At this moment, the Old Ancestor of the Yun Family was in a state of confusion.

The one he had placed high hopes on, Yun Miaozhen, had died unexpectedly.

And the one who killed her had already broken through to Foundation Establishment.

This had plunged the Old Ancestor of the Yun Family into deep despair for a while.

Therefore, when the Sect Master of the Sword Pavilion handed him this mission, he was pleasantly surprised.

“If I can break open the Law Refinement Secret Realm, I will surely accumulate a massive amount of merit, and the hope of returning to Foundation Establishment in this lifetime will increase significantly.”

“Fight for it!”

One must take risks in life!

The Old Ancestor of the Yun Family made a decisive choice and accepted the mission on the spot.

In his plan, he, as a reincarnated Foundation Establishment cultivator entering the Law Refinement Secret Realm, coupled with the protection of the Heaven-Inspecting Instrument bestowed by the Sect Master, should have been holding a winning hand.

However, reality was often more cruel than imagined.

“What is this?”

Just after successfully reincarnating, the Old Ancestor of the Yun Family stared at the Food Qi Worm Seed within his body, first stunned, then revealing an expression of terror on his face.

Realizing the gravity of the situation, he quickly took out the Heaven-Inspecting Instrument.

“Something’s wrong, I have to go back!”

This reincarnation had gone awry; someone was actually monitoring the Law Refinement Secret Realm!

This blatant surveillance bypassed the web of causality and could not be concealed at all!

Perhaps due to his panic, the Old Ancestor of the Yun Family’s hands trembled violently as he gripped the Heaven-Inspecting Instrument, and his activation of it was agonizingly slow.

Fortunately, at that moment, another wave of kind and considerate, immense magical power surged over, helping the Old Ancestor of the Yun Family activate the Heaven-Inspecting Instrument together.

Seeing this, the Old Ancestor of the Yun Family was overjoyed and instinctively said, “Thank you.”

“You’re welcome.”

The newcomer smiled slightly and casually took the Heaven-Inspecting Instrument from the Old Ancestor of the Yun Family, examining it in his hand.

“As expected, it’s a fine treasure.”

The Old Ancestor of the Yun Family did not respond, his expression frozen as if he had become an insect trapped in amber, with only a trace of uncontrollable terror remaining in his eyes.

——And confusion.

A dignified True Person, lurking in the secret realm, even setting up such a system to monitor the entire secret realm, immediately catching him the moment he reincarnated.

Sect Master, it’s not that I didn’t try hard enough, but there’s a watchdog in the secret realm!

“Whoosh!”

In the next second, the Myriad Spirits Banner directly swallowed the Old Ancestor of the Yun Family.

A reincarnated Foundation Establishment cultivator, and from the Sword Pavilion no less, was still of great use.

However, for now, his attention remained focused on the Heaven-Inspecting Instrument.

Obviously, in order to avoid the detection of the True Lords of the Saint Sect, that Sword Pavilion Sect Master had thoroughly cleansed this treasure, leaving no trace of any backup methods.

Because if any trace remained, causing a causal connection, it would be impossible to hide from the True Lords of the Saint Sect.

Only by placing all causal ties on the Old Ancestor of the Yun Family, a lowly reincarnated early Foundation Establishment cultivator, could they avoid disturbing the spiritual senses of the Golden Core True Lords.

Lü Yang made a quick calculation and immediately understood the origin of this treasure.

“Heaven-Inspecting Instrument, formed from the essence of Fire Yang, shining in the central heavens, illuminating the six directions, just like the sun rising in the east, revealing the truth wherever it passes.”

This was a superior-grade spiritual treasure!

It should be known that even among spiritual treasures, there were vast differences, mainly reflected in their Spiritual Nature, Material, and Mystical Power.

Ordinary magical treasures, even if they developed Spiritual Nature and gained self-awareness, were merely inferior-grade spiritual treasures.

To become a mid-grade spiritual treasure, the Material must meet the standard, at the very least forged from rare and precious materials, and refined with great care.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to achieve.

And the requirements for superior-grade spiritual treasures were even more stringent; they must possess Mystical Power.

So-called Mystical Power referred to the treasure being influenced by a Fruit Position, imbued with the aura of Heavenly Stars and Earthly Fiends, thereby gaining innate magical abilities.

Thus, for a Foundation Establishment True Person, possessing a superior-grade spiritual treasure was almost equivalent to gaining an innate divine ability!

In combat, the power amplification was several times over.

