Chapter 321 – Ascending to Fourth on the Prodigy List, the Plan to Save Qingyunzi!

In the Real World, Su Xing’s lips curled upward at the sight of this.

“Exposing my true identity and leading rogue cultivators to crush the Advent Cult — this should be the fastest way to make a name for myself…”

Su Xing closed his eyes slightly, rapidly deducing the feasibility of this plan.

“Build fame as quickly as possible… ideally break into the top ten of the Prodigy List! Then, under the disguise identity of Su Ye, go to the Celestial Secrets Pavilion and explain Qingyunzi’s situation!”

“If it works… I can leverage the major powers to pressure the Azure Cloud Sect, forcing Qingyunzi to emerge from seclusion early and preserve Qingyunzi’s self corpse!”

“If it doesn’t work… then flee to other lesser worlds and lay low while cultivating!”

Su Xing clenched his fist. This was merely his deduction — whether it would succeed or not, he truly had little confidence.

But if he wanted to extend the simulation time and change the situation across the Three Thousand Worlds, restoring Qingyunzi was something that absolutely had to be done!

With that thought, Su Xing turned his gaze to the simulation panel.

【Year Five: In just a few short years, you swept clean the ten major branches of the Advent Cult, even slaying two Peak Earthly Immortal realm Advent Cult officers!】

【Your fame spread throughout the entire Lesser Azure Cloud Realm…】

【One day, while you were cultivating in your cave dwelling, an ominous premonition suddenly arose in your heart. Your brow tingled faintly, and the Blessed by Fortune talent sent a warning.】

【After performing a divination, you determined that a tribulation would soon befall you!】

【This tribulation was not fatal… if handled properly, it could even bring some benefit.】

【You understood — the Advent Cult was likely targeting you!】

【Your sweeping raids on the Advent Cult’s branches had undoubtedly disrupted their grand plan! They would probably dispatch some experts to assassinate you…】

【You feigned ignorance and quietly continued cultivating in the White Emperor Tower.】

【Three months passed like this…】

【You could sense eyes watching you from the shadows the entire time, yet the Advent Cult assassin had not made a move.】

【You surmised that the Advent Cult didn’t dare act rashly within White Emperor City… This made you even more certain that the assassin sent to kill you was likely below the True Immortal realm in strength!】

【So, a week later, you feigned a trip to the Hundred Thousand Mountains to gather spirit herbs, secretly leaving a trail behind…】

【Sure enough, the Advent Cult assassin took the bait!】

【He tailed you the entire way, deep into the Hundred Thousand Mountains…】

【Once you entered the Hundred Thousand Mountains, the Advent Cult assassin launched a sneak attack without hesitation!】

【A flash of silver light transformed into a throwing dart, hurtling toward your face in an instant…】

【At the same time, you sensed a faint aura fluctuation from a certain direction.】

【Just as the silver flash was about to strike you, you willed it — and Protective Sword Aura activated instantly!】

【Three thousand strands of Protective Sword Aura encircled your body, completely blocking the silver flash!】

【But a grave expression appeared on your face, because the Protective Sword Aura was being corroded — eight hundred strands shattered in an instant.】

【The black liquid clinging to the sword aura was clearly a deadly poison!】

【Seeing this, you took a deep breath. Had you carelessly been struck by that hidden weapon, even a peak Celestial Immortal realm cultivator would have lost all ability to resist!】

【Fortunately, you had remained vigilant at all times, and the Protective Sword Aura’s defense was formidable enough to block it successfully.】

【Having missed the strike, the lurking assassin fled instantly, and spatial fluctuations emanated from a hundred li (50 km) away…】

【You naturally wouldn’t let this assassin escape unscathed — he wanted to kill you, but hadn’t you also been hoping to kill him to build your reputation?】

【With a thought, you wrapped the power of space around yourself, crossing a thousand li (500 km) in a single instant.】

【Seeing the distorted space, you sent out a blast of spiritual energy, and a short, scrawny figure tumbled out in disarray…】

【This assassin had a pointed face and sunken cheeks, looking like a wizened old man, but the aura radiating from him was already at the peak Celestial Immortal realm!】

【You didn’t dare hesitate… a fierce battle erupted immediately!】

【Fortunately, although this assassin possessed impressive assassination techniques, his head-on combat ability was truly lacking.】

【After several hundred rounds of battle, you took his head with a single sword strike, successfully slaying him!】

