Chapter Eighty-Four: Yue

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  Zhang Chong flew out like a cannonball, fell to the ground and couldn't move for a long time. His internal organs seemed to have shifted positions, constantly swaying back and forth inside him.

  He fell to the ground, but seemed to have returned to that dream again. The white-robed fairy, the drop of tears, and that one call, made him sit up from the ground with his injuries completely healed.

  "Who is this immortal after all, why does she gaze at me yet call out to Xu Ming? Who is this Xu Ming anyway?" Zhang Chong muttered these questions that he would never have the answers to, as he struggled to his feet.

  That last attack was indeed fierce, but the scene was also strangely eerie. Zhang's eyes looked towards the tree where he had just attacked, but couldn't see any traces of his attack at all. The emerald green crystal fruit was also nowhere to be seen, and the place where it was located was still intact.

  Everything seemed to be telling him that nothing had ever happened.

  But everything that had just happened was still vividly etched in Zhang Chong's mind, never to be erased.

  "Why is it that everything before my eyes seems as if it never happened?" Zhang thought deeply about this question, constantly recalling the scene from before. The trees that were burning fiercely, slowly turned into a transparent color and disappeared before his eyes, and that emerald green crystal fruit was born at the place where it had disappeared.

  He recalled this scene, and suddenly, an idea flashed into his mind.

  "What lies before us is not a forest but a new and larger battlefield."

  This idea, once it burst into his mind, could no longer be dispersed. Connecting it to the characteristics of the Shishan tribe and that place before, he had every reason to believe that this forest he saw was not a forest at all, but an illusion created by him. But could the formation really be so magical as to make him produce illusions?

  In the midst of confusion, Zhang Chong, who had just begun to understand the situation, couldn't help but think of going to ask Wang Daozhong for clarification. However, this time, no matter how loudly he called out, Wang Daozhong didn't respond with a single word.

  After shouting for a long time, Zhang Chong also gave up his efforts. Apart from Wang Daozhong, the only things that could solve his problem were now the Sleep Dream Heart Sutra and the Xuanji Finger Seal.

  Zhang Zhongxin said that his fire control technique had already been practiced, and he didn't know if he could see more things in his sleep. He closed his eyes, and soon he fell into a deep sleep. This time, what he saw was still only the Heaven and Earth Three Talents Formation and Fire Control, without anything else.

  "Is this really all there is to the Sleeping Heart Sutra?" Zhang Chong unwillingly tried several more times, but still couldn't find any new differences. Helpless, he could only retreat.

  This time, his mind flashed and he came to the Xuanji Ring. Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the ring, he heard a lazy voice saying,

  "You've finally come in." The voice startled him so much that he asked based on his first reaction,

  "Where is Wang Dao?"

  "What's your name on Wang Dao Road? I am Yue."

  "My name is Zhang Chong, where are you?" Zhang Chong listened to the voice with vigilance, saying out his own name, but in his heart he was thinking, could it be Wang Daozhong disguising himself to deceive me?

  "I am where I am, in the ring." The voice replied lazily.

  "May I see you?" Zhang Chong asked cautiously.

  "I want to see you, you just completed the control of fire cultivation, your strength is too weak, how can you break through the second layer of this Xuanji ring and get me out?" Yue said. As soon as he answered like this, Zhang Chong immediately knew that this person was definitely not Wang Daozhong, because Wang Daozhong was in the ring, but he didn't know anything about his cultivation of symbols and alchemy, let alone his control of fire, which had just been completed today.

  "You must think it's strange, let me tell you something first, I am the spirit of this Xuanji Ring, but before that, it was sealed. To remove the first seal, one needs to master the fire control technique. You little kid, are indeed lucky, and actually got this Xuanji Ring." Yue's voice always carried a lazy tone.

  "You're the vessel spirit, so why would you be sealed away?"

  "Nonsense, the one who can seal me is naturally my former master." Yue began to explain the origin of the matter to Zhang Chong at this time. It turned out that this Xuanji ring was indeed an ancient cultivator's object, belonging to a high-ranking expert named Lan Xi Ping. After thousands of years of bitter cultivation, he had reached the level of reversing heaven among cultivators and could make a large mountain disappear in the blink of an eye with just one breath. His attainments in refining talismans, alchemy, and artifact refinement were equally powerful.

  However, this person has never liked to practice martial arts in his life, so he doesn't have extremely powerful combat skills and magic weapons. But his attainments in talisman refinement and elixir refinement are so great that they make him extremely wealthy, which attracts many strong practitioners who want to take these things away from him.

  His cultivation was extremely high, and although he didn't deliberately practice combat techniques, he still killed many strong opponents. However, he was ultimately outnumbered, and in the end, he was surrounded by over a dozen Mahayana-level cultivators, suffering severe injuries. In his final moments, he used all his strength to escape to the ancient wilderness, where he hid all his treasures using a grand spell, naming it Xuanji Mansion. The Xuanji Ring and the Sleeping Dream Heart Sutra were the only two keys that could unlock Xuanji Mansion, and only by obtaining both simultaneously would one have the opportunity to acquire Lanxi Ping's lifelong achievements.

  And in his final moments, he also threw the Xuanji Ring and the Sleeping Heart Sutra to different places. Because in his heart, he believed that the path of cultivation was not something that could be understood without great opportunity, so he hoped to find this person with great opportunity through this means.

  "It seems that you are the one with great luck, and you have actually practiced the Heart Sutra in your sleep. And coincidentally, you also obtained the Xuanji Ring."

  "Could it be that way? I've obtained these two things, so why won't he let me see you and instead keeps breaking through the seal of the Xuanji Ring?" Zhang Chong couldn't help but ask.

  "This is because my strength was too powerful, and the path of cultivation was too difficult. Lansi Ping was worried that if I assisted you too much, you would not want to cultivate anymore, but rather enjoy the benefits without putting in any effort, thus disappointing his expectations. At that time, he had cultivated to the point where he was just one step away from achieving immortality, which was his lifelong regret. Therefore, he hoped that his descendant who inherited his wealth could fulfill this wish of his through cultivation and ultimately ascend to the realm of the immortals."

  "So that's how it is," Zhang Chong listened to all this and roughly understood a lot of it. He never could have imagined that the Xuanji ring actually had such a huge treasure inside. This really made him excited beyond measure. But Yue, not losing the opportunity, poured cold water on his enthusiasm, saying calmly:

  "If you're not good enough, then don't even think about entering the Xuanji Mansion to search for those treasures. Cultivators have several levels: cultivating the body, supplementing qi, divine light, transforming the form, following heaven, and going against heaven. In the Xuanji Mansion, even if you possess the Xuanji Ring and the Sleeping Dream Scripture, if you haven't reached the Transforming Form level, you won't even be able to get past the entrance."

  After hearing this, Zhang Chong pinched his fingers and calculated that he had only just broken through the Refining Body level and reached the Nourishing Qi level, still extremely far from the Divine Light level, let alone the Transformation level. Calculating it out, it should be a distant and uncertain future.

  "This Lansi Ping, wanting to find a deeply fortunate disciple, hasn't he already found one? Yet he still sets up so many obstacles, is it necessary?" Zhang Chong thought to himself, and then asked, thinking of Yue.

  "I'm the new master of this Xuanji's ring, and as a vessel spirit, you should obey my commands from now on. So, can you tell me what you can do for me?"

  He asked with great expectation, but unexpectedly, one sentence from Yue shattered his beautiful imagination.

  "I'm sorry, according to the previous master's settings, until you reach the Transformation Level, my identity is your teacher."