Chapter 208 : Twin-Polar Fate Pattern
Chapter 208: Twin-Polar Fate Pattern
He Zhengyu slightly nodded and praised, “To be able to cultivate the Tai Xuan Guarding the One to Minor Completion at the age of nineteen can already be considered a rare prodigy and pillar of the Immortal Sect. You may enjoy the treatment of a Heaven’s Chosen.”
“Let me give you two choices. The first is the qualification to contract a Fourth-Tier Mystic Beast cub. The second is the chance of enlightenment for Flawless Qi Refining.”
“Choosing the former requires entering the depths of Yuqing Mountain Range and passing the trial of the Mystic Beast’s parents. Only then can you obtain a Fourth-Tier Companion Beast. Of course, if you fail the trial, you can only contract a Third-Tier Treasure Beast.”
“Choosing the latter allows you to hear the three chimes of the Fifth-Tier Enlightenment Treasure, the [Jade-Morning Bell].”
“When the bell tolls, ten thousand tribulations can be understood. Hearing the three chimes of the Jade-Morning Bell may give you the chance to enter a state of enlightenment, to see clearly the flaws in your own cultivation method, and to find the possibility of Flawless Qi Refining. But there is also the chance of failure, which would push you directly into forging a Transcendent Foundation.”
As He Zhengyu’s words fell, before Chen Beiwu appeared a fist-sized Jade-Morning Bell, seemingly cast of bronze.
Chen Beiwu hesitated for a moment, then said calmly, neither humble nor arrogant, “I choose the qualification to contract a Fourth-Tier Mystic Beast cub.”
After beginning the Heavenly Evolution Cycle Art, he had already found the opportunity for Flawless Qi Refining.
In truth, the choice before him was only one.
Hearing this answer, He Zhengyu was somewhat surprised.
Flawless Qi Refining was too difficult to achieve.
In order to recruit a single Flawless Qi Refining cultivator, the Yuqing Immortal Sect had spent no small price this year to snatch one prodigy from the Cosmos Splendor Grotto-Heaven.
Even so, among the one hundred and twenty-nine new disciples admitted this year, only two possessed Flawless Qi Refining, one of them even bearing the Innate Dao Body.
As for the last intake—or rather, five years prior—the Yuqing Immortal Sect had not recruited even a single Flawless Qi Refining disciple.
This showed the true difficulty of Flawless Qi Refining.
If Chen Beiwu had not cultivated Tai Xuan Guarding the One to Minor Completion, with the light of the Guarding-the-One Mirror protecting his spirit platform, He Zhengyu would not have dared to say that the Jade-Morning Bell held even a small chance of helping him comprehend enlightenment.
“You have ambition.” True Monarch Jiang Chuan laughed heartily.
Relying on others was not as good as relying on oneself.
Chen Beiwu’s answer suited him perfectly.
“This is the Yuqing Token. With this token, you may enter the depths of the mountain range and select a Mystic Beast cub for your contract.” With a thought, He Zhengyu sent a jade-white radiance falling into Chen Beiwu’s palm.
Receiving the token, and seeing that Minister He and True Monarch Jiang Chuan said no more, Chen Beiwu consciously took his leave.
Only when Chen Beiwu’s figure disappeared did He Zhengyu turn his head toward True Monarch Jiang Chuan.
“Don’t look at me like that. I did not reveal anything about the Five Qi Vine to Chen Beiwu.” True Monarch Jiang Chuan smiled.
Though the Five Qi Vine was a Fourth-Tier Mystic Plant, it was a branch transformed from the Sect-Suppressing Dao Tree, the [Primordial Five-Elements Ancestral Tree]. Its status was far above that of the Biluosong, the exclusive Treasure Beast of the Bixiao Immortal Sect.
It was no exaggeration to say that the Yuqing Immortal Sect was able to stand as the foremost of the Thirteen Immortal Sects precisely because of the endlessly potential, Five-Elements-suppressing, ever-evolving Fourth-Tier Companion Mystic Plant—the Five Qi Vine.
In the eyes of Yuqing’s high command, the importance of the Five Qi Vine surpassed even that of a Fifth-Tier Origin Beast.
“Don’t tell me you did not notice that this boy’s cultivation method differs from the Immortal Alliance’s cultivation system?” He Zhengyu narrowed his eyes.
“He merely cultivates some orthodox ancient cultivation methods. What is there to mind? In the distant past, the Qingyuan Huang Clan was also a renowned True Venerable lineage. That they left behind some Qi Refining foundational methods is nothing strange.”