【After killing this assassin, you successfully obtained his storage artifact.】

【Easily breaking through the storage artifact’s seal, you found the items within.】

【There were only several hundred thousand spirit stones and just over a hundred thousand drops of high-grade spirit liquid — completely unbefitting a peak Celestial Immortal realm cultivator.】

【However, what interested you was that there were also quite a few poisons and hidden weapon-type magical treasures, including a set of flying needles that reached the top-grade immortal treasure level!】

【At the same time, you also found an identification token among this cultivator’s treasures!】

【To your surprise, this cultivator was not an Advent Cult member, but rather the gold-tier assassin codenamed “Rain Twenty-Three” from the “Storm Rain Tower”!】

【His credential was naturally a token engraved with the character for “Rain” on the front, and “Twenty-Three” on the reverse…】

In the Real World, Su Xing raised an eyebrow at this.

The scarcity of resources in the assassin’s storage artifact didn’t surprise Su Xing. After all, an assassin carrying out an assassination mission always faced the risk of failure — aside from what was needed for the mission, they wouldn’t carry large amounts of wealth or resources.

But what did surprise Su Xing was the assassin’s identity — a Storm Rain Tower assassin!

“The Storm Rain Tower, huh… I didn’t expect even a major power like that to be getting involved!”

Su Xing furrowed his brow slightly. He had already gained a basic understanding of the powers and dynamics of the Three Thousand Worlds.

The Earth where Su Xing resided was actually part of the former Luotian Realm… and the Luotian Realm together with the countless lesser worlds under its command — hundreds of lesser chiliocosms — was known as the Luotian Domain!

This was a term from ancient times…

But after that great war, the Luotian Sect was defeated, and the Luotian Domain ceased to exist.

The great domain neighboring the Luotian Domain was the Azure Origin Domain!

The Azure Origin Domain referred to the collective name for the entire great domain centered around two Greater Worlds — the Azure Cloud Realm and the Tianyuan Realm — along with the hundreds of surrounding lesser chiliocosms and countless lesser worlds…

In the Azure Cloud Realm, the two major native powers were naturally the Azure Cloud Sect and the Tianyuan Sect!

Both of these great powers belonged to the more righteous faction of major powers.

But in the Three Thousand Worlds, not all major powers were righteous…

Besides villainous powers like the Advent Cult that everyone wanted to destroy, there were also quite a few powers that were morally ambiguous or neutral!

Among them, the Celestial Secrets Pavilion, the Gold Coin Trading Company, and the White Emperor Tower were quite famous. These three major powers were considered absolutely neutral, almost never interfering in conflicts or annexations between sect cultivators.

The exception was the Gold Coin Trading Company — money makes the world go round, and if a power was willing to pay a great enough price, the Gold Coin Trading Company would also act in secret.

But the Gold Coin Trading Company was relatively restrained, so their reputation in the cultivation world was still passable.

The truly profit-driven, morally ambiguous power was the Storm Rain Tower!

The Storm Rain Tower’s founding date was unknown… It first became famous several cosmic cycles ago, when it accomplished a heaven-shaking feat!

It accepted a contract to assassinate a Grand Luo Golden Immortal!

Although the mission ultimately failed… that Grand Luo Golden Immortal was wounded in the assassination and spent a hundred thousand years recovering before reappearing in the Three Thousand Worlds — for a time, everyone believed he had perished!

And as that Grand Luo Golden Immortal vanished for a hundred thousand years, the power he had once founded was gradually consumed and devoured…

After that single feat, the Storm Rain Tower’s fame skyrocketed!

It leapt to become one of the pinnacle powers of the Three Thousand Worlds!

From what Su Xing knew, Storm Rain Tower assassins were designated by codenames using either “Wind” or “Rain” — every codenamed assassin was an elite of the Storm Rain Tower!

As for whether there were higher-ranked assassins above the “Wind” and “Rain” tiers, Su Xing didn’t know…

Rain-tier assassins could assassinate any cultivator below the Mystic Immortal realm, including those at the True Immortal realm, with an extremely high success rate!

Wind-tier assassins were even more terrifying — they could even assassinate Golden Immortals!

Rumor had it that the Storm Rain Tower accepted contracts regardless of the client’s identity or the target’s identity — as long as the price was right, they would carry out the assassination!

