"Husband, look at this."
Li Lizhi handed over a golden jade slip.
When Yang Hong was inventorying the storage ring of the Azure Cloud Ancestor, he had directly given the jade slips to Li Lizhi to examine first.
This particular jade slip was golden, appearing high-class and sophisticated, so Li Lizhi had decided to examine it first.
"Holy crap! I've really gotten into trouble."
After reading the jade slip, Yang Hong exclaimed in surprise.
"This is a jade slip from Master Shancang, the abbot of the immovable Temple, one of the two great immortal sects of Buddhism, to the Azure Cloud Ancestor.
And it's even a method to unseal the Five Directions Domain."
Now, the case was solved. Why did the sect leader of a seventh-grade sect possess the method to unseal the Five Directions Seal, something even ordinary sect leaders didn't have.
Yang Hong had asked Li Lizhi about this doubt at first, but Li Lizhi had no clue.
If it was passed down by the Immovable Temple to the Azure Cloud Ancestor, it made sense.
However, another question arose: what was the Immovable Temple planning?
"Let's look through all these jade slips together and see if there are any clues."
Yang Hong had lost the joy of victory, replaced only by worry and urgency.
If it were an ordinary sect, Yang Hong would dare to confront it.
But when it came to immortal sects, Yang Hong knew his limits.
Immortal sects not only had cultivators in the Mahayana realm, the ninth stage, but also rogue cultivators who were said to be in the tenth stage!
Whether it was the ninth or tenth stage, Yang Hong was no match for them in his current state.
"Husband, look at this."
When Yang Hong finished reading the eighth jade slip, Li Lizhi handed him another one.
He quickly took it and began to read.
"Hmm~ This is a cultivation technique, but it looks... it looks so strange."
Yang Hong frowned and sighed, then summoned the attribute panel visible only to him to check the grade of this newly acquired cultivation technique.
"Heavenly Grade Peak Cultivation Technique!"
Upon seeing the attribute panel's display, Yang Hong exclaimed once more!
The attribute panel showed that this cultivation technique, named "Immovable Joyful Buddha," was worth a whopping 120 martial skill points.
This was the best cultivation technique Yang Hong had ever seen,
and possibly the best that could exist in the cultivation world.
"What~ This~ This is a Heavenly Grade Peak Cultivation Technique?"
Li Lizhi's eyes widened, her pretty face contorted, and her right hand trembled as she pointed at the ordinary white jade slip in Yang Hong's hand.
"Yes! This cultivation technique is truly a Heavenly Grade cultivation technique!"
Yang Hong's expression was strange. Looking at the name "Immovable Joyful Buddha," anyone who understood would get it!
This was a technique for cultivating Yin to supplement Yang.
A Buddhist cultivation technique for cultivating Yin to supplement Yang.
And it was from the "Immovable Temple," which emphasized various precepts and rules, for cultivating Yin to supplement Yang!
If it were a dual cultivation technique from Buddhist sects like the Vajra Temple or Esoteric Buddhism Temple, Yang Hong wouldn't be surprised.
But the Immovable Temple, one of the Ten Great Immortal Sects?
This was simply preposterous.
Or rather, it was a collapse of character.
"Let's keep looking. Let's finish reading all the jade slips first."
Yang Hong felt a faint sense of unease, but he put away this jade slip and sped up his reading of the others.
There were a total of 382 jade slips. Apart from these two, the rest had no issues.
Whether they were cultivation techniques, biographies, or notes, they were all normal.
Unwilling to give up, Yang Hong poured out everything from the three storage rings and meticulously inspected them with his divine sense.
However, despite the Azure Cloud Ancestor's immense wealth, there was not a single item related to Buddhism.
"Is he deliberately trying to avoid suspicion?
This makes me even more certain that this old fellow had an unusual connection with the Immovable Temple.
It's a pity I accidentally annihilated him into oblivion."
Yang Hong regretted killing the man too quickly and too decisively.
The clues were truly severed now.
"Husband, the clue isn't broken. Doesn't it point directly to the Immovable Temple?
We just need to leak the Immovable Temple's desire to unseal the Five Directions Seal to the other immortal sects."
Li Lizhi saw Yang Hong frowning and spoke to comfort him.
