Instead, he would have to use the Twisted Light as a Disguise to approach the Three Great Immortal Sects.
Doing so would likely attract the immediate attention of the powerful experts within the Three Great Immortal Sects.
At that point, he would be walking right into a trap.
’Even I might be assigned a destiny and become bound by it if I stay in this realm for too long!’
Hu Qi looked up.
He saw a thin, transparent thread descending from the void, connected to the crown of his head.
That was his destiny in this realm.
The moment his gaze fell upon it,
a stream of information about his destiny flowed back to him.
[Born on Lu Mountain... a Nascent Element Realm Snake Demon... to be gravely wounded by the Demon Monarch of Tai Ze Lake in three days... Cultivation to stagnate from then on... skinned, tendons pulled, and Demon Core gouged out three years later.]
The thread of his destiny had not yet fully formed, so the information it revealed was sparse and rather general.
But his end had already been laid out crystal clear.
In three years, he would be killed by someone, and his Demon Core would be dug out.
’Interesting. Killed by someone, am I?’
Hu Qi raised an eyebrow.
The Twisted Light flared, covering his entire body.
In the next moment,
the thin thread of his destiny grew even fainter, nearly disappearing.
The words on it also became blurry and indistinct.
It was clearly being disrupted by the Twisted Light.
However, it did not vanish completely.
’A pity. The origin of this realm is too powerful. I can’t obtain much useful information at all.’
Hu Qi looked at the threads hidden within the void.
He sighed.
With his current Ability, he could only perceive the surface-level phenomena of this realm.
As for anything deeper, it was beyond his reach.
However, the very instant this thought crossed his mind,
the Rune Spirit Seed deep within Hu Qi’s soul trembled violently.
A torrential wave of energy surged forth from it.
In an instant, Hu Qi felt a tingling numbness in his eyes, followed by a rush of cold.
’Is this the power of the Taichu Demon Refining Talisman?’
Hu Qi’s gaze shifted.
Suddenly, the scene before his eyes became astonishingly clear.
The great web of destiny, hidden in the profound depths of the void, was laid bare before him with nowhere to hide.
Looking into the distance, he saw the source of this great web of destiny.
It was a complex of golden buildings that soared into the heavens, reigning high above the firmament.
With its flying eaves and bracketed cornices, it was resplendent and magnificent, radiating a solemn and majestic aura.
Within the central hall, a simple, unadorned Wordless Stone Stele stood in silent watch.
The instant his gaze landed on the stele,
a massive flood of information and a torrent of complex images, like a flash flood, rushed into his mind.
「A moment later.」
Hu Qi let out a muffled grunt. The white light in his eyes receded as he was forced out of his Heart Inference state.
He raised a hand to wipe away the trace of blood that had trickled from the corner of his mouth due to the backlash of power.
His expression was grave.
’So that’s how it is!’
Empowered by the Taichu Demon Refining Talisman,
he had been able to see things on a much deeper level.
It was a secret history of this realm.
Originally, the Cangzhou Realm was not known by this name.
It was called the Azure Mirage Realm.
Back then, the Demon Race was the true bearer of the Celestial Mandate.
They even established the Demon Court, ruling over all living beings.
The Human Race, meanwhile, occupied the lowest rung of society.
But all that changed ten thousand years ago.
That generation produced three monstrous geniuses: the first Head of Taiqing Palace, the first Grand Scholar of the Celestial Righteous Institute, and the first Patriarch of Jue’an Temple.
The three of them seemed to have been born from the gathered fortune of the entire Human Race in this realm.
In just a short hundred years, they achieved the state of Immortals.
Afterward, they did something truly earth-shattering.
This event set the stage for the current situation.
They waged war on the heavens.
In that war, the heavens went dark and the earth turned dim.
The final result was the destruction of the Demon Court that had presided over all living things, and the tragic deaths of countless Human Race Cultivators and members of the Demon Race.
During the battle, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy was thrown into turmoil, and the ley lines of the world shifted.
The entire world was also fractured into several smaller continents.
Furthermore, to completely escape the rule of the Demon Race,
the three of them established the Immortal Court.
This realm was also renamed the Cangzhou Realm.
And the Taichu Demon Refining Talisman was a part of the Demon Court, representing the Celestial Mandate of the Demon Race.
It could not be destroyed or sealed.
Therefore, those three used a Secret Technique to forge it into the Taichu Demon Refining Talisman and banish it to the Spirit Realm.
It eventually ended up on a Desolate Star, where by a stroke of fate, it was obtained by Hu Qi.
From then on,
having lost their Celestial Mandate, the fortune of the Demon Race plummeted.
The Human Race gained the upper hand.
However, the Demon Race had always been the favored children of this world. Even after the successful war against the heavens, they still retained a sliver of fortune’s protection.
