The third underground floor of Taiyin Pavilion.
Xu Chong looked at the huge block of ice in front of him, which took up most of the space, with a serious expression.
The coldness was like countless tiny needles, covering his entire body.
You know, he is now the Nine-turn Immortal Spirit...
Fortunately, the chill was confined to a few feet of ice, otherwise, the Hua family would have evacuated the ship long ago.
"how so?"
Xu Chong couldn't help but look up and ask, "How long has it been since I last came here as Lin Kuang? At that time, I remember that she didn't behave in any way."
“Nobody knows what’s going on.”
The voice of Old Lady Hua came from above, "At the beginning, I listened to you and moved Nong Yue from the rooftop to the underground."
"About a week later, when I used the power of the Tao Seed to explore this place again, I was completely blocked."
"Even the power of the Tao Seed has been blocked, let alone me going down in person."
As she spoke, Old Lady Hua sighed, "No one in the entire Hua family can get close to the third floor. We have no way of knowing her situation. Is she still alive, or..."
The latter sentence was simply ignored by Xu Chong.
His attention was completely focused on the space on the third underground floor.
This is the bottom part of the entire building ship, and further down is the keel...if the Taoist building ship has a keel.
Looking at the environment, it is empty and monotonous, as if it has hardly been tidied up.
If nothing unexpected happens, the Fang family rarely uses this space and it remains vacant all year round.
There are only a few shelves in the innermost corner.
Xu Chong narrowed his eyes and asked, "Is there anything special on the shelf down here?"
"Special?"
Old Lady Hua was stunned, and after a long pause, she said, "There is a leather scroll and a stone tablet that have been passed down in the Hua family... The content on the leather scroll is a little, a little strange, and as for the stone tablet, the material is indistinguishable. Is this considered special?"
A leather scroll with bizarre records.
A stone slab of unclear material.
Xu Chong vaguely thought of something, and without hesitation, he took a step forward and appeared next to the shelf.
However, as soon as he stood still, before he could search carefully, the coldness of the entire third underground floor seemed to suddenly have its own will and swarmed towards him.
Xu Chong's expression changed slightly, and without too much time to think, he directly wrapped the shelf with his strength and flew across the space.
Even though he was fast enough, by the time he appeared in the main hall on the first floor of Taiyin Pavilion, a thin layer of frost had already formed on his brows.
"Unconscious warning mechanism..."
Xu Chong seemed to be thinking about something and put the shelf down.
Old Lady Hua noticed the movement and when she came up from the second floor, she looked at Xu Chong with an even stranger look: "Breaking the sky with one hand... No wonder you were able to find the building ship."
It was obvious that Xu Chong was heading straight for the Hua family with the Fang family's ship.
Otherwise, if you don’t contact them in advance, you may not meet them even if you sail on the vast ocean for decades.
"Let's simply blockade the third floor and don't let anyone in."
Xu Chong said to himself, "Even a golden body with nine transformations can only stay in there for three breaths. Even you can't get out after entering."
"Golden Body...Nine Turns?"
Old Lady Hua was stunned for a moment.
"lucky."
Xu Chong smiled, turned around and started looking through the shelves.
Armor, weapons, bamboo slips, most of which are old and miscellaneous items, make the leather scrolls and stone slabs stand out.
The stone slab was exactly as Old Lady Hua had said. Apart from being made of an unknown material, it not only had no traces of any engraving, but it even had fine cracks on it and would have completely shattered into pieces with the slightest force.
However, just as Xu Chong was about to put down the stone slab and check the leather scroll, a look of astonishment flashed across Old Lady Hua's face.
"What's wrong?"
Xu Chong raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Uh, nothing."
Old Lady Hua shook her head and pointed at the stone slab in Xu Chong's hand. "It's just that in my impression, it hasn't cracked... Maybe it's been too long. After all, it's been more than 40 years since I last saw it."
It didn't crack before?
Xu Chong's heart moved slightly, "No, it is very likely that it is not that simple."
"Hmm? What do you mean?"
Old Lady Hua's face turned serious.
"It has indeed been forty years since you last saw it, but the history of the Hua family is much longer than forty years... Even if it has been damaged over the years, how could it appear just in the past forty years?"
Xu Chong put the stone slab back to its original position. "If my guess is correct, the stone slab cracked after Nong Yue entered the third floor."
"you mean……"
Old Lady Hua turned her head abruptly and looked at the stairs going down not far away. "Is Nong Yue's condition caused by this stone slab?"
"Yes or no, there should be an answer here."
Xu Chong took the scroll in his hand and waved it.
In an instant, Old Lady Hua's expression became a little embarrassed.