The intelligence flashed through Su Xing’s mind, and he frowned:

“It seems… I’ve been put on the Storm Rain Tower’s assassination list!”

“The Advent Cult must have paid a considerable price to mobilize the Storm Rain Tower…”

Su Xing found this somewhat troublesome.

A single assassination attempt was nothing to worry about.

But what concerned Su Xing was that the Storm Rain Tower’s assassinations were relentless!

If the first assassination failed, the Storm Rain Tower might dispatch a higher-ranked assassin for the next attempt!

The prerequisite being… that the Advent Cult could afford the cost!

“Things have gotten somewhat difficult to handle!”

“I wonder just how determined the Advent Cult is to kill me… If they keep raising the stakes and mobilize a peak True Immortal realm or even Mystic Immortal realm cultivator, that could be real trouble…”

Su Xing pondered for a moment but couldn’t think of a good solution.

If Su Xing were to simply flee the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm and abandon the plan to save Qingyunzi, he would feel too reluctant to give up.

“For now, I can only take it one step at a time and proceed with caution…”

Su Xing mulled it over for a while, then turned his gaze back to the simulation panel.

【After counter-killing the Storm Rain Tower assassin, you returned to White Emperor City…】

【Very soon, your fame spread throughout all of White Emperor City!】

【Year Six: You ascended the Prodigy List, ranked eighteenth on the Human List!】

【After reaching the Prodigy List, your fame far surpassed what it had been before!】

【Every cultivator in the entire Lesser Azure Cloud Realm knew that a late-stage Celestial Immortal realm great cultivator had been targeted by a Storm Rain Tower assassin — and had successfully counter-killed the assassin!】

【Bear in mind, it was exceedingly rare for Storm Rain Tower assassins to fail when striking from a higher realm against a lower one, and being counter-killed was virtually unheard of in all of history…】

【You secretly dispatched some people to spread word of your exploits, while quietly cultivating in White Emperor City, waiting for the next opportunity to arise.】

【Time flew by, and soon it was Year Ten!】

【One day, while you were purchasing cultivation resources in White Emperor City, the Blessed by Fortune talent suddenly sent a warning, followed immediately by a surge of overwhelming killing intent rushing straight toward you!】

【Without a moment’s hesitation, you instantly released three thousand strands of Protective Sword Aura, forming a barrier around yourself.】

【Immediately after, a terrifying wave of spiritual energy swept across the entire western district, destroying hundreds of shops in the surrounding marketplace. White Emperor City’s defensive formation arrays activated instantly!】

【Under this immense wave of spiritual energy, over half of the three thousand strands of Protective Sword Aura were shattered in an instant…】

【You too suffered from the spiritual energy’s erosion, coughing up a mouthful of blood.】

【When you steadied your gaze, a black-robed rogue cultivator was soaring through the sky, fleeing toward the outskirts of White Emperor City!】

【Your heart trembled — the Storm Rain Tower had struck a second time!】

【And this time, they had dispatched a True Immortal realm cultivator!】

【You knew that the Advent Cult must have increased the bounty on your head, paying an even greater price to mobilize this True Immortal realm assassin!】

【Judging from this assassin’s aura and spiritual energy, he appeared to be an early-stage True Immortal realm cultivator!】

【At that moment, several powerful auras surged skyward within the city — all Celestial Immortal realm cultivators who seemed to be rushing to provide support.】

【But you knew that the Storm Rain Tower assassin had chosen his timing precisely — the White Emperor Tower branch master, the only True Immortal realm cultivator in the city, was not present.】

【With just a few Celestial Immortal realm cultivators, there was clearly no way to stop this True Immortal realm Storm Rain Tower assassin!】

【So without hesitation, you immediately swallowed a Healing Pill, then gave chase after the Storm Rain Tower assassin!】

【This True Immortal realm cultivator’s movement technique was extremely powerful — in mere moments, he had already fled several thousand li. An ordinary Celestial Immortal could never hope to keep up.】

【Fortunately, your own movement speed was quite formidable as well. With your Sword-Controlling Technique combined with Initial Glimpse level Sword Dao, you could travel a million li (500,000 km) in a single day…】

【You pursued relentlessly, and after an hour, you finally caught up to this True Immortal realm cultivator!】

【By this point, you were already over a hundred thousand li (50,000 km) from White Emperor City.】

【Seeing you in hot pursuit, the Storm Rain Tower assassin suspected a trap and kept running at full speed without counterattacking.】

【You fought and chased simultaneously, pursuing for another several hundred thousand li!】

【By now, the Storm Rain Tower assassin had gradually come to his senses and deduced that you had no reinforcements behind you.】

【So he stopped in his tracks, his expression cold as he looked at you, a hint of mockery in his eyes — as if he were looking at a mouse.】

In the Real World, Su Xing’s heart leapt into his throat at the sight of this.

