Chapter 2612: The Supreme Scenery, Nine Chapters of Immortality

According to what I know, Xu Huai Zhang was a generation of Celestial Master, a guardian of the South Heaven Gate, and once the Invincible True Monarch. Later, he created immortal arts, transcended the Daoist gate, and accepted thirty-six disciples, known as the 'Heaven Gang True Immortals'. Among them, Li Cang Hu was famous; surpassing his teacher, he became a great master of the immortal arts system, perfecting the immortal path and suppressing the entire world, known as the 'Immortal Emperor'.

Heavy Xuan Zun said this, then looked towards Jiang Wang's waist. Hanging there was a rather ordinary white jade pendant, which he had seen Jiang Wang wear for many years. It seemed to have no special qualities, which was precisely its greatest special quality — with Jiang Wang's current status and position, what on his body wasn't a treasure?

"Since you're asking about Immortal Master and you have Cloud Top Immortal Palace..." Heavy Xuan Zun seemed thoughtful. "Perhaps Xu Huai Zhang once gifted the Western White Tiger; could it be this very piece?"

Jiang Wang lowered his head to glance at it, a smile appearing on his face: "This is a gift my younger sister gave me when she was little. She bought it with her saved New Year's money... It's not a treasure tool, but it is a treasure. You don't have a younger sister, so you wouldn't understand."

This jade pendant with auspicious cloud patterns did indeed have some years on it — it was the New Year's gift his little sister An An had prepared for her brother in Cloud City the year he sword-killed Master Dong in New An City.

The jade pendant from his little sister replaced the first jade he had ever worn — the Yuan jade pendant gifted by Master Dong, which controlled his internal energy.

He cherished this jade very much. He would put it away before every major battle and happily put it back on after the fight. He once accidentally damaged it and was extremely heartbroken, specially inviting a skilled craftsman to repair it. The cost of repairing the jade was actually far more expensive than the jade itself.

Heavy Xuan Zun, seeing his proud expression, only nodded: "Oh, I don't have a younger sister, but I have a younger brother. He doesn't understand either."

Jiang Wang thought for a moment but didn't speak.

Sheng Ge Er was tough and sturdy, and his heart was as intricate as a honeycomb; he shouldn't be afraid of this guy.

If it really didn't work out, he could find Wang Yi Wu or someone later. Or, if Sheng Ge Er was bullied and Yi Huai Min went to brothels afterwards, he would inevitably have to compete with the great Heavy Xuan... That would be respecting the elders! Did he really think there were no idle rising stars waiting for death in Lin Zi City?

"Speaking of which, why would you think Xu Huai Zhang's six rites jade might be with me?" Jiang Wang asked.

"You've inherited Cloud Top Immortal Palace for so long, and you actually don't know?" Heavy Xuan Zun smiled casually: "I found in history that your Cloud Top Immortal Palace was an immortal palace personally overseen and built by Immortal Master Xu Huai Zhang, namely the Immortal Emperor's residence, the true gathering hall of immortals."

Cloud Top Immortal Palace was the Immortal Emperor's residence, the imperial palace of the immortal era!

The so-called "Cloud Top" was the extreme of heaven, above the assembly of immortals.

Jiang Wang sat rooted there, his thoughts racing for a moment, many past doubts suddenly connected.

Why did Zhu Ge Yi Xian insist on inviting him to bring Cloud Top Immortal Palace to Immortal Forest? Why did he have a vague feeling that he could respond to the history of the immortal era, inspire the power of the immortal fall, and break the Nameless One's tail? Why could Cloud Top Immortal Palace integrate the powers of other immortal palaces and self-recover with their support?

Because Cloud Top Immortal Palace was the core of the nine great immortal palaces, the imperial palace of the immortal path!

Ye Ling Xiao, relying on his deceased wife Lu Qiu Chao Lu's Ruyi Immortal Palace, cultivated the qi path immortal body, having a deep understanding of the immortal era. He clearly obtained the heritage of Cloud Top Immortal Palace, inherited Ling Xiao Pavilion, and with his hidden strength, he could easily swallow Qing Yun Ting, Ling Kong Dian, and solely occupy Chi Yun Mountain.

But he only sought a heartless fate for Ye Qing Yu, only a share of the Cloud Seal divine ability. This meant he knew the heavy karma of Cloud Top Immortal Palace and was unwilling to bear it, nor did he want Ye Qing Yu to be contaminated.

It should be said that Ye Ling Xiao was the initial inheritor of the Immortal Emperor in the current era. Only, he refused.

