Chapter 80 Chapter 80 Prophecy
Huo Xin? !
Yun Miao, who was wearing a white vest, stood there in a daze. The gray-robed woman in front of him had a cold face and heroic spirit between her brows. She was 70% similar to Huo Xin, and looked like a grown-up version of Huo Xin!
However, when Yun Miao touched the light gray eyes of the gray-robed woman, she realized that this person was definitely not Huo Xin. Huo Xin's black eyes were always bright and clean, but those gray eyes contained too much desire and hostility, turning them into a turbid color.
Sect Leader Chang's expression also changed. His gaze swept across the knife in the female leader's hand, then back to her face. He said with a firm and disgusted tone, "Huo Huazhi, you are not dead after all."
His sword moves became more and more fierce, and every move was aimed at the female leader's eyebrows.
"That day, you died at the hands of Elder Yuchen, but your body was stolen. Not long afterward, the Huo family was wiped out overnight by a mysterious individual, leaving no one alive. We suspected at the time that you might have faked your death, and now it seems to be true."
"Using your own bloodline to prolong your life, Huo Huazhi, you were once the eldest sister of the Zhaixing Pavilion, a bloody swordsman and an iron calculator admired by all. But now you are blind and heartless, killing all your relatives just to prolong your life. Do you think it's interesting?"
Sect Leader Chang's words contained too much information, and Yun Miao's movements unconsciously slowed down. The faces of the female leader of the Changsheng Sect and Huo Xin kept intertwining in her mind.
"I'm not wrong! You're just too stupid."
Huo Huazhi's body was half covered in blood. She took advantage of Yun Miao's distraction and immediately held her sword in defense, creating distance between herself and Yun Miao and Sect Leader Chang.
"Master's prophecy is true. You've felt it, haven't you? The spiritual energy is beginning to fade away, and the guiding golden light will no longer appear. There's no hope for us to ascend. If we don't save ourselves, the devastation left by the ancient catastrophe will be our fate! All I do is obey Master's orders and save all living beings!"
Sect Leader Chang immediately flew forward to stop it, but the male leader of the Changsheng Sect suddenly came across and blocked Sect Leader Chang.
Huo Huazhi used his magic power when he spoke, and his voice instantly spread thousands of miles away. The three parties fighting on the island were shocked when they heard this, and they looked up in astonishment at Master Chang and others in the distance.
What does it mean when spiritual energy fades? What does it mean when the guiding golden light will never appear again? And why did the ancient catastrophe end in them?
They didn't understand what was said, but they instinctively trembled.
"Let go of your bandy farts!"
Sect Leader Chang was so angry that he cursed, "Huo Huazhi, you are crazy!"
Huo Huazhi: "You forced me to do this!"
Seeing Huo Huazhi trying to escape, Yun Miao immediately raised his sword and attacked him. Huo Huazhi blocked with his sword, his face stern: "Are you the one who wiped out the entire Yun family?"
"Aren't you in the Spiritual Transformation Stage? How come..."
Yan Hai also noticed the female cultivator in white. His eyes flashed and his face darkened. "You were the one who caused the explosion. You deliberately led me to discover the Changsheng Sect below and used me as a pawn!"
Sect Leader Chang, Che Ruojin and Yan Wuguang looked at Yun Miao with a hint of inquiry in their eyes. This person suddenly appeared and they didn't know whether he was a friend or an enemy.
Huo Huazhi and the male leader looked at Yun Miao with eyes that became even colder. They thought that Yan Hai had suddenly become smart and discovered the existence of the Changsheng Sect, but they didn't expect that someone was actually interfering!
Huo Huazhi: "Did you also lure the Xuantian Sect's people here? Stirring up the situation with your own strength is really a good trick. What exactly do you want to do?"
Yun Miao, who had accidentally become the focus of the battlefield, fell silent. What was she trying to do? As an innocent passerby who was suddenly abducted by the Poison Lady while taking a walk, she really just wanted to save herself at first.
To be honest, she didn't understand why things had evolved into this step by step. If she had to say something, it was just bad luck for the Changsheng Sect and the Demon Sect.
This is what she thought and said: "Oh, it's bad luck for you, the Changsheng Sect and the Demon Sect, to meet me."
