Gongfa Cliff and a Glimpse of Fate

Three days passed quickly.

After three days of nurturing, Xia Yi’s spirit indeed appeared much improved, his transcendent aura even more pronounced.

In contrast, Fei Miaoyun and Bing Yingying, having been cut off from their ‘nourishment’ by Pei Yunxiang for several days, looked rather unwell, like flowers deprived of their vital essence, showing a faint, withered pallor.

Dressed in the inner disciple robes of the Azure Feather Immortal Sect, which Pei Yunxiang and Bing Yingying had jointly designed and altered, the image of a graceful, ethereal sect disciple was thus born.

When venturing out, Bing Yingying wore an ice-blue veil to avoid unnecessary complications, her dark hair gathered and tied at her chest, exuding the charm of an immortal wife.

Bing Yingying linked her arm through Xia Yi’s, her delicate, clinging demeanor perfectly showcasing her gentle temperament.

“Husband, let us go.”

“Alright.”

During these three days, Li Junying had thoroughly introduced the important facilities within the Azure Feather Immortal Sect to the group.

As inner disciples, they could freely access almost all facilities with their tokens, with the exception of spirit peaks and certain forbidden zones.

Today marked the day for newly promoted inner disciples to fish for cultivation methods at Gongfa Cliff.

Xia Yi, holding Bing Yingying’s tender hand, flew on his sword towards Gongfa Cliff, encountering several couples also riding their swords along the way.

All of them were heading towards Gongfa Cliff.

Approximately half an hour later, Xia Yi and Bing Yingying arrived at the entrance of Gongfa Cliff.

Even though they had arrived quite early, the entrance was already bustling with people.

Xia Yi estimated there were several hundred individuals, all newly promoted inner disciples just like them.

Gongfa Cliff was considered one of the Azure Feather Immortal Sect’s popular facilities; disciples often received opportunities to fish for cultivation methods here as rewards for completing commissions or as gifts from elders.

As for what one might catch, that was entirely up to luck.

Xia Yi and Bing Yingying did not have to wait long before it was their turn.

“Newly promoted inner disciples may fish for one day. After recording the cultivation method obtained, it may be taken out. Enter.”

The guard at the entrance of Gongfa Cliff, like Li Junying, was an inner disciple. After inspecting Xia Yi and Bing Yingying’s inner disciple tokens and confirming their authenticity, he stepped aside.

Behind him lay the staircase leading up Gongfa Cliff.

Xia Yi waited briefly for Bing Yingying, and only then did the two of them ascend the steps side by side.

Gongfa Cliff was, in fact, a colossal canyon, with a churning sea of clouds below that resembled an immortal realm, where golden, wondrous fish could occasionally be seen swimming freely.

Following the guidance, Xia Yi pressed his inner disciple token against a stone tablet, whereupon the token in his hand transformed into a jade fishing rod.

However, there was no hook on the fishing line; it seemed one needed to use their spiritual energy as a hook to attract the technique spirit fish.

As a first-time angler, Xia Yi felt a thrill of excitement. Impatiently, he pulled Bing Yingying to a less crowded open space, eager to begin fishing.

Yet, even before he could prepare, Xia Yi understood why so few people occupied this spot.

Not far from their chosen fishing spot, a female disciple from the Immortal Sound Spirit Peak was exuding boundless resentment, as if she had suffered some inhuman torment.

Her delicate beauty was of the ‘girl-next-door’ type.

But Xia Yi couldn’t shake the feeling that her neck seemed a little too long, as if she had been hanging for an extended period.

Huangfu Jiashu, sensing Xia Yi’s curious gaze, glared back with an intensity that suggested a blood feud.

Xia Yi flinched, a strange sense of guilt inexplicably bubbling up within him, despite never having met the woman before.

“Husband?”

“It’s nothing, Yingying. Let’s go somewhere else; the feng shui here doesn’t seem very auspicious.”

With an inexplicable sense of trepidation, Xia Yi took Bing Yingying’s jade hand and swiftly departed from Huangfu Jiashu’s vicinity, feeling as though something terrifying would happen if that woman kept staring at him.

Though Bing Yingying was somewhat perplexed, she did not dwell on it.

The two found another empty spot and began to prepare for fishing for technique spirit fish.

