Beichen Sword Sect's Headmaster's Secret Records

Chapter 420 Jade Tribulation

Tie Dan opened his eyes and looked at the jade pendant in his hand.

Don't worry, we haven't crashed and reverted to Jiuyin Mountain again. This is the meditation room on Yuntai Peak.

He had just left the Yuntai Treasure Vault, then randomly found a room to go into seclusion, took a look inside the jade, and in the blink of an eye, he had survived another tribulation and emerged.

This tribulation within the jade is the tribulation of the Heavenly Demon, and also the tribulation of the inner demon. To put it bluntly, it is the daily life of a rich young man falling in love. You personally immerse yourself in the person within the jade, merge with the Heavenly Demon, and experience a grand drama of love, hate, palace intrigue, and mortal dream, filled with ethical entanglements, passions, and palace intrigues.

Of course, if you're really into bishoujo games, you might get stuck in this fantasy world for a long time, trying to win over every character and collect all the HEBETEs. At that point, not only would you be trapped in the dream for sixty years, but you could even write your own book about it.

However, this kind of topic is limited by the laws of nature, and what is written down is an invisible, inaudible, and indescribable book that can only be understood intuitively and cannot be expressed in words. Those who understand will understand, so the walkthrough process will be skipped here.

Okay, actually there wasn't much of a process, since this type of dungeon is really no challenge for Tie Dan. Because he can sever worldly ties with his sword! He can break free from emotional attachments with killing!

Excellent! It highlights the principle of decisive action! Cut when necessary! Cut! Cut however you like! It emphasizes the attitude of "I'll fucking chop you down!"

Cough, cough, okay, okay, Tie Dan isn't out of his mind. It's just that he's already at the True Person realm, which means he entered the game with a cheat code, so of course he's just messing around. He has absolutely no patience for doing quests, and he messes up all sorts of things like putting GIEGIE's hairpin crooked and giving her the wrong fan. He's practically insane...

One time, the quest item was accidentally handed in to the wrong person, and the girl made a sarcastic remark, "GIEGIE~ I accidentally tore up the fan you finally managed to buy, you're not angry, are you~~", which angered Tie Dan. He didn't care about this or that and attacked her with his sword, which actually triggered an ending.

Upon seeing this, Tie Dan thought, "This counts as clearing the game? Then what the hell am I supposed to do?! I'll just smash through them!"
Thus, the palace intrigue drama turned into a martial arts drama, with killing, killing, killing, overcoming obstacles, wiping out one's entire family, and slaughtering everyone on the way to the Golden Palace to seize the throne, thus smoothly breaking free from the illusion...

Cough cough cough, in short, the side quests are irrelevant. What Tie Dan is concerned about is the background of the Heavenly Demon and how to kill this thing.

In the current Taiji Heaven map, there are indeed very few that can kill him head-on, but you often encounter a Heavenly Demon and get stuck. The dimensional attack mechanism kills you instantly, and you lose ten lives for each death. How is anyone supposed to play like this?
We must find a way to defeat the Heavenly Demon. If we can't kill the Heavenly Demon, then nothing we do will make a difference.

There's no way to hide or escape; face the challenges head-on, slay the enemies as soon as they arise, and fight your way through—that's the way of the Sword Sect.

Fortunately, after experiencing the dream of the Jade Man, Tie Dan has begun to see the form of the Heavenly Demon and the mastermind behind this Tai Chi chess game.

Yes, whether it's saving the common people, dealing with the Heavenly Demon, or suppressing the insectoid and demon races, there is one entity that cannot be bypassed.

Asgard.

A true celestial palace, but a celestial demon from beyond the realm.

These are the celestial demons who operate behind the scenes of the celestial palace, manipulating the universe. More specifically, they are called the Moon Demons, or more accurately, the Taiyin Star Demons, because this group of demons currently resides in outer space, on the Taiyin Star, the closest base to the Taiji Heaven.

Yes, that's the second Taixu on the moon, now the Taiyin Demon Palace, the stronghold of the Taiyin Star Demon.

Judging from the memories of Yu Zhongren and the Heavenly Demon, this Heavenly Demon was first brought down to the mortal world from the outer heaven by the Taiyin Demon Palace, and was reincarnated as a demonic fetus on the moon, thus gaining a physical body.

Then, using mystical magic, he could project himself onto the bodies of nobles and aristocratic families in the human world, manipulating a mere shell to play the game of life and enjoy worldly riches.