Before she finished speaking, she had already drawn her sword and charged towards Huo Huazhi. Huo Huazhi, the male leader and Yan Hai felt a sinking feeling in their hearts, while Sect Leader Chang and the others looked at each other, temporarily regarding this female cultivator in white as one of their own, and together they attacked Huo Huazhi and the others.
Huo Huazhi was injured by Yun Miao's sneak attack, and the male leader and Yan Hai were unable to withstand the increasingly fierce attacks from Yun Miao and others. The three of them gradually fell into a back-to-back defensive posture. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the situation was very unfavorable for them.
Huo Huazhi made up his mind and took out a pill and threw it into his mouth.
Sect Leader Chang: "Oh no, she's going to use Burning Blood!"
Sect Leader Chang and Yun Miao immediately waved their swords to stop him, but the male leader flew over again to block him. Two sword energies landed directly on him, and blood splattered everywhere.
The male leader turned around and yelled at Huo Huazhi: "Go! You must..."
Before he could finish his words, Che Ruojin over there saw that he had dodged his fatal move and immediately changed his move. The blunt purple bamboo pierced his throat, and in an instant, the male leader's head flew high.
Che Ruojin channeled his magical power with his other hand and aimed it at the falling head. With a bang, the head exploded into pieces, turning into a bloody rain that fell onto the sea below. Immediately afterwards, the headless body of the male leader fell into the sea like a kite with its string cut.
However, due to this delay, Huo Huazhi had already taken the secret medicine. Yun Miao saw that she was on fire like Huo Xin before, and the aura around her suddenly rose, and she actually reached the Tribulation Crossing Stage in a short period of time!
She immediately swung her sword, and the violent sword energy swept across the sea, leaving a deep scar, and rushed towards Master Chang with a terrifying momentum like a tidal wave.
Yan Hai was so scared that he quickly retreated, but was entangled by Yan Wuguang again. Yun Miao and Che Ruojin did not hesitate and flew to the front of Master Chang at the fastest speed.
Boom!
The terrifying collision of the two forces sent powerful aftershocks rippled outwards, sending waves hundreds of feet high, nearly reaching the sky. Then, they transformed into giant palms and slammed down fiercely.
Yun Miao and the others all spat out blood. Whether it was the high-level robes that Yun Miao had obtained from the Yun family before, or the high-level robes worn by Sect Leader Chang and Che Ruojin, they all became tattered.
Deep cuts appeared on their bodies, blood gushing out from the wounds, turning them into bloody figures. Even the white beard that Chang Zong usually treasured was now stained with blood. Huo Huazhi, Yan Hai, and Yan Wuguang were no longer there.
Che Ruojin wanted to chase Huo Huazhi, but was stopped by Sect Leader Chang. Huo Huazhi used the Burning Blood, and his strength increased dramatically. Even if they caught up with him, they would not be his match.
As they were talking, Yan Wuguang and Yan Hai suddenly rushed out of the sea. Yan Hai had lost all desire to fight and only wanted to escape, but he had just been seriously injured under the siege and was no match for Yan Wuguang.
Yun Miao and others did not intervene. They hovered in the air and watched Yan Wuguang use his only remaining arm to twist Yan Hai's neck and freeze Yan Hai's body into an ice sculpture.
He then threw the body away, raised his hand and slapped the air, imitating Che Ruojin's previous move, blasting Yan Hai's body to pieces. Crimson ice chips mixed with broken flesh fell into the sea.
Yan Wuguang was in an even more miserable state than Yun Miao and the others. The clothes on his upper body had been torn away by the sword energy just now, and only a few pieces of rags were left around his waist to cover his body. His body was covered with scars so deep that the bones could be seen, and blood kept dripping from his feet into the sea.
As soon as Yan Hai died, he swayed and fell into the sea. Sect Leader Chang hesitated for a moment, then raised his hand and stirred up a gust of wind to catch the person. Then he looked back and saw that the female cultivator in white who had just stood there had disappeared into thin air.
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Previously, the battle between the Changsheng Sect and the Demon Sect had resulted in heavy casualties, and the Xuantian Sect disciples had already gained the upper hand. Now that Yan Hai and the male sect leader were dead, Huo Huazhi had escaped, and Sect Leader Chang and the others had returned to the island to help, things would be much simpler from then on.
Most of the members of the Longevity and Demon Sects were killed, while a small number were captured and interrogated. Xuantian Sect disciples moved in and out of the Demon Sect, climbing up and down the Longevity Sect, sweeping away everything inside, including Elder Zuo's black iron puppets.