He was an enemy of One True, destined to fill his life in this conflict, and could not take on more trouble.

In the end, the immortal path he cultivated was not entirely based on the inheritance of the immortal era, but combined imperial qi to cultivate the qi path immortal body. Having one Ruyi Immortal Palace was already enough; having another Cloud Top Immortal Palace later, the visible benefits were not enough to outweigh the risks.

As the Immortal Emperor's residence, Cloud Top Immortal Palace, when the immortal era broke, was also the most thoroughly shattered, leaving almost nothing useful. Jiang Wang had inherited the immortal palace for so long and only obtained one door of immortal art that was a stepping stone to the blue sky. It was unlike the other immortal palaces, which had various inheritances, all forming systems, simply diverse.

Thinking back now, Ye Ling Xiao's earliest approach to Cloud Top Immortal Palace was probably also to gain the power of the Immortal Emperor, thereby getting closer to his goal of revenge. But either he feared attracting the attention and targeting of One True Dao, or he recognized that Cloud Top Immortal Palace was thoroughly shattered and the troubles far outweighed the help, his expectations dashed... So he guarded Ling Xiao Pavilion, ignored Cloud Top Immortal Palace, and besides the qi path immortal body, also sought the merchant path divine body.

Later, Jiang Wang went to Chi Yun Mountain to help Ye Qing Yu pick down the Cloud Seal and accidentally obtained Cloud Top Immortal Palace.

At Ye Qing Yu's request, Ye Ling Xiao gave him Ling Xiao Pavilion to make Cloud Top Immortal Palace complete. This "most heroic man of eternal humanity," with a grand gesture, changed "Ling Xiao Pavilion" to "Cloud Xiao Pavilion," his mouth saying domineeringly that the world could not have two Ling Xiao. In reality, it was to obscure things for Jiang Wang when his strength was insufficient, to reduce some karma for him, and dispel some dangers.

About these things, Ye Ling Xiao never mentioned them. Jiang Wang also never knew.

This Ling Xiao Pavilion master with outstanding demeanor, when appearing in front of Jiang Wang, this later generation, forever displayed only his fist. Forever held his head high, forever was — "You boy are far from good enough."

Jiang Wang looked at the wine in the snow-white ivory bowl, at himself reflected in the wine, as if his eye corner turned blue again, causing him a distant, hidden pain.

He shook the wine bowl, and his face in the reflection shattered, then he asked: "What happened to Xu Huai Zhang later?"

Heavy Xuan Zun shook his head: "This is a name lost to history. Although I found some information, it's all very fragmented. I don't know what the end of this Immortal Master was after the One True Dao Lord sank the immortal boat. But I did hear that there is a book called 'Immortal Prescriptions Classic,' which was a work left by this gentleman. If you can find the complete collection, perhaps you can truly understand this person."

Jiang Wang was not unfamiliar with 'Immortal Prescriptions Classic'. The fat immortal child in the palace occasionally recalled a few segments. He immediately summoned White Cloud Child and ordered him to recite the complete book.

This round, plump little child only trembled and shrank in the corner, shouting that his head hurt.

"Heavy Xuan brother, do a good deed all the way; can you help me find this 'Immortal Prescriptions Classic'?" Jiang Wang opened his hopeful eyes.

Heavy Xuan Zun smacked his lips a bit: "You want me to do everything; why don't you just let me help you chop that guy who wrote history for the demons!"

"Great!" Jiang Wang was overjoyed: "Brother, if you're free at that time, it wouldn't hurt to accompany me!"

Heavy Xuan Zun looked at him quietly for a moment: "...Instead of asking me here, why don't you go to the Diligent Academy and ask Zuo Qiu Wu. Si Ma Heng is not here, but he is the best historian. These ancient classics, and ones confused by time, where would I read them?"

Jiang Wang was just trying his luck, seeing no harvest, he drank down this bowl of fine wine, put the empty bowl down: "Find you after recovery!"

He turned to leave, but a huge bright moon rose before his eyes. The sea beneath his feet was like a mirror, expanding boundlessly.

Heaven and earth turned in a thought, time and space had a new order.

True Monarch Jiang extended his hand from his sleeve, his five fingers spread, and a side green giant tripod appeared, smashing onto the sea surface, rippling open endless waves.

The ripples shattered like a dream, and the bright moon was grand and imposing, embedded in his ink-black pupils.

Heavy Xuan Zun still sat there, his white clothes like snow unstained by dust, lightly smiling: "True Monarch Jiang is too realistic!"

