The atmosphere was somewhat silent. Both Lu Hanjiang and Caiwei kept their mouths shut. The elder seemed to be reminiscing about the past. Her eyes drifted away little by little along the afterglow of the setting sun. It wasn't until the evening breeze brought the coolness of early spring that she took a long look.
He let out a sigh, which seemed to be relieved and sad.
"What did your master say before he died?" the great elder asked softly, with a hint of hope in his words.
Lu Hanjiang raised his eyebrows, lowered his head and said, "Well, Master asked me to come and say hello to the elder."
This was just telling lies with open eyes. He estimated that Bei Mingzi should have been cursing the Emperor Wudao Jinyiwei for being despicable when he died. But compared to such an embarrassing and ugly appearance, the ending that Lu Hanjiang wrote for him was better.
After the great elder listened, there was another long silence. After a long time, he said: "I understand, you can follow me."
Having said that, the Great Elder took the lead and headed for the stairs going down behind the altar. When Caiwei saw him, he hesitated and said: "Great Elder, isn't it a rule in the clan that outsiders are not allowed to enter the Suiyin Room...
.”
"You come too," the great elder stopped, turned around and said, "Since you are Bei Mingzi's disciple, you are not an outsider."
"this......"
Lu Hanjiang shrugged and followed the great elder with Caiwei. On the way, he heard her ask again: "The old guy has gone. Now the Xiaoyao Sect should be under your control, right?"
"That's right." Lu Hanjiang said vaguely, but before he could justify himself, he added: "After the first master left, the disciples scattered in all directions, and now I am the only one left."
Hearing this, the Great Elder was not too surprised. She seemed to have expected it. She said: "It is God's will. Since your master insists on taking that path, he will eventually end up like this."
Lu Hanjiang asked pointedly: "The master has his own considerations. What does the great elder mean by this?"
"Boy, there's no need to hide anything from me. Since your master asked you to come here to find me, I'm afraid you've already tried that method, right?"
The Great Elder let out a long sigh and said in a deep tone: "Asking for immortality, if you choose to do something that is harmful to nature and justice in order to seek immortality, I'm afraid you will die in peace."
From the middle of the journey, Caiwei couldn't understand anything about immortality or seeking immortality. She stared with big eyes that didn't understand what she was talking about. It seemed like it was the first time she heard the great elder say such words.
Lu Hanjiang was feeling better. He just secretly observed and imitated the expression of the great elder, and said softly: "The great elder guessed it well. The master has already tried that method, but failed."
"That's natural."
Several people followed the spiral staircase to the bottom of the altar. The further they went, the darker the surrounding area became. The expression of the great elder slowly disappeared into the shadows, making it difficult to see clearly. It was a secret hidden in the past.
She said slowly——
"Thousands of years ago, there was a sage who calculated the emergence of jade. Your master finally got the jade, so naturally he would not let it go in vain. It's a pity that they couldn't decipher the secret on it. It was a text passed down from ancient times, and it is no longer available in the world.
A few people recognize it, but even I don’t know much about it.”
As if remembering something, the great elder chuckled and said: "Back then, your master begged me in every possible way to teach him the method of interpretation. Only then did I relent. Unexpectedly, in the end, he did something bad with good intentions, causing him to end up like this."
This is how it ends.”
Listening to the words of the great elder talking to himself, Lu Hanjiang did not comment on what he said. He secretly thought about the meaning of the words. There are not so many coincidences in the world. I am afraid that the method of immortality that these two groups of people, Xiaoyao Sect and Baiduweng, are seeking,
It's the same one.
The secret method of the Xiaoyao Sect comes from the records on the jade stones outside the sky, but according to the great elder, the writing is ancient and mysterious, and no one has been able to fully interpret it. In other words, it is very likely that the Xiaoyao Sect themselves have solved the wrong answer to the mystery.
, and then he developed the Seven-Star Destiny Technique that relies on absorbing the blood of close relatives.
While he was thinking, a glimmer of light suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. Lu Hanjiang looked up and saw many fluorescent flowers and plants appearing on both sides of the road, from sparse to dense, until in front of the round platform at the end, the surroundings were covered by a sea of fluorescence.
The great elder led the two people to this place called the Suiyin Room. In the fluorescent package, there was a stone round platform in the center of the eyes, and on it was a unique white jade statue.
The lower half of the statue is a clear spring like a pool, while the upper part is composed of the upper bodies of two women, which are as big as real people. The woman on the left is dressed in cloud-like silk, and the woman on the right is wearing a star-colored robe.
Made of white jade, the eyes are very bright and full of energy, as if they are alive.
The woman on the left has curved eyebrows, looking forward, lively and cute with a bit of quirkiness. The woman on the right has half-open eyes, as if she is sad, and her uneven frown looks sad and tactful, which is heartbreaking.
For a moment, Lu Hanjiang felt that the two women seemed to have known each other before, but in a flash, he no longer felt this way, it was just an illusion.
Then he took a closer look and saw that there were several special things about the two women, whether it was the ornaments around their necks or the bright jade on their heads, but the most eye-catching thing was that they each stretched out one hand to touch each other with ten fingers.
Button, in a very intimate manner, the other hand stretches out to the left and right ends respectively. The woman on the left is holding a lamp, but the woman on the right has nothing in her hand.
At first glance, I thought the statue was extremely beautiful, but it seemed like something was missing. Lu Hanjiang stared at the empty palm of the woman on the right, thoughtfully.
Caiwei noticed what his eyes were pointing at, so she explained to him in a low voice: "The Holy Spirit Gu was stored here before it was stolen from Xuehua Palace."
"That's it." A flash of realization flashed in Lu Hanjiang's eyes.
The great elder came to the statue, turned around and looked at Lu Hanjiang and said: "Back then, I taught your master the method of interpreting ancient texts, but let him end up like that. This method of immortality is actually harmful to people.
, I didn’t want to pass on this secret, but you still came, which shows that God’s will is like this.”
The past was put aside with a long sigh, and the Great Elder's eyes gradually became clear. She looked at Lu Hanjiang quietly and said, "Please answer me, do you believe that there is a way to live forever in this world?"
"I don't believe it." Lu Hanjiang's answer never changed, and the mocking look in his eyes became even more intense after the great elder's words came out.
The elder stared at his face for a long time, then suddenly smiled sadly: "He is a good boy."
So she asked again: "Then do you want to know the method of immortality passed down by your ancestors?"
"certainly."
Lu Hanjiang did not hesitate to answer this. He said calmly: "I naturally don't believe in immortality, but since so many people are willing to believe it, it must be an extremely interesting thing, and I naturally don't want to miss it."
"It doesn't matter, after all, it's what your master wanted before he died."
The Great Elder turned around and looked at the statue, and spoke slowly: "Thousands of years ago, the sages calculated the time when the extraterrestrial things would come to the world, and predicted that after a thousand years, the opportunity of immortality would appear. So he followed the way of heaven and arranged the place of immortality.
The seven necessary treasures were handed down by the seven bloodlines respectively..."