After observing the decades-long experience of Yu Zhongren and the Heavenly Demon living together in the same house, room, and body, it's clear that the Heavenly Demon was indeed just there for fun. In layman's terms, he was a player who paid money to play a role-playing game in an ancient Chinese world.

Yes, Taiji Heaven is just a game to the extraterrestrial demons.

You can lavishly spend money to buy a city or a country, playing the role of a poor scholar who enjoys a smooth and successful life, rising to high positions like generals and ministers. You can even directly buy a sixty-year empire, instantly exuding kingly aura, participating in the struggle for supremacy, and enjoying the exhilarating feeling of reaching the pinnacle and ruling the world. Alternatively, you can keep it simple and affordable, spending less money to be born into wealth and enjoy a carefree life, indulging in all the world's luxuries.

Therefore, nothing in this world is true.

The winner takes all; the loser is always caught in the crossfire. It's all scripted, a game, a formula.

But nothing in this world is false.

The fine wine and delicacies are real, the warm and soft women are real, and the beautiful women are real.

The starving corpses scattered across the fields were real, the exposed bodies were real, and the mounds of corpses piled up were real.

The cries and tears of the common people are a necessary embellishment to the game experience of the celestial beings; they cannot be unrealistic.

So, just like in the dream, even if you fight tooth and nail on someone else's well-planned chessboard, you still won't find peace.

Taiji Heaven is just someone else's amusement park. These demons set their own rules, write their own scripts, and fight each other with their own hands. How could they possibly lose?

If things go wrong, just restart the cataclysmic event, summon the underground insectoids, and restart it, just like you would exterminate the demon race.

Yes, the underground swarm of insects, consisting of worker bees and ants, is merely a tool used by the Heavenly Demon to reshape the world. The so-called Queen is nothing more than a temporary mortal vessel for the Heavenly Demon. The true ruler of the swarm has always resided in the Taiyin Demon Palace.

The rise and fall of the demon race is merely a plot device. The previous generation's Tai Chi playground was themed around demons, but players got tired of it, so a major update replaced it with the rise of humans. Now, another update is imminent, iterating on the resurgence of demons, and the old-generation humans will inevitably be wiped out sooner or later—that's the way of Heaven.

It is the path of the Heavenly Demon.

Therefore, we must break free from the constraints set by others, rush outside the chessboard, eradicate the demon wielding the pieces, and overturn the entire game before we have a chance of winning.

Everyone understands the big picture: cut off the mastermind behind it all, and it'll be over. But how difficult it is! Because, literally speaking, it's impossible to break free.

The Tai Chi Dao's method of flying away cannot reach the moon at all.

After all, it's almost 400,000 kilometers. Do you really think you can fly that far in one go? Are you kidding me?

I raise my head to gaze at the bright moon, but look down and I can't reach it. Even if my sword could pierce through all magic, I still couldn't reach it, so what's the point of saying anything...?

However, it's not that no one has thought of a solution.

Yes, when Tie Dan asked, Ling Xuzi openly revealed these secrets, naturally including some hidden items in the jade.

The reason why this family in the jade is so important, and worth the personal intervention of the Xuanmen leader, is certainly not only because the ancestor dressed the land deity of Qingcheng Mountain in gold.

The root cause is that a certain ancestor of this family, who was once a high-ranking official, directly participated in the construction of the Second Taixu and was a key figure like a contractor. Therefore, in the family's inheritance, they secretly kept secrets about the internal strife in the Immortal Palace, including but not limited to the secrets of the cooperation between the Heavenly Demon of Taiyin Immortal Palace and the ancient Taoist sects under the pretext of reorganizing the Taoist Canon, compiling the Immortal Register and the Divine Ranking, and rebuilding the Second Taixu.

The subsequent struggle between the two sides over the Second Taixu, the eventual defeat of the Daoist sect, the Second Taixu falling into the control of the Heavenly Demon and becoming the Taiyin Demon Palace, the complete extermination of the Daoist sect and their subsequent pursuit and wanted by the Demon Palace—all these secrets and truths have been passed down to later generations.

Fortunately, all those secrets that could have led to the extermination of entire families and the confiscation of property hundreds of times were meticulously recorded by the people of Yu Zhong, who had thoroughly studied their family letters and possessed photographic memory. Thus, in the end, the cycle of cause and effect raged, and retribution came swiftly, falling into the hands of Ling Xuzi. Now, it has become a tacit, unspoken consensus among the members of the Xuanmen, presented in the form of a 'teaching material on the inner demon tribulations of true disciples of the Xuanmen'.

