387: Chapter 16 Huajian State 387: Chapter 16 Huajian State Xuan Yue, Chi Ling.
These two were the Demi Immortals that Gu Wen had the most contact with, and they also shattered his rose-tinted glasses regarding great powers among immortals.
The so-called transcendence above the mundane is but a fallacy; from the perspective of mortals, one who need not hustle for a living and can absorb the essence of wind and dew to live forever might be considered transcendent.
From the perspective of a cultivator, a True Monarch who can fly and escape through the earth with boundless mana could be recognized as a great power.
Going further up, the True Monarchs perceive the Venerables of the Dao Realm, who govern a continent and can command thousands of cultivators with irrefutable authority, as great powers.
The Venerables of the Dao Realm long for the hundred-thousand-year lifespan of a Demi Immortal, yearning to break free from lifespan restrictions, to roam the Void and live freely.
Yet, Demi Immortals aspire for the transcendence of Immortals, unbound by heaven and earth.
While immortals can only seek self-improvent, they cannot attain perfection.
“A founder of a Daoist Sect becoming the leader of devils?
Isn’t that like giving up a waterlon to pick up a sesa seed?”
Gu Wen expressed his surprise.
“Has he not thought about making ands with his master?”
Devils are equivalent to ‘antagonistic forces’ against the Human Race, on par with evil cultivators.
Xuan Yue, after all, was the founding master of the Liuyun Sect, holding a highly revered position eight hundred years ago.
Moreover, as a Demi Immortal who could make it onto the Heavenly List, his strength was not lacking.
The most important point was that Gu Wen did not believe there was an irreconcilable hatred between him and Xuan Yue; if he could now get the Heavenly Court’s Pill Furnace for himself, sparing his life was also not out of the question.
As a magnanimous gesture typical of the strong, his master also had this quality.
“Of course there is, but back then you had only a few decades of life remaining.
The Immortals believed all opposition contributed to your death alongside Yu Hua, if not for their obstruction, the hardship you two faced wouldn’t have been necessary.”
Chi Yu Zi propped his round and slender legs on the table, reclined in his chair, and raised his head to gulp down wine.
“The Daoist Sect made such a decree back then: ‘Any who hinder an Immortal’s resurrection in the Immortal Land shall be killed without rcy.’ Then ca the great purge; Buddhist, Daoist, Demon, and other varied factions, eighty-one first-class sects, lost a third of their numbers in one fell swoop.”
“True Monarch powerhouses, Venerables of great power were slaughtered like dumplings, chilling everyone to the bone, and silence reigned supre.
And it just so happened that Xuan Yue caught the bad end of the stick, being labeled as a heretic.”
Gu Wen asked, “Then how does the Liuyun Sect still exist?”
“Because Immortals understand reasoning.”
A voice ca from outside the house; Lan Yongning walked in.
Seeing him, Chi Yu Zi straightened his posture, took a seat next to Gu Wen, no longer as relaxed as before.
Lan Yongning sat opposite the two, maintaining composure in the face of Chi Yu Zi’s cold indifference, and said, “The Sword Control Sect was also not destroyed.
If guilt by association was enforced, more than half of the sects in the Human Race would have to be obliterated, which would then be inadequate to face the great conflict between humans and devils.”
“Many great powers perished in the great human-devil conflict, exchanging rit for the survival of their sects and the Human Race.
So sects killed all their cultivators above the Returning to Void Stage; for so, it was tantamount to being effectively annihilated.”
He took out three items from his sleeve and placed them on the table: a redwood dicine box containing three thousand-year-old Divine dicines, a scroll of paper, and a strand of a Residual Soul.
“But it’s undeniable that our sect’s founding master indeed colluded with the Devil Clan.
If Brother Gu needs help, the Liuyun Sect will be neither stingy nor secretive.
This is an elder from our sect who had colluded with the Devil, who has now had their soul extracted and their mories organized into intelligence.”
“Originally it was to be sent to the Sanqing Taoist Sect, but I thought it best to let you have a look first.
Otherwise, once sent out, aside from the communications created by the Immortals, it would take more than ten days to travel back and forth.”
The world is vast, and the Liuyun Sect is nine million miles away from the Sanqing Taoist Sect in Xuanhuang Continent.
Aside from True Immortals, no one can project their Divine Thoughts across a million miles, not even Demi Immortals.
Lifespan limits ti, and vast territories limit space, only True Immortals can break free from both ti and space.
Gu Wen picked up the scroll, and upon opening it, was t with lines of concise records, akin to a diary entry.
“In the year 879 since the sin of the Liuyun Sect’s Law Enforcent Hall Great Elder Wen Ning, with cultivation at the Mahayana Stage, guilty of colluding with devils, launching multiple attacks on Taiyi City, conclusive evidence obtained from soul extraction and soul refining, sent to the Daoist Sect that day.”
Using the great human-devil conflict eight hundred years ago as the starting point, the actions of the Great Elder of the Liuyun Sect’s Law Enforcent Hall were recorded yearly, complete with the accompanying Residual Soul as evidence.
Each person involved during this period was marked in the docunt and detained, with eight thousand people imprisoned to date.
The Liuyun Sect responded incredibly quickly, even bordering on panic, as if they were fearful of being branded as colluders with devils.
Gu Wen turned his gaze to the Residual Soul sealed inside crystal glass; its consciousness had long since vanished, leaving only pure mories.
Scenes flashed past, each corresponding to the events recorded in the scroll, proving Lan Yongning’s non-involvent.
Five hundred years ago, a mory appeared of the diminutive and aged Xuan Yue, who imparted true thods to Wen Ning and imbued him with the courage to strive for the Mahayana Realm from his standstill at the Returning to Void Stage.
Six hundred years ago, Xuan Yue reappeared, holding his waist, and a ‘tumor’ had appeared on the back of his neck, faintly emitting sparks—a Pill Furnace.
A Pill Furnace growing on a Demi Immortal?
Gu Wen confird it was the Heavenly Court Pill Furnace.
Three hundred years ago, Xuan Yue appeared for the third ti, transford in appearance from a short old man into a robust middle-aged man.
The Pill Furnace behind his neck had disappeared, but a flicker of fla was barely discernible on his chest.
Fifty years ago, Xuan Yue did not appear, but soone in Huajian Continent made contact with him.
Three months prior, Huajian Continent sent orders to attack Taiyi City, covering for the Saint of Devils and the Demon Lord to enter the city.
“It looks like it’s ti for a trip to Huajian Continent, just in ti to et Lu Chan as well.”
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