Secret Records of the Leader of the Beichen Sword Sect

Chapter 1272 - 621: Sharpening the Array at the Last Minute

After defeating the monster, Chen Xuantian wasn’t in a rush to save the world. Busy again, he dismantled the Holy Daughter’s carriage, took out the talismanic seals embedded in the carriage door, hung them in the temple to set up an array, brought out the Pill Furnace to burn incense, and did some repairs, knocking and tapping around to further expand the Land God Temple into a temporary sauna. He placed the battered Shamate Jiliang Xiaojieba side by side on the shrine for treatment and put the child at the door to prevent any accidents from causing a total wipeout.

But with such minor injuries and splayed on the ground, Chen Xuantian had time to sculpt clay figures. Turns out, my Ghost Spring Technique is indeed quite powerful.

What? Why is Jiliang lying in the house too? Wow, Jiliang is also injured. A cramp in the feet is really painful and requires a spa treatment. Then cover it with a blanket to prevent catching a cold and farting.

Jiliang was teary-eyed, licking Chen Xuantian’s hand peropero.

The Holy Daughter propped her chin with a hand, frowning at the two axes in front of her,

"What exactly is this magic treasure, why can’t I make sense of it? It seems like just an ordinary axe? What’s your take, Fellow Daoist?"

"I think it’s probably something non-material."

Chen Xuantian replied while lighting the stove, starting the fire to cook, and identifying a pile of Lingzhi, flowers, grasses, and wild mushrooms gathered by Gugu Gaga from outside. The edible ones were thrown into the pot to be boiled with the Samadhi True Fire.

Yep, red knot ganoderma, star-seeing grass, Dragon Scale vine, golden hairpin dendrobium, cold water black bile, huh? You can’t deny that the Immortal Emperor’s daughter truly has good luck. Where did she dig up all these Heavenly Materials and Treasures, and why hasn’t he found any...

"Non-material? What is non-material?"

Unexpectedly, the Holy Daughter appeared quite clueless. Chen Xuantian turned to verify she wasn’t lying... Nope, truly clueless.

"You, the revered Holy Daughter of the Divine Sect, Ten Extremes Venerable, don’t know what non-material is? What did you all mobilize to the Central Plains to strive for? Let’s be honest with each other and work together, okay?"

The Holy Daughter raised her fingers to correct him,

"First, I am just the Candidacy Saintess with incomplete Spiritual Wisdom and unclear memory; it’s normal not to know. Second, I’m not here to snatch anything non-material but to take back the treasure suppressing my sect’s Luck.

Third, although I don’t remember now, all Holy Daughters’ memories are essentially one. If you could clearly explain the details of this tribulation, perhaps I might suddenly have a flash of inspiration, awaken my past soul, and remember something that could help."

Chen Xuantian thought that made sense: Everyone for each other, after all. So he summarized the main storyline recently updated in the database, thus and so, simply outlining this tribulation as: the Mystic Sect’s former head, Old Man Xuan Du, with senile dementia, attempting to summon the Heavenly Demon to destroy humanity.

He then raised the axe, explaining,

"And what we call non-material are things that seem ambiguous. For example, this axe, which looks like just an axe, but can trigger a mechanism that ordinary people can’t understand, to achieve effects that a normal axe could never achieve.

For instance, the first possibility is that this Carefree Void Illusion Realm in front of us might be the dream of this non-material axe, so only with an axe can you enter the dream and prevent Xuan Du from summoning the Heavenly Demon to destroy the world."

The Holy Daughter slapped her forehead,

"I fight Xuan Du, really... What about the second possibility?"

Chen Xuantian picked up the Iron Axe to take a look,

"The second possibility is that the Barrier isn’t the dream of the axe but another non-material transformed illusion. And being able to break into the illusion can only mean that this is also a Breaking Dao Divine Weapon!"

"Clang!"

Chen Xuantian cleaved with the axe, even splitting the ginseng king Gugu Gaga had just pulled from the dirt pile at the door into two pieces, tossing them into the pot.

Hmm, darn, even the Ginseng King got played to death in the soil by her. As expected of the granddaughter of the Heavenly Dao, truly destined and favored by Luck...

"Breaking Dao Divine Weapon..."

The Holy Daughter was also momentarily overwhelmed by the flood of explosive information,

"Where did all the Breaking Dao Divine Weapons come from... where did all the Heavenly Demons come from... and where did Xuan Du spring from? Isn’t he dead yet..."

"So I guess it’s non-material. Anyway, material or non-material, it’s almost all the same. After all, none of it is naturally born in Taiji Heaven, nor can it be understood using the Tai Chi Technique.

In any case, whether non-material or Divine Weapon, only by carrying an axe can you enter the Void, suppress those Outer Realm Evil Gods, avoid possession by the Heavenly Demon, and then defeat Xuan Du—then it’s a win."

Chen Xuantian served a bowl of soup to Gugu Gaga.

Gugu Gaga nodded, "Still okay."

So Chen Xuantian fed Shamate a bowl,

"So why don’t we plan, later you take one axe, I’ll take the other. Once inside, follow my lead. If you encounter Great Mage Xuan Du, be polite, chat him up to buy some time, and I’ll take the kid to deal with the Demon Fetus first."

"Will he give me any face? Probably not, just punch me dead immediately..."

The Holy Daughter’s expression was peculiar,

"But why are there only two? Wasn’t there one dropped on Taiyi Mountain too?"

Chen Xuantian shook his head, looking at Shamate who, after one sip of soup, rolled his eyes and convulsed, spewing soup as he checked his pulse to see when he might die.

"I didn’t pick it up, and I don’t know if it’s necessary to kill that Old Man Baiyun or let this guy find it, but given his near-death state, let’s forget it."

Hmm, no worries, the soup wasn’t poisoned, he was just scalded...

In summary, this tribulation is quite advanced, even more so than the previous Suiyang Formation. Mainly, the mystery is inscrutable and eerie. Chen Xuantian took a walk with the Leech Horn but didn’t see the lake, perhaps due to incompatibility with the Nether Spring Body Octopus Eye, so he threw the horn into the pot too; probably will need Jiliang’s help to lead the way through the formation later.