Chapter 584: Letter from the Great Master
"That's how it is, Master."
In the weapon storage pavilion on the right peak of the ruins, Lao Jiang spoke to the puppet of the head sect leader that he always carried with him. He stroked his chin and said:
"From what I've seen, that thing looks a lot like the 'Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array' you told me about, but didn't you say that by the time the Mohist Immortal Sect was defeated, that thing hadn't been made yet?"
"It was made, but was destroyed by Juzi himself. At least that's what he told us, the true disciples. This matter is related to the secret of the West Sea more than 500 years ago, and it also involves the Great Sage Linzhu.
It was inconvenient not to tell you before."
Mo Jun's puppet turned its gemstone eyeballs, and it pretended to be twirling its whiskers in thought, and said to Jiang Xia:
“But judging from the array you saw, it has seven layers of stone rings for positioning. Even if it is not the Zhoutian Star Array made by Juzi himself, it is definitely inextricably linked to the star array that can connect all the heavens and worlds.
I will set out for where you are right now, but since the monsters in Dragon Palace are certain of the formation's location, they must have made some preparations, and I'm afraid there will be obstacles on the way.
Just hold on for a moment."
"I am more curious. Why is the Dragon Palace so entangled just for this thing? What on earth do they want to use it for?"
Lao Jiang asked:
"Could it be that they want to use this formation disc to connect the myriad worlds and carry out plunder? No way, the Dragon Palace is a major force in the Bitter Wood Realm after all, they shouldn't be so short-sighted."
"They're not as smart as you think, Jiang Xia."
Mo Jun was silent for a few breaths, then sighed and said:
"All living things suffer, and they all try to survive. Don't worry about it. Just try to decipher the information left by the great man. The value of that thing is much more important than a Zhoutian formation disk.
You don’t have to think too much about external things.”
After saying this, Mo Jun severed the connection with the puppet. The Mo Jun puppet in front of him also lost its spirit and became dead silent. Lao Jiang glared at it fiercely. He put the puppet back into the ring and said:
"Just keep being the old Riddler. Sooner or later, I'm going to... well, forget it. I don't want to think about it anymore. I can't beat you anyway."
Boss Jiang stood up and looked around the weapon storage pavilion hidden in Xifeng Mountain.
There's no one here.
Ruyue, Liu Hui and the others have been sent by Lao Jiang to Zuofeng to support the battle. Relying only on the Eden people, they cannot stop more than fifty demon generals even if they fight to the death.
Although this demon general is only equivalent to a true cultivator of the human race, he is also a backbone among the demons. There are tens of millions of demons under the command of the Dragon Palace, but most of them are little demons.
There are probably only a few among tens of thousands of monsters who can cultivate to the level of monster generals. Now, even if he is willing to sacrifice so many monster generals in one go, he must get the Zhoutian Formation Plate.
Dragon Palace really spent a lot of money this time.
"I have obtained all the secret manuals of the inherited skills. Now you are the only one left."
Boss Jiang looked at the empty bookshelves around him, touched his storage ring, and turned his gaze to an exquisite and majestic red wooden brocade box floating at the end of the storage pavilion.
It was wrapped in a red cloth with a message on it:
"I leave this letter here for the destined person to open. If you are not a Mo Sect monk, please do not touch it, to avoid disaster."
The handwriting is very elegant.
He claims to be the real one, so I think it must be something left behind by the great man.
The rest of the inheritance stored in the weapon storage pavilion had all been looted, most of which were introductory Mo Wu and Mo Qi inheritances.
Back when Boss Jiang was still battling wits and courage with Ruyifang in the mortal world and had yet to set foot in the immortal way, he obtained the first volume of "The Ink Book of Heaven's Secrets" from the mysterious Mr. Crow.
Now I have also obtained the scriptures for subsequent practice.
Now that I think about it, Mr. Crow definitely didn't give the secret book to me casually. That guy must have figured out that the Mohist School was related to the big secret of Ku Mu Realm, which is why he led Lao Jiang down this path.
Boss Jiang has never been one to be taken advantage of, but now thinking back on Mr. Ya’s “immortal guidance”, it was actually not unacceptable.
When Jiang Xia got the Mo Shu, he knew that the Mo Sect had three inheritance skills, and the weapon making that Mo Shuangshan was good at was only one of them.
There are also skills called Mo Wu and Mo Zhen.
Mo Wu is the strongest in the world, and the changes of Mo Zhen are unpredictable, both of which are first-class ways of cultivation.
Unfortunately, in the first volume of the ink book that Lao Jiang obtained, the two techniques were only briefly explained without any in-depth explanation.
