Beichen Sword Sect's Headmaster's Secret Records

Chapter 415 Eggs
Grand Master Xuandu had little contact with Jiuxiao, but even after so many years, he still remembered this person vividly.

Because the Nine Heavens Carefree Immortal Venerable is the kind of pure, once-in-five-thousand-years kind of... bastard.

Yeah, you know, the kind of person who's all about being a show-off, laughing and joking, only caring about their own fun and enjoyment, a shameless bastard who deserves to be punished by heaven, a despicable person who'll do anything, no matter how ridiculous.

Therefore, although Jiuxiao's most notorious title is the number one flower thief on the Six Doors' Heavenly List, he is involved in major and serious cases.

But they've done countless other despicable things, like beating up nursing homes, kicking kindergartens, chasing chickens, kicking dogs, and blowing up latrines. Since they'd be executed immediately if caught, they might as well not file a case.

Of course, being a bastard, he never thought he had any problems.

Jiuxiao has something to say when asked.

After all, what is the point of life if not to seek a carefree and happy life, and to do whatever one wants?
If you don't find joy in life, then you've lived in vain. What's the difference between you and a salted fish?
So it doesn't matter what you think, as long as I think it's fun, that's enough.

However, there is a threshold to happiness. You might laugh heartily if you tripped a stranger and made them fall and bleed, but if you could still laugh while doing that all day long, you'd be a complete lunatic.

Unfortunately, Jiu Xiao is not mentally ill, so it's like he's addicted to a drug. He gets bored with it quickly, so he can only try different things and push the boundaries of his personality again and again.

Therefore, Jiuxiao truly lived his life by adhering to the motto of "If you can't die from being reckless, then do it to the extreme," spending his entire life pursuing thrills and pleasures.

Therefore, strictly speaking, among the most outrageous things that the Nine Heavens Carefree Immortal Venerable did, guiding Nan Hua down to the mortal realm might not even rank. Just look at the statues worshipped by the Carefree Sect, and you'll know that this guy really had his eye on harming Xuan Nu.

Of course, as I said before, Jiuxiao's problem is purely a matter of personality, not intelligence. So after being tricked by the monkey once, he reformed himself.

Okay, the pain is there, but there's no going back.

So his disguise, change of appearance, and infiltration of the Immortal Palace were not out of any sense of righteousness, to save the common people, or any other kind of selfless dedication.

Well, he'd never played this before, so he wanted to take this opportunity to play Eunuch Adventure and, by the way, go into the palace to see if there were any secret recipes for immortal medicines that could revive severed limbs and bones.

So he found these things.

'egg'

Of course, this is definitely not an egg, at least not a normal egg that a normal chicken could lay.

According to Jiu Xiao himself, one day he spied on the imperial concubine taking a bath and happened to see a personal maid scrubbing the concubine's back, which chafed her skin and angered her mistress. As a result, she was dragged to the front of the hall and ripped off.

Normally, if a palace servant like that were killed, all that would be done was to kill her, chop her up, and bury her in the Imperial Garden.

But two days later, the imperial concubine dug up several more people, but she was still not satisfied. She suddenly became attached to the old people and couldn't bear to part with the people who were so close to her. So she ordered them to be dug up again.

So Jiuxiao saw the palace servants of Ziwei Palace dig out the half-rotten maid, put her in a jar, mash her into a paste with a jade pestle, and put an 'egg' in it.

Three days later, she came back to life.

Tie Dan's eyes sharpened.

"Alive?"

Xuandu glared at him.

"Don't interrupt me, I've just started."

In short, this exciting and amazing thing was something that even Jiuxiao had never seen before, and he immediately developed a strong curiosity and thirst for knowledge, so he conducted some experiments and research.

What? How was the experiment conducted? Actually, it wasn't difficult at all. I just peeled off the skin of the imperial concubine and repeated the experiment a few times.

After repeating this process several times, Jiuxiao summarized a few patterns.

First of all, the 'egg' was brought down from the sky.

Then, with a "whoosh—boom!" a meteor fell to earth, and a meteorite crashed to the ground. The Grand Master of Ceremonies calculated where the meteor had landed, and then a special person from the palace was sent to retrieve it.

If they could rush back to the palace within seven days of the person's death, mash up the remains, mix them with eggs, and preserve them in jars, theoretically the person could be resurrected in three days.

Well, theoretically, because this process is very mysterious, no one can be watching.

