Chapter 81 Chapter 81 Secret
The prophecy drawn by the old Pavilion Master, who had exhausted all his life and blood, was very clear in its direction.
When the spiritual energy fades, an immortal born from the transformation of an immortal will emerge at this time. He is the key to helping the entire cultivation world overcome this desperate situation.
However, no one knows who the immortal is, where he is, or whether he is a man or a woman.
Upon hearing this prophecy, Elder Yuchen and Huo Huazhi disagreed. Elder Yuchen felt that since the old Pavilion Master had glimpsed fate, they only needed to wait patiently for the predetermined destiny to arrive. The immortal would eventually appear. Any interference would only derail the predetermined destiny.
However, Huo Huazhi felt that the immortal shell was a dead object and could not give birth to anything. The prophecy was suggesting that they should follow the ancient immortality religion and strive to give birth to the immortal.
If the prophecy is considered part of humanity's destiny, then humanity's ability to save itself after learning of the prophecy is also part of destiny. To do nothing now would be to miss the opportunity.
At that time, the Zhaixing Pavilion was divided into two factions because of the disagreement between the two. Huo Huazhi first obsessed with studying the information about the ancient Changsheng Sect, then secretly collected the Immortal Transformation and Buddha Fruit, and began to lead the Zhaixing Pavilion disciples who followed her to conduct experiments on humans. This was the prototype of the current Changsheng Sect.
Because the ancient Immortality Cult had no successful cases, Huo Huazhi could only rely on his own exploration. Different from the ancient Immortality Cult's idea of wanting all members to become immortals, Huo Huazhi did not want to become an immortal himself, but to perfectly replicate the prophecy and give birth to the savior immortal.
So she did not use only monks as experimental subjects like the ancient Changsheng Sect, but she treated all people equally, monks, mortals with spiritual roots and mortals without spiritual roots were all her experimental subjects.
In many experiments, she found that the souls of newborn or even unborn babies were more easily integrated with the Buddha Fruit, and the rejection rate of the Immortal Transformation was the lowest, so she secretly began to extend her evil hands to those innocent babies.
To Huo Huazhi, this wasn't torture; she was creating an immortal, a savior. Even though the subject's soul would be forcibly extracted during the experiment, their fragile soul would be stuffed into a pagoda fruit, plunging them into endless loneliness and death. The slightest misstep would result in death, their soul shattered.
But as long as the conception is successful, the experimental subject will transform into a real immortal. Isn't this better than practicing hard for thousands of years but finally being ruined for various reasons, and waiting to die in despair when the spiritual energy fades?
For mortals whose lifespans are as short as mayflies, being able to become an immortal immortal is a joy that they cannot even dream of; it is a blessing!
Elder Yu Chen was initially unaware of Huo Huazhi's behavior until she vaguely sensed something was wrong and investigated privately, only to discover that her senior sister had become so insane. In addition, there were actually many fans of Huo Huazhi in Zhaixing Pavilion, and even some elders had chosen to support Huo Huazhi.
Elder Yu Chen looked at the bloodstains and piles of bones, and was so angry that he picked up his sword and chopped them, trying to wake up his senior sister Huo Huazhi. Zhaixing Pavilion did not allow fellow disciples to kill each other, so the fight between the two was quickly suppressed by the elders.
Because Huo Huazhi's deeds were exposed and she violated the sect's rules, she should have been stripped of her cultivation and expelled from the sect. However, although she was beaten and bleeding, she was able to continue to stay in Zhaixing Pavilion because of the protection of several elders.
The day after Huo Huazhi was punished, rumors spread in Zhaixing Pavilion that the old Pavilion Master had died and the new Pavilion Master would be chosen between Elder Yuchen and Huo Huazhi. Elder Yuchen was targeting Huo Huazhi in this way, most likely to eliminate dissidents.
Some elders severely punished the disciples who spread rumors, but others allowed them to spread. The elders were already divided into two factions. Elder Yuchen looked at the chaos and rumors spreading in the Zhaixing Pavilion. He knew that something had to be decided.
So she set up a trap and directly killed Huo Huazhi and the elders and disciples who supported her. When the other elders and disciples rushed over, they only saw a pile of corpses and her covered in blood.
