Chapter 1153: Chapter 1152: The Good Days of Buddha Country Are Over

"Chief Housekeeper, Second-in-command, have you returned... Is anyone there?"

Yun Mengmeng ran out from the Ancestral Temple and saw only Ao Ling and Jiang Lianyi standing outside.

"How strange, I clearly heard the Second-in-command’s voice. Sister Ao Ling, Sister Lianyi, have you seen the Chief Housekeeper and Second-in-command?"

Jiang Lianyi’s face showed a peculiar expression, somewhat at a loss for words. After pondering for a while, she slowly said, "It seems they’ve eloped."

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"Is there such a cold place in Buddha Country?" Just as Lu Yang wondered, he suddenly realized the ground beneath his feet was gone—it was an icy abyss with sharp ice edges stretching down for miles.

Instinctively, he wanted to fly up but found that his Immortal Body had disappeared, making it impossible to fly.

"Fairy, what’s going on, have I left Buddha Country?!"

"Mm-hm, it looks like the distance you can traverse with ’Heaven and Earth in an Inch’ has increased after your ascension, and you’ve stepped right out of Buddha Country," explained Immortal Fairy unhurriedly.

"Your person has left Buddha Country, but your Immortal Body cannot leave Buddha Country, so now you’re stuck like this."

This was bad. He had just lied to Ao Ling and Jiang Lianyi, saying that he was not proficient with his magic skills after ascending, and now the lie had turned into reality. He had directly come outside Buddha Country, and Lu Yang regretted it deeply. Truly, lying always comes back to bite you.

Before, when he told only partial truths, nothing ever went wrong.

All around him were icy skies and snow-covered lands, with the abyss stretching down thousands of feet below—a likely arrival at the Extreme Northern Lands.

This was a famously desolate place in the Cultivation World.

"I haven’t even enjoyed a few good days in Buddha Country, and now I’ve left," Lu Yang said with regret.

Immortal Fairy comfortingly reassured her subordinate, "Little Yang Zi, cheer up. Every day is a good day with this immortal by your side."

After hearing this, Lu Yang felt even colder in his heart.

Forget it, let’s not worry about these things for now and just try to fly up.

With a bottomless cliff below, Lu Yang kept falling as the two spoke.

But he wasn’t panicking. His Realm fluctuated to the Foundation Establishment Stage, which should allow him to fly.

"That’s not right, why can’t I fly?"

Immortal Fairy stroked her chin, "It seems there is an Array Method at the bottom of the cliff restricting flight."

Lu Yang’s eyes twitched. Misfortunes never come singly, and he immediately resorted to a Forbidden Technique, "Deceiving Heaven and Earth Technique!"

He entered a state of death, landing rigidly on the ground.

When Lu Yang dispelled the Deceiving Heaven and Earth Technique, he was already at the bottom of the cliff, feeling sore all over, but otherwise, he was okay and his movement was not impeded.

A yellow-orange lantern swayed in front of Lu Yang. A middle-aged man with a goatee beard had appeared from nowhere, looking at him with concern.

The goatee-bearded man jumped when Lu Yang woke up, "Young man, you’re still alive after falling from such a height?"

Lu Yang was also shocked. There were people at the bottom of the cliff—was this a famous local landmark?

"I am Murong You, young man, what’s your name?"

Feeling it was embarrassing to have fallen like that, Lu Yang gave a false name, "I’m Meng Jingzhou."

Murong You rolled his eyes, not buying Lu Yang’s lie. Meng Jingzhou was a big-name; how could someone like that come to such a place? "Why don’t you say your name is Lu Yang?"

"...My name is Lu Yang."

Murong You looked at Lu Yang with a weird expression, "Young man, how did you fall down?"

Lu Yang considered the retribution for his earlier lies and decided to tell the truth, "After becoming immortal in Buddha Country, I was demonstrating magic skills to both the Dragon Clan Ancestor and the Phoenix Ancestor. I was careless and didn’t control the power of the skills properly, and I ended up transporting myself here. By the way, where is ’here’?"

