Chapter 412: Great Opportunity
"Azhen, I feel a little strange when I read these records." Jiang Yue suddenly said.
"Me too." Yu Nianzhen frowned and fell into thought.
When he read the writings, he felt a sense of familiarity.
The familiarity was like coming across a book he had already read but forgotten over time.
However, Yu Nianzhen was sure he had never heard of the world boundary, space beasts, or demonic qi prisons.
"I don’t know why but I vaguely feel that I already know what is recorded on the walls."
As Jiang Yue spoke, his brows creased in thought but he couldn’t recall anything.
"We will remember if we are meant to remember. Let’s not force it." Yu Nianzhen sighed and said.
"It’s the only thing we can do." Jiang Yue said and also sighed.
"Azhen, there is another matter..."
"Is it about the reincarnation realm?"
"Exactly."
From reading the records, the two found a few clues.
Bai Xing was at the peak of the nascent soul realm and was preparing to break through to the reincarnation realm.
However, his records implied that advancing to the reincarnation realm could not be done in the Cangxing world.
Although there were reincarnation realm cultivators and immortals in the Cangxing world, all of them had to go somewhere else to break through.
Unfortunately, Bai Xing didn’t mention where one had to go and the two were at a loss.
"Let’s take a rubbing of all the walls. We will discuss everything with Master and the others when we meet."
"Okay."
After that, the two took several rubbings of the records and stored them in their storage rings.
When that was done, they began to search for Bai Xing’s treasure.
"Where is the compass pointing?" Yu Nianzhen asked.
"That wall." Jiang Yue pointed at the North wall but there was nothing there.
"No formations either?"
"None."
"Maybe the wall is a door and there is a mechanism to open it." Yu Nianzhen suggested.
"I will search the South and East walls." Jiang Yue said.
"Okay, I will search on the North and West walls. If we can’t find anything, we will search the floor and ceiling."
Three days later, Jiang Yue suddenly gasped in surprise.
"Azhen, I think I have found something." He said.
Hearing this, Yu Nianzhen immediately rushed to Jiang Yue.
In the past three days, they had searched everywhere but found nothing.
Feeling a little discouraged, they decided to search a second time but didn’t expect to find anything.
"What is it?"
"This place was not like this when I searched the first time. Its colour has lightened." Jiang Yue pointed to a small square on the wall.
The patch was only a square centimetre but the two were cultivators with superior eyesight.
No matter how small the difference was, they could immediately spot it.
"I will try to inject some qi into it." Yu Nianzhen said.
Without waiting for Jiang Yue’s reaction, a thin strand of sword qi left his body and struck the centre of the small square.
A moment later, a black light enveloped the two and they were teleported to another stone room.
The stone room was less than five square metres.
Looking around, there was no furniture in the room except a stone bed placed against the furthest wall.
However, on the bed was a golden-boned skeleton.
"He should be senior Bai Xing." Jiang Yue said and both bowed to the skeleton.
In fact, it wasn’t necessary to bow in the face of a senior’s skeleton.
However, the two felt it was only right to do so.
After all, Bai Xing and other seniors sacrificed for the Cangxing world.
If not for their sacrifice, space beasts would have flowed into the larger world and possibly destroyed everything.
"Thank you for your sacrifice." The two said.
After holding the bow for several breaths, the two stood up but their bodies froze in the next moment.
"This..., where did they come from?" Jiang Yue asked as he looked at three red blobs that had suddenly appeared in front of them.
"They should be from the senior’s bones." Yu Nianzhen said with a solemn look on his face.
When they came in, the senior’s bones were golden.
However, after the three blobs appeared, the bones turned white.
"Senior Bai Xing is a noble person." Jiang Yue said and sighed.
Soon after, they bowed again and thanked the senior for the gift before looking at the three blobs.
"It’s the blood essence of a pure phoenix." Jiang Yue said the information he learned from the treasure compass.
"Refining all three drops is enough for a peak nascent soul realm cultivator to advance to the reincarnation realm."