While Xia Yi wasn’t entirely sure how to fish, he had certainly watched many ‘Human Emperors” ‘fishing tutorials.’

These included advanced techniques such as ‘human flesh chumming,’ ‘Ferrari chumming,’ and the ‘water-draining technique.’

However, this was the cultivation world, and disciples were not allowed to ‘chum’ in the cloud sea of Gongfa Cliff. He also lacked a ‘Ferrari,’ so Xia Yi had no choice but to use his Vast Righteous Sword Intent as chum.

Choosing Vast Righteous Sword Intent was the result of Xia Yi’s careful consideration.

Currently, his offensive abilities were limited to Vast Righteous Sword Intent and Extreme Yang True Flame.

Extreme Yang True Flame was more than sufficient with the Phoenix Fire Art, the contents of which Xia Yi had yet to fully digest.

That left only Vast Righteous Sword Intent.

Although Xia Yi had managed to create two reasonably powerful moves based on game effects, he had never truly compared their operational methods with other sword arts or sword techniques.

Xia Yi wanted to see if he could fish up a sword technique to refine his two self-created sword moves.

After releasing several strands of Vast Righteous Sword Intent into the sea of clouds before him, Xia Yi began to observe the newly promoted inner disciples who had come to Gongfa Cliff today.

He had not forgotten Zhen Aoyu, the protagonist. The Demonic Sword suppressed by the Azure Feather Immortal Sect was an extremely significant opportunity.

It was somewhat akin to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well from a certain Douluo Continent.

In the original story, after Aoyu utilized Bing Yingying to break through to the Golden Core stage, his Absolute Resentment Heavenly Art greatly improved.

With the extraordinary combat power granted by the Absolute Resentment Heavenly Art, Zhen Aoyu became a direct disciple of the Immortal Sound Spirit Peak, gaining access to the Demonic Sword.

However, to obtain the Demonic Sword, the natal spirit sword of the Azure Feather Immortal Sect’s Saintess was required to unlock its seal.

The Saintess of the Azure Feather Immortal Sect was the next Sect Master, and the only way to acquire her natal spirit sword was to become the Saint Son of the Azure Feather Immortal Sect.

Naturally, this did not pose a challenge to Zhen Aoyu, the protagonist.

After becoming a direct disciple, Zhen Aoyu colluded with the Demonic Sect, staging several grand dramas for the Azure Feather Immortal Sect and the Saintess, successfully ascending to the position of Saint Son.

Having gained the Saintess’s trust, Zhen Aoyu, in league with the Demonic Sect, lured her out and besieged her until she was severely wounded, then used the Absolute Resentment Heavenly Art to control her.

He falsely claimed he had risked his life to rescue the Saintess and, while controlling her, concocted the excuse that she needed to use the Demonic Sword for healing.

Although the high-ranking officials of the Azure Feather Immortal Sect harbored suspicions about why the Demonic Sword was needed for healing, due to their trust in their Saintess and the Demonic Sect’s siege, they ultimately agreed to let the Saintess open the Demonic Sword’s seal.

This allowed Zhen Aoyu to successfully seize the Demonic Sword, and by leveraging its vast resentment, he successfully advanced to the Nascent Soul stage and soared directly towards Soul Transformation.

Upon achieving his goal, Zhen Aoyu directly sacrificed the Saintess to the Demonic Sword, causing his combat power to skyrocket. Together with the colluding Demonic Sect, he directly annihilated the Azure Feather Immortal Sect.

Having immediately advanced to the Grand Perfection stage of Nascent Soul, Zhen Aoyu revealed his true colors and stopped pretending; with the Demonic Sword and the Absolute Resentment Heavenly Art, he was invincible beneath the Soul Transformation realm.

Utilizing the power of the Demonic Sword, he successfully seized numerous immortal sect-level opportunities, his combat power soaring all the while as he flaunted his power relentlessly.

Therefore, under no circumstances could Zhen Aoyu be allowed to seize the Demonic Sword suppressed by the Azure Feather Immortal Sect.

Otherwise, given the heaven-defying combat power Zhen Aoyu displayed in the original story, even with the Book of World Cleansing, Xia Yi had no confidence he could contend with him.

Fortunately, at this stage, Zhen Aoyu’s disguise could not evade Xia Yi’s inherent Purification Eye.

However, after scanning the newly promoted inner disciples, he found no trace.