That's why so many people recommended him as the head of the Xuanmen sect, and that's why so many people followed this Daoist who was born to meet this calamity.

Yes, we've come full circle.

With a celestial demon above us obscuring the secrets of heaven and acting recklessly, everything is just empty talk.

The only way to deal with the Heavenly Demon is to build the Third Void, a spaceship.

The ship was built on the cloud platform, and with a whoosh, it took off. It piloted the Cloud Platform Immortal Peak to the moon, blasted apart the Taiyin Demon Palace, and slaughtered all the Taiyin demons.

Only after this great undertaking is accomplished can everyone sit down and talk about world peace or discuss exploring the outer reaches of the universe.

This is the complete picture of the Taixu Dao Plan.

This is the Dao that Lingxuzi comprehended.

This is probably the truth behind the cataclysmic event that occurred sixty years later in Tie Dan's dream.

Yes, that day, two moons were in the sky, and a meteor shower fell. It was because a void in the sky was blown up.

The moon was perfectly fine, so the one that exploded was probably Yuntai Peak...

Alright, no wonder Ling Xuzi wasn't in my dream.

Sixty years later, the Yuntai's maiden flight was a complete failure...

The masters of the Taixu Dao have already radiated brilliantly in the atmosphere, completely burning and transforming into countless stars...

We lost...

With the meteor falling and the Taixu Sect wiped out, naturally no one will be able to suppress the world anymore.

The demon king began to exterminate humanity according to the game's plan...

Damn it, no matter which way you go, it's a dead end...

To be honest, Tie Dan is also getting a little scared.

Being a partner of justice is fucking inhuman, and saving the world is just too damn hard!

No matter how you search, it's a dead end; no matter how you calculate, there's no solution. There's no hope for this world and its people! Iron Egg was extremely distressed. He walked out of the meditation room and paced back and forth, staring blankly at the boundless clouds.

"Where does the True Lord plan to go? I know Yuntai Peak well."

Then the crane flew down again to earn some extra money.

Tie Dan looked at it.
"Tell me, which path will save the world?"

Crane Path

"I don't know, there's no such place on Yuntai Peak."

Tie Dan sighed.

"In the end, he's just a beast who knows nothing."

Crane, "Ah, you understand?"

Tie Dan glared at it.

Crane knew she had spoken out of turn and was afraid of angering someone and getting beaten, so she quickly transformed into human form and apologized with her head bowed.

"Please forgive me, Master. I am only ten years old in human form and do not know anything. I did not recognize you, Master. I apologize for the conflict and offense. Please forgive me."

Tie Dan looked at the handsome crane boy, draped in feathered robes.
"What do you plan to do if I insist on killing you?"

He Tong was taken aback, looking up at the expressionless Tie Dan. He couldn't discern any killing intent, and he had never seen this hermit before. He didn't know if he was serious or joking. He dared not answer such a potentially fatal question, and tremblingly said...
"Of course, we should run away!"

Tie Dan remained completely unmoved.
"I can kill you in an instant. Even if you escape to the ends of the earth, I can still take your head. You have nowhere to go, so what are you going to do?"

Crane Boy really had a way with himself; he spread his wings, knelt down on both knees, and skillfully prostrated himself on the ground.
"I can't win, and I can't escape, so I have no choice but to surrender. Please, Master, take me in."

"If you can't beat them, join them..."

Tie Dan frowned as he looked at He Tong kneeling before him, then suddenly a thought struck him, and his brows relaxed.

“You’re right. Let’s go find the foreman of the Celestial Palace.”

"The head steward of the Celestial Palace? You mean the Celestial Emperor..."

"It's not the one stamping the seal; it should be his aunt in charge at this time. Let's go find that Grand Princess."

As Tie Dan spoke, he stepped on it.

Crane Boy could only let out a mournful cry, then transformed back into his original form, carrying Iron Egg into the sky. He flew through layers of clouds and mountains, heading straight south of the capital.

Although this crane was only ten years old when it transformed into human form, it had been a demon for a thousand years. With a flap of its eight-zhang-long wings, it flew thousands of miles in a flash, carrying Tie Dan all the way to Nanjun and catching up with the group of the Three Palaces officials who could not escape.

The weeping and wailing, the desolation and sorrow, stretched as far as the eye could see, with hundreds of thousands of refugees carrying their families, migrating southward like a long, winding river meandering across the land.

With the Gen River blocking their way to the north, war raging to the east, and towering mountains to the west, the refugees had no choice but to flee south. Once they started, they were like an unstoppable torrent, carrying the people of Nanjun south with them to seek refuge.

