CHAPTER 545: CHAPTER 323: TRUE LORD OF CROSSING IMMORTALITY_2

With a bitter smile on his face, the man did not choose to leave but continued to gently embrace Liu Tangxi. At this moment, their sibling roles seemed completely reversed. Jiang Feng appeared more like the mature and attentive elder brother, reaching out to constantly soothe the woman’s brow.

At this moment, his mind was uniquely free from stray thoughts.

Chaotic thoughts kept reconstructing. His junior disciple often spoke of strange and bizarre things, always saying he did not belong to this era but came from another world, where he could see many strange and eerie things.

Originally, he did not care; it wasn’t disbelief, just a lack of attention.

Because in his eyes, Jiang Feng’s previous life as Demon Night True Monarch, with the means of such a true monarch, even though unable to shatter the void and escape to a higher realm, peering into some upper realm mysteries was not surprising.

In Liu Tangxi’s subconscious, the world Jiang Feng described might just be the so-called higher realm, a plane higher than their Cultivation World.

"I’m fine now."

Four words, very simply put.

She picked up the rice paper in her hand again, glanced at it, but this time she did not continue to decipher it. Instead, she folded it and put it into the Qiankun Bag.

"Tomorrow, return this item back. If the Library Pavilion elder asks, just say you can’t understand it."

"Do not mention this matter to anyone, including anyone on Swordmaster Peak. The Soul Refining Technique is not a joke; if any whispers are leaked, they may dig out everything from your mind that you know."

"Perhaps you don’t realize what the things you depict mean, nor do you understand what the scroll in your hand truly is."

Opened his mouth but refrained from speaking.

Seeing Jiang Feng’s expression, the woman couldn’t help but furrow her brows.

"Did you already tell someone? No wait, today you went to take the Purple Cloud Divine Technique with Liang Yu... you told her?"

"Uh, no, not really, but after I got the thing, she recognized it immediately and said it’s the transcript of the biggest secret of the Cultivation World."

Liu Xianzi listened attentively and signaled him to continue, and Jiang Feng candidly spread his hands.

"She asked if I could understand it. I definitely answered ambiguously, but she isn’t a fool. When I first found this thing in the Library Pavilion, I lost my focus, it was she who awakened me from my distraction."

"Otherwise, I would have already spat out a few mouthfuls of blood by now, with reversed spiritual energy, lying on the bed injured."

"Later, Liang Yu mentioned the origin of the bamboo scroll book, immediately recognizing it as foreign text. She also stated that Country Liang once had an Immortal, who out of curiosity crossed the sea to discover what lay beyond and had many adventures there."

"Then that Immortal brought back the local script, although she didn’t know the words, their arrangement resembled the leftover manuscripts of that Immortal, thus deducing it was foreign text."

"That’s basically the course of events, she didn’t press further, only asked me to wait for you to return for you to decide."

Nodded.

The tension in her expression gradually dissipated. Though young, that girl had a remarkably shrewd approach, with a temperament she wasn’t worried about anything being leaked.

Moreover, everything she said was true.

"Thousands of years ago, True Monarch Duxian did indeed cross the sea to the outside world, mastering foreign sorcery, and achieved great fame."

Liu Tangxi cleared her throat.

Now fully awake, her voice line was calm and intellectual.

"Unlike the path I chose, I ventured via land, crossing the northwestern desert all the way westward, walking three thousand miles on foot. The arduous journey far exceeded the imaginings of an ordinary person, even myself unable to continue at the end."

"In the outside world, all kinds of freaks and monsters are abundant, local Cultivation Worlds mainly consist of magicians wielding non-stop Daoist Skills, chanting seemingly some form of curse."

"Though not extremely powerful, the demons they summon caused me much trouble, some evil beings even shattering the void, tearing open slits in the world, or emerging directly from the seabed, while others astonishingly made the mountains beneath my feet appear as giant beasts."

"The power they reveal with every move seems capable of shaking the entirety of Jiuzhou, yet these wicked beings, while strong, are mostly mad, indiscriminately attacking friend and foe."

"Junior disciple, do you remember when I clashed with Elder Jiu He of Xuanyin Sect a few days ago."

Nodded.

He naturally remembered, the battle left an extremely deep impression on him, mostly due to how overwhelmingly his senior crushed both parties.

"The methods passed down by True Monarch Duxian, some were found and learned by Xuanyin Sect within a Grotto Heaven."

Such words made someone’s eyes widen!

"The array initially deployed by the ninth elder, as well as the Bone Dragon he refined, were among the techniques of True Monarch Duxian, only he lacked proficiency to master the essence."

"I broke his array at all costs because I recognized his opening technique, which appeared familiar to what I had seen from those magicians abroad, especially the technique to control the Bone Dragon."

"I knew very well what he could summon through the array and directly interrupted him, had he truly summoned it, the entire Country Liang would face disaster."

"After True Monarch Duxian returned, he soared high with these means, yet eventually, some incidents occurred."

"He went mad."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Feng’s heart suddenly skipped a beat.

His brow furrowed; knowing his senior’s character, she certainly wouldn’t tie two unrelated matters together. The mention of the Immortal’s name implies a definite connection to this affair.

Especially capturing the most crucial information right away.

It wasn’t how powerful people were, nor what they learned from foreigners, but two words.

Madness.

Liang Yu also mentioned the Immortal ultimately went insane, carving those eerie texts into his flesh to entirely memorize them, indicating their paramount significance to him.

Previously, he was unsure whether both individuals were the same, but his senior’s confirmation revealed that the Immortal of Country Liang and True Monarch Duxian were the same person, the question now being.

Why did he go mad?

Being titled true monarch indicated standing at the Cultivation World’s pinnacle, the apex predator, describable as nearly divine.

Yet he guessed it.

Because the senior before him perfectly illustrated how to shatter the Daoist heart of an advanced realm cultivator; the answer is...

"Did True Monarch Duxian really witness it firsthand?"

Even Jiang Feng found it hard to believe.

The two world lines seemed to start overlapping, intersecting. He always thought they lacked any connection, yet he could no longer deny.

Even if the worlds had no link, certain individuals could get ahead of him through special means, or replicate some things within this world.

"He likely witnessed what I recall, the massive data and products far exceeding the current era caused him to lose his focus, like you earlier, only seeing at a greater scale, driving him into madness."

"Even upon witnessing, the Immortal Monarch couldn’t express it in words nor know how to record it for the world, choosing the clumsiest way."

"Which was to find the imprinted texts on those items, and personally scratch blood marks on his body to record them."

Liu Tangxi remained silent about her junior’s speculation.

For this was the most reasonable explanation.

"Upon return, he died untreated, rotting away, his flesh and bones separating, the final fate of True Monarch Duxian."