The sun rose not long after Lan Shuang began circulating her energy. Golden sunlight streamed through a wall, illuminating both of them and making the sweat beads on Lan Shuang’s body shimmer like gold, lending her a divine aura that inspired reverence.
Coupled with her delicate features, Yang Hong found himself momentarily lost in thought.
He truly couldn't comprehend why such a beautiful female immortal would not focus on cultivation and instead spent her days causing trouble.
“Senior Sister, should we re-enclose this wall?”
As he was lost in thought, Lou Xue’s voice sounded beside him. He scanned with his divine sense and was surprised to find that quite a few female immortals from the Frost Snow Sect had also entered.
Yang Hong was instantly embarrassed, his face flushing red. His immobilized body twitched, his toes curling in shame.
“Enclose it. You can all return to your sect to cultivate. I will guard the Ascension Pool here alone. I will send word if anything is needed.”
“Senior Sister~ This isn't appropriate, is it? You’ll be very tired alone.”
Lou Xue waved her sleeve, sweeping the disciples out, and approached Lan Shuang with a fawning smile. Her concern seemed genuine, but her intentions were entirely self-serving.
“You shameless… m..oΓg
Fine, you stay. The disciples can go back first.”
Seeing that the two senior sisters had reached an agreement, Yang Hong couldn’t help but ask,
“Does your Frost Snow Sect have no mortals needing protection? That is to say, no cultivators and ordinary immortals?”
“Hehe~ Actually, no.
Ever since the Xuan Yin Immortal Venerable began cultivating her secret art ten thousand years ago, new life has been rare in the entire Xuan Yin Domain, except for insects. All sects with any strength have long since departed.
The remaining sects have continuously weakened over the past ten thousand years. All men have died off, as have male demonic and immortal beasts. In the last millennium, even male immortals and immortal beasts below the Heavenly Immortal realm have experienced dissipation of their cultivation, and will soon die.”
Lan Shuang, while circulating her energy, answered Lou Xue. However, she kept glancing at Yang Hong as she spoke, which made him blush again.
Previously, he had sealed his five senses and felt nothing, but now being stared at made him incredibly shy.
So, he quickly asked, “Then, without low-level immortals to sustain you, how does your Frost Snow Sect survive? How do you cultivate?”
“By hunting immortal beasts, and Black Armored Ants.
Although Black Armored Ants are the overlords of the Black Ant Wilderness and can annihilate life, wild ants quickly regrow and attract immortal beasts.
Every time Black Armored Ants appear, we also use traps to hunt some. The carapaces of Black Armored Ants are excellent refining materials and can be exchanged for food and cultivation resources.”
“Alright, you should send the disciples back first.”
While they were talking, the eastern wall of the palace had been repaired. Lan Shuang did not hesitate to dismiss them.
Lou Xue cast another covetous glance at Yang Hong before turning to leave.
“You hussies, all of you, get up here! I’ll give you a ride back in my flying ship.”
“Hehe~ Martial Aunt is impatient, she can’t wait.”
“Understood, hurry up then! I’m waiting to have some fun!”
“Giggle~ Master, you’re the one who’s going to be played with~”
A group of people, chattering and laughing, piloted a large black flying ship and disappeared into the horizon.
Yang Hong had asked Lan Shuang for permission to seal his five senses, but it was useless. The moment he was placed into the Ascension Pool, his sealed senses would be reopened by the pool.
Even without being placed in the Ascension Pool, as long as he absorbed enough Ascension Primordial Liquid, his senses would automatically open. He had no way to keep them sealed.
He could only speed up the circulation of the “Su Nu Cai Yang” cultivation technique, striving to recover his physical strength as soon as possible and regain control of his destiny.
“The cultivation technique you are practicing is truly wondrous. Senior Sister and I have continuously circulated energy through you for a hundred years, yet your primal yang has remained condensed. Can you tell me the name of your cultivation technique?”
Lan Shuang collapsed into Yang Hong’s arms again, her voice soft and gentle like a young wife’s.
“You tell me why you’ve been circulating energy with me, and then I’ll tell you.”
“Because I don’t want to die. Haven’t you noticed that the immortal beasts appearing in the entire Black Ant Wilderness have been decreasing over the past hundred years? In the last thirty years, not a single immortal beast has appeared, and even the insects are rapidly dwindling?”
