Chapter 198

Seeing Gu Xiu and Daoist Duobao arrive at Jinao Island together, many disciples were filled with envy.

But thinking that Gu Xiu had recently made Perfected Jade Tripod lose face, allowing the Jie Sect disciples to vent their anger, they felt relieved.

"Senior Uncle Duobao, I will walk around on my own and won't bother you any further." Gu Xiu said.

Daoist Duobao nodded and smiled: "I am going to report to your Grandmaster. If you have anything, you can find your Junior Uncles and Senior Uncles."

Most of the disciples on Jinao Island were second-generation disciples, with very few third-generation disciples, but many were disciples whose names Gu Xiu didn't know.

He looked at the Biyou Palace ahead.

It was filled with myriad Dao rhymes, surrounded by innate Qi, evolving various phenomena, and gathering the vast fortune of the Jie Sect.

But because there was no treasure to suppress the fortune, when the Great Calamity of heaven and earth arrived, the fortune kept leaking away.

But it must be said that the Jie Sect truly had many people. On Jinao, one could always see many disciples sitting and discussing the Dao, laughing and talking, but none knew that a conspiracy targeting the Jie Sect was approaching.

Gu Xiu shook his head.

"The Jie Sect disciples have no sense of crisis and are still intoxicated in the dream of ten thousand immortals coming to court. I, a third-generation disciple, have little influence. If I want to survive the Investiture of the Gods, I must make more people believe in me, which means raising my prestige within the Jie Sect."

But how to raise his prestige was a problem.

Thinking it over, he could only start from the Investiture of the Gods and the Chan Sect.

"Junior Brother, so you were here."

A pleasant voice came.

Gu Xiu turned to look.

A female immortal with a fairy-like appearance, dressed in fiery red neon robes and wearing a golden crown, stepped on the void and flew down from above.

The person who arrived was the Holy Mother of Fire Spirit. It seemed that because she practiced fire-attribute techniques, her fair skin had a faint red flush, as if scorched by a raging fire.

"Senior Sister Fire Spirit, why are you here?"

"Master returned and said you came to Jinao Island, fearing you weren't familiar with it, so he asked me to find you and take you on a proper tour of Jinao Island."

Gu Xiu didn't expect that fat man Duobao to be so thoughtful.

He had a good impression of the Holy Mother of Fire Spirit. Since he was already a disciple of the Jie Sect, he had to find a way to change some people's fates.

He couldn't let the Holy Mother of Fire Spirit die tragically under Guang Chengzi's Heaven-Turning Seal, nor would he give Guang Chengzi the chance to bring the Holy Mother of Fire Spirit's Golden Crown to Biyou Palace to provoke them.

Subsequently, the two toured Jinao Island, and Gu Xiu asked about the Investiture of the Gods.

"Senior Sister, do you know about the Investiture of the Gods?"

"Naturally, I know. But this calamity was caused by the excessive killing committed by the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect, and it has nothing to do with us. Therefore, Grandmaster told us to close the mountain gates and quietly recite the Yellow Court Scripture, waiting for the calamity to pass."

Gu Xiu sighed in his heart.

Tong Tian was truly harming people; he was too naive and too honest.

The two arrived at a pavilion with flying eaves and carved beams.

The Holy Mother of Fire Spirit introduced it.

"Junior Brother, this is our Jie Sect's library. If you want to learn other techniques or supernatural powers, you can come here."

Speaking of the library, Gu Xiu became interested and walked in.

What met his eyes were rows of tall bookshelves arranged neatly, made of dark sandalwood, emitting a faint sandalwood fragrance, and filled with a dazzling array of cultivation manuals.

He pulled one out to read; it wasn't as profound as the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art, and he quickly understood the gist of it.

But even the most ordinary technique here, if it fell into the mortal world, would be an immortal secret manual for mortal cultivators, enough to cause a group of practitioners to fight and kill, triggering a catastrophe.

The Holy Mother of Fire Spirit continued to introduce: "Ordinary disciples can only preview the first floor. Besides those collected by the sect, many of the techniques on this floor are records of techniques and insights that the Senior Uncles and Aunts have realized themselves."

"Direct disciples can go to the second floor. The techniques on the third floor are too powerful, and we generally cannot preview them; only Da Luo Golden Immortals can slightly see the content inside. If Junior Brother wants to go to the third floor, we can only ask my master for a written order."

