I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 155 Retrieving the Cauldron (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Three days later, the night was as dark as ink.

On the Qingdi Palace square, the five people stood solemnly, their eyes all fixed on the huge celestial time instrument that was suspended in mid-air.

The cold moonlight shone on the mottled jade disc, reflecting the marks of time.

"Are you sure nothing was missed?" Jiang Yi asked the group again.

Shang Shixu's hand brushed against the jade flute at his waist. "We have caught all the insects that could be found here, without missing a single one."

Shen Puning followed up, saying, "Each person will receive three Qingjin Jade Bamboos, making a total of fifteen. I've picked the thickest ones and chopped them all for you."

Mentioning this matter, Zhao Cangyun turned pale. He, a mighty Fire Qilin, couldn't even cut a mere Azure Jade Bamboo.

Using the axe he found in the disciples' courtyard on the back mountain, he swung it with all his might, sending himself flying.

In the end, Shen Puning had to do it for him, and he managed to cut down fifteen stalks before leaving.

However, Shen Puning was also exhausted, with blisters on her palms. Xin Wushuang lowered her head in shame, as she couldn't chop anything and couldn't help.

Jiang Yi removed the ring from her right index finger, restoring it to its original shape as a small celestial time instrument. "Let me reiterate, the opening of this place caused quite a stir, so there are definitely people guarding it outside. It might not be any of our Cangling Sect's seniors. We'll act according to the situation."

“If we encounter other high-level cultivators, Wushuang, you take Pu Ning and run away. Zhao Cangyun, you follow Senior Brother Shang. I will use a leaf to block the view and distract those with ill intentions before we escape. There are Foundation Establishment senior brothers and sisters from the Cangling Sect guarding the teleportation array in Qingming Forest. We can meet up there.”

Zhao Cangyun nodded obediently, and the others also gave Jiang Yi a reassuring look.

"Alright, now hold the restriction tokens in your hands tightly and begin to continuously inject true energy into them without stopping."

Seeing that everyone was ready, Jiang Yi also held the wooden restriction token and suddenly reversed the jade wheel on the small celestial time instrument.

This Lesser Celestial Timing Instrument is actually a key to controlling the Greater Celestial Timing Instrument, and it is also the key to purifying and repairing the Creation Longevity Cauldron. To use this Lesser Celestial Timing Instrument, one must first obtain the Azure Emperor's inheritance and successfully refine the Cauldron Control Token.

The jade wheel of the Little Celestial Time Instrument initially spun slowly, then spun faster and faster until it finally left their hands and hovered in the air, bursting out with a blue halo that enveloped the five of them.

At the same time, the giant celestial sphere overhead emitted a piercing, twisting sound, and the decaying jade components began to rotate in reverse.

The moment the first mark returned to its correct position, the entire Azure Emperor Palace suddenly distorted.

The mottled pillars seemed to have been touched by an invisible hand, with the peeling gold paint flowing back and reapplying to the pillars, and the broken bricks and tiles flying up from the ground and piecing themselves together in mid-air to form a complete shape.

The dragon patterns that had been eroded by time are now visibly fading away, and the dragon scales are gradually revealing a jade-like luster.

In the Solomon's Seal Forest, swathes of Solomon's Seal bamboo rapidly shrink, with each segment collapsing back to the ground. The unfolded bamboo leaves curl into buds, and eventually the entire bamboo forest transforms back into bamboo shoots emerging from the soil, only to quickly disappear into the depths of the earth.

Day and night alternated wildly overhead, clouds raced by like an inverted scroll, stars streaked across the sky with long, fiery tails, and the moon waxed and waned.

Amidst this temporal turbulence, countless figures of cultivators clad in ancient robes could be vaguely seen moving backwards in and out of the palace gates. Their robes fluttered like butterflies, yet they maintained an eerie backwards posture.

On the high platform where the Creation and Longevity Cauldron stands, the damaged legs of the cauldron are repairing themselves, emitting bursts of blue phoenix cries.

The lines eroded by time have become clear again, and the peach branches entwined on the handles of the cauldron bloom and wither, in an endless cycle.

The eerie black gas that had accumulated inside the cauldron seemed to be drawn away by an invisible hand, turning into wisps of green smoke and dissipating into the air.

Only the five people enveloped by the blue light of the Little Celestial Time Instrument were unaffected by this great power.

In a daze, Jiang Yi saw a figure wearing a jade crown standing with his back to them on the high platform where the Creation Longevity Cauldron was placed, with a newly formed jade cauldron floating in front of him.

The figure seemed to sense something and suddenly turned around.

Across ten thousand years, the Azure Emperor, whose face was devoid of light, and Jiang Yi gazed at each other from afar, their eyes briefly meeting.

There seemed to be a soft sigh from the depths of the darkness.

The jade cauldron transformed into a beam of azure light and entered Jiang Yi's dantian, perfectly merging with the Cauldron Control Token, and quietly hovering above her Dao foundation entwined with peach trees.

At the same time, the enormous celestial sphere groaned under its own weight, and its jade components shattered one after another, crashing down on them.

