Volume 1: Red Dust Sword Gate Chapter 14: The Carefree Emperor

  The Emperor of Carefree obtained information from a young servant in the brothel.

  It turned out that Liu Wanjian, a disciple of the Xiuzhenmen sect from Chuanfeng Mountain 300 miles outside the town, had passed through the small town and taken a liking to Luochen's pure yin body, and forcibly took her away.

  The Carefree Emperor went to Mount Chuanfeng and asked Liu Wanjian for the Dustless Maiden.

  However, it was discovered that Liu Wanjian had already thrown Wu Chen into the Furnace of Purification to be used as a material for refining equipment.

  The Carefree Emperor was enraged, and in one night, he killed all the tens of thousands of disciples of Liu Wanjian's Wanjian Gate, leaving no survivors. Fresh blood poured down from the tip of the Wanjian Gate's sword, dyeing the hundred-mile maple forest at the foot of the mountain crimson red. From then on, the leaves of the hundred-mile maple forest were all a deep crimson color.

  The Carefree Emperor retrieved the residual soul and spirit of Wu Chen from beside the sword furnace using the Hidden Soul Stone, hoping that after he achieved success in his cultivation, he could revive Wu Chen.

  Since then, Xiuxianjie has had one more true carefree emperor.

  It was also from then on that his temperament became more erratic, indulging in the worldly pleasures of the red dust and secular world, infatuated with the gentle fragrance of streets and alleys.

  Everywhere leaves affection, everywhere throws flowers.

  Until a hundred years later, Emperor Xiao Yao met a woman named Su Zi Yi by the riverbank of Duan Shui River.

  Suddenly, he seemed to realize something and fell silent.

  Zhang Hao was listening with great interest when he suddenly noticed something wrong on the face of the wine vessel, and hastily asked: "Old dead man, why aren't you speaking anymore!"

  There are some things that you're better off not knowing for now, as they involve too many complicated relationships and grudges. Your current status is lowly, and speaking out about them would only bring trouble.

  After finishing speaking, he looked at Zhang Hao.

  Zhang Hao looked at the ancient tree in the distance and knew that Zuo was thinking of him, so he didn't force a smile and lazily said: "Great kill! A man of temperament!"

  Zhang Hao praised the Carefree Emperor, trying to cover up his current lowly situation, and instead encouraged him, saying: "The Carefree Emperor was originally just a commoner, but he could understand the true meaning of cultivation on his own. Now that you have obtained the Tower of Heaven, it's as if you've inherited many ancient witchcraft methods from the ancient Shu tribe, and with this true inheritance, he later collected countless treasures and created the Carefree Sect, gathering the strongest cultivation methods and magical artifacts in the world."

  "This Tongtian Tower contains the nine heavenly treasures he collected, which include the treasure map of the nine most lethal artifacts in the Xiantian realm. These nine artifacts are extremely deadly, and the Carefree Emperor had planned to forge them into a single artifact to resist the Heavenly Punishment Thunderbolt when ascending to the Immortal Realm. However, he was severely injured by the combined efforts of the Seven Sages of the Demon Gate and his body and dao were destroyed. Now, these nine artifacts are also hidden within the Sealed Divine World, with no news or rumors about them."

  After finishing speaking, there was a faint sense of sadness in his heart.

  Zhang Hao looked at his expression and didn't say any comforting words because Jiu was an old antique that had lived for several thousand years and wouldn't be so narrow-minded.

  "At that time, Xiang continued: 'However, I didn't see the Emperor of Carefree fall, but only saw him escape and hide. Although the world says he has died, I feel that the Emperor of Carefree will not die so easily. You may be a pawn in his design.'"

  Zhang Hao had heard many hidden stories and had many questions in his mind, but he was not very familiar with the three thousand worlds of the Carefree Emperor either. He didn't know where to start asking, let alone that his current realm was lowly and asking too much would be even more devastating.

  So he hesitated for a moment, as if thinking deeply, but didn't ask anything.

  He was just curious about the nine powerful treasures in Tongtian Tower.