Later, when he met Mr. Crow again, he told him clearly that the second half of the Tianji Ink Book that Lao Jiang needed had been hidden in the West Sea. Facts proved that the subsequent skills were indeed in this storage pavilion.
So if we think about it, can we understand that Mr. Crow actually came to the West Sea Ruins when he was traveling around Ku Mu Territory?
After all, he is an independent and powerful person in the sea of suffering. Lao Jiang is not surprised that he can enter here.
But I don’t know if Mr. Crow has also tried to unlock the wooden box in front of him?
With this thought in mind, Lao Jiang took a step forward and looked back.
The Xuantian sword is floating at the entrance of the Weapon Storage Pavilion. That thing is the key to open the Weapon Storage Pavilion. If you don’t have this magical treasure, this place will definitely not be opened.
Think about the origin of this spiritual treasure. It is said that it was a work left behind by a fellow disciple that Mo Jun accidentally picked up when he was touring the West Sea in his early years. The master of the sect brought it back to Mo Shuang Mountain and carefully restored it, resulting in the spiritual treasure we have today.
But, is it really such a coincidence?
Not necessarily?
It's impossible that the headmaster just picked up the key to open the treasure house in the West Sea...
This was obviously all planned!
When the sect was in trouble, Mo Jun, who was still a young cultivator at the time, was entrusted with an important task by the sect leader and was sent to the West Sea to perish.
It was probably because the situation was urgent and there was no time to say more, so they could only use this "coincidence" to leave the key to the inheritance in a broken place.
Thinking about it this way, it is possible that Ju Zi did not die immediately in the West Sea Demon Extermination. After the disaster, he was still able to arrange these clues specifically for Mo Jun.
Thinking deeper...
What if the giant wasn’t actually dead at all?
What if the powerful giant escaped the disaster of extermination of his family back then, and is now hiding his identity, traveling in the Ku Mu Realm, or even all over the stars?
"Hiss, I can't think about it anymore, this is too scary."
Old Jiang shuddered, put away this unreasonable association, looked around, felt a little creepy, tried to calm his mind, and reached out to touch the red silk cloth of the wooden brocade box in front of him.
He took off the red cloth and was about to throw it away, but was shocked to find that there were words on the back of the red cloth.
But it was completely different from the elegant handwriting left by the tycoon. The tiny words were written in tiny regular script, which had a feminine elegance. However, Lao Jiang recognized this handwriting.
And it looks very familiar, this is Mr. Crow’s handwriting!
He had been here!
Old Jiang opened his eyes wide to look at the strange, endlessly flowing characters. As he watched, the characters kept jumping like tadpoles, and finally gathered into a sentence that made Boss Jiang feel uneasy:
"The giant is not dead. He is hiding in this box now..."
"Depend on!"
Lao Jiang was so frightened that he almost dropped the red cloth in his hand.
But he quickly calmed down, because Mr. Crow didn't mean to say this to him specifically.
No matter how powerful that guy is, he would not have expected that it would be Lao Jiang who would open the wooden box in the end, so this is most likely just a prank to scare the people who come here.
"You have such a bad taste! When I become powerful and meet you again, I will definitely beat you up to vent my anger!"
Lao Jiang raised his middle finger towards the red cloth in front of him, rolled up the cloth with a gloomy look on his face, threw it into the ring, then took a deep breath and began to try to open the wooden brocade box in front of him.
But after looking at it over and over again, I found that the box was a whole piece, without even a keyhole. Just by looking at the rows of black runes, I knew it was definitely a magic weapon of extremely high grade, and it was basically impossible . How could I open it?
Boss Jiang held the wooden box and thought for a long time, and finally his eyes fell on the Xuantian sword floating at the door of the weapon storage pavilion behind him.
He strode over, knocked the pretending dead Xuantian sword with the wooden box in his hand, and said:
"You didn't want to tell me those old stories before, maybe because you felt it wasn't the right time to tell me, or you seemed to be afraid of something.
I won’t force you, Jianer.
But you see, I have now obtained Ju Zi's relics. It is obvious that I am the 'destined person' that Ju Zi mentioned in his message, and I am also a serious disciple of Mohism.
You should at least tell me how to open this box."
"How can you be so stupid! And you still have the nerve to call yourself a member of the Mo family?"
The noisy spirit of the Xuantian Sword with a loli voice was not polite at this moment. It projected its voice into Lao Jiang's sea of consciousness, and said with a hint of sarcasm and teasing:
"Do you think that the great man left this box for you? That's a trick to deceive outsiders, you idiot. This box requires a specific symbol array to activate...
