Chapter 978: Cultivating Truth

The matter of Hengzhu was also mentioned by Ye Huai years ago. Li Xieming knew it in his heart, and was silent for a moment, but Xiao Chuting said warmly:

"Sometimes it can be achieved, but the timing is wrong, the identity is wrong, and it cannot be achieved—do you remember Duanmu Kui?"

Li Xieming nodded silently, seeing Xiao Chuting's expression strange:

"It cannot be achieved... 'Witch Talisman' cannot be achieved... The master leaves the hall, goes out to do things, and comes back to look at it from time to time. How can people get it? Whose position is it, it is whose."

"Instead, some other positions, various families want to shake... are worth fighting for."

Li Xieming's heart tightened, and he couldn't distinguish his meaning. His heart was cold for a moment, listening to the person in front of him say:

"The 'Purple Qi' of Ziyan, the 'Quan Dan' of Jin Wu, even the Dantai overseas, the Huang Yu of the North Sea, the Hengli of Hengzhu, and the Yuan Shang master and apprentice of the East Sea, are all waiting for this day of 'True Qi', all waiting for the result of True Qi."

His pupils widened slightly, and he said in a voice that could not be perceived:

"Of course... also including Chi Buzi."

"Chi Buzi..."

Li Xieming hadn't thought of this name for many years, but it still had a creepy taste when it appeared in his mind. The thoughts in his heart faded away, he raised his eyebrows, and said in a low voice:

"I am afraid there is still a senior..."

Xiao Chuting laughed, but didn't answer him.

Li Xieming asked a few sentences, and soon had the intention to say goodbye. Xiao Chuting looked at him, and only after a long time said:

"Be cautious in making friends and seeking protection."

Li Xieming agreed repeatedly, drove the light and rose, and just left this Ban'er Mountain, but looked at a touch of green on the distant ice peak.

This touch of green seemed to have some magic, attracting him at once. Li Xieming paid attention to it slightly, but saw that color jump down like a meteor, stirring up a dull sound of flesh and blood collision.

"Puff!"

He only felt strange, stepped into the air, and only then found a green-furred ape falling from the ice mountain, falling into skin and flesh, with white bones visible between the flesh and blood, and it had already died violently.

This ape looked quite cultivated. Even if it fell to death, it still held a green herb in its mouth. It should have been picking medicine, but it slipped at high altitude and fell into pieces.

Li Xieming took a careful look, his heart was horrified, he turned his head quickly, lowered his eyebrows and restrained his color, didn't care about the corpse on the ground, broke the Great Void and escaped.

Wanling Heaven.

Heaven and earth were dim, the earth was incomplete, and pale windstorms swept heaven and earth. Whether it was gorgeous palaces or flying feather decorations, they had already faded their colors, leaving only a piece of pale.

"Wanling Heaven... has already connected to the netherworld..."

This piece of heaven and earth was shattering bit by bit, large pieces of ground collapsed, flying away with the surrounding broken mountains, separating from this piece of heaven and earth, appearing in the Great Void, and falling to the ground, becoming a new ruin on Zhuo Sha Ling.

On the pale earth, one could still see a man in white, as small as an ant, walking in the mountains, stopping from time to time, scanning everywhere.

"Xuantao is shattered, unless the master of Wanling Heaven years ago is resurrected, no one can save it!"

Lu Jiangxian stepped over heavy corpses, his spiritual sense swept over, and the crystal-clear jade slips buried deep in the ruins were immediately recorded. He had no heart to read the cultivation techniques and methods inside, moved forward, looking at the gray-white wind, and sighed secretly in his heart:

"The Grotto-Heaven realm is mostly nourished by clear Qi; if one falls, they succumb to the burden of stray Qi—it is a beginning that leads to an end."

The grotto-heaven has no master, the fruit position is not manifest, but it can be hidden outside the Great Void, not making the True Monarch aware. One is that it is connected to the fruit position, and the other is that it conforms to the symbol of the 'Zhe Qi' of the master of the dark and dim, which is more hidden. But when the grotto-heaven falls, without the blessing of the fruit position, 'Zhe Qi' will also reveal its fangs, resonate with it, and pull this piece of grotto-heaven all the way down, until it falls into the netherworld.

Once this process begins, gray-white 【Xiangwei Zhe Wind】 will emerge, making all things lose their color. Even Zifu cannot bear it, and they have to leave this place. When they turn back to look for it, they can no longer find the way, and can no longer see the grotto-heaven ruins connected to 'Zhe Qi'.

