Sui Lian's request was equivalent to handing over his life and property to Xiang Sheng in exchange for cooperation, and more importantly, in exchange for Xiang Sheng's trust.
Xiang Sheng naturally understood his intention. After a moment of silence, he asked softly, "Are you really willing to give it up?"
Sui Lian grinned, "If a moment of confusion can bring about revenge in the future, why would I be reluctant to give it up?"
Xiang Sheng heard this, but there was no smile on his face.
She turned her head to look at the densely packed coffins in the hall and spoke slowly:
"Sui Lian, you should know better than me. Without the existence of Heavenly Tribulation, the best a cultivator can do is reach the Perfection Stage of Fusion.
No matter how much you help me buy time, you can't break through this limit, so how can you be a match for Xue Jiushu?"
Sui Lian seemed to have anticipated that Xiang Sheng would ask this question, and the smile on his face did not diminish, but grew even wider.
"Xiang Sheng, now that I've decided to seek revenge, I will spare no effort to help you. There's no need to test me any further. I will tell you everything about the Tianyi Clan.
Do you think that the Heavenly Legacy, having been integrated into the Way of Heaven and living as long as the heavens and the earth, can grow in power endlessly?"
Seeing that Sui Lian was so frank, Xiang Sheng stopped beating around the bush and turned to look at Sui Lian, saying calmly:
"From what you said, it seems not.
However, as far as I know, all the cultivators from the three major sects in Western Continent turn pale when talking about the Tianyi Clan.
The source of their fear is precisely because you have lived long enough, have achieved powerful cultivation, and have mastered many ancient cultivation techniques."
"Heh...that was just a false illusion deliberately created by Xue Jiushu."
Sui Lian's eyes flashed coldly, "Any benefit comes at a price. If the Tianyi Clan were truly as powerful as you claim, they would have already conquered the East and West Continents and annihilated all living things. Why would they need to take their time?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the fog in Xiang Sheng's heart suddenly dissipated.
Yes.
The unknown is the greatest fear.
The Tianyi Clan has existed for too long and has acted in a secretive way, which makes people subconsciously feel wary of them.
If it weren't for Su Lian, her "own man", pointing it out to her, she would probably have continued to deepen the impression that the "Tianyi Clan is invincible" through word of mouth among the three major sects, and then become wary of the Pantheon's actions and dared not act rashly.
Thinking of this, Xiang Sheng raised his eyes and asked, "According to what you said, Xue Jiushu's true cultivation level is actually average?"
"I don't know."
Sui Lian shook his head, "But as descendants of the Celestial Race, our bodies cannot withstand the might of Heaven, and every thousand years we need to sleep for a hundred years to recover.
Every time one awakens from a deep sleep, their cultivation level will drop to its lowest point. After that, their cultivation level will slowly increase until it reaches its peak after a thousand years, and then they will continue to sleep.
This cycle repeats itself in an unparalleled pattern. Because the Dao of Heaven is imperfect, cultivation is limited to a certain limit and cannot be broken through.
As for myself, when I just woke up, if I didn’t use the Heavenly Dao Bloodline, my cultivation would only be equivalent to the early stage of fusion.
And if we wait until the peak of the millennium, we can reach the early stage of Mahayana in terms of cultivation alone!"
At this point, Sui Lian's tone turned cold.
"Xue Jiushu controls the Wheel of Heavenly Dao, and her cultivation level is definitely higher than mine, but due to the limitations of Heavenly Dao, the gap between us won't be too big.
If we can strike her when her strength is at its lowest, we can destroy her!"
Xiang Sheng listened, pondered for a moment, and said, "What you said is indeed feasible. But it is easier said than done.
Apart from anything else, the pattern of her sleep must be Xue Jiushu's biggest secret, not shared with outsiders. How did you know about it?"
Sui Lian looked troubled: "This..."
