59: Chapter 59 That old man is really rich! Points surpass five million!
At the peak of a desolate mountain, wild winds howled.
Elder Xuanji sat cross-legged, a confident smile on his lips as if he had already seen through everything.
"One hundred and thirty li (65 kilometers)."
"This is an absolute safe zone."
"As long as this old man doesn't take that step, what can that so-called great horror do to me?"
He formed hand seals, and the vertical eye at his glabella, emitting a faint blue light—the [Heaven-Observing Divine Eye]—had completely opened.
Through the divine eye, his vision seemed to traverse the Void Realm, rapidly closing the distance to Cangwu Mountain.
"Let this old man see what kind of tricks you are playing..."
However.
Just as his vision had traveled a few kilometers and was about to enter the area he deemed dangerous.
An invisible but extremely terrifying fluctuation descended without warning.
It didn't come from ahead, but... right beneath his feet!
The smile on Elder Xuanji's face instantly froze.
Because he discovered to his horror that the space around him had been completely locked down, as if frozen!
"This... this is..."
"What power is this?!"
"Impossible! This is clearly one hundred and thirty li away! How could the great horror still be triggered?!"
Elder Xuanji wanted to scream, wanted to flee, and even wanted his Nascent Soul to leave his body and escape.
But before that vast will, which felt like heavenly might, he couldn't even move a single finger.
His cultivation at the Late Nascent Soul Stage Great Circle, which he was so proud of, felt like a joke at this moment.
...
At the same time, at the Hehuan Sect, the back mountain's Spirit Spring.
The mist was thick, and the spring scenery was boundless.
Wang Yang was at a critical moment in his cultivation.
To help Lin Xiaowan charge toward the False Core Realm, he was operating the "Supreme Yin-Yang Creation Scripture" with all his might, guiding a massive amount of Pure Yang spiritual energy to wash through Lin Xiaowan's Meridians over and over again.
Lin Xiaowan bit her lip, her face flushed red as she struggled to absorb that violent power; she was only one breath away from a Breakthrough.
At this critical juncture.
[Ding! Warning!]
[Hostile target (Late Nascent Soul Stage Great Circle) detected entering the Invincible Domain!]
[Location: Due East, 65 kilometers from the Sect.]
[The target is using a spying secret technique, intending to peer at the host!]
The sudden System prompt almost made Wang Yang lose his breath.
"Damn it!"
Wang Yang frowned, a surge of nameless anger rising in his heart.
"Which blind dog is this? Can't you see I'm busy with serious business?"
"Late Nascent Soul Stage Great Circle? Another one coming to seek death?"
He was in the heat of the moment; even if the King of Heaven himself came, he couldn't interrupt his rhythm.
"System!"
Wang Yang didn't even get up, or even open his eyes, simply giving a cold command in his mind:
"Don't let him bother me."
"Obliterate him directly! Recycle!"
[Ding! Command confirmed!]
[Mobilizing Domain power... executing obliteration!]
...
At the peak of the desolate mountain.
"No—!!!"
Elder Xuanji only had time to let out a desperate wail from the depths of his Soul.
Boom!
The surrounding space suddenly collapsed.
It was like an invisible giant hand ruthlessly crushing an annoying fly.
Pfft!
There was no world-shaking explosion, no brilliant exchange of Spells.
Elder Xuanji's body, Nascent Soul, and Divine Soul, along with the [Heaven-Observing Divine Eye] that had just opened on his glabella, were crushed into a cloud of blood mist in an instant.
Immediately after, a golden light flashed.
The blood mist vanished, leaving only an empty prayer mat on the ground, proving that a Hall Revered Master of the Heavenly Secret Hall, who once shook the Southern Wasteland Region, had been sitting here.
...
Inside the Spirit Spring.
After dealing with that fly, Wang Yang's movements didn't even pause for a second.
"Xiao Wan, focus! It's the final sprint!"
"Mmm... Revered Master... you're... too strong..."
A flash of determination crossed Lin Xiaowan's blurred eyes. She hugged Wang Yang tightly, and the long-accumulated spiritual energy in her body finally found its outlet.
Boom—!
A powerful aura erupted from her body, causing the Spirit Spring's water to churn.
Inside her Dantian, the originally liquid spiritual energy vortex completely solidified, turning into a False Core that, while not as smooth as a Golden Core, emitted a faint golden light!
False Core Realm (Half-step Golden Core), achieved!
[Ding! Congratulations to the host! Disciple Lin Xiaowan has broken through to the False Core Realm!]
[However, she still belongs to the Foundation Establishment Stage!]
[Cannot trigger the Domain expansion mechanism!]
"Phew..."
Wang Yang let out a long breath. Looking at Lin Xiaowan, who was limp as mud in his arms but wearing a happy expression, he smiled and helped her tidy her wet bangs.
"Well done, Xiao Wan."
"Hehe... Revered Master... I'm amazing, right..."
Lin Xiaowan giggled and rubbed against Wang Yang's chest, then her head tilted, and she fell asleep from exhaustion.
After settling Lin Xiaowan, Wang Yang finally remembered the unlucky fellow he had swatted to death earlier.
"System, who was that person just now?"
"Let me see how much I earned from this wave."
He nonchalantly opened the System log.
However, when he saw that string of recycling numbers, he instantly jumped out of the water.
"Holy crap?!"
[Ding! Killed and recycled hostile target: Tianshui Holy Land's Heavenly Secret Hall Revered Master—Elder Xuanji (Late Nascent Soul Stage Great Circle)!]
[Recycled his lifetime cultivation legacy: 250,000 points!]
[Recycled special item: Earth Rank High Grade Magic Treasure [Heaven-Observing Mirror] (Broken, recycled for Materials): 50,000 points!]
[Recycled storage ring: Contains Heavenly Secret divination chips, several Top-Grade Spirit Stones, "fortune-telling fees" offered by various Sects... total value: 650,000 points!]
[Total gain this time: 950,000 points!]
"Nine... nine hundred and fifty thousand?!"
Wang Yang's eyes widened as he looked at this windfall.
"What did this old man do? He had more than the entire Ziyang Sect's liquid assets?"
"Is fortune-telling that profitable?"
How could he know that as the number one divine calculator in the Southern Wasteland Region, the price for all sorts of big shots to ask Elder Xuanji for a divination was astronomical.
Moreover, this old man loved wealth extremely much and carried all his belongings with him, all of which ended up benefiting Wang Yang.
Wang Yang took a deep breath and looked excitedly at his total points balance.
It was around 4,260,000 before.
Plus this 950,000.
[Current total points: 5,210,000 points!]
That glaring number starting with a 5 made Wang Yang feel as if he could hear celestial music playing in his ears.
"Five million two hundred and ten thousand!"
"It's enough! Finally enough!"
Wang Yang laughed toward the sky, the gloom of being a 'kept man' swept away.
"System! Open the shop!"
"That five million [LV3 True Spiritual Root (Triple Spiritual Root)]!"
"Buy it for me!!!"
"I'm finally going to start cultivating immortality!!"
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Thanks to [Tian Shang Lv] for the 2 [Flowers]!
Thanks to [Innocent and Cute Miura Mitsushio] for the 3 [Love Power]!
Thanks to [Yu Hua Fei Xian] for the 2 [Love Power]!
Thanks to [Big Brother Xiaoyao Longhun], [Deranged Xurkitree], and [Ouyang Jing Who Likes Pseudo-Rice] for the [Love Power]!