CHAPTER 679: CHAPTER 678: SEEKING METHODS (2/5)

Looking around, Yang Chen’s pupils suddenly contracted fiercely, bursting with a sharp gleam, and a surge of anger shot skyward!

"Despicable!" Yang Chen gritted his teeth in fury.

If Ye Xin also becomes a Saintess, wouldn’t she too be controlled by the Sect Master of the Shangqing Sect?

If that’s the case...

"No way!"

Yang Chen absolutely could not allow such a thing to happen, absolutely not!

Immediately, Yang Chen continued flipping through the books, hoping to find relevant records.

Specific cultivation, what exactly is needed, Yang Chen needed to know!

Finally, Yang Chen found the relevant records in the notes of a Sect Master from his future.

At the place of Saintess election, after electing a Saintess, she would stand on a lotus platform to receive the ascension ceremony.

This lotus platform was also known as the Soul Capturing Platform.

As the name suggests, standing on this lotus platform allows one’s soul to be captured and absorbed into a specific item.

Of course, activating the Soul Capturing Platform requires consuming a large amount of vital blood and the cultivation must be at least at the Golden Core cultivation level.

Based on many records, Yang Chen was very certain that there was no one in the entire sect who could form a Golden Core.

Therefore, to activate the Soul Capturing Platform, it surely wasn’t feasible for one person alone.

Moreover, since the minimum requirement is Golden Core cultivation to activate the Soul Capturing Platform, the target must not exceed the Foundation Establishment Stage. If it exceeds, they are powerless against it.

By this time, the sun had already set on the western hills.

A day’s reading, Yang Chen understood that the so-called cultivation is a process of separation and reunion.

Before a person is born from the placenta, it is the Innate realm, natural with heaven and earth, inner breath exists.

After birth, influenced by the mundane turbid air of the world, they lose that Innate Spiritual Qi.

Thus, later cultivation becomes the Postnatal Realm.

Cultivate to the peak, and it is the Innate realm.

Cultivators practice a breath of Innate Qi, to achieve Transcendence, then use Innate Qi to cultivate Foundation Establishment, thereby achieving Grain Avoidance, and then forming a Golden Core.

From beginning to end, it is a process of separation and reunion, from inside to outside, from outside to inside, continually refining through this process.

And the current realm of Yang Chen is only at the later stage of Transcendence, with a long way to go before Foundation Establishment.

Ye Xin is also roughly at the Transcendence realm.

Below Foundation Establishment, it’s difficult to resist the power of the Soul Capturing Platform.

In this way, wouldn’t Ye Xin be turned into a puppet Saintess?

"No! Absolutely not!" Yang Chen clenched his fists tightly, quickly flipping through various books, hoping to find a method.

However, the understanding of the Shangqing Sect’s Sect Leader is mostly about research into control, without personnel as a Saintess, it ends without further thought, not considering the solution.

Thus, Yang Chen couldn’t find any relevant records at all.

Seeing he couldn’t find any data, Yang Chen couldn’t help but sit cross-legged, wanting to search from the "Nine Revolutions Supreme Skill".

"Nine Revolutions Supreme Skill" is not only a cultivation technique but also a book that contains the ultimate principles of heaven and earth, covering topics from astronomy and geography to medical research and martial arts arrays.

Now, Yang Chen placed his last hope on the "Nine Revolutions Supreme Skill".

...

On the other side.

Shangkuang was very anxious.

Recently, he has been researching a pill, and he has made some progress, but there are still some things stuck there, preventing him from breaking through the last layer of bottleneck.

Helplessly, he could only go to find his master, asking for help.

However, there are few people in the sect studying alchemy, and his master does not understand, so he was sent to the Scripture Pavilion to find answers.

But Shangkuang had already read all the books related to alchemy in the Scripture Pavilion, and if he could find them, he wouldn’t have bothered his master.

Finally, his master helped him to get a permit, valid only for today.

However, he somehow lost it!

After searching for a day, he didn’t see any trace.

As the sun set on the western hills, the moonlight and stars rose, and the permit was about to expire, causing him much anxiety.

No choice, Shangkuang decided to go to the Scripture Pavilion to take a look.

Just then, coincidentally the guard on the third floor was changing shifts, that guard came out of the Scripture Pavilion.

Seeing this, Shangkuang hurriedly asked, "Honored uncle-master, greetings, disciple!"

The guard nodded and asked, "What is it?"

"Dare to ask Uncle-Master, did anyone use a permit to visit and borrow on the third floor today?" Shangkuang asked.

Upon hearing this, the guard’s eyes widened immediately and grabbed Shangkuang, asking, "Why are you asking this!"

Shangkuang quickly replied, "I, I applied for a permit from my master yesterday, but today I lost it, no matter how I search I can’t find it, it’s worrying as it will soon expire!"

"Oh no!" The guard’s thick brows furrowed, he shouted low, "That kid used a fake permit to sneak into the third floor!"

Upon hearing this, Shangkuang realized that his permit might have been stolen or picked up and used by someone else!

Thinking of this, Shangkuang was furious, and rushed into the Scripture Pavilion along with the guard.

The two rushed into the second-floor guard post together.

That guard asked, "What’s wrong?"

"That person just now faked a permit!"

On hearing this, the three rushed upstairs quickly.

However, the third floor was already empty.

They opened all the reading rooms and looked, there was no trace of anyone.

They didn’t know when Yang Chen had left.

The three exchanged glances, all feeling a bit frustrated.

The most frustrated had to be Shangkuang.

The two guards did not want to cause trouble, not wanting to spread this event, otherwise, they would be the ones punished.

Now that the guards did not want to pursue it, the unlucky one naturally was Shangkuang, who lost his permit and also lost the chance to visit the third floor.

Shangkuang thought deeply, staring at the two guards, and said in a deep voice, "I hope to be able to borrow here for a while..."

"Impossible!" The two guards said in unison, "Without a permit, you cannot borrow on the third floor!"

"Then I’ll go to my master, let my master report this to the Sect Master!" Shangkuang clenched his fist and said.

Upon hearing this, the two people’s faces froze.

If this matter really spreads, the ones to be punished are undoubtedly them two.

After thinking for a while, the two could only agree.

...

Actually, Yang Chen had already flipped out of the window upon hearing the commotion outside.

In the instant of flipping the window, Yang Chen felt a terrifying aura from the fourth floor, quickly hiding in the crowd.

In the evening during this time, it was just when the sect was bustling.

After playing for about two hours, it officially entered quietude, everyone either went to sleep or went to cultivate.

Yang Chen took advantage of this opportunity to bring food to the back mountain, delivering food and water to Xuanliang.

After the last conversation, Xuanliang became quite honest, even if Yang Chen didn’t make him sleep, he no longer tried to escape.

He knew now that Yang Chen had sealed off all his cultivation and mobility abilities, leaving him no choice but to stay obediently, not even considering escape. Otherwise, the consequence would be continued unconsciousness, which could have a larger impact on his body.

After feeding Xuanliang, when Yang Chen returned to the sect, it had already calmed down.

Arriving at Yunxin Hall, Yang Chen found the guards outside Yunxin Hall were more than ten times stricter than yesterday.

Moreover, the patrol speed was more secretive, with inner and outer patrol teams, making it difficult to find any time difference.

Yang Chen couldn’t help but furrow his brows.

At this moment, Yang Chen saw a group changing teams to rest, his heart couldn’t help but stir.

He quietly followed these people, accompanying them to the dormitory resting place.