Chapter 168: Lifting the Veil

Chapter 166

The Golden Core Sages, who were standing on either side of them, had an intense cold look in their eyes.

The one on the left puffed out his chest and made a mooing sound.

The one on the right puffed up his cheeks, and made a quacking sound.

The mooing sound was low.

But the quacking sound was loud and clear.

Thus, these two voices came one after another, rising and falling, up and down.

The invisible sound waves directly tore through the cloud and mist, rushing towards Chen Jingzhai and the others.

The middle-aged Golden Core Sage, who was leaning against Sage Meng, was the first one to fall.

His face was as pale as a sheet, as blood flowed from his ears. He felt confused and dizzy.

Just when he was about to fall into the ocean due to the weakness he was feeling, Sage Meng grabbed him by his clothes.

Although Sage Meng was not doing much better himself, he was more or less able to hang on.

However, there was a very worrisome look in his eyes.

Because at the moment when the two Golden Core Sages struck, the one in the leading threw out the giant gear.

The metal gear with intertwined teeth spun frantically in the air and rushed towards them quickly.

The metal gear, other than its flickering golden light, emitted a sound that was even more deadly.

The sound it made connected just in time with the previous two sounds, and it was potent with power.

Immediately, Sage Meng found it unbearable and had difficulty mobilizing the magic power inside of him.

In this instant, despair filled his heart.

If even he, as a Golden Core Sage, could not resist such vehement attacks, how could the Little Master-Uncle stop them?

The three Golden Core Sages on the opposite side now showed a satisfied smile.

As if they could already see their opponent’s head being cut off in the next moment.

“Restrict!”

Chen Jingzhai spoke nonchalantly, interrupting their wonderful fantasy.

Layer upon layer, the restrictions appeared out of thin air.

Not only did they block the giant gear that was incoming, but they also trapped the three Golden Core Sages on the other side.

The three of them were slightly surprised, but not overly concerned.

Whether it was a formation or restriction, they did not believe they were the ones who were going to lose.

But the fact was that Chen Jingzhai was already in control of the whole situation, and the outcome had already been determined.

“Reverse!” Chen Jingzhai said in a flat voice.

An invisible force locked onto the man in the middle.

And the Golden Core Sage in the middle appeared in front of Chen Jingzhai in an instant.

The surprising and disbelieving eyes of the other man, watched as the Five Bamboo Sword pierced his head.

The golden core escaped from his body, but was suppressed by the floating Great Heaven Mirror.

“Big brother!”

The other two Golden Core Sages shouted, but both chose to flee left and right.

They were the hyenas and the jackals of the cultivation world; they were robbers.

They banded together not because they liked each other, but because of their shared interests and the circumstances in reality.

Now that two of them had perished so easily and quickly one after another, the remaining two did not know who exactly they had provoked.

The person facing them was not some Foundation Establishment cultivator; he could be a great big boss in the True Venerable Spirit Plane.

He was not some weakling that could be taken at will, but a real immortal who could take their lives if he wanted to.

Unfortunately, it was too late for them when they realized their impending doom.

Even though their magic power was burning, it was futile to even try to self-detonate their own golden cores.

Chen Jingzhai held the Great Heaven Mirror in his hand, and using the Reverse Formation replicated by the Great Heaven Mirror, took them directly.

The Small Heavens Cloud Forbidden Restriction locked down the void, and the power of the Grade 3 Great Heaven Mirror was displayed to its fullest. One by one, they were suppressed in the inner space of the Great Heaven Mirror,

However, Chen Jingzhai secretly used the Grotto-heavens divine light to take away the two Golden Core Sages.

“Is it… over?” Sage Meng asked softly, as if in a dream.

“It’s over!” Chen Jingzhai said calmly, “It’s just three golden cores, that’s all.”

Three golden cores, and that’s all!?

A wry smile appeared on Sage Meng’s face. By his estimation, he was only “just” golden core, as well.

Chen Jingzhai said nothing further. Instead, he held Su Qinghuang’s hand as the two descended from the sky.

The tower ship flew out by itself and landed on the ocean.

When Sage Meng saw this, he took a deep breath and landed on the ship with his junior brother.