If the treasure’s Mystical Power happened to resonate with one’s innate divine ability, their combination could yield infinite wonders.

And the Heaven-Inspecting Instrument was precisely such a superior-grade spiritual treasure!

“Forged from Yang Yuan Wood as the body, Six Directions Fire as the core, its spiritual nature harmonized with the Soft Omen of the Ten Heavenly Stars, manifesting its mystical power, thus forming the Heaven-Inspecting Instrument.”

As Lü Yang infused his magical power, the Heaven-Inspecting Instrument’s reaction grew stronger.

“Clang, clang!”

With the sound of metal clashing, the Heaven-Inspecting Instrument hovered in Lü Yang’s palm, radiating brilliant light, blazing like a scorching sun in the sky.

As a treasure of heavenly secrets, the causal concealment of the Heaven-Inspecting Instrument was so profound that even Golden Core True Lords could hardly detect it.

Besides that, it also had the power to distort space.

Lü Yang had experienced this power firsthand when he previously fought the Old Ancestor of the Yun Family.

It could completely reverse up, down, left, right, front, and back.

However, although this ability was devastating for Qi Refining cultivators, it was useless against Foundation Establishment True Persons.

At most, it was a minor trick added during refinement, intended specifically for the reincarnated Old Ancestor of the Yun Family, and not the true mystical power of the Heaven-Inspecting Instrument.

Its true mystical power was called All-Clarity.

As the name implied, this treasure was formed from the aura of the Soft Omen, its light illuminating the six directions, capable of analyzing all things.

Wherever its light shone, the truths of all things became clear.

In this way, by shining the Heaven-Inspecting Instrument upon the great web of causality, all causal ties became instantly clear and comprehensible.

Manipulating them would naturally yield twice the results with half the effort, with few errors.

Thus, this treasure dramatically enhanced the ability of Foundation Establishment True Persons to interfere with and manipulate causality—a true qualitative leap.

“Treasure light thoroughly reveals, heaven and earth all become clear.”

Likewise, this mystical power could be used in combat.

By shining the treasure’s light on an opponent, one could fully grasp the changes in their magical power and the shifts in their Qi flow.

In the next moment, Lü Yang projected his divine sense into the depths of the treasure.

Immediately after, the sun-like wheel formed by the Heaven-Inspecting Instrument suddenly collapsed, falling onto Lü Yang’s glabella, appearing like a celestial eye.

Under the illumination of this celestial eye, Lü Yang felt his mind become completely clear.

After thirty years of bitter cultivation, facing the soul and Dao Foundation he had long been familiar with but could never merge, Lü Yang now gained a new realization.

“I understand now... So that’s how it is!”

In an instant, Lü Yang’s eyes gleamed with enlightenment, as if he had finally grasped that flash of inspiration.

In the blink of an eye, his soul and Dao Foundation began to merge.

Thirty years of hard cultivation had not been in vain.

In fact, Lü Yang had long possessed the foundation to condense his innate divine ability, lacking only that final spark of inspiration.

The appearance of the Heaven-Inspecting Instrument had provided that final push, completing the last piece of the puzzle.

Condensing his innate divine ability thus became as natural as water flowing.

“This is the talent I was meant to have!”

Lü Yang laughed heartily, as a golden auspicious cloud appeared above his head, swallowing and spitting spiritual energy, stirring the mundane world, with flashes of lightning seeming to flicker every moment.

At the deepest part of the auspicious cloud, a light and shadow were condensing into form.

Looking closely, it seemed to be nurturing and giving birth to something.

As for Lü Yang’s consciousness, it merged into the auspicious cloud, as if his soul had flown beyond the heavens, in a state of hazy clarity, yet still self-aware, like being in a dream.

In a daze, he seemed to see it.

In the extreme west, a vast, indescribable, boundless, yet mirage-like illusory land, a speck of golden light resonated with him.

“That is... the Fruit Position City Wall Earth?”

Before Lü Yang could come to his senses, all the visions instantly disappeared.

That speck of golden light also dimmed suddenly, as if dragged back by a giant hand.

At the same time, in Jiangdong, at the Tianwu Dao Court.

In a towering, cloud-piercing, jade-like, magnificent palace that seemed like the dwelling place of immortals and gods, a young man wearing a crown with hanging beads stepped out from the quiet chamber.

The young man gazed into the distance, his brows slightly furrowed.

“City Wall Earth no longer hides, reappearing in the mortal world. If so, the remnants of Zouyu may also begin to stir. Is the great calamity truly approaching?”