Immortality and cultivation: Heaven rewards diligence, and success is inevitable.

When Jiang Yu ran over, Jiang Shi reached out and patted her head.

"Great, you've grown taller."

Jiang Yu looked up at him, her eyes sparkling. In the two years since they last met, she had indeed grown quite a bit taller; she used to only reach his chest, but now she was almost up to his shoulder.

Her eyebrows and eyes have matured, and she is no longer the little girl she used to be.

"Master, you've finally emerged from seclusion!" Jiang Yu's voice was filled with joy. "I've been practicing my sword here every day, just waiting for you to come out."

"Seventh level of Qi Refining?" Jiang Shi asked.

"Hmm! The Golden and Water Twin Blades are also partially complete." Jiang Yu said, raising his hand to condense a blade of light, gold in his left hand and water in his right. The two blades spun in his palm. "Look!"

The light blade was much more solid than it had been two years ago, no longer ethereal. Jiang Shi nodded and took out a bottle of pills from his storage bracelet, handing it to her.

"Second-grade cultivation pills, use them sparingly."

Jiang Yu took the bottle, hugged it to her chest, and smiled even more happily.

"Master, are you going out?"

"Yes. I'll go to Qingyun Sect."

Jiang Yu's smile faded slightly, but she didn't say anything. She knew about her master's situation, but there was nothing she could do to help.

"Then be careful, sir."

Jiang Shi nodded and turned to walk towards the council hall.

Hua Luoyu was already waiting for him.

She sat in the main seat, wearing a red dress and holding a teacup. A smile played on her lips when she saw him enter.

"You've emerged from seclusion?"

Jiang Shi sat down opposite her: "What's happened in the past two years?"

Hua Luoyu put down her teacup and started counting on her fingers.

"Let's start with Qingyun Sect. The mountain-protecting formation has been kept open, and Sect Leader Lu is in seclusion, reportedly practicing some kind of demonic art."

"No one knows exactly how well he's trained, but he hasn't seen a single person in the past two years, not even the Lu family. I sent people to investigate, but they couldn't get in."

Jiang Shi listened without saying a word.

"The demonic art that Sect Leader Lu practices is the complete version of the Demonic Source Universal Transformation Scripture obtained from the Misty Mansion."

"He also has nine demonic puppets, all of whom are at the Foundation Establishment stage. In the past few years, he has killed all the cultivators from the Liang and Ma families of the Qingyun Sect and turned them into demonic puppets."

Hua Luoyu paused for a moment and took a sip of tea.

"But it's not very useful. No matter how strong he is, he's only at the Foundation Establishment stage, a whole realm below you. You could crush him just two years ago when you broke through, so it goes without saying now."

"Where is Lin Feiyu?" Jiang Shi asked.

"Lin Feiyu used the Foundation Seizing Technique to kill several Foundation Establishment stage rogue cultivators."

"Several rogue cultivators, all at the Foundation Establishment stage, have gone missing in the area outside Canglin City over the past two years. Everyone suspects it was Lin Feiyu's doing, but no one dares to confront him. He's now in the late Foundation Establishment stage and has gathered a group of people under his command, who are staying in his old house on the back of Qingyun Mountain."

"He didn't come to Biluo Valley?"

"He wouldn't dare." Hua Luoyu smiled. "You're at the Golden Core stage; even if he had the guts of a leopard, he wouldn't dare come. Besides, the few people he has aren't even enough to fill the teeth of my Biluo Valley."

Where is Lin Yanyi?

"She was taken back to the Lin family's old residence by Lin Feiyu." Hua Luoyu's tone was calmer. "He said he invited her back, but in reality, he's keeping her under house arrest. However, Lin Feiyu won't hurt her, after all, she's his own daughter. I heard that Lin Feiyu wants Lin Yanyi to take the Five Elements Human Pill to establish her foundation, and the materials are almost ready."

"Five Elements Human Pill?" Jiang Shi frowned.