Then, she knelt expressionlessly before the elders, stating that she had violated the sect's rules by killing her fellow disciples, and that she was willing to have her cultivation abolished and be expelled from the sect. The remaining elders did not think she had done anything wrong, and not only did they not abolish her cultivation, they also supported her in becoming the new Pavilion Master.
Elder Yu Chen did not agree and resolutely left the Zhaixing Pavilion.
Chu Beiliang, Yun Miao and Qi Shubai were sitting in a row on a fallen dead tree. As Chu Beiliang spoke, Qi Shubai couldn't help but sigh.
"Unfortunately, Elder Yuchen was too sentimental. She left Huo Huazhi's body in Zhaixing Pavilion. She originally wanted to bury him there, but she didn't expect Huo Huazhi to be faking his death."
He took over the conversation and said that after Elder Yu Chen learned that Huo Huazhi's body was missing, she guessed that Huo Huazhi might have faked his death, so she turned around and joined the Xuantian Sect, and reached a cooperative relationship with the Xuantian Sect based on the prophecy.
Over the years, Xuantian Sect has been secretly suppressing the power of Changsheng Sect, forcing Changsheng Sect to hide from place to place.
Qi Shubai sighed, "A thousand years ago, our sect suffered heavy losses from the Demon Cult's sneak attack. When we recovered and tried to track down the Changsheng Cult again, we found that we couldn't find them. We didn't expect that they were actually right below the Demon Cult."
"Huo Huazhi was born in the Zhaixing Pavilion. He is proficient in divination and knows how to interfere with others' predictions of his whereabouts. The Demon Cult is also full of talented people who have various tricks to hide their locations. Combined with these two, they have managed to hide this island perfectly."
He patted Yun Miao's head as usual, and said in a gentle and concerned tone, "Thanks to you this time, otherwise we wouldn't know how long we would have to wait to find this place. But let's not let this happen again."
Yun Miao chuckled and didn't answer.
Chu Beiliang watched for a moment, then reached out and rubbed Yun Miao's head. However, because he used too much force, Yun Miao's entire upper body shook.
Yun Miao, who was sitting there listening to the story, wordlessly slapped his hand away: "Junior Master, this is my head, not dough."
Qi Shubai watched with a smile on his face, and after a moment he suddenly said, "Actually, there is another possibility for what happened back then."
Yun Miao and Chu Beiliang turned their heads to look.
Qi Shubai looked in the direction where Sect Leader Chang and the others had been fighting. "Do you remember what Huo Huazhi said before, that she was following her master's orders?"
Yun Miao pondered: "Brother, are you saying that the old Pavilion Master ordered Huo Huazhi to do all this?"
"It's just speculation, but the fact that the old Pavilion Master called Elder Huo Huazhi and Elder Yuchen over to give their final words before his death is intriguing."
Qi Shubai didn't dwell on this question for too long. He turned to look at Yun Miao and said, "I didn't want to tell you this before because I was afraid that you were young and unstable, and that you would feel bad after knowing it. Now that you have heard these words, how do you feel?"
Yun Miao finally understood why his senior brother had smiled so bitterly when he had boasted about his imminent immortality. The thought of spiritual energy disappearing and ascension being hopeless was too despairing for an orthodox cultivator.
She patted Qi Shubai's shoulder and said, "Brother, you forgot. When I joined the sect, I said that I came here to seek the truth, not to become an immortal. So don't worry about me. But you...if you are very sad, then you can lean on my broad shoulders."
Qi Shubai was stunned for a moment, then realized that Yun Miao was actually trying to comfort him. He smiled with relief, "Junior sister, you've really grown up and can even comfort me. I underestimated you before."
Chu Beiliang glanced at Yun Miao's shoulder and suddenly said, "What about me?"
They are the same kind, aren't they? Why is she so nice to Qi Shubai?
Yun Miao patted his other shoulder proudly and said, "You can lean on it too. People have broad shoulders on both sides, which are meant to be leaned on by two people at the same time."
Chu Beiliang was still somewhat dissatisfied, but he didn't know what he was dissatisfied with, so he stared at Yun Miao's shoulder seriously for a long time before he hummed.
When he looked up again, he saw Qi Shubai staring at him with an indescribable weirdness in his eyes.