Many of these puppets were once disciples of Xuantian Sect, and now Xuantian Sect has come to take them home.
"Xiao Miao! Good disciple!"
After the battle, the blood-soaked Master Chang's first priority was not to heal his wounds, but to check on his beloved disciple to see if he had any broken arms or legs. A quick scan revealed that Yun Miao was not only healthy and grown taller, but his realm had also jumped from the Foundation Establishment Stage to the Spiritual Transformation Stage!
"Master, I'm fine. Not only have I been eating and drinking well these past few days, I've also grown quite a bit taller. It's all good news, so don't worry..."
Yun Miao, whose in-game size had grown to that of an adult, made a small joke. Then he began urging Sect Leader Chang to rest and heal. His health bar was almost empty; restoring it was crucial.
After Sect Leader Chang finishes recovering, she will explain the reasons for these changes in herself.
Chu Beiliang and Qi Shubai, standing by, said they would take good care of Yun Miao. Only then did Sect Leader Chang leave, looking back every few steps. He and Che Ruojin found a secluded spot and began to take their elixirs and meditate.
On the other hand, Zuo Beixing knew how powerful the Poison Lady was. Although her cultivation level was not high, her poison skills were unparalleled in the world. So the first thing Zuo Beixing did when he landed on the island was to trap the Poison Lady with a formation, leaving her with no place to use her poison skills.
Now that the battle is over, Zuo Beixing and Shui Yaoguang immediately began to interrogate the Poison Lady who was trapped in the formation.
"Where is the antidote for backtracking?"
"Hand over the antidote to reversal!"
Poison Lady knew she had no chance of survival. She made no attempt to beg for mercy, but simply sneered, "It wouldn't be a loss if the Xuantian Sect leader could die with me."
As soon as she finished speaking, her originally pale face instantly turned blue-black, and thick black blood dripped from the corner of her mouth.
Zuo Beixing was shocked and immediately raised his hand to tear down the formation to save people. The leader was poisoned, and Tian Laokou could only suppress the poison temporarily with all his strength. The Poison Lady was the one who poisoned him and the only one who knew how to detoxify him. If she died, the leader would have no hope!
However, Shui Yaoguang held her hand and stopped her from moving.
"The Poison Lady is cunning and treacherous. There must be something fishy going on here. Have you forgotten how the Sect Leader fell into her trap before?"
Zuo Beixing paused: "But Sect Leader..."
Shui Yaoguang's expression was grim. "No buts. She's not even afraid of death. There's no way someone like her would hand over the antidote. If you open the formation, you'll only fall for her trick and cause more casualties."
Zuo Beixing stopped talking. The two of them frowned as they watched the Poison Lady in the formation die of the poison. Then the corpse melted into pus at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a blue-black poisonous gas quickly spread in the formation.
If Zuo Beixing had really opened the formation just now, then she and the people around her would have been poisoned. The poison that the Poison Lady had put before her death was definitely not something that ordinary people could cure.
Shui Yaoguang's expression turned grim: "It's backtracking again!"
Zuo Beixing lowered his head and said nothing.
Yun Miao happened to hear their conversation and walked over to ask suspiciously, "Elder Shui, Peak Master Zuo, what is Su Hui?"
"Uh, this..." Zuo Beixing looked at Qi Shubai hesitantly, not knowing whether he should say it.
Firstly, the fact that the leader of Xuantian Sect was poisoned and could die at any time was a sect secret and could not be disclosed casually. Secondly, Yun Miao was still young, and they were afraid that if they told her, she would be disturbed in the future, which would be detrimental to her cultivation.
Qi Shubai sighed hesitantly and decided to tell the truth to his junior sister.
Yun Miao was shocked when he heard what Qi Shubai said. He never expected that his master, who usually appeared so strong, had already been poisoned to the core and would not live long.
Her hand couldn't help but touch her storage bag. She finally understood the purpose of the purple-gold bronze coffin. The purple gold had an excellent sealing effect, effectively isolating toxins. This was the coffin that Master had crafted for him. This wasn't some sudden whim of Master's; he had known for a long time that he could die at any moment.
Everyone saw Yun Miao silently lowering her head and thought she was going to cry. They were just thinking about how to comfort her, but she suddenly looked up and said in a firm tone, "I know how to cure the poison of Tracing Back!"
