Borrowing a sword

Chapter 192 One glance at him and he died.
Jiang Zhi held the golden bowl in his right hand and looked at the scene inside. His left hand, which was tucked into his sleeve, trembled slightly.

He never imagined that a problem that seemed unsolvable to everyone could be so easily resolved by the young man in front of him.

Chu Huaixu simply walked over, glanced at it, and solved everything at its root.

This even made the scalp of everyone present feel a little uneasy.

"If Chu Huaixu had been born a few decades earlier, if he could have..." Such thoughts popped into everyone's minds.

Xiang Yan and the others knew very well that the scene before them would definitely affect their junior uncle the most.

Jiang Zhi looked up at the young man standing in front of him. He opened his mouth as if to say something, but couldn't utter a word for a moment.

He suddenly felt a tightness in his throat, and an even tighter feeling in his heart.

After a long pause, he spoke in a low voice: "Chu Huaixu, do you know what this is?"

"A wisp of a soul?" Chu Huaixu asked tentatively.

“This is the primordial spirit,” Jiang Zhi replied. “The primordial spirit, known as immortal and indestructible!”

Holding the golden bowl in his hand, he continued, "This golden bowl is a top-grade spiritual artifact."

"But that's not the point. It's just a vehicle. What's important are the many restrictions inside, the arrays, and the [Rootless Pure Land Holy Water]."

"The crimson aura you just saw was the soul seed of a primordial spirit."

"We can use various methods of divine sense to weaken and resist the primordial spirit, but we cannot completely annihilate the soul seed. We can only imprison it in this way!"

"That is why it is said to be immortal."

Chu Huaixu was slightly taken aback upon hearing this.

He thought to himself, "Primordial Spirit? That's a familiar term."

He now understood why Jiang Zhi had raised his questions.

The problem turned out to lie in this so-called soul seed.

"So they can't destroy it?" This surprised him somewhat.

But this soul seed is so fragile in the face of the Heart Sword.

The moment Chu Huaixu had a thought, it was destroyed.

He suspected that, ultimately, the problem might lie in the "position" of the person!

The soul seed's status may be above everyone's spiritual power, so no matter what you do, you can't annihilate it.

But the Heart Sword's rank is at least equal to it.

Even when Chu Huaixu used his divine sense, he was unable to affect the primordial spirit in any way.

What's special isn't him, what's always been special is Xin Jian!
After severing this wisp of primordial spirit soul seed, which he considered insignificant, the system rewarded him once again.

The reward was similar to before, increasing the [Information Detection] authority and slightly enhancing Chu Huaixu's spiritual power.

Strangely, the system doesn't seem to take the primordial spirit very seriously.

This can be seen from the rewards given.

"Perhaps it's because the system's status is so high that it doesn't even consider matters of status?"

"Because if the rank is high enough, this wisp of primordial spirit is indeed extremely weak," Chu Huaixu guessed to himself.

Jiang Zhi looked at the young man in front of him and spoke again: "Chu Huaixu, do you know where this wisp of primordial spirit in my hand just now came from?"

"This disciple does not know, please enlighten me, Junior Grandmaster," he said immediately.

It's obvious there's some big news to come!
Moreover, it could very well be a shocking bombshell!
“It comes from the fifth level of the Origin Spirit Realm.” Jiang Zhi’s eyes narrowed, his face showing a hint of reminiscence and sadness.

Xiang Yan, worried that Chu Huaixu might not have fully understood, offered an explanation:
"The place you are about to enter is the first level of the Primal Spirit Realm, which can only be entered by cultivators of the first level."

"The second level of the Origin Spirit Realm corresponds to the cultivators of the third realm."

"The third level is the fifth realm, and the fourth level is the seventh realm."

Upon hearing this, Chu Huaixu, seeing that Xiang Yan had stopped speaking, inquired, "So the fifth level can only be entered by those at the ninth realm?"

Unexpectedly, the sect leader waved his hand, his tone becoming more serious: "No, there are no restrictions on the fifth level. Anyone can enter, and there is no limit to the number of people. However, anyone below the seventh realm will explode the moment they enter."

Chu Huai Preface: "."

