CBGC - ch134.3

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There is no dust at all. The underground chamber looks like a storeroom, filled with all sorts of miscellaneous items. Jade slips are scattered everywhere, and there are some tattered books and scrolls. Glancing around the entire underground chamber, there aren't many things with a strong spiritual presence to be found.

Su Tingyun can't sense much sword intent, what with her high cultivation level. However, Zhan Yu's complexion isn't great. He positions himself behind Su Tingyun and says, "Every item here carries remnants of sword intent. Stand in for me and unleash your sword to suppress them."

With a thought, Su Tingyun's Springwater Sword appears in her hand. She executes a swift strike and immediately retracts the sword's momentum. The sword intent surges out and then dissipate completely in the next moment. With just this action, all the lingering sword intents in the room are pacified.

"Alright, let's split up and search. In our Obliteration Sword Tower, that one sword cultivator has a two-character surname. If there's any record, we should be able to identify them." Zhan Yu says, already picking up a book from one of the shelves and scanning it ten lines at a time.

Fortunately, jade slips are the standard recording method in the cultivation world. A simple scan with one's spiritual sense would reveal their contents. So these handwritten books pose a greater challenge, using the record-keeping methods of the mortal world, with pages to flip through, requiring them to read the pages with their eyes.

Su Tingyun hadn't been reading for long before she overstays her welcome in Xi Guang's body. She asks her master to leave first, lest there be any problems she might not be able to handle with her soul body alone. She stays inside the bell, scanning the jade slips with her divine sense, not daring to take a moment's rest.

Indeed, there currently doesn't seem to be anything valuable here. The books contain records of love, hatred, and grudges, occasional information about hidden realms, and gossip from the cultivation world, all of which leaves her head spinning.

A long while later, a particular piece of information catches Su Tingyun's attention.

She calculates the time on the jade slip, and it should be from a hundred thousand years ago.

In the Obliteration Sword Tower, there was once a sword cultivator who reached peak perfect Tribulation Transcendent, a master of the "Haoran Zhenqi Sword Technique," with a great chance of achieving a successful ascension into Mahayana. However, they failed, and what was crucial was that this person attempted to pass through the tribulation inside the sect grounds. This resulted in the deaths of all the cultivators inside the Tower at that time. It's just that most of the sect members were out for trials and treasure hunts then, so they luckily survived.

During that incident, the main hall of the Obliteration Sword Tower was completely destroyed, and the entire island was in ruins. Only the obelisk and the Cleansing Sword Lake remained intact. Although they rebuilt the Obliteration Sword Tower later, it wasn't able to rise again after this setback, as the Tower's strength gradually declined with each generation.

The person who recorded this information was one of the survivors who were outside at the time, and what actually happened that day remains unclear. These were just his speculations. He didn't mention the name of that sword cultivator, so Su Tingyun couldn't confirm whether the sword cultivator who nearly caused the destruction of the Obliteration Sword was the same as the one with the four-character name.

Using this as a clue, Su Tingyun tries to find further records about this incident, but she doesn't discover anything else. After reading all the jade slips and gaining no new insights, her frustrations grow.

In order to calm herself down, Su Tingyun's primordial spirit goes inside the ring and lays stiffly on the grass for a while. After some time, she suddenly sits up.

Can a Heavenly Tribulation of Mahayana Ascension break the seal?

That senior sword cultivator who had a high chance of ascending, that person was a righteous and chivalrous figure, an embodiment of the Haoran Zhenqi faction. If this person had discovered that they were practicing sword techniques within such a cruel formation, could it have shaken their Dao heart and caused an accident?

Normally, minor fluctuations in the Dao heart aren't a big issue, but if the Dao heart is unstable during the process of ascending, it could lead to a backlash, possibly even getting overcome by one's heart demons...

Did this person just failed Ascension and caused the destruction of the entire sect and its members, or did they also fall into darkness and demonic possession?

The "Broken Sword Master" mentioned by the Upper Realm cultivators also practiced the Haoran Zhenqi Sword Technique. Is there some connection with this person? Su Tingyun's mind is a mess as she ponders all these possibilities. She thinks about it so much but still has no idea how likely any of these scenarios are. Even if one falls into demonic possession, can they reach the Upper Realm anyway?

She can't understand any of these things. Right now, she wishes she could just go to the Upper Realm and ask someone about the Broken Sword Master.

No other valuable clues were found in the basement, so it's still a complete mystery where exactly Little Uncle is hiding.

Two days have passed, and Su Tingyun once again enters Xi Guang's body. When she goes to visit Elder Yan, she finds that he's already awake. He almost kneels in front of her, begging her to bring back that wicked disciple Yan Yuqing. Su Tingyun will naturally do her best. After careful consideration, she decides to go to the Qilian Mountain Range to look around.

When Su Lijiang was hunting down Zhang Zhizi, it was precisely in the Qilian Mountains where he lost track of the other. Su Lijiang is also a cultivator in the Ascension stage. It shouldn't have been easy for him to lose someone unless there's something unusual about the Qilian Mountains.

If Little Uncle has really fallen into demonic possession, or is being controlled by something evil, there's a good chance he might be hiding there. With no other leads, she can only try her luck in the Qilian Mountains. If she happens to find Zhang Zhizi and eliminate him, it would bring closure to a longstanding worry.

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