Star Trace Gate

Chapter 787: Old graves in old places, Master Chu leaves

A bottle of fine wine goes into the stomach, and I feel seven parts drunk.

Old Ancestor Jiang sat in the corner of the inn, his deep eyes staring at the noise and bustle in front of him, his wrinkled cheeks slightly rosy.

This wine is ordinary wine in the world, but at this moment it intoxicated the Taoist.

He was like a spectator outside this noisy world, enjoying the bustling atmosphere of the place while his heart was filled with helplessness and bitterness that could not be expressed to outsiders as things and people had changed over the past five hundred years.

The candle flame flickered, the old eyes were fixed on one point, the hand was raised, and endless loneliness and sadness surged from the wine glass...

Previously, in order to protect Dao Ren and seize the opportunity from entering the Emperor's Tomb, Patriarch Jiang left Gutan and spent more than half a month crossing the void to find an old place.

There is a mountain in that old place, named Shenlong Mountain. In the mountain there is a magical medicine which is said to have come from the roof, named Shenlong Immortal Medicine.

This item is a fairy treasure of the sixth rank and there is only one in the world. Although it cannot heal the wound of the Great Dao of Jiang Patriarch and make his completely shattered Dao intention re-condense, it can revitalize his dried-up lifespan and make it possible for him to live another "life"...

That old place was originally an immortal residence before the migration land collapsed. After the migration land collapsed, for some unknown reason, this place was not evolved by the way of heaven. It was isolated from the world and became a place without quality.

There are still descendants of the old people in the Shenlong Immortal Mansion, but they have been living in seclusion. It is said that they have been protecting the Shenlong elixir of immortality and multiplying outside the endless secret star gate.

Patriarch Jiang revisited the Immortal Palace and wanted to borrow the magic medicine, and what he had in mind was that if you take the initiative to lend it to me, I will owe the Immortal Palace a favor; if you don’t “take the initiative” to lend it to me, then I will owe you a favor after I take it away.

Five hundred years ago, the Human Sword shone brightly in the Divine Court, suppressing the extremely prosperous migration area so much that no one dared to call themselves a genius for the past fifty years.

Therefore, he is not very popular, and many people who claim to be from famous and upright families also regard him as the most special outlier among all the great men in history.

Five hundred years later, the ancestor returned to the Immortal Mansion to borrow medicine. None of the descendants of the old man could stop him. They could only watch him blast open the barrier of the No-Rank Land with one sword, and the dazzling sword light opened the Divine Mountain...

The mountain opened up, but Old Ancestor Jiang did not see the magical medicine.

He asked the descendants of the old people, and learned that... two days before the collapse of the migration site, the dragon's elixir of immortality flew into the void and escaped, and the Immortal Mansion clan dispatched six ancestors but failed to keep it.

Although Patriarch Jiang used his sword to dispel the rumor that the descendants of the Immortal Palace were still guarding the magic medicine, he also got the result that had already been predetermined.

Without the magic medicine, it is difficult to extend life span today...

He did not bother the descendants of the old people anymore. He just wanted to go to the place where he had stopped five hundred years ago to take another look.

Looking back to the past, before he voluntarily was punished by the sect leader to go to the ancestral land to "atone his sins", he also came to the Shenlong Immortal Palace with a beauty and planted a flower that could bloom for ten thousand years outside the Shenlong Mountain.

He made an agreement with his confidante that after he had atoned for his sins in his ancestral land for a hundred years and repaid the kindness of his sect and his master, he would return to Shenlong Mountain with her to see the beautiful sight of the flower in full bloom.

She said, "Okay, I will take care of it by myself, and you can come back to see it a hundred years later."

With this agreement, Ancestor Jiang was willing to enter the ancestral land.

Gu Tanzong and the clan elders of that beauty also promised him that if he was willing to atone for his sins alone, she would definitely not be implicated.

Things are unpredictable. The 100-year atonement period that was originally agreed upon has been broken due to the sudden collapse of the migration site, making all the agreements seem like a lifetime ago.