Chu Beiliang couldn't understand the emotions in Qi Shubai's eyes, so he asked directly in confusion: "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Qi Shubai didn't answer immediately, but looked at Chu Beiliang suspiciously. After confirming that Chu Beiliang's black eyes were as calm as ever and without any extra emotions, he withdrew his gaze and said meaningfully, "Nothing, I just don't know when the relationship between Junior Uncle and Junior Sister became so good."
Chu Beiliang was even more confused after hearing this: "Don't you already know that Xiao Hei is my clone? Xiao Hei and Yun Miao have a good relationship, so naturally I have a good relationship with her as well."
Because of the urgency of the matter, everyone was busy rescuing Yun Miao and had forgotten about this matter. Now, after his reminder, Qi Shubai immediately remembered this matter and frowned.
"Speaking of this, I almost forgot to ask, why did Junior-Master-Uncle let his clone follow my Junior-Master-Uncle?"
His tone was slightly cold, lacking his usual gentleness, but instead had a hint of questioning.
Chu Beiliang didn't know he was being treated as a pervert who was seducing young girls. Hearing this, he subconsciously looked at Yun Miao and asked, "Can you tell me?"
Qi Shubai turned his suspicious eyes to Yun Miao. Yun Miao felt inexplicably guilty and whispered what had happened between him and Xiao Hei.
The facts were completely opposite to what Qi Shubai thought. It was Yun Miao who first used meat buns to lure Xiao Hei. Initially, Chu Beiliang just wanted to follow her into Xuantian Sect and get a meal. However, he followed the wrong person and ended up going hungry for nine meals in three days.
It was Yun Miao who deliberately chose to conceal the identities of Chu Beiliang and Xiao Hei after guessing them, and even though he knew that Xiao Hei was actually his junior uncle, he still asked him to serve him tea and water and water the fields.
It can be said that Xiao Hei didn't eat much after following Yun Miao, but he did a lot of work.
Qi Shubai: ...
Qi Shubai's sharp eyes gradually softened, and he looked at Yun Miao helplessly: "Junior Sister, this is your fault. This is Junior Uncle, how could you..."
Yun Miao didn't wait for him to finish before she skillfully admitted her mistake and loudly stated that she would not dare to do it again next time.
Although Qi Shubai knew that his junior sister always liked to actively admit her mistakes and refused to repent, he was reluctant to say anything more because of the great sin she had suffered this time. He just looked at Chu Beiliang apologetically.
"I'm sorry, Junior Master, I was wrong about you just now."
Chu Beiliang was puzzled: "Wrongly blame me? What do you blame me for?"
"this……"
Qi Shubai coughed dryly, not knowing what to say. His handsome face flushed slightly with embarrassment.
Yun Miao chuckled secretly while using his spiritual sense to secretly transmit a message to Chu Beiliang: "Senior Brother mistakenly thought you liked me and deliberately sent Xiao Hei to approach me. That's why I was a little angry just now."
Chu Beiliang thought for a moment: [It's not a misunderstanding, I really like you. ]
Yun Miao: ???
[You're mistaken. The love that Senior Brother misunderstood is the love between men and women, not the kind of love you're talking about.]
A trace of confusion flashed across Chu Beiliang's eyes: [I am a man, you are a woman, and my love for you is not the love between men and women, right?]
He even lowered his head to examine himself, confirming that he was a man, and then hesitantly asked Yun Miao: [Are you not a woman?]
Yun Miao choked: [Of course I'm a woman. What I mean is... forget it, I can't explain it to you clearly. Go and have fun.]
Seeing Qi Shubai still awkwardly unsure what to say, Yun Miao immediately changed the subject: "Come to think of it, Elder Yuchen hasn't accepted any disciples in all these years since joining the sect. Why would he suddenly accept Junior-Master-Uncle as a disciple? There must be a reason for this, right? Is it related to the Changsheng Sect?"
Qi Shubai looked at Yun Miao for a second because of her sharpness, and then looked at Chu Beiliang. Since it was about Chu Beiliang, it was naturally his turn to speak.
Chu Beiliang didn't hide it from Yun Miao this time and answered directly: "Because I was once the Holy Son of the Changsheng Sect."
Yun Miao became interested and quickly sat closer, motioning Chu Beiliang to continue.
Chu Beiliang said that not every Buddha fruit in the immortal shell can transform into a new life. Most of the Buddha fruits will die in the womb, and only a few of them can transform into newborn babies with the efforts of the Changsheng Sect.