For example, in the case of the Imperial Concubine, Jiu Xiao kept a close eye on her for three days, and the flesh had gone rotten but she still hadn't revived.

But if he doesn't watch over it, after three days, the person pickled in the jar will be able to climb out on their own, just like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon.

It's so amazing...

In addition, the people who came back to life are actually quite different.

Okay, they actually look exactly the same. They look exactly the same before they died, and they look exactly the same after they are resurrected, not even missing a single hair.

But the contents inside were clearly wrong.

Because Jiuxiao personally confirmed that he used the God-Slaying Whip to whip the concubines in Ziwei Palace until their souls were scattered, and even secretly dug out half of their brains, so theoretically they would be idiots if they were resurrected.

But somehow it grew back perfectly intact, and its personality and memories were exactly the same as before. Except for not remembering how it died, it was completely indistinguishable from the real person.

It seems that as long as enough flesh and blood are put in, the egg can grow into an identical person.

Similarly, if you pickle several people in a jar, the meat will rot and the attempt to conceive will fail.

Of course, the fundamental purpose of eggs is not to create humans or resurrect them.

Indeed, if a dignified Immortal Emperor wanted to create a human, why go through all that trouble, asking for eggs and pickling meat? He could have just chosen a nameplate and that would have been enough.

Moreover, based on Jiuxiao's previous observations, the so-called 'resurrection' is utter nonsense. What is born in that way is merely a soulless puppet, a substitute.

Actually, that person was dead, and that's it. They were rotten, and that's it. They weren't resurrected at all.

Moreover, it would be a waste to use something so amazing just to torment people.

Yes, the real purpose of eggs is to raise demons, or more specifically, to raise dragons.

Yes, the dragon, the strongest demon race in terms of overall strength back then, one of the four ministers, and a member of the Left General's family.

After the rebellion of General Zuo was suppressed, the remaining dragons became livestock kept by the Celestial Palace.

In its heyday, the Celestial Palace dominated the world and was invincible. Within the Purple Palace, there was even a special agency, the Dragon Control Bureau, responsible for taming, herding, and slaying dragons.

After all, dragons can be used not only to fly through the clouds, pull carriages, carry mountains and islands, and fight on the battlefield.

Moreover, every part of the body is valuable; its skin, scales, flesh, tendons, bones, and internal organs can all be used to make tools and medicines.

Moreover, they are thick and large, and their flesh-producing efficiency is extremely high. When the guardian immortal soldiers need to refine their bodies and break through, they also need to eat dragon meat and drink dragon blood.

Therefore, dragons not only have enormous economic benefits, but are also key to maintaining military power, making them the most valued and precious livestock resource in the Celestial Palace.

The problem is that dragons have difficulty fertilizing. Even though they can hybridize with various monsters, hybrids are never as good as purebreds.

Moreover, the hatching and growth cycle of dragon eggs is extremely slow, often taking hundreds or thousands of years. Raising one would take forever.

Not to mention Jackie Chan is wild and untamed, prone to causing trouble and chaos, and even cannibalism.

However, the consumption of dragons is even greater. Given the extravagant and luxurious way the Celestial Palace uses them, the people in the palace eat dragon liver with every meal, and the 100,000 heavenly soldiers wear dragon scales. With such a waste, dragons would have gone extinct long ago.

Therefore, the eggs that the celestial palace obtains from heaven are generally used to raise dragons.

Take the dragon's remains, which have been thoroughly devoured and are now devoured, leaving only a little flesh and blood. Mix it with eggs and seal it in the Imperial Dragon Prison.

All it took was an old eunuch who had gouged out his eyes, deafened him, and pulled out his tongue to add meat and blood to those jars and raise them with great care.

In just sixty years, the pot can be opened and a large number of newly hatched dragon seedlings can be raised.

True, if they're raised like this, they'll never be true dragons again, just a bunch of mindless beasts. But so what?
The people in the palace only needed to drink their blood and eat their flesh.

Finally, the salty eggs tasted almost like human flesh.

"Later, the Celestial Palace was overthrown, and it was no longer possible to bring eggs down from the sky. However, Jiuxiao arrested the people in the palace and interrogated them one by one. In the end, he still figured out the method of laying eggs with eggs."

Xuandu pointed to the surrounding area.
"First, we must try to isolate the interference of 'Qi' as much as possible, set up an array to establish a calamity, and simulate the environment of a closed jar."

