novelraw Chapter 191 : The Truth of the Heaven-and-Earth Calamity!
Chapter 191 : The Truth of the Heaven-and-Earth Calamity!
Chapter 191: The Truth of the Heaven-and-Earth Calamity!
From this moment onward, in Jiang Zhi’s eyes, Chu Huaixu was no longer merely a “variable.”
Because everything that the Sword Attendant and the Bronze Sword could do—he seemed to be capable of it all!
More importantly, that sword was an Evil Sword. It was uncontrollable and had only been irreplaceable in the past.
But Chu Huaixu was different. His Heart Sword was different as well.
Baleful Aura was the most sinister force between heaven and earth. Though it could devour Nascent Souls, who knew what kind of new troubles might arise the more it devoured?
Relying on it to resolve the Nascent Soul issue was ultimately just a stopgap—only used because there were no better methods.
But now, things had changed.
“This time, it truly embodies ‘A gentleman uses tools, but is not used by them.’” Jiang Zhi sighed inwardly.
Originally, he had planned for Chu Huaixu to enter the Origin Spirit Realm, while he waited outside with Xu Ziqing, just in case anything happened.
But now, it seemed there was no need to worry about the Nascent Soul issue at all.
At this thought, Jiang Zhi looked deeply at Chu Huaixu, his emotions growing more and more complicated.
Clearly, this young man was already so handsome—exceptionally good-looking—yet today, he found him increasingly pleasing to the eye.
“Come to think of it, I still owe him a massive favor,” he thought.
“He’s even avenged our senior brothers and sisters!”
In the grand hall, having completed this feat, Chu Huaixu took the initiative to probe for information and asked, “So, when I enter the Origin Spirit Realm, what I’ll be facing is the Nascent Soul?”
He was already getting a little excited.
If it was just that thing, then damn, wasn’t it going to be a massacre?
The 【Heart Sword】 had an overwhelming advantage against such entities, capable of suppressing them from every angle.
However, Xiang Yan’s response was, “Yes and no.”
He didn’t give Chu Huaixu a direct answer right away but said:
“This time, Little Martial Uncle and I arranged for you to descend the mountain and eliminate evil for two reasons.”
“The first was to teach you how to kill.”
“The second was to help you understand what kind of beings Evil Cultivators are—so you could gain some indirect understanding of the Origin Spirit Realm and the Heaven-and-Earth Calamity.”
“Now that you’ve returned from your demon-slaying mission, there are things I can finally tell you.”
Chu Huaixu perked up his gossip-loving ears.
The main event was finally here!
“In the Xuanhuang Realm, those of us who know about the Origin Spirit Realm generally believe that all Evil Cultivator methods under the heavens originate from the Origin Spirit Realm—or perhaps, more precisely, from the Nascent Soul.”
“Such heretical techniques that advance through devouring others’ Spirit Embryos were never part of the cultivation system of our Xuanhuang Realm.”
Hearing this, Chu Huaixu furrowed his brows slightly.
He had already understood the hidden meaning here.
“So, the Nascent Soul wasn’t originally something that belonged to the Xuanhuang Realm?” he asked.
“Exactly. You’re very perceptive!” Xiang Yan praised and nodded in affirmation.
He glanced at Chu Huaixu, who stood at the center of the grand hall, and continued:
“The Nascent Soul, at its core, is actually the Divine Soul—it is the soul.”
“Therefore, after you enter the Origin Spirit Realm, what you’ll be facing, at the root of it, is a person!”
“Someone who possesses a Nascent Soul!”
“Someone from outside the Xuanhuang Realm!”
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In the grand hall, Chu Huaixu listened to all this, his expression subtly changing.
He wasn’t surprised that there were people from beyond the Xuanhuang Realm.
After all, he himself was a transmigrator—he wasn’t from the Xuanhuang Realm either. He came from Earth...
From this, he could infer that there wasn’t just one world.
He just hadn’t expected the Origin Spirit Realm to be like this.
According to Xiang Yan, these people claimed to be from Kunlun Grotto-Heaven.
Presumably, this Kunlun Grotto-Heaven was the name of their world.
