Chapter 308: Chapter 138: Only One True Self in the World! Forces Sweep Wutong Prefecture, The Hidden Dangers of Nirvana Corpse, All Clues Revealed!

Zither Sword Mountain!

On this mountain range covered with sunflowers, various fortified cities of Wutong gather the defeated remnants of soldiers.

The mottled demon blood has not yet been completely washed away from this mountain.

But it has brought another kind of ’thriving vitality’.

The Fourth Step!

Within the territory of Wutong Prefecture, other than Yunluan Mountain, the first Fourth Step master has appeared.

For a sect that was originally just a ’famous sect’... it’s simply unimaginable.

Even more unimaginable is that not long ago, Tantai Yao... actually defeated ’Xuanqing Demon Monarch’ Gua Hua in a direct confrontation!

As soon as the news spread,

there was an immediate surge of excitement among the people!

Whether it’s the defeated remnants fleeing from the Prefecture City,

or those gathered around Wutong, like ’Xuanqing City’ and ’Black Mountain City’, large cities built amidst constant attacks and ravages by demons, enduring great suffering.

In the past, the gap in combat power was so large that no hope could be seen, forcing the Military Department and the Demon Hunter Patrol, driven out of the fortified cities, to hide in the mountains and fields.

But now, with the sudden rise of ’Tantai Yao’, the situation is no longer the same; at least... there is a glimmer of hope for a desperate struggle.

And when the surviving forces from four or five fortified cities gathered in what was once a ’famous sect’,

another piece of news spread along with it.

This original glimmer of ’a desperate struggle’...

instantly ignited like a wildfire, blazing uncontrollably!

That is ———

Several orthodox Martial Dao sects from the Three Mountains and Five Peaks, the ’Primordial Pill’ Elder Ancestors from decades ago, suddenly appeared to attend the gathering!

There are nearly double handfuls!

It should be known that the Xuanqing Demon Monarch’s six Primordial Pills could lead six demon armies to attack and conquer a city at will.

Now, with so many Primordial Pills, plus a Fourth Step master, and the gathered Martial Soldiers and Demon Hunter Patrols from various cities, how can they not put up a good fight against them?

For the ’Black Mountain Incident’ decades ago, which was ordered to be erased by State Lord Lan Jingyi and unknown to outsiders, even Tantai Yao knows very little about it.

Originally he was feeling excited and delighted, until Jixia arrived.

Zither Sword Pavilion.

"Are you saying... all these people are ’reborn after death, their divine souls already extinguished’?" Tantai Yao frowned, looking at Jixia who rushed over from Black Mountain City, feeling a chill in his heart.

Indeed.

At this critical juncture,

whether it’s the Sword Ridge Cliff Master, or the Shunan Prefecture Imperial Demon Hunter, or other Primordial Pill masters,

without exception, all are those who were formidable decades ago, then disappeared in Black Mountain, vanishing without a trace.

They brought disciples from their own sects to attend the gathering.

When Tantai Yao investigated their backgrounds, he used the True Master’s Magical Power to probe, indeed noticing some traces in their ’Divine Thought’.

After Jixia explained,

he began to take it seriously.

"That’s right."

"Uncle Tantai, let me tell you something."

Jixia, with a serious expression, gently tapped the table.

As the situation developed to this extent, some things can no longer be entirely concealed; it’s necessary to find some assistance and backing.

Thus, he revealed a bit of the iceberg from back then to Tantai Yao.

Immediately, Tantai Yao’s brows furrowed deeply:

"An Immortal Nirvana True Monarch, Nirvana kin, three True Masters buried into the ’Profound Coffin’, transformed into so-called ’Nirvana Corpses’?"

"So, what you’re saying is..."

"Now, those orthodox masters outside, the Primordial Pill experts who revived decades ago, are merely puppets of that figure within the forbidden zone?"

"But, their memories, consciousness, remain little different from when they were alive, except for their attitude towards you becoming extremely ’reverent’..."

After roughly understanding the Black Mountain Incident from back then, Tantai Yao’s eyes instantly revealed worry:

"Then, in that case, isn’t there another ’Song Chai Xin’ waiting to revive beneath the Celestial Abyss?"

Jixia nodded:

"I think so too."

"But, Uncle, don’t you suspect that I am fake, and in the future, if one appears who looks exactly like the former Song Chai Xin, he is the real one?"

Tantai Yao smiled warmly:

"Some people wear an exterior mask, but their inner core has long changed."

"While others may change in appearance, their insides remain consistent."

"Had I never met you in Black Mountain, then perhaps I would be suspicious."

"But now, even if a hundred dressed in ’Song Chai Xin’ disguises appear, I might not believe them."

"As you said, these people are ’Divine Thought’ lost, but preserve ’memories’ and ’habits’ as Nirvana Corpses, so what is their purpose?"

"Or rather..."

"What does that person, who should be beyond the Fourth Step, perhaps only surviving from the ’Grotto Heaven Era’, want to do?"

"Surely it’s not merely to lock people in a coffin and then release them decades later just for amusement."

As he finished speaking, Tantai Yao himself laughed, shaking his head, finding it puzzling.

"He must have his own purpose, but due to our limited perception, we can’t see it."

"However..."

"I have seen some records in some fragmentary ancient scrolls."

"This Era, three hundred years ago, there were Dharma Seekers capable of Flying and Earth Escape, pursuing immortality and the Dao, in realms above the Fourth Step, their sects called ’Grotto Heavens’.

"Each Grotto Heaven connected with the mortal world, the equivalent of a ’Spirit Land’ and ’mortal’ distinction, later all closed and fell, for reasons unknown."

"And just a hundred years ago, the first Grotto Heaven in the northwest began to gradually awaken."