Chapter 239 : Chapter 239
Chapter 239: The Terrifying Ruins of Illusion!
【When you heard Xuanyuan Tianji say that there was a way, a radiant smile instantly appeared on your face.】
【You knew it—Xuanyuan Tianji had to have a solution. She was the Human Emperor’s descendant, one of the top prodigies of the Weiyang Immortal Realm.】
【“What method?”】
【At your question, Xuanyuan Tianji gave a mysterious smile.】
【“Have you heard of the Undying Deathless Scripture?”】
【You shook your head after hearing the name.】
【You asked Xuanyuan Tianji what kind of technique it was.】
【Xuanyuan Tianji told you that it was a cultivation technique for the soul. It could continuously temper a person’s soul, and once it reached a certain level, it would grant the ability for the soul to remain deathless and to continually reconstruct the body.】
【“What?”】
【“Reconstruct the body?”】
【At that, your eyes widened, brimming with excitement.】
【According to Xuanyuan Tianji, as long as you successfully cultivated this technique, then during tribulation, so long as your soul remained intact, no matter how your body was destroyed by the Chaos Divine Lightning, you would be able to reconstruct it again and again.】
【At that thought, the way you looked at Xuanyuan Tianji began to grow increasingly fervent.】
【Not far away, Xuanyuan Tianji broke out in goosebumps all over when she saw the look in your eyes.】
【“Don’t look at me like that. I do have this technique, but it’s nowhere near as easy to cultivate successfully as you think.”】
【You completely ignored most of what Xuanyuan Tianji said and only focused on the fact that she possessed the technique.】
【Without the slightest hesitation, you asked her for it.】
【Seeing the determination in your eyes, Xuanyuan Tianji let out a sigh and, in the end, still handed over the Undying Deathless Scripture to you.】
【After obtaining the Undying Deathless Scripture, you thanked her at once, then hurried away from her residence without stopping.】
【After returning to your own dwelling, you immediately began cultivating the Undying Deathless Scripture.】
【After roughly skimming through it, you gained a basic understanding of it.】
【You discovered that this technique required you to use your soul to capture the drifting Primordial Soul-Origin Qi of Heaven and Earth. After capturing it, you would condense an Undying Soulflame within your Soul Sea.】
【And this Undying Soulflame was the key to reconstructing the body. Once you cultivated it, after your body was destroyed, you could consume the Undying Soulflame along with soul power to reconstruct your body.】
【In short, as long as you possessed the Undying Soulflame, you would be able to reconstruct your body.】
【Once you finished reading the entire technique, the expression on your face turned grave.】
【First of all, there was a prerequisite for cultivating this technique: you had to pass the trial designed by the creator of the technique.】
【That trial would begin the instant you started cultivating it.】
【You saw that the trial was divided into two parts. The first was the Soulflame Trial Ground, where you had to endure the burning of the Undying Soulflame for seven times seven, forty-nine days.】
【The second trial was the Ruins of Illusion, where you had to confront the memories and desires you feared most. If you could hold fast to your true self and resist the temptation of your inner demons, you would pass.】
【Looking at the two trials described there, you fell into hesitation.】
【Although cultivating the Undying Deathless Scripture was not the only choice if you wanted to survive the tribulation,】
【you knew that it was definitely the fastest choice—without question.】
【You knew that at this moment, you no longer had any path left to retreat on.】
【After taking a deep breath, you decided to begin cultivating it.】
【The next day!】
【You began cultivating the Undying Deathless Art, and your soul entered the assessment secret realm.】
【First stage, the Soulflame Trial Ground!】
【At this moment, you found yourself in a void.】
【You discovered nine Soul Crystal Stars floating around you, each radiating a dim glow, while countless strands of pale golden Undying Soulflame spewed from them and rushed toward your soul.】
【“Hiss!”】
【The instant the Undying Soulflame touched your body, pain spread through every part of you.】
【This pain came from the inside out, and it was more than a hundred times worse than any pain felt by the body.】
【“Seven times seven, forty-nine days...”】
【You gritted your teeth, knowing that if you could endure forty-nine days, you would have completed half of it.】
【And so, every moment of every day, you endured agony.】
【What you did not know, however, was that while the Undying Soulflame was burning you, your soul was also continuously growing stronger.】
【This trial was also one of the rare opportunities you could scarcely hope to obtain.】
【Very soon, forty-nine days passed in silence.】
【During those forty-nine days, you had no idea how much pain you had endured. Time and again, you came close to losing consciousness, only to force yourself awake at the critical moment.】
【You knew that if you passed out at any point during those forty-nine days, your trial would fail, and you would forever lose the chance to cultivate the Undying Deathless Scripture.】
【Day Fifty!】
【You discovered that the Undying Soulflame around you had suddenly vanished. Then, at some unknown point, mist began to spread beneath your feet, and it only grew thicker and thicker.】
【You had no time to think and remained on guard at every moment.】
【Because you knew that what you now faced was the Ruins of Illusion—your inner demons.】
【In the next instant, you suddenly felt the ground beneath you disappear, and you fell straight into the mist.】
【When you opened your eyes again, you looked at the familiar Herb Garden around you and frowned involuntarily.】
【The words Qingyun Sect slipped from your mouth before you even realized it.】
【“Qingyun Sect?”】
【“Oh right, I’m a menial disciple of the Qingyun Sect!”】
【At this moment, it was as though you had already forgotten that you were inside an illusion. All your memories had vanished, and you had returned to the time when you had just transmigrated into the Qingyun Sect.】
【Day after day, you carried out your tasks in the Qingyun Sect’s Herb Garden, as though that had always been your proper duty.】
【You had no idea how much time passed before one day, quite suddenly, you picked up a ring in the Herb Garden.】
【Curious, you put the ring on your finger.】
【In the days that followed, you continued doing the same things as always.】
【Ten years later!】
【Sitting at home, you felt vexed by your terrible talent. Ten years had passed, and you were still only at the First Layer of Qi Refining, without the slightest progress.】
【On that day, a voice suddenly rang out in your mind.】
【The voice told you that he was the Supreme Sword Emperor of the Immortal World and had fallen into the Lower Realm for special reasons.】
【The Supreme Sword Emperor told you that over the past ten years, he had continuously absorbed your Spiritual Qi, and only now had he finally managed this brief awakening.】
【The Supreme Sword Emperor asked whether you wanted to become an immortal.】
【You nodded and answered him without hesitation that you did.】
【The Supreme Sword Emperor looked at you with satisfaction, then passed on his supreme art to you.】
【From that moment on, your talent leaped to become the most dazzling in the entire Qingyun Sect.】
【One year later, you defeated Ye Chuxue, the strongest among the outer disciples, and successfully entered the inner sect.】
【Five years later!】
【Your cultivation broke through to the Deity Transformation Realm!】
【The Sect Master of the Qingyun Sect recommended you to the Central Continent, and so you embarked upon your path of cultivation there.】