Chapter Fifty: Immortal Abode's Letter
Third update!
Chen Yao never thought he was a cultivation genius, but this cultivation speed still scared him. Carefully calculating, his total cultivation time had not even reached half a year, yet he had already advanced from the Post-Heaven Realm to the Pre-Heaven Perfect Realm. This speed made even himself almost disbelieve it.
"Are you surprised? You're practicing the 'Zhōu Tiān Xīng Lì Duàn Tǐ Zhī Shù' passed down by my family's master, and with the support of a vast amount of Xuán Míng Sha energy, this speed can only be considered normal."
"Alright, work hard then. Compared to those true geniuses, your cultivation speed is also extremely poor. More importantly, you've already wasted 16 years."
Chen Xiao's agitated mood calmed down a lot, and the fact is just as Ji Yu said. From childhood to adulthood, although he directly received his grandfather Chen Tianli's teachings and practiced the family's traditional qigong method "Zi Xuan Gong", he lacked the support of spiritual elixirs and yuan stones, so his cultivation progress was extremely slow. Four years ago, in order to make a living, he took on more responsibilities and became an apprentice to a symbol maker, and the time spent on cultivation became increasingly scarce. Compared with those family children who have been focusing on cultivation since childhood, he is far behind.
Just like Li Hua, whose age is similar to Chen Tang's, he has already reached the Zifu Realm, and the reason lies in the fact that Li Hua possesses countless resources, so he doesn't need to work hard for survival.
"Thanks for the elder's guidance." Chen Xiao's expression was solemn and serious, with a determined look in his eyes.
Ji Yu smiled, stood up from the rattan chair, and glanced at the pool of water, saying: "There's still nearly 500 kilograms of Xuanming Sha energy condensed **, I'll help you collect it."
As he spoke, his palm patted outwards, and the entire octagonal pool churned violently before flashing a dark light, transforming into an eight-sided palace vase as black as jade.
"In fact, this pool is an octagonal palace bottle. The cultivator who set up the formation had already led the evil sword to communicate with the heavenly and earthly evil energy, and then used the icy heart lotus to nurture the evil energy, finally gathering it into the octagonal palace bottle. After going through thousands of years, the mysterious and profound evil energy of this pool was formed."
Ji Yu spoke slowly and patiently, continuing: "However, since the Huashan Gathering Array has been unattended for nearly ten thousand years, most of the Xuanming Sha energy inside has dissipated. If not for this, this pool would have at least gathered no less than ten thousand jin of Xuanming Sha energy."
"I see." Chen Xiao nodded.
Ji Yu tossed the octagonal palace bottle to Chen Tai, saying: "This thing has no other use, but it's not bad for storing some spiritual liquids and fine wines. When you advance to the Nirvana realm, you can use the Xuanming Sha energy inside to condense the Nirvana wheel."
Chen Xiao carefully put the octagonal palace bottle into the storage ring, and his gaze inadvertently swept to the location where the water pool was originally located, only to see a peculiar array pattern.
"What is this?"
Chen Xiao walked forward and took a closer look, in the center of the formation pattern, there was a recessed groove. A flash of inspiration struck him, and he immediately took out the Dongming Order from his storage ring. After a brief comparison, it fit perfectly into the groove without any gaps!
Haha.
Ji Yu looked up at the sky and laughed, "Not bad, it's indeed the teleportation array leading to the Sword Immortal's mansion. When I first entered this place, I discovered that something was amiss. According to my deduction, this array must have been set up by that Sword Immortal, and its purpose is to collect the Xuanming evil energy!"
Chen Xiao was somewhat unbelievable, originally he thought he had fallen into the abyss and would have nothing to do with the Sword Immortal's mansion, but unexpectedly he found a passage here, it was really a twist of fate, a sudden turn for the better.
"Let's go, for a million years I have seen many extraordinary sword immortals, but none who did not drink hatred in my master's cave. I'd like to see what kind of person this sword immortal is and what wonders his cave holds." Ji Yu said languidly, her soft voice exuding an air of haughty disdain.
