Chapter 324: The History of the Great Jin's Development

Whether the opportunity to become an Emperor belongs only to the native creatures of the four continents, or if the creatures of the Central Continent also possess it, neither Yan Zhenzhen nor Jing Le could answer.

It wasn't that they didn't want to answer, but that they didn't know.

Hua Changxi was just asking casually. Seeing that the two didn't give a direct response, she smiled and threw the question to the back of her mind.

Soon, the three arrived outside the Dixiu Temple camp.

"Master."

Abbot Guiyi was reading Buddhist scriptures. Seeing Jing Le leading Hua Changxi and Yan Zhenzhen into the tent, he asked with a smile: "Has the demonic energy of those people been purified?"

After Jing Le led Hua Changxi and Yan Zhenzhen to pay their respects, he shook his head and said: "It was only temporarily suppressed."

Abbot Guiyi looked surprised: "Did something go wrong?"

Although those people were Nascent Soul cultivators, the monks sent by Xiangguo Temple and Dixiu Temple were no lower in cultivation than them, and they were all people proficient in Buddhist Dharma.

Logically speaking, they should have been able to purify the demonic energy absorbed into their bodies.

Jing Le looked solemn: "Yin flames have been ignited inside all of their bodies."

After hearing this, Abbot Guiyi sighed and asked no more.

Hua Changxi looked at the two and asked: "Is there a big difference between igniting yin flames and not igniting them?"

Hearing Hua Changxi's inquiry, Abbot Guiyi couldn't help but look at her, and Jing Le also looked over: "Master, Benefactor Changxi is here to seek an audience this time specifically to ask for your guidance because she has been unable to ignite the yang flame."

Abbot Guiyi smiled: "It seems that Little Friend Hua doesn't know much about the Divine Lamp and the yin and yang flames."

There was nothing to hide about this, so Hua Changxi nodded and admitted: "Yes, much of what I know about the Divine Lamp and the black and white flames was heard here and there, and many things are quite muddled."

Abbot Guiyi looked at Yan Zhenzhen again: "Does Little Friend Yan know about the Divine Lamp?"

Yan Zhenzhen: "I have read about the fall of the Divine Lamp in the library of the Array Saint Sect."

Hua Changxi: "..."

If she didn't have the Shennong Cauldron and hadn't received Shennong's alchemy inheritance, she probably wouldn't have had the chance to know people like Jing Le and Yan Zhenzhen.

Not to mention others, just in terms of information, she was left far behind.

And information asymmetry is, to a large extent, the key to success.

Abbot Guiyi nodded and looked at Jing Le: "Jing Le, you tell Little Friend Hua about the Divine Lamp."

Jing Le nodded and looked at Hua Changxi: "Speaking of the Divine Lamp, one must mention the founding of the Great Jin."

"More than a thousand years ago, at the end of the previous dynasty, the Divine Land—that is, the Central Continent—experienced an unprecedentedly huge earthquake. That earthquake was caused by the fall of the Divine Lamp from beyond the heavens."

"At that time, the previous Imperial family had reached the end of its road. The various princes were in chaos, and forces from all sides rose up. One of these forces was the Chu Family Army led by the Great Ancestor of Chu."

"Among the many contending forces, the Chu Family Army's momentum was actually not great. However, the Great Ancestor of Chu was lucky; he picked up a two-foot-tall Divine Lamp burning with black and white flames."

"Possessing the Divine Lamp, the Great Ancestor of Chu was like receiving divine help, attracting forces from all sides to follow him. In a few years, he quelled the chaos and created the Great Jin Dynasty, which has lasted for nearly a thousand years."

Speaking of this, Jing Le paused: "The Great Ancestor of Chu didn't keep the matter of picking up the Divine Lamp very secret. After the Great Jin was founded, many legends about the Divine Lamp spread."

"Among the local powerful figures, it spread that whoever gets the Divine Lamp can get the world."

"In the martial arts world, it spread that whoever gets the Divine Lamp can practice peerless martial arts and dominate the martial arts world."

"If it were just some ethereal rumors, that would be fine; over time, the rumors would disappear. But unfortunately..."

Jing Le sighed, and Yan Zhenzhen took over: "Unfortunately, the Divine Lamp really possesses the divine power that mortals dream of."

"Because they often worshipped the Divine Lamp, the Great Ancestor of Chu and the Chu Family Army that followed him to conquer the world all saw their martial strength skyrocket."

