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With Jun Mo Xie’s intelligence, just by listening to the tone in that sentence, he already had some understanding in his heart.
As expected, he heard Miao Qing Cheng continue. “At that time, this old man simply laughed and said: It is difficult to change fate, but there are ultimately variables that can be changed. As the saying goes, life depends on human effort. It’s not that there are no solutions; as long as there’s a person with keen enough senses to detect the luck before it dissipates completely, one could theoretically use the lives of millions of living beings as the price, to steal the sky and put up a sham sun, forcefully transferring the luck from another to himself. That way, there would naturally be great changes that could affect everything. Theoretically, this is a feasible move; but in reality, the risks are even greater. The moment it fails, not only would the family involved be destroyed, the consequences would be so great that they would become doomed beyond redemption…”
Speaking to this point, he paused and sighed heavily.
“Of my eight disciples, the sixth, Zhan Kuang, could be said to have the best talent. If he could focus wholeheartedly on cultivation, his achievements would not necessarily be inferior to this old man’s now.” Miao Qing Cheng said with some regret. “From that day on, he fell onto the wrong path!”
“Senior should not blame yourself. These results are unavoidable. That year, you revealed the results of your divination in front of all your disciples, and only named the Zhan Family to be set for destruction, while everyone else was destined to be fine. It is natural for Zhan Kuang to feel uncomfortable in his heart.” Jun Mo Xie said. “Was that why he decided to pass down the instructions to his family? To change the fate of the Zhan Family?”
“No!” Miao Qing Cheng shook his head. “Many years later, the other seven disciples left the world one after the other. That year, this old man had set a house rule that my disciples would not be allowed to recultivate using their Holy Infants. Because although doing so would allow them to cultivate with twice the speed at half the effort, the Heavenly Punishment they would face would be four times that of normal circumstances! And they would sooner or later end up with the tragic result of bodily and spiritual destruction! In that case, they would be better off choosing to reincarnate in the proper way, cultivating from the start. As long as their souls were not destroyed, there would be a day they could return to their former strength and it would be easier to cross through the last barrier! When the seven disciples passed away, this old man left a spiritual mark on each of their souls to ensure that they reincarnated safely. As long as they worked enough, they could still stand loftily atop the world, gazing over all mortals…
“But Zhan Kuang defied this old man’s commands and did not choose to reincarnate and start over!” Miao Qing Cheng said angrily. “At that time, the Nine Nether Young Masters had already started to appear. Out of respect for Master, I sternly commanded the entire Misty Illusory Manor to never kill the Nine Nether Young Masters! They could chase after or subdue the latter, but they must never wound fatally to kill! That year, the Nine Nether Sixth Young Master was sweeping unhindered through the pugilistic world, and the entire three Holy Lands had already conceded that they could not control him. Out of nowhere, Zhan Kuang suddenly took the initiative to fight!
“After that battle, the Nine Nether Sixth Young Master suffered heavy injuries, and before he could escape back to the Nine Nether Pathway, he was killed by the joint force of the Holy Lands! As for Zhan Kuang, he completely disappeared without a trace! According to some, his divine soul had been thoroughly extinguished because of that fight!
“Although the Nine Nether Sixth Young Master cultivated with the Nine Nethers Divine Art, and was exceedingly powerful, Zhan Kuang had received the direct teachings of this old man! Even if he lost, there was no way his soul and body to be completely destroyed. Furthermore, this old man had estimated that there was a 50/50 percent probability of victory and defeat between the two of them, with Zhan Kuang being slightly stronger! After all, he was this old man’s proudest disciple. Such a battle result was truly beyond expectations. At that time, this old man was incredibly sad and had even mourned three days for Zhan Kuang, and personally attended his funeral. But when I returned from the funeral, I discovered that a book Master had left behind had actually gone missing!