In this matter, he himself is an excellent spy, but if he abandons the memory of the illusion, he will become the former Su Lian again. How could he possibly go out of his way to investigate this matter?
"Nothing is easy, and we need to plan ahead."
At this point, Xiang Shengyufeng turned around and said, "You should go."
Sui Lian also knew that the longer he delayed, the more flaws he would expose, so without hesitation, he reached out and touched his forehead, pulling out a bunch of memories.
Xiang Sheng looked at the ball of memory, thought for a moment, immersed his mind in the fragments of "Deceiving the Heaven", and quickly fabricated a ball of false memory of the same size.
Then the two of them tacitly left along the underground palace passage and only completed the memory exchange when they reached the ground.
Xiang Sheng got the memory and left without saying a word.
After Sui Lian absorbed the false memory on the spot, his expression returned to its cold and stern state, and he immediately chased in the direction Taiyin had escaped in his memory.
At the same time, Xiang Sheng returned to the underground palace, but did not rush to the coffin hall. Instead, he came to the study where the magic weapon for the secret realm of trial was previously stored.
The monks who had stayed in the study before have now become corpses.
Looking at the marks on the corpses, most of them died in infighting, and only a few were killed by triggering the restrictions in the study.
He glanced at Xiang Sheng and didn't look at him any more. He waved his sleeve to remove the "Yuan" restriction covering the surface of the eight secret realm magic weapons, and then began to remove the restriction traps in the house.
Fortunately, the crystal memory she digested contained a method to lift the ban. In just a quarter of an hour, all the magic weapons of the eight secret realms fell into her hands.
Secret realm magic weapons cannot be stored in storage rings, but the blood ring is an exception.
Xiang Sheng collected all eight magic weapons in one go and returned to the coffin hall without stopping.
She walked past the empty coffins on the periphery and came to the center of the coffin group, where she sat cross-legged with her palms spread out.
There was a faint flash of light, and the second piece of the "Deceiving Heaven" formation disk fragment appeared in the palm of his hand.
After the blood-refined crystal wall shattered, the memories of all the people lying in the coffins were collected by this fragment.
After pondering for a moment, Xiang Sheng lightly touched the surface of the array disk with his fingertips, and strands of memories immediately floated out and returned to their owners.
Looking at the smoke of memories filling the sky, Xiang Sheng's eyes darkened slightly.
Sui Lian's attitude towards seeking cooperation was extremely sincere, and she had no doubts about it, but that didn't mean what he said was entirely true.
He lives in deception. Perhaps even he himself doesn't know how much of what he sees and hears is true and how much is false.
But it's okay to use it as a reference.
Thinking of this, Xiang Sheng reached out and touched the fragment of "Deceiving the Heaven", and the ball of light of the evil memory immediately emerged.
This memory not only contains the truth in the illusion, but also another copied memory, which contains all the events that Sui Lian experienced after waking up this time.
While everyone was still asleep, Xiang Sheng carefully flipped through the ball of memory for a moment, and suddenly his eyes fixed.
Sui Lian has been awake for not long, just over a hundred years, and his strength is at the middle stage of fusion.
Over the past hundred years, he has been searching for the whereabouts of the ancient god Taiyin.
After the battle in Demon Rift Valley, Third Brother and his companions have been searching for the whereabouts of the divine beast for the past forty years.
The Pantheon has spies all over Xizhou, so they naturally noticed it a long time ago. As the first hall master, Sui Lian also asked about this matter.
However, the divine messenger beside Xue Jiushu told him to concentrate on dealing with Taiyin, and the other nine hall masters would deal with the matter of the divine beast's blood.
The nine hall masters of the Pantheon may sound like nice titles, but in reality they are nothing more than useless pawns that can be used and discarded at will.
The blood of the divine beast is related to the inheritance tower. In terms of importance, it is no less than that of the ancient Taiyin God.
Why would Xue Jiushu let a bunch of useless chess players take charge? Aren't they afraid they'll mess things up?
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