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Tan Shuchang quietly displayed his Dharma Realm, and Fairy Nangong Yishuang naturally failed to detect this change. She didn't even realize when her disciple had left her side.

When Yi Qingqing saw the figure of Tan Shuchang appear, she was undoubtedly instantly excited.

Her eyes reddened slightly.

Then she blurted out, "Didn't you ascend?"

"I did ascend, but nobody said I couldn't come back. They can't return, but it doesn't mean I can't come back after ascending," Tan Shuchang explained briefly, and looking at the emotions swirling within the young girl before him, he knew full well what was in her heart.

Thus, Tan Shuchang couldn't help but reflect for a moment.

He wanted to confirm when exactly he had become a "greenhorn"?

After all, although he first saw Yi Qingqing in Qinghe City, whenever they met thereafter, Yi Qingqing was always by the side of Long Zhangyuan, the Son of the Heavenly Mandate.

As for being moved... Tan Shuchang's heart had been unswayed from the very beginning.

"Did you need to see me for a reason?" Yi Qingqing realized her own impropriety, so she quickly asked, trying to cover up her nervousness.

"I want to learn alchemy," Tan Shuchang stated his purpose.

"I can do that! Here are my alchemy experiences!" Yi Qingqing's face flushed red with excitement, and without waiting for Tan Shuchang to refuse, she eagerly handed over her compiled alchemy experiences to him.

Because she could finally be of help to him again!

"Thank you."

Tan Shuchang first expressed his thanks and then said he wanted her to make a trip to Caiyun Valley on his behalf, to exchange for some alchemy books, preferably those involving the cultivation of both pill and self.

"I don't have that much influence," Yi Qingqing said, feeling a bit embarrassed.

Since Tan Shuchang came to her, she knew that he didn't want to expose himself.

Therefore, relying solely on her, borrowing one or two less critical alchemy books from Caiyun Valley was feasible. However, the high-level alchemy techniques that Tan Shuchang wanted, especially the ones related to alchemy and self-cultivation that she had only heard of, were truly beyond her reach.

"No matter, take this Demonic Cultivator Order. From this moment on, you are the third generation Sect Leader of Sacred Gate," Tan Shuchang said, and produced the leaderless Water Spirit Banner.

This thing was no longer of any use to him.

"Contained within is a knowledgeable and reasonable ghost from the Ghost Path, a Yin God. With this banner, even if you do not refine it, you can invite it out and easily send it back because it contains the spirituality I have nurtured," Tan Shuchang explained in detail to Yi Qingqing the usage of this spirit-communicating magic artifact.

And hearing about the existence within—a certified Yin God from the Ghost Path—Yi Qingqing was undoubtedly startled.

A certified spirit!

Around the current Shenxu Heaven, which Immortal Sect could boast such an existence?

"In a moment, I will create two secret realms, one of lesser quality and one better. The lesser one, you take to exchange with Caiyun Valley. The better one, take for your own cultivation," Tan Shuchang said and then transformed into a cloud of mist, vanishing without a trace.

Assembling and dispersing at will, the ability for Reality Conversion, he could easily display such skills post-fusion, even without revealing his undying blood form.

This was certainly not an exclusive basic ability of the undying blood form.

However, Yi Qingqing still hadn't come back to her senses, not until she saw Tan Shuchang disappear and noticed the two items in her hands. That's when she suddenly snapped back to reality.

She looked around in confusion, then found Nangong Yishuang.

"Master, this is the last time I will address you as my master because I am going to inherit the Sacred Gate," Yi Qingqing said. Her character was gentle, but when it came to making decisions, she was incredibly decisive.

Just like before when she secretly sought out Tan Shuchang with the Water Spirit Banner borrowed from Long Zhangyuan to deliver spiritual medicine to him.

Upon hearing this, Nangong Yishuang stood there perplexed: "..."

What had happened? In the short time she had been gathering herbs, her disciple, nurtured for many years, was about to go back and take over the family business?

No, not the family business—it was Sacred Gate!

Nangong Yishuang's pupils shrank as she instantly realized the key point in these words.

For in the past, the Demon Sect was always called just that, until a Demon Lord emerged and changed everything, leading countless cultivators to revere it as Sacred Gate.

That guy, Tan Shuchang... Saint Master Tan had just visited, hadn't he?

Nangong Yishuang instantly understood the reason.

