Struggling to Survive with Regression Power in the Primordial Saint Sect

Chapter 187: True and False Blood Demon Island

When he thought of it, he acted immediately. High execution had always been Lü Yang’s strength.

Therefore, while the 【Blood Demon Island】 had not yet fallen out of the Foundation Establishment Realm, Lü Yang immediately began his arrangements, and he also had plans regarding the secret realm.

【Mountain of Holding】!

"This innate divine ability, when turned illusory, can seal divine abilities, and when made real, can truly create a mountain. No one had seen it before, so it was perfect to serve as the secret realm!"

Moreover, after being materialized, the 【Mountain of Holding】 also carried the ability to suppress the spiritual qi, karma, and fortune within a certain range, which happened to match the characteristics of a secret realm.

In this way, he could send everyone into his innate divine ability, letting them step into the trap one after another!

"However, just this alone still has too many flaws."

Although the 【Mountain of Holding】 could be materialized, it was still an innate divine ability at its core, and its karma pointed directly to Lü Yang, unable to withstand close scrutiny.

Lü Yang fell into brief contemplation.

Seeing this, Ancestor Tingyou at the side finally could not help but speak: "First is the matter of karma. You can try to shift the karma onto the Blood Demon Island."

"Exactly!"

Lü Yang’s eyes lit up: "Ancestor, your words make sense. Every secret realm needs a backstory. A secret realm without cause or reason is hard to fool Foundation Establishment True Persons."

"But this karma is tricky to handle." Ancestor Tingyou shook his head.

"What’s so hard about it?"

Lü Yang grinned: "This 【Blood Demon Island】 doesn’t look that big. I’ll just dig a hole in the center of the 【Mountain of Holding】 and stuff it in there!"

"My life-bound divine ability 【Separate and Merge】 can slice, so of course it can also fuse! I’ll mix the karma of my 【Mountain of Holding】 and the 【Blood Demon Island】 together until they’re indistinguishable. This way, no matter who calculates it, they’ll only take my 【Mountain of Holding】 as the secret realm left by the Blood Demon True Person!"

Lü Yang wasn’t speaking nonsense.

If he could really stuff the 【Blood Demon Island】 into the 【Mountain of Holding】, then this method was truly feasible, since there really was the Blood Demon True Person inside the Mountain of Holding!

With that thought, Lü Yang immediately began activating his divine ability.

In no time, a towering mountain shadow appeared within the Foundation Establishment Realm, turning from illusory to real, like a shell firmly encasing the Blood Demon Island.

"The original 【Blood Demon Island】 was still too small."

"It didn’t look like a secret realm left by a late-stage Foundation Establishment True Person at all. Now with my 【Mountain of Holding】, it finally looks somewhat grand."

At this moment, under Lü Yang’s careful design, at a glance, the 【Blood Demon Island】 had already become like a mountain within a mountain at the heart of the Mountain of Holding.

The two fused together seamlessly.

Lü Yang even added a palace exterior to it, making it appear even more magnificent.

Immediately after, Lü Yang began throwing treasures onto it.

He made it as grand as possible, with the sole purpose of making everyone feel that the 【Blood Demon Island】 was the core of the secret realm and that the real treasures were hidden inside.

"It just so happens that I can let outsiders scout the path for me as well."

"Let them and the Blood Demon True Person harm each other!"

"This damned Blood Demon True Person, daring to openly use such methods to divert the Heavenly Punishment. I bet he left several backdoors as well."

Lü Yang had always been meticulous.

Since the Blood Demon True Person had set such a trap and harmed him once, how could he not retaliate?

If he didn’t pay it back, how could he still hold his head high in the Primordial Saint Sect?

How could he face others in the sect in the future?

Very quickly, the secret realm was roughly constructed.

For this, Lü Yang also placed his 【Blood Sea Covering the Sky Grand Formation】 and 【Soul-Dissolving and Spirit-Seizing Smoke】 onto it, creating two deadly areas within the secret realm.

"As for the names, let’s call them 【Crimson Blood Lake】 and 【Soul-Dissolving Valley】. One is a lake with blood waves surging to the sky, and the other is a valley filled with a bewildering smoke that can make even Foundation Establishment True Persons dazed. I’d better put one or two treasures inside to lure people to explore the secret realm."

"But these treasures don’t need to be too good."

"After all, the real treasures are inside the 【Blood Demon Island】. The ones outside can’t be too tempting. They need to be just mediocre, enough to stir people’s greed but not satisfy it."

"Only when people are hooked will they gradually lose their reason."

"Coupled with the influence of robbery qi clouding their minds, by then, I guarantee those who enter the secret realm will fight each other to the death over the 【Blood Demon Island】."