"Previous martial artists were at most a bit stronger, knew some clever techniques, and were only slightly stronger than ordinary people; the strongest could only practice their fist and foot skills to the extreme, and one person being able to defeat ten was considered the limit."

"But with the Divine Lamp, the Chu Family Army could walk on walls and jump over roofs, and split stones with their bare hands. Most importantly, they practiced true Qi and internal strength, and could release true Qi externally to control objects and protect their bodies."

"At the beginning of the Great Jin, the borders were still somewhat unstable. In a battle against the Xiongnu in the north, the commanding general at the time, in order to save a prince who had come to supervise the battle, smashed a stone mountain with one punch while dodging the Xiongnu's pursuit."

"After that, the various rumors about the Divine Lamp could no longer be controlled, and the covetousness of all parties for the Divine Lamp also kept accumulating in the dark."

Hua Changxi listened with great interest. According to her understanding, it was that after having the Divine Lamp, under the catalysis of the Divine Lamp's divine power, the Great Jin advanced from a low-martial stage to a high-martial stage.

Jing Le continued: "Seeing that the fact that the Divine Lamp possessed divine power could no longer be hidden, the Great Ancestor of Chu didn't hesitate and directly listed the Divine Lamp as the Great Jin's national treasure, worshipping it in the Wuliang Hall in the palace."

"With the Divine Lamp in the hands of the Imperial family, outsiders who wanted to obtain it had no power to snatch it from the Imperial family and could only spy in the dark."

"For the first five hundred years of the Great Jin, the Divine Lamp was worshipped in the Imperial Palace, until..."

"In the five hundredth year of the Great Jin's founding, a group of priests calling themselves the Divine Lamp Protectors appeared outside the Imperial Palace."

"The Emperor at the time received them and even let them stay in the Imperial Palace."

Yan Zhenzhen interjected: "Someone left a note saying that the group of priests were cultivators from the outside world, and the Emperor at the time kept them to inquire about immortal cultivation."

Jing Le nodded: "At first, the Imperial family and the group of priests got along quite well, but in less than a year, the Imperial family and that group of people broke out into a world-shaking battle because of the ownership of the Divine Lamp."

"It was in that battle that the Divine Lamp was destroyed, and the seventy-two lotus petals of the Divine Lamp were shattered and scattered in all directions."

Hua Changxi asked in confusion: "Since that group of priests were cultivators, how could the Imperial family be their match?"

Yan Zhenzhen: "Because of the restrictions of the realm, at that time, when outside cultivators entered the Four Spirits Realm, they were unable to mobilize spiritual energy."

"Because of the Divine Lamp, the Imperial family had cultivated a large number of grandmasters. Those grandmasters, when facing cultivators who couldn't use spiritual energy, not only had the power to fight but could even suppress them."

"It is said that only a few of that group survived and escaped."

"Although the Divine Lamp was destroyed, the Imperial family obtained cultivation manuals from that group of priests and began the path of cultivation. At the same time, the Imperial family issued secret arrest warrants to hunt down those who escaped."

"That group of people was never completely hunted down and even created a sect, which is the famous Asura Gate."

"After the Asura Gate was established, it specifically went against the Imperial family and assassinated many Imperial clansmen."

Jing Le waited for Yan Zhenzhen to stop before continuing: "The fragments of the Divine Lamp scattered in all directions, either picked up by people or falling into mountains and forests. Since then, it has completely changed the entire Great Jin."

"For the creatures of the mortal world, a single lotus petal of the Divine Lamp possesses supreme divine power!"

"Those in the temple who obtained the lotus petals of the Divine Lamp could manipulate others; martial artists in the Jianghu who obtained the lotus petals of the Divine Lamp saw their martial arts skyrocket and were invincible; wild beasts in the mountains who obtained the lotus petals of the Divine Lamp saw their strength increase, their bodies grow, and they advanced into fierce beasts."

"After that, the Great Jin opened up a martial arts prosperity never seen in previous dynasties, as well as a turbulent era of fierce beasts causing chaos."

Yan Zhenzhen interjected again: "The elders of the holy lands once deduced that the scattering of the Divine Lamp fragments in all directions had far-reaching effects, loosening the realm's seal to a certain extent and promoting the recovery of spiritual energy."

Hua Changxi nodded knowingly. The Divine Lamp was destroyed, and the fragments were scattered in all directions, directly allowing this realm to advance from high-martial to immortal cultivation, accelerating the realm's spiritual energy recovery. ===== CHAPTER 325 =====