Longzang

Chapter 949 There is someone outside
Wei Yuan was not one to push his own limits. He would let his brothers experience the hardships he had endured, but he would not make things difficult for Cui Yu like Ronglong had made things difficult for him. After explaining the general principles, he returned to Qingming after wandering in the void for a day or two.

Upon returning to Qingming, Wei Yuan's first act was to go to the Hall of Merit and store the fragment of the Ancestral Boundary Stone there. Because of the array set up by Ji Liuli back then, which requires calculating the trajectory of moving celestial bodies to reach, this place is considered the safest in Qingming, and cannot be easily broken by cultivation alone.

Wei Yuan also brought back dozens of pieces of raw iron this time. They didn't look very big, but they weighed tens of thousands of kilograms in total. If used sparingly, they would be enough to forge two Imperial Spirit Treasures. Yu Zhizhuo was naturally overjoyed to have found such a treasure. After acquiring them, he immediately chased Wei Yuan out of the weapon forging workshop to avoid his nagging and getting in the way.

Wei Yuan returned to his residence, changed into his robes, and was about to handle some Qingming affairs when he suddenly sensed a slight disturbance in the Qingming space. With a thought, he discovered that Cui Yu had fallen behind and had also successfully returned to his own realm.

Wei Yuan led Cui Yu to the edge of this realm and let Cui Yu experience the process of entering this realm on his own, while he returned first.

It's virtually impossible for a Dharma Image to walk in the void. So even though Wei Yuan led the entire way, Cui Yu can still brag about it for a while when he gets back.

Wei Yuan smiled slightly, feeling that Cui Yu had recently had many good things happen to him, his Dharma appearance had improved, and his experiences were legendary. It was time for him to return to the Cui family to further his Dao heart. As for the painstaking arrangements he had made for him, Wei Yuan felt they were not worth mentioning and did not require special thanks.

As Wei Yuan was pondering this, the azure sky suddenly trembled, and some commotion arose. Wei Yuan's ears perked up, and he heard several beautiful female disciples screaming in the medical clinic. He scanned the area with his divine sense and immediately understood what had happened and clearly heard the screams.

"There's a pervert!!"

"Ah, the lecherous thief is in my bathtub!... He's escaped again!"

"Grab him! Don't let him get away!"

"Hmm, this thief is quite remarkable, but I wonder if there's more to his story? Everyone, give it your all, and once we capture him, we'll interrogate him thoroughly!"

Chaos erupted in the clinic. Cui Yu, with one hand covering his face and the other covering his groin, was running around aimlessly, but his movements were unpredictable and erratic. Neither his pursuers nor his pursuers knew where he would appear next.

Wei Yuan covered his face, wondering how he could have forgotten about this. It really wasn't intentional!
A faint sunlight appeared above the clinic, dazzling everyone's vision. Then Xiao Yu appeared, using her Dao power to subdue Cui Yu, and using the sunlight to become invisible. In a few flashes, she returned to Cui Yu's residence in the Immortal City.

Cui Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief, feeling deeply grateful but also wishing he could disappear into the ground. Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough to cover his face before realizing something was wrong, thus preventing his true identity from being revealed—a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.

Xiao Yu remained expressionless and said, "You distorted your divine sense in order to travel through the void, which is why you are not used to this world. This is not difficult; you just need to adjust it back. Remember the difference before and after the adjustment, and this will not happen again next time."

Cui Yu was both ashamed and deeply shocked: "How do you even know these things?"

Xiao Yu stood with his hands behind his back, still expressionless: "Nothing more than reading a lot."

Shaoyang Star Lord: ...

Cui Yu actually believed it and thanked her profusely. Then Xiao Yu suddenly said quietly, "What did you all go about? You didn't even have time to put on your clothes?"

Cui Yu sighed, "That world is truly magical, with three suns in the sky. It's a holy land for body tempering, though it's quite difficult. But although I suffered a lot, it did improve the quality of my Dharma form; it's simply miraculous."

Xiaoyu finally became interested: "Really? Let's release it and see. If it works, I'll go too! My Dharma form should be upgraded as well."

