Chapter 67: Continuous Rewards Drop as the Emperor Dies and Heaven Collapses

【You and Liu Jinchan arrived at the Living Dead Tomb.】

【The scene before you stunned you deeply.】

【Behold!】

【Lu Yu dragged a white-robed monk along the ground like a dead dog, barely clinging to life.】

【Upon seeing you, Lu Yu was overjoyed and immediately embraced you.】

【“Brother, I just thought I’d never see you again.”】

【Liu Jinchan crouched down, examining the white-robed monk on the ground. His gaze sharpened—he recognized him as Kumu Chan Master of Great Snow Mountain, a famed Grand Master of the North Wind.】

【Over three thousand disciples of Great Snow Mountain looked to him as their patriarch.】

【Now, his entire body was shattered, surviving only by a thread—he would not live.】

【You felt puzzled and asked Lu Yu for the full story. He recounted everything from Huanglong to Kumu Chan Master.】

【After hearing it, you and Liu Jinchan exchanged glances.】

【You sighed inwardly, “My brother is peerless under heaven.”】

【Liu Jinchan murmured, “My disciple is peerless under heaven.”】

【But then you realized the shift in circumstances—Huang Dao had come to slay the Dragon; Lu Yu’s departure may have left Emperor Qing in grave danger.】

【If Emperor Qing dies, the brief peace of Da Qing will collapse into chaos once more.】

【With Lu Yu beside you now, you are unafraid—you must go to the summit of Mount Zhongnan.】

【At that moment, the dying white-robed monk, lying on the ground, whispered weakly: “Three virtuous ones, please wait.”】

【You three had no intention of lingering.】

【Prompt: Detecting obtainable item.】

【Faced with this, you weighed your options and decided…】

1. Listen to the old monk’s tale.

2. Leave.

3. Participate personally (1/3)

【Yu Ke’s eyes blazed as he stared at the three options.】

【Obtainable item!】

【Isn’t this loot drop?】

【Since his rebirth, he had only received one letter from Lu Yu’s childhood—now, at last, another reward.】

【He rubbed his hands together, full of anticipation.】

【He prayed for something extraordinary.】

【Golden Legend!】

【Forget it, forget it.】

【Just don’t let it be an empty package.】

【Yu Ke chose without hesitation: 1. Listen to the old monk’s tale.】

【With your decision…】

【You called out to Liu Jinchan and Lu Yu. Lu Yu didn’t care—what did the emperor’s life or death matter to him?】

【Liu Jinchan looked anxious, but seeing you and Lu Yu stop, he reluctantly waited.】

【Kumu slowly lifted his head, his eyes flickering with faint light as he gazed at the three of you.】

【“Though I suffer this fate today, I harbor no resentment. I know my end has come—I ask only one favor.”】

【His voice carried endless sorrow; his youthful face now aged, white-haired—his cultivation stripped away, revealing his true age as an old monk.】

【You turned your gaze to the old monk, who struggled to pull from his robes a scripture bound in thick sheepskin.】

【The monk pleaded earnestly: “As a man near death, his words are good. I beg you, take this scripture back to Great Snow Mountain. Should you wish, you may cultivate its methods.”】

【The white-robed monk’s face was filled with bitterness. He sighed: “I have betrayed my ancestors—I cannot let Great Snow Mountain’s lineage end with me.”】

【You flipped idly through the scripture—it depicted cultivation methods for both men and women, illustrated with vivid, sensual imagery, intensely alluring.】

【But the text was in Sanskrit—you could not read it. From the monk’s solemn expression, you knew this was indeed Great Snow Mountain’s supreme legacy.】

【You looked at the monk and asked: “What if I choose not to return it to Great Snow Mountain?”】

【The white-robed monk shook his head helplessly and sighed: “I can do nothing.”】

【“But this scripture was written in Great Snow Mountain’s script—only my disciples can decipher its secrets.”】

