“A dilapidated but still functioning puppet automaton discovered inside? And it's been guarding it for ten thousand years.”

The Zhenyao Museum guardian was surprised, “Even in such a remote place, there are automaton puppets?”

The returning Guixu expert replied, “Yes, the records are from who knows how long ago. And even back then, it was confirmed that the spiritual energy concentration in that small world was extremely weak. Logically speaking, in such circumstances, it's absolutely impossible for spirituality to be born.”

“Spiritual herbs grow into weeds, and those qualified to cultivate will only remain at a low level, eventually dying with the passage of time. It's unbelievable that spirituality could be born in such an environment.”

The Guixu guardian sighed, “It truly is marvelous.”

“Has anyone entered before?”

“I don't know. This subordinate doesn't have the authority to access higher-level records.”

“Only the Guixu expert who discovered this small world on the frontier back then failed to enter. After living freely for a thousand years, he couldn't overcome the limitations of his lifespan and died.”

“Then, withdraw for now.”

The Guixu guardian dismissed his subordinates, then personally went to the archives to find this special place with the possibility of Yuxu. He actually found a record related to the expert who discovered the place, the guardian wearing the Azure Dragon mask slowly read aloud – “…After noticing this place, I was quite surprised. Through the barrier between heaven and earth, I sensed that there were many precious spiritual materials inside.”

“Therefore, I became greedy and tried to split open the outer side of this world.”

“This is just a low-level world, but it is surprisingly resilient. The puppet controlled the formation to fight against me. I discovered that the creator of this puppet was extremely unskilled, and the quality of the spiritual materials was mixed. This led to the good spiritual materials corroding the ordinary materials over a long period, gradually causing it to crumble.”

“But strangely, a mere puppet should have been controlled by the desire to survive and flee.”

“It actually tried to resist…”

“At the time, I wondered if it didn't know that I was far stronger than such an ant?”

“Didn't it know that I could crush it with a single move?”

“It was like it had gone mad, wanting to stop me.”

“However, just as I was about to break through the outer barrier of this world, I saw Lady Houtu. In just an instant, I was seriously injured, and my foundation was shattered. I don't know why the always gentle Lady Houtu would be so furious.”

“If it hadn't been for the Guixu Lord and the Heavenly Emperor, and the Queen Mother of the West returning from discussing Dao and noticing Lady Houtu's aura, curiously coming to stop her, I'm afraid I would have been buried along with this secret. Before I fell into a fearful coma, I heard the secret about this small world.”

“This used to be the Daoist temple of Lady Houtu's friend before she attained the Dao.”

“The name of that friend had the character 'Yuan' in it, but unfortunately, I didn't hear the rest…”

The Guixu guardian Canglong pondered, “…A name with 'Yuan' in it, once knew the Lady Houtu who had not yet attained Dao, it seems this is indeed the place, the Yuxu Palace.” He sighed, “No wonder there has been no trace of it all along.”

“Who would have thought that the Yuan Shi's Daoist temple would be in a remote place with weak spiritual energy.”

Also, because it involved the Guixu Lord, one of the Ten Greats, and a confrontation between the Guixu Lord and Lady Houtu, this recorded note was placed here and given an extremely high level of security, preventing ordinary members from reading it.

One reason was that it involved the Guixu Lord and one of the Ten Greats.

The other reason was that this was the Daoist temple of an ancient existence, at least at the first level below the Ten Greats. If members with insufficient strength went to explore, it might cause unnecessary deaths.

At this moment, the Guixu guardian was slightly stunned, as a subordinate reported.

“Venerable Guardian, the Emperors of the West Sea and East Sea are both requesting Guixu to find information about Yuxu.”

“Moreover, they were plotted against and suffered a dark loss, their tone quite resentful…”

“And the Emperor of the North Sea, Zhenwu, has also sent a message, requesting information on this coordinate.”

The Guixu guardian shook his head, looking at the location of the Yuxu Palace that he had just organized. Now the Guixu leader was in secluded cultivation to break through, and his own strength was only in the first tier of the Ten Greats. He was not afraid of the Four Sea Emperors, but from his position, there was no reason for him to fight with them.

