Chapter 390: Everything was an illusion (1/2)

Chapter 390: Everything was an illusion

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Everything was an illusion!

Zhou Bao sighed. He stepped on the door of the Qianyuan Mountain. After suppressing Master of Golden Lights Cave with the fairy weapon Furnace of Immortality and roasting him in the Tusita Fire for nine days, Zhou Bao finally managed to distill the new Individual Immortal into a soul. Through this soul, he mastered everything about Master of Golden Lights Cave.

Actually, he did not have much of a history to boast about. He just got lucky and inherited the medieval period Sword Divine School's teachings.

Just that he was a little stubborn. He was determined to bring glory to the medieval period Sword Divine School and to continue passing on the teachings. However, after reaching cultivation Level Nine, Master of Golden Lights Cave lost all the luck he had. The sect that he spent almost all his life's efforts to build could not go any further. From then, he turned abnormal. He chose to form an alliance with Mingyi School. He needed to use the strong Mingyi School as a backing. At the same time, Mingyi School needed a hatchet man like him. It was a win-win combination and they worked well together.

After working and progressing together for a couple of decades, Qianyuan Mountain's Golden Lights Cave had become a strong influence being second to none except Jin's Three Great Sects. He had disciples that had reached the Expert Realm. However, this was not enough, far from enough.

To revive the glory old days during the medieval period, he needed bigger forces, heavier influence, and this was not easy.

Whatever profits there were in the world, they already had their rightful beneficiaries. Be it great quality resources or fairylands or cave paradises, they all had owners. To advance one step to get more profits and benefits, the only way would be to seize what others had.

This was not easy! This was not realistic!

Once Golden Lights Cave's influence reached a bottleneck, the alliance partner's attitude started to change and became ambiguous. He was helpless in such situation. He understood why Mingyi School would have such an attitude change. If the standstill continued, his Golden Lights Cave would eventually turn towards Mingyi School's profits. This was something that Mingyi School would never want to see happening.

So, Golden Lights Cave was in a tight predicament yet again.

He understood very well where the challenges were--Golden Lights Cave had no history, strong sect nor solid backing. To change any of these, he had a long way to go. So he quietened down, as though he was a wild beast, waiting to pounce on any opportunity. He started to wait and wait that seemed endless. As he waited, he accumulated strength until the opportunity arrived.

Zhou Bao's rise was an opportunity. He saw hope, but what he saw was not Zhou Bao's northwest territory. What he wanted was to build a sword practitioner's sect and not a country. Although the northwest was wide, and rather well-managed by Zhou Bao, it was lacking that one thing that should not be lacked.

pirit vein!

With spirit vein, there would be no fairyland, no cave paradise, no hope for a sect to develop and to grow. So, in the very beginning, he did not notice Zhou Bao. Even after Zhou Bao received the title of the desolate northwest, he did not pay any attention to Zhou Bao. It was only when the Pure Yang Celestial Device appeared in Zhou Bao's hands did he sit up and started to pay attention to Zhou Bao.

He realized that there must be a tremendous secret behind this young man, Zhou Bao. Maybe even an unimaginable power behind supporting him. Otherwise, it was impossible that he could cause such a ruckus.

From then on, Master Golden Lights Cave started to pay close attention to and feared Zhou Bao's abilities. He started to covet the Pure Yang Celestial Device in Zhou Bao's hands. At the same time, he also found out that because of his past negligence, he no longer had the confidence to rein in this young, powerful force. It was really frustrating.

This frustration did not last. After a long training retreat, he felt himself almost breaking through the bottleneck. There was just this one thin layer left, and after tearing through it, he would reach the Mysterious Realm. With this progress, his thoughts started to run wild once more. After paying an enormous price to the Dragon Thunder Palace, Master managed to get the one-time right to enter the Mysterious Realm. He got the Innate Green Lotus Seed in the Realm. With the use of this spiritual item, he successfully broke through the Mysterious Realm and was in line with the Immortal status.

The great strength of the Mysterious Realm gave him confidence. Master was prepared to make a move until news came. Zhou Bao, alone, went into the Azure Secret Area and defeated Ye Qingtian.

Although Ye Qingtian could not be considered an expert in the Central Mainland Region, Master would somewhat have an understanding about Ye Qingtian's abilities in his current position. After he heard that Zhou Bao left Mingyi School unscathed after beating Ye Qingtian, Master hesitated once more for the same reason. He once more realized that he did not have the strength to defeat Zhou Bao.