They can only see a few mountain peaks in the Great Void that are broken and falling from the 【Xiangwei Zhe Wind】. These mountain peaks have no one to support them, and they will immediately fall into the present world.

Lu Jiangxian was seeing such a tragic grotto-heaven fall for the first time. The Anhuai Heaven years ago had no True Monarchs taking action, the overall Xuantao was intact, and it fell into the netherworld safely, without falling into many ruins. And 【Wanling Heaven】 was similar to the 【Donghuo Heaven】 years ago, but it was much more miserable—the True Monarchs took out magic treasures without mercy, the entire Xuantao was shattered, I don't know how many mountain peaks it would add to Zhuo Sha Ling.

His gaze was complex, he raised his head, and saw an object in this rolling Zhe wind, although wrapped in heavy divine abilities, it was still moving slightly.

"【Dayan Tian Su Book】..."

The True Monarchs were working together to cast spells, taking advantage of Wanling Heaven connecting to Zhe Qi, preferring to discard the 【Lingyang Buyi Palace】, and also sending the 【Dayan Tian Su Book】 into the 'Zhe Qi' in the netherworld, which is far away and unreachable!

''The master of 'Si Tian' is a figure who stirs up the wind and clouds, and the 【Dayan Tian Su Book】 is a sharp weapon for manipulating the world. They must not let this thing return to the fruit position. Once the fruit position has a master, it is enough to interfere with all the layouts of the present day! Only by suppressing this thing—even if Si Tian returns, there will be sufficient containment time!''

''But these True Monarchs know in their hearts that the 【Dayan Tian Su Book】 cannot be suppressed. Even if there was Wanling Heaven outside and 【Lingyang Buyi Palace】 inside years ago, it still produced Liu Changdie...''

Lu Jiangxian's expression was cold, his heart was very clear:

"Actually, it's not just Liu Changdie, there are also figures like him. The master of Wanling Heaven had a backhand, which was the 【Dayan Tian Su Book】. Except for being influenced by me, there should be backhands. Just the breaking of Wanling Heaven made Lin Hengjiang receive the resonance of 【Dayan Tian Su Book】 and 'Si Tian' fruit position, born out of thin air... and even several silver lights were born from all over the world, falling into the world."

"Although that Lin Hengjiang is no longer the original him, although he is just a Zifu, although these things cannot set off any big waves, they are also variables."

"And the 【Dayan Tian Su Book】 will eventually win over the 【Lingyang Buyi Palace】. If it is only suppressed by this object, it will eventually be counter-suppressed by the 【Dayan Tian Su Book】 which gradually calculates the loopholes. These variables will only become more and more, stronger and stronger, and finally give birth to that 'Si Tian' master!"

"Whether it is Luoxia, Dragon clan, or Yin Division, they don't like variables, let alone the True Monarchs who have plotted against Wanling Heaven. The variables, big and small, can be tolerated for now, and can even be used to dig out more Douxuan legacies—this is also the reason why they let Lin Hengjiang go, and the reason why they let so many Zifu enter it, but no matter what, they cannot let it go!"

Lu Jiangxian had always stood here, naturally seeing it most clearly, watching coldly:

"No True Monarch is willing to give up their future and bet on their position to specifically suppress this object, so they have to send it into the netherworld. Only the 'Zhe Qi' fruit position can completely suppress the 【Dayan Tian Su Book】 of the 'Si Tian' position without anyone's help and not let it escape!"

"The Yin Division, which is in the 'Zhe Qi', must know and support this move."

During the few days when Li Zhouwei and others were fighting in the grotto-heaven, Lu Jiangxian had already used the 【Dayan Tian Su Book】 to deduce the future 1,891 times!

And one of the purposes of his standing here was to take advantage of the last time to continue deducing!

In these 1,891 futures, Lu Jiangxian pushed silently, tried once and again, but remained silent once and again until the end when the magic treasure was taken by the True Monarchs together, what was left to him was still silence.

Among them, 1,884 times were all a sea of blood—the Li clan was destroyed.

There are roughly three paths here.

First, leaning toward Luoxia, a total of 807 kinds, although there are differences, the main body has no big changes.

