I Can Recognize Everything, But the Information is Wrong-Chapter 75 - 70: Blood Sect Ancestor or Yao Yue Ancestor? (Seeking Follow-up Readings)
"Old Zhou, why did you bring so few people this time?"
When Tian Lin opened his eyes, he found himself bound by ropes, situated in a valley.
Beside him were the group of worldly society men he had encountered at the ninety-ninth level.
Like Tian Lin, these worldly society men were also tied up with ropes, their mouths stuffed with cloth, and their weapons scattered all over the ground.
"Hey, that Yulong Continent, though called a continent, is actually a barren land. Finding a Grandmaster Martial Artist there is hardly easier than finding a needle in the ocean."
The speaker, ’Old Zhou’, was the very Immortal Master Zhou who had taken ’Tian Lin’ across the Immortal Sinking Pond.
Last time, Tian Lin had ’killed’ him once in the illusion, but now his opponent appeared lively and bouncing again in the first level of the Stone Stairs Illusion Realm.
Immortal Master Zhou, with his back towards Tian Lin, directly addressed the man speaking to him, "How about raising the price of spirit stones?"
"Raise spirit stones? How can that be—if it weren’t for the strict control in Cangzhou, who would want to spend spirit stones to buy mortals from Yulong Continent?"
The man glared, looking at Immortal Master Zhou and said: "No more talk, old rules, three Low Grade Spirit Stones per person. You brought ten people this time, so I’ll give you thirty Low Grade Spirit Stones!"
The man gestured, and immediately two youths came over in the valley, they counted out the spirit stones to Immortal Master Zhou, leaving the man to stride over to where Tian Lin and others were.
If his own vision was that of the Sect Ancestor of Yao Yue Sect, then did the Sect Ancestor from Yao Yue Sect also get tricked into becoming a Mine Slave from Yulong Continent?
Then this man in front of him must be the one Liu Yunjiu mentioned, the one that once killed could break the first level of the Stone Stairs Illusion Realm.
"Don’t be afraid, we are not bringing you to be Mine Slaves."
The man initially reassured them, then continued:
"We just want to use you to refine Blood Pills; you should know. Ordinary mortals have insufficient vital energy, the Blood Pills refined from their blood are of inferior quality. The blood energy of Grandmasters like you is much richer, yielding significantly better Blood Pills."
After the man finished speaking, he did not untie them, but shouted to the youths in the cave:
"Please bring these brothers into the cave, treat them well with food and drink. They are precious commodities we bought with spirit stones, we can’t let them get tired or hungry."
During this conversation, the two youths who had settled the account with Immortal Master Zhou came over, one hand each, they pulled the tied-up men into the cave.
Tian Lin couldn’t guess the cultivation level of the man, but judging by the stance of the two youths, he feared they were merely cultivators at the first level of Qi Refinement.
He did not act rashly, letting one of the youths lift him into the brightly torch-lit cave.
There he saw several red-robed cultivators, and below sat a group of mortals in white clothing.
The mortals in white were all holding a piece of paper, woodenly looking at the text on it.
"This is the Blood Devil Divine Skill, which can help you cultivate Blood True Qi. Once you cultivate it, you can become cultivators at the first level of Qi Refinement—
We will select those among you with talent to remain as disciples of the Blood Sect. Those without sufficient talent will be refined into Blood Pills."
One of the red-robed cultivators threatened those white-clothed mortals, yet his gaze was fixated on Tian Lin and the other newcomers.
At this moment, Tian Lin realized something was off, based on Liu Yunjiu’s description, the first layer in the second segment of the Stone Stairs was much like the first segment’s stairs, hardly anyone would stay in the illusion for more than half an hour.
Moreover, no dialogues could be heard in the illusion, everything looked real, clearly letting people know they were in an illusion.
But what Tian Lin was experiencing now was different; not only could he hear the dialogues, but what he was going through was not the simple situation described by Liu Yunjiu—such strange experiences had only occurred at the ninety-ninth level of the Stone Stairs.
People in the sect thought the ninety-ninth level of Stone Stairs was an exception, and so did Tian Lin.
But his current experience told Tian Lin, it wasn’t just the first segment’s ninety-ninth level of Stone Stairs where ’sounds’ emerged, where complex scenes and people appeared.
But here, indeed, was an illusion.
"Alright, newcomers first memorize the ’Blood Devil Divine Skill’ in full. Only when you can recite it fluently will you be allowed to eat."
Having said this, the red-robed cultivator instructed the two youths to start untying Tian Lin and the others.
Tian Lin thought for a moment, then asked one of the youths: "Are all in our cave Qi Refinement level one cultivators?"
One of the youths proudly smiled, saying: "Exactly, all here are Qi Refinement level one cultivators. Only Manager Qiao is a mighty Qi Refinement level two cultivator."
Tian Lin further inquired: "We are from the Blood Sect, right? What is the cultivation level of our sect leader? Do we have any top-grade magical heritage?"
Talking too much, one of the youths untying them grew impatient, and couldn’t help saying: "Enough with the nonsense, just memorize the ’Blood Devil Divine Skill’ first."
