Immortal Palace of Eternal Life

Chapter 1009: Marching on Luoyang, Speaking Plainly of Advantages and Disadvantages!

"Yan Kai accepts the order. I'll go inspect the Sect-Protection Array right away!"

After carefully listening to the instructions, Yan Kai cupped his hands in salute, then transformed into a streak of escape light and flew off.

"With Senior Brother's current cultivation and strength, he may already be able to charge toward the divine transformation realm. But this is a challenge to the Heavenly Thunder Palace's bottom line, and absolutely not something anyone else is allowed to interfere with."

"Either a complete success, or utter defeat."

"Even if he survives this immediate crisis, he must advance to the divine transformation realm before the war between humans and demons ends, or a catastrophic disaster will be close at hand."

"There's nothing more to say if he fails, but if he succeeds..."

As he flew, just thinking of this made his heart burn hot, his mind surge with excitement, and his thoughts drift into yearning.

If Liu Yu's Primordial Spirit reached full completion, and with the full support of Dan Ding Sect and hou tu sect, Yuan Yang Sect might well be able to replace the Heavenly Thunder Palace in ruling the Seven Nations Alliance, becoming a new divine transformation faction.

Then he, Yan Kai, as the second person in Yuan Yang Sect and one of only two yuan ying ancestors, would reap benefits beyond imagination.

At the very least, he would never again have to worry about cultivation resources for the yuan ying realm.

"If the big matter succeeds, maybe I'll even have a chance to charge toward divine transformation."

Thinking of this, Yan Kai forcibly calmed his emotions and began to inspect the Sect-Protection Array with utmost seriousness, while summoning a group of Golden Core Elders to relay the orders.

At this moment, he handled everything personally, determined not to drag his senior brother down.

A gentle evening breeze passed by, and in the blink of an eye, only Liu Yu remained outside the cave dwelling.

Under the glittering starlight, his expression kept changing as he stood with hands behind his back, gazing into the distance in deep thought.

"At this time, challenging the Heavenly Thunder Palace isn't without risk."

"What if the Heavenly Thunder Palace is pushed too far and fights back desperately?"

"Using source energy to break through to divine transformation now is the safest strategy. Should I be more conservative?"

Thinking of this, Liu Yu hesitated.

Source energy was the world's origin power, possessing the ability to turn the rotten into the miraculous.

Improving lifespan, advancing cultivation, enhancing aptitude—such marvelous effects were merely ordinary uses. It was even highly useful for attempting a breakthrough to the void refinement realm.

With the war between humans and demons underway, strength was the most important thing at this time. Logically speaking, using source energy to advance was the best choice.

Yet for some reason, Liu Yu always had an indescribable feeling. He felt that doing so was somehow improper, and his instincts gave him a faint sense of resistance.

"Looking back now, the whole process of obtaining source energy seems a little too... smooth?"

"Everything along the way was perfectly reasonable, and I didn't discover any trap. Could I be overthinking it?"

"But if I can't detect it now, does that really mean it's 'reasonable'?"

After mulling it over, Liu Yu still couldn't find anything wrong, but he chose to follow his own heart and temporarily not use those two portions of source energy.

After all, his current level was still too low, far too distant from the realm of the great powers.

Even if such an existence had left behind a trap, he might not be able to uncover it no matter how hard he tried.

"The ancient era is far too distant, and many secrets remain unknown. It still doesn't seem proper to rashly use the legacy of a great power."

"Although 'Underworld Heavenly Venerable' only sent out a single avatar, and although many ancient great powers joined forces while also having the advantage of terrain..."