After all, Yi Qingqing had always been with her, whether in cultivation or alchemy. If Yi Qingqing had obtained the heritage left behind by Tan Shuchang, it should have been discovered by both of them as master and disciple.

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Tan Shuchang had already prepared the first secret realm, which was the slightly less extraordinary one that Yi Qingqing took to trade with Caiyun Valley.

This secret realm was prepared rather casually by him, with the only notable feature being the slightly formidable restrictions. As for the spiritual medicines inside, they were all "wild grasses" that he had nonchalantly plucked from Shenxiu's imprisoned soil, without a single precious medicine.

The second secret realm, which was a bit better, he planned to place in Qinghe City.

However, just as he took a step to shuttle through void and arrived in Qinghe City, he, now merged with the Dao, suddenly noticed something unusual within the city where immortals and mortals coexisted.

He followed that unusual sensation and made his way to the front of a certain residence.

He was not unfamiliar with this residence.

For, above the main doorway of the residence, there was a large plaque with two characters clearly inscribed on it - Li Mansion.

This place, Tan Shuchang had visited here once before.

The eldest disciple of the Poetic Fairy from the Sopen Sect, Li Luoxia, lived right here.

Just as Tan Shuchang had taken his position at the gate of Li Mansion, the grand doors opened, and a girl with an expressionless face appeared within Tan Shuchang's view.

Before the doors opened, Tan Shuchang was completely unable to sense the girl's presence, only feeling that something was slightly amiss, until she opened the door and he could see her.

"Those who succeed in slaying their master, indeed, are not simple individuals," said the expressionless girl, but upon seeing Tan Shuchang, she suddenly burst into a smile.

"How should I address my senior?" Tan Shuchang inquired, feeling a subtle sense of wariness within.

Previously, the qing-robed elder had mentioned that there were True Immortals who transformed into countless incarnations and descended into the Mortal Realm, solely seeking a slim chance of successful master-slaying.

At that time, Tan Shuchang had undoubtedly taken it as nothing more than a myth, for he never imagined he'd actually encounter one of these countless incarnations of a True Immortal.

Little did he expect that during his visit to his old haunts after merging with the Dao, he would just happen to meet one!

"Here, I'm called A'Lu," the girl said.

"And what about elsewhere?" To address a True Immortal as "A'Lu," even if it was one of her incarnations, could directly offend her.

And since women were creatures known for their grudges, Tan Shuchang, after much consideration, decided it was best to tread carefully.

"Elsewhere, I am also called A'Lu," the girl maintained her expressionless face but with a smile in her eyes.

"Senior, in my childhood yard, there were two trees, one of which was a jujube tree," Tan Shuchang suddenly said.

"What about the other one?" the girl asked curiously.

"Also a jujube tree," Tan Shuchang said, his face now expressionless as well.

It seems that having a deadpan face could indeed be contagious.

Girl "A'Lu": "..."

Then, after some thought, the girl "A'Lu" took out paper and pen and said, "Could you share your experience in slaying your master? I can give you something you want in return, but you'll have to wait until you go to the Land of the Four Pillars... Huh? It seems you've already been to the Land of the Four Pillars?"

It was because girl "A'Lu" noticed that the mundane aura that was once on Tan Shuchang had already vanished completely.

"I've just returned recently," Tan Shuchang did not deny, but he couldn't help twitching the corner of his eye slightly at girl "A'Lu"'s paper and pen.

"Are you willing to give up that exceptionally beneficial cultivation environment in the Land of the Four Pillars? Don't you want to advance further, even to the point of Becoming an Immortal?" The girl "A'Lu," upon hearing this, immediately appeared somewhat astonished.

"I am just making a trip back," Tan Shuchang said once more.

Now, girl "A'Lu" understood that what Tan Shuchang meant was that since he could return, naturally he could also go back.

Therefore, she could not help but exclaim once again, "Those who succeed in slaying their master, indeed, are not simple at all!"

This phrase was undoubtedly very familiar.

After pondering for a moment, Tan Shuchang started to recount how he met his master for the first time, then how he noticed something awry with his master, and eventually, after biding his time for three years, he had finally succeeded in killing his master.

As he listened to Tan Shuchang's narrations, all mentioning his master, the girl "A'Lu" did not find anything inappropriate, instead, she kept nodding in agreement, as though it all made perfect sense to her.

After hearing Tan Shuchang's story, she reciprocated by revealing a secret to him—that the mundane aura was, in fact, a restriction specially set by the Primordial Heavenly Realm for beings outside the Land of the Four Pillars.