Script of Reincarnation

Hall Master Su raised her hand as a faint layer of faint Essence Qi immediately enveloped Lu Qingxue alongside her.

The little girl didn’t resist and turned around to looked at her parents.

"Dad."

Lu Yang nodded, "Go, be obedient and don’t cause trouble for your master."

Lu Qingxue nodded before turning towards Bai Qinglan.

"Mom."

Bai Qinglan smiled through slightly reluctant eyes.

"Work hard, respect your master and seniors, and remember our teachings, okay?"

Lu Qingxue smiled, "Qingxue will."

Hall Master Su didn’t say anything else and stepped into the air.

The Essence Qi wrapped around Lu Qingxue lifted the little girl alongside her.

In the blink of an eye, the two figures had risen into the sky.

Lu Yang watched silently as Lu Qingxue looked down one last time.

Then, their figures disappeared towards the direction of the True Martial Sect.

Lu Yang stood there for a long time with Bai Qinglan standing beside him, gazing at the distant silhouette until it completely vanished from view.

...

The disciple recruitment ceremony continued.

Although Lu Qingxue had received the most astonishing treatment, the other descendants of the Lu Family still had to undergo the ceremony normally.

Fortunately, their aptitude was more than enough, and there cultivation was already quite good for their age.

The True Martial Sect accepted them directly as outer disciples.

For these young cultivators, this was already an opportunity that could change their lives.

Some of them were excited, some were nervous, while some looked expectant.

Lu Yang simply watched everything unfold quietly.

The Lu Family had achieved everything it wanted from this trip.

Lu Qingxue had become the personal disciple of an Essence Gathering Realm Hall Master, and the other young members had also entered the True Martial Sect.

From this day onward, the Lu Family had established a genuine connection with one of the strongest factions in Wuyuan Province, a connection that could last for generations.

Lu Yang turned his head, his gaze falling upon the distant mountain range.

For a moment, he remained in a trance.

The True Martial Sect, that was a place that Lu Yang had never imagined he would become connected to in this life, and yet, his daughter had now become the personal disciple of one of its Hall Masters.

His gaze became somewhat complicated.

In his previous life, he had entered the Azure Spirit Sect as an eight year old child.

At that time, he was a complete nobody, a young farmer’s son with mediocre talent.

He had begun as a menial disciple and slowly climbed upward to become a top outer disciple.

Now, not only had his daughter had entered a faction even stronger than the Azure Spirit Sect, but she had entered as one of its most valued disciples.

Lu Yang took a final glance at the mountain range before he turned around.

"Let’s go."

The Lu Family group left after the ceremony ended.

...

Nine years passed swiftly like grains of sand slipping through one’s hand.

Without anyone noticing, Lu Yang was already ninety years old.

Over these nine years, the Lu Family underwent considerable changes.

Lu Qingxue’s departure did not impact the Lu Family much, instead making its position increasingly stable.

The connection with the True Martial Sect became even deeper than before.

Every year, the Lu Family sent several talented juniors to participate in the disciple recruitment ceremony.

As the Lu Family’s strength continued increasing, these young cultivators naturally received better treatment than ordinary disciples from affiliated families.

There were no petty disputes, and no one dared to casually provoke them.

After all, within the True Martial Sect’s sphere of influence, there were fewer than ten affiliated families comparable to the Lu Family.

And most of those families possessed such status because they had once produced an Essence Gathering Realm cultivator.

They had either been personally protected by former Hall Masters or had deep connections with the sect, having contributed greatly.

The Lu Family had now gradually entered this circle.

...

At this moment, inside a quiet cultivation chamber.

Lu Yang sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, his Blood Qi churning violently.

It was no longer the vigorous Blood Qi of his youth, yet it had become incomparably pure compared to before, the spirituality within it immensely radiant, causing each strand to glow and possess astonishing power.

His muscles trembled slightly, and his bones emitted a faint sound.

At one point, the Blood Qi within his body seemed to break through a certain barrier, and all the meridians connected one by one.

*Boom!*

A terrifying pressure suddenly erupted outward with him as the center, causing the entire cultivation chamber to tremble.

This was pressure no longer belonging to the Eighth Stage of Spirit Awakening Realm, but a higher level!

Lu Yang’s eyes opened, a sharp light flashing through them.

His aura continued rising for several breaths of time before finally stabilizing.

He had finally reached the Ninth Stage of Spirit Awakening Realm.

Lu Yang slowly exhaled, a long white mist emerging from his mouth.

He sat still for several moments, just feeling his own state before he extended his Divine Sense.

It spread outward like an invisible tide, going from thirty-four meters to thirty-eight meters before stopping.

Lu Yang’s expression became slightly solemn.

His Divine Sense had reached thirty-eight meters of range at the Ninth Stage of Spirit Awakening Realm.