"After all, I can't always live in your moon phase world; I still have to see this rolling red dust." Jiang Wang looked at him: "You're not in such a hurry for rewards, are you? Does Heavy Xuan brother have anything else to instruct?"

Heavy Xuan Zun glanced out the window. The street outside was bustling with people coming and going, very noisy.

He said: "The common people of Zheng country have been living well during this period. Brother Jiang has seen it personally; are you satisfied in your heart?"

Jiang Wang probably understood what he wanted to say, so he sat back down: "Sometimes, as long as the people above don't blindly mess things up, the common people can live very well. Heavy Xuan brother, sometimes I feel this world is absurd — only the people who truly face life are living seriously."

"People have their wisdom and foolishness, and rulers have their muddleheadedness and wisdom; it's also a matter of family and country. This is also the natural principle. The state system, the vast flood, is not just about one's decline and another's rise, swallowing the small with the large. Can benevolence truly overcome violence?" Heavy Xuan Zun slowly poured wine for himself: "Now standing at the transcendent peak, yet in the place of right and wrong, the wise do not act."

"Before, there were always people who taught me, telling me how people should be proper, what they could do, and what they could not do. Slowly, no one says it anymore. Later, even if I make some unbelievable decisions, people will first ponder, thinking, 'Does Jiang Wang have his reasons?'" Jiang Wang smiled inexplicably, then became a bit more serious: "I'm very grateful to have a good friend like Heavy Xuan brother, who is always willing to point things out to me."

Heavy Xuan Zun was fundamentally someone who would not advise others on what they should or shouldn't do; this was unrelated to friendship, purely a matter of character.

Why he chose to meet in Ju Lin City today and said these words was certainly because he had heard something.

Connecting it to Zheng country's geographical environment, it wasn't hard to imagine where the pressure came from.

Speaking of which, Jiang Wang's warning to the old king of Zheng country, not to let him greedily exploit the country's power and suck the country's blood, was actually not very proper. The state system had its own order and should not be interfered with by Tai Xu Pavilion.

Fortunately, his actions always had a measure; he just sent a message to warn, and under the name of maintaining Gu Master Yi, if someone wanted to fight some verbal lawsuits, he could also argue for a long time.

But the pressure of this world's inherent order would still make him feel it in various ways.

It was just because he was already so strong today that this feeling was only a bit gentle.

"Brother Jiang wants to say something to me but..." Heavy Xuan Zun said with a smile.

"No but." Jiang Wang shook his head: "Heavy Xuan brother's point, I've noted it. Jiang Wang is not an arrogant person and will not think that his will should replace everything."

"The lord sees heaven and earth, especially pitying the grass and trees, is their fortune. But can all misfortunes be seen by the cabinet?" Perhaps because he had drunk wine, Heavy Xuan Zun rarely had such an interest in explaining things, raising his palm like a knife, lightly cutting, as if cutting through a thousand ages: "Flip through history books, greedy countries do not stop this thief, sucking blood is not only mosquitoes and flies. Repeatedly seen, killed but not exhausted — even if the lord lives ten thousand years, it's just a snap of the fingers; if the great dao is what's coming, eternity only sees the final chapter."

"Truly cutting through delusion and seeing the nature!" Jiang Wang sincerely praised: "The great dao is like the blue sky; you lift your eyes and you see it."

He sighed again: "I envy Brother Feng Hua, who can always make the most correct choices, while I am a person who will make mistakes."

Initially, he left Qi to gain the trust of the Great Qi emperor, actively exposing the wrong path.

It can be said that the only people in this world who clearly knew he carried the wrong path divine ability were the Great Qi emperor and Heavy Xuan Zun before him.

Once standing guard side by side in front of Purple Extreme Hall, the two later went their separate ways. Wrong path, cutting delusion, what else were they but two kinds of lives?

Heavy Xuan Zun looked at him quietly, his ink-black pupils as bright as lacquered points, as if always seeing his true nature and true heart.

"Heavy Xuan brother, you are sitting opposite me today, you saw my injuries, and more or less you care about me. If you just heard others say I was injured, perhaps you wouldn't say a single word, because my injuries are common." Jiang Wang slowly said: "Many things can become accustomed to, as long as we don't truly look at them."

"This question I think no longer needs to be asked, but entrusted by others, I will still ask one sentence —" Heavy Xuan Zun casually drained the wine: "Afterward, will Brother Jiang continue to bow his head and look, or lift his eyes and look to a higher place?"

"When I was young, I always looked up at the sky, wondering what that highest place was like..." Jiang Wang was wistful for a moment, then asked: "Do you know what I discovered standing here?"

