Chapter 1945: Ambition of the Western World
Translator: Lordbluefire Editor: Lordbluefire
The crazy old man glared at Qin Wentian. This bastard truly knows how to extort people by taking advantage of their weaknesses.
“I got my own plans, you don’t need to care about it.” The crazy old man coldly spoke.
“That’s only natural. What sort of character is senior? Most probably, the present you would give to Youhuang, wouldn’t be any weaker than the god slaying rod.” Qin Wentian smiled in a somewhat shameless manner. However, if Beiming Youhuang could really obtain a treasure that’s better than the God Slaying Rod, what does it matter even if he was a little shameless? His skin was just so thick.
Within the Qin Heavenly Divine Sect, when Beiming Youhuang saw the crazy old man, her beautiful eyes flickered with a strange look. He was as sloppy as before, and looked like a freaky old man. There was truly no way for her to match the image of this old man with that of the Grim Reaper which struck fear in the hearts of countless people in the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms. She simply felt strange.
“Youhuang, senior has promised to give you a treasure. Why don’t you hurry up and thank senior?” Upon seeing that Beiming Youhuang was stunned, he hurriedly reminded.
Beiming Youhuang’s beautiful eyes blinked, she cast an astonished glance at Qin Wentian only to see Qin Wentian winking at her. She immediately understood. Although she felt somewhat speechless, she still softly greeted, “It has been so many years. Senior’s glory is as magnificent as the past.”
“Glory? What glory do I have? Seems like you have turned bad after mixing with this fellow for so long.” The crazy old man spoke as he looked at Beiming Youhuang. This caused an awkward look to appear on her face as a bitter smile flickered in her eyes while she glared at Qin Wentian.
“How’s your cultivation of the Death Scripture?” The old man asked.
“Not too bad.” Beiming Youhuang replied. She also didn’t know which level has she cultivated the Death Scripture to.
“Mhm, the Death Scripture is a peerless deity-level art. Although it isn’t as good as his Undying Scripture when it comes to protecting your life, but it is stronger compared to the Undying Scripture in all other aspects. This is why I passed him the Undying Scripture because I knew his talent couldn’t make it, and he needed some measures to protect his life.” The old man impolitely spoke, not giving Qin Wentian any face at all.
Qin Wentian smiled bitterly, he was somewhat speechless. The crazy old freak passed the Undying Scripture to him because his talent was too low and was prone to dying?
As for whether his talent could make it or not, most probably, everyone else in the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms would have a different opinion than the crazy old freak.
“During these years, did this brat bully you?” The crazy old freak asked. Beiming Youhuang’s eyes flashed, she then turned to Qin Wentian. This sentence was a little…it hinted at there was something between her and Qin Wentian. For a time, she didn’t know how to reply.
“Bully?” Qin Wentian’s face was filled with black lines. This question…
“How could I possibly bully Youhuang? Senior, you are thinking too much.” Qin Wentian smiled.
“No?” Beiming Youhuang glanced at Qin Wentian.
“Eh…” Qin Wentian blinked.
“Hehe, you can tell me. I will punish him for you.” The crazy old freak stared at Qin Wentian, causing Qin Wentian to shiver. When he was trapped inside the forbidden grounds in the Darknorth Mountains, this old freak precisely looked at him with such a gaze.
Although Qin Wentian was already a heavenly deity right now, but when facing a crazy old man who even dared to threaten the western world, he was still way too weak.
“It’s fine, I don’t think he bullied me.” Beiming Youhuang smiled. In an instant, the ice seemed to have melted. She looked extremely beautiful when she smiled.
Staring at these two juniors, the crazy old man nodded his head. He took out a pearl that shone with a resplendent light. There seemed to be incredible amounts of energy contained within it. Qin Wentian and Beiming Youhuang could both sense that within the bead, the energy contained within was none other than soul energy.
The crazy old freak was precisely proficient in soul energy. Even the God Slaying Rod targeted the soul. Most probably, this treasure pearl was the same as well.
“Take it with you and find some time to refine it. Don’t let it down by your lack of effort.” The crazy old freak passed the pearl over to Beiming Youhuang. His gaze was somewhat heavy. When Qin Wentian saw his expression, he silently marveled. Seems like this treasure was truly extraordinary or this crazy old freak wouldn’t be so serious. Given his strength, most probably he wouldn’t even care about ordinary divine weapons.