And the entire Kunlun Grotto-Heaven was basically the territory of a sect named the Kunlun Sacred Sect.
Xiang Yan continued:
“The cultivation system of our Xuanhuang Realm is actually very similar to a certain principle of the Dao Gate: Dao follows Nature.”
“We cultivators absorb spiritual energy from heaven and earth to nourish ourselves, and give birth to spiritual power within the Spirit Embryo Secret Store or our physical shell.”
“But once we die, we return to dust and earth.”
“Everything we obtain from the heavens and the earth, we return to the heavens and the earth.”
“To us cultivators, a human life is but a mere century.”
“But the path that the Kunlun Sacred Sect walks is completely opposite to ours.”
“They seek to forge a world within themselves!”
“And they arrogantly wish to live as long as heaven and earth!”
Upon hearing this, Chu Huaixu muttered to himself:
“That does sound like it has more flair.”
To defy the heavens—that always sounded badass.
But regardless, Chu Huaixu was a transmigrator and still a proud… youth of the league!
He had received education, and as everyone knew—we must follow a path of sustainable development.
We must protect the ecosystem, purify the spiritual energy, and cultivate greenly!
—To build a harmonious Xuanhuang home between man and nature!
Sure enough, this Kunlun Grotto-Heaven sounded impressive, but Xiang Yan quickly followed up:
“Because of their cultivation system, the entire Kunlun Grotto-Heaven had already shown signs of entering an era without spiritual law a thousand years ago.”
“Thus, the Kunlun Sacred Sect began trying to find a way out.”
Chu Huaixu immediately asked, “So, the Xuanhuang Realm is the way out they found?”
“Exactly,” Xiang Yan nodded.
He continued, “In fact, once cultivation reaches a certain level, it involves the power of the origin of heaven and earth—essentially, one is comprehending the Heavenly Dao and seizing a wisp of its power.”
“When you enter the Origin Spirit Realm, what you obtain as the 【Fragment of Xuanhuang Origin】 is basically this concept.”
“With it, you will have opened the path of the Nine Realms, and won’t get stuck at the bottleneck of the Eighth Realm.”
“This wisp of origin power of the Heavenly Dao is the most crucial foundation of the Ninth Realm.”
“And on the Kunlun Grotto-Heaven’s side, to reach the pinnacle of their cultivation system, it’s the same—they must absorb the power of the Heavenly Dao into themselves.”
“But it’s precisely for this reason that they entered the age without spiritual law.”
“Because the path they walk is inherently an evil one,” Xiang Yan said, standing from the Xuanhuang Realm’s perspective.
“In the Kunlun Grotto-Heaven, the highest realm is called ‘attaining the fruit position, Divine Ability transforms into Godhood!’”
“And do you know how this so-called Kunlun Sacred Sect cultivates?”
Chu Huaixu shook his head, though by now, the feeling of familiarity grew stronger—he had a vague guess in his heart.
“It’s a lawless and dark land where the strong reign supreme.”
“Opportunities can be stolen, fortunes can be seized!”
“As long as your cultivation is higher, you can disregard everything—killing and robbing are common.”
“But in such an environment, if you can kill, then those stronger than you can also kill you.”
“Within the sect, it’s like a vat of poisonous insects.”
“The lives of disciples are seemingly worthless—prodigies can trample on the weak at will, and the trash are spat on without even basic human rights.”
“In fact, many disciples are trained merely as fodder for the top experts.”
“Those who attain the fruit position look down on everything from above, as if watching over a chessboard and its pieces.”
“Because their cultivation system is that twisted!”
“The Golden Core you refine—others can take it!”
“The Nascent Soul you cultivate—others can devour it!”
“These cannibalistic acts can actually strengthen them!”
“So long as someone is weaker than you, they can be treated as ants—taken and discarded at will.”
“And once one cultivates a Nascent Soul, even if gravely wounded or at the end of one’s lifespan, they can possess another’s body and live a second life!”
“Yet these Evil Cultivator beasts claim that they are...”
Xiang Yan paused, then slowly uttered two words:
“‘Cultivating immortality.’”
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