The Entire Sect is Full of Villains, Yet the Junior Sister Conquers All

Chapter 308 : Is This What You Mean

Chu Sang returned.

She had spent over twenty years in the lost world within the map, but in the real world, it was only a brief moment. From Immortal Chanyu's perspective, she had just entered the scroll one second and emerged the next.

In the blink of an eye, Chu Sang's entire demeanor had completely changed. When she left, she still had a youthful air. Upon her return, although her appearance remained the same, her expression was entirely different, with more indifference and maturity, and seemingly some added worldliness?

She rubbed her head, took a moment to recover, then finally spoke hesitantly,

"Master, you knew all along, didn't you?"

Master smiled, "I had suspicions before, but actually, until you asked this question, I was never completely certain... I didn't expect that you really were that person."

Everything Chu Sang experienced in that world was what truly happened on the Spirit Abyss Continent ten thousand years ago. After her sacrifice, time flowed backward, the world was reconstructed, and naturally, all memories of her, an outsider who accidentally entered the world, were erased from everyone's minds. No one remembered that such a person had ever existed, and no records about her remained in the scroll histories. Immortal Chanyu, using the power of the Tracing Pearl to drift outside the world, was the only one whose memories weren't completely erased by the rules, knowing everything that had happened back then.

However, even so, with the erosion of ten thousand years, her memories of Chu Sang had gradually blurred. Only the verbal instruction Chu Sang left behind symbolized that [that person] had truly existed.

Back then, when Immortal Chanyu saw the verbal instruction, she already had a guess—these were all things that would happen in the future. [That person] might come from the future, not belonging to this time and space. To meet again in the 'real' time, who knew which year and month it would be.

She strictly followed the verbal instruction, found those children ten thousand years later, and brought them back to Lingqing Sect to nurture.

"Is that Past Pearl still in your hand?" Chu Sang asked again.

A big reason why Master's memories of that time weren't erased by the rules might be due to the influence of the Past Pearl. This pair of Tracing Pearls was still in their hands. If only emulating the approach from ten thousand years ago could thoroughly resolve this crisis, she wouldn't mind sacrificing herself again.

However, with this sacrifice, [Chu Sang] as a person would completely disappear, with no chance of coming back again. But she understood this was her mission, not [Chu Sang]'s mission but her own. [Chu Sang] was just her current life in the mortal world. She would never truly die, only fall into slumber once more, waiting for the next awakening.

"This time, we haven't reached the end of the road yet. We still have some time left. There's no need to sacrifice anyone again," Master shook her head. "The primary plan is to open the passage to the upper realm. If we can successfully open the passage to the upper realm, we still have hope for reversal."

The closure of the passage was equivalent to closing off the hope for this continent.

Master explained, "Back then, you didn't have the chance to see how much impact your sacrifice had on those Upper Gods. They were even terrified to the point of not daring to easily set foot on this continent for ten thousand years, fearing your power, yet coveting that power. They wanted to obtain the power but were wary of its threat. That's why they tried every means to seal off the Spirit Abyss Continent, closing the passage for cultivators to ascend, turning the Spirit Abyss Continent into a... box, a box without an exit."

Chu Sang understood the Upper Gods' approach. To be honest, if it were her, she would probably do the same.

The Upper Gods hadn't expected the seed of fire to fall on this continent. They wanted to obtain its power but didn't dare to take it with their true bodies for fear of repeating the tragedy. So they turned the Spirit Abyss Continent into a box without an exit, sealing the seed of fire within, preventing it from escaping, intending to secretly obtain it.

Just as she was thinking, the thunder tribulation outside interrupted her thoughts. Bolt after bolt of thunder tribulation descended, creating a truly earth-shattering scene.

It wasn't just one thunder tribulation, but many thunderbolts. There must be several people undergoing tribulation simultaneously. Since the last time they came out of the trial grounds, such scenes had become commonplace in the cultivation world. The overall quality of cultivators had greatly improved, with scenes no less impressive than the most prosperous Divine Surge Period ten thousand years ago. Every few days, there would be a major thunder tribulation. However, a scene like today's was still unheard of.

This scene was almost comparable to her own tribulation back then.

"Who's undergoing tribulation outside? Someone from our sect? Big Senior Brother or Big Senior Sister? I remember Big Senior Brother should have just completed his Unity stage tribulation..."

This situation didn't look much like a Unity tribulation, but rather like—

"Do you remember the Bodhi tree you got from somewhere before? That half-dead Bodhi tree was nurtured on the back mountain for a while, and it really came back to life. Changsheng has been tending to the Bodhi tree on the back mountain, and after nurturing it for a short time, it bloomed and bore fruit."

Hearing this, Chu Sang roughly understood what was happening. According to legend, the Bodhi fruit could greatly enhance a cultivator's cultivation. As long as the cultivator's level was below the Tribulation Transcendence stage, it could even directly cross a major realm.

She had instructed Fifth Senior Sister and the others before that when the Bodhi tree bloomed and bore fruit, they should distribute these Bodhi fruits to people in the sect and disciples of other major sects. Now, having one more high-level cultivator meant one more source of assistance.

Master raised her hand and drew several sound transmission talismans in the air. After this round of thunder tribulation completely ended, the Senior Brothers and Sisters rushed to the main hall.

