249: Death of Zhang Yang

It turned out that the reason Gu Liangyuan had a Breakthrough was because Tianyi Old Man had comprehended the Chess Sutra, and his cultivation had reached the Fire Calamity Realm.

The nine layers of Undergoing Tribulation are divided into the first three layers, the Thunder Calamity Realm, the middle three layers, the Fire Calamity Realm, and the last three layers, the Wind Calamity Realm.

Coupled with the previous returns from the two brothers, Mingqiang and Anjian, both achieving Body Integration, Gu Liangyuan's Physical Body cultivation advanced another layer, reaching the realm of Regrowing Severed Limbs.

After this small interlude, the journey back to Forget-Love Peak was uneventful.

The group of three successfully returned to Forget-Love Peak.

Upon arriving at Forget-Love Peak, Tian Chanzi saw no one and immediately dove into the Enlightenment Tower, beginning his healing.

As a result, apart from Gu Liangyuan and Jiang Wubing, no one knew that there was an additional Loose Immortal within the Supreme Sacred Ground.

Gu Liangyuan also delivered the resources Tian Chanzi needed to the Enlightenment Tower as promised.

These resources might have been a burden for a single Holy Land, but for the merged Supreme Jade Pool, they posed no burden at all.

Using some resources to retain a Loose Immortal perfectly aligned with Gu Liangyuan's calculated omen of "small outgoing, large incoming."

After settling Tian Chanzi, Gu Liangyuan also arranged for Jiang Wubing to cultivate in the Enlightenment Tower, striving for an early recovery.

After doing all this, Gu Liangyuan felt something unusual in his sleeve. Upon probing with his Divine Sense, he discovered that Zhang Yang was about to awaken.

Seeing this, Gu Liangyuan took a single step.

Under the blessing of Instantaneous Movement, he crossed thousands of mountains and rivers in an instant, placing Zhang Yang on the cliff where Tian Chanzi had previously been.

Before long, Zhang Yang slowly woke up.

Shaking his somewhat groggy head, looking at the bottomless cliff below, and sensing his still completely damaged Meridians, a look of confusion appeared in his eyes.

Jumping off a cliff, falling unconscious, waking up, healing.

This was the experience Zhang Yang had summarized from multiple cliff jumps.

The first three steps had been fulfilled, so why did the last step fail?

Could it be that the damage to his Meridians was too severe, and he needed to jump again?

Thinking of this, Zhang Yang did not hesitate in the slightest and leaped down.

Feeling the strong wind whistling past his cheeks, Zhang Yang slowly closed his eyes, quietly awaiting the sensation of fainting.

But to his surprise, the familiar feeling of fainting did not come.

Opening his eyes, he could already see the bluestone at the bottom of the cliff.

Before he could even feel panic, he felt a jolt in his head.

His head hit the bluestone, and blood splattered.

Zhang Yang, having lost his Child of Destiny fate, was no different from an ordinary person.

With a single impact, he naturally died.

Until his complete death, Zhang Yang still didn't understand why this cliff jump didn't work.

Gu Liangyuan, who was above, watched all of this with a strange expression.

Although Zhang Yang had lost his Child of Destiny fate, Gu Liangyuan was still a bit reluctant to give up on him, so he let Zhang Yang go, thinking that if he nurtured him, he might be able to restore his Luck value.

But he never expected that Zhang Yang was truly addicted to jumping off cliffs!

Without the slightest hesitation, he directly jumped down.

Looking at Zhang Yang's scattered pieces below, Gu Liangyuan swayed, transforming into the appearance of Ditian.

Under the Spiritual Root transformation, he became a pure Fire Spiritual Root.

Then, with a casual wave of his hand, a Three-legged Golden Crow struck Zhang Yang's shattered corpse.

In an instant, all the shattered corpses were incinerated, turning into dust.

Even the faint traces of Divine Thought and the storage ring were completely burned away.

After doing all this, Gu Liangyuan used a probing technique to search carefully, confirming that Zhang Yang was completely dead, only then did he stop and head straight towards the Taiyi direction.

Although Gu Liangyuan was certain that Zhang Yang was as dead as could be, considering the special nature of a Child of Destiny, he still kept an extra precaution just in case.

