The accumulated wealth of the Jiuyou Sect, built up over ten thousand years, was swindled away by the Seek Tao Sect, leading to the death of their leader. They were left with nothing, both in terms of people and wealth.

The Jiuyou Sect never recovered from this blow, even after nine hundred years.

Survival of the fittest, perhaps this is the cruel reality of the cultivation world… what a joke.

Lu Yang couldn’t help but stop halfway through his narration.

The cruel cultivation world should be about the strong preying on the weak, not about financial scams.

What happened to the principle of strength being supreme?

The thousand-year-old mystery of the Jiuyou Sect was solved today, and Li Haoran didn’t know what to say.

Although the previous two leaders of the sect had nothing to do with him, he felt like he should say something.

He started to clap.

Well done, Jiuyou Sect, you’ve been thoroughly duped!

The fifth elder coughed twice: “Anyway, I agree to your invitation to become the protector of the Heavenly Court Sect.”

“According to you, the external base of the Heavenly Court Sect is in a barbecue shop in Yanjiang County. When shall we set off?”

“Considering that the night is long and full of dreams, how about we set off tomorrow?” Lu Yang suggested.

“Alright.”

“By the way, Elder, please remember to disguise yourself. It wouldn’t be good if you were recognized by the people of the Jiuyou Sect.” Lu Yang reminded him. Previously, when they met with the people of the Jiuyou Sect, they used fake names and appearances.

“That’s easy. Although my disguise skills are not as good as Old Nine’s, I can handle the people of the Jiuyou Sect. This time, there might be people from the Jiuyou Sect who have reached the Body Fusion stage. In front of them, they can see through your disguises at a glance.”

“Before we set off, I’ll disguise the four of you.”

It seemed that the fifth elder was quite experienced in this area.

After saying goodbye to the fifth elder, Lu Yang didn’t forget to expand the members of the Heavenly Court Sect. He wanted to invite Tao Yaoye and Man Gu to join the Heavenly Court Sect and pretend to be ancient geniuses in Yanjiang County.

Unfortunately, when Lu Yang went to find them, he found that Tao Yaoye and Man Gu were both in seclusion.

His senior sister told Lu Yang that Tao Yaoye and Man Gu were consolidating their Golden Elixir realm and couldn’t get away for the time being.

“By the way, Immortal, can you teach me some spells or divine abilities? I mean, those that look very ancient and are obviously from the ancient times.”

Lu Yang explained, “Think about it, my current identity is an ancient genius, but all the techniques I use are modern. It’s easy to give myself away.”

The Immortal silently looked at Lu Yang, thinking to herself, which of your techniques looks modern? Is it the Shrinking Earth into Inches or the Tree Planting Technique?

However, as a dignified Immortal, she was understanding and didn’t say anything to discourage him: “Alright.”

“I have an ancient Qi Refining technique here. It collects the spiritual rhyme of heaven and earth, the morning and evening glow, and refines it to prolong life and maintain eternal youth. The Qi Refining stage is evolved from this ancient Qi Refining technique.”

“When the Ninth Immortal was proving that he was the first to become an Immortal, he read many ancient books, which mentioned the ancient Qi Refining technique. He used his Immortal technique to deduce that if the ancient Qi Refining technique is practiced to the extreme, it can produce Hongmeng Purple Qi, which is extremely powerful. But this is just a theory, anyway, I haven’t seen anyone practice it.”

Lu Yang shook his head: “This won’t work. There’s no chance to show it to the people of the Jiuyou Sect, and they won’t be able to tell that it’s an ancient Qi Refining technique.”

“What about the Dragon Transformation Technique? The dragon race has a strong physical body. By learning the Dragon Transformation Technique, you can ‘dragonize’ part of your body and gain some of the innate abilities of the dragon race, such as summoning wind and rain, and overturning rivers and seas.”

“Ying Tianxian has learned the Dragon Transformation Technique and is the person with the highest achievement in the Dragon Transformation Technique so far. He can completely transform into a dragon, and the dragon race calls him ‘Winged Dragon’.”

Lu Yang’s eyes lit up: “Eh, this is good, how do I learn it?”

“Let me think, you should first soak in dragon blood for three days. Although you may swell up like Ying Tianxian, with my guidance, there shouldn’t be a problem… By the way, is it hard to get dragon blood in your era?”

In the ancient times, if you wanted to get dragon blood, you either had to force the dragon race to hand it over with force, or kill a lone true dragon, or like Ying Tianxian, the dragon race saw your potential and was willing to invest in you.

“We do have dragon blood.”

The Seek Tao Sect certainly didn’t lack dragon blood or phoenix blood, but the problem was that they were setting off tomorrow. They couldn’t possibly soak in dragon blood on the road, let alone soak for three days.

The Immortal had just said that they might end up like Ying Tianxian.

“Do you have anything else?”

“How about the divine ability of the Glutton clan, Devouring Heaven and Earth?”

Lu Yang was startled. The divine ability of the Glutton clan, Devouring Heaven and Earth, was well-known. He had heard about it from his teacher before he started cultivating.

It was said that this technique could devour souls, spiritual energy, sun, moon and stars, space, and everything in the world!

If he could learn it, it would naturally be great.

“But isn’t this supposed to be a divine ability that only the Glutton clan can learn? Can I learn it too?”

The Immortal was as confident as ever, patting her chest and saying, “Look at what you’re saying. With my guidance, what can’t you learn?”

“Then let’s learn this!” Lu Yang made up his mind, overjoyed that he was about to learn a new skill.

Lu Yang found an open space far away from the kitchen on Tianmen Peak, and the Immortal appeared to guide him.

“To learn Devouring Heaven and Earth, the most important thing is to have the desire to devour. This is the foundation.””Why is the Glutton clan particularly voracious? It’s because their desire to devour is instinctive, uncontrollable!”

“Close your eyes and imagine yourself being very hungry, craving for food.”

Following the Immortal Maiden’s instructions, Lu Yang imagined himself as a mortal, with an empty stomach, feeling very hungry, craving for food, salivating with hunger.

He imagined a plate of delicious food in front of him… for instance, scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

Instantly, Lu Yang was no longer hungry.

He opened his eyes, and the Immortal Maiden was looking at him with a tilted head.

The Maiden was innocently looking at him, “What’s wrong?”

“…Nothing, I made a mistake just now. Let’s start over.”

Lu Yang discarded the image of scrambled eggs with tomatoes from his mind, replacing it with plates of mouth-watering delicacies:

The roast pork knuckle with a reddish hue, its skin soaked with soup after being deep-fried, the firm and spicy snails, noodles topped with hot chili oil…

Lu Yang wiped his drool, he was genuinely hungry.

The Maiden’s voice timely rang in his ears, “Remember the mantra I recite, don’t try to memorize it, but understand it. Imagine the meaning of this mantra from a deeper level.”

Then came the ancient language that was hard to understand.

Perhaps Lu Yang’s hunger and this mantra were a good match. Although he still couldn’t understand it, he didn’t find it difficult.

From noon to dusk, Lu Yang kept himself in a state of hunger to understand this mantra. Gradually, he became more and more familiar with it, as if he understood the meaning of the mantra – to eat.

He opened his eyes again, the mantra echoing in his mind. He looked down at the soil beneath his feet, feeling an impulse.

He wanted to eat the soil.

“Wait, why do I want to eat soil?!” Lu Yang realized something was wrong.

The Immortal Maiden was lying on her side on the ground, propping her face with her arm, and said matter-of-factly, “Congratulations, you’ve mastered ‘Earth Devouring’.”