I changed the world.

With a creaking sound, the gate of a six-story brick tower located on the back of Yunxiao Mountain was opened twice in six months for the first time.

"Abbot, please."

"Senior brother, I'm going up..."

Zhou Jingyuan cupped his hands in greeting to Li Jingxin beside him, then bowed to the expressionless tower keeper, stepped over the threshold, and entered the deep stone tower. Another creaking sound rang out, and the extremely heavy tower door, studded with copper nails, slowly closed behind him.

As the door closed, the entire space went dark. Zhou Jingyuan was holding a lantern in his hand. He turned the button on the lantern, and the light suddenly shone brightly, illuminating the surrounding environment clearly again.

He looked around and saw murals depicting mystical deities on the walls. In the dim space, the ancient murals showed gods staring at him with either indifference or ferocity, which stirred a sense of awe in him.

According to the rules passed down through generations at Yunxiao Temple, only the abbot of each generation is allowed to enter this Chengzong Pagoda. I had previously asked my senior brother, but he only vaguely said that everything would become clear once he went up the pagoda.

Zhou Jingyuan steadied herself and began to ascend...

Second floor………………

The third layer………………

Fourth floor………………

Fifth floor………………

When they finally arrived at the last gate, Zhou Jingyuan wiped the sweat from his forehead. Even with his senior brother's prior guidance, the secret locks and the dim environment still took a lot of effort.

Why did the patriarchs set up such a complex mechanism?

Why does the eldest brother seem to have gained supernatural powers that he never had before after ascending to the throne?

What exactly is hidden inside this tower?

Zhou Jingyuan was filled with curiosity, nervousness, and anticipation...

According to the senior disciple, the sect's true secret is hidden in this tower...

What secrets is the sect hiding?!

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The last door had a series of interlocking locks. These locks were extremely complex, and each step of opening them would affect the next step. Zhou Jingyuan had already memorized the steps to open the locks, but it still took her about half an hour.

The door creaked open...

Zhou Jingyuan's back was already soaked with sweat, but his excitement only grew stronger. He pushed open the door, took a deep breath, and walked inside, holding a lantern and looking around.

The top floor was quite spacious, with an ancient stone pedestal in the center. In front of the pedestal was a futon, and on the pedestal was a statue of the Supreme Heavenly Venerable, which was over a meter tall and looked extremely weathered and ancient.

However, at this moment, Zhou Jingyuan's attention was not on the statue of the Heavenly Venerable, but on the murals on the surrounding walls. The murals depicted on the walls were not the usual scenes of gods and deities in temples and palaces, but rather a vast war scene.

The soldiers on both sides of the war, one side was fully armored and looked fierce like ghosts and gods, while the other side had yellow turbans on their heads, shouted and rose up, one after another.

The neighing of warhorses, the thunderous sound of war drums, the shouts and charges of soldiers on both sides, the raging fire, the blood, the burning smell, the desperate cries of death, the heart-wrenching sound of swords piercing and hacking into flesh...

The warriors in the mural seemed to all turn their gazes toward him...

"Oh my god..." Zhou Jingyuan's knees buckled and she almost fell. The lantern in her hand shook violently and nearly slipped from her grasp and fell to the ground.

Volume Two: The Truth Hidden Behind History Books: Chapter 1046 The Truth

How is this going? !

Zhou Jingyuan almost cried out, but after a moment of confusion, when he looked at the mural again, he saw that it was still just a mural, without the slightest abnormality.

Remembering my senior brother's advice that I should not panic if I saw anything incredible on the tower, but remain calm.

So he tried his best to calm himself down, silently recited the title of the patriarch in his heart again, stopped looking at the murals, walked to the statue of the Heavenly Venerable, knelt down on the prayer mat, performed the proper rites, and then stood up before focusing his gaze on the bronze box.

Walking over, Zhou Jingyuan placed the lantern he was carrying next to the bronze box. By the light, it was clear that the bronze box was exquisitely crafted, especially its clasp, which was obviously a ratchet lock.

After some fiddling, a soft click was heard, and the lid of the bronze box opened.

Zhou Jingyuan opened the box, looked inside, and then took out an antique-style jade pendant from the box...

In the dim space, the jade pendant in Zhou Jingyuan's hand emitted a faint glow.

Along with the faint glow came a warm touch, as if the jade pendant had a built-in heating function; it began to heat up and grew hotter. Yet, it did not hurt the hand at all.

Zhou Jingyuan felt his heart pounding. He pressed his hand to his chest, took a deep breath, and carefully examined the jade pendant. It was a somewhat ancient-looking jade pendant. Perhaps because it had been around for so long, the relief carvings on it were somewhat blurred. In the dim environment, Zhou Jingyuan subconsciously squinted, trying to see the patterns on it more clearly.

