Yue Ling suspected that the person who could win the ’Cai’ was likely from Heaven-Burning Valley, or perhaps an alchemist from Fuyun Mountain.

Either way, it would only be one person. At that time, he would directly summon the Golden Core Secret Treasure and annihilate him. Then, he would be the first, and with the help of the Profound Turtle Alchemist’s soul avatar, he would obtain the inheritance.

"However—"

Amid Yue Ling’s imagination, the voice of the Profound Turtle Alchemist came, tinged with a hint of hesitation.

"Perhaps it’s better to forget it. Your talent in alchemy is not bad; even if you don’t get the inheritance in the end, you can still make significant progress."

The two schools before the Inheritance Spirit Array imparted a lot of alchemy knowledge. With this, there might still be the possibility of further advancement in the future.

Yue Ling’s expression changed, and he said, "You have no choice!"

"Actually, you can choose another way. Although I, the Profound Turtle, can be a bit capricious at times, overall, I’m still a good cultivator. You work hard for me, and once my soul is complete and my memory restored, won’t the inheritance be yours?"

The Profound Turtle Alchemist wasn’t wrong, but Yue Ling knew it was impossible.

An almost Golden Core-level great cultivator couldn’t be suppressed by the Yue Family; the risk was too great. Moreover, the soul avatar was a Golden Core-level entity. Even if the whole Yue Family exerted themselves, it would be difficult to manage.

"Alright, alright, let’s pretend I didn’t say it, but this matter is really hard to handle."

Under Yue Ling’s gloomy gaze, the Profound Turtle Alchemist’s voice was filled with helplessness as he laid out the problem.

That is, he could use a secret technique to arouse instincts to help write answers, but it required Yue Ling’s consent to guide his soul avatar into his body.

Yue Ling did not hesitate much upon hearing this and directly agreed to it.

This was not because he was careless, but because of past experiences. In the Yue Family, there was a little-known secret: the family’s most precious possession wasn’t the clan’s treasure— the Golden Core Secret Treasure, but a thick jade scroll filled with the research and understanding of the Profound Turtle Alchemist by previous family members.

Someone had tried letting the Profound Turtle Alchemist’s soul avatar enter their body.

The attempts were not few, and there were no obvious adverse effects; the only downside was some mental fatigue.

A slight recuperation for ten days or half a month would restore it.

This was why he agreed.

Following the response, the Profound Turtle Alchemist’s soul avatar appeared unreservedly, revealing the Soul Jar, an ancient stone jar shimmering with spiritual light, with surface patterns resembling tree veins. Staring at it long enough would give one a feeling of being completely absorbed.

"Truly a strange object, I wonder what fortuitous encounters the Profound Turtle Alchemist had to obtain such a precious thing."

Despite not being the first time seeing the Soul Jar, Yue Ling still felt some awe.

Not to mention a soul avatar that hadn’t yet fully stepped into the Golden Core realm, even a Golden Core-level soul avatar would find it difficult to exist long after the physical body decayed.

Yet, the Profound Turtle Alchemist’s soul avatar managed to do so.

The value of the Soul Jar was evident. The Yue Family hadn’t broken away completely from the Profound Turtle Alchemist over the years, possibly having its eyes set on the Soul Jar.

If the Yue Family could produce a Golden Core cultivator in the future, possessing the Soul Jar would mean keeping the family’s fortune alive for thousands of years.

As the Soul Jar appeared, Yue Ling didn’t hesitate further. He activated the family’s secret technique, and a stream of light merged into several strangely-shaped talismans on the Soul Jar, which then glowed, and one of them detached from the Soul Jar.

The Soul Jar was not originally part of the Yue Family’s possessions; the talismans affixed to it were added by the Yue Family later.

With these talismans, the Profound Turtle Alchemist in the Soul Jar was restrained.

A dark glow shot out from the Soul Jar, entering Yue Ling’s body. After a moment of instinctual hesitation, Yue Ling relaxed his stance, and then felt a sharp pain all over his body, like being pricked by thousands of needles.

Then it slowly penetrated deeper into his body. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

"A truly young body," the Profound Turtle Alchemist sighed.

A hint of a smile appeared on Yue Ling’s face. He felt something amiss in his heart but restrained himself.

"Hurry up."

"Rest assured, rest assured."

The Profound Turtle Alchemist chuckled, paused slightly, then started to write with a flourish in the scroll.

Feeling his body return to his control, Yue Ling sighed in relief.

Then, he saw the patrol master coming over and taking the jade scroll.