  He pierced through Zhang Hao's thoughts like autumn down.

  "Sighing, he said: 'My current body is severely damaged and I must wait until I recover to the level of a Dao vessel before I can open the Jiutian Baodian Map inside and investigate the whereabouts of the nine treasures.'"

  "How can you recover to the level of a Taoist?"

  He glanced at Zhang Hao and said: "With your current state, and the power of the Red Dust Sword Sect, it may take several hundred years!"

  "It's just that now I only need a five-element artifact, as long as I can absorb one five-element artifact, I can repair the basic prohibition and formation inside, maybe even open up part of the space. Aren't you looking for the Small Thousand World? The Tongtian Tower has a Small Thousand World inside, it's just that to fully restore it is a bit difficult. But if I can absorb an artifact, I can cultivate on my own, and this Tongtian Tower can also absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. At that time, as long as we're not facing a high-level expert at the Law Body Great Completion realm, we have a certain chance to protect ourselves."

  He mentioned this, his old face was also somewhat embarrassed. The Hongchen Sword Sect's foundation is too shallow, it's just an ordinary sect of several hundred years, and restoring a Taoist instrument is probably too difficult. But he can't discourage him, he wants to give him hope, otherwise, he would be pitiful.

  So he thought for a moment and said with a smile: "It's just that if you cultivate to the Golden Elixir realm, go out and practice, and encounter a chance to become an immortal, as long as your good fortune is deep, and you obtain ancient relics or treasures left behind by flying immortals, maybe I'll have the opportunity to recover and become a top-grade Dao artifact."

  After finishing, he saw Zhang Hao's expression was calm and didn't seem to care, so he continued: "The small world inside the Tongtian Tower, if you want to open it, you only need to cultivate to the Golden Dan period, then enter the Tianmo Valley to find the Dihuang Stone, repair the world's loopholes in the tower, and let the small world in the tower become a self-contained system. Capture and raise spiritual beasts, raise them inside, and let the cultivators in the door practice and fight, quickly growing up!"

  Zhang Hao listened to Gai's words and did not show much yearning.

  Shaking his head, he said: "I still need to break through the tenth layer of Qi Refining and successfully build my foundation first, nothing else is important right now. The Golden Elixir is still too far away for me!"

  After listening to Zhang Hao's calm and composed words, he couldn't help but feel a little admiration for him. He thought that Zhang Hao was able to resist the temptation of the Taoist instrument, which meant that his mental state was quite good! However, he didn't know that Zhang Hao didn't have any concept of the Taoist instrument at all.

  "By the way, do you have a better cultivation technique than this Stellar Refining Qi Method?"

  Shang shook his head and said: "Breaking through the tenth layer of Qi Refining, this Stellar Qi Refining Method is the best, fastest, and most perfect Qi Refining Method!"

  Zhang Hao immediately asked: "Can you cultivate to Qi Refining 10th layer in three months?"

  "The path of cultivation depends on individual talent and enlightenment, I cannot determine the time."

  Zhang Hao knew he was right as soon as he heard it, whether or not he could break through depended on himself. He looked up at the stone steps hanging from the distant mountain ridge and felt a sense of urgency in his heart.

  The Three Thousand Great Worlds were merged together by him and stored inside the Qian Kun Bag.

  Sat down cross-legged on the couch with eyes closed.

  The key to practicing the celestial orbit method of qigong.

  Body like sitting in an empty valley, feeling the power of the stars above, gradually entering the realm of listening to one's breath, tongue turning up to press against the upper palate "Tianchi hole!" Preventing leakage of Qi.

  The surrounding spiritual energy slowly gathered from all directions, the sky above his head was vast and expansive. Zhang Hao felt a sense of connection to the power of the stars, but it seemed exceptionally distant. His divine consciousness rose like a thin thread, gradually ascending, like a wisp of blue smoke, rising gently, and gradually sensing the power of the stars. The spiritual energy absorbed by his body suddenly accelerated, propelling his divine consciousness even higher, until it reached a certain height, where it was dispersed by the wind in the ninth heaven.