kingnovel Chapter 330 - 180: Inheritance Jade Scroll, Secret Room’s Gift, Hundred Herbs Island
Chapter 330 - 180: Inheritance Jade Scroll, Secret Room’s Gift, Hundred Herbs Island
With the Yellow Springs Fiend gone, a half-inch-long Jade Scroll appeared inside the Golden Coffin.
Its unique cyan color stood out starkly against the coffin’s brilliant gold interior.
Aside from that, there was nothing else inside the vast Golden Coffin.
’Could this be the Inheritance Jade Scroll of the Yellow Springs Dao?’
He had heard that to better preserve some ancient inheritances, their Cultivation Techniques and Essentials would be compressed into a single Jade Scroll.
They would also include some of the creator’s own Cultivation Insights to help the Inheritor quickly get started.
Xiao Chen bent over and picked up the Jade Scroll, trying to inject a wisp of Magical Power into it, but there was no effect.
He tried using his Divine Sense, but it remained just as unresponsive.
After a moment of thought, he recalled an illustration he had once seen in some Ancient Texts and pressed the Jade Scroll directly to the Shenting Acupoint on his forehead.
He channeled his Divine Sense into the Jade Scroll again, and just as he’d expected, a massive amount of information instantly flooded into his Sea of Consciousness.
Countless different scenes flashed before Xiao Chen’s eyes in a dizzying montage.
Various Cultivation Heart Methods also emerged, cascading like a waterfall.
Receiving so much new information in just a Quarter Hour made his Sea of Consciousness feel strained.
"Whew. ’Good thing I didn’t run into any danger this time.’"
Once the infusion of information ended, Xiao Chen rubbed his temples and quickly scanned his surroundings.
This was his first time using a Transmission Jade Scroll, and he was inexperienced.
Fortunately, he was still the only one here. ’That was a bit careless. Next time, I have to remember to find a safe environment before reading one of these.’
’But this thing is certainly efficient.’
In such a short time, he had come to completely understand the situation. ’So the true inheritance of the Yellow Springs Traveling Palace was almost entirely left within the Jade Scroll.’
After that infusion, Xiao Chen had obtained the complete True Monarch of the Yellow Spring’s Secret Scripture of Life Passage Punishment.
Although it appeared to be a single scripture, it contained all the essential doctrines of the Yellow Springs Dao.
This Secret Scripture was a Celestial Level inheritance and contained a cultivation Technique that led directly to the Nascent Soul Realm.
It was also supplemented by three Earth Level inheritances, all of which could be cultivated to the Late-stage Golden Core Realm.
Additionally, the True Understanding of the Yellow Springs Secret Scripture that Xiao Chen had encountered before was also derived from this Secret Scripture; it had just been simplified to facilitate cultivation for followers with poor aptitude.
What he now held was the true, original version.
’Is this... a good thing or a bad thing?’
Xiao Chen felt a pang of regret. Celestial Level Cultivation Techniques couldn’t benefit from the Augment’s bonuses; he would have to rely entirely on his own efforts to cultivate it.
However, according to the records left in the Jade Scroll, the one responsible for creating the Inheritance Jade Scroll was the fifth—and also the last—Daoist Master of the Yellow Springs Dao.
He had written directly in the Jade Scroll that if the Inheritor possessed a Yellow Springs Spirit Body, they would need less than a century of cultivating this Secret Scripture to reach the True Monarch Realm.
If the Inheritor only had a Yellow Springs Dharma Body, that wasn’t a major issue either, as they could still achieve Nascent Soul Formation within two hundred years.
If they only had a Celestial Spirit Root, things would be considerably more difficult.
It would require at least four hundred years of arduous cultivation just for a chance to attempt a breakthrough to a higher Realm.
But that was alright; the Yellow Springs Dao had a special Life-extending Secret Technique, so all in all, there was still hope.
As for a Dual Spiritual Root Cultivator... well, they shouldn’t have been able to obtain the inheritance in the first place.
If that was the case, it was recommended they settle for the next best thing.
The proper path would be to choose one of the supplementary Earth Level inheritances to cultivate, then find a disciple with better aptitude. After that disciple achieved Nascent Soul Formation, they could, in turn, help their master advance.
And that was where it ended.
Xiao Chen carefully replayed the information in his mind, confirming that there was no mention of what to do if one had an inferior Spiritual Root.
He had heard before that Celestial Level inheritances had their own cultivation aptitude requirements, but he truly hadn’t expected them to be so demanding.
This Secret Scripture seemed rather useless to him.
’Oh well,’ he thought, ’it’s better than nothing. At least I can use it as a reference.’
Xiao Chen wasn’t too disappointed, though. After all, his main purpose for entering the Traveling Palace had been to collect Evil Qi.
He had already accomplished that goal perfectly, so everything else was just a bonus.
It would be great if he could make use of it, but even if he couldn’t, he could consider reselling it or just keeping it as a collector’s item.
’Besides, you can learn from the work of others.’
Xiao Chen was currently preparing to break through to the Golden Core Realm. Obtaining a Celestial Level inheritance at this juncture, even if only for reference, would surely be of some help.
’Whatever. I should go check out the secret room first.’
The end of the Jade Scroll’s message described the location of a secret room, said to contain a gift left especially for the Inheritor.
He could sort through the details of the Cultivation Technique after he got back. For now, he’d go see what this so-called gift was.
Following the Jade Scroll’s guidance, Xiao Chen returned to the corridor at the entrance of the Earth Palace.
He fumbled through the Demonic Qi and pressed eighteen different wall bricks in sequence.
A white light flashed, and he was instantly transported into a sealed hall.
The hall was about thirty feet square. Its six walls were embedded with a total of 1,001 Luminous Pearls, whose chilly white fluorescence filled the not-so-large space.
In the center of the room stood a pair of rosewood cabinets, which held the Inheritor’s gift.
Xiao Chen opened the first cabinet and saw that its interior was divided into two sections, left and right.
On the left, a bolt of jet-black silk stood upright. On the right sat three White Jade Boxes.
’There isn’t going to be another, smaller box inside, is there?’
Xiao Chen opened one of the White Jade Boxes. ’Spirit Stones?’
’No, this isn’t a Spirit Stone!’
Inside the White Jade Box lay a crimson ring, five inches in diameter.
The surface of the jade was covered in overlapping patterns that combined to form the image of a Vermilion Bird spreading its wings, poised for flight.