Chapter 888: Searching for the Relics and Leaving Only the Execution

As Chen Chuan got closer, the vines separated on their own as he watched, revealing the complete words inside.

The handwriting is small, but it is free and unrestrained, and it gives people a sense of magnanimity. This should have been left behind by this monster before it was transformed.

He took a few glances and saw that it was engraved with the man's own statement.

This man called himself You Zhinan and was a protector of the Jinli Sect.

Jinlijiao...

He thought about it and felt that this should be a branch of the Xuan Sect. He had this impression because there were people from this sect in several Xuan temples in the central city of Jibei Road.

This sect had a certain amount of power in the past, otherwise there would be no record of it in the municipal records. However, in the new era, the sect fell into decline for some reason. The disciples below had given up the inheritance of fighting and made a living entirely by calculation and divination, and they no longer had any combat effectiveness.

According to You Zhinan, he came here during the reign of Emperor Chengyi.

Emperor Chengyi...

He thought about it and calculated based on the time, this should be an emperor from more than 400 years ago, before the end of the dynasty.

He could remember it because he was a rare emperor who worshipped Zen and suppressed Xuanism since the two religions had fought each other for 800 years. During his reign, Zen flourished for a while, and some scholars believe that the subsequent Xin Dynasty change may also be related to this.

After changing his mind, he continued reading.

The man said that the reason he was here was because he had discovered the Nine-Aperture Stone Lotus. The Jinli Sect had a recipe for an elixir that used lotus, lotus seeds, and other rare medicines to help push guardian deities like him to a higher level.

In the following description, we can see that he said that the recipe was incomplete, and he also admitted that the hope of achieving the goal with such an unproven recipe was very slim. However, he had to place his hopes on it, because the Jinli Sect was almost disbanded in his time due to the suppression of the imperial family.

At that time, he was the only remaining protector of the sect. There was no one left to even take on the role of the sect leader. All that remained were scattered branches that had long lost their former glory.

And if you want to prosper a sect, you just need to have another real person, a heavenly master or the like. After all, although the Xuan Sect was suppressed by the imperial family at that time, the big sects did not do anything, but just ignored it on the surface, which shows that there is a difference in treatment here.

For some unknown reason, he finally wrote down the incomplete recipe and his own complete recipe.

After reading it, Chen Chuan took note of it, but he just took note of it because he was not sure whether it was real or not, and it was also hard to say whether the other party had any ulterior motives.

Besides, even if these are true, in the new era, technology is developing very fast, and many old things are not useless, but have better substitutes. Even if the Xuanjiao had contributed a batch of pill recipes after the establishment of the Dashun Republic, there may not be better ones than the one in front of us.

After giving the recipe for the elixir, the man left another regretful message. His purpose of coming to the land of integration was actually to find a treasure that the Xuanjiao had left behind in its early years. Unexpectedly, he encountered the stone lotus. He felt that the thing in front of him was more important, so he gave up his original plan and stayed here, waiting for the lotus seeds to mature.

He also talked about some past events, saying that when he was young, he only focused on practicing and did not give anything in return to the many friends who helped him. Later, when he thought back, he felt ashamed of the help of those friends, so he left here the names, hometowns and past deeds of these friends.

He said that although he had no way to repay the kindness of his friends, he could still make their names live on forever without fading.

Chen Chuan took a few glances and found that the records of these people were engraved on a large natural rock nearby. There were probably less than twenty people in total.

The stones at the intersection of day and night are unusual stones. In addition, the words are engraved very deeply and are imbued with the spirits of the monsters and ghosts before they were transformed. It can be said that if they are not forcibly destroyed, they will have no problem surviving for thousands of years. This person is not bragging.

But what this person left behind is much more than just this. Perhaps because he had been living here alone for a long time, he could only use these things to relieve the depression in his heart.

On a stone nearby were some secret teachings of the Jinli Sect that he had left behind. This was a set of practice techniques from the entry level to the fourth level, which was the so-called Wuzong level. Next to it were also listed some of the precautions he had to take and the medicines needed for each stage.

And there was a hint of arrogance in the words he left behind. He believed that he had sorted out what he had learned in the past and had brought forth something new again. He also said that this set of practice methods could help the Jinli Sect prosper for another three hundred years.

Chen Chuan took a look and pondered. How should I put it? It has its merits, but it still requires certain talents to get started and is only suitable for a few people. The methods of the new era are actually better and more suitable for ordinary people.

Many techniques of the new era were discussed and promoted by many fighters during the Major League era. They are definitely much better than the one in front of him working alone.