Moments later, Yue Ling’s face turned somewhat gloomy. He hadn’t heard the sound of Cai, nor seen any fireworks go off.

This meant that in the eyes of the Inheritance Spirit Array, his jade scroll only barely passed, not reaching the level of exhibiting supernatural phenomena.

"That’s actually normal. The exam paper is not just a mere exam paper; it also contains performance scores from the first two schools."

The Profound Turtle Alchemist hurriedly explained.

Yue Ling immediately remembered how the school master of the second school often cast approving glances in a certain direction.

In his mind, it must have been someone from Heaven-Burning Valley.

"Hmm? Weren’t we going to the Immortal Mountain? Why are we here?"

The patrol master brought him to a bronze gate with a large mirror on it.

There were also ones on the left and right sides.

"This is naturally also part of the Immortal Mountain’s examination."

The patrol master said blandly.

Despite possessing a Golden Core Secret Treasure and the Profound Turtle Alchemist’s soul avatar, he still had to undergo another examination, which made Yue Ling extremely annoyed. And when he heard the content of the examination from the patrol master’s mouth, it was even more like sitting on pins and needles.

"How can this be!"

The Profound Turtle Alchemist inside him also had an innocent look, "How would I know what I was thinking back then? You know, I’ve already changed."

After thousands of years of bodily decay, being confined to a small Soul Jar for millennia, nothing cannot change.

Yue Ling understood but couldn’t accept it, for the examination this time was to learn dance.

And it wasn’t an elegant dance but rather an extremely vulgar one from the mundane world.

The Immortal Sect was still the Immortal Sect, governing at least several Immortal City regions, countless lives and deaths, asking him to learn a mundane exotic dance. How could that be!

"It’s a test; only after passing it can you enter."

After a while, the Profound Turtle Alchemist gently reminded.

Yue Ling’s expression was ever-changing, eventually lingering on the patrol master beside him, who said nothing more and quietly waited by the side.

"There is only one patrol person here, at most counting the Profound Turtle Alchemist as one more. After obtaining the inheritance, perhaps I can—"

An Immortal Sect disciple doing an exotic dance, if it got out, would certainly be hard to live down. Yue Ling, aspiring to Golden Core, didn’t want to become the laughingstock of numerous cultivators across various domains.

Didn’t one see how, during an exploration of a Profound Turtle Alchemist’s cave abode, a group of Immortal Sect disciples danced sensually in a huge square, causing innumerable cultivators to relish the spectacle across the domains?

At least that time, it involved dozens of Immortal Sects and thousands of cultivators, some even among them notable Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Subsequently, many Immortal Sects exerted effort together, forcibly making it a taboo in all the domains.

But this time, at most there were about ten Immortal Sects, and the news would undoubtedly be unstoppable.

Fortunately, it wasn’t hard to solve this issue.

"Once the Inheritance Spirit Array task is completed, it will definitely dissolve, and the patrol master is just the tool of the Inheritance Spirit Array, so there’s no need to worry about him spreading it. As for the Profound Turtle Alchemist—"

Yue Ling had no fondness for the Profound Turtle Alchemist; if not for needing his inheritance, he would have smashed the Soul Jar long ago.

The present Soul Jar wasn’t as sturdy as it once was. Over time, it lost much of its spirituality and became quite fragile; even as someone at the early Foundation Establishment stage, he had the capability to destroy it.

Therefore, his exotic dance naturally wouldn’t get out.

With this in mind, he relaxed and walked to the gate. The mirror began to show a graceful figure repeatedly performing an apparently embarrassing dance.

Yue Ling felt deeply humiliated. Although the figure in the mirror had a good physique, to him, it was filled with filth and vulgarity, something that outside he would have burned to ashes with a spell long ago.

But for the Profound Turtle Alchemist’s inheritance, he suppressed his humiliation and anger and began practicing with careful precision.

For a Foundation Establishment cultivator, this kind of mundane skill not involving strength or magical power wasn’t hard to learn.

Soon he learned it quite decently, and the person in the mirror began to nod approvingly.

In the other’s gaze, Yue Ling sensed a hint of comfort because the other’s gaze bore some resemblance to the school master’s gaze from the second school.

Just as he was about to seize the time to further his efforts and pass the examination, suddenly, a voice rang out behind him.

"Hmm? Fellow Daoist, what are you doing?"

Yue Ling froze entirely.

He suddenly remembered a terrifying question: if those who passed the exam were able to see each other after reaching here, why hadn’t the genius from Heaven-Burning Valley, who arrived before him, encountered him?