He was trapped in his ancestral land for five hundred years. When he was born again, the magical medicine was gone and the flower had withered and died...

Old Ancestor Jiang looked at the old place, but he could no longer see the beautiful sight of the flower in full bloom.

He asked the descendants of the old people how the flower died, but the answer he got made him furious.

The people at the Shenlong Immortal Palace told him that the flower withered and died in the second year after it was planted, and the beauty who had promised to take care of the flower never came back after leaving this place with him.

If she is fine, she will definitely keep her promise and take care of the flower herself.

She never came again, which meant that after she entered the ancestral land, great changes had also taken place in the outside world.

Five hundred years of loneliness had tempered the old man's mind to be as calm as water. But after learning about this, he had an extremely ominous premonition in his heart, and his anger surged up, unable to be restrained.

He resolutely left the Shenlong Immortal Palace and rushed to the ancient clan of his confidante without stopping, wanting to find out what had happened in the outside world after he entered the ancestral land.

The Human Sword carried endless anger, crossed the void, and descended to the hidden secret realm of the ancient clan.

The ancient tribe had been hidden in the secret realm for five hundred years, and had passed down the torch, becoming unprecedentedly powerful, with several sixth-grade Daoists in charge. They were ready to wait for the great era of the migration land to come, and then be reborn.

But who would have thought that the five hundred years of inheritance and hard work from generation to generation would be wiped out in an instant in front of an old man who was about to die of old age...

He was dressed in white, his body hanging on the Hidden Clan Mountain, his eyes looking down at the place with cold eyes.

As soon as the thought came to mind, all the ancient swords here, no matter what grade they were, shattered and rolled up to the sky.

As his rage grew, his shattered Dao rhyme covered the entire sky like star sand. Even a single grain of it could collapse the void.

One sentence resounded through the heavens and the earth: "If I don't see her today, there will be no me in the world, and there will be no more Migrating Hidden Clan!"

The Hidden Clan is just waiting for the prosperity of the migration site to come, and then they will be born again, but at this moment all the ancient swords of the clan are shattered, and the star sand of Taoism crosses the void. If they don't open their eyes, the forbearance and waiting of the past five hundred years will be buried under the sword of the human world.

Although the elders of the Hidden Clan and Old Ancestor Jiang were not from the same era, they had heard all kinds of legends about him. This man was a man of his word. After the battle at the Divine Court five hundred years ago, countless famous and upright sects in the migration area had secretly made an agreement to join forces to fight against chaos and ominousness.

But for some unknown reason, Jiang Yu managed to slaughter most of the descendants of an extremely powerful ancient clan among the upright faction, almost killing off the young generation of this ancient clan.

The alliance was imminent, and this move angered the public. Countless sects and families put pressure on him, and finally, under the strong protection of Gutan Sect and the Divine Court, he was sentenced to be trapped in the ancestral land for a hundred years. But the young ancestor was dissatisfied at the time. Outsiders said that although he did not enter the Divine Forbidden Realm, he wanted to fight the leader of the ancient clan to vent his anger.

Later, because of the presence of that beauty, he suppressed his anger and voluntarily went to the ancestral land to "atone his sins."

Therefore, when he said that there would be no more hidden races in the world, it was not an empty promise. He would definitely do what he said.

The Hidden Clan naturally did not want to fight hard, nor did they dare to fight hard. They did not know what level Jiang Yu had reached after five hundred years, so they could only choose to retreat.

The current leader of the Hidden Clan told him... a fact that he had already guessed but was unwilling to admit.

That year, the young ancestor Jiang entered the ancestral land. The following year, the confidante was sentenced to death by the elders of the clan because he slaughtered the younger generation of the ancient clan and secretly engaged to Jiang Yu, who was much older than him, which brought shame to the hidden clan. She was also forbidden to enter the ancestral tomb forever.

After her death, she was buried in a wasteland in the secret territory of the Hidden Clan. No one had worshipped her or even remembered her for five hundred years.

Patriarch Jiang never expected that she would still be alive in the world five hundred years later, but he also couldn't accept that in the second year after he entered the ancestral land, she was forced to death and buried in the wilderness.

