Just a Useful Pawn in the Stain Sect-Chapter 295: What a Bunch of Sword Species
A Great Realm Heaven where a Fruit exists!
The Yun Family’s Ancestor had barely finished speaking when Lü Yang understood the importance of the Jiangnan Mass Grave. After all, a Great Realm Heaven was equivalent to a new Second-Grade Cultivation Skill!
"Demon-Vanquishing Perfected is the Third Elder of our Sword Pavilion. He reached the Late Stage of Foundation Establishment long ago and possesses a Great Trueman’s Cultivation. He has already begun plotting to attain a Fruit. However, most of the Second-Grade Cultivation Skills from the Great Realm Heavens under the Sword Pavilion’s control can’t satisfy his requirements. Only this newly appeared one is suitable."
"That’s why Demon-Vanquishing Perfected is leading the charge this time."
"And if all goes as expected, the Demon Sect hasn’t discovered anything unusual about the Mass Grave yet, so Demon-Vanquishing Perfected plans to make a preemptive strike..."
As the Yun Family’s Ancestor explained, Lü Yang quickly learned the secret of the Mass Grave.
The story traced back to the predecessor of the Mass Grave—the Little Realm Heaven that had been seized by various Perfected Lords to serve as a Seizing Dao Battlefield.
The origins of that Little Realm Heaven were far from simple.
Although it didn’t even have any Foundation Establishment Cultivators and was only fit to be a Seizing Dao Battlefield for Qi Refining Disciples, it was an appendage to another Great Realm Heaven.
Its name was the Profound Spirit Realm.
The predecessor of the Jiangnan Mass Grave was called the Fallen Realm. Normally, after Cultivators from the Fallen Realm reached their peak, they would ascend to the Profound Spirit Realm.
But because it was seized and turned into a Seizing Dao Battlefield, the Fallen Realm lost its connection to the Profound Spirit Realm. A day or two might not have mattered, but after ten, then twenty years, the Cultivators of the Profound Spirit Realm noticed something was wrong. So, they sent a Cultivator to the Lower Realm to investigate.
As it turned out, he walked right into the line of fire.
The Cultivator from the Profound Spirit Realm was not weak; his Cultivation was at the Foundation Establishment Level. It’s just that in the Profound Spirit Realm, they don’t call it Foundation Establishment. They call it Human Immortal.
Unfortunately, that Human Immortal’s luck wasn’t very good.
That day, the Sword Pavilion’s Demon-Vanquishing Perfected happened to be passing by. When the stranger saw him, he tried to perform a Soul Searching, but he was easily suppressed and captured by Demon-Vanquishing Perfected.
And so, the Profound Spirit Realm could no longer be hidden.
"According to the captive, the Profound Spirit Realm is a supreme Great Realm, a residence of Immortal Gods. There are five grades of Immortals surrounding the Celestial Court, each with their own duties."
"The five grades of Immortals are: Celestial, Earth, Human, God, and Ghost."
"When a Cultivator from the Lower Realm ascends, their physical body shatters, and only their Soul is baptized. This makes them a Ghost Immortal. Those who are granted a fiefdom to rule over a region become Immortals."
"Once their Merit reaches Perfection, they use the power of Incense and faith to reconstruct their physical body and return to the human path. This makes them a Human Immortal."
"Those who travel the three mountains and five peaks, residing in the world without governing it, are Earth Immortals."
"Those who have merit in the Dao and perform great deeds on earth receive the Celestial Book and enter the Celestial Court to govern the world and manage Heaven. They are Celestial Immortals."
As for what was above Celestial Immortal, the Human Immortal didn’t say. But even without him saying, Lü Yang could roughly guess the corresponding Realm.
’It’s most likely a Perfected Lord!’
Lü Yang pondered. No wonder a mere Jiangnan Mass Grave could alarm the Perfected Lords of both the Sword Pavilion and the Saint Sect. The value of the Profound Spirit Realm was clear to see.
After all, it was a Great Realm Heaven where a Fruit existed—a true feast for a Perfected Lord. Even the leftover scraps would be enough to sate a Foundation-Stage Cultivator. It was a pity his Cultivation had been too low at this point in his past life. He couldn’t even get specific information, let alone participate.
At this thought, Lü Yang’s mind started racing.
’A Great Realm Heaven... If I can ride this wave and get in to plunder it, I can definitely speed up the nourishment of my Immortal Spirit Body!’
’But... how do I get in?’
Lü Yang’s eyes darted, and an idea quickly formed:
’I can’t reveal myself in the Sword Pavilion right now, so trying to get in through them is impossible. But if the Sword Pavilion’s path is closed... I can go through the Saint Sect!’