"No need to trouble Senior Uncle Duobao. I have a copy of the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art obtained from the Chan Sect, and I was just thinking of recording it in the library. I wonder if there are any rewards?"

"What! Junior Brother, you say you have the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art?" The Holy Mother of Fire Spirit thought she had misheard. She naturally knew of the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art; it was a condensed version re-derived by Yuanshi Tianzun based on the fragments of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art.

Gu Xiu nodded and smiled: "Senior Sister, you heard correctly. I do indeed have the Chan Sect's Eight-Nine Mysterious Art."

"I won't ask where you got it, but our Jie Sect has ten thousand immortals coming to court, and many beings come to Jinao Island seeking methods of cultivation. Recording one's own insights and techniques is purely to pass on one's heritage and to repay the grace of our Jie Sect's teaching, so Grandmaster has not set any rewards."

"I see." Gu Xiu was dissatisfied with this system.

But thinking about it, he could understand. It was a Sage's Great Sect; the techniques Tong Tian casually derived were better than any technique a disciple could create in a lifetime. And with ten thousand immortals coming to court, there was no shortage of techniques and spells recorded by disciples.

"Forget it, if there are none, so be it. I will record the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art, which can also increase some of our Jie Sect's fortune."

Seeing Gu Xiu record the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art.

Fire Spirit said: "Junior Brother, can I read the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art you recorded later?"

Gu Xiu smiled indifferently: "Why go through such trouble? If Senior Sister wants to see it, I will just pass it to you directly."

If Fire Spirit wanted to learn the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art, Gu Xiu hoped she could master it.

It is said that the Dao should not be passed on lightly, and the Law should not be taught lightly.

While browsing the library, Gu Xiu found that it consumed a lot of mental energy, otherwise it would be impossible to remember, which should be because there were restrictions set on the books.

But he could pass on the techniques rewarded by the system to anyone without any restrictions.

Gu Xiu raised his hand and cast a golden light, which flew into Fire Spirit's forehead, directly injecting the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art into her sea of consciousness.

Having received the content of the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art, Fire Spirit was a bit surprised.

If it were a low-level ordinary technique, it would be fine for a Golden Immortal to pass it on directly, but she didn't expect Gu Xiu to be able to pass on the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art directly as well.

Closing her eyes to view the content of the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art in her sea of consciousness, it was filled with mysterious aura; it was indeed the Chan Sect's Eight-Nine Mysterious Art. Gu Xiu hadn't lied to her.

She wanted to go tell Daoist Duobao this news immediately.

After recording the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art, Gu Xiu and the Holy Mother of Fire Spirit walked out of the library.

Gu Xiu said: "Senior Sister, sorry for the trouble today. I will return to the Three Immortal Islands first and come find you when I have time."

Watching Gu Xiu leave, the Holy Mother of Fire Spirit went to find Daoist Duobao.

"Disciple, why have you come?" Daoist Duobao asked casually.

The Holy Mother of Fire Spirit said: "Master, Junior Brother has returned."

Daoist Duobao didn't pay much attention: "Returned so soon? Then go cultivate; don't delay your cultivation."

"Master, I came here to tell you something."

Daoist Duobao smiled: "Oh, Fire Spirit, what do you want to tell your master?"

Daoist Duobao had a kind and approachable face, so the Holy Mother of Fire Spirit didn't have too many reservations.

"Just now I took Junior Brother to the library, and Junior Brother recorded the Chan Sect's Eight-Nine Mysterious Art inside."

This made Daoist Duobao interested.

"You say Junior Nephew Gu Xiu recorded the Chan Sect's Eight-Nine Mysterious Art in the library?"

Fire Spirit nodded: "Master, it is absolutely true. Junior Brother even passed the content of the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art to me."

Daoist Duobao smiled: "It seems Junior Nephew has given us another surprise. Could this Eight-Nine Mysterious Art have been obtained from Perfected Jade Tripod?"

"Master, I think so too. Junior Brother couldn't possibly have run to Mount Kunlun and stolen it from the library of the Jade Void Palace, right?"

Daoist Duobao squinted and smiled.

"Your master knows some news. Second Senior Uncle derived the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art and made it the Chan Sect's protective divine art, wanting Perfected Jade Tripod to select protective personnel to teach it to. Now that our Jie Sect has recorded this technique, if Second Senior Uncle finds out, he should be furious."