“Indeed~ I’ve seen it.”
Yang Hong reached out and gently caressed Lan Shuang’s back, which was smooth and warm like jade despite being covered in sweat.
“The Xuan Yin Immortal Venerable’s cultivation may be at a crucial juncture. Ninety-nine percent of the yang energy in the entire Xuan Yin Domain has been siphoned away.”
“Under the Heavenly Dao, solitary yin cannot produce, and solitary yang cannot grow. After the yang energy disappeared, my cultivation began to decline continuously. I am now only at the first level of the Profound Immortal realm.”
Yang Hong chuckled with a strange expression. All of Lan Shuang’s lost cultivation had transferred to him. In a hundred years, although his body was still weak and powerless, his cultivation had soared to the ninth level of the Heavenly Immortal realm, and he was on the verge of breaking through to the True Immortal realm.
In the lower realm, Yang Hong knew that an immortal achieving one level of cultivation per thousand years was considered a genius. To break through one level within three hundred years would make one a coveted prodigy by major sects.
Since the Immortal Realm was first recorded, the fastest cultivator was someone born in the Immortal Realm. They broke through one level in 268 years and were now an supreme Immortal Emperor.
However, this person’s rapid cultivation was due to their parents being Immortal Emperors.
Generally, immortals measured their progress in millennia.
And this ‘one level’ referred to any breakthrough within the Immortal realm itself.
To cultivate from the Immortal realm to the Earth Immortal realm typically took at least ten thousand years!
That fastest Immortal Emperor took 2663 years to break through from the Immortal realm to the Earth Immortal realm.
Breaking through from the Earth Immortal realm to the Heavenly Immortal realm required at least double the time, and breaking through from Heavenly Immortal to True Immortal required several times more.
Immortals were simply beings who lived longer, that was all!
If Yang Hong’s century-long leap from the Immortal realm to the ninth level of the Heavenly Immortal realm were known to the outside world, his fate would not be that of a holy son of a great sect, but he would be seized and possessed by ancient beings nearing the end of their lifespans.
There would be no other outcome.
Therefore, Yang Hong was constantly circulating the miraculous “Qing Feng Tu Na” technique, outwardly displaying his cultivation as if he were merely at the first level of the Immortal realm.
“My cultivation has dropped from the ninth level of the True Immortal realm to the fourth level of the True Immortal realm. All the disciples in the sect have fallen below the Heavenly Immortal realm. If this continues, I fear they will all die.”
Lou Xue, lying on a jade bed nearby, sat up, her face filled with worry.
“Junior Sister, you’ll return to the mountain gate tomorrow and bring all the disciples here. We can still hold on for a while longer. Let’s share the yang energy with them.
They are disciples we’ve taught for thousands or tens of thousands of years. It would be a shame for them to die.”
Lan Shuang, still in Yang Hong’s embrace, also sat up, her voice filled with reluctance. She deliberately swayed her waist a couple of times.
“I’ll go back now. No need for tomorrow.”
Lou Xue stood up, donned her ethereal immortal robes, and stepped onto her flying sword, soaring out through the window and disappearing into the horizon.
Lan Shuang, resuming her energy circulation, once again pressed Yang Hong about his cultivation technique. He no longer concealed it and revealed the “Su Nu Cai Yang” technique, even reciting the original Yellow-grade mid-tier cultivation method of the immortal cultivation world.
“This is a cultivation technique for female cultivators. You, a male, have managed to master it, and to this extent?
You truly are a monster!”
Upon hearing Yang Hong’s cultivation technique, Lan Shuang immediately began practicing it and applied it to Yang Hong. However, the effect was not as good as the technique she was currently using.
It was like the difference between mud and sky.
“I don’t understand either. I started as a rogue cultivator, and I acquired this technique at the beginning, continuing to practice it. Although it’s not particularly miraculous, but…”
“You’ve been practicing it continuously and haven’t died? And you’ve even ascended?”
Yang Hong felt a sense of helplessness. One lie indeed required more lies to cover it.
He could only make up stories.
As for the more miraculous “Qing Feng Tu Na” technique, which could perfectly conceal his cultivation, it was absolutely not to be revealed.