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Inside the narrow and pitch-black corridor, bursts of fierce roars and terrifying clashing sounds of golden spears echoed from time to time.
Splash!
Taiyi's Qinglian sword transformed into a streak of cyan rainbow light, fiercely slashing apart a malevolent puppet. Du Qingxi was somewhat disheveled and panting, gazing at Duanmu Ze and the others who were still fighting ahead, their faces etched with worry.
Is this still the Sword Immortal's abode? It's simply an ocean of malevolent aura and puppets!
They finally passed through the Red Flame Mountain Range under Chai Le Tian's leadership, and on the last day of the month, relying on the Dong Ming Order, they were transmitted into the Jian Xian Dian Fu by the San Cai Nuo Yi Da Zhen.
I thought that all kinds of magical treasures and secret books were within easy reach, but I didn't expect that as soon as I entered this narrow and long passage, I would encounter wave after wave of evil spirits and puppets.
These giant puppets were incredibly large, with ugly and stiff faces, their bodies wrapped in black aura, each holding a sharp giant sword in their left and right hands. Their swordsmanship was crude and rough, but relying on their fearless and unyielding spirit, as well as their massive and rock-hard physique, they charged forward like an iron flood in this narrow passageway, sweeping everything before them.
"Damn it! These stupid things can't be killed, we've been trapped here for two days, if this continues, we'll eventually exhaust ourselves to death."
With one kick, he sent the fierce puppet in front of him flying, and Du Mu Ze leapt to the side, dodging the pincer attack of the two fierce puppets on his left and right, and arrived at Du Qing Xi's side in a sorry state.
At this moment, Duanmu Ze was wearing a white robe stained with blood, his hair disheveled, and his handsome face had a layer of pale whiteness, his eyebrows were extremely tired.
"How could this be? Our strength has recovered to the Purple Mansion realm since we entered this place, and is no longer restricted by the Southern Barbarian's Netherworld. However, if we want to kill all these evil energy puppets, it's simply impossible... unless... shall we charge over?"
Du Qingxi also became flustered, saying that he wanted to rush over, but when he saw the dense and surging evil aura puppets rushing from afar, he felt that his hopes were extremely slim.
"Rush? I don't think so," Endo Tatsuya said with a wry smile, then gritted his teeth and continued: "We originally had eight paths to choose from, but Chai Le Tian deliberately led us onto this one. If not for that, we wouldn't be in such a predicament."
Du Qingxi frowned and said: "Your current appearance, compared to Chai Letian's treatment of Chen Yu back then, what's the difference? Don't push everything onto others."
After a pause, Du Qingxi seemed to feel that his tone was a bit too heavy, and he said helplessly: "The eight paths of 'profit', 'decline', 'destruction', 'reputation', 'praise', 'slander', 'suffering' and 'happiness' are all interconnected. Since we chose the path of 'happiness', we've been trapped to this extent. If we had chosen the path of 'suffering', wouldn't we have died long ago?"
Du Mu sneered, "I just think that Shi Le Tian is absurd. He thinks that because his name has the character 'le' in it, he can lead us on this path. Isn't this nonsense?"
Wow! Wow! Wow!
Three giant swords with fierce and violent auras hacked towards Du Qingxiang and Duanmu Ze, the two didn't dare to say more and gritted their teeth as they charged into battle.
At this moment, they can only struggle on like this.
"These damned bastards, I've had enough!" Not long after, a furious roar came from afar, and then he suddenly sprang to his feet, with a flash of dazzling light appearing between his palms, which was then swung out by him with great force.
"Burn heaven and earth talisman! Give me explosion! Explosion! Explosion!"
Rumble!
Dazzling white light suddenly illuminated the surroundings, and a burst of explosions like thunder shook the narrow corridor, with violent airflow rushing forward like a hurricane, crushing everything in its path. Wherever it passed, the eerie puppets were incinerated, vanishing into thin air like ice melting in water!