“From then on, this old man knew that Zhan Kuang was definitely not dead! Instead, he had hidden himself away.” Miao Qing Cheng said with a bitter smile. “But there was one thing that he didn’t know; the final stage of Xuan Qi cultivation could only be surpassed by personal instruction from Master. This was the true secret to shatter the void! Although Zhan Kuang’s cultivation had already reached great heights at that time, he was still lacking that final step… So although he’d concealed himself successfully, he was doomed to not live for long… He could only rely over and over on external support and rebirth through his Holy Infant… Truthfully speaking, Zhan Kuang… has also suffered much over the years…
“In recent years, about 2,000 years ago, this old man clearly sensed that the Miao Family’s luck had changed and was depleting quickly over the years. On the other hand, the Zhan Family’s aura of blood had shot up in an explosive manner! This was a huge deviation from the geomancy results that year, and it was obvious that this was the work of Zhan Kuang! But unfortunately, I am stuck here, helpless to do anything. The moment I so much as stick my head out, the World Ending Wild Lightning would extinguish the entire Misty Illusory Manor! So this old man…
He laughed in a carefree manner. “As long as the Misty Illusory Manor is not destroyed, whether the ones in charge are the Zhan Family or the Miao Family, there’s no difference. Although this old man is the ancestor of the Miao Family, I can’t possibly bury the entire Misty Illusory Manor for the sake of the Miao Family alone! As for informing the current Patriarch of the Miao Family about this matter, that is even more not feasible. The moment this piece of information is released, a huge war between the two families would be ignited. With the Zhan Family’s accumulated strength and Zhan Kuang’s rebirthed body as a backing, the Miao Family is definitely not an opponent for them. It would only accelerate the demise of the Miao Family and even indirectly result in the destruction of the entire Misty Illusory Manor. This is the thing that I do not want to see the most! So, this old man hadn’t taken any action thus far and did not tell anyone else about this.
“But heaven’s fate is long determined… and human effort is too weak!” Miao Qing Cheng said with a slight smile. “With you messing things up like this, the Zhan Family’s luck could already be said to have nearly dispersed, and their destruction is already within sight… Looks like this old man still had miscalculated in the end ah. Heaven’s will is like a sword; who dares to defy it? The so-called defying the will of the heavens and changing one’s fate is nothing but a joke, just a colossal joke from start to end…”
Jun Mo Xie smiled and said lightly, “There’s no way to defy fate!”
Miao Qing Cheng widened his eyes and laughed. “Well said, what a good ‘there’s no way to defy fate’!”
“However, my fate is what I say it is!” Jun Mo Xie raised his brows and said with an evil smile. “Heavens… what about it? Are they insurmountable?!”
“Wild and dominating!” Miao Qing Cheng looked at him and laughed in a carefree manner. “Say it then, what is your real purpose for coming to my Misty Illusory? What do you want?”
“My purpose? It’s simple; I just want a few Seven Colored Holy Fruits.” Jun Mo Xie said with a smile, not concealing anything. “If there’s a chance for me to grab a few Rainbow Holy Trees, that would be excellent too.”
“Seven Colored Holy Fruits…” Miao Qing Cheng furrowed his brows. “A few trees…?”
“Probably around a hundred sets will do. I’m not a greedy person!” Jun Mo Xie said with an innocent laugh.
“A hundred sets? Not greedy?” Even with Miao Qing Cheng’s mental cultivation, he could not help but to roll his eyes. “This is still not considered greedy? Are you dreaming, kid?!”
Miao Qing Cheng really thought that Jun Mo Xie was joking. A hundred sets of Seven Colored Holy Fruit? Counting from when they first started cultivating the tree… there should only have been that much produced in total until now?
Old man Miao snorted loudly. “Earlier… that bout of pure life energy… was it from you?”
“Life energy?” Jun Mo Xie froze for a moment before he suddenly came to a realization! So it’s like this… When he used the little tree just now, this old fellow must have detected the energy from all the way down here…
This guy’s nose is a little too sharp, right?
“Indeed! This old man sensed the unique scent of the Sacred Spirit Tree just now.” Miao Qing Cheng looked at him carefully. “There should be someone up there that had been injured heavily.. and you used the Sacred Spirit Tree to treat that person’s injury, right?”
“The part about treating somebody’s injuries was indeed right! However, I wasn’t using that Sacred something tree.” Jun Mo Xie said. “Did Senior call me here for this matter? And what is that Sacred Spirit Tree?”
