The Devouring Demon Lord, secretly plotting!

The surrounding stone walls are engraved with countless hideous and eerie demonic runes, and the ground is littered with bones, indicating that countless lives were tortured and killed here.

In the center of the space, a faint, almost transparent black phantom sat cross-legged, seemingly asleep.

It was a remnant soul, its aura weak, yet it still carried an overbearing and malevolent power that could devour heaven and earth.

Lu Yuan looked at the remnant soul, lost in thought.

He did not find any jade slips containing cultivation techniques in the cave.

It is likely that the fragments of the Devouring Heaven Demon Art are hidden within the memories of this remnant soul.

This should have been Xiao Fan's opportunity.

He was chased to this place and finally obtained the Devouring Heaven Demon Art from the remnant soul.

Lu Yuan no longer hesitated. He was now at the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and his divine sense power was terrifying.

A thought subtly stirred within me.

An invisible and intangible torrent of divine consciousness, vast as the might of heaven, descended instantly, completely enveloping the still-sleeping remnant soul of the nascent soul.

"who."

The remnant soul suddenly awoke, letting out a roar filled with shock and rage.

However, before he could react, Lu Yuan's domineering divine sense had already torn through his fragile soul defenses and forcibly invaded the core of his memory.

"Ah...no..."

The piercing screams echoed through the cave, but soon ceased.

A moment later, the remnant soul of the nascent soul completely turned into green smoke and dissipated into the world, while Lu Yuan slowly opened his eyes.

In his mind, a demonic cultivation technique filled with the aura of slaughter and devouring appeared, along with many memories of this remnant soul from its previous life.

Devouring Heaven Demon Lord.

This person was none other than the peerless demon who, a thousand years ago, single-handedly unleashed a bloodbath in the Eastern Wilderness, slaughtering several mortal kingdoms.

In his memory, he was ultimately destroyed by a powerful Nascent Soul cultivator from the Feathered Immortal Sect.

Unexpectedly, a remnant of his soul remained hidden here, lingering on for a thousand years.

[Ding! Successfully seized the purple-grade opportunity from the chosen one of destiny, Xiao Fan—a fragment of the Devouring Heaven Demon Art. Triggered a thousand-fold critical hit return, obtaining the complete version of the Devouring Heaven Demon Art, and rewarded with 1000 Destiny Points.]

The system notification sounded.

Lu Yuan checked his Destiny Points. Adding the 10,000 points he had obtained by intercepting Gu Qingxue's opportunity and the 1,000 points from the Phoenix Essence Blood, he now had 12,000 points.

At the same time, a profound and complete understanding of the cultivation technique, far more complete than that of the tattered scroll, surged into his mind like a sudden enlightenment.

Almost instantly, he fully comprehended this supreme demonic art, which far surpassed the Heavenly Rank.

"Devouring the essence of all things and turning it into one's own is indeed a decent auxiliary technique," Lu Yuan murmured.

The Devouring Technique in the Devouring Demon Art can also be used as an auxiliary cultivation method, integrated into his own Daoist arts as a means of combat, so there is no need to specifically switch to cultivating this technique.

After acquiring the demonic power, Lu Yuan returned to Changsheng Peak.

The first thing he did was to use his divine sense to summon Qi Yunhe, the peak master of Taichu Peak.

Before long, a middle-aged cultivator wearing a blue Taoist robe, with a thin face and a hint of melancholy in his eyes, entered the cave.

"Disciple Qi Yunhe pays respects to the Ancestor."

Qi Yunhe was extremely respectful; he was one of the few elders in the sect who still maintained absolute loyalty to Lu Yuan.

"Get up." Lu Yuan looked at him and said bluntly, "Yunhe, I have summoned you here today because there is something related to your Daoist partner Liu Mengxi that I need to tell you."

Upon hearing this, Qi Yunhe's body trembled slightly. He raised his head, a hint of confusion flashing in his eyes. "I don't know... what Mengxi has done wrong."

He couldn't believe that his gentle and virtuous Daoist partner could have done anything to alarm the ancestor who was in seclusion.

Lu Yuan didn't say anything more.

He took out a recording stone and infused it with his magic.

A curtain of light appeared out of thin air inside the cave.

On the screen was Liu Mengxi's boudoir. She held a communication jade talisman in her hand, her face showing a shyness and admiration that she had never shown in front of Qi Yunhe before.

A handsome, sharp-looking male phantom appeared on the jade talisman.

It was Li Daoyi, one of the peak masters of Tianjian Mountain.

"Brother Daoyi, don't worry. The Qingyun Sect is already at its last gasp. It is said that Ancestor Lu Yuan is also seriously injured and will not live much longer. When the time is right, I will definitely help you take down the Qingyun Sect." Liu Mengxi's voice was gentle and charming.

"Mengxi, I'm sorry to have wronged you," Li Jianyi's illusory figure said softly. "That Qi Yunhe is nothing but a mediocre talent. If he didn't occupy the position of the Taichu Peak Master, how could he be worthy of you? When my Tianjian Mountain takes over Qingyun, you will be my only Daoist partner, Li Daoyi."

"Ugh, I hate it." Liu Mengxi's face was flushed with happiness. "By the way, being with that Qi Yunhe is really annoying. All he does all day is cultivate, and he always has a deadpan expression. He's so utterly boring."

That's the end of the video.

Inside the cave, all was deathly silent.

Qi Yunhe stared blankly at the dissipating light screen, his face turning from red to green, and finally to a deathly pale ashes.

His body was trembling slightly.

Disdainful, utterly lacking in charm.

It turns out that after hundreds of years of mutual support and companionship, this is the evaluation they received.

His Dao heart nearly shattered at that moment.

"Ancestor... Ancestor, this... this is..." His voice was dry and filled with disbelief and pain.

"This is a message I intercepted by chance today," Lu Yuan said calmly. He didn't tell Qi Yunhe that he had secretly recorded this scene using a secret method, taking advantage of the system's intelligence and calculating the timing.

Qi Yunhe closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, all the love and tenderness in his eyes had turned into bone-chilling coldness and disappointment.

He bowed deeply to Lu Yuan.

"This disciple is foolish and misjudged people, and almost caused a great disaster for the sect. Everything depends on the instructions of the Ancestor."

Lu Yuan looked at him and nodded slightly.

Qi Yunhe's reaction was within his expectations.

"Now is not the time to deal with her," Lu Yuan said slowly. "Heavenly Sword Mountain and Beast King Valley are both eyeing my Azure Cloud Sect covetously. Since they all want to get involved, I will give them a chance."

"I need you to act as if nothing happened, continue the status quo with her, and secretly keep a close eye on her every move."

"Disciple understands." Qi Yunhe's voice had returned to calm, but beneath that calmness lay a faint chill.

After Qi Yunhe left, voices requesting an audience rang out again outside the cave.

The person who came was Gu Qingxue.

She changed into a new moon-white long dress, regaining her aloof and exquisite demeanor as the sect leader.

However, when she saw Lu Yuan, a hint of shyness would still unconsciously show in her eyes.