“Here it comes!”

“A Storm Rain Tower assassin… a genuine True Immortal realm cultivator!”

Su Xing felt somewhat nervous.

Although he estimated that his actual combat strength had already reached the True Immortal realm, his cultivation level was only late-stage Celestial Immortal.

True Immortal realm cultivators had survived the Three Calamities of Immortals — their spiritual energy was vast and profound, and their Dao comprehension far exceeded that of the Celestial Immortal realm!

The most direct disparity was this: True Immortal realm cultivators had a lifespan of one hundred thousand years!

If they consumed life-extending elixirs and rare treasures, living for an entire cosmic cycle would be effortless!

Therefore, the gap between the Celestial Immortal realm and the True Immortal realm was like a chasm — not necessarily any smaller than the gap between the Tribulation Crossing stage and the Immortal realm…

“However, my abilities are quite formidable now… and my cultivation has reached the eighth level of the Celestial Immortal realm! It should be fine!”

Su Xing encouraged himself, then turned his gaze back to the simulation panel.

【This Storm Rain Tower assassin regarded you with cold indifference, as if looking at a corpse.】

【He slowly extended a single finger and said nonchalantly, “One quarter of an hour to finish you.”】

【Hearing this, you grew even more vigilant — this True Immortal realm cultivator’s actual combat prowess was likely quite formidable…】

【So without delay, you activated your embryonic Spirit Domain. Nine types of Dao origins swirled around your body, and you then deployed fifteen hundred strands of Protective Sword Aura, encasing yourself in a tight cocoon of defense.】

【The great battle was on the verge of erupting!】

【The Storm Rain Tower assassin moved like a phantom, leaving several afterimages in the air…】

【Your heart trembled — could this True Immortal also know a cloning technique?】

【But upon probing with divine sense, you quickly discovered… this was an illusory afterimage created by extreme speed, not actual clones!】

【To leave lingering afterimages in place, unmoving and undissipating as if they were real clones—this assassin’s comprehension of the Great Dao of Speed had likely already reached the Minor Attainment level!】

【Sure enough, after just one exchange, you already felt how incredibly troublesome this opponent was.】

【The assassin was simply too fast. In close-quarters combat, you couldn’t even land a hit on his physical body, and with each of his attacks, another segment of your Protective Sword Aura would dissipate.】

【After merely dozens of exchanges, your body had already begun sustaining injuries.】

【You fought back while rapidly thinking of a strategy to defeat the enemy.】

【Though this True Immortal realm assassin’s afterimages were somewhat deceptive, your divine sense had already reached the Celestial Immortal level, allowing you to easily perceive where his true body was.】

【The only problem was that your attack speed… wasn’t fast enough!】

【After another hundred-plus exchanges, when this True Immortal realm assassin saw that you were still fighting with full vigor, his heart suddenly tightened, and a grave expression appeared on his face.】

【Meanwhile, you had also completed your counterattack plan…】

【Your comprehension of the Great Dao of Thunder had already reached the Initial Glimpse level… During the battle, you secretly summoned heavenly thunder, spreading lightning throughout your Spirit Domain!】

【The pervasive lightning formed a net of thunder that restricted the True Immortal realm cultivator’s movements. No matter how fast he was, it was futile!】

【Sure enough, though the thunder net couldn’t severely wound this True Immortal realm cultivator, the paralytic effect inherent to lightning greatly hindered his movements.】

【You turned the tide of battle in your favor.】

【And so, several more hours passed in this fight!】

【After over a thousand exchanges of grueling combat, both you and this True Immortal realm cultivator had expended considerable amounts of magical power.】

【You took out a bottle of high-grade spirit liquid and drank it all in one gulp, rapidly restoring your magical power.】

【The True Immortal realm assassin across from you also produced a pill, quickly restoring his own magical power before engaging you in battle once more.】

