Chapter 242
Yang Lingrui couldn’t yet heal a cultivator’s mind and soul on his own. To do this, he used the consciousness left by his Immortal Master in his sea of consciousness. After the Immortal Master achieved Condensing Essence, this consciousness had also evolved.
When Luo Zhuli chased him before, Yang Lingrui didn’t understand what was happening, but he knew surviving that ordeal depended entirely on the Immortal Master’s consciousness. From his perspective, his sea of consciousness shook violently, then everything went dark. When he woke, he found Luo Zhuli’s shriveled body—stripped of divine awareness and life—lying ten paces behind him.
Luo Zhuli’s body showed no injuries, but Yang Lingrui couldn’t preserve it during the chaos. By the time the Guhui Town incident ended, the body had already rotted and withered from lost spiritual power. Otherwise, an intact twelfth-level Gathering Qi cultivator’s body could’ve sold for at least ten thousand spiritual crystals.
Xue Qingluan knew none of this, assuming Yang Lingrui’s strange powers came from the West Concubine. He wasn’t healing her injuries with Chen Yang’s consciousness to manipulate her—he simply found her useful and didn’t want her slowed down.
On the First Level’s northern front, only three Eastern Wilderness prodigies besides Yang Lingrui could fight Xue Qingluan; everyone else fled. As long as Condensing Essence experts stayed out, she reigned supreme there. Her combat strength and sect-trained mind also saved him time analyzing strategies.
A year later, Yang Lingrui finally grasped the West Concubine’s intent. Among northwest Canglan’s three talents, Shen Yue excelled in everything—combat, wit, diplomacy, and vision. Yang Lingrui and Yue Shuwang, however, cared only for the Dao, scorning worldly matters.
This was why the Lanyue Sect assigned Xue Qingluan to Yue Shuwang early—to handle practical affairs and, if needed, sacrifice herself like in Guhui Town. The West Concubine gave Xue Qingluan to Yang Lingrui for similar reasons. She’d seen Yang Lingrui wasn’t an all-rounder like Shen Yue, and leaving him with He Shenglai or alone would waste his potential.
Without Xue Qingluan, Yang Lingrui couldn’t have fused dual Wind techniques this past year. He felt grateful, unaware another reason influenced the West Concubine: Li Qingwan’s sudden mastery of the Path of Martial Arts after her academy enlightenment. To investigate, the West Concubine visited ChengTian Academy and met Mountain Master Wei Kangping in its hidden realm.
The latter replayed for her the entire process of his enlightenment day. After viewing it, she comprehended everything.