Chapter 1378: 560 Yellow Court Immortal Alliance, Lan Family Immortal Clan

Immortal World.

More than a thousand years ago, after Su Yu broke through to the late-stage Tribulation Crossing Realm, he brought Nan Xiaogu through the Heaven-reaching Immortal Formation on the Immortal Mountain to reside in a small valley in the Immortal World.

He took Nan Xiaogu to Yinfeng Immortal City and several other Immortal Cities nearby, or to the famous Independent Practitioner Marketplaces.

During his travels, Su Yu familiarized himself with the surroundings of the Immortal World while searching for traces of Emperor Zhenwu and others who had ascended to the Immortal Realm in days past.

He did manage to find some traces.

Back then, when Emperor Zhenwu and others ascended to the Immortal World, Emperor Zhenwu used his foundation from the past to break through to the early-stage Heavenly Immortal Realm, which attracted the attention of the Heavenly Court. Ultimately, under the solicitations of various forces, Emperor Zhenwu chose to join the Heavenly Court.

The whereabouts of Daoist Shangqing, Dao Venerable Lei Ting, and others remain unknown.

Knowing that Emperor Zhenwu was in the Heavenly Court, Su Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Although the Heavenly Court’s rules are strict and its hierarchy intense, making it difficult to stand out, with Emperor Zhenwu’s talent and means, there shouldn’t be any major problems.

Given time, he might even regain the grandeur of Emperor Zhenwu’s past.

Besides gathering this information, Su Yu also contemplated his own situation.

If he ascended to the Immortal World himself, he certainly wouldn’t choose to join the Yellow Spirit Cave Heaven or the Heavenly Court.

His first thought upon ascending to the Immortal World was to overthrow forces such as the Yellow Spirit Cave Heaven!

But he didn’t want to join a major force and be constrained by it.

So Su Yu observed alliances in this region that were relatively loose but not to be feared by forces like Yellow Spirit Cave Heaven and Purple Crane Immortal Sect.

In a river valley over a billion miles away from the small valley.

Su Yu transformed into an Alchemist Loose Cultivator at the Tribulation Crossing Realm and joined the Lan Family Immortal Clan’s Pill Pavilion force in this region, becoming an alchemical offering of Lan’s Pill Pavilion.

The Lan Family Immortal Clan, though an Immortal Clan, is not very powerful; it has only five Immortals altogether, one at the early-stage Heavenly Immortal Realm, with the remaining four at the Earth Immortal Realm. However, as long as they are an Immortal Clan, they have the opportunity to join the Yellow Court Immortal Alliance in the Hundred River Immortal Domain.

This alliance, initiated by three powerful neutral Immortal Clans, has developed into an Immortal Clan alliance with over a hundred ally members.

The Lan Family Immortal Clan is one of the members of the Yellow Court Immortal Alliance, albeit just the lowest tier Yellow-level member.

In this river valley, the Yellow Court Immortal Alliance established an Independent Practitioner Marketplace, where the Immortal Clan members of the alliance set up shops and associations within the market to provide various treasures that attract Loose Cultivators to gather and trade.

Over time, this market, named Ancient River Market, has gained quite a reputation in a radius of several million miles and has established a foothold.

The Lan Family Immortal Clan built its Immortal Clan foundation centering around this Ancient River Market.

In the Pill Pavilion.

Su Yu completed the task of refining pill medicine required for the year and stretched lazily, coming to the second-floor window of the Pill Pavilion. He looked out at the streets and the densely built market, occasionally seeing Tribulation Crossing Half Immortals appear, with Mahayana Realm and Fusion Realm practitioners not being few in numbers.

Even Loose Cultivator Immortals would appear in the market, seeking resource transactions.

The bustle is even more intense than in the Cultivation World, with countless cultivators below the Immortal level.

After observing for a long time, Su Yu withdrew his gaze and went to a nearby tea room, leisurely brewing the Spiritual Tea of the Immortal World and savoring it. This Spiritual Tea contained a wisp of Immortal Qi and was quite valuable, somewhat useful for tempering mana.

The salary provided by the Lan Family Immortal Clan barely covered the cost of his tea each month.

Of course, ordinary Tribulation Crossing Half Immortals aren’t as extravagant as him, drinking this high-grade Spiritual Tea every day.