Murong You stroked his goatee, looking at Lu Yang with increasing pity. To fall from such a height, he must have some kind of life-saving magic artifact that saved his life.

What a pity, though his life was saved, his mind seems to have taken a blow. Talking about Buddha Country, about becoming immortal.

Was this a case of infighting within a large family, pushing the family heir off a cliff?

"This place is Soul-forgotten Cliff."

"Soul-forgotten Cliff? Is it part of the Extreme Northern Lands?" Lu Yang had never heard of this place.

"Of course, it’s the Extreme Northern Lands."

Lu Yang thought to himself how desolate the Extreme Northern Lands must be. He was quite famous, yet the other person only knew his name but not his appearance.

"Young man... it’s not good to keep calling you ’young man.’ Do you remember what you’re called?"

"I really am called Lu Yang," Lu Yang said helplessly, even pulling out his Seek Dao Sect Identity Jade to show Murong You.

But Murong You had never seen an identity token of such caliber and assumed it was something Lu Yang had created out of admiration for Lu Yang, just a trinket.

Murong You shook his head, "You’ve got quite the amnesia. How about we call you Little Lu for now?"

"Alright."

Lu Yang wasn’t someone who fusses over his identity.

"Little Lu, do you want to come with me? Don’t look at me like this, but I am the Sect Leader of the Tiger Roar Sect, and we have eight hundred members," Murong You boasted proudly.

A sect with eight hundred members seemed quite influential, it’s just that Murong You’s cultivation level wasn’t very high, only in the early stages of Golden Core.

"Okay."

Lu Yang pondered; he was completely unfamiliar with the Extreme Northern Lands, so it seemed like a good idea to follow a local to learn more about the area.

Murong You extinguished the lantern and walked ahead, with Lu Yang following behind.

According to Murong You, Demon Beasts roamed everywhere around the Soul-forgotten Cliff, and keeping the lantern lit would attract them, which would not bode well even for him.

Due to the unique environment of the Soul-forgotten Cliff, many priceless herbs were grown here. Murong You had come to harvest a type of Spirit Grass called Forget Sorrow Grass.

Flight was impossible at the Soul-forgotten Cliff, so he was lowered down by his disciples with ropes, and after finding the herbs, the disciples would pull him back up.

The disciples were too weak in cultivation and would only meet their demise if they encountered Demon Beasts, leaving him no choice but to come down and harvest the herbs himself.

Lu Yang vaguely remembered seeing Forget Sorrow Grass in the medicinal garden of Seek Dao Sect, growing in large patches and as rampant as weeds under the care of the Little Medicinal Kings.

"I found them!"

Murong You exclaimed excitedly. Not far away, several sprouts of Spirit Grass emitted a shimmering white glow— the very Forget Sorrow Grass he was looking for.

"To think there are three plants, what a stroke of luck!"

Just as Murong You was about to go and harvest them, he heard footsteps from the Forget Sorrow Grass, and pairs of emerald-green eyes shone strikingly in the darkness, with a sapphire-colored ice crystal on the forehead.

"It’s an Ice Plain Wolf!"

Murong You retreated in terror. Even a Late Stage Golden Core cultivator would face life-or-death against a pack of Ice Plain Wolves.

Just as Murong You braced himself for a desperate struggle, the snarling Ice Plain Wolves suddenly showed fear, whimpering lowly and steadily backing away.

As Demon Beasts, their senses were sharper; they sensed two incredibly terrifying presences in the serene youth who stood behind Murong You.

Those two terrifying presences were entities their ancient ancestors would tremble before, supreme beings of dread!

Unable to suppress their fear, the Ice Plain Wolves turned tail and fled, leaving Murong You utterly stunned.

Lu Yang pondered. Before coming here, he had encountered Ao Ling and Jiang Lianyi. Could the pack of wolves have sensed their aura?