Besides, two of his deputies, one level below him, had been borrowed by that Kai Ming and then disappeared.

He didn't have that much free time right now.

Guixu had always been neutral, at least on the surface.

He glanced at the information and casually placed it in Guixu's Heavenly Mystery Formation.

Then, he marked a price that was staggering but definitely within reach for the Four Sea Emperors. Finally, he glanced at the location of the information, thinking only of the puppet wooden figure that was gradually withering and losing its spirituality under the passage of time.

Yuxu was famous throughout the Four Seas and Eight Desolations.

And the Emperors of the East Sea and West Sea were furious.

They would want to seek Yuxu's characteristics, on the one hand to find information about Yuxu, and on the other hand to seek revenge.

That Daoist temple, that wooden figure guarding it in vain.

Perhaps, it would be reduced to ruins.

“Let them exchange for the information themselves. This time, Guixu is neutral and will not help either side.”

Canglong flicked his sleeves and left.

“Yes!”

……………………

“Finally won, won hahaha!”

In the Human Realm, after receiving the results of the great battle from Bai Ze, the entire Zhenyao Museum finally relaxed greatly, and Old Master was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, no longer needing to eat quick-acting heart-saving pills like soybeans.

This matter was related to the super-important matter of whether the Human Realm's Heavenly Court network could be connected to the North Sea Heavenly Dao system, thereby restoring its foundation. Of course, the old Daoist was extremely nervous. The young Marquis Wu looked at the boiling members of the Zhenyao Museum, his expression still gentle and calm, and said, “Everything is as Liang expected.”

“Everyone, please rest for now.”

The young Marquis Wu, with a calm and unhurried expression, walked back to his room.

He casually closed the door and slowly exhaled a breath.

“…Won.”

He murmured.

He tossed his fan, jumped, and threw himself onto the soft bed.

His face and body sank into it, and then he closed his eyes contentedly, exhaling a long breath, and fell asleep like that for three whole days and nights. He slept with mental exhaustion, but it relieved the monks who were taking care of him. An overextended dragon soaring into the sky cannot last long and will inevitably regret it.

The young Marquis Wu's previous condition was as if he was about to completely burn himself out.

Although his aura was now weak, he was honestly holding a bowl and eating millet porridge.

But it was as if the rushing water had flowed back into the river channel. Although the water level was low, it was not completely dry, which was a good thing. Bai Ze was about to set off for the Great Wilderness to continue being his storyteller. The great monk Yuanjue thought for a while and said, “Marquis Wu, I will go to the Great Wilderness with Bai Ze as well.”

“Hmm??”

The young Marquis Wu raised his eyes.

The monk said honestly, “Your body, I think it's better to leave it to Ms. Bai Suzhen and Ms. Jue. What I make is just potluck, and there's no way to really nurse your body back to health. And I, too, have things I need to do.”

“What is it?”

The monk said gently, “When I spoke with Curator Wei back then, I said that I would only stay here for a period of time. But now, I have stayed here for far too long. I have seen many, many things. However, I am a monk, a traveler. A monk cannot stay in one place.”

“Introspect the self, observe the world.”

“There are two types of Buddhist cultivation, gradual cultivation and sudden enlightenment. Gradual cultivation is like the body being a Bodhi tree, the mind like a bright mirror stand, constantly wiping it to prevent dust from falling on it. And sudden enlightenment is the well-known 'Originally there is nothing, where does dust fall?'"

“The monk's gradual cultivation has been established; it is time to seek opportunities.”

The monk wore a bamboo hat and the monk's robe he had arrived in, picked up his heavy Zen staff, and strode away.

“Gradual cultivation, rain nourishes the precious trees in the Brahma realm.”

“Sudden enlightenment, thunder travels the small boat on the sea.”

“The monk comes, the monk goes.”

Amidst the laughter, the monk's footsteps gradually quickened. The usual honesty, ordinariness, and the meaning of joking and amiability gradually disappeared. Finally, his footsteps became faster and faster, until he ran wildly, the Human Realm Buddha, the Land Vajra, turning into a ray of Buddha light and leaving.

