r18novel Chapter 30 The Life of Tianjing
Chapter 30 The Life of Tianjing
After changing into a brand-new purple brocade robe, Wen Tianren took a few pills and meditated for a few days to recover before heading deeper into the ruins.
Although his face was still a little pale and his energy had not yet recovered, there was not much time left before the eruption of the ruins volcano.
After just passing through the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation, Wen Tianren dared not relax, clutching a magic artifact used to detect formations in his hand.
He extended his divine sense to probe ahead, being extremely cautious about everything along the way, for fear of falling into some kind of formation or restriction again.
With utmost caution, Wen Tianren advanced a short distance before a faint light appeared ahead. As he slowly approached, he discovered it was a rather large stalactite cave.
The cave is over thirty feet wide, with countless cone-shaped stalactites hanging from the dome, and the ground rising up like bamboo shoots. The four walls are crystal clear, with white light flowing through them.
He passed through three or four interconnected cave halls, and the deeper he went, the richer the spiritual energy became.
Wen Tianren's face lit up with joy when he stepped into a much larger main cave.
Before him lay a cave dwelling, and what was even more striking was that two skeletons lay quietly in the center of the cave's main hall.
One body was gray and withered, carelessly tossed in a corner, as if casually discarded; the other, however, was entirely cast in gold, sitting cross-legged with a solemn posture, and a thumb-sized golden bead hovering in its dantian, shining brightly.
However, beneath its entirely golden body, there was a deep, bone-deep wound on its upper body, the wound containing a rich purplish-black color.
The purplish-black aura emanating from the skeleton was extremely familiar to Wen Tianren.
"Six Extremes Demonic Energy?"
Instead of checking the storage bags of the two skeletons, he carefully examined the golden skeleton and finally confirmed that it was indeed Six Extremes Demonic Qi.
"This skeleton should belong to the Heavenly Mirror Hermit. Could this Six Extremes Demonic Qi have been left behind by someone from the Holy Demon Island? No, there's another aura here?"
With eight golden mirrors, this cave dwelling undoubtedly belongs to the Heavenly Mirror Hermit.
The Six Extremes True Demon Art, as the number one demonic art in the Chaotic Star Sea, has been circulating in the Chaotic Star Sea for countless years. However, for countless years, only the Wen family of Holy Demon Island has mastered this art. The Six Extremes Demonic Qi on this golden skeleton must have been left by the people of Holy Demon Island in the past.
However, the wounds on the skeleton were not only filled with the Six Extremes Demonic Qi, but also with another kind of aura.
As he was pondering, his divine sense inadvertently swept over the tattered robes that had slipped from the golden bones, and he suddenly sensed something tucked inside.
"Um?"
He gently parted the cloth, revealing a jade slip. The jade was warm and lustrous, with dried bloodstains still clinging to its edges.
The fact that Tianjing Sanren could keep it on his person clearly meant it was no ordinary jade slip. Wen Tianren dared not be careless and repeatedly examined it using several methods, fearing that there might be some hidden tricks inside.
Having confirmed that it was just an ordinary jade slip, he probed it with his divine sense to examine its contents.
A short while later, Wen Tianren withdrew his consciousness, his face filled with shock and realization.
"So that's how it is. No wonder that after the Heavenly Mirror Hermit killed the Star Palace Saint Master, he disappeared not long afterward and never appeared in the Star Sea again. Also, this Heavenly Mirror Hermit was actually a cultivator from the Great Jin Buddhist Sect."
Within this jade slip was actually the autobiographical record left by the Hermit of Heavenly Mirror before his death.
It turns out that this Heavenly Mirror Hermit is actually a cultivator from the Pure Fire Sect, one of the four great Buddhist sects of the Great Jin Dynasty.
Originally, his branch was in charge of the sect, but hundreds of years before his birth, all the Nascent Soul cultivators in his branch perished in a great war between good and evil, and they no longer held their former status in the sect.
From a young age, Tianjing Sanren grew up under the suppression of other families in the sect. He worked hard to cultivate and eventually became a Nascent Soul cultivator, which enabled him to revitalize his family.
Unexpectedly, during a competition among the younger generation within the sect, a junior cultivator from his own family was ambushed and bullied by a junior from a rival sect member, causing his cultivation level to drop by one rank.
Tianjing Sanren stood up for him, but was ignored by the other party.
In a subsequent battle with a demonic cultivator, he was also ambushed by that person. If he hadn't had a trump card to save his life, he would have died at his hands.
Upon returning to the sect, the sect elders acted unfairly and did not punish the person.
