This martial saint is too cautious.

Chapter 367 Inheritance (Seeking monthly votes and further reading)

A certain black mountain peak.

An old man also saw the jade tablet.

On the jade tablet.

[The True Scripture of Taiqing:]

The name was not displayed.

"With the Taiqing True Lord gone, how can the Taiqing True Scripture still be passed down?"

The old man's face showed disdain. Even if he obtained the Taiqing True Scripture, it did not mean that another True Monarch could be born. But even if there was only a sliver of a possibility, he would not let that possibility exist.

"You're trying to conceal your secrets and avoid revealing your name? Let's see how you manage to do that!"

The old man pressed his finger on the blank space after the four characters "Taiyi Zhenjing" on the jade tablet.

An invisible energy fluctuation rippled across the surface of the jade tablet, as if the old man's fingertips were pressing on water, revealing a name in the blank space.

[Taiqing True Scripture: Cui Bujue]

As the old man pressed down with his finger, the three characters "Cui Daolin" disappeared, and the jade tablet shattered with a crash.

The jade tablet shattered, and the old man closed his eyes again.

Taiqing Palace Square was shrouded in mist, but the next moment an extremely terrifying energy suddenly descended.

On the left side of the square, an old man's figure suddenly exploded, turning into a blue light and returning to the clouds above.

As Cui Daoxuan watched this scene, a trace of sadness appeared in his eyes. He bowed deeply towards the spot where the old man had been standing, saying, "Respectfully bidding farewell to my great-great-great-great-great-grandmaster."

Ten breaths later.

Another terrifying energy descended, this time taking the life of a middle-aged man.

"Respectfully seeing off my great-great-great-grandmaster uncle."

"Respectfully seeing off Grand Tutor."

"Respectfully seeing off our master!"

"Respectfully seeing off Master."

"Respectfully seeing off my senior brother."

In the short span of a hundred breaths, all twelve figures on the plaza vanished, leaving only him.

Twelve powerful figures took action to prevent the Taiqing True Seal from descending and to prevent the Taiqing True Scripture from appearing in the world.

The sorrow on Cui Daoxuan's face vanished, replaced by a resolute expression, and a token appeared in his hand.

This token was passed down from the Taiqing Sect. It was given to one of the True Lord's old friends, and the sect he founded is now a behemoth.

Originally, he intended to keep the token and wait for Lin Yan to obtain the Taiqing True Seal before using it to seek protection.

But now—

He underestimated the fear that those powerful figures had of the Taiqing True Scripture.

"As a disciple of the Taiqing School, I hereby request this decree to protect the completion of the Taiqing True Scripture transmission."

Holding the token, Cui Daoxuan spoke slowly and deliberately.

As soon as he finished speaking, the token flew up, shone brightly in mid-air, and then suddenly disappeared.

The farthest place.

A middle-aged man sat atop the mountain peak. The next moment, as if sensing something, his expression changed drastically, and he transmitted his voice, "Fellow disciples, come quickly to gather together."

As the voice faded, four figures appeared atop the mountain.

"Master, what business do you have summoning us for?"

"Someone has used the jade token left by our ancestor to seek help from our sect."

"The Ancestral Master's Decree? Since it was left by the Ancestral Master, we should naturally obey it. May I ask what this person seeks?"

"The Taiqing True Scripture has reappeared in the world. Some Taiqing disciples want to obtain the Taiqing True Scripture, but they are being prevented by someone. This person has issued an order, hoping that our sect can stop him."

Upon hearing this, the other four fell silent.

A moment later, a clear, cold female voice rang out: "If it were anything else, my sect could still lend a hand. The Taiqing True Scripture is now..."

"This matter involves many powerful forces; intervening would only make enemies for our sect."

"Junior Sister Duanmu, is this the Ancestral Master's Decree?" Another person nearby hesitated, seemingly feeling that this was inappropriate.