Bai Ze shook his head and left as well. When he left, he casually calculated and sighed, “Sure enough, it's still fake. Yuxu Palace ah, Yuxu Palace, this is not a simple matter…”

……………

“Have you obtained the information about Yuxu Palace?!”

“Good!”

“Very good!”

The Emperor of the East Sea, Jin Zheng Rushou stood up, drew his sword, and went out. He contacted the Emperor of the South Sea. They were originally the strong ones among the Four Sea Emperors. They were just caught off guard before, but even so, they were only slightly injured. After returning to their bases, they quickly recovered with the nourishment of natural treasures.

“Good! Good!”

Rushou crushed the information, flicked his sleeves, and stood up, saying, “This time, I will no longer underestimate it.”

“Prepare well, lead the army, and pay a good visit to this so-called Yuxu Palace!”

And the same information was also placed in front of Yeming.

This deputy of the Heavenly Emperor, the Lord of Years who had reached the peak step by step through his own efforts after Houtu's disappearance, closed his eyes. After his divine sense swept through the information obtained from Guixu, that always gentle face finally rippled.

“Is it the Daoist temple of the Lady…'s friend?”

“Yuan Shi, should only be a legend in the Human Realm…”

He was silent for a long time, then suddenly thought of something and went to the place where he was originally. In that house that had been eroded by the years, he spent his earliest years. There were also various things left by Lady Houtu before she disappeared.

Yeming searched for a long time and found a box.

He reached out and stroked the box. With a click, he opened the box. Inside was a dusty 《Swordplay Essentials》. Because of Lady Houtu's sudden departure, it was like being abandoned. The young Yeming vowed that he would never grow up according to Lady Houtu's expectations.

Houtu hoped that he would stay away from the conflicts in the Great Wilderness Kunlun.

He would step by step reach the strongest in the Great Wilderness.

Not only that, he would also reach the peak of swordsmanship through his own efforts.

Prove that without Houtu, he could still be the vice-ruler of the Great Wilderness, the leader of swordsmanship.

But at this moment, he recalled the past and discovered many problems that he had never discovered before. After a long silence, he opened this 《Swordplay Essentials》 for the first time and saw words on it –

“Written by my friend 'Yuan'.”

“I'm leaving this book for you, Yeming, hoping you can walk more steadily. I have to leave here because of some things. I have left you some backup plans. You can go and look for them in the future…”

Yeming opened his mouth.

For a moment, he didn't know what to say. The youthful stubbornness of that year, refusing to open this book, ultimately regrettably missed this letter. Such a twist of fate made even his expression extremely complicated. After a long time, he put down the book.

Under this book, there was also a roll of yellowed parchment.

Yeming slowly opened the scroll.

The scroll was painted with simple and unadorned strokes.

It was a simple and unpretentious Daoist temple, a stone table, a middle-aged man with a gentle and calm expression looking at the scenery, a gentle woman in a long dress smiling quietly, and a white-haired Daoist in a blue shirt standing with his hands behind his back. On one side were written three names.

[Hun Tian]

[Hou]

[Yuan]

!!!

Yeming's thoughts froze.

An endless storm suddenly arose in his heart.

“Yuxu… Yuan Shi.”

“Does this person really exist?”

In the Land of the Ending of All Laws, Fuxi and the woman in the blue shirt, Xian, felt a bit troubled because of the current fame of the so-called Yuxu Palace. They knew the words on the jade pendant on Wei Yuan's body. While they were perplexed, Fuxi suddenly felt the fishing rod in his hand vibrate violently.

In an instant, the fishing line shattered inch by inch.

While Fuxi and Xian were astonished.

With a rustling sound, the sleeves of his green robe spread out, his white hair fell down, and the three types of Great Dao, [Heaven], [Earth], and [Human], naturally gathered and guided, turning into silk threads around his hair, weaving the white hair, and turning into natural patterns on his sleeves. Sword energy rose slightly, and the white-haired Daoist in a long robe bowed and smiled unrestrainedly:

“The two of you.”

“Long time no see.”

ps: Today's second update… asking for monthly tickets ah ah ah!