Anger rose in his heart, but when he looked around, he could no longer find the enemies who had forced her...

Those old people could not survive the years and have all turned into earth and are buried here.

Now, those standing in front of me are just the descendants of those people. Do I really... want to kill them to vent my anger?

Isn't that...too pitiful?!

Patriarch Jiang stepped into the wilderness and came to the desolate grave where the people of the Hidden Clan said the beautiful lady was buried, but his eyes were extremely confused.

As time went by, all those promises became a thing of the past. This place was completely desolate. Where were the raised graves? There were only endless weeds and a sea of ​​flowers blooming in the spring breeze...

There was nothing left, nothing to be seen.

It was at this moment that his jet-black hair turned completely white, wrinkles appeared on his cheeks, and his straight back bent slightly.

He seemed to have stepped from middle age into old age in one step.

He had spent five hundred years in his ancestral land, which had caused him to go from the peak of his lifespan to the end of it. If it weren't for the thousand-year-old green emerald, he would definitely not have survived until today.

However, time is merciless, and the thousand-year-old green life essence no longer has any effect on him. He gave this item to Ren Ye, which can be regarded as a silent inheritance.

When escaping from his ancestral land, he took hold of a supreme treasure - the ancestral sun, and used the will of the Great Dao to forcibly break free from the shackles. This caused his will of the Great Dao to completely shatter like star sand, and he was no longer at his peak.

Then he was born, and looking around, he saw that the entire migration site had collapsed.

He was called the Sword of the World by the world, and it was with these three words that he established his path and entered the sixth rank. But now, when he looked up, the migration land had turned into fragments, floating in the cold void.

So, where is his human world?

His world, just like his great idea, had long been shattered over the years.

The promise was not fulfilled, the life-extending elixir disappeared into the sky, the flower died, and the man was buried in the wilderness...

Everything now is just a trace of the past...

Elder Jiang looked at the wild grass and flowers all over the mountain, his heart was filled with sorrow, his eyes were deep, but he suddenly smiled and said, "... Let me tell you a joke!"

A gust of warm wind blew towards me, and it seemed that all the desolation here had been responded to.

……

In the inn.

Old Ancestor Jiang held the wine glass, half of his face facing the candlelight, his old eyes fixed on one point, as if he was reminiscing, or as if he had seen an old friend while being seven-tenths drunk.

"brush!"

At this moment, a fat Taoist priest sat across the table with his teeth bared, and flattered, "Sir, are you drinking alone?"

Patriarch Jiang came back to his senses from his drunken state, looked at Master Chu calmly, and asked simply, "Where did your white jade stick come from?"

Master Chu Daoye had already made all the "work preparations", but he didn't expect that Senior Bai Tiaoji would suddenly ask him a question that had no context.

He was stunned for a moment, scratched his head and said, "Didn't you see it?"

"Three lives, your inheritance comes from the Eight Palaces and Nine Scenes, is that right?" Jiang Yu asked again.

When Master Chu heard this, he was stunned for a moment.

He had traveled to so many secret places, but this was the first time someone had seen through his origins, which made him feel ashamed and uneasy, as if his pants were taken off and diarrhea was running.

"Eight Palaces and Nine Scenes, how far have you come?" the ancestor asked again.

Master Chu thought about it for a long time, but he didn't dare to lie. He just said frankly: "The fifth scene: Yaoguang Luohuan. I have been looking for it for a long time, but I can't find the entry method for the other scenes."

"Ah."

The old ancestor nodded slightly and said softly: "I know a scene that can help you make further progress."

When Master Chu Dao heard this, his eyes instantly sparkled with a bright light. He stood up with excitement on his face and asked, "Grandmaster, which scene is it?! Please feel free to enlighten me...!"

"The eighth scene: Falling Star River!"

Jiang Yu replied calmly.

Master Chu stayed where he was, his face turning pale. After pondering for a long time, he said helplessly, "This... this eighth scene is beyond my current level of attainment."