The Legend of the Great Saint: Start from the Sign-in at Mount Tai

Chapter 462 Sign-in: Cao Yusheng's Rebirth Ground
A gentle breeze swept by, and everything vanished.

The scene in the valley has changed.

The nine dragon heads remain, but no longer do any vital energy or divine springs converge into the Yin-Yang Spring Pool in the center of the valley.

The spring had long since dried up, and there was no longer any Yin-Yang Divine Spring, nor any Heavenly Venerable figure that resembled Duan De.

This place is silent and still, as if it has remained unchanged for eternity, and no living creature has set foot here for many years.

Lu Zhou and his two companions looked around and were met with a desolate scene.

Only the two imperial laws intertwined here, and the ruins of this once dilapidated but still astonishing terrain, tell later generations of the extraordinary nature of this place.

"Could what we just saw have happened here more than 200,000 years ago?"

"Is such that!"

Lu Zhou nodded, and based on some descriptions in the original work, he was quite certain of it.

He clearly remembered that in the original story, when Duan De followed the Fighting Saint Buddha, holding the Ancient Emperor's Decree and the Fighting Saint Emperor's Immortal Iron Cudgel, into the Primordial Ancient Mine.

In the Primordial Ancient Mine, some awakened Supreme Beings of the Forbidden Zones revealed some earth-shattering secrets that occurred more than 200,000 years ago.

It was subtly mentioned that when the powerful empress was establishing her dojo, she apparently unearthed the corpse of the Transcending Tribulation Celestial Venerable and thus obtained a portion of the Transcending Tribulation Celestial Power.

This situation actually echoes another matter.

As is widely known, the Devouring Demon Jar was an imperial weapon forged by the Empress using her imperial body.

The body of the magic jar is the torso of the first Empress, and the lid of the magic jar is the head of the first Empress.

The power of this imperial weapon is evident to all under heaven. In the later stages of the novel "Covering the Sky," it even overwhelmed the Undying Heavenly Blade of the Undying Emperor.

Imagine if it weren't for this incident, which caused the Empress to have some karmic ties with the Heavenly Venerable of Tribulation, and the Empress to owe the Heavenly Venerable of Tribulation some favors.

What merit or ability did Duan De possess to be able to use the Devouring Demon Canopy for so long?

This must be the result after the Empress gave her permission.

Lu Zhou thought that perhaps the Empress was using this to repay the karmic debt of the Tribulation Heavenly Merit.

"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey."

"Well, damn it, Heavenly Venerable One! No wonder I've felt like some villain has been following me lately; it turns out it was you two who were following me."

"Aren't you shameless? What do you think I'm doing following this Taoist priest?"

The unscrupulous Taoist kept spitting, his spittle flying everywhere, mixed with the mud in his mouth, as he sprayed it wildly at Lu Zhou and Ye Fan.

He berated Ye Fan and Lu Zhou, saying they were utterly inhuman for even stalking him.

This really hurt him.

He had even considered Lu Zhou and Ye Fan as friends.

Listening to his nagging, Lu Zhou and Ye Fan both rolled their eyes at him in annoyance.

Anyone can talk big.

"You fatso, how dare you say that!"

"No matter what good things happen, we always think of you first, but what about you?"

"Look at what you're doing now!"

"You still say you treat us as friends and brothers? You tell us, you knew there was a great secret hidden in this tomb, but you didn't tell us, and then you ate all the food yourself behind our backs."

"Where's the face?"

"Where's your face?"

Ye Fan's words made Duan De jump up in anger.

He was very excited, pointed at Ye Fan's nose, and started a new round of ranting.

"Bullshit!"

"Before this, I had absolutely no idea what was going on here!"

"It's just a feeling, a vague sense, do you understand what a feeling is?"

"I'm just here to scout things out and see how things go."

Judging from his appearance, it seems that this is indeed the case.

It's definitely not that he wanted to eat it all by himself.

Over the years, the tomb raiding gang he formed with Black Emperor, Dragon Horse, and Old Blind Man has mostly encountered this situation when excavating various ancient tombs.

They were the ones who discovered where there might be ancient tombs. Then, the people who made the discovery would go and scout the location to confirm it and find out more details so that the archaeological work could proceed more smoothly.

To avoid the situation where everyone goes through all that trouble only to end up with nothing but disappointment.

Although he thought what he said made sense, Lu Zhou still glanced at him sideways and spoke to him.

"Fine, even if what happened today is just your feeling!"

"And what about before that?"

“A few months ago, you came and urged us to dig up this grave together. And what we just saw, the Heavenly Venerable Daoist figure lying in that spring pool, who looks somewhat like you—could this also be some kind of premonition you had?”