"Back then, the founder gave this jade token to the Taiqing Sect to inform other forces that although the Taiqing True Lord was no longer present, the sect was still under the founder's protection, and other forces were not allowed to exterminate the Taiqing Sect. This is why the Taiqing Sect was able to exist for another thousand years. A thousand years later—"

The fact that the founder of the Taiqing Sect did not intervene when it was destroyed already indicated that their friendship had ended.

Upon hearing the woman's words, the others fell silent.

There's some truth to that.

If the patriarch still held onto affection, why was he unmoved when the Taiqing Sect was ultimately destroyed?

Of course, there is probably another reason why Junior Sister Duanmu is so opposed, but none of the people present have mentioned it.

Back then, the sect leader of Taiqing Sect sensed the danger in advance and moved some of the sect's treasures. One of these treasures was entrusted to the sect for safekeeping, to be retrieved by Taiqing Sect members in the future.

This treasure is called the Taiqing Cauldron!

After Junior Sister Duanmu reached the Saint level, she took care of this Taiqing Cauldron.

"In that case, let's pretend this never happened."

The old man on the mountaintop had also made his decision.

"Senior brother is wise."

Four figures disappeared from the mountaintop. A few breaths later, a middle-aged woman stepped into a palace.

"Uncle-Master Duanmu!"

Inside the main hall, an old man was sitting cross-legged. Upon seeing the newcomer, he quickly stood up.

"I've heard there's been an incident involving the True Dharma Jade Stele?"

"Reporting back to my master, the Taiqing True Scripture has appeared in the world, but we do not know who will inherit it."

"Hmm, I understand. You may leave now."

The old man bowed and left, while Duanmu Huanzhen looked at the characters revealed on the jade tablet.

[The True Scripture of Taiqing:]

"The Supreme Purity Heaven-Covering Array, used to conceal the names of those who possess the true scriptures?"

Seeing that there was no name on the jade tablet, Duanmu Zhenhuan remained calm and just stared at it quietly.

One breath, two breaths, three breaths —

Thirty breaths later, when he discovered that the four characters of the Taiqing True Scripture were still there, Duanmu Huanzhen's expression finally changed, and a hint of surprise appeared in his eyes.

The fact that the writing is still there means that the true teachings are being passed down.

Logically speaking, many people are unwilling to see the Taiqing True Scripture have a new successor, so why are these people hesitant to take action?

Time passed slowly, and a hint of impatience appeared on Duanmu Huanzhen's face. It wasn't a secret that the Taiqing Sect had entrusted the Taiqing Cauldron to the sect back then. If the Taiqing True Scripture were truly passed down, and the Taiqing Sect members came looking for it—

With this thought in mind, Duanmu Huanzhen raised his right hand and pressed his index finger on the jade tablet.

Ripples appeared on the surface of the jade tablet, and the name Cui Daoxuan was revealed in the blank space behind the Taiqing True Scripture.

"The Taiqing Incarnation Technique can create numerous clones," Duanmu Huanzhen murmured.

A moment later, Duanmu Huanzhen pressed down heavily with his index finger.

Three breaths later, the name disappeared, and the jade tablet shattered.

Taiqing Palace.

A hundred breaths passed, and Cui Daoxuan's expression became excited. In that time, no powerful figure had made a move, which strongly suggested...

It's possible that a powerful figure from the Shihuang Sect intervened and stopped it.

"That's enough. Lin Yan has reached the final step. The Taiqing True Seal has appeared and is just waiting for the final seal."

Just as Cui Daoxuan was getting excited, the dome of clouds was broken open in the next moment, and a terrifying energy fell down instantly. This energy surpassed any of the previous twelve.

boom!

Cui Daoxuan's body exploded.

Just as his body exploded, a beam of azure light flew out from Cui Daoxuan's chest and re-condensed ten feet away, only this time his face looked a few years older than before.