"It’s a good thing." Yu Nianzhen nodded and continued.
"Let’s keep it for one of us to refine when we break through to the reincarnation realm."
"No, we will divide it equally." Jiang Yue refused and Yu Nianzhen raised his eyebrow in question.
With their relationship, it didn’t matter who refined the phoenix’s blood.
When the time came, they would find other treasures for whoever didn’t have the phoenix blood.
"Although phoenix blood essence can help one person break through to the reincarnation realm, we can replace it with other things. However, it’s difficult to find other treasures that have the same innate effect as phoenix blood essence."
"What do you mean?"
"Refining phoenix blood essence can improve talent and luck." Jiang Yue explained.
"I see." Yu Nianzhen agreed.
"Both of us don’t need the blood essence to break through to the nascent soul realm. Instead, we can use it to advance a small realm after breaking through to the nascent soul realm." Jiang Yue suggested.
"I will listen to you."
After that, Jiang Yue collected the three drops of phoenix blood essence in their universe gourd.
"If senior Bai didn’t help us, it would have been impossible to easily get the phoenix blood essence."
"Mmmm." Yu Nianzhen agreed.
Since Bai Xing’s bones were golden, it was easy to know there was something special in them.
Without his agreement, it was also possible to extract the phoenix blood essence from the bones.
However, the two honoured the senior and Bai Xing rewarded them with the blood essence.
"Ancient means are so mysterious." Jiang Yue said with some yearning in his voice.
"If we work hard, it’s not impossible to surpass the ancient experts."
"Azhen..." Jiang Yue started but stopped midsentence.
"There is a formation on the ground." He suddenly said and Yu Nianzhen looked down.
As Jiang Yue said, a golden formation had suddenly appeared under their feet.
"It’s a teleportation formation. Azhen, grab the senior’s storage ring."
However, Yu Nianzhen didn’t need to be told.
Even before Jiang Yue spoke, he had already taken the storage ring with his right hand and used his left to hold his husband’s hand.
A moment later, the two disappeared from the stone room and reappeared in the backyard.
However, they didn’t have a moment to relax.
As soon as their feet touched the ground, the big house and its surroundings began to collapse.
"Let’s go." Yu Nianzhen pulled Jiang Yue and the two hurriedly escaped from the collapsing house.
An incense stick later, the collapse stopped and a big hole appeared where the house used to be.
"It’s a pity we didn’t collect the demon-repelling flowers and soil." Jiang Yue said and then his eyes widened in realisation.
"Azhen, we didn’t find the demon vine that was attacking from underground." Jiang Yue urgently said.
At the same time, he looked at the big hole and couldn’t help but worry.
If their actions led to the release of the demon vine, many lives may be lost because of them.
Although Jiang Yue didn’t care too much about the lives of others, he didn’t want to incur unnecessary cause and effect.
"Don’t worry, there is no demon vine."
"What do you mean?"
"If I am not wrong, everything was because of senior Bai." Yu Nianzhen said and sighed.
When they were in the corridor, Yu Nianzhen realised that the demon vine had not appeared to attack them.
After he read Bai Xing’s record and received the phoenix blood essence, he realised that everything was a test.
Back then, Bai Xing should have foreseen his own death.
Knowing that he couldn’t live, he was reluctant to leave the phoenix blood essence to unworthy people.
In the end, he used some means to conjure the demon vine.
However, the demon vine was only meant to attract attention and lead powerful cultivators to explore underground.
In the underground, he created a corridor filled with resentment to test those who entered.
After the phoenix blood essence was given away, all the means collapsed and so did the demon vine.
"Senior Bai was too powerful." Jiang Yue said after listening to Yu Nianzhen’s explanation.
"According to ancient records, a pure phoenix can undergo nirvana and reincarnate to escape death. Senior Bai should have comprehended the mystery of reincarnation and used it to ensure that the vines and demon-repelling flowers would not disappear until his inheritance was given away."
