[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-treasure-immortal-basin":3,"chapter-the-treasure-immortal-basin-the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-173":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Treasure Immortal Basin",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2355356,4608,"Chapter 173: The Lamp Goes Out","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-173",173,"\u003Cp>“Dad… Dad…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Old bastard, come out here!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My son is looking for you!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wuwei shouted loudly throughout the palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, there was no echo in response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He even ran to the back of the shrine to check if the old man’s figure was in the spirit plant garden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the spirit plant garden, the once-thick trees had long withered into nothing but bare trunks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where did the old man go?” Wuwei glared at He Pingsheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The others also stared at He Pingsheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng took a deep breath; he knew this secret could no longer be hidden. He nodded and said, “Fine, I’ll tell you—but those uninvolved must leave first!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were six people in this room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides He Pingsheng, there were Wuwei, Chongyang, Jianzhu, Yuxuan, and the outsider dressed in purple Daoist robes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng’s meaning was clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wuwei bowed to the Daoist and said, “Sir, please step outside first. We must handle some internal matters. I promise you, not a single item I promised you will be withheld!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Very well!” The purple-robed Daoist nodded and left the grand hall immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, only those within the inner circle remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from He Pingsheng, all the rest were Golden Core cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good. Now you can speak,” Wuwei’s eyes narrowed as he fixed his gaze on He Pingsheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if afraid he’d flee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng said, “Although Master publicly declared he had attained knowledge of fate and had sixty years left to live, in truth, he has already ascended to immortality!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So that’s it!” Before He Pingsheng finished speaking, Wuwei burst out, “The old bastard did say he had sixty years left—but now he’s ascended? Did you kill him?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng gave him a look of utter disbelief. “Brother, do you really think a Foundation Establishment cultivator like me could kill a Nascent Soul?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This…” Chongyang added, “Brother, you’re joking. Even if it weren’t little brother, neither you nor I could do anything to Master!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Nascent Soul was still a Nascent Soul—even one nearing death!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Little brother, continue,” Jianzhu also found it implausible that He Pingsheng had killed the old man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng nodded and continued slowly: “The claims of knowing fate and having sixty years left? They were all lies… more precisely, lies told to you!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wuwei said, “Lies to us?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Correct!” He Pingsheng said. “He lied not only to you, but also to the Beast Taming Immortal Sect. Master’s true lifespan had already nearly expired back then!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He lied about having sixty years left to buy the Grand Void Gate sixty years of time!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He hoped that within these sixty years, the Grand Void Gate would produce a Nascent Soul to protect the sect!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng said, “That’s the full truth. Believe it or not—it’s up to you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good!” Wuwei said. “So the orders issued over the past two years under the Ancestor’s name were actually your own, weren’t they?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wuwei pressed aggressively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng nodded. “Yes. I issued only one order under the Ancestor’s name: promoting Yu Ning and Yuxuan to Elder positions. Big Brother, I see nothing wrong with that!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two Elder positions had been vacant; two Golden Core cultivators filled them—and only these two could fill them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Wuwei had no grounds to complain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hehe… little brother, you’re speaking nonsense!” Jianzhu suddenly spoke up. “I heard the Beast Taming Immortal Sect possesses a divine technique called [Gazing at Qi], an extremely powerful art. If the Ancestor had passed, how could they not know? How could they just sit idle?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is there something more to this matter?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the truth could no longer be concealed, He Pingsheng decided to reveal everything at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, whether he spoke or not made no difference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised his hand and pointed to a golden lamp atop the dais. “Brothers and sisters, do you see this golden lamp?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is the Lamp of Destiny!” He Pingsheng said. “Before his death, Master transformed his entire bloodline, destiny, and Nascent Soul into lamp oil, merging them into this golden lamp.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This lamp can burn for sixty years!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“While it burns, it continuously emits the Ancestor’s own aura to mask the Beast Taming Immortal Sect’s [Gazing at Qi] technique!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Therefore, as long as we do not spread the news of the Ancestor’s death, the Beast Taming Immortal Sect will never know he has perished!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, everyone was stunned into silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had never imagined that even in death, the Ancestor had thought only of the sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A new wave of respect for the Ancestor rose in their hearts—except for Wuwei.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wuwei glared fiercely at He Pingsheng. “Little brother, I ask you: before he died, did the old man pass the [Grand Void Great Mystery Scripture] to you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swish…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the others turned their gazes toward He Pingsheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The [Grand Void Great Mystery Scripture]—this was the highest transmission of the Grand Void Gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless people coveted it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though few among them could possibly cultivate it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Big Brother…” He Pingsheng remained calm. “Do you know why I ran away that time?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wuwei said, “How would I know?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng said, “I am a Five-Element Spirit Root. I feared the old man would pass the [Grand Void Great Mystery Scripture] to you—and that you’d kill me to absorb my spirit roots!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t you dare say you never had such thoughts!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng stared calmly at Wuwei.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wuwei said, “And then?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng said, “Then the Master captured me. He swore to me that the [Grand Void Great Mystery Scripture] was too contrary to heaven’s harmony, so he planned to take it with him and never let it be passed on again in this world!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So I never received the Great Mystery Scripture!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And if Master had truly passed it to me, do you think I’d still be here waiting for you to attack after he died?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No…” Before Wuwei could answer, He Pingsheng answered himself. “I would’ve fled long ago. Wouldn’t it be easier to hide somewhere?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So I truly never received the Great Mystery Scripture!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Wuwei believed him at least seventy percent. He cursed at the golden lamp: “You damned old bastard! Even dead, you won’t pass the scripture to me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you deserve me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you deserve my mother?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You deserve to die…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If I die, you won’t live well either!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Destroy it all… destroy everything… hahaha! What is the Grand Void Gate? What is this legacy?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s all bullshit!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wuwei swung a punch, smashing it straight into the golden lamp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blow came too suddenly; no one could stop him in time!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a crash, the lamp toppled to the ground, its oil spilling everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No!” Everyone’s faces turned pale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at that moment, the lamp’s flame suddenly flared up, igniting the spilled oil. Flames roared skyward, engulfing the entire grand hall.\u003C\u002Fp>",1138,"2026-06-21T04:08:57.694Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","1ffa07c3f21dc60743a99145c4e1d8a64b730c6f30d70646df79537aea994098","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-174","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-172",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-treasure-immortal-basin-cover.jpg"]