Is this some kind of exaggerated scheme? Wouldn't my good-for-nothing second master, Chu Yinyin, just kick the bucket as soon as she goes in?
At this thought, he glanced at the old woman. The old woman immediately guessed what Chu Huaixu meant, and couldn't help but widen her round eyes, glaring at him fiercely, as if she were trying to kill him with her eyes: What are you looking at!

"So what if I'm in the sixth realm? I can break through anytime!" she muttered to herself.

In addition to this, Chu Huaixu made many other associations.

"In this light, next year's Third Realm Competition is actually a preparation for the second level of the Origin Spirit Realm."

"No wonder there were only competitions for the first and third realms, and none for the second realm!"

"So it's because the Origin Spirit Realm dungeon has such special level requirements?"

There was another point that he also keenly noticed.

"If we follow this timeline backward, then the time when the fourth level of the Origin Spirit Realm opened coincides with the time when my future master died!"

"At least in the same year!"

So, did this female sword cultivator, who was known as the strongest in the seventh realm, die inside?

At this moment, Chu Huaixu was having a brainstorming session, while Jiang Zhi took another deep look at the golden bowl, at the [Rootless Pure Land Holy Water] inside that had become completely clean, and then sighed.

He placed the golden bowl on the table.

He felt that since Chu Huaixu had this additional characteristic, he could now reveal some of the secrets of the Taoist sect to him.

Moreover, the purpose of today was to tell him part of the truth about the [Origin Spirit Realm] and the [Great Calamity of Heaven and Earth], so that he could make some preparations in advance.

"Chu Huaixu, do you know why, outwardly, it seems that only I, Jiang Zhi, remain as a disciple of the Gentleman's Observation in my generation?" he said.

"This disciple is unaware." Chu Huaixu began to watch the drama unfold from the front row.

"Because that year, my senior brothers and sisters all entered the fifth level of the Origin Spirit Realm, but I was injured at the time, so I didn't go in with them."

He paused for a moment after saying this.

Upon hearing this, Chu Huaixu's face showed a look of astonishment, followed by a hesitation.

"Judging from your expression, you must have guessed it by now," Jiang Zhi said with a bitter laugh, his expression extremely unpleasant.

"On that day, only my fifth senior brother walked out from the fifth floor."

"But after he came out, he went crazy."

"The reason he went mad is because of that wisp of his primordial spirit that you just saw!"

"An immortal and indestructible primordial spirit!"

"Fifth Senior Brother used his own body and sea of ​​consciousness as a container to seal it within his own body!"

Chu Huaixu never expected that the fifth level of the Origin Spirit Realm would be so dangerous, and that the final outcome would be so tragic.

The mighty Daoist sect, one of the four major sects of the Eastern Continent, almost lost an entire generation inside?
Moreover, according to Jiang Zhi's subsequent description, the disciples of this generation of the Gentleman's Temple can all be described as geniuses, and they are all unparalleled prodigies.

In terms of overall strength, it rivals the true disciples of the Dao Ancestor.

Those people were at least at the eighth realm, and there were even several at the ninth realm!

His fifth senior brother, whom he revered so highly, was terrifyingly strong and might one day rival the second abbot, Yan Shen.

Even so, why did it end up like this?

So many years have passed, and the Taoist sect, which has suffered a great loss of vitality, has not yet fully recovered.

"So, in other words, of Jiang Zhi's generation of disciples of the Gentleman's View, only he and a madman remain?" Chu Huaixu thought to himself.

Through his junior grandmaster's description, he roughly understood.

Initially, it was estimated that this primordial spirit was attempting to possess the body of a senior named Zhong Ming.

However, he managed to resist it through some means and forcibly sealed it within his body.

This wisp of soul seed is actually very weak, but because its rank is too high, no one can kill it.

The Taoist sect members later spent a great deal of effort to remove it from Zhong Ming's body and then sealed it inside the golden bowl.

Over the years, the Taoist sect has been researching how to destroy it, using it as a test subject to see if there are any methods other than evil spirits, but they have come up with no solution.

Until a few minutes ago, Chu Huaixu had seen it die at first glance.
(End of this chapter)