What Cui Daoxuan didn't tell Lin Yan was that this was the clone he was truly cultivating.

However, the clone only existed for a moment before exploding again.

Above the dome, the terrifying energy did not disappear, as if it had anticipated that Cui Daoxuan would have a clone.

Bang, bang, bang!

Three clones exploded in succession. Cui Daoxuan's face was withered, and his aura was so weak that it was almost imperceptible. The next moment, as if he had used all his strength, he raised his right hand, and a jade slip flew out and landed below the Taiyi Altar.

Just as Cui Daoxuan tossed the jade slip away, it seemed that Ping sensed something, and a hint of relief appeared on his old face.

color.

"It was worth it!"

The Taiqing True Scripture has a successor; even in death, I have no regrets.

At the Taiqing Altar, Lin Yan sat cross-legged in the center of the platform. The three Dharma images, incarnations, and the Yin-Yang visualization diagram that had originally appeared in front of him had all disappeared.

At this moment, Lin Yan's mind was completely absorbed in his thoughts.

He saw a majestic man who used Yin and Yang as the guiding principles and Heaven and Earth as the furnace to condense all his understanding into a scripture.

The man's face was not clearly visible, but as the man turned around and pointed at him, a vast amount of information poured into his mind.

The complete Taiqing True Scripture.

Yin-Yang Contemplation Diagram, Dharma Image Holding Weapon Technique, Taiqing Transformation Technique.

At this moment, the three techniques began to merge into one.

After a long while, Lin Yan slowly opened his eyes, his face showing excitement. The Taiqing True Scripture was very strong, far beyond his imagination.

The essence of the true scripture can be summarized in just one sentence: Yin and Yang are the root, transformation is the application, all things are the weapon, and ceaselessness is the way.

The entire Taiqing Zhenjing is divided into three parts.

Cultivation Chapter: This chapter focuses on the main cultivation method, used for breaking through realms.

The Incarnation Chapter: This chapter focuses on cultivating external incarnations.

There is also the final chapter on wielding weapons, where everything can be used as a weapon, including Dharma forms, and even, when cultivated to the extreme, heaven and earth can be used as weapons.

What excited Lin Yan was not only the power of these three chapters—the power of the Avatar Chapter and the Weapon Chapter goes without saying—but also the fact that the cultivation speed far exceeded that of ordinary cultivation techniques.

The Taiqing True Scripture Cultivation Chapter, Taiqing Heart Method, will triple your cultivation speed if you switch from the Taiyi Divine Technique to the Taiqing Heart Method.

One day of cultivation is equivalent to three days of cultivation by a martial artist of the same level.

"A precious technique, a true method—I had underestimated it before."

Lin Yan murmured something. When he heard his master talk about the precious techniques and true methods, especially the precious techniques, he was not really moved. In his opinion, the precious techniques were just so-so, and he did not feel that they were particularly powerful.

However, only when the Taiqing Heart Sutra was activated did Lin Yan realize how terribly wrong he had been.

No wonder Master said that if a genius martial artist from the Great Zhou enters the Qinghua Domain, he will become an ordinary person. The gap in martial arts resources and techniques makes the geniuses of the Great Zhou nothing special in the Qinghua Domain.

But what excited Lin Yan the most was not just that. The Taiqing Avatar Chapter allowed him to cultivate after condensing an avatar, and he could even transfer that cultivation to his main body.

One avatar is nothing, but what if there are ten, dozens, or a hundred?

That rate of increase—

hiss!

Lin Yan also gasped, unable to believe it—such a good life was completely beyond his wildest dreams.

It's indeed hard to think about. Although there is the Taiqing Heart Method, it is not an easy thing to cultivate clones. First, you need enough Taiqing True Qi to condense clones. In order to condense multiple clones, in addition to the requirements of the realm, other materials are also needed to condense clones.

"Go out and learn from Senior Cui."

Senior Cui must have a great deal of experience in condensing clones.

