Chapter 50: Horrified Speculations, Mysteries of Life and Death
The staircase leading to the second floor of Jiange is spiral-shaped.
After walking up a not-so-long flight of stairs, Lu Chen finally stopped in front of a big door.
Looking at the wooden door in front of me and the complex and special patterns on it.
Lu Chen's gaze finally stopped on a dent on the wall next to the door.
The pit is not big and is rectangular in shape.
Lu Chen thought for a moment and took out the Qingyun Sect disciple token from his body.
This is also one of the few items he can bring into the copy.
After the disciple token was placed into the pit, the token, which fit perfectly, emitted light.
Immediately afterwards, the patterns on the second-floor door of Jiange also began to light up.
Not long after, the door to the second floor that had been tightly closed... opened.
Lu Chen stepped through the wooden door and soon arrived at the second floor of this mysterious Jiange.
The room on the second floor is very spacious and has a large round shape.
On the walls on both sides are sword boxes with the names of the disciples of Cangjian Peak written on them.
However, most of these sword boxes are empty, and there is an astonishingly huge sword mark on the west wall.
The sword mark went from bottom to top, directly cutting off one-fifth of the room on the second floor.
There is no doubt that this sword mark is the one Lu Chen saw outside, the huge sword mark that spanned the entire Sword Pavilion.
In this regard, Lu Chen deduced at the time that this sword mark could only be achieved by a cultivator at or above the Jindan stage.
But this does not mean that the sword mark was made by a Jindan stage cultivator.
After all, a great cultivator at the Spiritual Transformation stage... is also an existence above the Golden Core stage.
And Lu Chen had never seen a being above the Jindan stage take action.
That's why we made such a relatively conservative judgment at that time.
If he knew how the Sword Pavilion at Cangjian Peak was built, he would understand how big the gap was between his inference and reality.
The one who destroyed the Sword Pavilion was at the Jindan stage? Guaranteed to be at the Shenhua stage!
Although the rooms on the second floor suffered considerable damage, they are still generally well preserved.
Therefore, many objects in the room are still preserved.
After confirming that there were not many valuable objects in the sword boxes on the surrounding walls.
Lu Chen came directly to the center of the second floor.
Soon, he noticed a strange man kneeling in the open space in the center of the second floor.
Perhaps he noticed Lu Chen, an outsider.
The strange man kneeling on the ground slowly raised his head and looked in the direction of Lu Chen.
His action seemed to trigger a mechanism on the second floor, so that the braziers hanging on the surrounding walls were immediately ignited, instantly illuminating the originally dim space on the second floor.
"Who are you?"
Faced with the strange man's question, Lu Chen did not answer immediately, but walked up to the man and looked at him carefully.
Different from those foreign sword monsters on the first floor who are neither human nor monster.
The man in front of them looked much more normal than them.
If he couldn't sense the strong smell of decay from the other person.
Lu Chen would even think that the other person was just a normal person who had not seen the sun for a long time.
But unfortunately, all this is just appearance.
[Outer Path Sword Demon/Foundation Building Corpse·Fang Heng]
[Features: A special corpse whose body is partially occupied by the evil sword of the outside world, retaining part of the memory of the previous life]
Because of the distance, Lu Chen did not see Fang Heng's true situation and mistakenly thought that he was half-kneeling on the ground.
But when he got closer, he realized that Fang Heng was not half-kneeling at all.
His body below the waist was devoured by the evil sword, and his lower body turned into a snake-like body of an unorthodox demon, curled up on the ground.
But unlike the foreign sword demon on the first floor who attacked immediately when he saw him, Fang Heng at this time had transformed into a magic corpse.
But his own mind does not seem to be polluted by the power of external ways, and he still has a certain degree of rationality.
Thinking of this, Lu Chen did not rush to take action, but sat on the mat in front of Fang Heng without any hesitation.
If the half-demon, half-corpse Fang Heng was replaced by a normal person, the two of them would feel like they were sitting and discussing something.
"Qingyun Sect, Danyang Peak inner sect disciple, Lu Chen, greets fellow Taoist."
"Danyang Peak?!"
Fang Heng raised his head excitedly, as if he had heard some exciting news.
"May I ask, fellow Taoist, is the head of Danyang Peak, Ji, still alive?"
"Master Ji Feng?"