As soon as Lu Zhou finished speaking, Ye Fan immediately chimed in.

"Correct!"

"Lu Zi is right. Then what about the Heavenly Venerable Dao Shadow who looks somewhat like you?"

"Is he the legendary Tribulation-Transcending Celestial Venerable?"

"And what is your relationship with him?"

As he spoke, a very obvious look of surprise appeared on Ye Tiandi's face.

He seemed to have thought of something.

Looking at this earth-shattering force that defies yin and yang, life and death.

He continued to press Duan De for answers.

"You son of a bitch, you wouldn't happen to be someone who was born from a corpse that had been possessed by a spirit, would you?"

"The Celestial Venerable Who Transcended Tribulation was your previous incarnation."

Emperor Ye thought of the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor on Earth, and of the Buddha and Lao Tzu he had heard about from Lu Zhou.
Then I remembered that Duan De was practicing the Tribulation-Transcending Heavenly Skill.
He's always been very clever.

He quickly connected all of this, allowing him to learn some secrets about Duan De many years earlier than in the original story.

Faced with Ye Fan's questioning and the gazes of both Lu Zhou and Ye Fan, Duan De suddenly became speechless.

His lips opened and closed several times, but he didn't know what to say.

Finally, he plopped down on the ground.

His emotions became very chaotic, sometimes agitated, sometimes dejected.

He held his head in his hands and lowered his head.

"How the hell am I supposed to know what's going on?"

"I also want to know, who exactly is he?"

"Who am I?"

"What does this have to do with him?"

"I keep asking myself, who am I? Where do I come from? What is my past like? And where am I going in the future?"

"I do not know anything!"

"I don't know anything!"

"Everyone has their own past, and everyone remembers their past clearly!"

"just me"

"I'm the only one who doesn't know my past, who I really am, why I'm alive, and why I always find traces in ancient tombs that seem to be related to my past."

He talked a lot, as if venting his frustrations.

In the end, he became increasingly depressed.

This left both Ye Fan and Lu Zhou speechless.

Seeing him like this, both Lu Zhou and Ye Fan felt a pang of guilt. Especially Lu Zhou, because he already knew a lot about Duan De.

Lu Zhou had actually wanted to have a serious talk with Duan De for a long time.

But this fatso is too cunning; he has far too many things hidden in his heart.

In reality, he harbors a deep sense of distrust towards everyone.

Even in the original story, when Ye Fan ascended to the throne of the Heavenly Emperor, the fat man buried him in every incarnation and then waited for him to wake up, but he still couldn't get the fat man to reveal some of his secrets to the Heavenly Emperor Ye.

Lu Zhou had no idea how much of his past Duan De had uncovered about him.

Did those past events involve the chaotic ancient era?

Does this involve Cao Yusheng and Huang?
"A million autumns have passed since I ascended to immortality, stars have fallen and the moon has withered, my heart is filled with sorrow. A single sleep has brought down emperors of all ages, the Heavenly Court has crumbled, where can I now wander?"

Where to go

"Hahaha"

Duan De laughed loudly.

The laughter was desolate.

Then, he jumped up from the ground, dusting himself off, and approached Ye Fan and Lu Zhou, who seemed somewhat guilty for bringing up Duan De's painful memories.

He grinned at them with a cheeky, winking expression.

"How about it?"

"Isn't this little song a bit sophisticated?"

"Now that things have come to this, since you've all found out, I'm not going to pretend anymore and I'll lay my cards on the table!"

He exuded the air of a peerless master, his entire demeanor shifting seamlessly, giving him a somewhat otherworldly and ethereal appearance.

"That's right, I am the legendary Tribulation-Transcending Celestial Venerable. I am currently undergoing tribulation, just playing around in this mortal world. Sooner or later, I will return to my original position."

"You've hit the jackpot! Considering the close relationship you've had with me over the years, I'll give you a chance to rise to the top!"

Duan De continued rambling on, just like the character in the original novel, speaking in a joking tone, yet revealing what seemed like a lie.

"Now, if you kneel and kowtow three times to me, and offer me a few imperial scriptures or celestial treasures as a token of your respect, I will reluctantly accept you as my disciples and guide you to enlightenment, so that you may live a long and carefree life with me. Oh dear..."

Unfortunately, before he could finish uttering the word "life," Lu Zhou and Ye Hei simultaneously grabbed him and began to beat him mercilessly with their fists and feet.

That fatso is putting on an act again.

What a waste of the slight sense of guilt they had just felt.

Lu Zhou knew that with this fat guy's strong mental fortitude, how could he possibly become so dejected as if he had suffered some kind of blow because of Ye Fan's questioning?
"Ouch."