“Mhm.” Beiming Youhuang seriously nodded. She carefully kept the pearl. From the expression of the crazy old freak, she also could sense that this pearl was extraordinary. She wanted to live up to it. Most probably, this pearl was exceedingly valuable to the crazy old freak.
“Bring me into the Heaven Vault for a walk. The two of you shall accompany me. But I don’t want anyone else sniffing around.” The crazy old freak spoke. He could already sense that many people were currently moving here.
“Right.” Qin Wentian nodded. The crazy old freak stayed in seclusion in the forbidden grounds of the Darknorth Immortal Empire for countless years and must have long gotten used to loneliness. Only an extremely few people have met him before. His personality would naturally be a little strange. To the crazy old freak, he was only acquainted with Qin Wentian and Beiming Youhuang from the Qin Heavenly Divine Sect. He wasn’t interested in any others.
Qin Wentian used his divine sense to send a voice transmission to everyone in the surroundings. They understood and dispersed. Although they were very curious about this legendary character, but since the Grim Reaper didn’t want to meet them, they couldn’t do anything about it too. They only felt that it was a pity.
Since the crazy old freak wanted to enter the Heaven Vault, Qin Wentian naturally wouldn’t have any objections. He and Youhuang accompanied the old freak, they ascended the ancient heaven vault pathway and arrived at the boundless starry space of the nine heavenly layers.
The three of them slowly flew through space with the old freak in the lead. His hands were held behind his back as he inclined his head, staring up at the boundless constellations. His heart was filled with emotions as he mumbled, “How magnificent.”
Even for the powerful him, he has never gone to the nine heavenly layers in person before. Although he had such thoughts, he didn’t really execute them. At this moment, he was thinking that given his current cultivation base, if he didn’t enter the Heaven Vault, how long would it take for him to fly all the way up to the nine heavenly layers by virtue of his own strength?
During these years, he has been protecting Ancient Azure Mystic and only left the Azure Mystic Immortal Realms rarely. There was basically no chance for him to explore the starry space.
“I heard that you obtained Godking Xi’s inheritance?”
“Mhm.” Qin Wentian nodded. “This Heaven Vault is something Godking Xi’s body and will transformed into.”
“He was an awesome character. Back then, I had an agreement with him and we wanted to explore the starry space. But later on, because of what happened to Azure Mystic, I couldn’t make it. I didn’t expect that now, our wishes back then were fulfilled halfway. Only I came here, but he is already gone.” The old freak’s voice was filled with melancholy. His gaze seemed capable of piercing through space, wanting to see the people in the past.
At this moment, he suddenly turned and glanced at Youhuang. His aged eyes suddenly became boundlessly deep as his gaze was filled with doting love. He spoke in a soft voice, “If you have any difficulties on the path of cultivation, you can consult her in your mind. She would be able to answer your questions.”
Beiming Youhuang was somewhat bewildered but she still nodded her head. The person this old freak was referring to was none other than her master. Her master was an extremely powerful heavenly deity from Ancient Azure Mystic and her ancient will has entered Beiming Youhuang’s mind.
“Senior, I’ve read about the world-destroying battle from ancient records but there are still many things that are unclear. Back then, what happened exactly?” Qin Wentian asked.
“Let’s not mention the past. But there’s an enemy you have to destroy no matter what. Everything that happened back then was because of them.” The old freak spoke.
“Who?” Qin Wentian’s eyes flashed.
“The western world.” The old freak glanced at the entrance of the Heaven Vault as he spoke. Qin Wentian’s body trembled. So, the main culprit of the world-destroying battle in Ancient Azure Mystic back then was actually the western world? The old freak could ignore the others who participated in the battle, except for the western world, they must be destroyed for sure. From this, one could tell how much influence the western world had in the world-destroying battle back then. Maybe, their involvement was the key to everything.
And all of these weren’t recorded in the ancient records of the Heavenly Dao Sacred Academy.
“Why did they do so?” Qin Wentian asked. Although there were many observation points in the ancient records, the old freak was someone who had personally experienced that after all. His words were then the truth.
Qin Wentian had never believed that the western world was a place of hope and mercy. If not, why would they try to force him to handover the Heaven Vault? They got the Qiankun Sect and Nine Heavenly Mystical Palace to pull out from his alliance and got the experts from the various hegemonic powers to gather outside the Qin Heavenly Divine Sect. They only needed to control everything from behind. What a brilliant method, they didn’t even need to personally act.
But even if they are not merciful, Qin Wentian found it hard to imagine that they would allow an entire layer of immortal realms to be destroyed. The number of lives lost were countless but they did so anyway. The buddhist-path power the western world, was behind all of that.
