What I teach you is real stuff.

Compared to Ye Tianlin's reckless actions, Zhou Yuan has more experience and is more cautious in his actions.

Wang Qingying was his student. As her teacher, Zhou Yuan had thoroughly investigated Wang Qingying's background. Although Wang Qingying was talented, she had no background and her parents were ordinary people.

It was truly baffling that a soul could emerge from her body and perfectly conceal its presence; this was highly unusual.

Something unusual must be going on. Zhou Yuan's intuition, honed over many years, told him that something was amiss and that this soul was not simple.

Wang Qingying was also stunned. She didn't even know when a soul had appeared inside her. Who was this soul? Where did her protector come from?

However, looking at this soul, Wang Qingying felt it looked extremely familiar. Its appearance was very similar to that of Brother Lu Yuan, who ran a talisman shop next to her own pill shop.

Wang Qingying couldn't help but have a bold guess in her heart. She had always felt that she couldn't see through Brother Lu. Could it be that Lu Yuan was a reclusive master?
Once this thought took hold, it was impossible to suppress it, because Wang Qingying had indeed had this suspicion in her previous interactions with Lu Yuan, after all, she had consulted Lu Yuan on many cultivation-related issues before.

Although Lu Yuan appears to be only at the Foundation Establishment stage, his answers to every question she raises are always insightful and sharp.

Many of the answers were from perspectives that even some of the Nascent Soul teachers at the Northern Continent Academy didn't have as clear-headed as Lu Yuan's.

Wang Qingying used to think that Lu Yuan was just strong in theoretical knowledge, but now she realizes that she was too naive.

The Azure Heaven World is full of legends about hidden identities and reclusive masters. Combined with the soul form she is in now, Wang Qingying suddenly realized that she had underestimated Brother Lu.

Just as Ye Tianlin was about to make a move, Zhou Yuan stopped him, saying, "Teacher Zhou, why waste time talking to him? This person only seems to have retained a wisp of Wang Qingying's soul power. He is currently in a secret realm, isolated from the outside world by a barrier."

As long as this soul remains within this barrier, it cannot communicate with its original body outside. If we can resolve this soul within the secret realm, the original body of that person outside will have no idea what is happening inside the secret realm.

How strong can a single soul be, no matter how powerful?

Ye Tianlin felt that Zhou Yuan was being overly cautious. Although Wang Qingying had someone protecting her, they were currently in this secret realm, and there was also the Medicine Sect barrier released by the ancient alchemy furnace.

The barrier completely isolates the world within the secret realm from the outside world. Even the soul within is currently unable to communicate with the outside world, so the soul's original body outside is unaware of what is happening inside.

As long as they eliminate this soul entity within this secret realm, those protecting Wang Qingying will remain unaware of what has transpired.

Moreover, in his view, the soul hidden in Wang Qingying's body was nothing more than a thought.

How strong can it be?
If it is merely a soul, its strength is probably less than one-tenth of the original body's power. Moreover, the barrier isolates it from the outside world, preventing the soul from receiving external power, making it like a rootless duckweed.

Even if Wang Qingying is backed by a powerful cultivator at the Void Refinement stage, the strength that a mere wisp of a Void Refinement cultivator's soul can unleash is at most at the Nascent Soul stage, which is vastly different from the power of the actual body.

Moreover, Ye Tianlin didn't believe that Wang Qingying really had any powerful backers. The Ye family had already thoroughly investigated Wang Qingying's family background.

Ye Tianlin and Zhou Yuan, working together, could easily handle a soul clone created by the Refining Void.

Zhou Yuan was still thinking when his intuition told him that something was wrong. The suddenly appearing soul in front of him gave him an unusually dangerous feeling.

But the sword in his hand was already bleeding. He had killed so many disciples, and there was no turning back now.

He couldn't possibly leave this soul entity and Wang Qingying alive; it would be too disadvantageous for him, leaving him with no way out.

Moreover, what Ye Tianlin said was actually not wrong. No matter how strong the person in front of us was, how strong could he be?
Even a Void Refiner is merely a soul entity at this moment. Isolated from the outside world within this barrier, this soul entity can only unleash one-tenth of its original strength and is extremely weak.

If they join forces, they won't be outmatched; on the contrary, they have a very high chance of winning.

As for whether the cultivation level of this soul body is at the Integration Stage, Tribulation Stage, or even higher... Zhou Yuan hadn't thought about it, because he didn't think there was any possibility of that at all.

Putting aside the fact that it's impossible for such a powerful figure to exist behind Wang Qingying, such a top-tier figure would not appear in the small Chen Kingdom of Qingzhou.

The strongest person in their Chen Kingdom is the dean of their Northern Continent Academy, but even the dean's current cultivation level is only at the Refinement of Void Realm, and he is still some distance away from the Integration Realm.

