Chapter 1652: Soul Clan Ancestral Land

After many years together, the moment Yiyi's eyes shifted, Lu Ye knew exactly what mischievous plan she was cooking up.

He hadn't yet decided whether to let Yiyi and Lishang go to the Soul Clan ancestral land, so he naturally couldn't just let her enter.

But just as he grabbed Yiyi, a tiger's roar came from ahead. Lu Ye looked up and was instantly stunned.

Amber was actually standing on the lotus!

There's a mole!

Lu Ye had considered every possibility, but he truly hadn't expected Amber to betray him. This was clearly at Yiyi's instruction; otherwise, Amber wouldn't have acted this way.

He immediately understood that Yiyi's actions were just a feint. It would have been good if she succeeded, but if not, it could still distract him.

This would allow Amber to act freely.

Yiyi was a Spirit transformed by Amber. If Amber entered the Soul Clan ancestral land, could Lu Ye really stop Yiyi from following?

"Well done, Amber!" Yiyi exclaimed, held in Lu Ye's hand, no longer showing any of her previous annoyance.

"Come out!" Lu Ye demanded, staring at Amber.

Amber, who had just been so imposing, immediately lowered her head and guiltily averted her gaze.

"Don't come out!" Yiyi shouted at Amber. "Don't forget what I told you earlier!"

Lu Ye had no idea what Yiyi had told Amber, but when Amber heard Yiyi's words, she actually raised her head, and her shifty gaze became resolute.

Yes, their strengths, Amber's and Yiyi's, were falling further behind Lu Ye's. To become stronger, they had to enter the Soul Clan ancestral land! This was their only and best opportunity; otherwise, relying solely on cultivation in the Myriad Manifestation Sea, they would never comprehend the mysteries of the Soul Clan.

Lu Ye sighed, "The kids are growing up; they're harder to manage now!"

Beside him, Lishang looked at Amber with sparkling eyes, feeling excited.

When Amber stepped onto the lotus, Lu Ye didn't realize its significance, but Lishang knew this was the best proof that Amber possessed the bloodline of a sacred beast.

The Soul Clan ancestral land was inaccessible to flesh-and-blood beings; only sacred beasts were an exception!

If Amber didn't have the bloodline of a sacred beast, she wouldn't even be able to touch the lotus, let alone step onto it.

Now that Amber was standing on the lotus, it undoubtedly proved her earlier judgment was correct: Amber truly was the Soul Clan's sacred beast!

It was one thing when it wasn't confirmed, but now that it was, Lishang felt that Amber must, by all means, bring Yiyi into the Soul Clan ancestral land. Otherwise, it would be not only their loss but also the Soul Clan's!

But Lu Ye's attitude... Lishang turned to look at him, and just as she was about to speak, she saw Lu Ye take a step forward and declare, "If you don't come out, I'll grab you out!"

As he finished speaking, he was already standing on the lotus and, reaching out, grabbed Amber by the scruff of her neck!

Lishang's eyes widened dramatically!

What was going on?

It was understandable for Amber, with her sacred beast bloodline, to be able to stand on the lotus, but how could Lu Ye? Surely he didn't also possess a sacred beast bloodline?

At this moment, on the lotus, Lu Ye held Yiyi in one hand and Amber in the other. The spirit and the tiger exchanged a helpless glance.

Lu Ye, however, was momentarily stunned.

Because when he stepped onto this peculiar lotus, the Talent Tree within him suddenly had a strange reaction. This wasn't the reaction it had when an external force invaded him and needed to be incinerated; it was a feeling Lu Ye had never experienced before, as if his Talent Tree and the lotus beneath his feet shared a peculiar resonance.

But when he tried to perceive it carefully, there was no longer any movement.

Before he could consider it further, the lotus slowly began to close.

Lu Ye was startled and about to flash away, but was horrified to find that as the lotus closed, his body seemed to be fixed to the petals, unable to move at all.

Lishang quickly flashed over and said, "The passage to the ancestral land won't remain open for long; it's about to close. Don't panic, fellow Daoist!"

Still astonished, she looked at Lu Ye, unable to comprehend what was happening.

The ancestral land... didn't seem to reject Lu Ye!

Lu Ye wasn't particularly panicked, but this whole situation was rather baffling. He had originally wanted to assess the situation before deciding whether to let Yiyi enter the Soul Clan ancestral land.

Now, he had no choice but to enter. Not only Yiyi, but he too had to go in.

Oh well, he had already had this idea before, and it would be best to personally see the Soul Clan ancestral land.

He quickly constructed void spirit patterns. The next instant, three streaks of blood-red light flashed as his three scattered clones were recalled, transforming into three drops of precious blood that seeped into Lu Ye's body.

The lotus fully closed, disappearing without a trace, and there were no lingering traces of the wormhole.

Enclosed within the transforming lotus, Lu Ye's body could finally move. He put down Amber and Yiyi, whom he had been holding, and gave Amber a tap on the head.

Amber looked aggrieved. Yiyi was the mastermind; she was at most an accomplice. Why was she the one getting hit?

With hardly any unusual sensation, just as Lu Ye finished reprimanding Amber, the lotus enveloping them suddenly disintegrated.

At that instant, Lu Ye felt an unexpected surge of invigoration, and an incredibly comfortable sensation spread through his soul, like a fish entering water or a bird returning to its nest.