The more Lü Yang designed, the more excited he became.

"Ancestor, do you have any suggestions?" Lü Yang turned his head and warmly asked Ancestor Tingyou: "Do you think there’s anything that needs improvement?"

"..."

Don’t compare me to you!

Ancestor Tingyou’s face was full of speechlessness. Although he was also of the Demonic Path, he had always acted openly and uprightly in his life. How could he be such a deceitful and shameless person?

"The secret realm design is not bad, but it’s superficial and still too rough."

"Your 【Mountain of Holding】 may be able to materialize, but its essence is still a divine ability."

Ancestor Tingyou shook his head and said: "Its biggest flaw is that it cannot withstand destruction. Once someone breaks it, your trick will be exposed immediately."

"It might fool people into entering, but it can’t deceive those with real insight, at least not that mid-stage Foundation Establishment Sword Cultivator from the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion. With her nature, she’ll directly draw her sword and slash away at you. Your 【Mountain of Holding】 definitely won’t hold up, and the lie will shatter with one strike."

"Ancestor speaks reasonably." Lü Yang replied patiently, "Is there a way to fix this?"

"...It’s not impossible."

Ancestor Tingyou nodded.

He had created the Witch Ghost Path’s secret realm back then, so he was an expert in this area and had long thought of a solution.

"Use the 【Heavenly Corpse Fiend】!"

Lü Yang finally remembered that back then, the Witch Ghost Path had two strands of 【Heavenly Corpse Fiend】, one given to True Person Yinshan, and the other still unused in his own possession.

He had only let Zhao Xuhe blow up the earth vein back then but didn’t have him destroy the 【Heavenly Corpse Fiend】.

After all, it was still a strand of earth fiend qi. He had thought it might have other uses in the future, and now it turned out keeping it had indeed been a wise decision!

Ancestor Tingyou continued: "Our Witch Ghost Path has a secret method that can use the 【Heavenly Corpse Fiend】 to generate a strand of earth vein qi. Although it’s inferior to a true earth vein, it’s still connected to heaven and earth. Destroying it will also incur Heavenly Punishment. Merging it into the 【Mountain of Holding】 will be enough to make people hesitant."

No one wanted to provoke Heavenly Punishment.

If destroying the 【Mountain of Holding】 would attract Heavenly Punishment, even someone like Ye Xingfeng would have to be extremely cautious and couldn’t act recklessly just because of his own strength.

This would greatly reduce the risk of exposure.

"As for the treasures placed in the 【Mountain of Holding】, you don’t need to use real ones. You can just use those spirit banners from the Myriad Spirit Banner as substitutes."

"After all, no matter how you conceal the karma of your treasures, there’s always a risk of exposure, which is more troublesome."

"However, those spirit banners of yours, for some reason, seem to have no karma at all. They look just like ownerless items, making them more convincing."

"As for the appearance of the spirit banners, they just look human on the surface, but in essence, they’re composed of innate qi. If you want them to change their appearance, it’s as easy as flipping your hand. Besides, a significant portion of them are transformed from our Witch Ghost Path’s witch ghosts, which were originally exclusive treasures of our path."

As he spoke, Ancestor Tingyou opened up like a chatterbox.

With his late-stage Foundation Establishment insight, Lü Yang quickly perfected the 【Mountain of Holding】, making it look like a proper grand secret realm.

"Let’s go with this plan!"

Lü Yang calculated the karma and made a firm decision: "In three days, the Blood Demon Island will fall into the mortal world, landing on the Starsea...but this location isn’t ideal."

It needed to be changed, moved to the Biyang Cultivation World!

After all, if he didn’t do this, how could he drag the entire group of the Immortal Alliance’s Dao Integration experts, including Guang Ming and the innate Daoists' karmic debts, into the trap?

At this thought, a brilliant light instantly appeared at Lü Yang’s fingertip.

【Settling Suspicion】!

This profound ability could guide the development of karma toward a direction favorable to him. Though it usually had no use, now it could fulfill Lü Yang’s wish.

Under the influence of the divine ability, the falling direction of the 【Blood Demon Island】 immediately began to shift.

If the Blood Demon True Person were still alive, perhaps it couldn’t be influenced, but unfortunately, the Blood Demon True Person was now dormant, and Lü Yang had broken through to mid-stage Foundation Establishment.

With the enhancement of his status, altering the landing point was no problem at all.

Thinking of this, Lü Yang immediately rubbed his hands in excitement.

"If it were just an ordinary secret realm, these people might not even be interested."

"But now, with the killing intent of heaven and earth pushing them, as long as I stay here, they will definitely come!"

By then, not a single one would be able to escape!