If he reached the absolute peak of the Ninth Stage Spirit Awakening Realm, his Divine Sense should be able to reach approximately forty meters.

That was the theoretical limit before the Essence Gathering Realm and the endpoint of Spirit Awakening Realm.

Lu Yang silently sensed everything around him and all the changes that happened after his breakthrough.

Compared to the Eighth Stage of Spirit Awakening Realm, his strength had increased considerably.

The difference between the Eighth and Ninth Stages of Spirit Awakening Realm wasn’t as exaggerated as the difference between the Sixth and Seventh Stages or even the Third and Fourth Stages of Spirit Awakening Realm, but it was still substantial.

More important was what it actually represented.

It was a cultivator finally reaching the last stage of Spirit Awakening Realm, only one step away from Essence Gathering.

Lu Yang slowly clenched his fist, his eyes somewhat complicated.

When he was young, Essence Gathering seemed incredibly distant.

Now, although it was within sight, he still didn’t dare say that he could definitely break through.

The final step was always the hardest.

A cultivator could possess extraordinary talent and still become trapped at the peak of Spirit Awakening for decades before dying, never having the opportunity for a breakthrough.

Lu Yang naturally wouldn’t underestimate this bottleneck.

He slowly stood up.

His cultivation had only just broken through, and he would need time to stabilize it.

But before that, he wanted to understand his current combat strength.

Over the past nine years, he had not neglected martial arts.

The Lu Family possessed two late stage Spirit Awakening Realm martial techniques, a sword technique and a movement technique.

Lu Yang had spent years cultivating both ever since he became the Supreme Elder.

The movement technique had already reached major achievement, and the sword technique was even closer to perfection.

He had originally chosen the sword because the Lu Family lacked sufficient high level combat arts, and now, after years of cultivation, that decision had proven correct.

Lu Yang slowly drew the Low-Rank Mysterious Artifact sword from his storage artifact.

He held it gently, yet his entire presence underwent a transformation, a sharp Sword Intent surrounding him.

Intent was a powerful force of Dao one could mobilize after achieving sufficient mastery of a certain Dao, such as the Sword Dao or Spear Dao, and it was usually only available from the Spirit Awakening Realm.

To truly mobilize the power of Intent and externalize it to use in combat, that was something only powerhouses at or above the Essence Gathering Realm could do in the form of Sword Qi, Saber Qi, etcetera.

However, even for Spirit Awakening cultivators, manifesting Intent usually meant having a great mastery over that certain Dao, enhancing their combat power sharply and deterring opponents.

At that moment, Lu Yang swung the sword once.

The blade cut through the air, yet a sword mark appeared on the wall ahead invisibly.

Simple yet extremely fast, weak yet immensely effective, this was his Sword Intent.

He slowly withdrew the sword, his eyes flickering slightly.

His current combat strength was already extremely high.

After stabilizing his Ninth Stage Spirit Awakening Realm cultivation, he should be able to contend with veteran Ninth Stage Spirit Awakening cultivators.

He would only be slightly weaker than those absolute pinnacle figures who stood at the very strongest level beneath Essence Gathering.

That was already an extraordinary achievement.

After all, Lu Yang’s combat experience in Spirit Awakening Realm wasn’t particularly impressive.

His experience from his previous life had become largely useless after entering Spirit Awakening.

He had fought countless battles in his previous life, but those battles all occurred at the level of Body Tempering Realm.

The combat methods, Blood Qi, physical strength, martial techniques, and even the pace of battles were fundamentally different, and there was also Divine Sense which Body Tempering cultivators didn’t have.

His previous life combat experience could provide instincts and, combined with Divine Sense, help him understand danger, but it couldn’t completely replace actual experience.

In this life, after entering the Spirit Awakening Realm, Lu Yang hadn’t experienced any genuine life or death battles.

There had only been a few conflicts between cultivation families, and even the battle against the Wu Family’s elders wasn’t a true life or death struggle; he had thoroughly crushed them.

There was no opportunity to fight seriously at all.

This was one of the disadvantages of family cultivators.

They had resources, protection, guidance from elders, and extremely stable cultivation environments, but they rarely experienced genuine life or death battles.

Most family cultivators could live their entire lives without fighting a battle where death was truly one mistake away.

Lu Yang was no exception in this life.

His combat experience was merely average, and had it not been for the instincts left behind from his previous life, it might even be considered below average.

However, at the same time, his foundation was too strong, his cultivation was extremely pure, his martial techniques were high level, and he had also comprehended Sword Intent.

Therefore, even with only ordinary combat experience, he was still extremely powerful.

Lu Yang estimated that if he spent another four or five years polishing his cultivation and martial techniques, he could reach the level of those absolute pinnacle Ninth Stage Spirit Awakening cultivators in terms of combat power without actually achieving that level himself.

At that point, under Essence Gathering, there would be very few people capable of defeating him.