Chen Jingzhai called the maid over, who took the two to the room upstairs to cultivate and recuperate.

“Master-Uncle Meng!” Jiang Lin ran out with a worried look on his face.

“You’re all right!” Sage Meng saw him and smiled, breathing a sigh of relief.

He could see that Jiang Lin was not only unhurt, but his cultivation had improved greatly. He felt very glad because of it.

He patted Jiang Lin on the shoulder, signaling that they would talk later. Then Sage Meng helped his junior brother into the room to rest.

Jiang Lin got the hint and did not continue.

He did not expect that it was Master-Uncle Meng who was his guardian; this made him a little emotional.

As for the other guardian, it must be the Master-Uncle from the Sky Whale lineage.

But he had no idea whose guardian he could be. There was a high probability that he was Chu Jinsong’s guardian.

And he did not know where Chu Jinsong was at the moment, or how he was doing.

Jiang Lin shook his head and pulled back his gaze. He went downstairs.

Just as he was about to step out, he stopped and looked outside, as all the other maids did.

Chen Jingzhai had led Su Qinghuang to the stern of the ship.

He waved his hand and placed a soundproof restriction so that no one could hear the conversation between him and his senior sister.

“Let go!” Su Qinghuang said indifferently.

“You felt it as well!” Chen Jingzhai did not let go as he was told to, but raised his head with a smile and met Su Qinghuang’s eyes. “That deep reverberation comes from the trembling of the soul.”

“So you already knew?” Su Qinghuang asked, but took no action.

“It was only when I broke through my cultivation in Donglai County that I found out you are my guardian,” Chen Jingzhai said with a smile. “It was also at that time that I discovered that I had a strong attraction towards you.”

Su Qinghuang pressed her lips behind the veil but did not respond.

Actually, it was then, too, that she suddenly felt the reverberation.

The feeling was very curious, as if two strangers fell in love at first sight.

This kind of mutual attraction then increased tenfold and a hundredfold since that moment.

Even if Chen Jingzhai and Su Qinghuang were far apart from each other, they could still sense each other’s position through this reverberation.

Although the farther the distance, the more blurry the sensation, they both knew it to be real and true.

“Does the senior sister know what this is?” Chen Jingzhai asked.

In fact, even now, he was still shocked because of it.

He even had a strong urge to take Su Qinghuang into his arms.

This mutual attraction was deadly and very overpowering.

Even the divine spirit within Chen Jingzhai did not detect anything amiss.

Clearly, this was not a spell, a curse, or poisonous magic.

There was no spells that could escape the detection of the divine spirit in his acupoints.

And even if somehow it was missed, it could not get past the divine stone and the Primordial Essence World within the divine stone.

This strange phenomenon made Chen Jingzhai wonder, but he had made no conclusion for the time being.

So, he kept holding onto Su Qinghuang’s hand, without the slightest intention of letting her go.

“It is probably because of the cultivation and the destiny,” Su Qinghuang was silent for a while, before she said with resignation.

“Cultivation, destiny?” Chen Jingzhai narrowed his eyes.

“I have the destiny of the phoenix. Precisely speaking, I’m a daughter of the phoenix,” Su Qinghuang said as a matter of course. “The Master only took me in because of my destiny. Strictly speaking, my aptitude was not considered outstanding, at least not comparable to Senior Sister Mei, who was married into Daoxuan Peak.”

“The destiny of the phoenix daughter is complementary to the Hongluan Sky Scripture?” Chen Jingzhai asked thoughtfully.

“It’s not so simple as complementary, it was almost like it was tailor-made,” Su Qinghuang said softly. “Since I came into contact with the Hongluan Sky Scripture, my cultivation improved by leaps and bounds daily. Senior Sister Mei was quite upset by it because she thought the Master was being unfair. I’m afraid she had harbored resentment inside.”

“I think I understand a little bit of it,” Chen Jingzhai suddenly realized, “This is the dragon and phoenix consummation, governed by destiny and physique. Senior sister is of the destiny of the phoenix, and I used the Dragon Qi as my guide to create the Foundation Establishment passage. I used the celestial bones in the spine as the dragon, and it reformed the physical body completely. This explains this feeling of reverberation.”