“The buddhist path speaks about karma, the law of cause and effect. They also speak about faith. Everything was for the sake of transcending. Back then in that era, there was a person in the western world who was extremely close to the Transcendence Realm.” The old freak slowly spoke. He then continued, “Ever since the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms were split into the eight great regions, the eight godkings all sought transcendence. Their methods of pursuing the Transcendence Realm differed, and in that particular era, for unknown reasons, only that godking in the western world remained in the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms. Hence, his ambitions naturally grew. He wanted to become the ultimate king of the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms and make the thirty-three immortal realms spread his faith, wanting to garner their faith all on himself as everyone in the universe had to believe in and worship him.”
“Hence, he incited many wars to reach his goals. Azure Mystic ended up being destroyed, and the various great regions of the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms suffered heavy casualties with many hegemonic powers being exterminated. But he most probably didn’t imagine that he would also be heavily injured. Hence, that calamity was a lose-lose situation. The entire Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms and our Azure Mystic, were losers.
The expression of the old freak turned cold as he continued, “And now in the present, he is about to exit his seclusion. Seems like his injury from the past must have mostly recovered by now. His goal should still be the same as the past. Hence, the Heaven Vault you have is extremely important to him. It should be a key part of his plans.”
Qin Wentian’s expression froze, he didn’t think that there were so many hidden reasons behind this.
The existence the old freak was speaking off, was actually one of the godkings that has existed since the split of the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms?
The Universe Region was the only region that was completely unified and they had four other lower worlds (immortal realms) in their control. However, the old freak was saying that this wasn’t their ultimate goal. The ultimate goal of the western world was to conquer all the thirty-three immortal realms, brainwashing everyone in the universe to believe in the buddha dao!
But once, there was actually someone who could injure the godking in the western world heavily, delaying his plan for countless years. From this, one could very well imagine how powerful the Imperishable Heaven Lord was back then.
Even the saints of the buddhist path couldn’t see through fate or into the future.
And now, the storm was here once again. From the words of the crazy old freak, it seems like the current peace wouldn’t last long at all.
Chapter 1946: Heaven Lord’s Treasure
Translator: Lordbluefire Editor: Lordbluefire
That existence in the western world actually had such ambitions. Controlling the Heaven Vault would allow him to realize his ambitions easier.
In that case, in truth, no matter if the experts from the hegemonic powers went to pay a visit to the western world or not, the western world would have acted sooner or later. Maybe, they simply used the visit by the other experts as an excuse to act. In fact, they also only stood behind the scenes.
“That existence in the Universe Region, how strong was he back then?” Qin Wentian asked. Although he fought with many heavenly deities before and knew that in this realm, the disparity between cultivators could be extremely great, but he had no idea how powerful someone who could earn the title of a godking was. Had that existence reached the ultimate point of his heavenly daos?
From what he knew, two out of the eight godkings didn’t transcend. If not, the Godking of Time wouldn’t be traveling to the future to search for the way to transcend and Godking Xi wouldn’t have failed, transforming his body into the Heaven Vault to aid the latter generations. Clearly, both of them failed to take that final step. Or to better put it, whether that final step existed or not, is still unknown.
The only person Qin Wentian could think of was that mysterious young man in white who shattered a constellation with a single finger. From the start until now, he had no idea what the white-robed young man’s cultivation base was.
The crazy old freak glanced at the Heaven Vault, seemingly lost in his past memories. After that, he softly spoke, “He is extremely strong. There are many supreme great daos in the Buddhist Sect that contain unfathomable abilities far exceeding your imaginations. For example, karma, reincarnation and samsara, the past, the future. Their daos are all extremely fearsome.”
Qin Wentian’s expression froze. The western world was actually so terrifying?
“I once met an immensely powerful existence before but I have no idea how strong is he exactly. However, shouldn’t people at that level already transcend worldliness? Why would they still bother with fighting over power and benefits?” Qin Wentian was extremely puzzled. From what he saw, that mysterious white-robed young man basically didn’t care about any power struggle at all. Even the headmaster of the sacred academy also chose to ignore matters in the external world, focusing on guiding people for their cultivation paths.
“I’ve already told you earlier that the Buddhist Sect cultivates karma, and the collection of faith is very important to them. Faith is a mysterious substance which they use to cultivate and from what I know, that existence wanted to dominate the entire Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms because the more people that has faith in him and worship him, the higher the chance he has to use the energy gained to reach the Transcendence Realm.” The old freak spoke lightly, causing Qin Wentian’s expression to freeze. So this was the case, the reason behind this was for his own cultivation. But if this really was the reason, the ambition of that existence wouldn’t merely stop here.
