How come the celestial technique I stole is so powerful?!-Chapter 178: Elder Hua, Lord of Blooming

"Reporting to the Lord! This young master has been brought here." Feng Ji, the senior sister, bowed slightly, like a bamboo swayed by the wind.

Lin Xiaosu finally saw her full appearance.

That face of hers was somewhat terrifying.

And her figure was even more devil-like.

Describing a woman’s figure as devilish usually means curvaceous and tempting.

But her figure being described as ghostly is literal—it truly resembled a ghost.

Her thinness was indescribable; such thinness, any bit of flesh on her body would be a luxury, including her chest, which had nothing...

"Please come in!" A gentle female voice came from inside.

It was the same voice he had heard from five miles away.

Lord!

"Young Master, please!" Feng Ji bowed gently, her voice soft.

"Thank you, Miss!" Lin Xiaosu bowed slightly to her and then stepped forward.

Ahead was a mountain cave.

The entrance had an old plum tree and a small pond, seemingly ordinary.

Yet, Lin Xiaosu dared not be careless, as he knew the person inside was someone he had never seen before—magically powerful beyond description.

Stepping into the cave, there turned out to be a paradise within.

The floor was made of colorful stones, spotlessly clean.

On the stones stood seven green bamboos, likewise spotless.

Underneath the bamboo, there was a small pond with an antique tea table beside it.

A beautiful woman sat next to the tea table, slowly raising her head.

In that moment, it felt as though a flower had bloomed in a dark room, and the cave’s light seemed to gradually brighten; it was so magical and stunning.

Lin Xiaosu looked at the woman in front of him, who looked like a youthful beauty, his heart tumultuously stirred, Kun Cang, the Valley Master of Shenghua Valley? She couldn’t possibly be a youthful beauty, yet her appearance said otherwise.

Ancient Martial couldn’t have such miraculous skills, she must be from the Immortal Path!

People say there are immortals in Kunlun, could she be a True Immortal in front of me?

"Are you... the Lord?"

The woman smiled gently: "You are not from Shenghua Valley, there’s no need for formalities, just call me Valley Master... Please, have a seat!"

"Thank you, Valley Master!" Lin Xiaosu sat down opposite her.

"This is Yusheng Tea, also one of the top ten famous teas in Kun Cang. Young Master, please have a taste!" The woman gracefully held up the teacup.

Lin Xiaosu picked up the cup in front of him.

The tea had only three leaves, yet the cup was completely green, and with a light sip, he suddenly felt the fatigue of his recent adventures swept away. This tea seemed to contain endless spiritual energy.

"Excellent tea!"

The Lord asked, "Young Master isn’t from the Heavenly Beauty Palace but from the outside world of Kunlun, correct?"

"Yes!"

The Lord’s face suddenly changed, showing a bit of excitement: "How did you get here?"

"Do you know of the temple at the end of Miyan Road?"

"I do!"

"I came through there."

"That place is the ruins of the Ancient Array Sect, full of lethal arrays along the way. You were able to pass through?"

"I must confess, I have some knowledge of arrays."

The Lord exhaled softly: "Unexpectedly, in what we regard as the ’Land of the End of Dharma,’ there are still people who deeply study arrays. Could the young master step outside?"

She gently stood up and walked outside the cave.

Lin Xiaosu followed along.

Outside the cave, Feng Ji, the senior sister, bowed deeply.

The Lord passed by her and came to the edge of a cliff, gently raising her hand, pointing to the distance: "Young Master, can you see the anomaly thirty miles away?"

Lin Xiaosu activated his Heavenly Tao Wisdom Eye, focusing on the direction she pointed.

He saw Array Patterns, filling the sky and extremely intricate, even moving. In the fog of the valley, there were Array Patterns, on the mountain top clouds, Array Patterns, and amidst the vapors steaming off the mountain, there were Array Patterns.

The mountain range looked ordinary, but with these Array Patterns, it appeared terrifying to Lin Xiaosu.

He was very aware of the terror of Array Patterns.

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"Such a terrifying array that it can cover the entire sky."

As Lin Xiaosu voiced his awe, the Lord’s eyes suddenly brightened.

Feng Ji behind them also abruptly widened her eyes, disbelief filling them...

The Lord exhaled softly: "Young Master, I have an uninvited request."

Her tone had changed, no longer referring to herself as ’seated one,’ but as ’a little woman’...

"Lord is too modest... If there’s anything within my ability, please command!" Lin Xiaosu bowed.

The Lord said: "You could see through the Locking Sky Array with just a glance, as an Array Master, our Shenghua Valley has been trapped by this array for three hundred years, as if in a cage. If the young master could open a path for our Shenghua Valley, all of us would owe you a great favor."

Lin Xiaosu’s heart pounded...

A valley’s favor?

I want it.

But, I’m a fake Array Master.

"I simply have special eyes that can see the Array Patterns, but I know nothing about Arrays.

How am I supposed to open the path?

Seeing his silent demeanor, the Lord said: "The young lady has also observed that the Cultivation Technique practiced by the gentleman is the ’Rejuvenation Secret Technique,’ but it is not practiced correctly, likely because the Cultivation Technique is incomplete, leading to the failure in building the ’Dan Tian Blood Tower’ in the Dantian. If the gentleman is willing to lend a hand, the young lady would impart the authentic ’Rejuvenation Secret Technique’ to help the gentleman build the Dan Tian Blood Tower. How about that?"