【And so, several more hours passed…】

【By the morning of the second day, your battle had lasted an entire half-day.】

【As early as the predawn hours, the old man had already shown signs of wanting to retreat and withdraw…】

【But you feigned magical exhaustion several times, luring him into staying.】

【You also knew that the assassin was likely close to seeing through your ruse, and if he committed fully to fleeing, you’d be unable to keep him…】

【So you took a deep breath, dropped all pretense, and unleashed over half of your recovered sword intent around your body. Two thousand streams of Protective Sword Aura blasted straight at the assassin!】

【The assassin marveled at the terrifying force of the sword aura. He dodged vital strikes at extreme speed and deployed techniques for defense…】

【As streaks of sword radiance flashed by, the assassin spat out a mouthful of blood, sustaining wounds in several places—but clearly they were only minor injuries, and he hadn’t lost his combat effectiveness.】

【Seeing this, you put on an expression of shock and hurriedly turned to flee…】

【The assassin swallowed a healing immortal pill, let out a sinister grin, and lunged at you…】

【A ghostly silhouette appeared behind you, as if pronouncing your death sentence.】

【However, the True Immortal realm assassin had overlooked the swirling vortex of red magical power in your hand, and the threads of green within it!】

【The instant the assassin closed in, you showed no mercy—Five Elements Immortal Burst exploded outward, striking the old man’s vital point dead-on!】

【The assassin had absolutely no time to react. The terrifying power of Five Elements Immortal Burst blew him apart in a shower of flesh and blood, his life force rapidly dissipating…】

【As your magical power grew ever more profound and your comprehension of the Five Elements Dao deepened, the power of Five Elements Immortal Burst had become increasingly terrifying!】

【At its current full power, Five Elements Immortal Burst was roughly equivalent to two thousand eight hundred streams of Protective Sword Aura unleashed simultaneously!】

【Such terrifying power could severely wound even a True Immortal who let their guard down for a single moment!】

【And during your earlier exchanges, you had already discerned that while this assassin was formidable and extremely fast, his physical body was merely at the Human Immortal Realm Peak—he hadn’t even reached the Earthly Immortal realm!】

【Thus, a single Spirit Burst from you easily pierced through his protective supernatural art and caused his Human Immortal physique to shatter and collapse…】

【In his final moments before death, this True Immortal realm cultivator looked at you with eyes filled with terror and regret…】

【In an instant, the True Immortal realm cultivator’s soul left his body, but you easily extinguished it.】

【Afterward, you cracked open this True Immortal realm cultivator’s storage artifact, finding his identity token inside.】

【Storm Rain Tower, Rain-designation assassin, ranked thirteenth!】

【With this, an early-stage True Immortal realm cultivator had been slain by you in direct combat!】

In the Real World, Su Xing let out a long breath of relief upon reading this.

“True Immortal realm cultivators… don’t seem all that hard to kill after all…”

The corner of Su Xing’s mouth curved slightly upward.

He had originally thought True Immortal realm cultivators would be impossibly terrifying. Now it seemed they were nothing more than that!

They simply had much deeper reserves of magical power and considerably stronger comprehension of the Great Dao…

“Still, Storm Rain Tower’s assassins are probably the type of True Immortal realm cultivators who aren’t skilled at head-on combat… Otherwise they wouldn’t flee a thousand miles after a single failed strike.”

“If I encountered a dual cultivator of qi and body, or a True Immortal realm cultivator exceptionally skilled at direct combat, a brutal fight would be unavoidable…”

Su Xing rubbed his chin. He estimated that with his current strength, if he used No Martial Virtue, killing a mid-stage True Immortal shouldn’t be too difficult!

“After this battle, my reputation in the Azure Cloud Realm should rise even further…”

Su Xing turned his gaze back to the simulation panel.

【News of yet another Storm Rain Tower assassin being killed quickly spread throughout all of White Emperor City!】

【Slaying a True Immortal realm cultivator with Celestial Immortal realm cultivation… This heaven-defying feat sent shockwaves across the entire Lesser Azure Cloud Realm!】

【Over the following months, your cave dwelling saw an endless stream of visitors—countless cultivators came to pay their respects, hoping to befriend you…】

【Even the White Emperor Tower branch master came personally, treating you with warmth and even a hint of ingratiation.】

【In the eleventh year, a new Prodigy List ranking was released. This time, you ranked ninth on the Human List! You had officially broken into the Prodigy List’s top ten!】

