Imperial Cultivation

As another version of himself, he naturally knew how to act.

Find a secret place and begin cultivating his own mental techniques, undergoing a complete transformation.

Many secret techniques needed to be practiced from scratch, which couldn't be completed in a short time.

Even with the cultivation of a Grandmaster, it would take at least a month or two.

After all, he cultivated many secret techniques, and his cultivation was even deeper. For this body to reach that stage, it needed to undergo closed-door cultivation.

And closed-door cultivation required sufficiently good conditions, which couldn't be achieved in the wilderness.

By secluding himself at Jade Moon Peak for two months or even longer, and raising his cultivation and techniques, he could truly replace himself and appear.

This feeling was quite wonderful.

With thoughts interconnected, Chu Zhiyuan stood opposite the True Blossom Sect and shook his head.

Zou Fang, however, was in turmoil.

He had never heard of an incarnation, nor did he have such a concept or idea.

The previous scene had already exceeded his imagination and comprehension.

Only by maintaining his composure all along could he remain calm.

He tried hard to digest what he had seen earlier, trying to understand Chu Zhiyuan's strange state.

But he really couldn't understand. Two people said to be one person, yet each had their own thoughts. How could they be one person?

Like twin brothers, identical, but with different thoughts.

Clearly two people, how could they be one person? Dual-minded?

But dual-mindedness was within the same body. Two bodies would be two minds, right?

Chu Zhiyuan could sense Zou Fang's astonishment.

If he hadn't experienced it personally, he wouldn't have been able to understand this strange state either.

The Soul Seizing Technique combined with the Glazed Blade Sutra had produced a miraculous reaction.

It had already exceeded their own wonderful effects, becoming even more magical.

Chu Zhiyuan even thought that if he could kill enough heretics and demons of the Evil Sect, the blade soul could separate into more blade souls.

Each blade soul could use the Soul Seizing Technique to become his incarnation.

Now he only regretted that there weren't enough heretics and demons of the Evil Sect.

Thinking of this, he smiled.

After a moment, the smile disappeared, and he frowned.

There was actually a faint premonition, or intuition, that too many incarnations were not a good thing.

Three incarnations were already enough, and it was not advisable to have more.

There was actually such a limitation?

Chu Zhiyuan pondered, searching for the root cause, but couldn't find it.

But he trusted his intuition.

"Let's go, let's destroy this main altar first," Chu Zhiyuan said.

Zou Fang solemnly agreed.

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Chu Zhiyuan and Cheng Yifeng sat on horseback, the two horses standing outside the West City Gate of the Divine Capital.

Besides Zou Fang, there was no one else around.

They traveled lightly, without guards, arriving silently outside the Divine Capital.

Cheng Yifeng chuckled and said, "How is our Divine Capital, Your Highness?"

"…It's very similar to Jade Capital," Chu Zhiyuan said.

"Haha, I feel the same way," Cheng Yifeng shook his head and said, "When I entered Jade Capital, I felt familiar, as if I had returned to Great Zhen."

Chu Zhiyuan said, "It's too similar, it really feels like returning to Jade Capital."

"There's no way around it, they originally came from the same source," Cheng Yifeng said, "Shall we enter the city?"

Chu Zhiyuan said, "Do you want to clear out the heretics and demons of the Evil Sect first?"

"That would be best," Cheng Yifeng nodded quickly, "I guess this place has already been ravaged quite a bit. It would be best to get rid of them."

Chu Zhiyuan said, "Then let's go in."

Cheng Yifeng didn't dismount either, riding directly into the city. When the city guards stopped them, he held up a jade token.

The city guards immediately bowed and stepped aside, driving away pedestrians blocking the road.

Cheng Yifeng led Chu Zhiyuan and Zou Fang into the city gate on horseback.

The noise immediately rushed in, directly into the bustling crowd.

Chu Zhiyuan looked around with emotion.

The buildings in this city, as well as the clothing and even the temperament of the surrounding pedestrians, were almost like those in Jade Capital.