Just then, he felt as if the patterns in front of him had come to life, and in a daze, the surrounding scenery changed...

The next moment, however, he was no longer atop the ancient stone tower. Instead, before him, grotesque, inhuman shadows crept in from the darkness. One after another, terrifying, hideous, four-limbed monsters burst forth from the night, running and greedily lunging at the people dressed in coarse linen clothes…

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"Huff!!!" After an unknown amount of time, Zhou Jingyuan finally recovered from his shock. He was breathing heavily, and after a while, he mechanically turned his neck to look around. He found that he was still standing on the top floor of Chengzong Tower, in front of the statue of the Heavenly Venerable, still holding the jade tablet. The jade tablet was now in his hand, but it no longer showed any abnormal reaction.

However, the scenes he had witnessed earlier remained vividly etched in his mind...

I see……

I see! ! !

Zhou Jingyuan felt that his entire worldview had undergone a drastic change. He never expected that this seemingly familiar sect, the sect where he had lived for decades, would hide such a shocking secret!

It turns out that the cause of everything was predetermined two thousand years ago...

The Great Teacher Zhang Taiping...

The Great Uprising of Huangtiandao at the End of Summer...

The Yellow Heaven's Scripture of Non-Action...

Celestial Master Lu Shouyan...

Over the course of two thousand years, this sect has experienced numerous ups and downs...

Even the patriarchs of Yunxiao Temple in the unseen realm...

Those figures who had only been seen or heard about in history books in the past, and who had never been considered to have any connection with him, now seemed to come alive, reconstructing his understanding of the world in his mind.

As expected... things weren't as simple as they seemed!

And then there's that towering figure, like a pillar supporting the heavens, supporting the Yunxiao lineage, who has historically protected the palaces and temples from crisis after crisis...

"Kunlun"!

In legend, this is the place where immortals exist.

My Yunxiao Mountain, it turns out, has powerful backers!

As the abbot, Zhou Jingyuan had long suspected this. After all, he couldn't have been unaware of the extraordinary phenomena his senior brother had exhibited, or even the interactions between the royal family, the government, and Yunxiao Mountain. He had undoubtedly harbored suspicions all along: what secret was his senior brother hiding?

Could it be that Master passed on some secret manual to Senior Brother without their knowledge?

But today, everything has been revealed, so that's how it is!

Undoubtedly, the world doesn't operate as ordinary people imagine; there's a logic at play behind its very existence...

The myths and legends passed down from ancient times are not all fictional stories created by the ancients, but rather are based on real events...

No wonder, when Master was alive, he always seemed so confident and in control...

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Until the gates of Chengzong Pagoda were opened again, Zhou Jingyuan walked out of the dimly lit pagoda gate carrying a lantern. He squinted and looked up at the clouds above. The surrounding environment was quiet, with the occasional chirping and playing of birds among the green trees. Everything seemed like a different world...

"Senior brother..." Zhou Jingyuan glanced at her senior brother Li Jingxin, who was walking towards her with a smile, and hesitated for a moment, not knowing how to speak.

Li Jingxin simply patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let's go." Then he quickly walked away...

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In theory, the abdication ceremony at Yunxiao Mountain was already over by the afternoon of the same day, and some guests began to take their leave and descend the mountain one after another.

However, many guests were unwilling to leave immediately, especially since the "sacred miracle" that appeared in the sky during the abdication ceremony was a topic of much discussion. It must be said that the busiest person in the following two days was the newly appointed abbot, Yu Dezhao. This new abbot was Li Jingxin's eldest disciple. After Zhou Jingyuan was promoted to abbot, he returned the favor by recommending his senior brother's eldest disciple to be the abbot.

Yu Dezhao needs to learn how to manage all aspects of such a large temple, especially the complex finances and numerous industries and investments. In addition, there are the numerous donations from guests in the past two days, and he also needs to cooperate with the charity foundation under Yunxiao Temple to establish new charitable projects...

Anyone can see that the Yunxiao lineage is truly powerful. To date, its momentum is even subtly surpassing that of the Celestial Master's Mansion on Dan Ding Mountain, showing signs of becoming the dominant force in the Xuanmen (Taoist) world. Don't you see, none of the royal representatives have left? They're all still lingering on the mountain…

Not to mention, many of these guests had access to classified information at some level, or had heard some half-true and half-false information. In short, many of them were not completely ignorant.

Volume Two: The Truth Hidden Behind the History Books: Chapter 1047 An Zhengquan Becomes an Apprentice

Even now, both the Xuanmen as a whole and the Yunxiao lineage remain as low-key as ever. However, in the eyes of many, this is a rare commodity worth hoarding…