Chapter 68: Learning the secret? My karma begins to appear!

In the Star-Gazing Tower, the stars were lonely.

Envoy Yin Si's eyes, flashing with data light, seemed to penetrate the ages of time and space, falling on Lin Xuan. The picture condensed by starlight on the jade table had dissipated, but the shocking information contained within was engraved in Lin Xuan's heart like a brand.

"Since you have chosen the third path, then..." Envoy Yin Si's voice carried no emotion, yet every word was like a hammer, striking Lin Xuan's soul. "Let you know what kind of vortex you are standing in at this moment, and what you yourself are."

He slowly raised a finger, wisps of starlight and chaotic air currents lingering at his fingertip, and pointed gently at Lin Xuan's forehead.

"Open your heart and mind, do not resist. This is the 'Star-Tracing Spirit Transmission' technique, which can directly brand information into your sea of consciousness."

Lin Xuan's gaze narrowed, and after a moment of pondering, he followed the instruction and opened his sea of consciousness defense. He believed that if the Huangfu Tianji Pavilion wanted to harm him, they wouldn't need such trouble. Moreover, the Chaos Soul Formation had its own spiritual sense; if it sensed a fatal crisis, it would protect its master on its own.

Swish!

That point of starlight chaotic light entered Lin Xuan's forehead.

Boom!

The massive flow of information, like a bursting river, instantly rushed into his sea of consciousness! It was no longer blurry pictures, but clear words, images, and even law insights!

First to rush in was the true origin of this Heavenly Origin Mystical Realm!

This place was not a simple ancient sect ruin, but the final sanctuary and inheritance land refined by the last Creation-stage great being of this world, "Dao Ancestor Hunyuan," at the cost of his own fall, after an ancient "War of Cutting Heaven" that affected the myriad worlds, by intercepting fragments of the battlefield and fusing his own cave heaven!

Its core purpose was not to cultivate juniors, but to seal a wisp of core demon sense of the domain-outside enemy—the "Lord of the Ruined Abyss"—from that war! That is, the demon head suppressed in the Five Elements Demon-Suppressing Land!

"Lord of the Ruined Abyss... a wisp of demon sense..." Lin Xuan's heart and soul were shocked! He had thought it was just some powerful demon head from ancient times, but he didn't expect the origin to be so terrifying! It was actually a wisp of demon sense from a domain-outside enemy! What kind of existence must its main body be?

The information continued to rush in.

Dao Ancestor Hunyuan refined the Mystical Realm and set up a triple seal.

The first layer was the spatial barrier of the Mystical Realm itself, as well as the many test arrays inside, filtering inheritors and continuously wearing down the demon sense's power.

The second layer was the Five Elements Demon-Suppressing Land, constructing a cage with the power of the five elements origin.

The third layer, and also the most core layer, was the ultimate seal formed by the Big Dipper Demon-Suppressing Array as the core, with the Star Core as the Yang array eye and the Nether Soul-Suppressing Order as the Yin array eye!

However, after endless years, the first two layers of seals had been greatly weakened due to energy loss and external damage (such as the previous actions of the Youming Sect and the demon race). And the third layer of the seal, because the Star Core and the Nether Soul-Suppressing Order serving as the array eyes were lost and severely damaged, was even more in name only!

That Ruined Abyss demon sense had long since glimpsed a trace of this world's heavenly Dao rules during the long seal, and with its cunning nature, secretly infiltrated and bewitched some forces inside and outside the Mystical Realm (such as the Youming Sect, and those black shadows colluding with the Zhao Clan), attempting to work from inside and outside to completely break the seal!

"Its previous dormancy and impact were all a disguise and probing! It was waiting for a timing to completely escape!" Lin Xuan broke out in a cold sweat. His previous reinforcement of the seal not only failed to truly solve the problem, but might have alerted the enemy, causing the demon sense to realize the crisis and accelerate its pace!

Immediately following, information about the "Children of Destiny" rushed in.

The so-called Children of Destiny did not refer solely to Ye Chen. They were multiple people born in response to the times, who were favored by the heavenly Dao of this world sensing the threat of the Ruined Abyss demon sense and the greater catastrophe that might descend in the future (the main body of the Lord of the Ruined Abyss?). They carried great destiny and grew extremely fast, being the key forces to deal with future disasters.

