Chapter 152: Chapter 151: The Real Longevity Plan
Translator: 549690339
It is incontestable that these beasts are quite a handful. Fierce, fearless, and massively strong they are.
Purely in terms of strength, they are as strong as a common first-grade martial artist.
It can be said that the absence of wisdom is their only shortcoming.
However, this only shortcoming is their fatal weakness.
Faced with the full force of Pei Xuanjing and his two companions, despite the great effort required to deal with these massive beasts, they pose no great hindrance or threat to their lives.
After a ferocious battle, the three cooperative individuals nearly exterminated these enormous beasts.
Of course, slaying nearly a hundred boars isn’t easy, let alone nearly a hundred of these enormous beasts.
“Let’s see what is inside this Scripture Pavilion?” suggested Bai Xiaosheng.
Pei Xuanjing and Taoist Qingxu nodded their heads, and the trio ventured into the Scripture Depository.
Creak!
At the sound of the opening doors, they ventured inside.
The Scripture Depository was not that large. A few bookshelves were placed inside, filled with numerous books, nearly a hundred.
“Shall we split up and search?” proposed Pei Xuanjing.
“Absolutely!”
The two concurred, split up and perused the bookshelves on their own.
Pei Xuanjing began to leaf through the books in front of a bookshelf.
He learned that the books here were divided into several categories, including some legacy martial arts skills of the Shenxiao Sect, methods for producing talisman, Shenxiao Tao Scriptures, handwritten notes from the masters of Shenxiao Sect , and so on.
A sense of satisfaction appeared at the corners of Pei Xuanjing’s mouth. Even if they found no other secrets in the Scripture Pavilion this time, these handed-down martial arts skills and enlightening notes would be a hefty harvest.
It can provide him with an enormous amount of Tao Yun, and also be used as the foundation for the Sect when he intends to re-establish the Shenxiao Sect in the future.
Just then, his gaze fell on a book. There was a glint in his eyes as he picked it up and began to leaf through it.
By then, the only sound in the Scripture Pavilion was the flipping of pages by the three.
After a long while, Pei Xuanjing finally looked up, revealing a look of sudden enlightenment.
The book he had just read was the Shenxiao Sect’s record of this Forbidden Place and their predictions of the work they had done.
“How about the two of you? Any gains?” The sound of Pei Xuanjing’s voice echoed in the hollow Scripture Depository.
Heard Pei Xuanjing’s words, two figures started to move towards the source of the sound.
Actually, they had noticed something while Pei Xuanjing was reading. They knew that he appeared to have discovered something.
But, seeing how engrossed Pei Xuanjing was, they didn’t want to disturb him and continued to search on their own for any findings.
Hearing Pei Xuanjing’s summon, they no longer wasted time.
“Any discoveries?” Bai Xiaosheng asked, getting straight to the point.
Pei Xuanjing had no intention of hiding anything from them and immediately started recounting what he had just learned.
The Shenxiao Sect, since receiving the manual about the Longevity Plan from Jinmen•s Feather Guest, has been constantly trying to explore the methods to longevity and enshrine a Divine Position.
Unfortunately, even if they accidentally enshrined a god who showed some characteristics of longevity, they realised that the god they created wasn’t genuinely immortal.
After Jinmen’s Feather Guest ascended, the Shenxiao Sect was heavily hit and they had no chance to try these methods once more. Their only choice was to keep looking for clues to continue seeking the method to longevity.
Luckily, they came across this forbidden place which became pivotal in their research of the longevity plan.
The enormous beasts they had encountered earlier were the results of Shenxiao Sect’s experiments over the years.
They gleaned hints from ancient books and notes and used these to formulate elixirs and talismans to nurture these beasts. They experimented to see if they could develop these fierce beasts into the legendary demonic beasts.
If this method proved to be a success, it would validate their current strategies and the next step would be to modify key points and test it on humans.
Unfortunately, their eventual experiment was still a failure.
Despite using the abundant Heaven and Earth Essence from within the forbidden place to breed these ordinarily fierce beasts into powerful creatures, they still couldn’t imbue them with wisdom to embark on cultivation and gain longer life spans.
According to the analysis of the god involved in the original experimentation, the abundance of Heaven and Earth Essence Qi in the forbidden place falls short of the environment required to birth a demonic beast.
This failure led the Shenxiao Sect to abandon this approach.
However, they did reap a lot of benefits from this experiment, which made them put all their bets on another longevity plan: to seize the imperial inheritance, capture the empire’s Qi Luck, and then consecrate gods. The god would live as long as the kingdom lasted.
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“Does it mention how that longevity plan should be carried out?” Bai Xiaosheng asked Pei Xuanjing.
Pei Xuanjing understood his question.
Although Zhenwu Sect and Bai Xiaosheng’s lineage were participants in the initial Longevity Plan, the most critical core had always been under the control of the Shenxiao Sect.
So, their purpose in exploring this forbidden place of Shenxiao Sect is to uncover the core secrets of the Longevity Plan that they were not privy to.
Pei Xuanjing nodded, “Yes!”
Upon hearing Pei Xuanjing’s answer, even the usually indifferent Taoist Qingxu bore a smile on his face.
However, after listening to the method Pei Xuanjing was indicating, their expressions altered.
“The key to the Longevity Plan is to seize the imperial inheritance, then set up a great, world-best formation to draw on the power of the earth’s veins and stimulate the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi. It would then establish a Divine Dynasty on earth and consecrate a divine position. As long as the Divine Dynasty persists, the gods would live.” Pei Xuanjing revealed.
“What utter bastards! They really deserved being annihilated by the Imperial Court of Great Ming!” exclaimed Bai Xiaosheng.
“Hehe! So Shenxiao Sect had hidden this so deeply. I really admire these people,” Taoist Qingxu said, his face filled with anger while he chuckled.
Why such expression from Qingxu?
No other reason, just the fact that they were tricked by Shenxiao Sect.
While Shenxiao Sect’s initial Longevity Plan was real, it was not the complete plan.
To put it another way, it was just a small part of the total plan..