Additionally, Cultivators needed the Demon Race as materials for their Cultivation.
Thus, the Demon Race was allowed to continue to exist.
However,
the Demon Race was, after all, the intended bearer of this world’s Celestial Mandate.
They were its favored children.
To prevent the Demon Race from rising again,
those three devised a plan.
Every thousand years,
they would select six "Tribulation Endurers."
These chosen Tribulation Endurers could be seen as flawed versions of Celestial Fate People.
They would be endowed with immense and potent fortune.
If they encountered danger and were on the brink of death, a powerful expert would intervene.
If they fell off a cliff, they would land in the legacy-cavern of a powerful Cultivator.
They would encounter all sorts of fortuitous opportunities that would accelerate their growth.
This would continue until they completed their assigned missions:
to slaughter twelve of the Demon Race’s Great Demons.
and use their souls to create the Twelve Solar Terms Map.
This map would plunder and suppress the fortune of the entire Demon Race.
This event is what the Three Great Immortal Sects call the "Great Calamity."
Its fundamental purpose was to use this ritual to weaken the Demon Race’s meager remaining fortune and empower themselves.
And now, a mere three hundred years after the last Great Calamity, the Demon Race’s fortune was showing signs of stirring again.
Naturally, another Great Calamity was beginning to brew.
’Rather than "Tribulation Endurers," they’re just a bunch of pathetic tools!’
A glint flashed in Hu Qi’s eyes.
He instantly saw the flaw in this system.
The Immortal Court used some unknown method to make the world bestow its fortune, giving rise to these Tribulation Endurers.
But only the Three Great Immortal Sects were qualified to know about the Great Calamity.
These so-called Tribulation Endurers would all be recruited by the Three Great Immortal Sects.
Even if other Immortal Sects knew, they wouldn’t dare compete for them.
After recruiting them, the Three Great Immortal Sects would invest heavily in their training.
As for why Hu Qi called these people tools,
it was because after these Tribulation Endurers completed their mission,
all the fortune they had plundered along the way, in addition to their own, would be absorbed by the Three Great Immortal Sects.
This was cause and effect, a link in the chain of destiny.
The Immortal Sects’ prior investment and training were not free; they demanded the Tribulation Endurers’ fortune as payment.
If they were lucky, a Tribulation Endurer’s Cultivation would regress, and they would become an ordinary Cultivator.
If they were unlucky, they might even perish as a result.
As for the disturbance in the Demon Race’s fortune,
with just a moment’s thought, Hu Qi understood the reason.
It was undoubtedly related to him.
The Taichu Demon Refining Talisman itself was the manifestation of the Demon Race’s Celestial Mandate in this realm.
With its return, it was only natural that the Demon Race’s dormant fortune would begin to stir again.
The Taichu Demon Refining Talisman was not essential to the Rune Spirit Seed.
Logically, if he were to strip the power of the Taichu Demon Refining Talisman from the Rune Spirit Seed and merge it with his current body,
then he would become this realm’s favored child.
He would be blessed by the realm’s fortune, and his journey would be smooth sailing, his power soaring.
But if he actually dared to do that,
he feared that in the very next second, those three from the Immortal Court would appear before him
and annihilate him on the spot.
Therefore, before achieving Ascension to Immortality, he could not reveal the existence of the Taichu Demon Refining Talisman.
’However, I might be able to scheme against these Tribulation Endurers! Perhaps I can gain some benefits from it.’
Hu Qi’s gaze was profound.
His thoughts were unreadable.
...
「At the same time.」
At the apex of the firmament, within a vast expanse of space, clouds and mist swirled and billowed like a dream.
The dense Spiritual Energy was like tangible Spirit Liquid, permeating the air.
Within the clouds and mist,
a majestic golden palace stood tall. Its tiles were made of colored glaze, and its halls were arranged in an orderly yet intricate fashion, exuding a solemn and dignified air.
Everything seemed tranquil and serene.
「Suddenly.」
The entire space began to hum.
Then, a piercing golden light, like the first rays of Dawn, suddenly shot into the sky.
Its source was none other than the Wordless Stone Stele that Hu Qi had seen earlier.
At this moment, ancient Runes swirled across the stele’s surface, emitting a heart-pounding aura.
The second after the Wordless Stone Stele showed this activity,
three figures arrived almost simultaneously.
The faces of the three were shrouded in light, blurry and indistinct.
The moment they appeared, the aura emanating from them nearly froze the surrounding space.
The gazes of the three were locked tightly onto the Wordless Stone Stele.
Their thoughts were unreadable.
Just then, the person on the far right spoke in confusion.
"Amitabha Buddha. How strange. The Heaven-Sealing Stele is showing activity, and the Demon Race’s fortune is surging. How can this be?"
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