No wonder the ancient records in the sacred academy stated that the Buddhist Sect had very tight control over governance. The people in there all believed in the buddhist path and in fact, the four lower world immortal realms controlled by them had been baptized by buddhist faith too. The buddhist dao there was supreme and lofty, unsurpassed by anything else.
There were no other region in the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms that could be compared to the Buddhist Sect with regards to control and governance.
The western world wanted everyone in all the immortal realms to believe in the Buddhist Path so that godking existence would be able to transcend.
After speaking with the old freak, Qin Wentian felt pressure as heavy as a mountain boring down on him. What he has to face wasn’t simply the experts from all the other hegemonic powers in the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms. The western world was in that mix as well. In addition, the western world had a godking existence, the western world was the strongest place in the entire Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms and nobody knew how many heavenly deities they had.
The mysterious and unknown western world was something he had to face. Leaving aside their coveting of the Heaven Vault, just with the destruction of Ancient Azure Mystic alone made it so that they are already unforgivable. An entire world was destroyed, the impact was unimaginable. The Buddhist Path spoke of karma, but why weren’t the buddhist cultivators in the western world afraid that karma would come back to bite them from behind?
“Senior, what level is your cultivation now?” Qin Wentian asked. The old freak glanced at Qin Wentian but he didn’t reply.
“This Heaven Vault connects this place to the nine heavenly layers. In the future, senior can cultivate here and I believe there would be a day where you transcend everything.” Qin Wentian smiled.
“You want me to stay here to protect you?” The old freak calmly spoke. Qin Wentian had an embarrassed look on his face upon having his thoughts laid bare. He laughed, “Our enemies are simply too strong. If senior isn’t around and if that godking from the Universe Region recovers and makes a come back, how would I be his opponent? It’s fine if something happened to me but senior has to think about Youhuang.”
Beiming Youhuang rolled her eyes at Qin Wentian. This fellow was using her as an excuse. However, she felt somewhat funny now that she has seen this side of Qin Wentian. Most probably, only this old freak could handle him. Back then when he entered the forbidden grounds of the Darknorth Immortal Mountain, Qin Wentian must have suffered a lot before he gained the inheritance.
“What? You want me to protect your woman for you?” The old freak glared at Qin Wentian.
“Eh…” Qin Wentian started, he snuck a glance at Beiming Youhuang only to see that she also had a frozen expression on her face. She exchanged a mutual glance at Qin Wentian before a trace of panic flashed in her eyes as she shifted her gaze elsewhere. Her dainty white hands clutched the corners of her sleeves involuntarily. She who had always been as cool as ice, actually panicked due to the words from the old freak.
Qin Wentian also felt somewhat awkward. Luckily, the old freak spoke at this moment. “I only came here to take a look at the Heaven Vault. She is no longer around…what is the point of me staying here. I’ll be leaving now. Take good care of Youhuang.”
After he spoke, the crazy old freak transformed into after-images and disappeared from this location.
“Senior!” Qin Wentain called out but the figure of the old freak had already vanished in his vision. His speed was fast to an incredible extent. With such speed alone, he was qualified to be above the other experts of the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms.
The resplendent starlight cascaded on the two of them. Here, only Qin Wentian and Beiming Youhuang remained. The atmosphere was extremely awkward due to the words spoken by the crazy old freak before he left.
Qin Wentian gazed at Beiming Youhuang only to see her turning her body slightly to the side, not looking at him. No one knew what she was thinking.
“Mhm… Youhuang, will you cultivate here in the Heaven Vault or go outside to the divine sect?” Qin Wentian asked.
“What about you?” Beiming Youhuang asked.
“I’ll go out first to take a look.” Qin Wentian spoke. Right now, he didn’t know what the situation in the external world was like. At his current level, a cultivation session wasn’t something that could end in a day or two. If he wanted to improve, he would need a very long time.
“I’ll follow you.” Beiming Youhuang spoke lightly. These words didn’t contain any hidden meaning but when she thought about the words spoken by the old freak earlier, Beiming Youhuang couldn’t help but feel a little weird. Seeing that Qin Wentian was looking at her, traces of panic flashed in her eyes again as she averted her gaze and stepped forward, leading the way out.
