Cultivation through Skin Making

Chapter 737: 259. His Past Life, You Can’t Pry Into (5.3K Words – Subscription Requested)_2

He was worried that Li Xuanchan’s divine thought was insufficient, so he unleashed the Divine Forms Demon Body to strip away the divine thoughts from his thirty Outer Body Incarnations, one layer after another, layering them around.

At the Realm Boundary Early Stage, he could control ten Outer Body Incarnations, including little Wei’Er, making it twenty; now he had already reached the Realm Middle Realm, capable of controlling thirty Outer Body Incarnations.

A long time passed…

Another long time passed…

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“Whew!”

Yun Linzi exhaled deeply, a jade pendant emitting faint light slowly falling from his hand; his expression was not good.

And beside him, the couple Tang Yi and Huo Lanxin appeared even tenser.

Ming Ruyin said, “Can’t do it? Forget it, let me try.”

Swiftly, she seized the jade pendant from Yun Linzi’s hand.

The jade pendant was a gift from the great power of her lineage.

The lifebound talisman character of that great power was ’Human Dao’s ’Observing Dust,’ and the bestowed Observing Dust Jade Pendant could perform the Cause and Effect Forbidden Technique of ’Inference and Observation,’ given to them for using in case they couldn’t find Song Yan.

Ming Ruyin looked at the jade pendant, pressed her two fingers together, and pointed at Tang Yi.

Her finger, intangible and formless, passed through Tang Yi’s body, landing on the various Cause and Effect Divine Thoughts on the Soul Chart, swiftly finding a thread that fell onto the jade pendant, revealing on its front numerous scenes such as “drinking and eating roast meat outdoors,” “traveling south together to seek the True Spirit Fragment,” “at the moment the Formless Ancient Race was about to perish, a crystal divine soul suddenly appeared to save the day.”

These were all Tang Yi’s memories of Song Yan, and precisely these memories constituted the cause and effect.

And this cause and effect would trigger the target’s recent cause and effect, thus presenting on the back of the jade pendant.

Once presented, holding this jade pendant could perceive the target’s location.

However, this jade pendant can only find one target based on cause and effect and cannot search for multiple simultaneously.

Ming Ruyin, seeing no effect, worked harder as mist enveloped her.

Soon the images on the jade pendant expanded outward, forming a second layer of image: including “Immortal Mother Xin and Song Yan in nightly pleasure,” “Song Yan disguised as Zhang Han ordered Immortal Mother Xin to seduce Tang Fan,” “Tang Fan made a move but was captured by Song Yan”…

Tang Yi and Huo Lanxin weren’t aware of these secrets until now. Upon seeing the deep-seated causes and effects emerge, especially the scene of Song Yan seizing Immortal Mother Xin for a major offensive, they were both stupefied.

With the emergence of the second layer of images, the back of the jade pendant began to diffuse some images.

“Got it!”

Ming Ruyin’s eyes lit up. She quickly looked over.

But upon seeing, she was stunned.

The images appearing on the jade pendant were completely chaotic, without any pattern, switching from one person to another. In truth, this was not unusual, as they might be images of Song Yan morphing into others.

However, she couldn’t sense Song Yan’s presence at all holding the jade pendant, as if these causes and effects didn’t belong to Song Yan but were from some unknown cultivator.

Finally, exhausted, Ming Ruyin hurriedly withdrew her hand, her face also turning very unwell.

“I’ve memorized those images; afterward, I’ll have the Changfeng Immortal Dynasty investigate who those people are,” Ming Ruyin didn’t give up.

Yun Linzi nodded, then glanced at the Tang Yi couple nearby, saying indifferently, “Follow me from now on.”

Tang Yi and Huo Lanxin quickly replied, “Yes, elder.”

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After investigation, Yun Linzi and Ming Ruyin finally discovered the identities of the cultivators in those chaotic images.

It was a mish-mash, including former Crane Spirit Sect elders, Sea Break Sect elders, deceased elders of the Li Family, a completely mixed array.

The two sought those with causal ties to these elders and tried using the ’Observing Dust Jade Pendant’ to track their whereabouts, resulting in… various mixed images emerging repeatedly.

Exerting the Observing Dust Jade Pendant consumed a lot of energy; after several attempts, Yun Linzi and Ming Ruyin couldn’t endure it, thus temporarily giving up.

Ming Ruyin said, “Although we didn’t find him, we’ve at least learned some information.”

Yun Linzi nodded, “He’s not dead, and he’s right here in the Western Nether Realm, using some incredible power to gather everyone’s causes and effects, blocking our investigation.”

Ming Ruyin said, “Among these people, there are those from the Profound Yellow Second Realm, while Song Yan was only in the Profound Yellow First Realm when Elder Dan sent him out of Celestial Wondrous Sword Palace. Without tens of thousands of years of diligent cultivation, he couldn’t possibly break through the Profound Yellow Second Realm. Each realm is a new heaven, even if he has strange methods, it’s impossible to handle people at the elder level of the Crane Spirit Sect and Sea Break Sect, let alone control them.”

Yun Linzi concurred, “Moreover, with Mad Saint within him, let alone cultivating, just maintaining stability would already be a miracle. Now our investigation is thwarted, indicating only one thing: he has already joined some force.”

The two exchanged a deep glance, simultaneously saying, “Cyan Nether Merchant Association, Bai Family.”

Yun Linzi said, “You and I, feign leaving, one of us stays here secretly to guard, wait by the stump for rabbits, the other returns to report the news about the Bai Family being Ghost Cultivators.”

After a brief discussion, Yun Linzi stayed to guard covertly, Ming Ruyin left.

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Swish, swish, swish~~

Various divine thoughts dispersed to different places.

Song Yan, seated cross-legged on the cliff, finally stood up.

These days, he had experienced many investigations, some targeting him, some targeting his Outer Body Incarnations, but as long as he used the Divine Forms Demon Body, the opposing causality exploration would be interrupted.

Now, those probes seemed to have ceased.

“Finally managed to temporarily fend off a wave.”

“Better focus on cultivation.”

Song Yan circulated Heaven-Reaching Wisdom, beginning to digest the energy of freedom.

Currently, outside is incredibly dangerous, and with the Cyan Nether Merchant Association ruined, he had no reason to go out seeking thrills.