Shaoyang Star Lord: ...

Cui Yu then released twelve heavenly soldiers. Xiao Yu was also taken aback when he saw the heavenly soldiers who were translucent in the darkness. Then he rubbed his eyes, and Cui Yu also rubbed his eyes.

They weren't mistaken; one of the heavenly soldiers did indeed have an extra arm, growing from behind his shoulder.

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The first major event personally oversaw by Wei Yuan was the construction of grand halls called Immortal Wisdom Centers in various cities.

The core function of the Immortal Wisdom Center is to connect with the mortal realm, changing the current situation where only a handful of main city lords' mansions can link to it. Although cultivators can once again enter the mortal realm through dreams after Wei Yuan's return, having experienced the Dharma Aspect Restriction once, Wei Yuan doesn't want to repeat the same mistake. Constructing a real-world array that connects to the mortal realm is more reliable.

Another reason is that Qingming now has a large number of cultivators, inevitably leading to a mix of good and bad. Wei Yuan plans to reorganize the permissions. Apart from the cultivators of Taichu Palace and the core cultivators cultivated by Qingming itself, other cultivators who enter the mortal realm through dreams can only accept missions. To process missions, they must go through the Immortal Wisdom Center.

In this way, it can effectively prevent those with ill intentions from secretly releasing demons into the mundane world. Although Wei Yuan doesn't believe that any inner demon can survive well in his mundane world, it's still necessary to be wary of demons.

The interior of the Immortal Wisdom Hall is divided into a high-level area and a low-level area. The low-level area is the entire hall, with simple partitions between individual workstations. The high-level area consists of individual, fully enclosed rooms, arranged neatly like a honeycomb, with a few special rooms available for personalized decoration.

This wasn't Wei Yuan's original idea, but rather a simple copy of the layout of the Umbrella Corporation's office area. However, each seat was much larger than those in the Umbrella Corporation's office, since cultivators were generally robust, and by the standards of the outer world, many were over seven feet tall.

Each Immortal Wisdom Center was equipped with 500 workstations and 100 high-class rooms, a considerable scale. However, this was only Wei Yuan's first step in the plan, mainly to address the need for human-made fire-making equipment during the transition period.

Next, Wei Yuan plans to build more Immortal Wisdom Branch Halls, each providing about one hundred access points. This can be built on a large scale and distributed throughout various corners of Qingming.

At this moment, the efficiency of the mortal realm in handling single-priority tasks was comparable to that of an immortal. As soon as Wei Yuan inputted his idea, a detailed and directly executable plan appeared in the blink of an eye. After Wei Yuan approved it, the plan was broken down into tasks with clear time and content requirements, and then sent directly to the corresponding departments or cities, where the cultivators on duty would distribute the tasks to the appropriate personnel.

A moment after Wei Yuan approved the plan, people in Qingming began to take action one after another. An hour later, the corresponding plots of land were marked out, and some cultivators had already begun digging foundations.

After this matter was resolved, Wei Yuan continued to address the issues concerning everyone's path.

The effects of body tempering in the desolate realm are astonishing. Although it cannot directly improve the quality of the Dharma body, once the physical body improves to a certain extent, it will naturally drive the Dharma body to upgrade.

This is not actually the path of the Mingwang Palace. The Mingwang Palace regards every tiny particle of the physical body as a sentient being, and strives to refine it into an individual spirit. Ultimately, tens of thousands of spirits will be cultivated throughout the entire body, and then all spirits will unite into one upon ascension to immortality, thus achieving perfection.

The immortal who pioneered the path to the Mingwang Palace was once a renowned demonic cultivator in the martial world. When faced with danger, he could instantly create hundreds of tiny versions of himself to escape. As long as even a speck of flesh on his body remained, he could be reborn through these fragments.

This predecessor buried his flesh and blood in many remote places, such as the north and south of the country, snow-capped mountains and deserts, and was so proud of himself that he called himself the Immortal Immortal and vowed that he could live until the day he died.

Back then, everyone in the martial arts world was extremely wary of him and dared not offend him, since no one was confident they could kill him. Failing to kill him would mean endless trouble.

