looked up at the Heart Refining Road, just in time to see Zhao Sheng stepping over the last stone step and arriving at the peak.

Biting her lip, Dong Miaozhen steeled her courage and daringly asked, “Ancestor, if I may be so bold to ask, do you think Zhao Qingyang is a man to be entrusted with one’s life?”

Upon hearing this, Lin Yizhi’s face bore a smirk that was not quite a smile, his expression impenetrably profound.

Seeing this, Dong Miaozhen immediately felt unease, while others dared not even breathe too loudly.

“Ah, this lad is quite remarkable, I hope he…”

Lin Yizhi suddenly sighed, uttering a cryptic remark, but what he said in the latter half remained unknown to all.

Before the echoes of his voice had faded, Lin Yizhi had already disappeared from sight.

Lin Yizhi had arrived suddenly, but his departure was even more abrupt.

However, due to his appearance, the many beauties present instantly changed their minds, and the power-holders of the Dong Family, monitoring from behind the scenes, were greatly shocked.

“The Sword God Ancestor has actually appeared. This matter must be reported to the Family Head and the Ancestor promptly.”

“You make sense. But why did the Ancestor suddenly appear, and what did he just say?”

“How would I know? The moment Lin Yizhi appeared, my Array was blocked, and what he said will have to wait until we can ask Miaozhen and the others.”

“Then… why not go and inquire now?”

“Are you out of your mind? Lin Yizhi might not have left yet. Would you dare to approach him now? It’s best to wait until nightfall, once Miaozhen has returned, then it won’t be too late to ask.”

“You’re right, elder brother, your consideration is thorough. I was just too impatient for a moment and almost ruined everything.”

In a secret underground palace near Guardian Peak, three Golden Core Clan Elders of the Dong Family were momentarily flustered, discussing fervently about the Ancestor’s sudden appearance.

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Meanwhile, Zhao Sheng was oblivious to what was happening down the mountain.

Upon reaching the peak, he saw a giant bowl-shaped Light Shield ten zhang away to the north, standing about three zhang high.

Bathed in sunlight, the Light Shield’s surface reflected rainbow-like Light Halos, with thousands of ancient Spiritual Texts flickering in and out of sight within the Halos.

“Beneath the Light Shield must be the Tao Character Stele! Alas, better wait for now, the others are too slow.”

Zhao Sheng sighed, then sat down cross-legged facing the colorful Light Shield.

Unbeknownst to him, Lin Yizhi was intently observing his True Body from three to four zhang behind, evaluating him with fiery eyes.

“Mmm, this lad’s aura is very pure, definitely one of the Human Clan from the Tianzhu Realm, not at all like one of those Outer Heaven Demons who has seized a body, nor does he seem like any of those ill-intentioned visitors from beyond the realm.

Yet, compared to his peers, his physique is far too strong, almost on par with the Moving Star Giants in their youthful years.

I was not sure before, but now it is undoubtedly a Mutated bloodline.

If this lad’s bloodline can be stably passed down, the Qi Fortune of our realm might increase by another fraction.

Perhaps, in that case, our ascension to the Spirit Realm could be a bit easier.”

Having made his judgment, Lin Yizhi had already secretly decided that this lad must have several children.

Scouring the entire Tianzhu Realm, there was no one more suitable for this lad than the Heavenly Destiny Weaver of the Dong Family.

He was well aware that in recent ten thousand years, the Dong Family was one of the select few “Heavenly Destiny Clans” chosen by this world, with members capable of giving birth to those with heavenly fated capabilities.

The destiny of the Dong Family was the Phoenix Girl, a born husband-prosperer, able to activate