Then they crossbred the dragon race that was born from those 'eggs'.

The offspring produced by hybridization are smashed and mixed with eggs, then revived and hybridized again.

This process was repeated generation after generation, tracing back to the source, until finally a variety with almost identical purity and taste was cultivated, which could then be used as eggs.

Of course, Jiuxiao did raise some 'egg people' to play with, but he quickly got tired of them.

However, from then on, the art of dragon taming was learned by Jiuxiao's disciples and grand-disciples, and became his unique skill.

His descendants often referred to themselves as disciples of Longguan.

Tie Dan understood, and looked down at the 'Langxuan' in his hand.

"So that's how it's connected... Oh right, the giant salamander and the Yayu are also dragon species..."

Xuandu nodded.

"I created these eggs by referring to the laws of the Nine Heavens, specifically to cultivate a demonic embryo from beyond the heavens. The things that are repeatedly resurrected and reincarnated in this way are empty inside, devoid of both god and demon."

But with its entire being imbued with demonic essence, it's perfect for experimentation and cultivation.

Well, you know what? Sometimes even offspring can contribute to metaphysical research.

"So what did you figure out?"

"Didn't I tell you? We're still a long way off."

Xuan Du looked at the fleshy spheres around him, shook his head and sighed.

"The Xiaoyao Sect has gone through a thousand years of iterations, and the batch of eggs with the highest purity were destroyed by my senior brothers back then."

They were genuinely stressed and terrified, fearing that several more demons might hatch from the eggs.

Therefore, the Dharma is not to be transmitted, nor is the Dao to be comprehended. All of them must be eradicated and exterminated, cast into the Nine Netherworlds, and suppressed in the fiery hell.

I can only deduce and gradually recreate these remaining Taoist methods from the ruins.

Although the first batch has been raised to this day, its purity is still a bit lacking.

Now that this batch is also destroyed like this, it seems we'll have to wait another sixty years..."

Tie Dan frowned.

"No, we can't wait. Sixty years is too late."

Xuan Du looked speechless, with an expression that seemed to say, "Are you kidding me? Whose fault is this?!"

Tie Dan thought for a moment,
"These things were ultimately created by the Celestial Palace, so why don't you just go and take them from the Celestial Palace directly?"

"Of course I thought of that."

Xuandu rolled his eyes at him.
"But you should understand what I've just said, right?"

The celestial palace we see before us is not a real celestial palace, but merely their puppet, a plaything for them.

The true celestial palace is hidden extremely deep and far away, at least far beyond the reach of those within my Xuanmen sect.

Therefore, no matter how many times the Sanyuan court is destroyed, it will not change the general trend of the world.

Unless they wipe out all the powerful clans and aristocratic families in the world, they can always find new agents to stage a grand drama of dynastic change.

This constant back and forth is just going around in circles within their pre-designed game, a waste of time.

Tie Dan nodded in agreement.

Indeed, even if he could kill all the powerful clans, they possess the supernatural ability to clone eggs, which allows them to revive the dead in three days. How can you play like that?
Moreover, it wasn't just the superpowers of biochemical clones; he had also personally witnessed the superpowers of robots and artificial humans, strategic missiles, orbital weapons, and drone swarms.

If we were to truly fight against the Celestial Palace, it would take far more than sixty years to resolve.

Ugh... This is so annoying. Saving the world is such a pain in the ass. Who on earth had to get involved in something so troublesome?

"However, it's not entirely hopeless..."

Ok?
Tie Dan looked up and saw that Xuan Du also seemed to be lost in his own thoughts, holding his egg as if he had made up his mind.
"Actually, I've already decided that if the next batch fails, I'll go and join the Celestial Palace."

"To the Immortal Palace?"

Tie Dan was also stunned. He never expected that the pillar of the Xuanmen sect, the Xuandu Grand Master who had suppressed the world for five thousand years, would be so unruly.

Is it acceptable for someone from the Xuanmen sect to join the Immortal Palace?
"Why not? I'm seeking the Dao, but my lifespan is almost over, and the Tai Chi path is blocked anyway."

"And the celestial palace still holds a path I've never seen before. Isn't it worth sacrificing myself to reincarnate and seek it out?"

Xuan Du seemed to be reaffirming his belief, looking at the ball and saying,
"As long as you don't interfere with or hinder those palace people's plans for the world, they usually won't bother targeting you specifically."