However, the other person didn't say anything, and Xu Chong was too lazy to ask, so he just spread out the scroll and started reading it.
With just one glance, he knew he was right.
At the beginning of the scroll, there were four words written in a size that was obviously larger.
——Chronicles of Yin and Yang.
Yin and Yang refers to the Yin and Yang Temple!
'When the heaven and earth were first created, they were called the mysterious heaven.'
'Ten thousand races stand side by side, and ten thousand paths compete with each other.'
'Now a sage has been born, building the Yin-Yang Temple and establishing the Tianxuan.'
"The infinite path of the Way begins from here..."
Less than half a cup of tea later, Xu Chong put away the scroll, his heart beating fast.
Looking at Old Lady Hua again, I just feel that it is really not easy...
The first half of the record on the leather scroll basically overlaps with the Tianxuan Chronicle, but the description is much simpler. As long as it is not a major event related to the human race, it is not included. Even major events are summarized in one simple sentence.
After all, the leather scroll is only this big, and the information it can contain is far from comparable to the jade slips that can be read by spiritual consciousness.
The second half of the scroll is completely different from the Tianxuan Chronicle.
First of all, the person who left this leather scroll clearly stated his identity.
——The true disciple of Yin Yang Temple, Hua Jue.
To be precise, he should be the true disciple of Yinmai.
The Yin-Yang Temple is a huge force formed by countless human forces coming together.
Among them, the dominant ones are the Yin meridians and the Yang meridians.
Yang pulses are male and Yin pulses are female.
In the year 1735 of the Xuan calendar, after the death of the old palace master, the Yin-Yang Temple split.
Except for the core Yin and Yang meridians, the rest of the forces have become independent.
The price of this independence is more than just the reduction of the power of the Yin-Yang Temple.
One is because of justice, two is because of orthodoxy, and three is because of fear.
Although they dare not take action against the Yin and Yang meridians openly, suppression and exclusion in secret are inevitable.
In this case, the Yin meridian, a faction composed purely of women, is more difficult to maintain than the Yang meridian.
Not long after, many Yin Meridian disciples joined other forces, and the huge main branch of the Divine Palace fell apart.
Hua Jue’s choice was different.
As a rare true disciple, she would be more accepting of death than joining other forces, compromising and serving others with her beauty.
Of course she wouldn't be stupid actually die.
She chose to leave alone, transforming herself into a casual cultivator and hiding her identity, secretly inheriting everything about the Yin Vein.
In order to avoid being coveted by others, she did not carry the jade slips for passing on her skills, nor did she form any faction.
Whether accepting or teaching disciples, he did it all personally to ensure that the inheritance would not be taken away.
At the end of the scroll, Hua Jue also reminded that if future generations could reach the level of Divine Transformation one day, they must help Yang Mai rebuild the Divine Palace.
At this point, it can be basically determined that Daqing was built by Qing Taizu Jiang Wang with the Yang meridian as the foundation, and the Yin meridian, which is also the main meridian... only the Hua family is left.
To be honest, this is inevitable.
As a woman, inheritance, dealing with the world, all aspects are more difficult than men.
What’s more, the subsequent great changes in the world made it impossible to practice the ancient methods, which was almost equivalent to severing the inheritance of the Yin Meridian.
It was not easy for Hua Jue's descendants to create a series of skills such as Taiyin Jue based on the ancient methods and pass them down to the present day.
Finally, Hua Jue did not mention the stone slab explicitly.
It is said that when she left Yin Yang Temple, she took nothing with her but a magical power called "Three Thousand Weak Waters".
Yes, the slate is the world stone, a world stone that can carry magical powers.
As the ruler of the world, the Yin-Yang Temple is naturally second to none in terms of the collection of magical powers.
The Yin Meridian alone has the inheritance of twelve kinds of supernatural powers.
Hua Juedai chose the Three Thousand Weak Waters not because of how powerful it is.
On the contrary, the Three Thousand Weak Waters is the weaker of the Twelve Divine Powers.
The reason for this choice is that only women can master this magical power, and they must have a very yin body to cultivate it.
Hua Jue believed that this magical power had such harsh conditions for cultivation that even if it was exposed one day by future generations, they could save their lives and the inheritance to a great extent.
At the same time, a woman with an extremely yin body can definitely cultivate to the state of transformation as long as she does not die prematurely.
This is the seed of hope she planted for the Yin-Yang Palace.
Unfortunately, things change unpredictably.
Although Hua Nong Yue achieved the body of extreme yin with a drop of extreme yin holy water, the realm of transformation into a god no longer exists in the world today.