Everyone was stunned. Before they could react, Yun Miao reached into his storage bag and took out a yellowed pill recipe.
"There's a recipe for detoxification in here."
Suhui is a rare and deadly poison in ancient times. It just so happens that the recipes collected by Xinyi not only include the recipe for making Suhui, but also the recipe for detoxification.
Everyone took it and took a look at it immediately, but they didn't know much about elixirs, so they couldn't understand the recipe book at all, nor could they tell whether the recipe that claimed to be able to cure the poison was useful. They could only tell that the paper recording the recipe was unusual.
Zuo Beixing rubbed it for a moment and said with certainty, "This is something from antiquity."
Yun Miao saw everyone's confusion, and without waiting for them to ask, she frankly explained, "This was given to me by Xiao Hong."
Chu Beiliang: "Xiaohong?"
He frowned slightly and looked at Yun Miao. His usually calm black eyes now seemed like a deep pool wrinkled by the wind, revealing a hint of doubt, as if questioning Yun Miao: Do you have another dog outside without telling me?
Qi Shubai was also puzzled: "Xiaohong? Is this a person's name?"
Abandoned Name·Yun Miao: ...
She pretended not to hear Qi Shubai's question and briefly recounted her experience in the Demon Sect. After being imprisoned in the water dungeon, the Poison Lady used the Life-Snatching Spider on her. Coincidentally, there was an invasion by foreign enemies, and the Poison Lady stopped in time, so she didn't have too much of her life sucked away by the Life-Snatching Spider.
Afterwards, the Poison Lady was called away, leaving Yun Miao alone in the water dungeon. Suddenly, the white-robed female cultivator appeared, calling herself Xiao Hong. She first used dragon blood to accelerate Yun Miao's growth, nurturing her to the Spiritual Transformation stage. She then gave Yun Miao the elixir recipe, stating that the antidote recipe the Xuantian Sect needed most was contained within it.
"She rescued me and put me in the woods. Then I heard a huge explosion. The whole island shook three times. Then they started fighting. Then you came."
Chu Beiliang: "That female cultivator in white calls herself Xiaohong?"
Qi Shubai: "It's too perfunctory. It's obviously a fake name."
Shui Yaoguang: "This time, we are really grateful to her... But who is she, and why is she helping us..."
"By the way, she also asked me to bring a message to the sect."
Yun Miao said seriously, "She said that her interests are aligned with those of the Xuantian Sect."
These words made everyone's eyes more thoughtful. They currently had a very favorable impression of the female cultivator in white, so they were more inclined to believe that what she said to Yun Miao was the truth.
"The interests are aligned..."
Shui Yaoguang's gaze swept across the devastated battlefield, and a hint of understanding appeared in his eyes.
Although Yun Miao was concerned about her master's health, the materials needed for detoxification were very rare. She did not have them, and her alchemy skills were not enough to support her in refining this eighth-grade detoxification pill. She could only wait until she returned to ask Tian Laokou for help in refining it.
So she turned her attention to another matter: "What did that person just say about the spiritual energy fading and the hopelessness of ascension?"
As soon as this question was asked, everyone fell silent. Shui Yaoguang was the first to say that she had something else to do, and Yun Miao should ask her master about this question.
Zuo Beixing also nodded to indicate that she was going to break the formations of the Demon Sect and the Longevity Sect and would not stay any longer. Then the two female cultivators disappeared from the spot with graceful and swift steps.
Sect Leader Chang was recovering from his injuries, so Yun Miao naturally couldn't go find him at the moment. So she immediately turned to look at Qi Shubai: "Senior Brother..."
Qi Shubai looked hesitant: "Junior Sister, knowing too much about this matter will be detrimental to your cultivation."
Yun Miao calmly said that she was scared by the speed at which her cultivation was improving. She was not sure if she would be able to pass the tribulation after just one sleep, and ascend to become an immortal after another sleep. It was good that it was not good for her cultivation, as it allowed her to spend more time with her master in the human world.
Qi Shubai found it funny for a moment when he heard Yun Miao's confident words, but when he thought of that incident, his smile turned into a wry one.
"When you're like this, I don't know what to say."
At this moment, Sect Leader Chang's voice suddenly reached the ears of the three people: [Forget it, if Xiao Miao wants to know, just tell her.]
Qi Shubai: "But Master..."