A large portion of these babies were mindless, bloodthirsty monsters who would soon die. These were also considered failures, while there were two types of successes: one contained the soul of an adult and could still remember past events.
One type of person has the soul of a baby in his body, so his memory is blank, just like a newborn baby.
These babies were born with a high level of cultivation, and their subsequent cultivation speed was also astonishing. Because not all experimental subjects were willing to participate in the experiment, the Changsheng Church erased the previous life memories of the babies to facilitate control.
But for some reason, even if their memories have been erased, the speed of cultivation of the former type of babies will become extremely slow after they reach the level of their previous lives.
The latter type of babies maintain a high-speed cultivation speed from beginning to end. Chu Beiliang is one of the latter type of babies. He was raised by the Changsheng Sect. Because of his extremely fast cultivation speed, he stood out from other children and was designated as the Son of God.
The Changsheng Church embroidered a three-legged golden crow on the clothes prepared for him, implying that he would bring light to the world. However, this did not mean that he was particularly precious. In fact, one child born from each batch of immortal transformations would be chosen as the Holy Son.
After countless experiments, Huo Huazhi had come to understand that simply copying the ancient Changsheng Sect's methods was not enough to create an immortal. To ascend, a cultivator needed to first temper their body with heavenly thunder, then receive the golden light that descended, the immortal realm bestowing blessings and filling their bodies with immortal energy, helping them completely shed their mortal bodies.
Nurturing was only the first step, its effect equivalent to tempering the body with heavenly thunder. She needed to complete the second step if she wanted to succeed. However, the guiding golden light would not appear when the spiritual energy faded, and naturally, no immortal energy would descend.
Huo Huazhi was indeed very talented. After years of hard thinking, she finally discovered an ancient legend. Long, long ago, when immortals still lived on earth, they also fought each other and launched many wars. Many immortals fell, and their bodies, after years of erosion, turned into the immortal shells we see today.
Many immortal husks were scattered across the land, but some were buried in a special space called the Immortal Tomb. Igniting the horn of the Tongtian Rhino allows one to journey to the Immortal Tomb and receive guidance from the gods.
The Tongtian Rhino had long been extinct, but very few rhino horns were preserved. Huo Huazhi took great pains to obtain the rhino horns and asked the person born from the immortal transformation to light them. As the smoke spread, a miracle happened and the person's soul really disappeared, but the bad news was that his soul never came back.
After many experiments, some lucky people began to return alive. They had indeed visited the immortal tomb and felt the rich immortal energy, but they did not see the so-called immortals, nor could they refine the immortal energy.
If they then lit the rhino horn and tried to re-enter the Immortal Tomb, they would no longer be able to get in. Everyone has only one chance to enter the Immortal Tomb.
Huo Huazhi was ecstatic, believing that the final key was in the Immortal Tomb. Then she discovered that the higher the talent and the higher the understanding, the higher the chance of survival after entering the Immortal Tomb.
The Holy Son is the person with the highest level of comprehension selected by the Changsheng Sect from the same batch. Tongtianxi's horn is becoming increasingly scarce, and eventually it is only available to the Holy Son.
Huo Huazhi has always been looking forward to someone who can be infused with immortal energy in the immortal tomb, directly transform into an immortal, and lead the human race through this disaster. Her name will also be forever engraved in the history books of the human race.
Unfortunately, the fact is that no one has succeeded over the years. The souls of some people have never returned, and some people have returned alive, but because they failed to transform successfully, they could not enter the Immortal Tomb again, so they were driven off the throne of the Son of God.
Yun Miao asked curiously, "Have you also set fire to rhino horns?"
Chu Beiliang nodded. He was also one of the losers who came back alive. It was precisely because he failed that the Changsheng Sect had less control over him, and he had the opportunity to kill those guards and escape from the Changsheng Sect.
He had heard the believers curse Xuantian Sect and Elder Yuchen, and knew that Xuantian Sect and Changsheng Sect were at odds, and he just wanted to destroy Changsheng Sect, so he worshipped Elder Yuchen as his master and joined Xuantian Sect.
Unfortunately, he had escaped from the Changsheng Sect by stealing the teleportation talisman. He only knew that the Changsheng Sect was under the Demon Sect, but he didn't know its exact location. That's why the Changsheng Sect was able to roam free for so long.