What does the corpse burned by his Ditian have to do with his Gu Liangyuan?

After doing all this, Gu Liangyuan returned to Forget-Love Peak and resumed his normal life.

With the threat of Mo Emperor temporarily gone, the leisurely days seemed to pass exceptionally quickly.

In the blink of an eye, two and a half months rushed by.

During these two and a half months, the strength of the Disciples and Elders of both sects improved.

Especially the Elders from the Jade Pool side, whose cultivation had more or less improved after Gu Liangyuan's guidance last time.

Unfortunately, as Gu Liangyuan's Physical Body reached the realm of Regrowing Severed Limbs, the more magical power was required to return, so although the Breakthroughs of the crowd brought his Physical Body a step closer, he was unable to break through another minor realm.

However, his magical power cultivation advanced from Void Refining eighth stage to Void Refining ninth stage, just one step away from Body Integration.

The reason for this further advancement was that Wan Wan had successfully Core Formed by continuously devouring various damaged Spirit Treasures.

Through these two and a half months, Jiang Wubing's Spiritual Root and cultivation had also recovered.

Between destruction and establishment, he achieved an Epiphany on the spot, and his Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart also Awakened as a result.

From then on, his cultivation advanced rapidly, and as of today, he has reached the Late Stage of Foundation Establishment.

Besides this, there was the Dao Alliance agreement.

Gu Liangyuan had stated at the Cult Leader Immortal Assembly that within three months, one could join the Dao Alliance unconditionally.

However, after all these days, apart from the Families of the Inner Sect Disciples within Forget-Love Peak, not a single other person had joined.

Even among the Families of those Inner Sect Disciples, only a little over half had joined.

The main reason was Mo Emperor's wager; very few people believed Gu Liangyuan could win this wager.

Once they joined the Dao Alliance, they would be labeled as being part of Gu Liangyuan's faction.

When Mo Emperor attacked then, how could they escape?

Therefore, these people all chose to observe.

If many people joined, they would join; if no one joined, they wouldn't either.

This naturally led to the current result.

Upon learning this news, Gu Liangyuan said nothing more, only ordering Lü Qingmei to gather the thirty-two forces within the Dao Alliance, as he intended to give a Dao lecture.

A Dao lecture?

Lü Qingmei couldn't help but recall the scene of Gu Liangyuan guiding the three thousand Elders in the Jade Pool that day, and immediately agreed, sending people to invite everyone.

Although public Dao lectures had precedents in the Eastern Continent, very few people actually did so.

There were three reasons:

Firstly, the lecturer needed to have a certain reputation.

Secondly, while Dao lectures were not about cultivation, they often required a very profound understanding of a certain Dao to truly win people over.

Thirdly: human nature is selfish; in the struggle for the Great Dao, no one wants their rivals on the path of cultivation to become stronger.

Under the limitations of these three reasons, very few people did this.

Precisely because few people did it, every time someone gave a public Dao lecture, they would gain immense prestige.

They would be called a Great Sage by Cultivators.

Although Gu Liangyuan's Dao lecture was not entirely public, it could be considered semi-public. As Lü Qingmei sent out invitations one by one, the news of Gu Liangyuan's Dao lecture spread throughout the Eastern Continent.

Regarding this, the attitudes of various forces differed, but they all felt that this matter was quite unreliable.

Fast cultivation does not mean a deep understanding of the Dao.

On the contrary, the shorter the years of cultivation, the shallower the understanding of the Dao.

Comprehension Ability might allow one to grasp things quickly, but comprehending the Dao and teaching are two different matters.

Moreover, although Gu Liangyuan's Disciples were well-taught by him, these Disciples had a common characteristic: their cultivation was relatively low.

Although they were not optimistic about the Dao Alliance either, there were many existences within the Dao Alliance whose cultivation was more profound than Gu Liangyuan's.

Thus, another group of people felt fortunate that they had not impulsively joined the Dao Alliance.

Including Mo Emperor, everyone felt that Gu Liangyuan had become arrogant, that he was looking down on everyone after achieving some success, even considering himself comparable to the ancient sages and holding a public Dao lecture.

They all lamented:

Heaven intends to destroy him, it must first make him mad.

Although the Dao Alliance was newly established, it already showed signs of impending demise!