Even looking at the entire Qingzhou Realm, the number of experts at the Integration Realm is limited, not exceeding one hundred, and those who have undergone Tribulation are even fewer than ten.

Cultivating immortality is like a pyramid; the higher you go, the fewer people there are.

After all, the overall strength of Qingzhou is relatively weak, and most of the real top experts are now gathered in Beizhou, so don't scare yourself.

Just as Zhou Yuan was still pondering, the soul entity hidden within Wang Qingying's body finally spoke.

"As a teacher at the Northern Continent Academy, one should be a role model of virtue and talent, imparting knowledge through one's own actions, and being upright and honest. Yet you are willing to kill your own student without any scruples for the sake of a secret realm opportunity. What difference is there between you and a beast?"

"And you, you are greedy and treacherous, you murdered your classmates, you are so young yet you are already ruthless, cunning, two-faced, and unrepentant. You are beyond redemption."

"Since you two are both from my Northern Continent Alliance, your crimes are even more serious. You should commit suicide to atone for your sins."

The soul sighed and shook its head, deeply saddened that the Northern Continent Alliance had produced two scoundrels, and told them to commit suicide to atone for their sins.

This soul entity is naturally Lu Yuan.

The establishment of the Northern Continent Academy was also Lu Yuan's plan back then, and Xiao Huang and Jinjiao Wang were responsible for its implementation.

Lu Yuan originally launched the Northern Continent Academy to recruit talents from all sides and lay the groundwork for the future Northern Continent Alliance. It was modeled after the nine-year compulsory education on Blue Star and aimed to discover hidden talents from the bottom.

But what happened in this secret realm today truly pained Lu Yuan, and also made him see many hidden problems and hidden dangers in the Northern Continent Academy.

On the one hand, there are still huge loopholes in the appointment and evaluation of teachers in universities. As a teacher, it is not only necessary to require strength, cultivation and teaching ability, but also to strictly evaluate the teacher's character and morality.

If a university teacher cannot resist temptation, like Zhou Yuan today, he will surely cause a great disaster.

Secondly, there are students from families of cultivators. These people have access to resources from a young age and their understanding of the world is completely different from that of students from ordinary mortal backgrounds. Not only are their values ​​and worldviews different, but their beliefs are also different.

It seems that the future Northern Continent Academy will need to make distinctions in this regard, separating students from the cultivation world from ordinary students.

Ye Tianlin and Wang Qingying are two typical examples. After all, if it weren't for the appearance of the Divine Peak inheritance today, which forced Ye Tianlin to reveal his true colors in advance, it would have been different.

Wang Qingying may never know that she was being schemed against by Ye Tianlin until her death. To put it bluntly, she was just an ordinary person with limited experience.

These ordinary students, lacking experience, simply cannot compete with the children of powerful families.

If the future North Continent Academy wants to better cultivate talent, it must also make changes in this area.

In addition, there's the matter of Ye Tianlin's family secretly refining the Three Corpse Brain God Pill, and Zhou Yuan's background and means to bribe those in the Void Refinement stage to enter the undeveloped secret realm ahead of time.

All of this proves that there are serious problems within the Northern Continent Alliance. The previous Alchemist Alliance was brought down by Lu Yuan himself. No one knows better than Lu Yuan how serious the problems of the Alchemist Alliance were and how it was destroyed.

The original founders of the Alchemist Alliance certainly did not intend to amass wealth at the time of its establishment. The reason why the Alchemist Alliance was overthrown was the result of the insatiable greed of successive generations of corrupt officials.

This incident proves that many corrupt elements have emerged within the Northern Continent Alliance. It seems I should purge the Northern Continent Alliance when I return.

Lu Yuan told Ye Tianlin and Zhou Yuan to commit suicide so that he wouldn't have to do it himself.

But to Ye Tianlin, these words were like a joke.

Who are you? Acting all high and mighty? You're telling us to commit suicide without even fighting? Just a spirit, do you really think we're afraid of you?

Ye Tianlin and Zhou Yuan had already guessed that Lu Yuan was no ordinary cultivator outside, but was likely a powerful figure. If Lu Yuan's true form were here today, they would certainly not dare to offend him in the slightest.

Unfortunately, it was just a thought, a soul.

How strong can a single thought be, no matter how powerful?
Ye Tianlin, relying on the Ye family's magic weapon, was not afraid of Lu Yuan at all.

Zhou Yuan couldn't just sit and wait to die; he couldn't really commit suicide. The Divine Peak inheritance was still waiting for him to retrieve it.

Without further ado, Ye Tianlin and Zhou Yuan exchanged a glance and simultaneously launched an attack on Lu Yuan's soul.

Knowing that this soul entity was not easy to deal with, the two immediately launched a killing move.

Ye Tianlin released the divine sword in his hand, and the sword instantly emitted a loud sword cry. This was the Azure Flying Sword, one of the Ye family's top magic treasures.