He had followed Yun Miao to the Demon Cult before, but he was worried that Yun Miao would be scared, and also worried that she would show something strange after knowing it and be discovered by the Demon Cult, which would bring trouble upon herself. So he didn't tell her about it.
Unexpectedly, in the end it was Xiaohong who was the first to blow up the Changsheng Sect, and even led to a fight between the Changsheng Sect and the Demon Sect.
Yun Miao was completely bewildered by what she heard. She had no idea there were so many twists and turns in this. However, after a quick review, she quickly grasped the key points.
"So you are the one born from the Buddha Fruit?"
Chu Beiliang: "Yeah."
Yun Miao recalled what he had said before, that he smelled a similar scent on her, and a hint of doubt appeared in her eyes. If Chu Beiliang said this to her pseudonym, then she could understand it.
But her true form clearly had nothing to do with the Buddha Fruit. Why did Chu Beiliang think she was one of his kind? Could he have smelled the scent of her vest through her true form?
Just as Yun Miao was thinking, the ground suddenly shook a few times again. She, Chu Beiliang and Qi Shubai immediately stood up and looked in the direction of the vibration. They saw a figure suddenly emerge from the ground, followed by Shui Yaoguang and Zuo Beixing, who seemed to be chasing the figure.
Just then, the man flew towards the forest. Yun Miao and the other two immediately tried to stop him, while Shui Yaoguang and Zuo Beixing attacked from behind. With a loud bang, the man was knocked to the ground, and dust billowed. Then, Zuo Beixing took out his formation plate and trapped him.
The man immediately shrank into a ball in fear: "Don't kill me. I'm not in the same group as them. I'm an innocent tree!"
Yun Miao paused when he heard the familiar voice, raised his eyes and looked ahead carefully. It was a thin woman. She was very tall and wrapped in a loose and ill-fitting gray robe. She looked like a tall and thin bamboo pole.
There were several short branches with pagoda flowers growing on the top of its head. Its eyes were full of clear stupidity and it didn't look very smart.
Pagoda tree?
Shouldn't she have escaped long ago? Why is she still on the island?
Shui Yaoguang has already interrogated the origin of the female demon in front of him. Futu revealed his identity as the Futu flower demon and told her his previous experiences honestly.
Yun Miao eavesdropped on the side and soon figured out why Fu Tu was still there.
The formation that trapped her was difficult to break. She could only force her way through the small hole drilled in it bit by bit. When she finally squeezed a large hole through the formation, her huge body could escape. A long time had passed. Sect Leader Chang and his men had already started fighting with Yan Hai and his men.
If a person has been trapped somewhere for a long time, even taking a single step outside requires courage. Furthermore, Futu had been imprisoned deep underground since he first became conscious, having been coerced and intimidated by the Immortal Cult, so he was naturally timid.
The noise of the Mahayana cultivators fighting frightened the Buddha, who had just poked his head out, so much so that he retreated back underground, not daring to move. Thus, she missed the best opportunity to escape and ended up in this situation.
Fu Tu huddled in a large ball on the ground, his whole body showing weakness, pity and helplessness. "I really am a good tree. Xiao Hong said that Xuan Tian Zong is a good people, and good people can't kill good trees."
Qi Shubai was surprised: "Do you know that red girl?"
Yun Miao felt comfortable after hearing this. It must be that her senior brother spoke so nicely. "Miss Hong" sounded much more sophisticated than Xiaohong.
Futu's eyes lit up and he nodded rapidly, "I know her. She's very powerful. She can come and go freely in the Changsheng Sect. She even fooled those two terrifying Mahayana cultivators. If you bully me, I'll complain to her!"
Qi Shubai also became interested: "Complain? Can you find her?"
Upon hearing this, Fu Tu lowered his head in frustration: "I don't know."
Yun Miao was speechless: "I don't know how you dare to talk nonsense."
The Buddha's head drooped even lower, and she raised one hand listlessly. A branch quickly grew out from her palm, with a plump Buddha fruit hanging on the branch.
"I'll give you the Buddha Fruit, will you let me go?"
"not good."
Shui Yaoguang refused coldly and raised his chin slightly to Zuo Beixing: "The leader said that not a single needle or thread from the Demon Sect or the Immortal Sect should be spared. Take this too. Plant it where the fortune tree is planted in front of my Law Enforcement Hall."
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