“That Sacred Spirit Tree was something that Master brought back from an unknown place. According to legends, it has the magical ability to bring even dead corpses back to life and make skeletons grow flesh and skin! Apart from that, there are also many mysterious uses… Master had raised it for a full thousand years, but it never managed to grow up at all. Only at a later date did we find out that this Sacred Spirit Tree could only grow in an environment where there isn’t even the slightest bit of impurity in the Spiritual Qi! But… how could there be such a place in the world? The place where Master had planted it was already the place with the purest Sacred Spirit Tree in the entire Xuan Xuan Continent, and even then, it couldn’t grow! That meant this tree simply could not grow in the Xuan Xuan Continent at all! In other words, that tree was no different from a piece of trash in this place! In a fit of anger, Master abandoned it atop the snow capped peaks of some mountain, leaving it to survive on its own… this old man had not seen it for a very very long time now.”
Miao Qing Cheng sighed heavily and continued. “I called you down here today so that I could look at that tree and reminisce about the past… Seeing it would remind me of the time I tended to it together with Master… Apart from that, when this old man endured the Heavenly Punishment that year, my spirit was somewhat injured, and I hoped that I could borrow the power of that Sacred Spirit Tree to recover…”
“So that’s how it is.” Jun Mo Xie nodded slightly, revealing a bit of an ugly expression. “This junior had also managed to come across this same tree by luck a few years ago. For some reason, the strange little tree crawled from my hand and disappeared into my body… so although this junior can still feel its existence in my body and can even use a portion of its power, but if I want to take it out, I am still somewhat helpless.”
Caution steered a ship for a thousand years. It was better to be careful in all things.
Even though it was Miao Qing Cheng, Jun Mo Xie did not dare to reveal his greatest secret: the Hongjun Pagoda!
Besides, it wasn’t impossible for him to try to treat Miao Qing Cheng’s wounds with it. But he would never trade the tree for a small favor… Firstly, Snake Queen Green Hunter was still depending on that tree for her life. If Miao Qing Cheng needed to have the tree with him for a long time to complete the treatment… what would he do? There was also another point… that “little tree” was not that little anymore now. The Hongjun Pagoda was a place where there was only the purest Spiritual Qi, ah! If this Miao Qing Cheng suddenly revealed his greed, he wouldn’t even be able to cry at that time!
“There’s actually such a magical thing?” Miao Qing Cheng looked at him intently for a moment and finally said, “No wonder your natural endowments are so special! So it’s because of the Sacred Spirit Tree… It makes sense; if there’s really any location in the world with absolutely pure Spiritual Qi, it would be within the meridians of the human body. The Sacred Spirit Tree resides in your body to absorb the pure Spiritual Qi, while you obtain benefits that far surpass normal people. It’s a relationship that benefits both sides…”
“It’s truly quite an impossible task for this junior to take the Sacred Spirit Tree out of my body. But if Senior does not mind, will you let this junior try to treat you using its power?” Jun Mo Xie asked tentatively. This was a huge, heaven sent opportunity! If Miao Qing Cheng was willing to accept, Jun Mo Xie would have practically no more obstacles in the Misty Illusory Manor. It wouldn’t be an impossible task even if he asked for tens of Rainbow Holy Trees…
“That is good as well.” Miao Qing Cheng looked at him for a moment and stretched out a hand, before closing his eyes.
Jun Mo Xie went forward and grabbed his hand, closed his eyes and directed the little tree’s energy using the Power of Wood through his palm, inserting it slowly into Miao Qing Cheng’s hand.
As for the remaining procedures, they were naturally left to Miao Qing Cheng to handle!
After a long time, Miao Qing Cheng breathed out a long breath, and his expression turned much better. “You can let go now. Although my spirit hasn’t completely recovered, it has already regained some life energy. After some time, it will be able to recover to its previous state! The life energy of that Sacred Spirit Tree is much stronger than the last time. From the looks of it, the both of you must have benefited off each other greatly!”
As he said that, Miao Qing Cheng smiled lightly and looked at him. “With this old man’s status, I can’t go around taking advantage of a kid like you. Tell you what…” He fell silent for a moment. “You seem to be stuck at a bottleneck right now and are only a step away from breaking through. Let this old man lend you a hand!”