A huge wave surged in Lin Xiaosu’s heart.

He practiced the Rejuvenation Skill.

It was not surprising that the Lord could see through it at a glance.

However, she mentioned the Rejuvenation Secret Technique.

And she also mentioned that he practiced it incorrectly.

This Cultivation Technique had been developed by him and Miao Ruolan beyond the route set by their ancestors. How could it still be incorrect?

Wait, she mentioned the technique was incomplete...

Miao Renjie, the ancestor of the Miao Family who was originally an eunuch, cultivated based on the imperial court’s scriptures. If the imperial court’s scriptures were incomplete themselves, then the passed down Rejuvenation Skill would never be complete.

In the world, who else could possess scriptures more complete than those of the imperial court?

Probably only Kun Cang.

People from Kun Cang, living for hundreds of years through countless dynasties, they existed before the dynasties...

And, what’s a Blood Tower?

This would probably be the biggest challenge for Lin Xiaosu.

He cultivated the Ancient Martial Rejuvenation Skill, but there was no progression ladder afterward; he didn’t even know what ladders there were in the cultivation path, and building the Dan Tian Blood Tower seemed to be the proper cultivation path, finally touching upon specific progression ladders...

These were all that he wanted...

However, the difficulty remained.

One condition after another from the other side, each made his heart itch, but he didn’t have what the other side wanted, so what to do?

Seeing his bewildered expression, the Lord completely misunderstood, thinking her conditions were not enough to move the Array Master, hence she increased the intensity: "The incompleteness of the gentleman’s Rejuvenation Secret Technique, aside from our valley, no other sect in the world can complement it, simply because the Rejuvenation Techniques that occasionally leak to the outer world are all incomplete fragments. If the gentleman agrees, the young lady is also willing to share her hundred-year cultivation experiences with the gentleman."

Even Feng Ji changed her expression at this point.

The hundred-year cultivation experiences of the Lord, even she, as her foremost disciple, had no chance to hear them.

Today, the Lord was actually willing to share it with this Array Master...

Lin Xiaosu let out a light breath: "Lord, is this array so important to Shenghua Valley?"

He was, of course, aware of the weight of the price the Lord had quoted.

This also corroborated the importance of this grand array to Shenghua Valley.

The Lord sighed gently: "It concerns the dignity of Shenghua Valley, as well as the survival of three thousand disciples."

"Would the Lord be willing to share the story behind this?" asked Lin Xiaosu.

"Please return to your seat, sir!" The Lord bowed slightly.

They returned to the cavern, and the Lord spoke of the origins of this grand array...

This grand array was related to the centuries-old grudge between Shenghua Valley and Tianyan Palace.

Tianyan Palace, a disgraceful sect, collected the world’s beauties, using charm as a weapon, infiltrating various sects, even infiltrating the mortal world, to gain unspeakable benefits for themselves.

Their cultivation techniques were primarily based on seductive powers in bed.

And they even had the effect of usurping others’ True Yuan.

But among the entire Kun Cang, only the disciples of Shenghua Valley had the most active True Yuan, because they cultivated the Rejuvenation Secret Technique, infused with the Life Law.

Three hundred years ago, the Heavenly Beauty Palace Master came to Shenghua Valley, proposing to merge with Shenghua Valley.

In Kun Cang, sects often merged or split, and it was normal because these land’s sects were actually established by various hidden experts. As disciples gradually increased, they eventually formed sects. Establishing a sect happened in a flash, and so did merging.

However, the Lord clearly knew that the merger between Tianyan Palace and Shenghua Valley was anything but innocent.

This was purely aimed at her disciples.

Tianyan Palace was finding food for its disciples.

With just her nod, her more than four thousand disciples would become the "cauldrons" for the other’s cultivation.

Therefore, she refused.

She refused without mercy.

Tianyan Palace turned hostile, a great battle ensued, and Tianyan Palace didn’t come out on top, leaving behind several elder corpses as they fled Shenghua Valley.

Had things ended here, Shenghua Valley could have been considered victorious.

But unexpectedly, the Tianyan Sect took a very decisive measure, inviting an Array Master from Kun Cang to seal the passage from Shenghua Valley to Kun Cang.

The place they just saw was the only passage to the eighty-two peaks of Kun Cang.

Once this passage was sealed, Shenghua Valley became a huge cage.

The people inside Shenghua Valley couldn’t leave this grand array.

Yet the people from Tianyan Palace, knowing the secrets of the grand array, could come and go as they pleased.

What did this become?

Shenghua Valley became the caged insects and birds, and they came in to catch one or two whenever they felt like it. If Shenghua Valley’s people wanted to retaliate, they simply exited the array, and no matter how powerful Shenghua Valley was, they could only sigh across the array.

Thus, the people of Shenghua Valley have kept diminishing.

Originally, there were over four thousand seven hundred disciples, now only less than three thousand remain.

Moreover, among these three thousand, several hundred female disciples had been violated, their True Yuan greatly damaged, their dignity lost, living worse than death.

Besides, another key point was that Shenghua Valley couldn’t recruit talents from outside like other sects—there was no passage, they couldn’t even open the door to connect with the outside world.

While other sects collected all kinds of geniuses, possessing endless possibilities.

Shenghua Valley couldn’t collect anything, only gradually marginalized in the grand scheme of Kun Cang...

The Lord shared these details with a tinge of sorrow.

Lin Xiaosu listened to all this, and the fog in his mind gradually cleared...

So that was it...

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