I have foreseen that the Celestial Palace intends to move south, especially since the country is destined for great prosperity. In the future, the people of the Central Plains will surely migrate south and flourish in the southern borderlands.

I plan to reincarnate there, first as a miscellaneous cultivator, then into the celestial palace, making arrangements in advance.

This way I can focus on studying the Heavenly Demon without being disturbed or delayed by my senior brothers.

"The South..."

According to the events in the dream, the Sanyuan court did indeed move to the southern capital, but the one that flourished seemed to be the Xun Kingdom, which was ruled by the Xie clan.

However, Tie Dan was too lazy to point out the other person's arithmetic mistakes, so he nodded.

"In that case, I won't disturb the Grand Mage any longer..."

"Wait a minute! After all this talk, it's my turn to ask! You suddenly showed up at my door! You beat me up! You ruined everything I was doing! What do you mean by this?!"

Xuan Du was inexplicably beaten up at his door, and naturally he wasn't willing to let things end like that.

"Besides, if you really have nothing to do with my Lei Zu lineage, how would you know about the underground insectoid seal!"

No one has been down there for thousands of years! I personally sealed off the area! If it wasn't my senior brother, then who told you that?

Tie Dan said frankly,
"Dream about it."

Xuan Du almost jumped up.
"You brat, are you still making fun of me?"

Tie Dan sighed, looking at the fleshy spheres around him.
"Why is the Grand Master so persistent? You have studied them for so many years, I just don't believe it."

Have you really never dreamed?
"And who taught you the scripture in that mysterious woman's belly?"

"Scripture? What scripture? The image of the Mysterious Woman? Inside her belly?"

Xuan Du was stunned for a moment, then suddenly appeared in front of him with lightning speed, grabbing Tie Dan.
"Show me! Show me!"

Tie Dan was also helpless. He couldn't win a fight with the old man, so he took the black sword and silently drew the scripture from the ground.

Of course, this time it's right side out.

However, it's actually meaningless. Although Tie Dan can recognize the characters individually, they are completely meaningless when put together. Clearly, they are not from the Xuanmen school, but rather a secret transmission from the Taixu Immortal.

Therefore, Tie Dan guessed that Xuan Du must have obtained some of the Tai Xu Dao Canon, but ultimately kept it hidden and didn't tell him the truth. So he directly revealed it to him face to face.

However, Xuan didn't say anything. He just stared blankly at the scripture, his brows furrowed into a knot, and the wound on his brow bone burst open, with blood flowing down his eyeballs like a stream, but he didn't blink.

For a moment, he lay there with his eyes open, lifeless, bathed in blood, as if gradually recalling some distant past, and then grasping some clue, in pain, but slowly regaining consciousness.

He then released his grip, slowly stood up, and walked towards the ruins.

"Yes, I've seen it before... I've seen it in my dreams too... but then I forgot about it..."

Tie Dan was bewildered. He watched Xuan Du's back recede into the distance, watched him lift the newly repaired stone slab on the ground with his bare hands, dig a hole in the soil, and scoop something out with both hands.

White flesh, black blood, a sticky blob.

It was the fetus that Tiedan had just dug out of the Xuan Nu statue's belly.

Then the old man looked at Tiedan and revealed a smile of unprecedented happiness and joy.

"I remember now."

Then, without hesitation, he raised his head, opened his mouth, and swallowed the lump of flesh.

This time, it was Tie Dan's turn to furrow his brow, holding his sword in his right hand and making a hand seal with his left, in preparation for any eventuality.

However, time suddenly vanished.

The air, the sound, the light, everything suddenly stopped.

It was as if darkness was poured out from the void, the ink spreading across the old man's face and instantly covering his entire body.

Then the old man who had raised his hands to the sky, as if embracing the heavens, folded his hands back over.

Like a folded raven, the human figure, whose spine, joints, knees, and elbows were bent backwards, rose up from the darkness.

He straightened his spine, turned the back of his head toward Tie Dan, and crawled backwards like a faceless creature.

No, it's not so much climbing as frame skipping; it's more like a series of quick frames, flashing by, before it moved right in front of Tie Dan and reached out to peel off his face.

Chen Xuantian then realized that this future was beyond redemption.

So he grabbed the sword in Tie Dan's right hand and plunged it into his heart.

Then he woke up.

(End of this chapter)