【Among the Prodigy List’s top ten, anyone who didn’t perish prematurely had at least a fifty percent chance of breaking through to the Golden Immortal realm!】

【This was precisely why True Immortal realm cultivators sought to curry favor with you…】

【Over the next several years, you remained in White Emperor City cultivating, mentally calculating whether your current status and reputation were sufficient to reveal information about Qingyunzi.】

【In the fifteenth year, one day you felt a premonition—the Blessed by Fortune talent sent you a warning.】

【You knew that perhaps another Storm Rain Tower assassination attempt had come!】

【Before this, you had already counter-killed two waves of assassins… yet Storm Rain Tower kept sending more despite their consecutive failures.】

【This had also enraged the White Emperor Tower, prompting them to strengthen White Emperor City’s defenses.】

【You secretly performed a divination and discovered that this tribulation was not a death tribulation—survival odds were fifty-fifty.】

【This meant that the Storm Rain Tower assassin sent this time was below the late True Immortal realm!】

【You pondered whether to risk facing the danger to further enhance your reputation…】

【In the end, you decided to take the gamble!】

【You left White Emperor City and headed to the mountains outside the city as you always did…】

【Three days later, a mid-stage True Immortal realm assassin appeared.】

【This was one of the most difficult battles you had ever faced…】

【Ultimately, you relied on three thousand streams of Protective Sword Aura combined with the No Martial Virtue talent to counter-kill him from the brink of defeat!】

【After killing this mid-stage True Immortal realm cultivator, you were also severely wounded. You retreated into your spirit field grotto-heaven to recuperate for three years.】

【In the eighteenth year, you reappeared in White Emperor City, and the cultivators in the city were shaken once again!】

【Having not shown yourself for three years, they had all assumed you’d died at the hands of a Storm Rain Tower assassin.】

【And when you produced the ninth-ranked Rain-designation token, the cultivators of White Emperor City had no choice but to accept a terrifying fact.】

【With late-stage Celestial Immortal realm cultivation, you had slain a mid-stage True Immortal realm cultivator!】

【One year later… you once again ascended the Prodigy List, ranking fourth on the Human List!】

【The weight of being fourth on the Human List was vastly different from ninth!】

【The top three on the Human List were all terrifying prodigies capable of fighting opponents an entire major realm above them—the kind the Three Thousand Worlds only produced once every ten thousand years.】

【And your potential at fourth on the Human List meant that if you didn’t perish prematurely, you had over a ninety percent chance of reaching the Golden Immortal realm!】

【In just over a decade, you had shaken up the Prodigy List multiple times, fighting your way to fourth place on the Human List. Your fame was no longer confined to the Lesser Azure Cloud Realm!】

【Throughout the entire Azure Origin Domain, cultivators discussed you over their meals and tea…】

【You knew the time was ripe!】

【And so, one month later, you went to the Celestial Secrets Pavilion in White Emperor City!】

Su Xing looked at the simulation text before him and nodded slightly.

“Fourth on the Human List… that should be the limit of my current strength!”

“If I didn’t rely on the No Martial Virtue talent, fifth or sixth on the Human List would probably be my true ranking…”

Though he hadn’t made it into the top three, Su Xing was already satisfied.

After all, the Three Thousand Worlds was merely a general term. Lesser chiliocosms alone numbered in the tens of thousands! And there were over a thousand Medium Chiliocosms… hundreds of Greater Worlds! Plus countless minor worlds…

Across the Three Thousand Worlds, the total number of cultivators likely exceeded trillions upon trillions!

Among so many cultivators, how many prodigies were there? How many Children of Destiny existed?

And then there were those prodigies who had been cultivating since the womb, nourished by immortal medicines, born as Qi Refinement practitioners from the start…

There were even the legendary innate immortal physiques! Terrifying prodigies born as immortals—such beings were not unheard of.

To have fought his way to fourth on the Human List among such staggering numbers was already a feat that could only be described as terrifying.

Even the most elite top-tier powers could not afford to overlook such an existence.

“It’s just a shame… my comprehension of the Great Dao isn’t deep enough yet… and my sword aura hasn’t been cultivated to its peak either. If I could master the Five Elements Dao and perfect my Spirit Domain… then even the top three—or even the first position—wouldn’t be out of reach!”

Su Xing smacked his lips, then mentally calculated whether his current status was sufficient to go “report” Qingyunzi.