True Monarch Jiang Chuan’s tone was calm. “What’s more, in this era, cultivating through beasts has already become the mainstream. Otherwise, our Yuqing Grotto-Heaven would not have declined into merely the Yuqing Immortal Sect.”
“Mind your words.” He Zhengyu’s gaze sharpened, and the pressure belonging to a Divine Transformation True Venerable erupted forth.
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Leaving the Tower of Infinity, Chen Beiwu headed straight toward the Sect’s Library.
To steal a thread of Heaven’s Will through the Heavenly Evolution Cycle Art required the perfect alignment of Heaven, Earth, and Man.
In order to find the right opportunity, he decided to study Divination Arts, while also learning about the depths of the Yuqing Mountain Range, so as to better choose a suitable Companion Beast.
Thus, the Sect Library, where disciples could freely view records, became Chen Beiwu’s destination.
“Present your student token to enter.” The guarding cultivator at the entrance glanced at Chen Beiwu, deliberately not concealing his own aura.
‘Good heavens, even the gatekeeper is a Golden Core True Person.’ Chen Beiwu’s eyelids twitched as he handed over his student token.
He understood the importance of the Sect Library, but having a Golden Core True Person as a gatekeeper was rather excessive.
In the Southern Wastes, such an existence would be a regional overlord.
“So, you are a new student.” That man spoke. “The rules of the Library are simple. Remember this—the cultivation methods and manuals within may be freely read, but not a single page may be damaged, let alone taken away. Do you understand?”
Chen Beiwu nodded and entered.
【Jade-Pivot Divination Technique】
【Nine-Palaces Flying Star Hexagram】
【Red-Dust Ten-Thousand-Karma Fate】
【Supreme Lingbao Karma Causality Scripture】
In the divination section, he selected several Earth-Grade Secret Arts, intending to study them carefully.
According to the Heavenly Evolution Cycle Art, to defy Heaven and alter fate, to steal Heaven’s Will, one must rely upon rare astronomical phenomena, when the cycles of Heaven and Earth’s spiritual mechanism surged violently.
Such as: Northern Dipper ascending high, Nine Stars aligned in a string, a Total Eclipse of the Moon, the Five Planets shining together, or Heaven and Earth joined by a rainbow.
Every cultivator’s fate pattern differed, requiring different celestial phenomena. The stronger the phenomenon, the more Heavenly Will could theoretically be stolen.
Of course, such rare phenomena were difficult to find, and the waiting time far too long. Chen Beiwu preferred to search for a somewhat more ordinary astronomical phenomenon.
But before that, he needed to calculate his own fate pattern.
Borrowing the light of the Guarding-the-One Mirror to comprehend, Chen Beiwu spent ten days and nights reading through all four manuals on fate patterns in the divination section.
At last, he slowly closed his eyes, his fingers tapping lightly upon the jade desk. His hand technique flitted like butterflies among flowers, as he began to employ the rudimentary Supreme Lingbao Karma Causality Scripture to perform a deduction.
With this scripture, one must interrogate a spirit treasure.
The higher the grade of the spirit treasure, the more accurate the deduction.
Chen Beiwu did not hesitate to choose the Nine-Breath Chaos as his divination spirit treasure.
“Buzz!”
When the deduction ended, the Nine-Breath Chaos showed no response, as lofty as always.
A diviner must not divine himself.
Just as Chen Beiwu thought the divination had failed, sudden comprehension rose in his heart.
He bore the Twin-Polar Fate Pattern of the Eastern Radiance.
The Eastern Radiance governed life, the Northern Darkness governed death. This fate pattern held both extreme fortune and extreme calamity, its bearer born with both orthodox and unorthodox seals.
Chen Beiwu’s orthodox seal was the Northern Black Emperor Seal, governing slaughter, his fate bound with chilling tribulation. His unorthodox seal was the Eastern Azure Emperor Seal, governing vitality, his fate imbued with the breath of spring.
The dual seals of the twin emperors, both revered—thus, Twin-Polar. It was a special fate pattern unrecorded in any of the four divination manuals.
After all, for an ordinary cultivator to obtain even a single Black Emperor fate pattern was already considered an outstanding destiny—let alone twin emperors at once.
‘Such a fierce fate pattern… could it be that I divined it wrong?’ Chen Beiwu’s heart skipped a beat.
Indeed, he was no expert in divination. It was normal for a first attempt to be mistaken.
Yet, to confirm, Chen Beiwu used the Nine-Breath Chaos to divine three more times. Each time, the result was the same.