【Lu Yu sneered: “You’re quite clever.”】

【You flipped through the entire scripture from start to finish!】

【Prompt: Scripture obtained. Can be claimed after simulation ends.】

【Yu Ke stared at the glowing screen’s prompt.】

【He blinked in surprise—he hadn’t expected this scripture’s acquisition to have a “cooldown.”】

【No matter—it’s only one night in reality.】

【Simulation continues.】

【You handed the scripture to your master Liu Jinchan for inspection. He studied it briefly, but could not decipher the Sanskrit.】

【He glanced only briefly at the sensual illustrations, then snapped it shut, muttering: “Sinful.”】

【Lu Yu couldn’t help teasing: “Master, at your age, what haven’t you seen?”】

【Liu Jinchan snapped back: “I remain pure yang! For years, my heart has sought only to serve our ancestors. Don’t speak nonsense!”】

【You smiled—you three were all advanced in years and still unmarried.】

【At that moment, Kumu’s gaze turned to Lu Yu, his eyes filled with complex emotion. He spoke slowly:】

【“There is one more thing I must say—I am about to die.”】

【“After death, I may not see the Buddha. Though I cultivated the Dharma, I never truly believed in him. This act is my final good deed.”】

【Kumu turned to you, his gaze deep: “Your brother is no ordinary man. At such a young age, he has opened the gate to primordial nature and grasped the true essence of martial cultivation—he must be tied to the prophecy from thirty years ago.”】

【“Prophecy?”】

【You were slightly startled—you only knew that after Heaven’s Collapse, spiritual energy vanished, plunging the world into the chaos of the Warring States, until now, when it returned.】

【Kumu spoke slowly, word by word:】

【“Heaven and humanity at the threshold—spiritual energy returns.”】

【“Dao and demon clash—martial arts shatter the void.”】

【“If Dao has a genius like Lu Yu, then heaven and earth, ever cycling, must have their yin and yang—so the Demon Dao must have its counterpart too, though we do not yet know who.”】

【“Pity I will not live to see it.”】

【“I have taken countless women in my life, yet left no offspring—what a tragedy.”】

【With his final breath, Kumu passed away in silence.】

【You heard this prophecy for the first time—but the final four words, “martial arts shatter the void,” struck your heart with sudden heat, as if all your life’s pursuit was contained within them.】

【You now understood “Heaven and humanity at the threshold—spiritual energy returns” as the awakening of spiritual energy, and “Dao and demon clash—martial arts shatter the void” as a sign of great upheaval in the martial world.】

【Liu Jinchan sighed softly—he knew well the far-reaching impact of that prophecy from thirty years ago.】

【At that moment.】

【Flames blazed atop Mount Zhongnan, lighting up the night sky.】

【You looked up.】

【Amid the fire, shadowy figures shouted urgently—but the distance made their words indistinct.】

【Lu Yu tilted his ear, spiritual energy gathering faintly around his earlobes. After a moment, he said with a wry expression:】

【“Those eunuchs are shouting—the old emperor has passed.”】

【Liu Jinchan’s face changed—he knew that after Lu Yu broke through to primordial nature, he gained strange abilities.】

【The Emperor has perished on Mount Zhongnan!】

This news means the court will descend into turmoil—Da Qing has deposed the crown prince and the Eastern Palace remains vacant.

【Liu Jinchan sighed: “Da Qing is about to fall into chaos!”】

Prompt: Nearby obtainable mediating primordial qi detected—automatically acquired.

【Text appeared on the screen.】

【Seeing this, Yu Ke’s spirits lifted instantly.】

He knew mediating primordial qi had miraculous effects in repairing meridians—last time, it had restored his acupoints.

【Now that he had it again, he had hope of repairing his meridians once more.】

【He could cultivate again.】

【Yu Ke was stunned—he had once led an army north and shattered eighty million troops of the North Wind.】

Only then had he gained a single thread of mediating primordial qi.

【Today, it came out of nowhere!】

【Damn it!】

【Tonight, I actually got a Golden Legend!】

【But where did it come from?】

【He connected the dots—the prompt appeared right after the emperor’s death.】

【Could it be tied to Emperor Qing’s demise?】

【(End of Chapter)】