This finally enraged Tianjing Sanren. He continued to maintain his original position as the Dharma Transmission Elder in the Scripture Pavilion, but one day, he faked the massacre of his enemy's entire family.
However, his scheme was exposed, and he was forced to defect. Before fleeing, he looted the sect's treasure pavilion and stole the sect's most precious treasure, the Vajra Relic. He then continued to flee throughout the Great Jin Dynasty.
After fleeing for over a hundred years, his cultivation level actually reached the mid-Nascent Soul stage.
In a market town, he accidentally overheard a Core Formation cultivator speaking through his divine sense, saying that the Star Palace of his sect was built by a force that did not belong to the Great Jin Dynasty.
The sect has a teleportation array with extremely long distances, and he has personally witnessed outside cultivators walking out of the teleportation array.
At that time, the Pure Fire Sect had already used its tracking treasure, and a late-stage Grand Cultivator was hunting him down.
Upon hearing this news, remembering that he still possessed a Great Teleportation Token he had obtained years ago, he decided to use the Star Palace's ultra-long-distance teleportation array to escape.
Even though he knew that the other side of the teleportation array might be in the sect of that Star Palace, there was nothing he could do; the Pure Fire Sect would find him soon.
Tianjing Sanren followed the Core Formation cultivator back to the sect. After investigating the group, he discovered that there was only one Nascent Soul cultivator among them.
He then sneaked in at night, but accidentally triggered the array's restrictions. After injuring the Nascent Soul cultivator, he escaped using the teleportation array.
Unexpectedly, there was a means of communication between the two sides of the teleportation array. Several Nascent Soul cultivators from the other side surrounded him, and Tianjing Sanren managed to escape only after using all his skills.
Later, they learned where they had arrived. It was not Tianlan Grassland, Mulan Grassland, or Tiannan, but a strange cultivation world called Luanxinghai.
The person who stopped him that day was none other than the Star Palace, the overlord of the Chaotic Star Sea.
Hundreds of years ago, the Star Palace still had a Nascent Soul cultivator in charge, but now there is only a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, who is rumored to have become a great cultivator through the initiation ceremony of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
After that, with his mid-Nascent Soul cultivation, Tianjing Sanren was quite carefree in the Chaotic Star Sea, finally having time to calm down and cultivate.
However, he was recognized by the elders of the Star Palace on one occasion. The master of the Star Palace at the time took action, but Tianjing Sanren, who had Buddhist protective techniques, managed to escape despite paying a huge price.
He then disappeared from the Chaotic Star Sea and silently cultivated for hundreds of years. He then broke through to the late Nascent Soul stage by relying on the Vajra Relic. After that, he appeared and killed several Nascent Soul elders of the Star Palace.
They stormed the Star Palace and engaged in a fierce battle with its master outside Tianxing City.
Because he underestimated his opponent and was unfamiliar with the magic weapons of the Heavenly Mirror Hermit, the Lord of the Star Palace was trapped inside the Eight Gates Golden Light Mirror. He was injured by the Vajra Relic and his magic power was exhausted by the Golden Light Divine Flame, which refined him. Even his primordial spirit could not escape.
While it seemed that Tianjing Sanren had won a great victory in this battle, the Star Palace Master had at least been in the late stage for hundreds of years. He used the Star Palace's inherited treasure, the Heavenly Star Sword, to injure Tianjing Sanren. The scar on the golden skeleton was left by the Heavenly Star Sword.
Therefore, after his victory, Tianjing Sanren did not linger and hurriedly returned to his cave.
Little did they know, the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.
All of this was being secretly observed by someone with ulterior motives. On their way back, they were blocked by the Wen family patriarch, a late-stage demonic cultivator from Holy Demon Island.
It turned out that this person had been observing in secret for a long time. Knowing that he was also injured, he prepared to kill Tianjing Sanren and take all the treasures from him and the Star Palace Master.
That battle, though witnessed by no one, was extremely brutal.
Tianjing Sanren truly lived up to his reputation as a legend. He used several reckless, life-burning secret techniques in succession, ultimately fighting back to kill the Wen family patriarch and dragging his mangled body back to his cave.
However, the wound inflicted by the Heavenly Star Sword was invaded by the Six Extremes Demonic Qi of the Wen family patriarch, like a maggot clinging to the bone or a poisonous vine entwining the heart, constantly devouring the life force of Tianjing Sanren.
Upon returning to his cave, Tianjing Sanren was severely injured due to the reckless methods he had used in the two battles. He had no choice but to use the Vajra Relic to stop the spread of his injuries, but it was still of little effect.
In the end, he had no choice but to set up an array of restrictions in his cave, and to inscribe all the grudges and ins and outs of his life into this jade slip before passing away in the cave.