Tianyuan Xuanxian

Chapter 54 Final Inheritance

This cave is extremely strange, just like a hole dug by tomb robbers, and can only accommodate one person.

Fortunately, there were no white bones coming out from here, and there were no other obstacles, so Chen Xuan had a smooth journey.

After walking out of the long and narrow passage, Chen Xuan's eyes suddenly opened up.

What appeared before Chen Xuan was an extremely spacious hall, and Chen Xuan was currently inside the hall.

However, the hall was filled with a chilling atmosphere that made people feel a chill down their spines and shudder.

As Chen Xuan entered, several sinister and eerie lamps suddenly lit up on the walls and stone pillars around the hall, emitting a strange purple halo.

The wick is extremely long, coiling in the bowl of lamp oil below. Under the heat of the purple flame, the lamp oil emits bursts of strange fragrance that is dizzying.

Human faces appeared in the purple candlelight, and as the lights flickered, bursts of shrill screams were emitted.

Zhu Yin looked at the ever-burning lamps with a complicated expression and said in shock:
“This is actually a soul lamp!”

Hearing this, Chen Xuan was slightly surprised and asked:
"What is a soul lamp?"

Zhu Yin once again looked at the eternally burning lamps with fear, and slowly said:

"After death, the souls of cultivators with higher cultivation levels will condense and not disperse. They will not immediately go to the underworld like ordinary people. During this period, if they find a suitable body, they can take over that body and achieve the purpose of rebirth.

This soul lamp is made by killing a cultivator, extracting his soul from his body, refining it into a wick, and then refining his body into lamp oil.

Once lit, the soul will forever endure the pain of being burned by the flames until the wick is completely burned out and dissipates between heaven and earth..."

After hearing this, Chen Xuan felt a chill down his spine. Looking at the faces in the candlelight, it was obvious that they were what the monk looked like when he was alive.

Zhu Yin continued:
"However, this method goes against the harmony of heaven. Every time a soul lamp is lit, the destiny of the person lighting it will be weakened by a point. Ultimately, they will be forsaken by heaven and earth. Therefore, unless there is a deep blood feud between the two parties, few people would use this method to torture their opponents."

Chen Xuan nodded in agreement with Zhu Yin's statement. Just hearing about the Soul Lamp Technique had already made his scalp tingle.
"Before entering this inheritance zone, I heard outsiders discussing that this place might be home to an unprecedented demonic inheritance. Now, considering everything we've experienced, it seems to be almost certain!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yin immediately asked:
"If this place is truly a legacy of the devil, will you accept it?"

Chen Xuan pondered for a moment, then asked:

"Why don't you accept it? Just because it has something to do with the word 'demon'?"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yin was speechless.

I only heard Chen Xuan continue:

"What is the righteous path and what is the evil path in this world? People like Li Xingyu claim to be from a reputable and upright family, but are the things they do the righteous path?
And there is Zi Chen. Although he is a cultivator of the demonic path, based on what has been said so far, has he ever done anything against the will of heaven and earth?

In my opinion, the difference between good and evil has never been determined by one's sect, the method one practices, or the inheritance one has received."

Finally, Chen Xuan pointed to his chest and said with a firm look:

"The righteous path and the evil path are only in my heart, in my thoughts. If my heart is towards the righteous path, then I am the righteous path. If my heart is towards the evil path, then I am the evil path. I don't care what others think of me!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yin sighed and remained silent for a long time.

Because he knew that what Chen Xuan said made a lot of sense, and he also shared Chen Xuan's point of view.

But he knew very well that once one embarked on the path of cultivation, most of the time the truth was not in the human heart, but in the hands of those who claimed to be "famous and upright".

A thousand years ago, the Demon Sect was not necessarily the evil path, and a thousand years later, his Beast Taming Sect and its ilk are not necessarily the righteous path.

Only the words spoken by those who have conquered themselves are the truths that are truly recognized by the world.

The reason the Beastmasters and their ilk currently claim to be righteous isn't because of how righteous their words and actions are, but rather because they have a strong fist and a mouth that can decide right and wrong. In the center of the hall stood a massive bronze coffin, a full ten feet long and seven or eight feet wide.

Looking at this coffin, the dark energy in Chen Xuan's body became more and more agitated. He was sure that the ultimate inheritance was inside this coffin.

After making up his mind, Chen Xuan walked towards the coffin without stopping.

Zhu Yin also jumped off Chen Xuan's shoulder at this moment, and appeared on the coffin lid in a flash. He looked around and found no danger.

"If this coffin contained a corpse, how big would that person be?"

Chen Xuan sighed secretly.

Zhu Yin smiled slightly at this. After practicing Taoism for thousands of years, he had seen too many strange people and things, so he had no feeling at all about the size of this coffin.

Not to mention other things, just his own body before he died was much larger than this coffin, but his body did not need a coffin after his death.

Chen Xuan pushed it a few times, trying to open it and see what was inside that could cause such a reaction in the dark energy in his body.

But no matter how hard he tried, the coffin lid didn't budge at all.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Xuan's mind moved, and a dark energy appeared in his palm.

He slowly injected this dark energy into the coffin, and saw that the huge coffin lid began to move slowly by itself. After a moment, a gap the size of a person opened up.

At the same time, black and white auras appeared in the palms of Chen Xuan's hands, ready to deal with sudden dangers at any time.

I saw a black mist emanating from the coffin, and an extremely cold breath hit me in the face.

Chen Xuan's expression immediately became tense, as if he was facing a powerful enemy!
Zhu Yin also retreated several feet and spit out balls of light from his mouth. They were several quickly formed formations.

However, the stalemate lasted for a long time, and apart from the black mist pouring out of the coffin, there was nothing unusual. The crisis that the two had expected did not happen.

Seeing this, Chen Xuan spread his spiritual sense and carefully probed into the coffin.

When his spiritual sense probed into the ancient coffin, Chen Xuan's expression obviously froze, and a strange expression appeared on his face.

Seeing this, Zhu Yin also released his spiritual sense to explore inside the coffin.

A moment later, Zhu Yin spat a mouthful of black spider venom onto the ground and uttered a language that Chen Xuan could not understand. It should be the animal language unique to his clan.

But after he figured it out in his mind, Chen Xuan heard clearly that Zhu Yin was cursing very dirty at this moment.

The reason why he didn't speak human language was probably because he was afraid that the scene in Huangquan Road would happen again...

There was no corpse or anything like that stored in the huge ancient bronze coffin, but there were also no countless rare treasures as they had expected.

Inside the coffin lay a somewhat rough black jade slip, and next to it was a small black flag covered with complex patterns.

And the creepy black mist was emanating from the small black flag.

Chen Xuan resisted the urge to say something sweet, walked to the ancient coffin, bent down and took out the black flag from it.

Zhu Yin also came forward and looked at it carefully for a moment, but he couldn't figure out what it meant. He just explained to Chen Xuan:
"The patterns on this flag must represent some extremely ancient restriction. Even I have never seen it before. But since it can be preserved here as a legacy, it must be something extraordinary."

Upon hearing this, Chen Xuan first put the small flag aside. Although he didn't know what its function was, even Zhu Yin didn't recognize the restrictions on it, so one can imagine how mysterious it was.

Afterwards, Chen Xuan and Zhu Yin turned their attention to the remaining black jade slip which looked extremely old.

(End of this chapter)