I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 686 Inscription on the Monument to Exonerate (Bonus chapter for 500 monthly votes in December)

Zhao Cangyun tried to get closer to the huge crystal heart. The Qilin True Fire flowed around his body. He reached out and carefully touched it.

hum!
A powerful resistance came, but the crystal wall remained unmoved, shaking Zhao Cangyun's hand away.

He tried to condense the Qilin True Fire onto the Yaoling Sword and slash it out with his swordsmanship.

The crystal only flashed for a moment, and the place where it was hit was not even scratched.

Zhao Cangyun's expression changed slightly, and he increased his strength to slash with all his might, but the result was still the same.

Wherever the sword passed, it left only a fleeting white mark before returning to its original state.

Zhao Cangyun took a breath, his face showing frustration. "The defensive power of this crystal wall is astonishing. It truly lives up to its name as a turtle shell!"

Jiang Yi also walked to the crystal wall and tried to destroy it with her strongest power.

Nothing works.

"The Xuanwu Heart Flame is one of the world's most powerful defensive divine flames, capable of isolating all magic. This heart is formed from the essence of Xuanwu, and the outer crystal is a barrier condensed from the essence of its heart flame. With our current strength, trying to forcefully break through it is like an ant trying to shake a tree."

"The Nine Emperors' Evil Bodies have been plotting for a long time, and their ultimate goal is probably this place. They want to destroy it, sever the source of the Nine Provinces' profound spiritual energy, and cause this realm within a realm to collapse completely, so that they can break free from their shackles and leave this prison!"

Because of this, Jiang Yi temporarily abandoned the idea of ​​using the Hidden Edge Sword, fearing that it would benefit the Nine Emperors' Evil Body.

The two then carefully explored the entire enormous cave.

Apart from this colossal object that occupies almost the entire core of the space, there are only cold black rock walls and clusters of crystals scattered around it, with no other passages or exits.

This place seems to be the end of everything.

"It seems there's no other way." Zhao Cangyun looked around, his tone somewhat heavy.

"Okay, let's go back and meet up first, and see what the others have found."

Jiang Yi used the recording stone to record the situation inside the cave, walked to the jade snake lying on the ground, and fed it a few pills to restore its demonic power.

"This is a top-grade elixir that Hong Li kept for herself. Eating it will restore you to full health within fifteen minutes."

The jade snake wearily twitched its tail tip in gratitude, then glared fiercely at the heartless Zhao Cangyun.

Zhao Cangyun even snapped at him, "What are you looking at? You can't do it yourself, so why are you blaming me?"

Yu Hui remained silent, gazing longingly at Jiang Yi. If it weren't for his mother's coercion, he would have really wanted to betray his mother and live with Jiang Yi.

Once the Jade Serpent regained its mobility, the two humans and the serpent charged back into the passage they had come from.

The fire beasts, formed from the Xuanwu Heart Fire, roared out once again from the crystal clusters on both sides of the passage and pounced madly.

With their previous experience, Jiang Yi and Zhao Cangyun continued to lead the way while Zhao Cangyun covered the rear. With Yu Hui's skillful serpentine movement and excellent teamwork, they successfully returned to their original gathering place.

As soon as the two entered the formation, a thick cloud of black smoke appeared out of nowhere, and Hua Luosha and Mo Ling tumbled out of the smoke in a sorry state.

Both of them were in poor condition. Hua Luosha was pale, with a trace of blood at the corner of her mouth. A large part of her left sleeve was charred, and her skin was covered with dark blue flame marks that were hissing and emitting a burnt smell.

Mo Ling was in an even worse state. She was already injured, and now her right shoulder and chest were charred black. The remaining blue flames clung to her like maggots, causing her to be in excruciating pain. Her breath was so weak that she could barely stand and had to rely entirely on Hua Luosha for support.

"what happened?"

Jiang Yi's eyes sharpened, and she immediately rushed forward, two beams of emerald light enveloping the two of them.