However, one of the red-robed cultivators noticed Tian Lin, he walked over to him, encouraging Tian Lin:
"As long as you diligently cultivate and display your talent, once you reach the Foundation Establishment, you might even meet the sect leader—as for top-grade spells? Haha, if you have the ability, not just top-grade spells, even Divine Skills and Daoist Skills are not impossible to learn."
Tian Lin was stirred, burying his head to look at the piece of paper handed over by one of the youths.
The ’Blood Devil Divine Skill’ contained only a few hundred words and was not difficult to remember.
Tian Lin had been watching for almost half an hour, actually testing how long he could stay in this illusion.
But after waiting for so long, the illusion showed no signs of change.
When Tian Lin saw that there were only two or three cultivators left guarding the cave, he stood up.
His sudden movement caught everyone’s attention, and two cultivators in red robes frowned and reached for the swords at their waists.
Tian Lin held up the paper in his hand, his face stern, "I can’t quite make out the words on this."
He admitted to himself that his acting skills were poor, so he simply kept a stern expression.
The three red-robed cultivators didn’t suspect him, and the one closest to him walked up to Tian Lin.
As that cultivator leaned over to examine the paper, Tian Lin pointed a finger straight at the cultivator’s back.
With a ’puff’ sound, the Bright Sun Finger penetrated the cultivator’s back in the Great Achievement Realm.
The cultivator let out a cry of pain and quickly reached for his knife.
Tian Lin pointed again, his True Qi flowing from his index finger piercing directly through the cultivator’s skull, and the cultivator fell backwards to the ground without drawing his weapon.
The moment the other two red-robed cultivators rushed towards him, Tian Lin soared into the air using the Wind Walking Skill. He disappeared from sight like a ghost.
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Before the two loud red-robed cultivators could locate him, Tian Lin, who was clinging to the ceiling of the cave, shot two Bright Sun Finger spells from afar at them.
The two red-robed cultivators fell to the ground, and a tall man from outside the cave finally came in response to the noise.
"What’s going on, could it be that some newcomer dares to cause trouble?"
The man hadn’t noticed anyone above him, so he didn’t see Tian Lin approaching fast with the Wind Walking Skill.
Using the Wind Walking Skill consumes a lot of True Qi, and the strength of the Bright Sun Finger diminishes with distance.
Tian Lin attempted a fatal blow, taking the risk of getting close to the man.
By the time the man realized it, Tian Lin’s finger, alongside its energy, had already pierced into the man’s forehead.
Blood erupted instantly, and apart from the pungent blood, Tian Lin also saw the words:
[Hemostatic Powder, can be eaten, has hemostatic and healing effects.]
This second layer Manager, so baffled his neck spilled ’Hemostatic Powder,’ and died without clarity.
With the man’s death, the illusion around Tian Lin started to blur.
When he opened his eyes again, he found himself on the first step of the second segment.
"You are at the second layer of Qi Refinement, and you managed to spend so much time in the first layer of illusion?"
Beside him, the voice of the woman in green echoed.
Tian Lin turned his head to look at Han Yue, who was carrying a food box.
He frowned slightly, but resisted the urge to speak about his experiences in the illusion, and simply asked Han Yue, "What sect was our Sect Ancestor from in Cangzhou?"
Han Yue shook her head, "This seems to be a taboo within the sect, something that could be highlighted but is never mentioned by anyone."
Tian Lin frowned even more deeply, and asked Han Yue again,
"I heard that the cultivation techniques of Yulong Continent were all transmitted by our ancestors. At that time, there were no cultivators in Yulong Continent -- so, who brought the Blood Sect’s techniques?"
After a moment of thought, Han Yue said, "A thousand years ago, Yulong Continent wasn’t sealed off. Perhaps some members of the Blood Sect who couldn’t survive in Cangzhou smuggled into Yulong Continent back then—Why are you asking this? I see you look pale, is it due to exhaustion of True Qi?"
By now, Tian Lin was indeed running low on True Qi, but his pale complexion wasn’t entirely due to that reason.
He was thinking that the Sect Ancestor of Yao Yue Sect had been sold to the Devil Path of the Blood Sect by the Immortal Zhou.
The Devil Path of Blood Sect forced the Sect Ancestor of Yao Yue Sect and other Grandmasters to cultivate Blood True Qi, and anyone not talented enough would be refined into Blood Pills and would not survive.
But history told Tian Lin that not only did the Sect Ancestor of Yao Yue Sect survive, but he also achieved the Golden Core and returned to Yulong Continent.
Could this prove that not only did the Sect Ancestor manage to cultivate Blood True Qi, but he was also highly talented in cultivating it?
Therefore, could it be that the founder of Yao Yue Sect was actually a member of the Blood Sect?
Tian Lin even speculated that the Blood Sect of Yulong Continent was established by the ancestor of Yao Yue Sect.
’Dong, dong, dong!’
The lingering Dao Bell rang at the peak of Dao Seeking Mountain, and Tian Lin looked up towards the Immortal Ladder obscured by the clouds.
In his mind emerged Dao Seeking Mountain peak, the pavilion there, and under the pavilion of Dao Seeking Mountain peak, the figure who had struck the bell for a thousand years.
The Sect Ancestor of Yao Yue Sect? Or perhaps, the ancestor of the Blood Sect of Yulong Continent?