The last glimmer of light from the core of the large celestial timekeeping instrument, a blue crystal, fell into the small celestial timekeeping instrument, causing the blue radiance within the small instrument to grow even stronger.

"go!"

Jiang Yi let out a low shout, raised his hand and grabbed the Little Celestial Timing Instrument in his palm. The others simultaneously activated the restriction plates in their hands. The sky and earth were turned upside down, and a tremendous pulling force emanated from the restriction plates, causing everything to go black.

When they opened their eyes again, the five of them were already standing by the Peach Blossom Spring Mirror Lake. A gentle breeze rippled across the water.

"Ayi, look!" Shen Puning suddenly pointed to the lake.

The reflections of Xuandu Mountain and Xuandu Temple on the lake surface blurred like ink marks in the water, causing the entire Peach Blossom Spring to tremble violently, and thousands of peach trees to move without wind.

Meanwhile, outside the secret realm of Xuandu Mountain.

The Cangling Sect disciples guarding the entrance to the secret realm looked up in horror and were shocked to find that the green peak, which could only be seen from outside the secret realm and stood in the center of the peach blossom sea, was becoming transparent. The outline of the mountain was like a charcoal drawing that had been erased, disappearing inch by inch into the night.

Inside the secret realm, before the five could even catch their breath, several streaks of light pierced the night sky, hurtling towards them from all directions.

Just as the group was about to split up and escape as planned, a white figure suddenly tore through the night and landed in front of them first.

The white-robed, black-haired Xuanhui demon master was emaciated, his bloodshot golden eyes fixed on Jiang Yi and Zhao Cangyun, his gaze filled with complex emotions.

His cuffs were stained with mud, and his hair was disheveled, as if he had been running around for days without stopping.

"You two...I thought you..."

Xuan Hui's chin trembled, both angry and aggrieved. He thought that when he threatened Jiang Yi and Zhao Cangyun in his anger that day, they had run away from home.

If their soul lamps hadn't been burning properly, Xuan Hui would have thought they had died outside. How would he explain that to the Venerable One?
His Majesty will definitely abandon him in a fit of anger!

Heaven knows how he got through those days, living in constant fear and running around searching for them. Once he was sure they had entered the secret realm, he stayed there day and night, afraid that something might happen to them in the secret realm.

He wasn't unaware that they were looking for this secret realm, and he even prepared two bags of life-saving items.

He thought their trip to the secret realm wouldn't be so soon, and he planned to wait until those two bastards came to apologize before giving them to them, thus showing his magnanimity as an elder.

Who knew... I really want to beat those two bastards to death!
Jiang Yi blinked and quietly asked Zhao Cangyun, "Didn't you tell him when you left?"

Zhao Cangyun stared blankly, "Do I still need to say...?"

"Xuanhui Demon Master".

Master Luo Heng arrived shortly afterward and breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing that the five were safe and sound, as they were disciples recently accepted by three Nascent Soul True Monarchs of the sect.

"Now that everyone has been found, let's send them back to the sect. The sect leader is waiting. Oh, four of you five have successfully established your foundation? It seems you've benefited greatly this time. Not bad, not bad."

Master Luo Heng looked deeply at Jiang Yi, his heart aching, and sighed silently.

Master Luo Heng scanned his surroundings, and those Foundation Establishment cultivators who wanted to join in the fun stopped at a distance, not daring to approach.

Xuan Hui glared fiercely at Jiang Yi and Zhao Cangyun, giving them a look that said, "You're doomed if you go back."

Just then, two sharp streaks of light pierced through the air, and two late-stage Golden Core cultivators landed in front of them, blocking their path.

The elderly cultivator from the Qin family, dressed in an indigo robe, demanded, "Were Yunze and Yunyan of the Qin family betrayed by you? Today, you must give my Qin family an explanation!"

On the other side, a cultivator from the Zhang family, wearing a purple crown and jade belt, coldly pressed, "And my Zhang family's Jincheng and Jinling, you all must explain yourselves clearly at once!"

Before he finished speaking, Xuan Hui's golden eyes turned cold, and the clouds around him surged. As he turned around, his clothes fluttered, and the pressure of a peak Golden Core cultivator erupted, causing a ten-foot-long wave to surge up on the lake surface.

"presumptuous!"

These two words, imbued with raging fury, caused the blood and qi of the two Golden Core cultivators to surge violently.

Master Luo Heng hastily blocked with his sleeve, but was still forced back three steps. Instantly, the peach trees within a ten-mile radius were engulfed in golden crow fire and reduced to ashes.

"It's not your place, two old geezers, to question the disciples of my Cangling Sect!"

Xuan Hui flicked his sleeve, and the clouds swept up the five dumbfounded people, then left directly between the two.

The two were filled with shame and indignation, but dared not utter another word.

　See you tomorrow. Sometimes I forget to write "see you tomorrow." When I'm not in debt, I update twice a day. Extra chapters will be added according to the conditions, which are in the idiom chain challenge post in the Qidian book review section.
　　
　
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