Li Zhouwei was besieged in Weidu County, Zhao territory, and had to impact the fruit position in the army. The heaven and earth appeared for the second time in three days, and he fell in three days. The sky was full of light rain

That same year, the Shu army captured Wangyue, and an immortal decree arrived, executing three lineages.

There were fewer living, breathing members of the Li clan left than before Li Mutian had joined the army.

In five hundred and nineteen of those instances, quite a few Li family members did survive; the turning point did not lie with Li Zhouwei or Li Ximing, but with a person Lu Jiangxian had not anticipated—Li Xizhi.

In these five hundred and nineteen instances, the Li clan ultimately compromised with Luoxia, the north fell into great chaos, Li Xizhi entered Luoxia Mountain to cultivate, and by his Daoist conduct, he was utilized by a True Person. When Li Zhouwei perished while attempting to ascend to the Fruit Realm, it was not the Shu army that arrived, but people from the north, who issued an immortal decree, leaving a few survivors at Wangyue Lake and having Li Zhouming lead the people to the Southern Frontier.

Li Xizhi cultivated for many years before suddenly perishing; Li Zhouming died of illness after thirteen years; Xia Shouyu governed the clan for seventy-nine years, until Liu Zhangdie and Fuxun were murdered by the Shengbai Hall, and the entire clan was exterminated!

In another five hundred and sixty-one variations, the Li clan chose the dragon-kind.

Although the Li family remained holed up in Wangyue Lake, facing difficulties everywhere, they appeared docile on the surface, allowing the north and south to manipulate their struggle without offering any resistance, yet they secretly colluded with the dragon-kind, constructing a grand tomb in the Zhu Lu Hai to facilitate a reincarnation.

When Li Zhouwei, who had been besieged in Wei Capital Prefecture, fought until he was exhausted, his true spirit escaped, attempting to defect to the dragon-kind and reincarnate to start anew, but he was struck by the 【Divine Thunder Profound Sound Drum】, shattering his true spirit. Wangyue Lake turned into a sea of blood, leaving behind an overseas remnant lineage that occupied the various Yi tribes, eking out a living under the rule of the dragon-kind, only for the direct line to weaken and the clan to be exterminated within a mere ten years, divided up by various families, much like the story of the Jiang family.

In the final five hundred and twenty-three variations, the Li clan grew close to the Great Song established by Yang Zhuo, perishing after a breakthrough at Zhijing Mountain. There was peace on the lake for twelve years, but when the Song and Zhao fought for the world, Wangyue Lake was breached by the Great General of the Zhao State, Wang Quwan, and the entire clan was slaughtered. Li Jiangliang, who resided in the imperial court, committed suicide... they were likewise unable to escape the disaster. Seventy-six of these instances were slightly better, leaving Li Ximing to obtain a not-insignificant position in the Underworld, but he could act in secret, and within a few years, he was executed for disturbing the mortal world.

These results, without exception, all ended in blood and tears.

Of course, beyond these one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four instances, there were seven more!

Lu Jiangxian's expression was somber.

These seven instances—in truth, Li Xizhi also entered Luoxia, but due to a moment of carelessness, his true form was discovered. A great war between the Grand Void and the Heavens broke out, the sea within the world shattered into seven continents, and the Li clan, along with those who followed, associated with, or were married into the Li clan—the Si family, the Xiao family, the future Yuyang Chen clan... the entire clans were wiped out, with none spared.

"The future calculated by the 【Great Expansion Heavenly Plain Book】... whether good or bad, whether a moment of glory or a lifetime of grievance, there is not a single path of survival!"

He stood quietly amidst the stray wind, his eyes constantly reflecting the 【Great Expansion Heavenly Plain Book】 suppressed in the sky, his expression unreadable.

The 【Great Expansion Heavenly Plain Book】 is not comparable to the meager power of calculation possessed by Liu Zhangdie; despite being bound by a magic treasure, it still possesses the noble status and miraculous nature of a 【Position Rank】—perhaps it cannot calculate the future actions of a True Person, but eighty or ninety percent of the past and present layouts of the various great powers are within its calculations!

"This means that the one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one futures born from my assumptions are all quite close to reality... as long as the Dao Embryo does not act, and I do not make any major interventions, it is almost a certainty!"

He was silent for a long time:

"The 【Great Expansion Heavenly Plain Book】 can calculate everything... but it cannot calculate two things clearly."

"The first is the decision of the Dao Embryo immortals of Luoxia and the Underworld; the second—is me!"

