As for him, he was heading back to the Tingsong Cliff Soul Threshold.

His cause and effect with the Formless Ancient Race was not yet over.

He still had many questions... answers that needed to be sought from the Formless Ancient Race.

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Tingsong Cliff Soul Threshold entrance.

Piles of blood corpses stacked up, each decayed shell steaming with strands of red miasma. High above, carrion-eating birds circled, not daring to approach, because two ghost-faced cultivators stood at the center of these bones, emanating powerful auras.

The wind blew, and the scattered fragments of swords shimmered with a red light.

The blood-clad female cultivator suddenly said, "Susu has also disappeared."

The other ghost-faced cultivator said, "Song Yan is actually still alive."

"I've always said that boy is sly. He managed to take his old friends away unnoticed, quite a feat."

"Ningxin, actually... you could have gone with him."

"Ningxin swears loyal allegiance to the Primordial Ancestor!" The blood-clad female cultivator wore a ghost face, her expression unreadable. She continued, "Only regret that back then, even as close as we were, I still couldn't bind that sly boy tight! But as heaven and earth tilt, no matter how cunning that sly boy is, how could he compare to the deep schemes of the Primordial Ancestor?"

Tang Changsheng was silent for a moment, then said, "Once this matter is settled, I will help you break into Divinity Transformation. By then... you will be able to coexist with the Sea of Suffering Dragon Race like me. Together as one, apart as two. Merely I the main soul, it the main thought."

Tang Ningxin said, "That sly boy is sure to return."

Tang Changsheng glanced around and said faintly, "The Sword Alliance and the Seven Great Bandits gathered the responding cultivators around here, they probably already got the news of the deaths of those entering the threshold. We should proceed with our next plan."

Tang Ningxin said, "Primordial Ancestor, aren't you going to do something about that sly boy?"

Tang Changsheng laughed, "Sly boy, sly boy... it seems you hold quite a grudge against him?"

Tang Ningxin said, "He tricked me!"

Tang Changsheng said, "If he hadn't tricked you, he would have died. I have some admiration for him, but it's a shame that he's an enemy, not a friend. I'm afraid we won't cross paths in this lifetime."

After speaking, he paused slightly, then suddenly said, "Ningxin... you're familiar with him. It's been over eighty years since we ventured into the Void Ruins in search of Profound Yellow Material. What realm do you think he's in now?"

Tang Ningxin said, "Back then, to provoke him, I bet with him over Tang Yanzhang's agreement, saying that if he could break through to the Early Stage of Divine Infant within five hundred years, I would become his Dao partner.

Now it's nearly another one hundred ninety years until this five-hundred-year agreement. Normally... no matter how extraordinary his talent, he shouldn't break through to the Divine Infant Realm.

But if he hasn't even broken through to the Divine Infant Realm, how could he stealthily swap Heaven and Earth, taking his people away unnoticed in this situation?"

Tang Changsheng pondered for a while and said, "Everyone has secrets. Maybe his power isn't the power of the realm."

Tang Ningxin said, "Are you suggesting... Celestial Demon?"

Tang Changsheng didn't reply.

Tang Ningxin thought for a moment and said, "Celestial Being?"

Tang Changsheng fixed his gaze into the distance and said, "The Sea of Suffering powers have always split into two, infiltrating each other.

One side leaves imprints left by the strong of this world, these imprints exist in form of thought deep within the Sea of Suffering, referred to as Celestial Beings; the other side is the Celestial Demons born from the combination and contamination of outer world evil thoughts.

If the world remained peaceful, the Celestial Demons would merely lurk, and the Celestial Beings would always remain unseen, but during this age of the end times, all manner of demons and gods would surface.

As for Song Yan, he's like a Celestial Demon but not quite, like a Celestial Being but not entirely. Back then, even as the Yin Yang Profound Dragon was in slumber, it had sharp eyes yet couldn't see through what exactly he was. It was meant to keep him as a shell for study, but unexpectedly, he shed his shell and slipped away."

After a moment of contemplation, Tang Changsheng continued, "Should Song Yan return, he faces a Sea of Suffering Demon Dragon that has nearly fully incarnated in this world through the sacrifice of six Divine Infants. Whether he can survive to face us remains to be seen.

The situation is complicated, we have our own tasks to focus on, we can't afford to derail the grand plan for just one person, he is merely a pawn in these turbulent times, not worth it.

As for those two baits, including Wang Susu, let them go if they're gone. At least they served their purpose by letting this old man know Song Yan has also arrived."

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Whoosh!!

An ordinary-looking sword cultivator descended from the sky, arriving at the Tingsong Cliff Soul Threshold entrance.

Song Yan casually pulled on a mask of "transformation" and arrived here.

Before coming here, he had been wandering around the Formless Ancient Race area, but he didn't find Tang Ningxin, nor that Formless Ancestor.

The most he heard was about how the Ancestor entered the Soul Threshold, and so he came here.

Inhaling the air filled with a stench almost condensed into Evil Qi, he hid for a moment behind a tree.

About two days later, at dusk, fine rain drizzled from the sky...

Song Yan sat under the tree leaves with lowered eyes, the rain hitting the old tree, trickling to the end of the leaves, then dropping heavily, tapping against Song Yan, yet naturally flowing away, gently dropping into the soil.

Song Yan gazed intently at the rainy forest scene, while in his mind, he pushed and evolved 'Shadow-Stealing Wedding Dress' into three secret techniques.

The first, 'One Shadow Reflects the Image,' changed the condition Wang Susu set for 'stealing shadows' to 'observing shadows,' originally needing to steal others' shadows to comprehend divine likeness, now requires merely a moment of observation;

The second, 'Lifebound Shadow Tower,' Wang Susu needed borrowed shadows to store partial shadow puppets, but now Song Yan reached the essence of 'shadow puppets,' allowing these shadow puppets to be directly stored in his own shadow;

The third, 'Hundred Forms Demon Shadow,' Wang Susu had borrowed from what Song Yan had previously taught her in 'Hundred Forms Demon Body,' thereby training a demon god with shadows, but ultimately fell short, now Song Yan has completely perfected it.

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