He turned his head and looked around, finding himself standing in a void. As far as his eyes could see, giant lotus flowers filled his vision.

In terms of appearance, they looked similar to the lotus that appeared when Lishang communicated with the ancestral land, but their size was completely different.

Some lotuses were red, green, pink, yellow, purple... others were bicolored, tricolored, up to five-colored...

The entire world was colorful and dazzling.

This was the Soul Clan ancestral land? Lu Ye found it a novel sight.

He had traveled extensively, visiting several different star systems and witnessing various magnificent wonders in the starry sky, but truly no place had been as peculiar as the Soul Clan ancestral land.

Although in the void, Lu Ye was certain this wasn't an ordinary starry sky, because a peculiar energy permeated here—an energy greatly beneficial to the soul. In other words, cultivating in such a place offered little help to cultivation level advancement, but the enhancement to the soul was unimaginable.

"Wow!" Yiyi also watched, captivated. Although Lishang had told her a lot about the Soul Clan ancestral land, it had only been hearsay. Seeing it now firsthand, she realized this peculiar world was even more beautiful than Lishang had described.

She immediately fell in love with this place, especially the environment, which gave her an extremely comfortable feeling—a comfort even more intense than what Lu Ye felt.

Even Amber displayed a look of rapture.

Lu Ye suddenly turned and looked at Lishang. "What's wrong?"

Lishang was currently looking at him with a strange expression, her eyes full of disbelief.

"Fellow Daoist, you... why are you able to enter?" Lishang was full of questions but didn't know how to ask.

"Hm?" Lu Ye frowned.

Lishang explained, "The Soul Clan ancestral land is inaccessible to flesh-and-blood beings. Apart from sacred beasts, no flesh-and-blood creature has ever entered here since ancient times. So... why are you able to enter?"

Lu Ye was about to say that the lotus had enveloped him and brought him in, but then he thought: if it truly was inaccessible to flesh-and-blood beings, then he really shouldn't have been able to enter.

He suddenly recalled that when he had stepped onto the lotus, the Talent Tree within him had a strange reaction, subtly resonating with the lotus, but when he investigated, he found nothing.

Could it be that his entry here was somehow related to the Talent Tree?

But what connection did the Talent Tree have to this place?

"I don't know," Lu Ye said, shaking his head.

Lishang didn't expect Lu Ye to have an answer, and after a moment's thought, said, "It seems the ancestral land's will allowed you to enter, which is why it permitted your passage."

The inaccessibility to flesh-and-blood beings was not a restriction of this realm itself, but rather the ancestral land's will was in control. If the ancestral land's will wished to let Lu Ye in, then it was naturally not a problem.

But... was there anything special about Lu Ye that caused the ancestral land's will to treat him this way?

Upon careful thought, Lishang realized Lu Ye was indeed quite special. At the very least, before meeting him, she had never imagined a Constellation cultivator could possess such formidable strength.

Perhaps... this was why the ancestral land's will favored him?

Unable to understand, she couldn't delve deeper.

Temporarily setting aside her doubts, Lishang said, "Come with me; we need to meet the elder on duty."

In any case, she had brought back a sacred beast and Lu Ye, a human, this trip, so she had to greet the elder on duty.

Moreover, the people from Xianyuan City also needed to be settled, which wasn't something a Constellation cultivator like her could decide alone.

She hadn't expected that just as her words fell, a powerful aura swiftly approached from afar.

Lishang quickly turned to look.

Lu Ye's expression also tightened, because the approaching person was clearly a Sun-Illuminated cultivator.

Almost the instant he felt that aura, a speck of light appeared in Lu Ye's vision, immediately followed by the light arriving nearby, revealing the figure of a young man.

This young man seemed young at first glance, dressed in black robes, but since he was Sun-Illuminated, his apparent age was no longer reliable.

Lishang was startled and quickly bowed. "Greetings, Patriarch!"

She was secretly surprised that the Patriarch had come over just as she returned. Although she was a Soul Clan member who had cultivated to the Constellation realm, to be honest, she had only seen the Patriarch twice in all these years; this was the third time!

Normally, only the elder on duty would be present in the clan, and the Patriarch would not show himself.

The Patriarch?

Lu Ye knew that as an outsider entering the Soul Clan ancestral land, he would certainly have to pay his respects to the powerful figures here, but he hadn't expected the person to appear before he even went to greet them.

And it was the Soul Clan's Patriarch who came!

This was clearly because he had sensed the commotion here. After thinking it over carefully, Lu Ye recalled Lishang's conversation with the Reincarnation Tree, from which it seemed this person was Soul Wane.

Lu Ye could feel that this Soul Clan Patriarch was more powerful than all the Sun-Illuminated cultivators he had ever met!

The only one who could possibly compare with him might be Ma Bin, but Lu Ye currently had no clear concept of the precise strength levels of Sun-Illuminated cultivators, so he couldn't make a proper comparison.

However, this Soul Wane was definitely much stronger than the Sun-Illuminated cultivators of Wuding!

This should be a top-tier Sun-Illuminated cultivator!

"Greetings, Senior!" Lu Ye bowed respectfully.

Yiyi also bowed from the side, and even Amber lowered her head.