"It's the True Man of the Earth's Core, Ji Chang, Master Ji Feng."
Ji, Ji Chang?!
When Lu Chen heard these two words, his pupils shrank instantly.
"Are you talking about Ji Chang, the 64th generation inner sect disciple of Danyang Peak?"
"Inner sect disciple?"
Fang Heng was stunned, and there seemed to be some doubt in the empty eye sockets without eyeballs.
It frowned and thought for a moment, then replied, "Was Master Ji only an inner disciple of Danyang Peak before? I really don't know, but he is indeed the 64th generation disciple of Danyang Peak."
Hearing this, Lu Chen's expression became more serious than ever before.
There was no doubt that the Master Ji Feng he mentioned was actually Brother Ji Changji, an inner sect disciple of the Taoist Linghuo like himself.
It is hard to imagine that Senior Brother Ji Chang seems to be cheerful all day long and greets everyone with a smile.
In the end, he became the master of Danyang Peak.
You should know that in Qingyun Sect, Taoists represent the Jindan stage, and Zhenren represent the Yuanying stage.
Ji Chang was the 64th generation disciple, and he himself was the 65th generation disciple.
The disciple tokens that Lu Chen picked up in Jiange were mostly from the 70th to 73rd generation disciples.
In other words, the era in which the current copy of the Ancient Sword Tomb is located is only eight hundred years away from the era in which he was in the game.
During these eight hundred years, Ji Chang not only broke through to the Golden Core Stage with the aptitude of a seventh-grade human foundation-building cultivator, but also reached the Golden Core Stage.
After that, he continued to advance like a hot knife through butter, reached the Nascent Soul stage, and became the master of Danyang Peak.
How could Senior Brother Ji Chang's potential be so great? Thinking about it, Lu Chen suddenly woke up.
"Excuse me, fellow Taoist, have you ever heard of my name before you were alive?"
"Your name? Lu Chen?"
"Um."
Fang Heng frowned and thought for a long time, then shook his head.
"I'm sorry, Fellow Daoist Lu, I'm sure I don't know your name."
"Or maybe I knew it before, but after I was resurrected, I forgot this part of my memory. I'm sorry."
Haven't you heard my name?
Lu Chen's face turned pale at Fang Heng's answer.
Because if Fang Heng had heard it before, but had forgotten the memories related to him due to the memory loss caused by the corpse transformation.
This was very good news for him and would not cause Lu Chen to be greatly alarmed.
What Lu Chen was really worried about was that Fang Heng had never heard his name at all.
Because if that were true, then the information contained in it would be too terrifying.
This either means that Lu Chen died before Fang Heng's generation of disciples joined the sect, resulting in Fang Heng never hearing of Lu Chen's name.
Or maybe there was no such person as Lu Chen in the Qingyun Sect in history.
In reality, he was really just playing a special game with Qingyun Sect as the background.
If it was the latter, then Lu Chen would only feel that there were still too many secrets in the game "Real Cultivation of Immortality" that he had not discovered.
But if it is the former, then the matter is undoubtedly serious.
Because it means one day in the future.
Either he died in the game or died accidentally in reality.
If we also take into account the ten-to-one time multiplier between games and reality.
Then he might encounter a terrible life-and-death crisis within the eighty years in reality and the eight hundred years in the game.
Thinking of this, Lu Chen's brain couldn't help but start working at high speed.
So, in the end, the self in the game has never actually appeared in the history of Qingyun Sect.
I am just playing a small game that can give feedback on my cultivation.
Or I actually appeared in Qingyun Sect, but died before Fang Heng and his group of disciples could join the sect.
Which of these two... is the real answer? Because there are no other clues, Lu Chen can't tell which one it is.
The feeling of knowing that you might die someday, but not knowing how to deal with it.
This made the usually steady Lu Chen... upset.
Thinking of this, Lu Chen was eager to get more clues from Fang Heng.
So he asked, "Fellow Daoist, I wonder if you at Cangjian Peak have ever been asked to learn the Zixia Health Preserving Exercise?"
"Zixia Health Preserving Exercise? Okay, it seems someone mentioned it... but who was it..."
Looking at Fang Heng with a frown on his face, Lu Chen's expression seemed very urgent.
Because he was eager to use this matter to determine the important answer in his heart.
PS: I feel like I should have written this chapter very clearly, I shouldn’t be playing the role of a riddler…
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