’As long as I reveal the secret of the Mass Grave to the Saint Sect in advance and send it to Perfected Chong Guang, once the Saint Sect’s True Monarch confirms my information, I can establish a connection with them. Then I’ll just say... I’m a reincarnated Saint Sect Zhenren who has infiltrated the Sword Pavilion and wishes to remain anonymous!’
’Even though I’m in the Sword Pavilion, I’ve always been one of the Saint Sect’s people!’
More importantly, Perfected Chong Guang had told Lü Yang how to contact him in his past life. A specially made Flying Spirit Letter would guarantee the message reached his hands directly.
That alone should be enough to earn Perfected Chong Guang’s trust.
’Let’s do it!’
With that thought, Lü Yang acted immediately. He used his Mana to ignite the prepared Flying Spirit Letter, watching as it transformed into a streak of Spirit Light and flew into the sky.
Only then did he let out a long sigh of relief.
At the same time, Yun Miaozhen, who had been kneeling under the desk cultivating for a long time, emerged, wiping the corner of her mouth. Her Cultivation, at the Late-phase of Qi Refining, had clearly improved again.
Immediately after, Lü Yang’s expression turned serious.
If he was going to get a piece of the pie from the Mass Grave incident, he couldn’t afford to be so slow in improving his strength. He had to find a way to speed things up.
’I have to at least recover to the Mid-phase of Foundation Establishment before the operation begins!’
Thinking of this, Lü Yang immediately looked at the Yun Family’s Ancestor, Yun Miaozhen, and Master Xiuxin. "Is there any way to get more Geng Metal Spiritual Objects?"
The three of them looked at each other.
Then, Master Xiuxin said in a low voice, "Replying to Master, it’s actually not that difficult... We just need to find a few more factions that are colluding with the Jiangbei Demon Sect."
"Can you find them?"
"I can make the arrangements."
The Yun Family’s Ancestor thought for a moment and said, "If I put out the word that we’re going to thoroughly investigate the Demon Dao, all the nearby Sects and factions will surely feel endangered."
"Under this pretext, we should be able to squeeze quite a few Spiritual Objects out of each of them."
Lü Yang: "..."
"Won’t that be a bit too conspicuous?" Lü Yang hesitated, not because he felt pity, but because he was worried it would attract the Sword Pavilion’s attention.
After all, extorting the Sects under their jurisdiction didn’t seem very... Righteous Dao.
But in the next second, the Yun Family’s Ancestor looked over with a surprised expression. "Master, what’s conspicuous about it? It’s just routine."
"Huh?"
Lü Yang was stunned. Seeing this, the Yun Family’s Ancestor had no choice but to explain, "In the South, the fact that our Sword Pavilion hasn’t stopped these factions from developing means they already owe the Sword Pavilion karmic links. This is just the right time to sever them. In a way, we’re doing them a favor. What’s so surprising about it?"
’You call *that* severing karmic links?’
Lü Yang was speechless. In the North, even Saint Sect Zhenren called this sort of thing robbery. A more refined term was shaking them down. He never expected it could be explained this way.
’The Righteous Dao really is something else.’
With the Yun Family Ancestor’s explanation, Lü Yang finally understood. In the South, for most factions to develop, they had to have some connection to the North.
As everyone knows, open trade is the easiest way to make money.
These factions might not collude with the Saint Sect, but they definitely had to travel to the North and transport goods to earn the first pot of gold for their development.
However, by the Sword Pavilion’s standards, this was collusion with the Demon Dao.
It’s just that the Sword Pavilion usually didn’t bother with it, pretending not to see. Only when the need arose would they bring it up to "sever some karmic links."
This was actually the Sword Pavilion’s old trick: first, deliberately let the local factions develop. Development required contact with the North, and contact was collusion with the Demon Dao. They ignored it most of the time, waiting until the factions were fattened up before slaughtering them. Meanwhile, they themselves remained pure and untarnished, still the Leader of the Righteous Path.
As for the Sword Pavilion disciples, they only needed to focus on practicing their swordplay.
As for external items like Qi Pills, Artifacts, and Talismans, just like with the Hidden Sword Manor, the Sword Pavilion left it all to their subordinate Sects to handle as they pleased.
’They can hoard all the grain they want, as long as I have the guns. Their granary is my granary.’ 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺
This was even more outrageous than the Saint Sect. After all, Saint Sect Zhenren only came down from the mountain to rob people when they were out of money. The Sword Pavilion was directly sucking the blood of the South.
The key was, they did it so elegantly.
Exorcism and Protection of the Dao—it was a righteous cause. No one could find any fault with it.
After completely figuring out the operational mechanism of the entire South under the Sword Pavilion’s rule, Lü Yang couldn’t help but exclaim, "What a bunch of fucking Sword Species..."
’Looks like I’ll have to properly reform and develop the Sword Pavilion to make it return to the Righteous Dao!’