Yang Hong's eyes lit up at her words.
"Hmm~ Good idea."
"Give me all the jade slips."
Yang Hong came up with a good idea. He immediately used a low-grade magical artifact of the Azure Cloud Ancestor to set up a maze formation, then placed the jade slips and some directional magical artifacts and miscellaneous items at the original spot.
Afterward, the two of them directly drove their flying boat away.
The death of the Grand Astrologer of the Great Ming would soon be discovered by the cultivators of the Heavenly Mechanism Sect, who would undoubtedly come to investigate.
And a great battle had occurred outside the city, so the Heavenly Mechanism Sect cultivators would definitely come to inspect the area.
At that time, those items would naturally fall into the hands of the Heavenly Mechanism Sect.
As for what kind of major events would unfold afterward, it would be none of Yang Hong's business.
His shoulders were too narrow to bear the burden of the world.
Let the taller ones carry it.
...
Yang Hong did not return to the Great Sui Dynasty first. Instead, he went to the Azure Cloud Sword Sect.
Using the Azure Cloud Ancestor's identity token and formation token, he looted the Azure Cloud Sword Sect's treasury.
He plundered all the treasuries he could find.
Since the Azure Cloud Sword Sect was destined to be annihilated, he might as well plunder the benefits first.
In return, before leaving, he deliberately triggered an alarm in one of the treasuries, letting them know that
their home had been robbed!
Alright, Yang Hong's intention was to make the Azure Cloud Sword Sect fall into chaos first, allowing some of the disciples from the Five Directions Dynasty to escape.
As for him or Li Lizhi informing those people from the Five Directions Dynasty?
Don't even think about it; he wouldn't bother with such trouble.
"Hehe~ Husband, should we rob a few more sects?
There's so much wealth here."
Li Lizhi giggled foolishly, looking at the storage ring in her hand. The ring contained 1 million spirit stones, 30,000 bottles of elixirs, 100 fifth-grade magical artifacts, and 10 sixth-grade magical artifacts.
This was the ill-gotten gains Yang Hong had divided among her. Although it wasn't even one percent of Yang Hong's haul,
it was still a fortune that Li Lizhi had never possessed in two lifetimes.
"No time, I want to go back to sleep."
When wealth becomes so abundant that it's just a number, most people lose interest in it.
Except for greedy capitalists!
Yang Hong was precisely not a capitalist and was a relatively home-loving person, so he had no interest in robbing.
"Oh~"
Li Lizhi gave a disappointed "oh" and slumped her shoulders onto Yang Hong's flying boat, flying back to the Great Sui Dynasty.
...
After sending Li Lizhi back to Great Tang, without giving her a chance to react, Yang Hong returned to his Clear Breeze Villa and
began to cultivate the "Immovable Joyful Buddha" technique through direct transmission.
He had obtained quite a few cultivation techniques from ransacking a seventh-grade sect.
"Ding~ You have bestowed 1800 days of cultivation to the ninth-grade Golden Thunder Bamboo, gaining a tenfold cultivation return, resulting in 18 million days of cultivation."
"Ding~ Cultivating 'Immovable Joyful Buddha' for 18 million days, Immovable Joyful Buddha has advanced to level 99."
On the first day, Yang Hong's luck exploded. After six consecutive returns of more than tenfold, he had a stroke of luck and received a tenfold return.
At the same time, his primary focus, "Immovable Joyful Buddha," was cultivated to the maximum level.
The system, as usual, optimized the max-level cultivation technique.
"Hiss~ This cultivation technique shouldn't be called Joyful Buddha, it should be called Joyful Demon!"
As soon as the cultivation technique optimization was complete, Yang Hong's expression changed drastically, and he gasped in shock.
This cultivation technique was originally just for cultivating Yin to supplement Yang, harming others for one's own benefit, but it still had limits.
Moreover, females could also cultivate it and rapidly increase their cultivation.
But after optimization, this technique could drain all of the opponent's cultivation and life force through simple contact!
It was a supercharged version of the "Star Absorbing Great Method" from the demonic path!
"And, damn it, this thing has very few side effects!
It's almost making me tempted."
Organizing the cultivation technique in his mind, Yang Hong truly felt a stirring of desire.