Ye Chen was one of them, the Third Imperial Prince Li Daoyi, Saintess Yun Yao of the Floating Snow Palace, and even that white-clothed youth carrying an ancient sword, the woman in seven-colored rosy clothes, etc., were all in this sequence!

One of the meanings of the Huangfu Tianji Pavilion's existence was to observe, guide, and when necessary... balance these Children of Destiny, ensuring they could grow up and deal with the catastrophe together, rather than perishing in internal friction.

"And you?" Envoy Yin Si's voice rang in his sea of consciousness at the right time, carrying a strange meaning. "You, Lin Xuan, or 'Mu Xuan', 'Jin Shisan'... you are not in the sequence of destiny."

Lin Xuan's heart and soul were shocked again!

"Your appearance is a huge variable." Envoy Yin Si continued. "The 'Nine Turns Chaos Scripture' you possess is the supreme Dao that Dao Ancestor Hunyuan failed to fully deduce back then! Your Chaos Soul Formation has even transcended the conventional cultivation system of this world! Your existence itself is constantly stirring the river of fate, making the originally clear future full of countless tributaries and uncertainties."

"For the heavenly Dao, you are an anomaly, an existence difficult to control. But for observers like us, you might be the only opportunity to break the deadlock and bring 'hope'!"

The information stopped here.

Lin Xuan slowly opened his eyes, chaotic energy circulating in his pupils, filled with shock and realization.

He finally understood!

He understood the meaning of the Mystical Realm, understood the terror of the Ruined Abyss demon sense, understood the origin of the Children of Destiny, and understood even more... why he was so "favored" by the Huangfu Tianji Pavilion!

His appearance had disrupted all established fate. The Huangfu Tianji Pavilion saw the possibility of breaking the deadlock in him!

"So, what you want is me, this 'variable', to deal with the catastrophe that might come? And that 'one-time action', the target is likely that Ruined Abyss demon sense, or even... its main body?" Lin Xuan looked at Envoy Yin Si, his voice hoarse.

"To be precise, it is hoped that you can grow to have the ability to deal with the catastrophe. And that one-time action is a necessary test and cooperation." Envoy Yin Si corrected flatly. "As for the target, you will know when the time comes. Perhaps, more than one 'old friend'."

Lin Xuan was silent for a moment, digesting this shocking secret. The karma involved was too great, so great that he, a cultivator who had just reached the Soul Formation stage, felt like an ant looking up at the sky.

But his Dao heart was firm, and he quickly suppressed his distracting thoughts. Things had reached this point, and avoidance was useless. Since karma was entangled, he could only advance bravely and turn this so-called "variable" into a ladder for himself to reach the peak!

"I understand." Lin Xuan said in a deep voice. "Seven-tenths of the medicinal power, it's yours!"

He took out the jade bottle without hesitation, opened the stopper, guided it with his divine sense, and separated about seven-tenths of the Soul-Condensing Creation Dew, which flew toward Envoy Yin Si as a seven-colored stream of light.

Envoy Yin Si rolled his sleeves and collected it, nodding: "Transaction reached. You can stay in this Star-Gazing Tower for three days, no one will disturb you. After three days, whether to go or stay, decide for yourself."

After speaking, his figure slowly faded, eventually merging into the surrounding stars and disappearing.

Under the empty starry sky, only Lin Xuan remained, facing the endless stars alone.

He held the jade bottle with only three-tenths of the medicinal power left in his hand, looking at the dewdrop inside that was still full of spirituality, just slightly dimmed in light, his eyes gradually becoming sharp.

"Ruined Abyss demon sense... Children of Destiny... War of Cutting Heaven... Dao Ancestor Hunyuan..."

He chewed on these words in a low voice, and an unprecedented pressure, as well as unprecedented motivation, surged into his heart.

His path was destined not to be calm. But since he had embarked on this Chaos Dao, he should have the courage to accommodate all things and face everything!

He sat down cross-legged and took the remaining three-tenths of the Creation Dew. Although the medicinal power was greatly reduced, it was still a rare treasure, enough for him to completely consolidate his newly broken-through early Soul Formation realm, and even go a step further.

The pure medicinal power melted, merging into his limbs and bones, nourishing the Chaos Soul Formation. Lin Xuan's heart and mind, however, sank into a deeper deduction of the information just obtained, and a plan for his own future.

Three days later, when he walked out of the Star-Gazing Tower, he would surely face this turbulent Mystical Realm, and the... monstrous karma that had already appeared, with a brand-new posture!

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