The customs, culture, and traditions of Great Zhen and Great Jing were almost identical.

Cheng Yifeng said, "I think we shouldn't go to the Sifang Hall. Let's go directly to my residence."

Chu Zhiyuan said, "I'm afraid it will implicate you."

Cheng Yifeng waved his hand nonchalantly, "I don't come back often anyway. What's there to be implicated by!"

He either stayed at Ask Heaven Cliff or ran to Jade Capital to be with his mother and younger sister.

He wasn't afraid of the Evil Sect experts' revenge at all.

If they really had the guts to retaliate, they might as well go to Jade Capital and see if they dared!

These heretics and demons of the Evil Sect had long been frightened by Chu Zhiyuan and didn't dare to go to Jade Capital.

Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Your Highness, we still can't underestimate them."

"Let's go," Cheng Yifeng said with a smile.

Chu Zhiyuan said, "Let's take two turns, clear out the demons first, and then go to your residence."

"That would be best."

The three of them rode around the city, and one by one, the heretics and demons of the Evil Sect suddenly died, and then their bodies turned into white bones.

While Chu Zhiyuan was exterminating the demons, he sensed the extraterrestrial evil demons.

Through the extraterrestrial divine crystal, his perception of the extraterrestrial evil demons became clearer and clearer.

He saw it more and more clearly.

What he found strange was that what he sensed and saw were still the Venerable statues.

Not living people, but statues, statues devouring the Yin energy and souls of these heretics and demons of the Evil Sect.

Seeing that these souls and Yin energy were heading towards the statues in the Outer Heavens, Chu Zhiyuan inexplicably thought of ascension.

Ascension was from this world to the Outer Heavens, and these Yin energy and souls were from this world to the Outer Heavens.

Could this be considered another way of ascending?

Did they ascend through the suction power of the extraterrestrial evil demons, or in another way?

His mind moved.

Unfortunately, the souls of those incarnations had left their bodies and returned to the void, so there was no way to obtain their memories.

He knew the cultivation methods of the Evil Sect, but he didn't understand the most core thing: how to contact the extraterrestrial evil demons and cultivate through them.

He had never been able to glimpse its mysteries.

To break its mysteries, he had to directly confront the extraterrestrial evil demons.

Because he felt the danger, he had never taken this step.

Even now that the extraterrestrial divine crystal was getting stronger and stronger, he still hadn't taken this step.

He wasn't blinded by victory and progress. He would never directly confront the extraterrestrial evil demons unless it was the last resort.

All along, he had been exterminating the Evil Sect experts first, cutting off their internal and external cooperation, so as to avoid directly confronting the extraterrestrial evil demons.

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The three of them arrived outside a prince's residence.

The prince's residence looked impressive, but it was far from the palace, which made Chu Zhiyuan shake his head.

The reason it was so far from the palace was that Cheng Yifeng was born too late, the seventeenth prince, with sixteen princes ahead of him.

The second reason was that he was not favored.

Cheng Yifeng saw Chu Zhiyuan shaking his head, coughed lightly in embarrassment, "I'm usually not in the residence anyway. I always stay at Ask Heaven Cliff. It's just a place to stay."

Chu Zhiyuan smiled and nodded, "Yes, a place to stay. There's no need for it to be too good."

Cheng Yifeng felt that these words were a bit sarcastic and waved his hand, "Let's go in."

At this time, the gate opened, and a group of guards poured out to pay their respects to the seventeenth prince.

Cheng Yifeng waved his hand carelessly, "Spare me this formality. Hurry back to what you're supposed to be doing!"

The crowd quickly returned to the prince's residence and dispersed, leaving only two middle-aged men.

One was the chief steward of the prince's residence, and the other was the external steward.

After arranging things, Cheng Yifeng went to the palace to meet the emperor.

Although Chu Zhiyuan's trip was secret, it couldn't be kept secret from the emperor. He needed the support of the Great Zhen emperor.

Chu Zhiyuan then took Zou Fang out of the prince's residence and strolled around the Divine Capital.