Chapter 418

In the hall filled with flowing light, the nine-layered high platform stood quietly.

This hall was originally built by Donghuang Taiyi specifically for himself. He was the first Yin-Yang School Sect Master to take charge of this palace. Because the Yin-Yang School was not in the State of Qin before, in order to match his identity as Donghuang Taiyi, Donghuang Taiyi named the palace "Taiwei Purple Palace." Taiwei is the name of a star and is also the residence of an emperor; the Purple Palace is the residence of the Heavenly Emperor.

It can only be said that in terms of pretentiousness, Donghuang Taiyi really had it nailed down.

It is a pity that he had the pretentiousness but not enough strength. In front of Su Xuan, he still obediently abdicated to let the worthy take over, giving up the position of Yin-Yang School Sect Master, and even the palace he built for himself fell into Su Xuan's hands.

After taking charge of this palace, Su Xuan did not change the layout inside.

Of course, it was not because he agreed with Donghuang Taiyi's aesthetics. The main reason was that he did not spend much time in the Yin-Yang School throughout the year. He spent more time in Xianyang. Like now, being in seclusion in the Yin-Yang School for such a long time was the first time.

On the high platform, after finishing the lecture, Su Xuan did not pay attention to the subsequent matters.

Because of the influence of his lecture, the entire Yin-Yang School also fell into a short period of quiet. Regardless of whether those disciples were willing to switch to the cultivation path Su Xuan imparted, they all successively began to comprehend it.

Taking advantage of this leisure time, Su Xuan finally had the time to participate in something that had long since fallen into his hands.

The "Phantom Sound Treasure Box"!

This item is a supreme treasure of the Yin-Yang School. Three hundred years ago, for unknown reasons, it eventually fell into the hands of the Mohist School and was hidden by the Mohist founder in the Mohist forbidden area. Dozens of generations of Yin-Yang School disciples searched bitterly but never found its whereabouts.

In the original work, it was not until the Mechanical City was breached that Luna brought the Phantom Sound Treasure Box back from the Mohist Mechanical City. This item is suspected to be the key to cracking the Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon.

Of course, for Su Xuan, he had no intention of searching for the Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon.

Even if this is the biggest secret in the original work, and even if it might be related to the elixir of immortality, Su Xuan had no interest. Even without the Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon and without the elixir of immortality, he firmly believed that he could achieve immortality by relying on his own strength.

After initially obtaining the Guiding Technique, he firmly believed in this point, and after mastering the "Nine Breaths of Qi Consumption" among the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Methods, he believed in this matter even more firmly.

Of course, since the Phantom Sound Treasure Box had fallen into his hands, it would be somewhat unreasonable not to try to crack the secrets within it.

Because this was the Yin-Yang School, Su Xuan wanted to crack the secrets of the Phantom Sound Treasure Box more easily than he had imagined. Although this item had been lost for many years, records about it still remained within the Yin-Yang School.

On the lid of the box, there were sixteen Chu characters: "Twelve Phantom Laws, Five Modes are not Music, Ultimate Heavenly Rhyme, Ten Thousand Demonic Sounds." The five-story pavilion and twelve eaves corners correspond to the five notes and twelve pitch standards. Combined, they can play endless music. But cracking the secret of the Phantom Sound Treasure Box does not lie in the five notes and twelve pitch standards, but rather in changing the way the five notes and twelve pitch standards are described; its name is "Five Elements and Twelve Fortunes"!

The Five Elements refer to Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth, while the Twelve Fortunes refer to the Twelve Stages of Longevity.

This is the use of the Ten Heavenly Stems cycling through the Twelve Earthly Branches to represent the prosperity and decline of destiny, that is, the twelve types of fortunes of the Five Elements. The reason why the Twelve Fortunes are called the Twelve Stages of Longevity is that the initial "Longevity" represents the entire Twelve Fortunes.

Longevity, Bathing, Capping, Official Rank, Emperor's Prosperity, Decline, Sickness, Death, Grave, Extinction, Conception, and Nourishment.

These twelve processes combined correspond exactly to "Birth, Aging, Sickness, and Death," and thus can also be used to refer to the entire process of growth and demise of all things.

The Phantom Sound Treasure Box is an important key to cracking the Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon, and the Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon, in rumors, have a part of the secret that is the elixir of immortality. Therefore, to crack the secret of the Phantom Sound Treasure Box, one needs to first find the portal corresponding to Longevity under the twelve eaves corners. And because the Azure Dragon of the East belongs to Wood, it is Jia-Yi Wood, so in terms of the Five Elements, one must also find the layer belonging to Wood.

These things were, of course, not recorded by the predecessors of the Yin-Yang School, but were researched by Su Xuan himself based on the internal materials of the Yin-Yang School. At the same time, finding the portal corresponding to Longevity was not such a simple matter.

The Phantom Sound Treasure Box has ten thousand demonic sounds, and the musical rhythms within it constantly change, which also means that the positions corresponding to the Five Elements and Twelve Fortunes are also changing at any time. Otherwise, if there were only those few portals, one could try them one by one to find the secret of the Phantom Sound Treasure Box.

Besides this, wanting to crack the Phantom Sound Treasure Box also requires luck.

Not all the musical rhythms it plays are correct. Among the ten thousand demonic sounds, only one is correct. And wanting to find that one from the numerous musical rhythms and then penetrate its secret is undoubtedly like looking for a needle in the ocean. If someone can really penetrate this secret, he is undoubtedly the person of destiny.

Whether Su Xuan is the person of destiny is unknown for now, but since the Phantom Sound Treasure Box fell into his hands, Su Xuan did indeed spend some effort to crack its secrets.

"It is really hard to imagine that such a creation came from this world!"

Although this world has many mysteries, strictly speaking, it is still a Wu Xia world. The Phantom Sound Treasure Box is extremely profound. Even Su Xuan, with the help of Earthly Sha Arts and the computing power brought by his formidable cultivation base, spent a long time finding the patterns within it.

That's right, for ordinary people, it has ten thousand demonic sounds, each musical rhythm is not repeated, and the performance has no patterns. But in fact, there are patterns. It needs to play the ten thousand musical rhythms within it for twelve cycles before returning to the pattern of the first performance.

Even though Su Xuan mastered its patterns, during this time, he had also become accustomed to listening to the musical rhythms.

Until another musical rhythm played, "Finally found it!"

Su Xuan felt the rhythm contained in this musical piece, and then pressed on a certain portal of the Phantom Sound Treasure Box. As his finger landed, suddenly, a strange force swept out from the Phantom Sound Treasure Box, intending to pull Su Xuan's soul into it.

Su Xuan's soul is extremely powerful. After obtaining the Nine Breaths of Qi Consumption, he has now advanced from the Yin Spirit to the Yang Spirit Realm. As long as he is willing, he can ignore this suction force coming from the Phantom Sound Treasure Box.

But in order to explore the secrets of the Phantom Sound Treasure Box, he still let the Phantom Sound Treasure Box suck his soul into it.

As his soul entered the Phantom Sound Treasure Box, it was as if he had arrived in another world. The sky was blue, and an elderly man with a short stature stood in the sky. Feeling Su Xuan's entry, his expression moved slightly, and then a loud voice echoed throughout the world.

"Mohist Giant, you have finally come. I have been waiting for you for three hundred years!"