But it doesn’t mean that this person’s things have no value. If they had been taken out at that time, they should have been quite good. Unfortunately, times have changed.

He looked around and saw stones in front of him arranged neatly. There were words on each side. This person had kept records of every year at the beginning. He counted and found that the time span was as long as 232 years.

However, counting back from the era he belonged to, there were still about two hundred years that had passed. In fact, by the end, he already felt that something was wrong with this person. Living in the fusion land day after day, fighting against the invasion day and night, this person should have accumulated too much filth in his body, and had begun to alienate.

His handwriting began to become messy, but occasionally it would become clearer.

And he could feel where his problem lay. He carved some notes on a stone wall, saying that he had thought the secret teachings of the Jinli Sect were enough to resist these filths, but it seemed that he had miscalculated. He felt that perhaps only the top secret teachings of the Xuan Sect or the Chan Sect could resist them.

And if you look further back, the handwriting becomes completely disordered and crazy.

Chen Chuan understood the reason here. The root cause was that this person began to doubt what he had learned.

Once this thought appears in the mind and the will is shaken, the situation will take a turn for the worse.

But there was nothing that could be done about it. It was precisely because his body had already been invaded by filth that he had this doubt. Even if he realized it and fought against it from time to time, it would only delay the process. Unless he got out of here, there would be no possibility of recovery.

Then, in order to wait for the stone lotus to mature, he would never leave and persisted for two hundred years. It was not something that could be let go easily. It even became an obsession rooted in the deepest part of his body and mind.

Even though it turned into a demon in the end, he never gave up on it.

But he knew that this Dharma Protector You had actually made a mistake.

The recipe for the elixir states that lotus seeds have a maturity period at five, seven, and nine respectively. If five fails to mature, then seven will do. If seven fails to mature, then nine will do. Only lotus seeds that are ripe can be picked to exert their maximum function.

But in fact, this is not the case. It may be a gap in the transmission of knowledge in the old era. Knots five, seven, and nine are all correct, but they do not wait for them to mature on their own. Instead, you have to take out the lotus seeds, put them back after one night, and put them back as many times as you have. After all of them have been passed through, the lotus seeds will mature on their own.

Almost two hundred years ago, this lotus seed had already produced five fruits, which was barely enough for the elixir recipe. So this person probably didn't know this information and missed the opportunity, and then ended up becoming a demon himself. How regrettable.

Now that he knows this, it is his right to take it.

But the time to get it is at the moment when daybreak comes, so it is too late for him today and he has to wait until tomorrow.

In that case, he might as well stay here for a while. This thing is worth his wait.

By the way, he planned to finish reading the stone tablet left by the other party, because the other party's original purpose was to come here to find the relics of Xuanjiao, but it did not write what it was. Given this person's temperament, he might take the initiative to write it out later.

But the result was a bit disappointing. The remaining stone tablet only had some incomprehensible mumblings on it. However, these mumblings did not seem to be completely illogical and seemed to be expressing something.

When Chen Chuan read part of it, he didn't think there was anything wrong, but as he read it gradually and connected the content, he gradually saw the differences.

It seemed to be expressing that when he was practicing, he saw a divine being coming in front of him, and the two of them discussed the method of practice through question and answer. Then he praised it as "great and wonderful", and believed that he had seen the true Dharma, and that he should "abandon the old and follow the new, and practice according to the Dharma", and then "naturally gain wonderful enlightenment".

At first he thought that it was because of his own gradual alienation that there were problems with his mind, so he imagined these things.

But as he looked down, suddenly there was a light on his body. This was actually the Great Bright Light emanating from his self, as if it was resisting and clearing something for him. However, there was no abnormality on his body the next moment.

He couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly.

This situation occurs because the spirit senses some kind of danger, so the Great Bright Light Style moves spontaneously.

Therefore, what is recorded on this stone tablet may not be the imagination of this Dharma Protector You himself. He speculated that it might be that he had communicated with something. The most reasonable inference is that during the alienation process, he might have learned some kind of practice method from the opposite world.

So when he was watching just now, the alienated organization received the information and began to try it on its own, and the changes caused by this self-action, if there is no intervention from his will, I usually will not take the initiative to react, but my own spirit sensed that something was wrong, and thus led to the Great Bright Light Style.

He secretly reminded himself that he should always be alert to some of the things on the opposite side, but he felt that it was not a bad thing to see these now, so that if something similar appeared in front of him in the future, he would not be unprepared.

He remained alert and continued searching. On the last few stones where the writing was barely legible, he actually found some clues that seemed to be related to the treasure.

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(End of this chapter)

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