“Allow me.” Qin Wentian moved forward, his spatial energy enveloped the two of them as they teleported straight to the exit of the Heaven Vault.
When they returned to the central divine city of the Qin Heavenly Divine Sect, he spoke to Beiming Youhuang, “Youhuang, senior has given you an extraordinary treasure. Go and try to refine it and see what it does exactly.”
“Mhm.” Beiming Youhuang nodded lightly. After that, she left and headed to her own residence. She went to her cultivation chambers and sat down, as her beautiful eyes stared ahead in a daze, like she was thinking of something. After a long time, she finally took out the treasured pearl and tried to use her methods to refine it. However, no matter what type of technique or methods she used, she discovered that she couldn’t refine the pearl.
“This pearl can only be refined by your soul.” A voice rang out in her mind. Beiming Youhuang’s beautiful eyes flashed, “Teacher, are you acquainted with that senior?”
Silence was in her mind, the ancient will of the heavenly deity didn’t reply to this. The ancient will then stated, “This pearl is a treasure used by her in the past. You have to make good use of it.”
“Her?” Beiming Youhuang’s gaze flickered with contemplation before her heart shuddered. She understood who her teacher was referring to.
The Imperishable Heaven Lord!
This pearl was actually a treasure of the Imperishable Heaven Lord. No wonder the old freak looked so solemn when he handed this to her.
“The senior has gratitude to me, it’s not going to be easy for me to repay him.” Beiming Youhuang sighed. Her teacher didn’t reply. After that, Beiming Youhuang began to use her soul to refine this pearl and indeed, the pearl contained a boundless amount of terrifying soul power which gradually seeped into her own soul.
As the fusion continued, she could faintly sense a surge of extremely powerful soul strength existence. This soul strength existence automatically enveloped the area, and was causing her soul sense to extend outwards endlessly.
Unknowingly, her soul sense appeared at some of the residences in the distance. In Ye Qianyu’s residence, she saw Jialan Qiuyue, it felt like she could sense Jialan Qiuyue’s soul. At this moment, Jialan Qiuyue who was deep in thought suddenly frowned, she faintly sensed that someone was spying on her but when she swept out with her immortal sense, she couldn’t find anything. This feeling was very strange, it was like someone was prying into her soul.
Beiming Youhuang’s heart pounded. The pearl gradually fused with her soul as her soul energy rose up to a terrifying extent. Her soul sense retreated from Jialan Qiuyue’s soul. Earlier, her actions were unintended, it wasn’t too good to keep spying on her soul. The immensely strong soul power then brought her into Qin Wentian’s residence. When she saw Qin Wentian, a strange thought filled her heart. After that, she tried to send her soul sense into Qin Wentian’s soul.
“Huh?” At this moment, Qin Wentian’s eyes narrowed. After that, a powerful soul force from himself transformed into a sealing energy that blocked the prying attempts of everyone that tried to peer into his soul. After that, his own soul power gushed out, tracing the source only to discover that this foreign soul power seemed to exist everywhere, it was hard to specifically track it down. But despite so, with his persistence and current cultivation base, he still managed to find the source and saw Beiming Youhuang who was currently cultivating.
Upon being caught red-handed, Beiming Youhuang blushed. Qin Wentian started, before laughing and retracting his soul power. He knew that Beiming Youhuang was in the midst of refining the pearl. Seems like this treasure was extraordinary, it could actually silently pry into his soul. This was too terrifying, but at the very least, he had managed to extort a good treasure from that old freak for Beiming Youhuang.
After that, Qin Wentian’s figure flashed as he went to look for his grandfather, Luoshen Chuan.
“Wentian, earlier was it Senior Grim Reaper that visited us?” Luoshen Chuan asked.
“Mhm, however his personality is eccentric and has left already. However, I learned of some things after conversing with him.” Qin Wentian then told everything he learned about the Universe Region to Luoshen Chuan. Luoshen Chuan’s heart trembled when he heard that. He also felt immense pressure.
“Grandfather, we have to purposely release some news and let the people of the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms learn of the ambitions of the western world. By doing so, the other hegemonic powers would surely feel wariness to continue cooperating with the western world.” Qin Wentian spoke. Luoshen Chuan nodded, “Indeed. I will send some people out to accomplish this matter.”
“Mhm.” Qin Wentian nodded. Although he was the creator of the Qin Heavenly Divine Sect, he in truth, didn’t really manage things around here. By telling this matter to his grandfather, his grandfather naturally would arrange everything properly!
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frylord
A bigger war start