Eternal Life from Talisman Painting

Chapter 767: Chapter 368: Meng Family’s Response, the Meeting of Two Women (Part 3)

And after hearing this, the two Elders also fell silent.

If done in this way, the Meng Family and the Seven Kingdoms Alliance would naturally become closer, directly overcoming the weak period, and the benefits would naturally be immense.

It was after cool consideration that Meng Xinghai came to this conclusion.

The so-called opportunity ultimately still floated without landing in hand.

Based on his understanding of Fairy Ni Chang, she was focused wholly on the Sect, and perhaps lacked the courage to enter the Secret Realm.

At that time, if he succeeds, the so-called opportunity sharing would naturally be led by him.

If luck is not favorable, and he perishes there, a retreat for the family can still be found.

A fallen Meng Family is no significant threat to the Profound Sound Pavilion but rather can become an aid.

Compared to the rumors about the one surnamed Lin, if the latter enters the Secret Realm and perishes, nothing would be left behind.

At least he would have left a relatively weak and easily controllable Meng Family.

If he survives, his potential would surely surpass that of the one surnamed Lin.

He thought over and over and simply couldn’t figure out any reason why Sect Master Ni Chang would refuse.

This is indeed a mutually beneficial affair.

...

Time passed, Madam Meng perished, revealing that the Meng Family still had a fragment of the Secret Realm and knowledge of a certain opportunity within it, unfaded by time.

However, Meng Xinghai, who nominally inherited the position of Isle Master of Bibo Island, unexpectedly did not just deny this matter but frankly admitted it.

Furthermore, he personally arranged for someone to report this matter to True Monarch Lu.

But given that True Monarch Lu is a Nascent Soul Cultivator, he had already received this grand gift from Bibo Island, and taking further would appear quite greedy.

After all, he is a Nascent Soul Cultivator, and Meng Xinghai is also his favored disciple.

Therefore, True Monarch Lu propagated the message, effectively quelling the matter for a while.

Yet the subsequent actions of Meng Xinghai caught even Lin Chang’an’s attention.

The Meng Family engaged in various trades with the Seven Kingdoms Alliance, along with some precious resource exchanges.

Though the Seven Kingdoms Alliance and the Meng Family weren’t on good terms, the bustling world revolves purely around benefits, with no eternal enemies.

This made Lin Chang’an somewhat underestimate Meng Xinghai.

Alas, he had already taken two actions before, and continuing to keep an eye, who knows what preparations the other side might have.

Moreover, now that True Monarch Lu has intervened, who knows if further actions will provoke Nascent Soul Cultivators.

Thus, he could only sigh inwardly, counting the boy fortunate, yet remaining unscrupulous if the opportunity arises again in the future.

...

Star Shift, and in a blink of an eye, three years have passed.

[Life Span: 240/795]

[Realm: Golden Core Middle Stage (88/100)]

Within the cave on Bibo Island, Lin Chang’an slowly opened his eyes, and slightly frowned at his cultivation realm.

"As cultivation grows higher, the speed of cultivation has gradually slowed."

Previously in three years, he could still advance seven or eight points of experience, but now he felt that advancing two points a year already seemed laborious.

This was despite his better cultivation conditions.

It was clear that breaking through to the Core Formation Late Stage would need a bit of grinding.

However, he had prepared for this; after all, it was a normal phenomenon.

If not, the Immortal Cultivation Realm’s Core Formation Late Stage cultivators would have been rampant.

"At most a decade or two to break through to the Core Formation Late Stage isn’t a big issue, at this age, it’s not bad within the Immortal Cultivation Realm."

At merely two hundred forty years old, his cultivation realm at this level far surpassed most cultivators of his same stage.

[Tier Three Upper Grade Array Master (Grandmaster 705/5000)]

"And in the way of arrays, having long reached Tier Three, it’s about time to appropriately reveal some hints of touching the Tier Three Upper Grade array bottleneck."

With his age having spent so many years reaching Tier Three Upper Grade, Lin Chang’an’s accomplishments were not outrageous.

Su Miaoyin, figures like her qualify as true prodigies, while his talent at best made him a genius.

Thereupon, Lin Chang’an slowly arose to leave seclusion, looking at the gray expanse of Bibo Island, making him lightly shake his head.

By comparison, he still preferred the Celestial Spring Peak’s changing seasons and day-to-night transitions over this Heaven-Reaching Mist Sea’s perpetual fog.

"Master!"

Upon Lin Chang’an leaving seclusion, his Sword Servant, alerted, flashed through the escape light, exiting the cave as well.

"Not bad, afraid it won’t be many years before breaking through to Core Formation Middle Stage."

Witnessing the Sword Servant’s cultivation advancement pleased Lin Chang’an greatly as he nodded.

His Sword Servant returned a smile, finally able to keep up with his master’s footsteps.

Having rarely exited seclusion, Lin Chang’an habitually brewed a pot of Spirit Tea, leisurely reclining in a chair, gazing at the bustling market in the distance.

But when Lin Chang’an’s stone monument signifying his seclusion was withdrawn, many received the news of his emergence, and Xu Lingfeng, who happened to be on the island for transactions, came to visit upon hearing.

...

"Mr. Lin, that Meng person has been visiting every few years lately, his intentions like a dog’s well-earned; if not for that rascal having True Monarch Lu at his back,

he would’ve been kicked out already. What a character, while we might not be paragons of righteousness, we certainly wouldn’t engage in trading cultivators..."

Within the pavilion, Xu Lingfeng furiously pounded on the stone table, ceaselessly criticizing Meng Xinghai, apparently finding no good in him.

Such a disposition of siding with close allies over foes left Lin Chang’an speechless.

This even led to some conjectures if Xu Lingfeng once had similar mutterings behind his own back.

"Mr. Xu, this Mr. Meng, after all, is True Monarch Lu’s disciple, outside in the world we need to be careful,"