"You damned Heavenly Venerable, if you have the guts, don't slap me in the face!"

"Again! If you do that again, I'll fight back!"

"You're finished. You've missed the greatest opportunity for immortality in your lives."

"Ouch!"

"You fatso, are you still putting on an act?"

Finally, the unscrupulous Taoist priest, despite his considerable talent and the fact that he was outnumbered, managed to escape Lu Zhou and his companion's 'beating' thanks to his familiarity with the Heavenly Venerable Killing Formation, even with a pair of black eyes!
He summoned the array platform, and in a flash, he disappeared into this desolate, chaotic immortal land.

After he left, Lu Zhou and Ye Fan did not stay there for long either, and followed him out.

Before leaving, Lu Zhou checked his system panel, which indeed showed that he could sign in here.

The next moment, Lu Zhou silently signed in his mind.

'Check-in!'

[Ding! Host has checked in at Cao Yusheng's Nirvana Ground. Host has obtained a longevity substance, which has been stored in Host's Qiankun Pearl!]

The reward for signing in almost made Lu Zhou lose his composure.

He quickly diverted a portion of his attention into the Qiankun Pearl, focusing his gaze on the so-called longevity substance.

Lu Zhou was all too familiar with the name and importance of this thing.

Whether it's those beings who have lived a second life, or the elixir of immortality, their bodies contain such substances to varying degrees.

A living being that desires longevity cannot do without such substances.

Lu Zhou never expected that he could actually obtain longevity substances by signing in here.

His mind was focused on the Qiankun Space, but he couldn't see the so-called longevity substance at all.

Not only can he not see it, he can't even feel it.

It was as if the system was just fooling him.

There was absolutely no sign-in reward for any so-called longevity substance.

But this is obviously impossible.

There are no bugs in the system.

Lu Zhou was certain that the longevity substance he had signed for was located in the Boundless Heaven within his Qiankun Pearl.

Every time he signed in, the first place he received appeared in his Qiankun Pearl was in the Boundless Heaven, which he had carved out with the power of Qiankun.

However, with his current cultivation level, he is not yet able to 'see' or sense the so-called longevity substance.

This is a divine artifact that only the Great Emperor is qualified to study.

At this moment, he could neither see nor sense the so-called longevity substance.

Fortunately, Lu Zhou was able to transfer all the treasures he had acquired into his own body through the connection between him and the Qiankun Pearl, as was his usual practice.

All of this only required a single thought from him.

After thinking about it, Lu Zhou decided against doing so for the time being. He did not transfer the longevity substance into his body to see if it would bring about any changes.

He remembered that in the original novel, after Ye Fan became the Great Emperor, he spent a lot of effort and time researching this longevity substance.

The God-King, who lived a second life, also possessed longevity substances within his body, but this didn't seem to make him anything special.

After some deliberation, Lu Zhou simply released the power of the universe that had sealed Wuliangtian, allowing Wuliangtian to connect with his Wuji Daochang.

He wanted to see if anything would change after a single longevity substance appeared in his Wuji Daoist Temple.

A day later, Lu Zhou and Ye Fan returned to Tianzhi Village together.

The reason is that news has come that the monkey has emerged from seclusion and is currently in the Heavenly Village.

Lu Zhou and Ye Fan both remembered that the Holy Prince had said that after he came out of seclusion, he planned to go to the Western Desert to see if he could ask his uncle to go down Mount Sumeru again to the Primordial Ancient Mine and retrieve a Primordial Life Stone.

When I arrived at Tianzhi Village, I was surprised to find that Duan De had also returned there.

He seemed to have forgotten that he had been beaten up by Lu Zhou and Ye Fan not long ago.

He didn't mention that he had gone to the large tomb under the old Yaoguang tomb again.

He didn't mention it, and neither did Lu Zhou or Ye Fan.

Meanwhile, after a series of laughter and pleasantries, the monkey suddenly spoke to everyone.

"I have already sent a message to my uncle. I believe he will soon descend the mountain and enter the forbidden area to demand the Primordial Life Stone!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Tian laughed from the side.

"Great! With your uncle involved, this matter will definitely be settled."

Just then, Duan De also came up and shamelessly spoke to the monkey.

"Could you ask your uncle to give me a ride? I'd like to visit the Primordial Ancient Mine too?"

"The Primordial Ancient Mine is so dangerous, what are you going there for?"

The monkey subconsciously frowned and asked in return.

Longma, Heihuang, and others were speechless.

Before Duan De could answer the monkey's instinctive question, Yan Yixi spoke up to offer advice.

"Taoist priest, stop fooling around! That place is too dangerous. What's there to see there?"

Duan De smiled and started spouting nonsense again.

(End of this chapter)