Sect Master Chang sighed. "Blood Burning is a secret technique that burns flesh and blood, and ultimately lifespan. Huo Huazhi used Blood Burning today to forcibly utilize the power of a Tribulation Crossing Stage. She must have suffered significant losses. And there's no one else in the Huo family who can extend her lifespan."
[She's nearing the end of her life, so she'll definitely be desperate. Judging by her behavior today, this secret won't be kept secret for much longer. If that's the case, knowing it a few days earlier or later won't make any difference to Xiao Miao.]
Qi Shubai opened his mouth, but in the end he just smiled bitterly: "I... I really don't know what to say, let Junior Master do it."
Chu Beiliang nodded, and then he and Qi Shubai brought Yun Miao to a secluded forest.
The sun had already set, and before she knew it, it was dark. A crescent moon was slowly rising. Chu Beiliang's voice echoed through the forest. Some of the things he said were already known to Yun Miao, while others were still unknown to her.
Yun Miao sorted out this information and finally understood the current situation. Just as she had thought, the so-called ancient catastrophe was the decline of spiritual energy. However, the spiritual energy did not disappear all at once. Instead, it gradually decreased without the cultivators noticing, until it disappeared completely, and the entire world became a place without spiritual energy.
During this period, the heavenly thunder for tribulation will no longer appear. The ancestors in the tribulation period will not be able to shed their mortal bodies through the heavenly thunder and ascend to heaven, and the guiding golden light will naturally not appear.
When the ancient monks gradually discovered this problem, the spiritual energy had become terrifyingly thin. They first tried to save themselves, then became desperate after repeated failures, and then went crazy in despair.
People can do anything in this situation. The ancient immortality sect came into being at this time. This group of crazy people tried to find another way and directly ascend to immortality through immortal transformation.
Of course, the results were predictable: no matter which method was used, they all ended in failure. After the ancient catastrophe, all the monks died, and only one in ten mortals survived. The remaining mortals lingered on in the devastated land, and it took many years for the human race to regain its vitality.
These mortals thought that the world had become a place without souls and that the era of cultivators was over. Because mortals had short lifespans and everyone had exhausted all their energy just trying to stay alive, stories about the ancient disasters were gradually lost.
It wasn't until ten thousand years later that spiritual energy reappeared, and so did the monks. In fact, there were records of that disaster in the ancient ruins. These records were not lost, but were interrupted by those who discovered them.
The monks who were able to walk out of those dangerous ancient ruins alive are all the founders of the major sects today. They tacitly concealed this secret because the records only described the horror of the disaster, without any solution at all.
If this secret were to spread, it would only cause panic and madness among the monks, causing unrest in the world. As for what monks who possess powerful strength can do in a state of madness, just look at the bizarre practices of the ancient Longevity Sect and the terrifying and strange burial styles of the ancient monks.
These insiders have been studying this issue privately. They have been constantly going in and out of various ruins, compiling mythological stories handed down from ancient times, and sorting out the timeline of the dragon clan leading all the monsters into the monster world. Finally, they discovered a terrible fact.
The decline and revival of spiritual energy is probably not the first time. It happened as early as when the gods still lived on the earth. It is for this reason that the gods ascended to the fairyland and the dragon clan brought all the monsters to build the monster world.
They are all fleeing from the human world. To be precise, they are not fleeing from the entire world, but the soulless land after the spiritual energy has faded.
The ancestors called this phenomenon the spiritual energy tide. It was a natural law, a principle of the great Dao, unchangeable and unavoidable. They were fortunate to be born during a time of spiritual energy resurgence, with the opportunity to ascend to the immortal realm. But the human race was destined to experience another spiritual energy decline.
This secret was passed down from generation to generation. Tens of thousands of years passed by. Just when the human race gradually forgot this secret, the spiritual energy began to decline, and the nerves of all those who knew the secret became tense.
Because this secret has been passed down for a long time, the lifelong wish of every leader of the Zhaixing Pavilion is to divine a way to help the human race survive this disaster safely.
"Three thousand years ago, the previous leader of the Star-Picking Pavilion exhausted all her efforts and finally divined a prophecy. She told this prophecy to her two disciples separately, and then died of exhaustion."
Chu Beiliang looked at Yun Miao and said, "You know these two people. One is my master, Elder Yuchen, and the other is Huo Huazhi who just escaped."
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