Chapter 663: Chapter 61: Carefree Immortal, the Man’s Silhouette

Red County, Taicang Calendar Year 269, Yun Cang Mountain.

Since more than two centuries ago, when the master of the Taiwu Dynasty and the Sect Leader of the Yuncang Sword Sect fought on the cloud summit and both disappeared.

The One-Character Shoulder-to-Shoulder King Li Mo rose to power, and with the assistance of the Red Flood Dragon King Zhao Tianyou, changed the world, and the Yuncang Sword Sect followed suit. In just seven years, they campaigned east and west, pacifying the world and establishing the Taicang Dynasty.

In the process of pacifying the world, the Southern Nether Sword Immortal of the Yuncang Sword Sect, using the Nanming Lihuo Sword Technique, became invincible across the world, the sword light sweeping across the Thirteen Continents, making the martial artists of the world bow heads in submission.

The Taicang King conferred the Yuncang Sword Sect as the Holy Land of the Dynasty, and each generation sent royal family members to the Yuncang Sword Sect to learn the arts.

A hundred years ago, the Southern Nether Sword Immortal passed the position of Sect Leader to his disciple Lu Yao, and then secluded himself at the Encounter Immortal Peak.

Through years of development and the suppression by the Southern Nether Sword Immortal, the prestige of the Yuncang Sword Sect has long surpassed the past, becoming a true national holy land, with geniuses emerging in great numbers.

The new Sect Leader Lu Yao, also known as the Carefree Immortal, laid the foundation with the Profound Crane Thousand Shadows Ghostly Sword Technique and created the Carefree Travel Palm Method, traversing the Path of the Celestial Human, now becoming a giant of the martial world, famed across the lands.

At this time, the Carefree Immortal, revered and respected by countless people in the martial world, wore a purple shirt with an ink-colored cloak, her eyebrows like ink swords, her face like cold jade, though female, exuding heroism and sharpness.

Her cultivation has spanned over a hundred years; she is a renowned veteran of the martial world and a legendary senior master.

But her black hair and skin as lustrous as jade show no signs of aging, instead like a young woman in her prime.

Lu Yao stood halfway up Encounter Immortal Peak, gazing towards the summit. Her master had been in seclusion for a hundred years, and every year she attempted to climb the mountain to understand her master’s condition.

Were it not for the clouds and fog, like flowing water, enveloping the mountain and halting her progress, she would have no idea of her master’s current situation.

However, as long as the clouds and fog enveloping the mountain remain like living water, it indicates that her master is still alive.

But today... Lu Yao could hardly wait any longer.

Step by step, she arrived at the mountainside, feeling the mysterious Tao rhyme and invisible secret power within the clouds and fog, her heart increasingly aware of her master’s unfathomable depth.

But human strength has its limits; a Celestial Human Strong Person can live at most three hundred years.

Her master, her end draws near!

"No matter what, I must see my master again."

Lu Yao’s heart was filled with determination. If not for her master, she would have died amidst chaos long ago; her master was not just a teacher but also a mother to her.

The meticulous care of her childhood, the martial arts legacy during her growth, the protection during her journeys in the martial world...

She could never forget the time in the martial world when she, being young, was preyed upon by the older generation of Celestial Humans, pursued and seriously injured.

That day, a dragon’s roar echoed throughout the Yuncang Sword Sect; a Jade Dragon burst from the endless clouds of Encounter Immortal Peak, extending its claw, crossing infinite void, and slaying the Iron Eagle Ascendant of the Celestial Human Realm with one swipe.

The Jade Dragon roared, accompanied by wind, thunder, water, and fire, and in an instant, reduced Iron Eagle Ridge, where the Iron Eagle Ascendant resided, to fine dust.

The clouds opened and the fog dispersed, the Jade Dragon disappeared, the world silenced.

From then on, when disciples of the Yuncang Sword Sect journeyed, no one dared to bully the weak, and Lu Yao, the disciple of the Southern Nether Sword Immortal, became a forbidden existence not to be provoked.

But the winds of the martial world are treacherous, people’s hearts are unpredictable.

Since the passing of the Taicang King, over two hundred years, the throne has changed hands fourteen times. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

The thirteenth Taicang King feared the reputation of the Yuncang Sword Sect in the martial world, and the strength and power accumulated over two hundred years, secretly gathering troops, intending to trample the martial world and level Yuncang.

Before this, the royal family used various ghostly stratagems to probe the life and death of the Southern Nether Sword Immortal.

In Taicang Calendar Year 234, the court dispatched an army of a million, alongside the King of Li Mountain, King Pingbei, and King Yun’an, three Celestial Humans presiding, to destroy the temples and trample the martial world, creating a vast sea of blood.

Until the army reached the foot of the mountain, suddenly a great fog covered the sky, and within the fog, the million-strong army disappeared, not a living person seen, no dead body found.

The corpses of the three Celestial Humans from the royal family knelt outside the Yuncang Mountain gate, to this day uncorrupted.

Three days later, the Taicang King died abruptly, a new king ascended the throne, worshipping at Yuncang Mountain, and honored the Southern Nether Sword Immortal as the Supreme Cloud Dragon True Monarch, and conferred the Carefree Immortal Lu Yao as the Taicang State Preceptor, bringing peace to the Thirteen States of the World.

Today’s Yuncang Sword Sect has long suppressed the entire Thirteen States of the world, standing as a colossal force above the royal family.

The Cloud Dragon True Monarch is even recognized as the number one in the world.

As long as she remains alive, Yun Cang Mountain will be an unshakable pillar reaching the sky.

Past memories surfaced in her mind; Lu Yao’s expression was extremely complex. From the moment she became aware, she always wanted to follow in her master’s footsteps, but the higher her strength, the more she understood her master’s fearsome nature.

The Ninth Layer of the Celestial Human Realm, each step is like ascending to the heavens.

Those who can achieve Celestial Human status, who among them is not a peerless genius with fortuitous destiny?!

But for most Celestial Humans, reaching the Celestial Human Realm is already the end, taking another step forward is as hard as ascending to the heavens.

Lu Yao has cultivated for over a hundred years, with the endless Taoist scripture of Yun Cang Mountain, guided by the world’s number one, and possessing innate Immortal Bone, she has created her own Divine Skill, yet she is still merely at the Fifth Layer of the Celestial Human Realm.

Though she is already invincible in the martial world, she cannot even glimpse her master’s shadow.

Not to mention the method her master used to seize a million troops thirty-five years ago, even the terrifying divine might of the Jade Dragon splitting the mountain a hundred years ago is beyond her reach.