EFB Chapter 577 - 183: Receiving the Inheritance, Attacking on Multiple Fronts
Chapter 577 - 183: Receiving the Inheritance, Attacking on Multiple Fronts
The tattered long robe fluttered fiercely in the long wind.
A man with deep-set eyes soared through the air, sweeping over dozens of miles of land, and entered the Triple Gate of the Divine Wood Hall...
Wherever he went, the guards stationed on the city towers all knelt in salute.
The man didn’t glance at them, until he entered the core of the Divine Wood Hall, the White Bamboo Bell Tower.
The White Bamboo Bell Tower is divided into an outer tower and an inner tower.
The outer tower is for disciples like Li Ping’an to cultivate.
The inner tower, however, has only two chambers, one for Gu Xuejian and the other for Qing Hancheng.
Of course, compared to Gu Xuejian, Qing Hancheng’s tower directly faces the core area of the Fourth Grade Meat Field below, capable of drawing the highest-grade, most concentrated blood energy of the Fourth Grade Meat Field.
Within the core inner tower, a wooden door lay before him; the man raised his hand to press on a mechanism at the center of the door. With a rhythm akin to a password, he gently rotated it, with varying degrees of force.
Finally, the man knocked on the door.
The door opened.
A small room that only Qing Hancheng had entered in hundreds of years was revealed to the man.
The man, of course, was Li Yuan.
At the end of the great battle with Qing Hancheng, Qing Hancheng had told Li Yuan everything.
This formidable figure of the Divine Wood Hall hadn’t even made a single request, nor said anything like "If you promise me something, I’ll tell you something" or "Avenge me."
Because at that moment, he already understood that Li Yuan and those people were destined to be opposed.
A vast force would likely not permit such a "self-created cultivation skill" maverick to emerge.
The relationship between Wendao Palace and Li Yuan was not watertight.
For the people of this land, they might not discover Li Yuan’s feigned death, nor understand how he had managed to self-create a cultivation skill, let alone comprehend its implications.
But those people...certainly could.
No one is a fool.
Thus, this opposition is inherently established.
Since it is inherently established, why waste words, imitating the dying wishes of trivial figures of the social world?
Therefore, Qing Hancheng didn’t mention it again but, in those brief three days, transformed into an experienced, knowledgeable mentor, teaching Li Yuan various things to help him grow stronger, and then stronger again.
Li Yuan also listened attentively, discerning truth from falsehood in his own heart.
And at the last moment, Qing Hancheng appeared calm, then turned to dust, but Li Yuan knew... Qing Hancheng’s consciousness had already entered the Withered and Flourishing Sword, becoming part of this sword.
After Qing Hancheng’s death, Li Yuan pondered for a moment, then took on Qing Hancheng’s appearance and left the Feiyan Platform.
As for Dian Wei?
A simpleton who defeated Qing Hancheng would most attract the attention of all the higher-ups.
He would be cast under the spotlight of the grand events, with everything about him scrutinized thoroughly.
Such a highly visible person was unnecessary for Li Yuan, as it would be tantamount to being rendered useless.
Since he was made useless, he discarded him.
And Qing Hancheng’s victory was the outcome with the smallest disturbance and the least impact.
Sure enough, he smoothly left the Feiyan Platform, and effortlessly entered this place.
...
Li Yuan closed the door behind him with a backward hand, glanced around, and found the room simple and clean.
There were quite a few tube scrolls on the table, books on the bookshelf, and the bed seemed to emit a calming and tranquilizing aura.
Something stirred within him, and he looked up again.
Above, he saw a scroll hanging in the small room, with two imposing, powerful characters: Qi Tian.
This made Li Yuan chuckle softly.
’Who would have thought Hall Master Qing was actually a bit naive... truly, you can’t judge a book by its cover.
Who says that those with sinister hearts and cunning minds must be worldly and greasy, without an innocent side?’
He pondered over it.
’Looking at Hall Master Qing’s diary style from his youth, it’s likely similar to Ping’an’s temperament.
Except, as his status and position elevated, he hid all that, only revealing his true nature when alone.’
’And cultivation made him abandon all unnecessary things, even severing all ties with his family.’
"Qi Tian, Qi Tian, the heavens have a multitude of things, yet still solitary... so these heavens, why bother unifying them?"
Li Yuan casually took down the Qi Tian scroll, rolling it up and putting it in an empty scroll tube beside him.
He then searched through the scroll tubes with his fingers, pulling out three scrolls.
The tubes contained three paintings.
These are the three original diagrams, the true legacy of the Divine Wood Hall.
And all the disciples outside, including Gu Xuejian, actually cultivate from albums painted by the Divine Wood Hall’s ancestor, not the original diagrams. Though the effects are almost the same, there still is a "difference."
It shows that Qing Hancheng was indeed "guarding others as if against thieves," controlling the original diagrams, fearing someone might surpass him, or that some unforeseen event might occur in the Divine Wood Hall that he couldn’t control.
Li Yuan thought carefully, if he were in that position, he might do the same.
The true treasures are naturally for oneself and family, why share them with outsiders?
The three diagrams he left in the Wendao Palace are not the original diagrams either but were drawn a second time.
The difference is, Qing Hancheng was solitary, while he... still had family.
At this moment, Li Yuan quietly and curiously examined these three original diagrams.
The antiquity of the paintings was evident from the adornments on the edges.
But the ink and paper of the paintings themselves were as fresh as yesterday, extraordinarily remarkable.
Li Yuan, having a foundational understanding of the Divine Wood cultivation skills, now quickly directed his attention to these visualization images.