It is impossible to open it here, and it is not for you to open it if you stay here.
It is for viewing.
Also, what's with the name 'Jian'er'? This weapon spirit doesn't like it, change your name, if you keep calling me that, be careful that this weapon spirit will cut you!"
"For viewing?"
Old Jiang was stunned for a moment, then reacted immediately. He mobilized the spiritual energy of the Su Yi Sutra in his body and poured it into the wooden brocade box in his hand, like mercury leaking on the ground.
Warm spiritual energy flowed on the surface of the box, gradually filling up the grooves formed by the mysterious and powerful curved ink symbols. These ink symbols did have their own powers, making this box into a sealed magic weapon.
But that was only used to draw attention to the box itself. The information left by Ju Zi had nothing to do with the magic weapon itself.
Once you are tempted to really start studying the box itself, you will be led astray. This is a magic weapon made by the giant himself. If an outsider does not study it for decades, he probably won’t even be able to understand the clues.
This is why the more cautious a person is, the easier it is for them to be deceived.
Moreover, these ink talismans cannot be activated by any kind of spiritual power. They only respond to the orthodox Mohist mental methods and the pure Su Yi spiritual energy injected by Lao Jiang.
Immediately, a picture like water waves was projected on the top of the weapon storage pavilion above Lao Jiang’s head. As spiritual energy was injected, the image became clearer.
"Wow, there's a movie playing right across here. Our tycoon is really creative."
Lao Jiang held up the wooden brocade box to make the image on it clearer.
The picture above shows Juzi sitting at his desk, writing something, but the words themselves cannot be seen. However, as Juzi writes, Boss Jiang can basically guess what he has written.
"The great catastrophe is coming, and eternity will end. This is destiny, and it cannot be stopped by human power."
"I have traveled all over the starry sea, looking for traces in the nine wastelands, helping fellow travelers, and seeking a chance to survive, but there is still something unfinished. The surging sea of stars has left no place to hide. The demon is coming, so I will put the Mo Sect cultivators first to protect the people of the world and leave a chance for recovery.
After we open the star array, we will leave you three strategies: the best, the middle and the worst."
"The best strategy is that the way of heaven has been destroyed, and the catastrophe is endless. We are born in this world, and there is no escape or avoidance. The only way is to escape, to live in death, to gather the strength of all living beings in the sea of stars, and to calculate the only chance of survival beyond the forty-nine."
"Middle strategy, although the evil thoughts of Huang are dark and powerful, it is not impossible to fight against them. People from outside the region can also defeat them in battle. Gather the strength of thousands of cultivators in Ku Mu Realm and give it a try.
If we could get help from all the people in the starry sky, maybe we could get a glimmer of hope.
However, the power of the Lord of the Wasteland is by no means ordinary. If you fight him, you will eventually run out of strength. This method can only protect temporary peace, but you must not be arrogant because of your strength. "
"The worst strategy should not be used unless the situation is extremely critical. It is a ruthless strategy that harms the harmony of nature. It may only solve the problem temporarily, but will lead to bitter consequences.
My friend Fushi, my friend Xixin, after I leave, I will focus all my thoughts on you two. The weight of one world, and even ten thousand worlds, is all on your shoulders, and I can't bear it.
However, before the immeasurable kalpa, what was the difference between you two and me, and all living beings in the world? We were all ants and insects, seeking liberation but unable to do so.
What can we do if the destiny is like this? How easy is it to conquer nature?
This is a farewell, please don't worry, my friends.
I wish that in the next life, under the spring breeze, I can recall the past and have a drink with my virtuous couple again.
This repair...
Go."
"???"
After watching Juzi writing the letter, Lao Jiang turned his head to look at Xuantian Sword and asked suspiciously:
"There's a missing part in this! What was the content of the plan that Juzi gave to Daozu Fushi and Niangniang Xixin? Who intercepted it?"
"This spirit of the weapon doesn't know."
Loli Yinqi Ling said confidently:
"When Master Juzi wrote the letter, this artifact was just a spirit embryo, and was carried by his eldest disciple. But since this item was made by Master Juzi, I think Master Juzi himself must have concealed the bad content.
To prevent it from being discovered by someone with ulterior motives and causing a big incident."
"this……"
Lao Jiang frowned, threw the box in his hand into the ring, grabbed the Xuantian sword, and rushed towards Zuo Feng where the battle was going on, but he was thinking over and over in his mind.
"After the great man left, which strategy did the two people from Kumu Realm choose?"