“First establish a foothold with the Lan Family, and then advance the Lan Family to become one of the decision-makers of the Yellow Court Immortal Alliance. When the time is right, I can act against forces like Yellow Spirit Cave Heaven, Purple Crane Immortal Sect, Silver Sea Immortal Gate, and Dongchu Clan in the name of the Yellow Court Immortal Alliance….”

While drinking the Spiritual Tea, Su Yu pondered his own schemes.

He still needed some time before he could ascend to the Immortal World.

During this time, it’s just right to stabilize his footing within the Lan Family Immortal Clan.

By the time he breaks through to the Immortal Realm and comes back to the Immortal World, he might secretly take control of the Lan Family and then propel the Lan Family to lead the Yellow Court Immortal Alliance, making it serve his purposes.

However, achieving this is obviously not easy and will take a very long time to gradually build this foundation.

“Ah, how satisfying!” Su Yu took another sip of the hot tea, spiritual power spreading through his limbs and bones, a warm current flowing continuously. He didn’t care much about the cultivation effects of the Spiritual Tea, only indulging in the simple pleasure of drinking tea carefreely.

This was the life he desired. After enjoying himself in the Cultivation World for so long, he eventually even became the Realm Master, revered above all.

Now, on the verge of ascending to the Immortal World, he certainly didn’t come to suffer or to be a subordinate in a major force, subjected to orders and sycophancy.

Of course, this choice was suitable only for himself.

After all, with a proficiency panel in hand, he could continually break through and improve with gradual cultivation, without being overly concerned with resources and treasures. Additionally, with his Divine Split Body joining the Infinite Immortal Palace, he lacked nothing in terms of Cultivation Technique and Divine Skills inheritance.

Why then should he join a major force and find discomfort?

For now, although the Lan Family Immortal Clan is an Immortal Clan, as soon as he displayed his superb alchemy skills, he was immediately revered as an honored figure, becoming the chief offering of Lan’s Pill Pavilion. His status in the Lan Family was second only to the five Immortals and the Lan Clan Leader, equal to the Clan Elders in status.

Isn’t this life wonderful?

But just as Su Yu was delighting in enjoying the Spiritual Tea, footsteps rang out from outside, and the voice of the Pavilion Master of the Pill Pavilion, Lan Baishan, and the third Clan Elder of the Lan Family echoed: “Taoist Friend Su, may this old man come in for a word?”

“Please come in.” Su Yu waved his hand to lift the restriction and opened the door of the Pill Room, looking at the two entering individuals with some curiosity.

The elder leading had slightly white hair and was also at the Tribulation Crossing Half Immortal cultivation level. He was the third Clan Elder of the Lan Family and the Pavilion Master of this Pill Pavilion, Lan Baishan.

Beside him followed a young maiden, wearing a light green long dress, with a fresh and delicate appearance. Though not particularly young, her cultivation was at the Fusion Realm level, and her age might be in the hundreds of years.

Compared to Su Yu himself, she indeed was just a maiden because he was already several thousand years old.

Su Yu looked at Lan Baishan with curiosity: “Pavilion Master, this is…”

Lan Baishan spoke with a hint of respect and caution, smiling: “Taoist Friend Su, this is my Lan Family’s direct junior, also the sixth daughter of our Lan Clan Leader, Lan Han’er.”

“She has been cultivating for over three hundred and thirty years now, with late-stage Fusion Realm cultivation, and has quite a gift in the Alchemy Dao, already able to refine Mahayana Realm pill medicines.”

“The Clan Leader would like to entrust Taoist Friend Su to have Han’er stay by your side for cultivation, and if convenient, to guide Han’er on the path of alchemy. What does Taoist Friend Su think?”

Lan Han’er seemed to have little experience in the world, her gaze filled with curiosity and innocence as she looked at Su Yu, somewhat amazed, yet also a little shy.

Although Su Yu was already several thousand years old, his appearance still looked like a handsome young man, with an aura as deep as an abyss. In Lan Han’er’s eyes, he exuded an unfathomable mystery, with occasional glances that caused her heart to tremble with awe.

However, this only piqued Lan Han’er’s curiosity about Su Yu.