Chapter 303: Chapter 184: Messages from Thousands of Years Ago, the Truth of the End of the Dharma Era? (First Update, Requesting Monthly Votes~)_2
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“In the early Xianwu Era, the earth was desolate, the heavens were sealed off, and spiritual energy withered… For nearly ten thousand years, no Mahayana True Lord had emerged… Ascension through tribulation was even more impossible.”
“Though spiritual energy withered, cultivators of heaven and earth naturally stayed strong, tending lightly to Qi Refinement and placing weight on Body Refinement… The Body Refinement lineage required extremely low spiritual energy, ushering in the grand era of Xianwu…”
“However, the path of Body Refinement was more difficult, and lacking in qualifications and spiritual medicine were indispensable… As spiritual energy progressively declined, it became extremely difficult to find heaven and earth treasures…”
“Cultivators of the world fought fiercely over body-refining treasures, endlessly exploring secret realms, leading to rivers of blood… The cultivation world fell into great chaos!”
Su Xing nodded slightly at this. It was true that Body Refinement required very little spiritual energy, almost none at all.
Back when he had no spiritual energy, he enhanced his strength through Body Refinement.
“It’s a pity that the treasures needed for Body Refining were still precious… Was there a period of chaotic battles that occurred thousands of years ago due to these treasures?”
Su Xing wasn’t too surprised by this, and he continued to read.
“In times of chaos, exceptional talents inevitably emerged!”
“Chang Fengchun, a direct disciple of the Wan Mu Sect, Yan Yan, the son of the Commanding Fire Sect Master, and Bai Zixian, the young sect master of the Five Elements Sect, were all rare geniuses of a millennium!”
“In just a few short centuries, the three of them reached the Great Perfection of the Return to Void Realm, mastering both Qi and body cultivation! They each inherited the position of sect master…”
“Chang Fengchun was gentle by nature, treating people kindly. He was known throughout the world as a gentleman of noble character.”
“Yan Yan hated evil as his enemy, with a fiery temper.”
“Bai Zixian had exceptional comprehension, improved the sect’s secret techniques, and realized the ‘Five Elements Intergrowth Art’; the Five Elements born of each other, cycling endlessly!”
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“In the mid-Xianwu Era, there were no more Integration Phase True Persons in heaven and earth…”
“However, the cultivation world could not be without True Immortals, who could command all cultivators.”
“Therefore, Chang Fengchun called himself True Person Wan Mu… Yan Yan called himself True Person of Commanding Fire… Bai Zixian called himself True Person of Five Elements… to be the paragons for all cultivators!”
Su Xing frowned slightly at this.
“If so, then the True Person Wan Mu I encountered in the ancient tomb ruins should be Chang Fengchun…”
“But this supposed gentleman of noble character, gentle by nature… Ha! That doesn’t quite match what I saw, does it?”
Su Xing sneered in his heart, recalling what he saw in the ancient tomb ruins.
That True Person Wan Mu sought to gather all spirit veins of the world in order to seek a breakthrough, even proclaiming that he would blood-sacrifice living souls to reshape his divine soul.
How could this be anything but an evil cultivator?
It was worlds apart from the description of a paragon of all cultivators, a gentleman of noble character!
“Tsk tsk, True Person Wan Mu, just a hypocrite!”
Su Xing shook his head slightly, lost in thought.
“If so, the one I saw in the Five Elements Sect should be True Person of Five Elements, Bai Zixian?”
“Surely, his strength was indeed at the level of Great Perfection in the Broken Void and Return to Void Realms… But why had he turned into a living corpse?”
“And that True Person of Commanding Fire, Yan Yan… could there be another ancient tomb ruin that I haven’t explored?”
Several thoughts flashed through Su Xing’s mind. He had some guesses about the identities of the tomb owners of the two ancient tomb ruins.
But there was still a crucial problem that troubled Su Xing.
“The strength of the living corpse in the Five Elements Sect ruin matched… it was truly at the Great Perfection of the Return to Void and Broken Void Realms…”
“However, in the Wan Mu Sect ruin, the pressure released by that cultivator… it was definitely not just at the Return to Void stage!”
“So… did True Person Wan Mu eventually break through to become an Integration Phase cultivator?”
Su Xing was a bit shocked in his heart. Could it be that he gathered the spirit veins of the world, transforming them into a spirit dragon, and finally succeeded in breaking through to become an Integration Phase True Person?
But then Su Xing shook his head and muttered to himself:
“Not necessarily… If he truly broke through to an Integration Phase True Person, his lifespan would have doubled. Wouldn’t True Person Wan Mu still be alive today?”
“If that were so, the structure of the Immortal Martial Era Instance wouldn’t be as it is now…”
After pondering for a moment, Su Xing murmured:
“So, the most likely possibility!”
“True Person Wan Mu was likely only at the Great Perfection of the Return to Void stage before he fell into slumber…”
“But his plan succeeded, the spirit vein dragon formed… with the help of the formation, he advanced another step, almost becoming an Integration Phase cultivator?”
“But something probably went wrong in the middle… which is why True Person Wan Mu became that abominable existence… and his true strength might be at a half-step Integration Phase level?”
Su Xing nodded slightly, if that were so, it would explain why True Person Wan Mu could easily kill Su Xing without any surprises.
After all, to Su Xing at that time, a half-step Integration Phase was no different from a true Integration Phase.
After all… Su Xing was just fodder to be instantly killed…
With countless thoughts flashing through Su Xing’s mind, he looked again at the two ancient books before him.
After some searching, Su Xing found some information of interest to him in the last few pages of the ancient books.
“In the late Xianwu Era, spiritual energy withered increasingly… cultivators of the world found it challenging to even reach the Spirit Transformation Realm…”
“However, True Person Wan Mu, as a paragon of the world, proposed that all cultivators above the Spirit Transformation stage fall into slumber.”
“True Person Wan Mu stated, ‘The withering of nature’s spiritual energy is indeed the fault of cultivators, as the sheer number of cultivators places an unbearable burden on the spiritual energy…’
“Therefore, if all powerful cultivators were to fall into slumber, perhaps after a few millennia, an era rich in spiritual energy would once again arrive… and they could awaken from slumber by then…”
“To this end, True Person Wan Mu presented a precious elixir named ‘Huangquan Pill’, which could help cultivators sleep for thousands of years without dying…”
“All cultivators at the Spirit Transformation stage fell into slumber…”
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“However, after the great cultivators fell into slumber, the speed of spiritual energy’s depletion accelerated even more…”
“Within a few short centuries, there were no longer any Nascent Soul cultivators born in the world…”
Su Xing read until the last page before closing the ancient book, thoughtful.
“So… True Person Wan Mu had all the great cultivators fall into slumber, but his real intent was to carry out his plan, collecting the spirit veins of the world, seeking his own breakthrough?”