Tantai Ming curiously circled around Chu Sang, surprised that although it had only been a few days since they last met, Little Junior Sister's aura had become particularly unfathomable, as if she were a different person.

He blinked in surprise, "Little Junior Sister, has your cultivation level increased again? I can't see through your cultivation level at all now!"

"Guess."

"Could it be... Tribulation Transcendence?"

Gu Chang'an spoke up first.

After breaking through from Divine Transformation to Unity, and then breaking through to Great Perfection with the help of the Bodhi fruit, there was only one possibility for a cultivation level he couldn't see through, and that was the higher level of Tribulation Transcendence.

She didn't deny it.

Damn, how does Little Junior Sister always do such shocking things? Tantai Ming and the others were simply dumbfounded. It really was Tribulation Transcendence, the first Tribulation Transcendence in the cultivation world in a hundred years, the youngest Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivator in history.

It should be noted that with the Spirit Abyss Continent's ascension passage closed and spiritual energy gradually depleting, cultivators' levels were generally getting lower and lower. Especially in the recent few hundred years, almost no new Great Perfection or Tribulation Transcendence cultivators had emerged. Who would have thought Little Junior Sister would break through to Tribulation Transcendence at such a young age? This was simply too incredible!

Wait, how come they didn't even hear the heavenly thunder of the tribulation? And how long had it been since her last breakthrough? Even if a celestial descended, it shouldn't be possible to break through to Tribulation Transcendence so quickly???

If it were anyone else, they would have thought the person was definitely making things up to deliberately deceive them. But with this happening to Little Junior Sister, it seemed... well... indeed, it wasn't impossible.

"What's going on exactly? Little Junior Sister, you really reached Tribulation Transcendence? When did you break through? How come we didn't know?"

Tantai Ming knew that Little Junior Sister had been called over by Master alone, so there must have been some matters to instruct. Although Little Junior Sister was the youngest in age among Lingqing Sect's direct disciples, anyone with eyes could see that she was the most valued among the sect disciples, even more so than Big Senior Brother and Big Senior Sister. Of course, being valued was also because Little Junior Sister had the ability. Among the young geniuses of this generation in the current cultivation world, forget about one Mo Qingchen, even several Mo Qingchens and Shang Zilings combined probably couldn't match their Little Junior Sister's talent.

Chu Sang didn't hide anything from the others. To her in this life, her Senior Brothers and Sisters had long become like family. She roughly recounted what had happened in that world, though she skillfully glossed over some of the details—there were some things she wasn't too sure about herself, and there was no need to explain them so clearly.

"That's great, Little Junior Sister has cultivated to Tribulation Transcendence. Maybe there will soon be a day of ascension!" Tantai Ming's words hadn't fully left his mouth when Wen Renyue reached out and pulled him, wishing she could knock on his forehead.

He quickly realized that ascension was indeed a beautiful blessing and the ultimate goal of a cultivator's cultivation, but with the Spirit Abyss Continent's ascension passage closed, what ascension could they talk about? Saying this was undoubtedly dampening the mood.

But even if there's no ascension, it's not a problem. What's so good about ascending? After struggling so hard in the lower realm to cultivate to the peak strength admired by tens of thousands, after ascending to the upper realm, they would have to start from the bottom again. This endless cultivation is so tiring! It's better to stay in the lower realm. The lifespan of a Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivator is a full ten thousand years. Living supremely in the lower realm for ten thousand years, one would probably get tired of living.

"Ascension will happen. I'm still waiting to go up and see."

Chu Sang curled the corner of her lips, showing no discouragement at all.

Tantai Ming, "But the ascension passage is closed. How can we ascend?"

"If it's closed, then we'll open it again," she said casually.

The young man blinked as if he understood something.

Indeed, there's nothing wrong with what she said. If it's closed, just open it again!

But... how to open it?

In ten thousand years, not a single person had successfully opened the ascension passage. Could it be that when it came to them, the ascension passage would open by itself?

This inevitably led back to the previous topic.

"How did those human gods close the passage back then?" Chu Sang turned her head to look at Master again.

Only Master knew all the details of what happened back then. She must have other trump cards hidden for calling her over to do all this.

"Although the power of the Upper Gods is ahead of the lower realm cultivators, the ascension passage is a channel connecting two worlds, and also a barrier separating two worlds. It is inherently a product between worlds, not the effect of any single human god's power. No matter how capable those Upper Gods are, they absolutely couldn't have the authority to close the passage. So saying they closed the ascension passage is actually not accurate. The ascension passage has always been there. Whether it's the ascension passage ten thousand years ago or ten thousand years later, it's in a closed state most of the time, only opening when a Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivator ascends."

"If we consider the ascension passage of each continent as a door, then each door must have its exclusive key. They took away the key to the Spirit Abyss Continent's ascension passage, so the ascension passage has always been unable to open."

"Those human gods were afraid we would find the key, so they shattered the key into five pieces. These five fragments respectively represent the five elemental forces that initially constructed this continent, transformed into the purest five spiritual treasures, scattered across the continent. Collecting them is very difficult..."

"Five spiritual treasures, do you mean these?"

Under the astonished gazes of everyone present, she lowered her head and rummaged through her storage bag like a hamster, taking out some objects.