Lord Shenxiu-Chapter 963: Return (5200 Make-up)

"Hmm, finally reached Core Formation."

Inside the Secret History Golden Chapter, Zhong Shenxiu also sensed Lu Wen Yuan entering the Core Formation Stage, and a thoughtful smile emerged on his face.

"Always confined to one place, though safe, it doesn't allow me to know more of this world's truths..."

"Hey, knowledge gained from books feels shallow; to truly understand, you must experience it yourself!"

"Since you wish to travel far, go ahead and thoroughly explore this world and the secrets of demons!"

With this thought, Zhong Shenxiu used the ability of 'Utopia' to alter Lu Wen Yuan's destiny.

Initially, this person's fate was quite ordinary, but later he acquired a Golden Finger, an opportunity to achieve great success.

As for now, his soaring luck had not diminished, but the numerous entanglements of cause and effect made him look like a calamity-prone person.

Essentially, he now had the fate of a protagonist, and wherever he went, he encountered dangers, with a hundred times higher chance of becoming involved in extraordinary events!

Lu Wen Yuan, flying at the time, was unaware that his once-peaceful life was gone forever.

He merely shivered for no apparent reason... 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

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The news of a Golden Core Ancestor emerging from the Dan Ding Sect quickly spread, even causing considerable tension in the Feiyun Sect.

However, later, seeing that the Dan Ding Sect made no moves and hearing that the Lu Ancestor was a diligent practitioner who went traveling after forming his Core, they relaxed.

Meanwhile, the Lu Family and Lu Mingxin enjoyed increasing ease in their cultivation, protected by Lu Wen Yuan's reputation, with Foundation Establishment cultivators emerging frequently in the family.

A hundred years later, Lu Mingxin finally achieved a seamless blend of dragon and tiger, forming a Golden Core, truly reviving the name of the Taiqing Lu Family.

Time flows like water.

In the blink of an eye, over three hundred years had passed...

...

On this day.

Outside the Dan Ding Sect.

The towering, verdant, tripod-shaped mountain still stood unchanged, but the people had changed time and again.

Even for cultivators, over three hundred years is not a short time. Even Foundation Establishment cultivators have only a two hundred-year lifespan, and three hundred years is a large portion of a Core Formation cultivator's life!

The void slightly fluctuated, with invisible spatial power forming a door, through which a young-looking man with eyes full of an ancient feel emerged.

"Is this... the Dan Ding Sect?"

His divine sense swept across, revealing everything within the Dan Ding Sect, with even the Core Formation Ancestors unable to resist.

Lu Wen Yuan's face showed a hint of nostalgia: "Finally... I'm back!"

In this sigh, who knows how much helplessness, bitterness, and remembrance was contained!

Thinking of the life he'd led these years, Lu Wen Yuan couldn't help but have tears well up in his eyes.

Since forming his Core, he began traveling across various countries, inexplicably cursed with misfortune; first, he offended a major cultivation family with three Core Formation cultivators due to a treasure at the Liang Country's border, getting hunted down and eventually fleeing into the Mist Mountain Range.

Then, he provoked demon beasts in the Mist Mountain Range, fleeing thirty thousand miles and finally reaching Chu Country.

By chance, he arrived during a major cultivation war between Chu and Yue, with Nascent Soul Ancestors present, making any unfamiliar Core Formation cultivator highly conspicuous.

For some reasons, he had no choice but to join Chu's army and participate in the war against Yue.

Then, just one year before the war's end, Lu Wen Yuan was unfortunately caught in a Nascent Soul-level clash and got knocked into a void rift.

When he regained consciousness, he was shocked to find himself on another continent!

Demon Country, Devil Cultivators... Along the way, he even encountered Divinity Transformation practitioners!

Many times facing life-and-death crises, if not for his cautious nature and the aid of his Golden Finger, he would have died in a foreign land!

Of course, dangers and opportunities coexist.

Although he encountered many troubles, he also witnessed a vast amount of extraordinary cultivation techniques, countless precious elixir pills, and magical artifacts in the Cultivation World...

With the help of the Secret History Golden Chapter, plus a bit of luck, he was actually now a late-stage Nascent Soul Great Cultivator!

"The Void Flag, this void secret treasure is indeed exceptional, worth the price of cheating a Demon Saint to part with it using an illusory five-thousand-year Ten Thousand Flowers..."

With a wave of his hand, Lu Wen Yuan collected a small flag engraved with countless complex patterns, capable of mobile teleportation formations.

Yes... In so many years away, he had also become cunning.

He even raided various rare spiritual medicines and historical illusions of treasures, leaving countless demon cultivators and devil cultivators cursing him through their teeth and who knows how many times.

Of course, to avoid getting killed, Lu Wen Yuan always used a false identity for such actions and only acted in places he would never return to for certain gains.

Inside the Dan Ding Sect.

Lu Mingxin suddenly felt a surge of unease, awakening with a start from cultivation.

Soon, a long howl reached her ears.

A mighty mana wave swept over, causing her expression to change drastically: "It's a Nascent Soul Old Monster! Why has such a being come to our Dan Ding Sect?"

She raised her hand, releasing a red aura treasure, and flew out of her cave dwelling.

With her were five streams of light of different colors, all Golden Core Ancestors of the Dan Ding Sect, all with deeply anxious expressions.

After all, if such a Nascent Soul Old Monster were angered, the Dan Ding Sect might cease to exist...

Six Golden Core Ancestors stood outside the Dan Ding Sect, looking gravely at the figure in the void.

Lu Mingxin suddenly froze, gazing at that person's face, which perfectly overlapped with a figure from her memory, hesitantly saying, "Uncle?"

"You're Mingxin, right? Who would've thought, in more than three hundred years apart, even you have formed a Golden Core..."

Lu Wen Yuan smiled slightly and sighed.

He truly didn't expect to encounter so much during his time away, to be gone for so long, and those old friends and acquaintances, if they hadn't formed a Golden Core, most likely had perished.

Indeed, a glance revealed he couldn't see Tang Family's Ancestor.

"Where is fellow Daoist Tang Yong?"

Lu Wen Yuan casually asked.

A middle-aged man at the Golden Core Middle Stage hesitated momentarily before answering: "Senior Brother Tang exhausted his life span, passing away one hundred and fifty years ago... Now, Tang Shui'er is the Family Head of the Tang Family. She is Junior Sister Lu's disciple... Are you perhaps... Lu Wen Yuan, Uncle Lu?"

The array of Dan Ding Sect's Core Formations was full of uncertainty; they later learned of Lu Wen Yuan's departure, and some even had seen his portrait.

After all, Core Formation cultivators were customarily invited into the Ancestor Hall.

Yet, after three hundred years of absence, everyone assumed Lu Wen Yuan had perished outside; unexpectedly, he'd returned as a Nascent Soul!

This was not just a surprise, but a shock!

'The Family Head of the Tang Family is Tang Shui'er. It seems that Tang Buhuan also failed to achieve Core Formation and died early...'

Even though they were not friends, perhaps harboring some hostility, Lu Wen Yuan still felt a pang of loneliness.

He couldn't help but look at Lu Mingxin, knowing that within the Lu Family, without a second Core Formation, those he knew likely had all perished...