"It's a pill made from five elemental spiritual materials and the essence and blood of a Foundation Establishment cultivator with five spiritual roots. Legend has it that it can help people break through to the Foundation Establishment stage without Foundation Establishment pills, and that their foundation is more solid than that of ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators."

Hua Luoyu looked at him and said, "Lin Feiyu has been scheming against you from the very beginning. Taking you as his disciple and teaching you the Five Elements Technique was all for this day."

Jiang Shi remained expressionless.

Of course he knew. Lin Feiyu had been planning this since the Qi Refining stage. He gave him the Yang Pill to track him down, and he taught him the Five Elements Technique so that he could cultivate the Five Elements Cultivation Method. Everything was to nurture him into a "Human Pill".

"It's a pity he couldn't wait any longer," Jiang Shi said, his voice tinged with coldness.

Hua Luoyu didn't respond to that, and changed the subject.

"Your apprentice Jiang Yu is indeed quite talented. He went from the fifth to the seventh level in two years without slacking off. He has also mastered the Golden Water Twin Blades quite well."

"Yes." Jiang Shi nodded. "As long as she's safe in Biluo Valley, that's fine."

"It's perfectly safe," Hua Luoyu said. "Who would dare to touch your apprentice?"

Jiang Shi remained silent for a while, going over the information in his mind.

The Qingyun Sect is barely alive; Sect Leader Lu is in seclusion practicing demonic arts, but even with further training, he can only reach the Foundation Establishment stage. Lin Feiyu is in the late Foundation Establishment stage and has gathered a ragtag group of followers. Lin Yanyi is under house arrest but is not in immediate danger.

There is no force in the entire Canglin region that can threaten him anymore.

A Golden Core cultivator is like a god here, and he is a first-grade Five Elements Golden Core cultivator. He can kill an ordinary Golden Core cultivator as easily as killing a chicken.

"Who are you planning to contact first?" Hua Luoyu asked.

"Qingyun Sect." Jiang Shi stood up. "The debts owed by Sect Leader Lu should be repaid."

Back then, at the edge of Luolongtan, twelve late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Qingyun Sect surrounded and killed him.

That was the first time he had faced an attack from so many Foundation Establishment stage experts. Although he ultimately won and wiped out all twelve of them, he never forgot that debt.

He's now at the Golden Core stage; it's time to finish things up.

Moreover, Jiang Shi naturally couldn't let go of that top-grade spiritual artifact, the Mountain and Sea Flag.

"Shall I go with you?" Hua Luoyu asked.

"No need," Jiang Shi said as he walked out. "One person is enough."

Hua Luoyu didn't say anything more. She knew Jiang Shi's personality; if he said he didn't need it, he meant it. Besides, with his current strength, going to Qingyun Sect was really as easy as strolling through his own backyard.

She took a talisman out of her sleeve and placed it on the table.

"A third-grade spirit talisman, for defense. Take it, just in case."

Jiang Shi glanced at it but didn't take it.

"It's not needed."

He took to the air and flew towards Qingyun Mountain.

Hua Luoyu stood at the entrance of the council hall, watching his figure disappear into the horizon. She shook her head, lost in thought, and turned back.

Jiang Shi knew that Hua Luoyu believed he was the Five Elements Master, or that he was related to the Five Elements Master, which was why she treated him so well.

Jiang Shi himself knew that he had absolutely no connection with that Five Elements Master.

Because Jiang Shi awakened his memories of his previous life, he was not a person of this world in the past, so naturally he had nothing to do with the Five Elements Master.

His rapid cultivation speed was entirely due to his destiny: "Heaven rewards diligence, and success is inevitable."

In addition, there's the matter of going to the Five Elements Demon Sect, which Jiang Shi naturally won't go to.

Now that he has entered the Golden Core stage, he seems to be very successful, but that is only in the Canglin region.

With Jiang Shi's strength, he is nothing special in the entire cultivation world, even among the top powers.

Going to the Five Elements Demon Sect without being fully prepared is tantamount to courting death!

"Cultivating Immortality: Heaven Rewards Diligence, Success is Sure to Come" is currently being serialized on Cola Novels and is not to be missed!