Although Senior Cui's avatar is somewhat different from his own, it still has reference value.

Thinking of this, Lin Yan stopped staying on the platform and turned to walk outside.

Fifteen breaths later.

Lin Yan's smile vanished as he looked at the chaotic square and the pools of blood on the ground, his expression turning grave.

Taiqing Square looked as if it had witnessed a massacre.

A few breaths later, Lin Yan's gaze fell on a jade slip not far from his feet. Instead of using his Dharma power to pull it up, he walked straight forward, squatted down, and picked up the jade slip.

Then, he focused his divine sense into it.

[Young friend Lin Yan, the fact that you have seen this jade slip means that the worst has happened: apart from you, there is no one else left in the Taiqing Palace.]

Upon seeing this line of text, Lin Yan narrowed his eyes slightly, pursed his lips, and continued reading.

[First, I apologize to you, young friend. I lied to you about the Taiqing Sect. The Taiqing Sect was destroyed by a coalition of several powerful forces. These forces will not allow the Taiqing Sect members to reappear. When you leave the Great Zhou Dynasty in the future, please do not easily reveal your identity as a member of the Taiqing Sect.]

"I guessed it."

Lin Yan murmured to himself that he had guessed this possibility when he hesitated.

[The transmission of true Dharma inevitably requires registration and recording. Those forces possessing the True Dharma Jade Tablet can also see those whose names are recorded. If your identity is revealed, young friend, you may be hunted down. Therefore, I have no choice but to use the Taiqing Heaven-Covering Formation to conceal your true name.]

[I don't know how many forces will intervene, but I and my ancestors have prepared thirteen clones, and I also possess a patriarch's token from the Shihuang Sect.]

If even these backup plans fail to allow you to obtain the Taiqing True Scripture, then it is the will of Heaven to destroy my Taiqing Sect. I can only apologize to you.

Upon seeing this, Lin Yan's lips twitched. Was this apology too late?

If there were a situation where there were no backup plans, I would have been killed by those powerful people long ago. Would I apologize to my own corpse?

But looking at the blood mist covering the entire square, Lin Yan found that he couldn't bring himself to hate Senior Cui.

This was a pure person who only thought about passing on the Taiqing True Scripture, and for this, he was willing to guard the Taiqing Palace for his entire life.

Or to be more precise, it wasn't just this Senior Cui, but the entire Taiqing Palace, spanning twelve generations, who were all dedicated to a single goal.

Lin Yan couldn't bring himself to blame these kinds of people.

"So, was it because a powerful figure from the Shihuang Sect intervened to stop me from obtaining the Taiqing True Scripture undisturbed in the end?"

Lin Yan glanced around. This Senior Cui only mentioned two things to the Shihuang Sect. One was that the founder of the Shihuang Sect and the Taiqing True Lord were old friends. The second was that before the Taiqing Sect was destroyed, it had entrusted the Taiqing Cauldron, one of the Taiqing treasures, to the Shihuang Sect for safekeeping.

If I go to the Shihuang Domain in the future, I can go to the Shihuang Sect to retrieve the Taiqing Cauldron.

"The Taiqing Cauldron —"

Lin Yan had a thoughtful look on his face. In the Incarnation Chapter of the Tai Zhen True Scripture, there are twelve clones. To condense five of them, in addition to finding the necessary martial arts resources, it is also necessary to use the Tai Qing Cauldron to condense them.

"If a powerful figure from the Shihuang Sect were to actually intervene, would Senior Cui lose his life?"

Lin Yan was unsure, but his intuition told him that tens of thousands of years had passed, and Shi Huangzong might not keep his promise.

Going to the Shihuang Sect for cultivation—this matter requires careful consideration.

The following contents of the jade slip were all related to the Taiqing Palace. Senior Cui had prepared many martial arts resources for him at the Taiqing Palace.