In addition to being pulled by destiny and physique, perhaps the main reason was the cultivation method.

Chen Jingzhai’s method had combined a variety of sky scriptures, including the Hongluan Sky Scripture.

Now it seemed that although there were no traces in the Foundation Establishment passage, there was the essence of the Hongluan Sky Scripture.

The so-called Dragon Qi, was just a ruse!

These were Chen Jingzhai’s thoughts, which he did not share or explain.

“Is that so?” Su Qinghuang’s eyes showed a palpable relief.

“Senior sister, what are you going to do?” Chen Jingzhai asked with a smile.

“Since you have the strength to fight against a Golden Core, you don’t need me as a guardian,” Su Qinghuang said calmly. “I will return to Hongluan Peak and continue to comprehend in retreat.”

“Comprehend in retreat?” Chen Jingzhai shook his head. “Even if senior sister sat in Xuanming Cave until your life has been completely exhausted, you would not really comprehend any new methods. You have been trapped by Hongluan Sky Scripture for too long.”

Hongluan Sky Scripture ended after the chapter about the Golden Core; the rest of it was missing. Although Su Qinghuang did not have the talent of Master Mingyue, it was not the methods that eluded her, but love and the sensation of love.

This was the core of the Hongluan Sky Scripture.

If Su Qinghuang did not first understand this, even if she had the Dragon and Phoenix Consummation Seal Script in hand, it would be useless to her.

“What are you thinking?” Su Qinghuang asked, her brows knitted together.

“You should stay,” Chen Jingzhai did not demure and took her into his arms with some passion. “We are both attracted to each other, and we should honor our feelings and study the Dragon and Phoenix Consummation Seal Script together.”

“Are you sure?” Su Qinghuang did not push him away, but actually filled with joy in her heart as she leaned against him in his arms. This feeling was truly wondrous, and it was the first time she had experienced it.

“What is there to be sure of?” Chen Jingzhai laughed, “To take off your veil?”

“I used to have thoughts of creating my own methods, so I was stubborn and refused to compromise,” Su Qinghuang said softly, “Now that I don’t have much time left, in order to break through the realm, I will not let any opportunity slip away. As long as I can break through to the Nascent Zhenjun Plane, the Hongluan Sky Scripture can be replicated and handed over to the next generation of disciples.”

She was not rejecting Chen Jingzhai or his proposal.

Even when they were at the clan, she never disliked Chen Jingzhai. Who she hated the most was herself.

She hated that she had wasted all this time and was still unable to create her own method, so Hongluan Peak was being passed over and ignored.

If it weren’t for this, a genius like Chen Jingzhai would not have been assigned to Daoxuan Peak.

Perhaps it was this hatred, or even this sense of inferiority that made her appear lukewarm towards Chen Jingzhai, or that she avoided seeing him. Naturally, this explained her particularly complicated feelings towards Chen Jingzhai.

Now that the two of them admitted to being attracted to each other, everything in the past had become a source of goodwill, which made her approve of Chen Jingzhai even more. There was a sense of wanting to hold on to him and not let him go.

Therefore, she did not refuse Chen Jingzhai’s intimate behaviors toward her.

She was not an old-fashioned person by nature. Her obsession with creating a method was more about the future inheritance of Hongluan Peak.

She did not want Hongluan Peak to die out, and she did not want Hongluan Peak to disappear from the clan.

But her own cultivation had to be prioritized before everything else.

She raised her head to look at Chen Jingzhai, and asked softly, “Of course I can comprehend the Dragon and Phoenix Consummation Seal Script together with you, or even change the path and cultivate this celestial scripture instead. However, your actual cultivation level is not yet in the Golden Core Plane, and if you get tied up with me, I am afraid that you will be rejected by Daoxuan Peak, which might stop you from doing so.”

“None of this is a problem,” Chen Jingzhai shook his head and lifted her veil decisively.

At the moment when that astounding beauty came into his view, it took hold of his heart.

Chen Jingzhai was stunned for a long time. While Su Qinghuang’s face was slightly flushed and she was slightly in a trance, he lowered his head and kissed her rosy lips. That soft sensation made Chen Jingzhai’s mind explode. Then, it was pure madness.