Gentle life force surged in rapidly, suppressing the rampant Xuanwu Heart Fire within their bodies, repairing the burned tissues, and removing the remaining eerie blue flames from their bodies.

After catching her breath, Hua Luosha carefully helped Mo Ling sit down in the center of the formation, then took something out of her storage bag and threw it on the ground.

"To the south... at the end of the passage is a large cave similar to this one, filled with those deadly blue fire beasts, much fiercer than the ones on the road. We almost didn't escape... We found this thing deep inside that cave."

Jiang Yi looked down and saw a broken stone tablet, about half a person's height, with an uneven break. It was made of neither gold nor jade and looked very ancient. The surface of the tablet was engraved with simple and intricate patterns, as well as some ancient characters eroded by time.

"You've worked hard. Focus on healing first, and we'll talk when the others get back."

Before long, the other two groups also returned.

Shen Puning and Shang Shixu supported each other, both bearing burn marks from the flames, clearly having gone through a fierce battle.

Bai Shengjie and Yan Kongqing's group fared slightly better. Yan Kongqing's robes were scorched in several places, while Bai Shengjie appeared exhausted, clearly having expended a great deal of energy protecting Yan Kongqing and himself.

Upon seeing the broken stele on the ground, Shen Puning's eyes lit up. She immediately took out a similar broken stele with a Xuanwu-shaped base from her storage bag and threw it on the ground.

"At the far end of the way we went, there was a blue sea of ​​fire. This broken stone was stuck in the middle of the sea of ​​fire. My senior brother Shang and I worked together to take out this broken stone tablet. I was almost roasted alive."

Shen Puning brushed the ashes off her body, still shaken.

Yan Kongqing also silently stepped forward, took out a slightly smaller fragment of the stele and placed it next to him. It looked to be the top part of the entire stele.

"The situation is similar to the east. Find this."

All eyes were focused on the three broken stone tablets on the ground. Zhao Cangyun rolled up his sleeves and gestured for everyone to make way.

He pieced together three fragments of a stone tablet that were of different sizes and had broken edges.

As the last fragment was put back in place, a faint, earthy-yellow light shone from the joint of the broken monument, instantly sweeping across its surface.

The indistinct engravings seemed to come alive, the lines becoming clear and smooth, exuding an even more ancient charm.

At the top of the stele, three large ancient characters caught Jiang Yi's eye.

Jiang Yi focused intently, then slowly read aloud, "The...Sin...Removal...Monument!"

Kunlun blocks the path to immortality, cutting off my ladder to heaven.

The northern lands are ravaged by demonic calamity, leaving countless people weeping blood for a hundred years without anyone to rely

We nine are here, our path leads us to the heavens, and our retreat leads us to the netherworld.

He then defied the will of Heaven, killing Xuanwu at the Heavenly Pole, tearing out his heart and seizing his essence, and forcibly opening the gates to immortality.

However, the ways of Heaven are clear, and evil spirits entangle the soul.

All sins are returned to the evil body, so that one may ascend to heaven with one's true nature.

Knowing his sins were too grave to atone for, he kept the heart of Xuanwu as a prison, forever confining his evil thoughts to another world.

Nine personal magical treasures were placed separately to suppress the remaining corpses and prevent them from undergoing strange changes.

The cloth was passed down through the Nine Formations, awaiting the destined successor to inherit my unique skills.

If the collapse of mountains and seas is due to this calamity, a glimmer of heavenly secret lies hidden deep within the fire of the heart.

—For all ages to witness, the nine crimes were the first to be committed.

After reading the inscription on the stele, everyone remained silent for a long time until Hua Luosha coldly uttered two words.

"hypocritical!"

The crowd nodded in agreement without realizing it. They saw no remorse or repentance, only an attempt to shirk responsibility and make excuses.

Jiang Yi looked at the four characters 'A Glimpse of Heaven' behind the monument and said in a deep voice, "Perhaps what truly summoned us here is not the Nine Emperors' Evil Body, but the glimpse of heaven here."

(End of this chapter)