Chapter 1322: The Immortal Fairy's Place of Immortal Fall

Tang Yu dragged his tired body home after a long day at work. The house was empty except for his black cat meowing.

Normally, he would have had the heart to play with his beloved pet, but now, his mind felt hollow. He kept replaying his boss's harsh criticism from the day and his girlfriend's breakup text.

"Tang Yu, we've been together for two years, but you lack ambition. What's the point of just working hard if you can't even flatter your superiors? I don't see a future for us, so let's break up."

Tang Yu sighed. He simply couldn't bring himself to flatter such a morally corrupt boss.

He glanced at the small, palm-sized bronze tripod on the TV cabinet, engraved with peculiar patterns.

"If only you could fetch a good price," Tang Yu mumbled, shaking his head helplessly.

It was an heirloom passed down from his great-great-grandfather, who reportedly received it from his own great-great-grandfather. He wasn't sure how many generations it had been passed through, but its exquisite craftsmanship clearly indicated it was an antique with a rich history.

However, he had consulted several appraisal experts, all of whom claimed it was a modern craft piece, not even as old as he was.

"Pah, what a bunch of useless experts, they don't know a thing!" Tang Yu spat.

Exhausted from the day, Tang Yu was too tired to even finish undressing. He collapsed onto the bed and fell asleep.

After he fell asleep, spiritual energy revived. The bronze tripod began to tremble slightly, and runes inside flickered. By midnight, a drop of concentrated spiritual water, a divine liquid of creation condensed by the bronze tripod, gathered within it.

The black cat climbed onto the tripod's rim and licked away the drop of divine liquid. Its fur became even darker and shinier.

Suddenly, the black cat understood the bronze tripod's origin: it was a precious cauldron used by ancient peoples to offer sacrifices to immortals, capable of condensing divine liquid. This divine liquid possessed many wondrous effects, such as improving physique and activating bloodlines.

"Da... Luo... Jue..." The black cat spoke in a human voice, a female voice, uttering the name of a cultivation technique haltingly. This technique had also appeared in its mind.

There were many other instances similar to Tang Yu's. Many ancient spiritual treasures, deprived of spiritual energy, had become ordinary artifacts, scattered across the human world.

With the revival of spiritual energy, these spiritual treasures were gradually reawakening, revealing various powers.

Upon entering the immortal cave, everyone realized it was a world unto itself.

The cave wasn't desolate like Kunlun Mountain; instead, it was vibrant with life, imbued with immortal spiritual energy that could prolong life with just a single breath. This energy was even beneficial for Lu Yang in his current state.

It was hard to imagine this immortal cave had existed for 400,000 years. Everything seemed untouched by time, as new as ever, as if its owner had only just left.

And now, the owner of the abode had returned.

A soft, large bed, casually placed chairs, blankets made from top-tier demonic beast fur, decorative bookshelves... Lu Yang found the furnishings in the cave remarkably familiar. This was exactly what his spiritual space looked like!

"Woohoo, home at last!" The Immortal Fairy's first act upon returning was to leap onto the soft, large bed, feeling a deep sense of familiarity.

"So this is Senior Immortal's home," Bai Shuang and Xia He exclaimed in awe. According to legends, such a place should be called an immortal abode, truly wondrous.

The two women were quickly drawn to the artifacts on the bookshelves. The books on the shelves were decorative, and so were these artifacts.

Although they couldn't discern the origin of these artifacts, aesthetic appreciation was universal. With just a glance, they found the bronze mirrors, vases, and incense burners exquisitely crafted, with beautiful patterns, captivating them completely.

"These are all top-tier immortal treasures," Lu Yang sighed, deeply moved. Even a Half-Immortal would cherish a single immortal treasure as their life, yet here, with the Immortal Fairy, they were piled up like common cabbages.

For instance, some vases contained immortal liquid, a single drop of which could allow a demonic beast to transform into human form and become a millennium-old great demon. Such things were certainly useless to the Immortal Fairy; they were just there for decoration.

Lu Yang clicked his tongue. He considered himself quite successful now, yet his own immortal cave was rather humble compared to the Immortal Fairy's lavishness.

"Take whatever you fancy," the Immortal Fairy said generously. As the saying goes, if you take something from someone, you're indebted to them. By taking her things, they shouldn't bother her 'little Yangzi' anymore.

"That wouldn't be appropriate," the two women said hesitantly. They weren't aware of the Immortal Fairy's ulterior motives; they simply knew, from Lu Yang's descriptions, that these items were extremely valuable and felt too embarrassed to take them.

"What are these?" They accidentally touched some transparent stones on the ground. They were like glass, strewn everywhere, seemingly arranged according to some pattern.

"Empty spirit stones," Lu Yang said, picking one up before casually dropping it. These were top-grade spirit stones, but their spiritual energy had long since dissipated into the outside world, improving Blue Star's environment, when the cave's seal was opened.

Suddenly, Lu Yang paused. He picked up one spirit stone to examine it, then several more consecutively. He realized these spirit stones were all intact, not fragmented as he had initially thought, where spiritual energy would have spilled out and accumulated within the cave.

This meant that these spirit stones had all been extracted and used for cultivation by the Immortal Fairy in the past?

Lu Yang quickly realized something: this immortal cave was not just the Immortal Fairy's home, but also her cultivation ground.

When Lu Yang was undergoing his Tribulation of Spirit Transformation, he encountered a wisp of thought left by the Ying Tian Immortal within the heavenly tribulation. According to that thought, the Immortal Fairy was attacked by the mastermind just half an hour after entering the immortal cave. The Ying Tian Immortal hadn't even noticed how the mastermind entered the cave.

This also meant that the Immortal Fairy's cave was also the place of her immortal demise!

The mastermind had struck here!

However, judging by the Immortal Fairy's relaxed state upon returning home, she probably hadn't realized this yet.

Lu Yang remembered that the Immortal Fairy had always been amnesiac regarding the details of her assassination, unable to recall what happened then.

The Immortal Fairy, who had been lying on the bed, sat up, let out a soft "咦," touched her chin, walked out of the cave, then came back in, sat at a table, mimed writing something, counted the spirit stones on the ground, and finally sat cross-legged on the bed in a standard enlightenment posture.

"Fairy, what's wrong?" Seeing the Immortal Fairy's strange behavior, Lu Yang pulled Bai Shuang and Xia He aside to prevent her from bumping into them.

Lu Yang vaguely realized what the Immortal Fairy was doing.

"I always feel like I've cultivated using this exact process before: entering, writing insights, then secluding myself on the bed. Strange, why is the memory so blurry?" She didn't hear Lu Yang's question, immersed in her own world, muttering to herself. This made Lu Yang's heart skip a beat.

The Immortal Fairy sat cross-legged on the bed for a moment, then let out a long "Ohhh—" in sudden realization.

"I remember now! Back then, I had some insights and quickly came to the cave for secluded cultivation."

"Let me think what insights I had back then... Ah, I remember! I had figured out how to break through to Omniscience, and I was preparing to break through to the Omniscient realm in one go!"

Upon hearing this, Lu Yang felt as if struck by lightning. A terrifying thought flashed through his mind, and the long-standing difficulty that had puzzled him finally made sense at this moment.

He was wrong. All his previous assumptions had been mistaken. The mastermind's realm was not merely that of an immortal, but beyond transcendence!