Tie Dan swept his gaze across the crowd with a cold face. Some people are naturally kind-hearted and feel sorry for even the smallest cat or dog when it suffers, but he just found it funny.

After all, the refugees in the capital region are quite different from the farmers in the north. They are all plump and fair-skinned, dressed in fine clothes, with their families, carrying gold and silver valuables, and riding in oxcarts and horse-drawn carriages. If you didn't know better, you would think they were going on a trip.

It's obvious that anyone who can build houses and acquire property in the heart of the capital city, the center of the world, can be considered an ordinary person. To put it bluntly, if it weren't for the fact that the court officials and nobles had all moved south to avoid disaster, and the Xuanmen sect was demolishing and looting, they would really be reluctant to give up their property in the capital region.

Of course, there are poor people in the capital, but how could they possibly have the chance to escape with these gentry? They would have been arrested and sent to Hulao Pass to dig ditches and fill in lines years ago.

To put it bluntly, those qualified to be among the first to migrate south with the imperial court are nothing more than aristocratic nobles, sons of powerful families, and their henchmen who serve them for money. The world is ruined by these people's hedonistic lifestyles. If they were willing to spare even a penny to provide the veterans guarding the Yinshan border with their pay and clothing, why would they force them to come and rob them with knives?

The saying "Heaven's sins may be forgiven, but self-inflicted sins are unforgivable" perfectly describes this situation.

“My Lord, the members of the imperial clan should be stationed at the county government office ahead.”

From afar, one could see the aura of royalty soaring into the sky. The cranes flapped their wings, hovered, and landed, as if to remind the passengers to settle their bill.

Suddenly, four streaks of light—purple, white, red, and blue—flashed in the air, and the escaping light leaped into the air to block him.

"The imperial court is here! All unauthorized personnel shall make way!"

The crane, realizing it was being misunderstood, quickly moved away.

Tie Dan remained expressionless and slipped out.

"Xuan Tian, ​​the sect leader of Beichen Sword Sect, summons your master to come out and meet you."

"The Sword Sect Leader? Isn't that..."

"God, you motherfucker!"

"Fuck your motherfucker!"

"Dry!"

Little did they know that these guys had pretty fiery tempers; they charged forward with a roar and started fighting.

"Swipe!"

A beam of white light rushed towards us, scattering countless sparks at the tip of the spear.

"Boom boom boom!"

A crimson cloud struck from the side, unleashing a barrage of fireballs that transformed into a continuous fire dragon.

"hiss……"

A wisp of purple smoke swirled behind, from which tiny needles flew out, stealthily sneaking up from behind.

"rise!"

A beam of azure light swept towards the ground, raising a large array from underground and protecting the prefectural government offices, the imperial court, and the temporary residence.

Tie Dan felt relieved to finally be in his familiar rhythm and decided to have a meal together before talking.

He immediately rolled up his robe, his sword energy transformed into a rainbow, and finding an opening, he swiftly leaped a hundred feet with his sword, extricating himself from the combined attack of the four men.

The four men were not about to give up easily and quickly pursued after them.

However, once the roles are divided, the combined attack formation will naturally have weaknesses.

A flash of white light pursued relentlessly, continuing to rain down bullets, shooting straight at the enemy.

Hongyun transformed into a hundred-foot-long fire dragon, baring its fangs and claws as it followed closely behind.

The purple smoke drifted erratically behind the fire dragon, using the thick smoke to conceal its form, clearly waiting for an opportunity to launch a sneak attack.

Qingguang remained on the ground to protect the formation, wary of Tiedan launching a counterattack to break it.

With just one probing move, Tie Dan revealed the four men's skills, abilities, and cunning. He could roughly figure out what was going on. He could tell that they were all true disciples from the mountains, True Lords of the Xuanmen, with at least three Thunder-level foundations and solid cultivation. Nine times out of ten, they were sent by the Xuanmen to protect the Immortal Palace's family and prevent the rebels from flanking and attacking from behind.

Given Tie Dan's personality, he'd easily slay Tu Jingguang at the slightest provocation, but after all, he's not here to fight, he's here to save the world.

Forgive others when you can, and let it go when it's almost over.

"I will slay—!"

"what--!"

Then, the sword energy shone brightly, and he turned around and struck. The spear and sword clashed, and the white light suddenly disappeared.

A bloodied arm then spiraled and fell to the mortal world.

(End of this chapter)