Chapter 660 - Demonic Qi and Evil Qi Dual Cultivator (1/2)
Sword Saint Tianshu, whose real name was Rong Chaoxi, was a disciple of the Rong family of the Northeast Land’s spirit clan. It’s just that he hadn’t mentioned his real name for decades, so gradually, no one remembered him anymore.
“Most of the events the Rong family recorded about the Great Immortal-Demon War were true. For example, Sword Venerable Chang Sheng really did sacrifice his life to kill the demon leader and died in Myriad Dao Academy, incarnating at Hidden Sword Peak, attracting famous swords from all over the world. For example, the Jianmu did cut its own roots, and Puluo Mountain sank and turned into the Tomb of Youshan, thus sealing the location. After several long periods of time, no one could easily set foot on it again.”
Tianshu Sword Saint sighed deeply, took another deep breath, looked at Lin Xuanzhi’s eyes, and then continued, “However, there are some extremely important facts that were hidden by the ancestors of the Rong clan. The hidden parts were about evil Qi cultivators and the Demon Emperor.”
This statement was really subversive. Everyone present had different expressions, but most of them were impatiently curious.
“Why did your Rong family want to do this kind of thing?” An elder couldn’t help but ask.
“What the hell did your clan hide? Tianshu, please say it immediately!” Yaoguang urged.
“I am not the young master or patriarch of the Rong clan, so I am not sure how much had been concealed, as well as the details. It is just that when I was young, I was rebellious. I once sneaked into the clan’s ancestral shrine and saw only a few words from a scroll.”
That year, Tianshu Sword Saint was still an idiot who didn’t know the height of the world and hadn’t entered the Dao. He only knew to be silly and happy every day, and the people of the clan always regarded him as nothing.
He inadvertently broke into the ancestral shrine, climbed onto the altar, knocked off an unknown number of candlestick tributes, and climbed to the highest point. Behind the spiritual throne, made of black sinking wood, there was a scroll hidden. It looked like it had been sealed for a long time, but it had fallen more than one layer. Because of curiosity, he took down the scroll and opened it.
It read: “The Demon Emperor Youshan Lingyu colluded with the outsider invaders to become a traitor, opened the evil Qi acupoints and meridians, and cultivated both evil Qi and demonic Qi simultaneously. Wherever he goes, the corpses became mountains, spiritual plants withered, souls were broken, and pedestrians cried bitterly. This was the biggest disaster in the world.”
Tianshu Sword Saint paused, his face showing hesitation.
“Tianshu, just say it quickly.” Yaoguang couldn’t help urging again. At the critical moment, his words stuck. This kind of thing was the worst.
Lin Xuanzhi looked at the hesitant Sword Saint Tianshu, but he knew why he hesitated. The record he saw shouldn’t only contain those two paragraphs. After this paragraph, there should be another, the introduction of Youshan Lingyu.
“Third, Youshan Lingyu was once a direct disciple of the Hidden Spirit Holy Sect’s Dao Zu.” In the end, Tianshu still revealed this shocking secret to the public.
What he said was like a splash of water; there was no taking it back. No one in the later generations knew what the real name of the Demon Emperor was. The ‘Youshan’ they were supposed to know was actually the name of the place where the Demon Emperor had fallen. He almost wiped out the world, making the Nine Lands fearful and was extremely powerful. Even fewer people knew that Demon Emperor Youshan Lingyu, who almost unified the Nine Lands, was once a direct disciple of Hidden Spirit Holy Sect’s Dao Zu, the head of the Daoist sects whom later generations admired.
If people knew about this, what an embarrassment it would be for the Spirit Sect! The disaster of the Nine Lands actually came from Hidden Spirit Holy Sect. In this way, how could the Hidden Spirit Holy Sect’s sacred status be preserved? And how would the people of the world denounce the sect that raised the culprit? How could the Spirit Sect dare to claim to be the leader of Daoism and the secular world when it couldn’t even control its own disciples?
After the end of the Great Immortal-Demon War, the survivors of the Spirit Sect concealed the true identity of Youshan Lingyu for the sake of the glory and dignity of the sect. Even his real name never appeared in the later records. People only knew that among Dao Zu’s direct disciples, the eldest martial brother, Sword Venerable Chang Sheng sacrificed himself for the Dao, and all the other direct disciples also died in the battle against the Demon Emperor. All five of Dao Zu’s direct disciples died to protect the world. But who would know that this protracted war, in the final analysis, was actually an internal clean-up of the sect.
Tianshu’s words were really shocking. If what he said was true, the history of the Nine Lands might be subverted and rewritten. However, it was precisely because it was such a major event that one must not just listen to the words of one person and one family. They must ask for evidence in everything, and no one dared to jump to conclusions easily before the hard evidence stood before them.
Therefore, the judge, who was most concerned about the cleanliness of the law, finally spoke up, “Can I go to the Rong family to find the scroll?”
Tianshu said, “You can go if you want. In any case, I won’t go. The Rong family can’t wait to capture me and chop me up. I’m just looking for death if I go back.”