Cultivation: I Have Studied Abroad in the Modern World
Chapter 362 - 217 Weighing Gold, Tianhe Leaves a Message_3

Chapter 362: Chapter 217 Weighing Gold, Tianhe Leaves a Message_3

"..."

Zheng Fa tasted and understood the meaning of Zhang:

The treasure and the cultivation technique might be from the previous epoch...

But this Water Mansion... is probably from last month.

"Someone faked it?"

Zhang nodded.

"This craftsmanship is a bit rough..."

Zheng Fa pondered and commented.

Xiao Yuying couldn’t help but murmur in her heart: "A normal cultivator wouldn’t knock off a couple of bricks from someone else’s place, right..."

To knock it off is one thing, but to also study which techniques were used to make it...

Unheard of!

It’s depressing for her, as she prides herself on clear understanding of secret realms from various eras, yet this time she also failed to notice anything amiss.

Had Zhang not asked her about the bricks, she might never have discovered this in her lifetime...

At this moment, she even felt a bit sorry for the person who set up this secret realm:

By all accounts, their work was quite impressive...

The problem is, Jiushan Sect and Zheng Fa don’t play by the rules!

...

"If someone has set up this Water Mansion, what was their purpose?"

Zheng Fa frowned and asked Zhang.

"...All we can know is that it’s related to Tianhe Venerable..." Zhang thought for a moment and said, "And with such stealth and secrecy, it’s probably not anything good."

Zheng Fa nodded, that made sense; after all, Tianhe Venerable probably didn’t leave behind many friends, but countless enemies instead...

"Then if there are any methods left behind, they are probably still in that Water Mansion!" Zheng Fa’s expression was inscrutable as he continued, "Although that gourd and the ’Tianhe True Method’ are also suspect, the most suspicious thing should be that stone!"

Zhang also understood what Zheng Fa meant—the boulder was so conspicuous as if it was put there in the Water Mansion on purpose, yet it had not a trace of spiritual energy.

Zheng Fa, along with Zhang and the others, circled around the black boulder but couldn’t figure it out for a while.

"No reaction..."

Master Pang withdrew his spiritual power and divine soul with a disgruntled expression, seemingly disappointed.

Junior Master Huang jeered from the side: "Then why don’t you step aside?"

"And have you figured anything out?"

The boulder had no spiritual power, its value was hard to determine.

But no one there was a fool—this thing could very well be related to Tianhe Venerable!

According to the principle of knowledge sharing, now that this object was in the Jiushan Realm, everyone could comprehend it, and naturally, the Nascent Soul True Men rushed to explore it first...

Even the usually composed Junior Master Huang had given it a try.

None of them could discern the truth.

"Maybe...it’s just random scribbling?"

Master Pang muttered.

"Zheng Fa!"

Suddenly Elder Yuan pointed at Zheng Fa, his meaning as clear as day!

Everyone looked at Zheng Fa—now was the time for the true genius to take the stage!

In fact, Zheng Fa felt rather uneasy.

He looked at the sword marks and thought about it; this thing...was difficult to analyze with modern science...

After a long observation and no clarity in sight, Zheng Fa mimicked Master Pang, infusing the stone with spiritual power, and sure enough, there was no reaction.

But when he touched the stone with his divine soul, something in his Sea of Consciousness, a familiar old friend, suddenly stirred—

The Yin Yang Jade Pendant!

The yin yang fish on the pendant embraced each other, spinning rapidly.

The mountain stone in front of Zheng Fa underwent a greater change—

It emitted bursts of azure light, as if turning into a beautiful jade.

The sword marks moved like swimming fish.

Upon witnessing this change, Elder Yuan and the others exchanged glances and tacitly cast spells to conceal the phenomenon in the courtyard.

When they looked at the stone’s sword marks again, they still couldn’t understand them.

The sword marks moved incessantly, as if demonstrating something, but no one could tell what they meant.

Elder Yuan and the others were utterly confused.

But Zheng Fa could understand!

The yin yang fish in his Sea of Consciousness acted like a polarizing filter, allowing him to see a scene different from the others—

Not text, not light and shadow, but like a series of sketches:

At first, there was the figure of a youth with a sword. He entered the Demon Cave, quelled demons, and was praised and admired by all.

Later, he gained many companions, including close confidantes and like-minded friends, followers like clouds, and disciples like rain.

Eventually, he commanded all under heaven, and none from the Immortal Sects dared to disobey—with unmatched prestige seen in tens of thousands of years.

But the last scene was as Zheng Fa had expected...

A solitary figure with a sword, standing alone on a mountaintop.

He sighed inwardly and saw the images dissolve, turning into lines of text.

The first sentence jolted Zheng Fa’s mind, catching him off guard:

"Nine Nether was right!"

Zheng Fa almost couldn’t believe his eyes. He read the sentence again to make sure he wasn’t mistaken.

At that moment, he understood that this stone was probably something Tianhe Venerable left for the owner of the jade pendant.

What the previous sketches wanted to convey, Zheng Fa didn’t quite understand yet.

But that sentence—it almost shattered his impression of Tianhe Venerable.

He had always felt that Tianhe Venerable was unwavering in his perseverance on his own path.

And that he probably had a deep hatred toward the Demon Ancestor and others from the Demon Sect.

But this sentence clarified two things—

First, Tianhe Venerable thought he was wrong.

Second, Tianhe Venerable’s relationship with Nine Nether Demon Ancestor seemed rather good...

Even that sentence had a sense of mental collapse.

He read on and saw the second sentence:

"Don’t learn from me, learning from me will only turn you into me..."

Zheng Fa was even more astonished; such words from Tianhe Venerable seemed to indicate he suffered a great blow.

After all, most cultivators leave legacies hoping that their successors would learn as much as possible from them...

Who would say such things like Tianhe Venerable did?

Until the end was the main body of the typical legacy: a cultivation technique.

No, that’s not right...it should be called an incomplete cultivation method: "Nine Revolutions Golden Core Method."

Why say incomplete?

Because apart from a general overview, there wasn’t a single actual technique.

Simply put, it lacked the first revolution, the second revolution, the third revolution... all the way to the ninth revolution...

At the end of the cultivation technique, Zheng Fa also saw Tianhe Venerable elaborating at length, roughly translating to:

This outline of the Golden Core Method is the life’s summary of my Golden Core Stage cultivation methods.

Although I’ve developed my own Nine Revolutions Golden Core Method, this technique is only suitable for me, not for future generations.

Since there’s an outline, the Nine Revolutions Golden Core Method of others should be quite simple...

...

At this point, Zheng Fa had some understanding of why the Tianhe Sect betrayed Tianhe Venerable...

But why was Tianhe Venerable so averse to passing on the specific techniques?

Zheng Fa thought about it and realized he might have got something wrong:

Did Immortal Sect modify or abandon Tianhe’s methods purely because of hatred?