After a moment, Su Xing nodded slightly and said:

“Success or failure is still fifty-fifty… but it’s worth trying now! If it doesn’t work out… I’ll just flee to another world!”

With that thought, Su Xing silently intoned:

“Activate immersive simulation…”

【Ding…】

As the notification chime faded, Su Xing’s figure appeared inside the Celestial Secrets Pavilion’s White Emperor City branch.

The moment he entered the pavilion shop, a languid voice reached Su Xing’s ears.

“Prodigy List’s fourth rank, Sword Immortal Ye Xiu! What brings you to our Celestial Secrets Pavilion?”

Su Xing looked toward the girl draped lazily over the counter. She wore the same languid expression as always, watching Su Xing with an amused look.

Su Xing chuckled softly. This time he hadn’t used any disguise—he had come directly as Su Ye.

And with the Celestial Secrets Pavilion’s intelligence network, there was no way they didn’t know about Su Ye.

Su Xing walked up to the girl and got straight to the point:

“I’ve come because I have business—big business! This matter… concerns a certain Grand Luo Golden Immortal!”

“I wonder if someone of your rank has the authority to handle this intelligence?”

Upon hearing Su Xing’s words, the girl raised an eyebrow, her expression growing somewhat grave.

“Prodigy Su… food can be eaten carelessly, but words can’t be spoken carelessly, you know? Are you saying… the intelligence you seek concerns a Grand Luo Golden Immortal?”

Su Xing nodded firmly. In this simulation, he intended to share everything he knew about Qingyunzi with the Celestial Secrets Pavilion, to see what consequences would follow.

Seeing that Su Xing wasn’t joking, the girl spoke with certainty:

“Of course big sister here can make the call… As the branch pavilion master of the Celestial Secrets Pavilion, all intelligence naturally passes through my hands!”

After hearing this, Su Xing’s gaze shifted as he studied the girl. The more closely he examined her, the more extraordinary she seemed.

The girl appeared to possess only True Immortal realm cultivation.

But with Su Xing’s divine sense and discernment, he was actually unable to see through her completely… It seemed she harbored some enormous secret.

“As long as you can make the call, that’s fine!”

Su Xing said in a low voice, then handed over the jade slip he had prepared in advance to the girl.

The girl accepted the jade slip. Her originally calm expression gradually turned grave… and by the end, she had lost her composure entirely.

“What? That old codger Qingyunzi… actually attempted the Reverse Severing of the Three Corpses? And the damn thing is about to fail!”

The girl’s expression was no longer calm, her eyes heavy with gravity.

She understood that at such a critical juncture, a veteran Grand Luo Golden Immortal falling into crisis would deal a massive blow to the cultivation world’s overall strength!

Losing a righteous-path Grand Luo Golden Immortal was bad enough… but if Qingyunzi fell to the demonic path, that would be an utter catastrophe!

The girl asked Su Xing in a solemn tone:

“Prodigy Su… can you guarantee the authenticity of this intelligence?”

Su Xing nodded solemnly and replied:

“I, Su Ye, stake my life and my path of cultivation as guarantee—this intelligence is absolutely true!”

“The primary supernatural art Qingyunzi cultivates is One Qi Transforms into Three Purities. This technique can condense two additional clones beyond the main body, each possessing Grand Luo combat power… It is a supreme supernatural art!”

“However, this technique also has its flaws. The conflict between his good and evil corpses, following the path of severing the Three Corpses to attain the Dao… dictates that the evil corpse should be severed first!”

“But something went wrong during his Three Corpses severing process. He severed the good corpse in reverse, and right now he’s likely in the process of severing the self corpse! If the evil corpse is the one that remains… I’m afraid the entire Three Thousand Worlds will be plunged into catastrophe!”

Su Xing laid everything out methodically, explaining Qingyunzi’s situation with perfect clarity.

The girl before him nodded slightly, already about sixty to seventy percent convinced by Su Xing’s words.

She then asked:

“Su Ye… so what is your purpose in providing this intelligence?”

Su Xing answered without hesitation:

“I hope to leverage the Celestial Secrets Pavilion’s power… along with other top-tier forces, to jointly pressure the Azure Cloud Sect into making Qingyunzi abandon severing the self corpse and sever the evil corpse first!”

“If this can be accomplished… it would be a tremendous blessing for our Three Thousand Worlds!”