Chapter 81 Ambition and Truth (2)
The tower's base was devoid of the eternally burning soul lamps. In the darkness, Old Man Mingdu, his body emitting the rusty smell of blood, half leaned against the wall, panting. His distress was evident from the sound of his voice. But when Long Tianyi explained his intention to resurrect the Yulinghe clan, he agreed without hesitation.
"Their bodies are preserved at the bottom of the river. Please give me the souls of those you wish to resurrect. I will need approximately six hours to perform the resurrection spell."
Having reached this point, Yu Linghe decisively and solemnly handed the half-circle paper soul in his arms to Elder Mingdu. Elder Mingdu glanced at Long Tian, seeing him smiling, then lowered his head, turned around, knocked on the wall, and easily stepped into the outside world through the tower spirit.
"Okay, let's chat for a bit during this time."
Long Tian spoke in a very casual tone. He took off a few weaving talismans from his body with ease and waved them. The golden thread immediately melted and flashed light in the darkness. A whole set of seats and pottery suddenly appeared at the dark and empty bottom of the tower. After Long Tian sat down, Yu Linghe sat down opposite him without any hesitation.
Although Luo Xuanyi heard a "tsk" sound coming from the void in the sky, she pretended not to hear it.
A complete set of pottery, coated in colored powder, was neatly arranged. Next to a stone bench stood a massive pottery jar. Long Tian scooped a few spoonfuls of something resembling a liquid into a ceramic cup, pushing them toward Yu Linghe and Luo Xuanyi. He then poured himself a cup. Luo Xuanyi felt a bit absurd, but couldn't help but peer into the jar out of curiosity, only to find it was empty.
"This is a shattered soul. It has many benefits for cultivators, especially soul cultivators like you. However, you don't seem to understand the techniques of soul cultivation. Who are you, Third Sister?"
Luo Xuanyi simply stared at the contents of the cup, her voice lacking any emotion. "Perhaps the tower spirit knows about this. Why don't you let him come and talk too?"
"You're avoiding the question. Forget it. In this respect, you and Ta Ling are very similar. He won't listen to me. The relationship between us is probably that of an event and a bystander." Long Tian said as he tilted his head back and poured a whole cup of liquid into his mouth. However, Luo Xuanyi felt more and more that the inexplicable connection in her heart began to emerge, as if it had reached a certain peak, and the premonition of the end began to spread.
Speaking of which, the relationship between Yu Linghe and Luo Xuanyi is the same. Who is she and why did she come to this place?
Long Tian no longer tried to get anything out of Luo Xuanyi. He fiddled with the long-handled magic tool that he used to scoop wine, and began to speak as if he was complaining or talking to himself.
"I originally thought Yu Lu would leave something for the Yu Clan, but it's really strange that you didn't do anything for all these years—you clearly promised to tell me the ending, right?"
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Ignoring their confusion, Long Tian continued, "Let me start from the beginning, otherwise you won't understand... I'm not the real Long Tian, but an ancient cultivator who took over another body. The one who helped me choose Long Tian's body was your Yu clan's true Daoist ancestor, Yu Lu. I used to be known by the strange name Beast Cloud Disaster, which you should have heard of."
Luo Xuanyi's mind flashed back to the moment the elixir was refined. The massive figure that seemed to hover in the sky flashed before her eyes, and the terrifying scene of the earth and sky collapsing with each breath. She held her breath. The Beast Cloud Plague, a natural disaster that had been unpredictable for ten thousand years, each time it appeared, it would cause a catastrophic upheaval. Who would have thought it had self-awareness?
What is the meaning of the connection between the natural disasters that have ravaged for ten thousand years, the Daoist Ancestor who can see the future, the Ten Thousand Souls Sect, the goal of killing the sky, the Styx and the soul cultivators?
Yu Linghe's reaction was even greater. She kept muttering "Jade Dew" and "Beast Cloud Disaster" as if suddenly awakened. "Wasn't that the natural disaster that suddenly stopped appearing three thousand years ago?! Although it does coincide with the time when Daozu Sha Jing came to attain enlightenment, isn't that just a coincidence?"
"No, no, Yu Lu didn't tell you out of consideration, right? If we weren't having this conversation in this tower, I'm afraid the heavenly tribulation would have already struck. Simply put, as part of the Heavenly Dao, I was manipulated to instigate wars everywhere to extinguish rising cultivators, lest they touch too many ascended beings and discover that this world is nothing more than a toy for the celestial beast known as the Heavenly Dao."
The words were so explosive that neither of them could react and could only listen silently.
"As for me, at that time I could only be controlled by the celestial beast. Although what I did was enjoyable, I only wanted to control others, not be controlled by others. At that time, Yu Lu and Jing Lai suddenly started killing each other. I originally thought that Jing Lai, as a natural beast, the celestial beast's clone who controlled the way of heaven, would not be defeated by a mere cultivator, but in the end, Jing Lai was killed."
"Yu Lu was too terrifying. To be honest, those who inherited her body couldn't control her power at all, but it still brings back the fear I felt back then. I was ordered to kill Yu Lu because it was difficult to use the Heavenly Thunder without being exposed. But after Yu Lu devoured Jing Lai's blood, she transformed her body into the so-called 'Daozhi' and began to hunt me."
"And just like that, the connection between me and the Celestial Beast was severed. The Celestial Beast must have been frightened, and in the end, it actually chose to truly acknowledge Yu Lu's lineage and turned a blind eye to the fact that I had my own consciousness. Of course, it's also possible that because the two of us couldn't escape the Celestial Beast's great path of heaven and earth, it indulged me."
"For any living being in this world, created by a celestial beast and nurtured in its embrace, life and death are determined by its will. Those concepts of ascension are merely instilled by it, allowing living beings to work hard to nurture themselves and become its food. Therefore, no one can truly ascend."
"This kind of thing sounds hopeless, doesn't it?"
As if tired of talking, Long Tian scooped another cup of "Soul" and drank it. From Luo Xuanyi's perspective, he tilted his head back, using the ceramic cup to hide his gloomy expression. Long Tian seemed unsure of his own success, even now doubting it. Luo Xuanyi couldn't help but have this somewhat absurd thought.
Yet, these seemingly absurd things, when spoken by Long Tian, were strangely persuasive. His face, brimming with violence, had given Luo Xuanyi the impression, upon their first encounter, that he was a man of violence, yet possessed immense self-control. According to his words, this human cultivator's body must be a constraint for him. Thinking of this, Luo Xuanyi gained a deeper understanding of the Dao Ancestor, even beginning to simply admire his immense power.
"But Yu Lu is truly remarkable. Is she truly human? I've been wondering about this for thousands of years."
"She came up with a solution, which was to find a concept that didn't belong to this world and connect the two worlds."
"Ghost Realm, this is the method she came up with."
Speed up! It's OK to have more information! Start to recover some foreshadowing.
Sister Yi has poor qualifications, so she needs a special channel~
Then Yu Lu can be said to be the strongest human cultivator since ancient times, and is at the peak of both brain power and strength.
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