Heavy Xuan Zun's drunken eyes slightly closed, three parts drunk in the bright night: "What?"

Jiang Wang said: "The scenery at the absolute peak is not the clouds and the sky, but the human world."

He stood up and very seriously said to Heavy Xuan Zun: "It's hard to find a drinking friend in life; let's drink again next time."

Then he flicked the corner of his robe and disappeared.

Heavy Xuan Zun held the wine bowl, tilted his head to look at the sky outside the window, looking at the quietly parked clouds. After a long time, he suddenly smiled, bright as a vast snowfall: "Indeed monotonous!"

"Old master, you two finally said so much, in the end, who is right and who is wrong? I'm confused." White Cloud Child shouted in the immortal palace.

Jiang Wang walked to the plaque of Cloud Xiao Pavilion, looking at the character 'Cloud' left by Ye Ling Xiao, and casually said: "Not everything has to be divided into right and wrong. We just see the world from different angles. Moreover..."

"Moreover what?"

"True Monarch Feng Hua isn't really someone who only gazes at heaven and earth and doesn't see the grass and trees." Jiang Wang laughed: "He just likes to put on that deadpan face."

Si Ma Heng had an accident; why would Heavy Xuan Zun think that he, Jiang something, would go after him? The Confucian family was a prominent school in the present world, with a deep foundation in books, and experts in academies worldwide were like clouds. Si Ma Heng, as the foremost historian of his time, had hopes of transcending existence and held a pivotal influence within the Confucian family... Why would it be his turn, someone who read a hundred schools of thought, to seek his whereabouts?

Heavy Xuan Zun even specially emphasized that Seven Hates once wrote history for the demons...

Before Wu Zhai Xue became a demon, he was also a great master of historical studies!

Wasn't this hinting... that Si Ma Heng's accident was related to Seven Hates?

Or even, this was another game prepared by Seven Hates for himself?

Heavy Xuan Zun was a person who cut through delusion and saw the dao, speaking with keenness, surpassing everyone in the world. His reminder could not be undervalued.

"Old master..." White Cloud Child vaguely felt that something was about to change, filled with worry: "I can't remember the complete 'Immortal Prescriptions Classic'; you won't drive me away, will you?"

"No, I won't." Jiang Wang smiled and waved his hand, letting him rest assured: "At most, I'll feed you to the demon ape."

White Cloud Child's fat face lost color, and he sat on the ground with a thud. He couldn't even hold the white cloud small sword and hugged the old master's leg, wanting to howl twice, but then, in front of the suddenly manifested ape face, he forcibly held back, holding back until his small fat face was all flushed red.

"I might not chew on anything!" The demon ape stretched its demon body discontentedly in the air, limited by its current physical condition, and soon drilled back.

Finally, the Immortal Dragon stepped out gracefully, standing side by side with its original body. Beneath its feet, the green clouds of creation leisurely drifted, quietly suspended and reaching far.

Jiang Wang raised his hand, carefully as if picking down the character 'Cloud', just like picking down a flower. He hid this dense cloud of qi character into his primordial spirit sea. Then he extended his sword fingers parallel and drew them remotely —

The empty character on the plaque slowly cleared into 'Ling'.

Ling Xiao Pavilion, now returned to its position.

The entire group of immortal palaces violently shook, a kind of grand and majestic power spreading endlessly.

The immortal hall that Immortal Master Xu Huai Zhang once supervised and built, where Immortal Emperor Li Cang Hu once held court, was now his, Jiang Wang's, traveling palace.

He would take down the inheritance and karma of that broken era one by one!

Vaguely, there was a three-point heavy pressure on his shoulders, and in a trance, there were two wisps of cloud qi lifting him.

Clear and turbid separated chaos, immortal people stepped out of the Daoist gate.

Jiang Wang now stood on the high place of the absolute peak, seeing various lights and shadows, as if the story of changing heaven and earth was performed again. Ling Xiao Pavilion in front of him rose like a peak, with a momentum encompassing the world, towering above this realm.

He seemed to hear that voice again, as if he saw the person who, at the end of the mythological era, forced the blood demon to a dead end.

That voice said —

"You forgot one very important thing."

I forgot... what?

The sights before his eyes suddenly intertwined with brilliant lights, as if in front of Ling Xiao Pavilion, interweaving an illusory mirage.

Once seen in a story, the noble man with fluttering sleeves on the mountain path, holding a volume of jade slip in his hand, remotely passed it over.

Seeing it, one knew it was immortal text. The characters said —

《Immortal Path Nine Chapters》.

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