Not to mention that the Yin-Yang Temple no longer existed, and the Daqing royal family, which inherited the temple's legacy, did not need any help from the Yin Vein at all.
Xu Chong pondered for a moment, put the leather scroll and stone slab back on the shelf, and sent them back to the third underground floor through the air.
This action surprised Old Lady , and she asked hesitantly, "Isn't what's written here... fabricated?"
She had seen the leather scroll and played with the stone slab, so she was naturally familiar with these two things.
The stone tablet is fine, but the leather scroll...
Wasn't it that some ancestor of the Hua family just had a wild idea and wrote it for fun?
“It should be true.”
Xu Chong nodded.
Just as he was about to explain in detail, Sun Yourong and Hua Nongyu walked in together.
"Grandma, the Hua family's ship is now under my control."
Hua Nongyu reported, "Aunt Feng asked whether we should use iron chains to link the two ships together or separate them and put them into the sea."
“Hmm…”
Old Lady Hua thought for a moment, then shook her head and said, "Let's keep them together. I don't have much time left. If the ships are separated, it will be difficult for you to control them alone."
That was settled, and everyone took their seats.
As for the seating arrangement, Old Lady Hua was a little hesitant at first, but when Xu Chong entered the second seat on the right row first, she felt relieved and sat down in the main seat at the top.
"Xu Chong, you and Nong Yue are engaged, and we are family, so I won't beat around the bush."
As soon as she sat down, Old Lady Hua couldn't wait to ask, "What realm are you in now?"
"First-grade Dharmadhatu..."
Xu Chong opened his mouth to answer.
Before she finished speaking, Old Lady Hua's pupils suddenly shrank, and she said with shock and relief: "As expected of the descendant of our great ancestor, you can actually break through to the third level of the seed path so quickly..."
"I'm not finished yet."
Xu Chong was calm and continued, "The first level of Dharma is the Huangting realm, the Jade Pool is the ninth level of the Golden Body, and the Purple Mansion is the first level of the Immortal God."
Now he no longer needs to hide things from his own people like he did before.
Then……
With a click.
The armrest of the main seat was cracked by the grip of Old Lady Hua.
"you……"
Old Lady Hua was shocked, and even more horrified in her heart, "I can accept the first rank of Dharmadhatu, after all, your qualifications are here."
"But...Golden Body Nine Transformations???"
"How is this possible?"
"Also, what does the Immortal God mean?"
"Aren't there only two realms in Zifu Seed Dao: Yin Shen and Yang Shen?"
"It's impossible..."
Old Lady Hua secretly pinched her dehydrated skin.
It’s a feeling, not a dream!
Not only Old Madam Hua, but also Hua Nongyu and Sun Yourong were extremely stunned and suspected that they had heard wrongly.
You know, the two of them knew Xu Chong earlier than Old Lady Hua and Hua Nong Yue, so they naturally knew very well how old Xu Chong is now.
Being under thirty years old and already a first-grade Dharmadhatu is outrageous enough... At least, they have never heard of it.
And the Nine Transformations of the Golden Body at the age of less than thirty?
Even the storybook wouldn’t dare to write like this, right?
"Have you heard of the three ancient clans?"
Faced with the three people's doubts, Xu Chong asked a question.
"Three ancient clans?"
The three of them looked at each other, all with confused expressions.
"Among the six major families, Fang, Lin, and Zheng are the so-called three ancient families."
Xu Chong explained, "For these three families, Louchuan is only the residence of their side branches. The real main branches all live in their own caves."
Cave?!
The three of them looked shocked at the same time .
Xu Chong ignored him and continued to talk to himself.
The details were too redundant, so he simply omitted most of them and only talked about two main points.
One is that his strength is entirely attributed to the special rules of the Spring and Autumn Tomb.
The second is the Tianxuan calendar.
Including the origin of Tianxuan Realm, the origin of Daqing and the three ancient clans, as well as magical powers.
“…The stone slab just now should be the world stone that carries the magical power.”
Xu Chong ignored the three people who were completely stunned and brought the topic back to the point, "Three Thousand Weak Waters can only be cultivated by women with the Pure Yin Body, and after Nong Yue obtained the Pure Yin Holy Water, she agreed to this condition."
"It should be that after she was placed on the third underground floor, the aura emitted by the ice layer accidentally triggered the harmony of the World Stone. Finally, because of the magical power of Three Thousand Weak Waters, her ice seal changed."
"But, for now, this change is a good thing."
"It is very likely that the day she breaks out of the ice will be the day when the Yin Meridian of the Yin Yang Palace will reappear in the world."
As he spoke, Xu Chong shook his head helplessly, "I just don't know how long this process will take."