A life of clearness

Chapter 330: Background Taboo
"Your senior brother's background... is considered a taboo in the sect."

"In this Juntian Sect, only the Sect Master and a few elders know about it... because those who know it will also bear the responsibility of keeping the secret. Do you still want to know about it?"

Old Qin turned his head and looked at Rong Qing.

Rong Qing pursed her lips.

After hearing what Mr. Qin said, Rong Qing's original curiosity turned into many more concerns.

For Elder Qin and even the sect leaders to be so cautious, I'm afraid that this Senior Brother Zhizheng either has a very shocking background or has a hidden story. In any case, Rong Qing, a newcomer to Xuanyi Peak, should not be able to inquire about it at will.

Rong Qing shook her head in silence.

"Don't think too much. Maybe Zhizheng will tell you himself one day." Old Qin said slowly.

Huh? Rong Qing opened her eyes slightly. She was confused again by what her master said.

At this moment, the voice of the best in the world rang out in her sea of ​​consciousness: "Your senior brother's aura is different because he is not a pure human being."

"Is that so?"

"There are very few humans with light blue eyes. But if they intermarry with the demon race, their offspring with demon blood will have some obvious differences in eye and hair color. If I'm not mistaken, your senior brother has a lot of merman blood. Either his father or his mother is a pure merman."

"Mermaids... I've never seen a mermaid before!" Rong Qing thought back to the past 800 years of her monastic career. She hadn't even seen a few monsters that could transform, let alone mermaids.

"Mermaids are extremely rare in the North Sky, and their bloodlines are even rarer. After all," Number One Under Heaven said with doubt in his tone, "the demon race places great emphasis on the purity of their bloodlines. Because the half-blood demon race is naturally limited, they have basically lost the possibility of surpassing the pure-blooded demons."

"So, Senior Brother Zhizheng's background became a taboo because he is a half-blood demon? He is discriminated against by the demons, but what about the human race?"

Rong Qing considered herself to be a very open-minded person. To her, it made no difference whether someone was a human, a demon, or half-human and half-demon. But what if others didn't think so?
"There are definitely people who think 'those who are not my kind must have different hearts'. I can't say how many there are. Juntian Sect concealed his background, probably because they wanted to make less trouble. However..." Number One Under Heaven dragged out his tone: "The truth may not be that simple."

"Oh? There's another secret?" Rong Qing's curiosity was immediately piqued. It was like peeling an onion, there was one layer after another.

"What other secrets are there... Didn't your master tell you? Maybe the person involved will tell you himself. Why should we keep guessing?"

Rong Qing: Master, are you changing the subject because you can't answer? I despise you...

……

Rong Qing was chatting animatedly with the number one in the world in her sea of ​​consciousness, but in reality she was just following behind Old Qin in silence.

After walking down the stone steps, they came to an ancient hall. Rong Qing did not see Zhizheng and Xizi, but saw that the empty hall was filled with bookshelves. The bookshelves were arranged in a circular shape, and the bookshelves were filled with various jade slips.

Rong Qing, who has always been interested in Taoist scriptures, did not pay any attention to the bookshelf this time.

She exclaimed, "There's an elevator?!"

Elevators are really hard to find in the cultivation world. Even in the mother world, no one uses this thing. I didn't expect to see this thing in the Scripture Guarding Pavilion of the largest sect in the spiritual world.

It's called an elevator, but it should actually be called an elevator platform. It's a circular platform with a radius of 100 feet in the center of the hall, and it can carry a lot of people at a time. Rong Qing walked onto the platform and looked down at her feet. There was no formation or restriction because it was not powered by spirit stones.

You have to know that the importance of spiritual energy in the cultivation world is like the role of electricity in Rong Qing's previous world. No matter what you do, you can't do without spiritual energy. This time, Rong Qing was really surprised to see a means of transportation that didn't require spiritual energy.

"What is the power source of this mechanism?"

"There is a strange fire stored deep underground. It's just there anyway, so we can use its heat to power this mechanism." Old Qin explained calmly, revealing an important piece of information: strange fire.

"This strange fire..." Rong Qing had just started to say this when Old Qin knew what she was thinking.

"It belongs to those who are capable. This strange fire has already developed some intelligence, and the sect is not suppressing it by force... So, if you want to get a little bit of its fire, it has to be willing."

"It should be so." Rong Qing answered seriously.

Old Qin looked at him with a half-smile, "Many disciples in the sect are very sincere. Even though they have to make a lot of contributions to come to the Sutra Guarding Pavilion, they still come every now and then, just to let the strange fire get familiar with their aura. But after so many years, the strange fire has not favored anyone. If you have that intention, it's better to have some understanding of the origin of fire."

The origin of fire... Rong Qing smiled bitterly in her heart. She had no idea about this. On the contrary, it would be more like this if she first had the strange fire and then comprehended the origin of fire.

"It's strange. A cultivator has spiritual roots, and is naturally closest to the origin rules corresponding to the spiritual root attributes. You have the three spiritual roots of gold, wood, and earth, but I didn't expect that none of the origins you comprehended were the five elements."

As Old Qin spoke, he operated the mechanism on the lifting platform.

Suddenly, there was a rumbling sound of gears and chains turning, which should have caused a loud reverberation in the cave, but the formations carved on the surrounding stone walls absorbed all of the noise, allowing the underground to remain relatively quiet.

The huge platform slowly descended, carrying the only two people on it, and finally stopped after going down about twenty feet.

During this time, all Rong Qing could see was a solid stone wall.

"The upper layer is the most superficial inheritance of the Juntian Dao, which can be borrowed by outer disciples for reference. The inheritance of the Juntian Dao that is spread across all realms, including the Mother Realm, is also of that kind. The real core inheritance skills are on this layer, which is not accessible to non-inner disciples."

Rong Qing looked around. There were obviously fewer bookshelves on this floor, only less than twenty. The rest of the space was divided into quiet rooms. There were restrictions on the doors of each quiet room.

Rong Qing originally thought that the Xuan Yi key in her hand corresponded to the quiet room here, but she didn't expect that this was not the case.

"The time I can stay here is too short, so I can't teach you much. So start with these core skills." Old Qin walked to the bookshelf, bent his fingers slightly, and jade slips came to him one by one and flew into his arms.

"I observed your performance in the three-story test and found that you were too reckless in using Dao Yun... It was a waste to use Dao Yun like that, so these skills are all aimed at your weaknesses."

Old Qin casually opened the restriction on a quiet room and walked in with Rong Qing.

There was only a hard couch in the quiet room, with three cushions on it for meditation.

"Take a look at these jade slips first." Old Qin said directly.

(End of this chapter)