However, after leaving the Path of the Bright King Palace in the Primordial Palace, he began to cultivate the Heart of Invincibility. While cultivating, he wanted to imitate the old story of his ancestor and excitedly went to the Witch Domain to cause trouble. As a result, after killing three parties, he completely angered the Ancestral Witch and was cursed with karma.

This senior was not well-liked and had few friends. Unlike Wei Yuan, who was involved in many things, he had no one to share the burden of the great curse and was eventually cursed to death. Countless physical seeds at home and abroad withered away at the same time.

Regardless of past deeds, the sheer power of the Mingwang Palace's Dao path is evident from this alone. The Mingwang Palace's Dao path cultivates both body and spirit, truly a righteous path. Wei Yuan, however, obtained the method from the Power Witch and only refined his physical body, thus straying onto the evil path.

Of course, Wei Yuan himself did not think so. With the help of the unique environment of the Desolate Realm and the ability of the Molten Dragon to mobilize the five tones of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, this method has amazing body tempering effects and no side effects, so he could not give it up.

However, the data is currently severely insufficient, and Wei Yuan needs more cultivators for testing. Furthermore, traveling to and from the Desolate Realm is not only extremely costly, but not just anyone can go there. Cui Yu is practically the minimum; even Xiao Yu would find it very difficult to enter.

After reviewing the list and considering the current affairs of the cultivators, Wei Yuan decided to make the most of his time before returning to his home mountain and visit the Desolate Realm once more. This time, he would bring Feng Tingyu with him to compare the differences between the paths of the Power Witch and the Bright King Palace.

Feng Tingyu was overjoyed to hear that she could travel to another world, and without any suspicion, she followed Wei Yuan into the portal.

The two appeared in a deserted corner of the desolate realm, where no one and no witches were around. As soon as they entered, Feng Tingyu only had time to say "It's so hot" before his body suddenly burst into flames, burning his robes to ashes.

Wei Yuan covered his face. He had forgotten that the place where the cultivators of the Mingwang Palace were least likely to spend money was on their robes.

Feng Tingyu was stunned for a moment, but didn't care. Seeing that no one was around, she smiled slyly, and suddenly darkness enveloped Wei Yuan!

After his five senses were severed, Wei Yuan realized the power of Feng Tingyu's Dharma Form. Even the sunlight of the desolate realm, which could penetrate his Dharma Body, could not penetrate this darkness.

Having completed their cultivation and obtained sufficient data, Wei Yuan and Wei Yuan returned to Qingming.

Although there was no Nine Eyes to help him on the return trip, the desolate world was quite soft and fragile in front of Wei Yuan at this time, and Wei Yuan easily tore open a gap leading to the void.

But before returning, Wei Yuan suddenly felt several strands of the power of a sorcerer appear on his body. Wei Yuan was immediately quite excited. He hadn't expected that even after he had been away for so long, there would still be a legend about him in the Desolate Realm.

The rift leading to the void could not be maintained, so Wei Yuan, without bothering to investigate the source of the power witch's fortune, took Feng Tingyu into the void.

In the void, a calm, gentle, and patient voice rang out: "Do you see that point of light? That's our realm. Just fly over there. Give it a try."

"Okay, sure." Feng Tingyu flew out, tracing a graceful trajectory, and disappeared from this world.

Wei Yuan stood in the void, unable to comprehend it for a long time.

But Wei Yuan was the kind of person who became more courageous after setbacks, so before returning to Taichu Palace, he seized the last moments and took Wang Hu to the Desolate Realm.

As the senior disciple of the Mingwang Hall, the sunlight of the desolate realm only penetrated Wang Hu's skin and flesh, unable to reach his internal organs at all, so the effect on his body tempering was negligible. The path of the Mingwang Hall is indeed extraordinary.

The two then entered the void and returned to Qingming via the old route. After entering the void, Wei Yuan pointed forward and said in a deep, gentle, and patient voice, "That is our realm. We just need to fly over there to return."

Wang Hu nodded: "Okay, I understand."

Then the burly, square-faced man picked up Wei Yuan and flew into this realm with him.

(End of this chapter)