Among them—there are fifty high-grade elixirs alone, refined over many years by the Taiqing Sect. Other martial arts resources, including Taiqing True Qi, are also stored in the Taiqing Palace's treasury. However, this treasury is not located within the Taiqing Palace itself, but rather in the Taiqing Palace...

Under the clear water and the moon.

After reading the jade slip, Lin Yan stood quietly in place.

In his letter, Senior Cui did not mention the forces that joined together to wipe out the Taiqing Sect back then, which clearly meant that he did not ask him to avenge the Taiqing Sect.

For Senior Cui, what he wanted was not to restore the glory of the Taiqing Sect or to avenge the Taiqing Sect.

What Senior Cui wanted was simply for the Taiqing True Scripture to be passed down.

Perhaps what Senior Cui is thinking is that he will wait until he has cultivated his martial arts to a sufficiently high level in the future before deciding whether or not to seek revenge.

The hatred of the Taiqing Sect will not be imposed on oneself.

After a while, Lin Yan raised his right hand, and the stone slabs stained with blood mist were lifted up one by one and floated in the air.

The next moment, Lin Yan's figure disappeared along with the stone slabs.

Laoshan is a hundred miles away from Taiqing Palace.

In the mountains and forests.

Lin Yan stood before the graves.

The thirteen new tombs represent twelve generations of the Taiqing Palace.

Lin Yan did not erect any tombstones for these twelve graves.

Each tomb contains one or two slabs of bluestone.

"As a junior, I have inherited the Taiqing True Scripture and received martial arts resources from you seniors. If I achieve something in martial arts in the future, I will definitely seek justice for you seniors."

Lin Yan bowed deeply before the grave, murmured something, and then turned and left.

The destruction of the Taiqing Sect was a feud from tens of thousands of years ago and had nothing to do with him.

However, the senior Cui and others from Taiqing Palace were killed while protecting him from obtaining the Taiqing True Scripture, and this grudge—was finally avenged.

A quarter of an hour later, Lin Yan arrived at Taiqing Water Moon.

A few days ago, he obtained the Heavenly Sound Fruit here, and now he wants to take away the martial arts resources left to him by Senior Cui, and use the Taiqing True Qi here to condense his first clone.

Lin Yan changed his hand seals, and as his hand seals changed, the mirror-smooth surface of the pool began to ripple. The water ripples spread in all directions, and a whirlpool began to appear in the center. The whirlpool grew bigger and bigger until it reached a diameter of one zhang. Lin Yan took a step out and stepped into the whirlpool, entering the depths of the pool.

Beneath the pool, there lies a hidden paradise.

Lin Yan followed the whirlpool down, and after several hundred feet, landed in front of a stone chamber.

Pushing open the stone door, Lin Yan's gaze first fell on the very center, where a three-zhang-tall pagoda stood.

Taiqing Pagoda.

Senior Cui mentioned in the jade slip that this tower stores the purest Taiqing True Qi, which is useful whether he is cultivating the Taiqing Heart Method or condensing the Taiqing Avatar.

Five zhang away from the pagoda, there was a table with several boxes on it.

Lin Yan's gaze swept quickly across the box, then he opened one of the medicine boxes. Fifty cyan pills were quietly placed inside, each emitting a refreshing medicinal fragrance.

Taiqing Cave Heaven Pill.

This medicine is not only useful for breaking through to the Cave Heaven realm, but also for opening up new Cave Heaven realms after entering the Cave Heaven realm.

For an ordinary martial artist in the Void Phase realm, obtaining even one large medicine is already a great stroke of luck, but here there are fifty of them.

"Breaking through to the Cave Heaven Realm is no longer a problem; perhaps I can even break through several Cave Heavens at once."

Looking at the fifty pills, Lin Yan's eyes gleamed. After a few breaths, his gaze turned to the other boxes, which contained the resources he could use to condense his clone.

"There's no rush to break through; I'll first refine my first Taiqing clone."