There are no ancestors at all; I made them all up.

Chapter 276 Remains?!
Now that his worries were gone, Chen Qing immediately expressed his gratitude, saying, "In that case, thank you very much, Brother Zheng. As for the expenses, I'll have Uncle Mang handle it later..."

"What are these mere possessions?" Zheng Qingtian waved his hand dismissively. "You have done me a great favor today, why should I care about such a small thing? Let's not talk about this again!" As he spoke, he paused slightly, a complex expression flashing across his face. "Once everything is ready, I have another matter on my mind that I would like to ask you, my virtuous brother. I hope you can enlighten me then."

After hearing this, Chen Qing had already guessed what was going on, so he nodded in agreement.

After chatting for a while, Zheng Qingtian and Mang Shoutuo hurriedly went off to make their own arrangements. Ling Jue and Yun Shuyue also went to assist them.

The courtyard returned to tranquility.

"According to later records, the Immortal Dynasty lasted for about 30,000 years. Now it has been 28,000 years, which means it is nearing its end. In addition, the subsequent situation is the sinking of the Central Continent, which will definitely not be peaceful. Perhaps hidden dangers and omens have already appeared in various places. If we delay any longer, we may be drawn into an even greater storm. Therefore, the matter of finding the Demon Buddha's Dao Fruit is urgent! Since we have some free time, we might as well talk about the world in the mirror again and see if there are any clues hidden there."

Chen Qing reviewed the current situation. It would take several days to gather supplies, so he took this opportunity to explore the mysteries in the mirror again!

So he closed his eyes and focused his mind again. The glittering Yin spirit in his Niwan Palace shone with a clear light. His divine sense once again crossed the invisible bridge between the Three Lives Mirror and the mirror, reaching across the void and probing the broken world in the mirror!

As his divine sense traveled, the half-fruit of Dao in Chen Qing's Niwan Palace trembled slightly, and the weak connection immediately became much more solid. His divine sense immediately crossed the spatial distance, bypassed many restrictions, and descended once again into that mirror world.

It was still a desolate and lifeless place. Under the gray sky, the earth was cracked and the mountains were collapsing.

This time, however, Chen Qing's divine sense was refined, flowing like a gentle stream as he carefully traversed the edge of this broken world. He avoided the core areas where the aura was particularly chaotic and entangled with lingering remnants, and only explored the relatively "peaceful" desolate land.

"Hmm, it seems that as long as we are careful and don't go too deep, we can still proceed safely..."

As Chen Qing was pondering this, he happened to pass by a twisted forest. Suddenly, the withered trees in the forest began to move without wind, their branches swaying like ghostly claws, uttering seductive murmurs that seemed to drag him into a state of delusion.

He focused his mind and quickly left, but was immediately blocked by the piles of white bones at the bottom of a dry riverbed!

Suddenly, the skeleton came to life, transforming into a ferocious bone demon that roared and pounced, its malevolent aura soaring to the heavens!

Chen Qing then turned his divine thought and it rose up, but immediately blood light surged in the sky, and ferocious demonic shadows appeared, roaring as they rushed over, trying to tear him apart and devour him!

"These are all strange phenomena formed from lingering resentment! This dilapidated little world is located in the mirror within that temple, yet it is strangely eerie everywhere. It's like a collection of heretical and unorthodox practices!"

Chen Qing was filled with emotion and was about to dodge again when a burst of desolate Buddhist light suddenly erupted from his divine sense!
"Ok?"

He immediately sensed it and discovered that it was half a Dao Fruit in his Niwan Palace that seemed to have been impacted and was reacting spontaneously!
The Buddha's light contained a sense of quiescence, making him impervious to all evil and unapproachable to all illusions. From all directions, the delusions woven from lingering resentment could no longer shake him in the slightest!
Upon seeing this, Chen Qing immediately became impolite. With a thought, he stopped lingering at the edge and turned inward, advancing all the way. Under the protection of the Buddha's light, he seemed to enter an uninhabited place, advancing straight in!
However, having learned from his previous experience, even with the protection of the Buddha's light, he remained low-key and did not make a big fuss. Therefore, although the enormous lingering will that filled the world still existed, it did not surge in as violently as last time. Instead, it rose and fell slowly in the depths of this small world, like the breath of a sleeping giant beast.

After wandering around several times without making any discoveries or provoking the enormous lingering resentment, Chen Qing gradually grew bolder.

He followed the pulse emanating from that lingering resentment and ventured deeper into this world.

