Secret Records of the Leader of the Beichen Sword Sect

Chapter 1274 - 621: Sharpening the Spear Before Battle (Part 3)

The Holy Daughter chuckled,

"Just now, that trick you used instantly killed the Mystic Sect’s Lord, something unprecedented. Could you tell me what it was?"

"Sure."

Chen Xuantian agreed readily, using his fingers to write the Returning Void and Rebirth Technique on the broken walls of the Land God Temple.

"Here you go."

"You really wrote it..."

The Holy Daughter was momentarily dumbfounded by the scriptures, then suspicious,

"Are you really giving me this secret technique? You didn’t tamper with it, did you?"

"Can we give it to them?"

Chen Xuantian asked the child.

The child gave a cold glance at the pot, signaling for a bite.

Hmm, that means consent.

"Go ahead and practice it, if you can’t overcome this hurdle, the world will be destroyed anyway, it doesn’t matter."

So Chen Xuantian picked up the bowl to feed the child.

He had seen through it; the Aquarium wasn’t truly dissatisfied with the Ghost Spring Technique, it was mainly unhappy with Lingxu...

The Holy Daughter was silent for a moment, finally making up her mind and revealing,

"Xuan Du is an orphan."

Chen Xuantian frowned.

"Why are you insulting people?"

The Holy Daughter explained,

"I’m not insulting anyone; he’s really an orphan. The Mystic Sect was sealed for a millennium and suddenly unveiled itself to contend with our Divine Sect. The Mystic Sect Leader was so formidable that I naturally consulted the Orchid Platform Book Collection we seized from the Immortal Palace, investigating Xuan Du’s origins and lineage.

In doing so, I discovered that Xuan Du was the personal closed-door disciple of Thunder Ancestor, who was a Divine General of the Thunder Department in the Immortal Palace back then. The four disciples under him were all orphans adopted by the Thunder Department. So the Thunder Skill is likely derived from the Immortal Palace as well.

Therefore, I sent Divine Sect Disciples to collect secret scrolls from the Thunder Department to search for weaknesses in the Thunder Skill combat techniques, only to find that the Thunder Battle Technique of the Immortal Palace was actually quite ordinary, not very formidable at all.

What’s even stranger is that not just Xuan Du, but several disciples of Thunder Ancestor and all orphans didn’t seem to be in the Thunder Department’s records, as if they weren’t even receiving military salaries.

So I continued to investigate deeper, tracing back to the source, and went to the Blood Prison to find many old enemies who were captured and brought back to the Main Altar from the Three Constellations for trial to finally understand.

It turns out the orphans adopted by the Immortal Palace’s departments of Plague, Fire, Thunder, and Battle were actually the orphans from the rebellion of Zheng Ji in the Immortal Palace, which caused the destruction of a nation along with four kings and two ministers, wiping out the old troops of the Eight Kings.

Chen Xuantian was taken aback,

"Old troops of the Eight Kings?"

Gugu Gaga was also taken aback,

"Rebellion of Zheng Ji?"

The child drank soup coldly.

The Holy Daughter nodded, stood up pacing as she recalled,

"That’s right, originally there was only the Combat Department in the Guardian Immortal Army, focusing on refining Battle Qi and the combat methods of Gang Fist. Later, the departments of Plague, Fire, and Thunder were added to develop special techniques of Pestilence, Fire, and Thunder. However, in reality, they weren’t practicing any real Thunder or Fire techniques, but methods to fight Thunder Demons and Fire Demons.

But by that time, there were hardly any ’demons’ to fight against, so the training targets for the four departments became these orphans. Indeed, Thunder Ancestor’s disciples weren’t actual soldiers of the Thunder Department but marked prisoners, human targets.

Back during the Eight Kings’ Rebellion, even the Immortal King and his ministers were slaughtered on the battlefield, and the clan members were confined like livestock. Naturally, the old troops of the rebel army were implicated even more, all participants in the rebellion were executed in various cruel ways, with whole families exterminated.

These orphans, whose entire families were killed, couldn’t escape punishment. Being from noble bloodlines with extraordinary root bones, it was a pity to kill them outright. So they were enslaved in the army, subject to mutilation and branding, their hair shaved and faces covered, treated like demon beasts for manipulation and humiliation.

Thus, the training of combat skills in the so-called Four Departments of Pestilence, Fire, Thunder, and Battle was in fact about hanging these criminals and traitors for beatings, flogging them day and night with corporal punishment. When simply beating them didn’t suffice anymore, they were made to ingest elixirs, used for human experimentation, transformed into battle puppets and evil ghosts, demon beasts not in human form.

Hence, the Thunder Skill created by Thunder Ancestor was never meant for humans but beasts. Thunder Ancestor’s disciples were originally the Thunder Beasts of the Thunder Department army. Without such experiences, without undergoing this transformation, without being driven to the state of a beast, how could one possibly wield the True Thunder?"

The Land God Temple fell silent for a moment.

The Holy Daughter looked at Chen Xuantian,

"Cultivators with resilient Daoist Hearts are rare, and enduring such torment, anyone would develop a Heart Demon. Back then, Thunder Ancestor and his four disciples were formidable beyond measure, but all underwent Soldier Disintegration and Reincarnation, failing to achieve the Great Dao. This shows that even a Great Mage like Xuan Du, the world’s greatest, I doubt he could escape such Heart Demon and karmic shackles. You say he was confused by a Heavenly Demon and became senile; the root cause might lie in this.

So, even though you have a chance, if I could use the Primordial Spirit Secret Technique to sabotage, I could exploit the Heart Tribulation from back then to suddenly plunge Xuan Du into the Infinite Demon Barrier of those years. His fate is nearing its end, and once he wakes from this illusion, his spirit might collapse, leading to an uncontrolled Soldier Disintegration, thus making this tribulation easy to pass.

So now tell me, how confident do you feel about overcoming this tribulation?"

Chen Xuantian remained silent for a long while, finally letting out a long sigh, bowing deeply,

"Thank you, Holy Daughter, for enlightening me. This tribulation, you need not enter, I shall face it alone."