Legend has it that this sword was the flying sword used by the first ancestor of the Ye family. It was incredibly powerful and accompanied the Ye family's founder in crossing borders to kill enemies, including a powerful expert at the Integration Realm.

It was passed down from generation to generation and became one of the most famous magical treasures of the Ye family. Ye Tianlin was a direct descendant of the Ye family and had an extraordinary status. He was highly valued by his ancestors. Moreover, this trip into the ancient secret realm was also a good opportunity for the Ye family.

Firstly, it was to protect Ye Tianlin, and secondly, the Ye family also wanted to gain some benefits from Ye Tianlin in this secret realm. Therefore, they obtained the Azure Nether Flying Sword for Ye Tianlin to use. Furthermore, the Ye family patriarch helped Ye Tianlin complete the initial refining of the Azure Nether Flying Sword, giving him some basic ability to control the flying sword.

Although Ye Tianlin's cultivation level was far from sufficient to unleash the full power of this flying sword, he could still unleash about 50-60% of its strength.

This sword strike is enough to kill even a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Zhou Yuan also unleashed his killing move, his sharp sword light tearing through space as he attacked Lu Yuan.

"Myriad Light Sword Technique!"

When the two join forces, their combined strength is enough to contend with an ordinary Void Refinement cultivator.

At the Void Refinement level, facing these two together would almost certainly mean certain death.

Wang Qingying, standing behind Lu Yuan, couldn't help but gasp as she watched the terrifying and suffocating attack from the Nascent Soul stage. She exclaimed, "Senior, be careful!"

Lu Yuan didn't move at all. Facing the Azure Flying Sword and the Myriad Light Sword Technique, he didn't even lift his eyelids.

"Noisy!"

Having reached Lu Yuan's current cultivation level, and after refining the Heart of the World to become the ruler of this plane, he basically no longer needs to lift a finger to deal with cultivators from his native plane.

Especially considering that Ye Tianlin and Zhou Yuan were so weak, in Lu Yuan's eyes they were like newborn children, their attacks were so weak that Lu Yuan couldn't even bear to look at them.

This level of attack is no different from a newborn baby touching Lu Yuan with its tender hands.

Even though he was in the secret realm at this moment, Lu Yuan, who had completely refined the Heart of the World and mastered the power of the Azure Heaven World's rules, could still use the power of heaven and earth in the secret realm.

Lu Yuan had a thought, but he didn't actually make a move; he just slightly used a trace of the power of the plane.

Then Ye Tianlin and Zhou Yuan seemed to see a terrifying, boundless, enormous, and magnificent invisible force descend from the void and block Lu Yuan's way.

The sword energy of the Azure Flying Sword and the Myriad Light Sword Technique was all blocked in front of this vast, magnificent, and invisible force, as if it were blocked by an insurmountable wall.

"What kind of power is this?" Ye Tianlin almost cried out in surprise.

Zhou Yuan, standing nearby, was also dumbfounded; the power and terror of this force were unlike anything he had ever seen before.

Even legendary cultivators who have undergone tribulation or attained Mahayana enlightenment do not possess this, right?
As they slashed their sword energy against this invisible wall, they felt a sense of dread and fear, as if facing Lu Yuan were a direct confrontation with the very heavens.

"How could this be? Who exactly is this guy?"

Zhou Yuan felt something was very strange. Although he had a premonition that something was wrong from the beginning and could vaguely sense that Lu Yuan's strength was extraordinary.

But even strength has its limits, and Lu Yuan's strength was simply outrageous, bordering on lawless.

Faced with the combined attack of the two of them, and even the legendary flying sword of the Ye family, this person didn't even glance at them, easily dismantling and shattering all their attacks.

Zhou Yuan swallowed hard.

Ye Tianlin, however, was not convinced and launched a frenzied attack.

"I don't believe it! Kill!"

Ye Tianlin poured all his energy into his Azure Flying Sword, manipulating it to frantically slash at the supreme power in the void, attempting to shatter it.

But in Lu Yuan's view, this was nothing more than a mantis trying to stop a chariot... no, a floating object trying to block a chariot.

Lu Yuan shook his head: When you feel that you are being foolish, you might as well think about how there was once a person who tried to use his flying sword to shatter the power of the Heavenly Dao of this world.

Ye Tianlin's attack was completely futile. Even if you resurrected the ancestor who founded the Ye family, it wouldn't make a difference.

Lu Yuan watched quietly as Ye Tianlin manipulated the flying sword to slash for a while. Only when the other party could no longer slash did Lu Yuan slowly extend a hand.

"have you had enough?"

After saying that, Lu Yuan made a grasping motion with his five fingers, and the power of the world's rules erupted, directly crushing the Azure Flying Sword, Ye Tianlin's trump card, into pieces.

Lu Yuan: "Do you have any other trump cards? If not, you two might as well commit suicide." (End of Chapter)