Du Mu Ze stared blankly at the empty corridor, gritting his teeth after a while and saying: "This damn bastard, possessing the Huo Tian Two Instruments Symbol that can rival the full-strength blow of a Two Instruments Golden Elixir Realm cultivator, yet still hasn't used it until now. Truly despicable!"
"Hurry up and go, once it's late, who knows if Su Jiao and the others will get there first." Du Qingxi let out a long sigh of relief, wiped away the sweat on his forehead, and rushed forward.
"Ah." Recalling the treasure in Jianxian Cave Mansion, Duanmu Ze also didn't dare to slack off and hastily rushed over.
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"Unexpectedly, this 'Cheng' character passage is filled with all sorts of mechanisms. It's really a case of 'open guns are easy to dodge, but hidden arrows are hard to defend against'. If it weren't for Brother Cang's Four Spirits Xuanwu Shield defending us on all sides, I'm afraid we would have been trapped inside this time."
In another passageway, Su Jiao looked at the exit in the distance and secretly let out a sigh of relief, then turned to Cang Ting with a smile.
"Haha, Su maiden is overpraising." Cang Yun's face was still painful from having his Four Spirits Xuanwu Shield destroyed, but he forced a smile upon hearing this.
"If we can obtain the secret treasure of Jian Xian Dong Fu this time, I must first let Brother Cang choose one to repay his lifesaving kindness. Does anyone have any objections?"
Su Jiao seemed to see through Cang Ming's thoughts and smiled as she suggested.
"That's natural." "This is indeed what Cang Dao should get." Others nodded in agreement, chattering among themselves.
Cang Bin's mood suddenly improved, and his gaze at Su Jiao was fiery with a hint of admiration.
"We can't delay, let's hurry up and leave, don't let those people take the lead." Su Jiao smiled slightly and immediately turned around to head towards the outside of the corridor.
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Splash!
When Chen Ting opened his eyes, he found himself in a spacious room.
A jade bed, a plan for a screen, and a rush mat; apart from these three things, there is nothing else in the room.
Is this really the Sword Immortal's abode? It seems a bit too simple, as if there's nothing here...
Chen Xuan was still puzzled.
"Huh?" In front of the case files, Ji Yu seemed to have discovered something and let out a surprised cry.
Chen Xian hastily approached and saw that on the desk, there was a yellowed paper note with dense handwriting.
These strokes are bold and unrestrained, with a majestic and powerful aura, each stroke is like a sharp sword, Chen Xuanfu took one look, the sword intent was like a tide, bringing a solemn and murderous atmosphere, rushing towards him, suddenly his whole body stiffened, cold sweat dripping from his forehead, he hastily turned his head to close his eyes, took a deep breath, before opening them again to continue looking.
"Discussing sword with Huaiyuanzi, suddenly enlightened to the principle of four ups and downs in life, cutting off worldly attachments, breaking free from constraints, self-awareness peeks at the true meaning of the sword path, yet being stubborn about the sword, ultimately becomes a heart demon... it is said that success comes from the sword path, failure also comes from the sword path..."
Having only read a few lines, Chen Xiao felt a surge of disgust and annoyance that churned in his chest and abdomen, causing his mind to waver and fluctuate, unable to bear it, he closed his eyes again.
"This paper note was written by a sword immortal who has realized the great way of the sword. If your realm is not high enough, and you force yourself to look at it lightly, your spirit and soul will be damaged; if heavily, your Taoist heart will lose its guard. It's better not to look again."
Ji Yu's voice echoed in Chen Yao's ears, stirring up a storm of shock and horror in his heart. Could it be that just one piece of paper was enough to make the viewer lose control?
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Today's clicks broke 2000, red tickets increased by 89, collections increased by 43, as agreed, I will update two more chapters!
However, I've been sitting and typing all day today, and I'm really tired. My head is dizzy at the moment, so I'll put up these two chapters tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. In other words, in addition to the guaranteed two chapters for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, there will be an extra chapter each day.
