Published: March 3, 2025
Chapter 427: Five Years in the Blink of an Eye
“Yes, Senior Brother.”
The two women accepted the order and left one after the other, not feeling that this command was anything unusual.
Over the years, Liu Yu had acquired a considerable amount of spiritual herbs and spiritual medicines, doing so with great caution, and the collection showed no particular pattern. Even Jiang Qiushui was unaware of the portion he had collected, nor would she understand what kind of elixirs they would be used for.
Among them, the last supplementary herb needed for the Golden Core Pill was mixed in, making it completely inconspicuous.
It was likely that she wouldn’t think that in just over a decade, Liu Yu had nearly gathered all the spiritual herbs required to refine the Golden Core Pill.
After the two women left, Liu Yu sat in the hall, continuing to study the spell technique texts, quickly immersing himself in them.
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The next day, at Eternal Prosperity Market.
As the hour of Chen arrived, a series of noises echoed throughout the market.
A red Flying Boat slowly ascended, hovering above the Eternal Prosperity Market, rapidly expanding to fifty or sixty zhang in size, emanating a faint red spiritual light.
It was the Return to Origin Boat!
Following that, beams of escape light shot up into the sky, landing on the deck one after another, making their way towards the cabin.
In the end, only one man and two women remained on the deck.
The male cultivator wore a black robe with his hands clasped behind his back, his eyes dark as ink, shimmering with a rational glow, exuding an air of watching clouds rise and fall.
It was Liu Yu, Jiang Qiushui, and Cold Moon Heart.
With such a large territory newly acquired, even for a major sect like Yuan Yang Sect, manpower was quite tight now.
Thus, this inspection mission was entrusted to only the three of them.
Once he saw that all the disciples were ready, Liu Yu changed the spell technique in his hand and cast several techniques on the control token.
The Return to Origin Boat shook and turned northward, accelerating continuously.
Facing the morning sunlight of Chen hour, in no time, the gigantic red Flying Boat became a small dot on the horizon.
On the deck of the Return to Origin Boat, Liu Yu stood with his hands behind his back, gazing into the distance, while Jiang Qiushui and Cold Moon Heart stood to his left and right.
The main purpose of this inspection was to intimidate the cultivators and immortal cultivation forces along the way.
To prevent these cultivators and forces from taking advantage of the situation and attacking or annexing one another, he needed to meet with various cultivation forces during the process, so the pace couldn’t be too fast.
The news had already been conveyed during yesterday's banquet, and all parties had made their preparations; it was merely a formality to walk through.
However, if one were to say that immediate danger was imminent, or that any cultivators would act as the first to expose themselves, Liu Yu still didn’t believe it.
After all, the sect’s intention had become quite clear: to maintain stability. Going against it at this time would surely lead to self-destruction.
Those who dared to commit crimes against the wind at this moment would undoubtedly face the most severe repercussions.
Thus, Liu Yu estimated that this inspection would proceed relatively smoothly; even if there were troubles, they would arise afterward.
“Senior Brother, when can we return to the sect?”
“How much longer do we have to guard Yuan State?”
Jiang Qiushui suddenly asked.
Upon hearing this, Cold Moon Heart also glanced over, clearly concerned about the issue.
In the past two to three years, both women had harvested quite a bit of cultivation resources.
The reasons they wanted to return to the sect were not only a small part out of nostalgia but also because they likely had enough resources and wanted a stable environment to convert those resources into cultivation levels.
After all, the territory newly acquired by the sect was isolated and just recently stabilized; it was impossible to focus on cultivating wholeheartedly while staying here.