Those seven instances involved the discovery of his true form, shaking the world; when immortals and True Persons emerged together, the scene would immediately turn into chaos, and apart from the shattered inner sea, there was nothing else!

"If I allow the situation to develop, I will inevitably waste these hundred years of time. Wasting a hundred years is secondary; if I miss this stage of a hundred years of changing winds and clouds, even if there are opportunities later, it will be absolutely impossible to turn things around!"

Back then, he thought that at worst he could hunker down for five hundred years, but looking at it now, how could five hundred years solve it? Moreover... after more than a hundred years of being together... it also made him unable to sit idly by while the Li clan was slaughtered...

"Mingyang and Li Zhouwei... the great chaos where the world competes for 'True Qi' is the Li family's only opportunity, and in fact, it is also my only opportunity..."

"The Great Expansion Heavenly Plain Book can calculate these one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one futures, but that Master of the Yuan Mansion, that Lu Jiangxian of the Green Pine Temple, has calculated far more than just these one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one! Is there anything he cannot calculate?"

"He made various arrangements, even willing to wash away his memories to become the me of today; there must be a reason... If the Li family were to perish and I remained unscathed, why bother designing against Liu Zhangdie, why let me see these one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one futures!"

Lu Jiangxian stood silently in the stray wind, slowly turning his head, all thoughts gradually coalescing into one:

"I need variables... they do not want variables, but I must have them. One Chi Buzi is far from enough; I need more variables! Even if they cannot disrupt their grand strategy no matter what, I can still seek a glimmer of survival!"

His eyes turned silver-white, his spiritual sense still constantly connecting and silently calculating, his expression calm, and in his hands, from nothingness, a blue-white precious sword condensed bit by bit.

"Li Jiangchun..."

Li Jiangchun was granted the talisman seed precisely because his talent for the sword path was the best in a hundred years, worthy of looking up to Li Chijing!

It was not a waste to bestow Li Chijing's lifelong sword path experience upon him, but this object could not be borne by ordinary people, nor could it be recognized by ordinary people. Unless his talent surpassed Li Chijing's, otherwise, at the very least, he would have to reach the Sword Yuan stage, one step away from Sword Intent, to have a possibility of gaining its recognition!

Lu Jiangxian had originally wanted to wait until his sword path reached a certain level before subduing this object, but now he could not wait!

"Even if you don't recognize it, you must!"

Just like when Li Xijun borrowed the sword back then, this sword intent was forcibly suppressed by him and flicked into Li Jiangchun's talisman seed—he, Lu Jiangxian, would constantly divert his focus to suppress this object, allowing Li Jiangchun to resonate with it and rapidly raise his sword path cultivation until he could gain recognition!

"The variables left by these Great Expansion Heavenly Plain Books are not many, but they can be calculated cleanly..."

Infinite silver-white whirlpools appeared in his eyes, racing against time to input countless variables at a terrifying speed.

In these infinite illusions, Li Ximing and Li Zhouwei changed again and again, or Li Jiangqian or Li Quewan would suddenly wake up one day, their minds already filled with one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one futures, drenched in cold sweat, attempting to save themselves, only to meet with disaster on some day...

"Using the variable itself as a variable..."

In this instant, various fantasies grew at a terrifying speed, repeating again and again, reappearing over and over!

That infinite stray wind was condensing toward a single point, plunging into the deep, bottomless Underworld. If Lu Jiangxian continued to stand here, he could ride this gray-white 【Directional Stray Wind】 and fly into the infinite Underworld.

"That place is the Underworld, the source of 'stray Qi'."

He faced the rolling stray wind, that faint connection with the 【Great Expansion Heavenly Plain Book】 finally severed, and his figure suddenly disappeared from the spot, a faint gloom emerging in his expression:

"If all kinds of schemes are ineffective, it is better to play an open hand with the 【Great Expansion Heavenly Plain Book】... play the open hand they think is worthless... From beginning to end, the Li family only has the qualifications to play an open hand."

"I cannot personally intervene in everything, but the Li clan needs a Liu Zhangdie... needs a Li family member who thinks they understand the future direction, a person who sees everything clearly at the center of the grand trend... to place pieces for me bit by bit..."

A massive amount of memories gathered, a point of golden light rose, descending along the secret passage where the sun and moon shine together, disappearing into a place imperceptible to the Grand Void.

Taking a day off tomorrow to organize the detailed outline.