However, the more concentrated his divine sense became, the more prepared he was to make a drastic decision and abandon this part of his divine sense if the situation turned unfavorable.

The deeper you go, the more astonishing the sights become.

Chen Qing saw a giant mountain made entirely of various broken magical artifacts and divine weapons, its precious light dimmed and its spirituality lost. He also saw a desert made of ashes, and deep within the dunes seemed to be a certain artistic conception. Sensing it from afar, both of them made his divine sense tremble!
"This world within the mirror is no ordinary place! When it was complete, it was probably an extraordinary secret realm, perhaps even surpassing the secret realms I have ever seen in the human world!" Chen Qing felt a chill in his heart and became even more cautious.

A few breaths later, his divine sense finally reached the source of that lingering pulsation.

That was a mountain.

A towering mountain, entirely black, barren of vegetation, exuding an aura of death!
The mountain is majestic and towering, seemingly supporting the sky above this broken world.

The lingering resentment that made his heart tremble emanated from within the mountain. Chen Qing attempted to penetrate the mountain with his divine sense to investigate its interior.

However, the moment he touched the dark rocks, he felt their toughness and repulsion! His divine senses were like hitting an iron wall, unable to penetrate even a fraction of it!

"Huh?" Chen Qing asked in surprise.

With a thought, he used the technique of merging Qi with Heaven and Earth, his divine sense blending with the broken world around him, and tried again.

But the rocks seemed to be a self-contained entity, isolated from all laws!

He then activated the quiescent Buddhist aura originating from half a fruit of enlightenment.

The mountains and rocks remained silent, and the Buddhist aura vanished without a trace, failing to even stir a ripple.

Several methods were tried in succession, including simulating the majestic aura of Emperor Taiyuan, but the result was the same.

"This mountain is incredibly tough, completely blocking all exploration. What could be hidden inside?" Chen Qing was filled with doubts, but he was at a loss. He circled his thoughts around several times, but could not find a way in. He then decided to retreat, unwilling to waste his time here.

So, in the next instant, Chen Qing withdrew his divine sense, preparing to leave this mirror world.

But just as his divine sense retreated a certain distance and was about to leave the black mountain, he suddenly sensed something and subconsciously turned his divine sense back to look again, then suddenly froze!
Unlike the fleeting glimpse he had when he arrived, which left him no time for a detailed examination, Chen Qing now had a comprehensive view of the mountain. Once the details at close range were no longer obscured, the mountain's contours and outlines clearly resembled a person sitting cross-legged!

He abruptly stopped his retreat, his mind focused intently on the distant "mountain shadow."

The more I look at it, the more frightened I get!
The seated posture was such that the knees were slightly bent, the back was straight like a mountain, and the head was lowered!
Considering the desolate and lingering sense of annihilation that permeates the land, and the fact that this "mountain" is impervious to all magic and extremely resilient, making it impossible to penetrate no matter what...

"Could this mountain be..."

In a flash, many past memories rushed through his mind, and an absurd and terrifying thought swept through Chen Qing's heart, making his divine consciousness tremble!
"Remains!"

This enormous, dark mountain range that occupies an entire area is not a mountain at all!

Rather, it is the immortal body left behind by a Buddha who existed in an unknown ancient era, or by a great master who cultivated Buddhism to its ultimate level, after his passing away!
Because of its supreme nature, even after countless calamities, when its spirituality was extinguished and only remnants and an empty shell remained, its physical form remained incorruptible and transformed into this towering mountain!
"At this level, it must at least be a remnant of a Dharma form, right?"

Chen Qing recalled the terrifying being that Taiyi Dao Palace had once sent out.

"A corpse is hidden in the mirror. What exactly does the Kuchan Temple want? If they can control this body, doesn't that mean the temple is hiding a powerful weapon? However, the remnants of this corpse are chaotic and don't seem to have been refined..."

His heart suddenly skipped a beat!
"Could it be that this is a remains that has not yet been refined? Doesn't that mean..."

Upon realizing this, Chen Qing's heart surged with emotion, but he quickly calmed down. His divine sense no longer lingered, and he swiftly withdrew from the world within the mirror, returning to his original body.

In the courtyard, Chen Qing suddenly opened his eyes, still showing shock.

"Since that mirror is a treasure of the Kuchan Temple, and they should know about the relics hidden inside, why didn't they perform a ritual to cleanse it?"

After a moment's thought, he made a decision.

"It seems I'll have to go check on the so-called treasure after it's unsealed in seven days! But before that, I need to recover my 'previous life' cultivation!"

(End of this chapter)