Please, Young Master, Slay the Demon!
Chapter 982 - 59 Ascension Law [2 in 1]_2

Chapter 982: Chapter 59 Ascension Law [2 in 1]_2

Venerable Wanfa simply replied, "Sect Master Lin, success depends on effort."

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"Who could have thought of this?"

At this moment, Chu Liang inside Shenxu Temple was also faced with a shocking scene. The Daoist Master Shenxu who stepped in looked exactly like Senior Brother Yuan from his own Shu Mountain.

If there were any differences, it was probably that his temperament was more transcendent, his authority stronger, and he had three more wisps of a beard, that’s all. Still, one could easily see they were two identical people.

"Don’t rush," said the middle-aged man across him, gesturing with his hand and smiling, "I am not the person you know. Please, take a seat."

He sat down beside the desk, first pouring himself a cup of tea, then pouring one for Chu Liang. The ropes that had bound Chu Liang fell away on their own and were collected into his sleeve.

"Could it be..." Free from the ropes, Chu Liang stood up, his eyes moving about as he said, "Did you, senior, once travel around the Shu Mountain area forty years ago?"

"Cough." The middle-aged man was about to drink his tea when he nearly choked upon hearing these words. He hastily set down his teacup and said, "What are you thinking of? How could we at Shenxu Temple easily... That one from your Shu Mountain is but one of my three thousand incarnations."

"An incarnation?" Chu Liang was astonished.

"You can understand it that way. Shenxu Temple stands apart from the world, and it is inevitable that we are out of touch with worldly affairs. Every Daoist Master of Shenxu Temple needs to travel the Mortal Realm with incarnations to understand the developments in the world. Especially Immortal Sects like Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, they need constant attention," the Daoist Master explained. "But an incarnation is different from a split body. That Senior Brother Yuan Zhuo you know never knew of my existence. He simply thought he was an ordinary disciple from Shu Mountain, living and cultivating like any normal person. It’s just that everything he knows, I also know."

"Is Senior Brother Yuan Zhuo really like any normal person?" Chu Liang said softly with a tinge of jest.

Thinking about it, the various peculiarities of Senior Brother Yuan could be understood. Why his cultivation wasn’t high, yet his intellect was remarkable. How he seemed to be dull and socially awkward, yet he almost knew everything about worldly affairs.

If one considered him as an existence solely for storing memories, that made sense.

Yet, such a repository of a brain existed in every Immortal Sect in Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, and nobody noticed? It seemed possible when one thought about it, much like the Divine Skills cultivated by the Law-enforcement Elders that could directly change a person’s cognition.

Thinking of this, Chu Liang suddenly changed his expression, "Not good."

"What’s wrong?" asked the Daoist Master.

"If everything Senior Brother Yuan knows can be known by you, then the accounts of my Red Cotton Peak..." Chu Liang pounded his right fist into his left palm, "Guarding night and day, I never guarded against this move."

"..." The Daoist Master wore a complicated expression.

After a moment, he finally said, "Do you really think I would care about your little accounts?"

"That’s also true," Chu Liang chuckled, "but I am indeed curious, what is it that you, senior, who oversees Shenxu Temple, actually care about?"

This was something he had always wanted to know.

Shenxu Temple was immensely powerful and mysterious. So what was the purpose of gathering a group of cultivators in this isolated place generation after generation?

The Daoist Master looked at Chu Liang, paused, and then answered, "Regarding your doubts, I can provide explanations."

He then began to explain, "The existence of Shenxu Temple is actually to protect this Mortal Realm."

"Protect the Mortal Realm?" Chu Liang listened to this lofty statement with a hint of puzzlement, "Then why has Shenxu Temple’s presence never been seen during the great calamities of the Mortal Realm? Such as the Demon God turmoil three thousand years ago, if not for the Shu Mountain ancestors fighting to their deaths, wouldn’t the Mortal Realm have been destroyed..."

"What you’re referring to is not the Mortal Realm," the Daoist Master gently shook his head, "That’s just the Nine States Human Race."

Chu Liang kept silent, waiting for further explanation.

The Daoist Master continued, "No matter the Human Clan, Demonic Clan, or the earlier Jiuli and Sea Clan... they are all beings derived from this world. The constant cycle of worldly events, the change of dominion among races, is actually an inevitability of history. No matter how the dominion changes, it does not harm this world in the slightest; it’s merely Spiritual Energy ebbing and flowing, gathering in nature and then dispersing back into it."

"What senior refers to as the Mortal Realm, is it this great world?" Chu Liang understood the other party’s point, "Not some specific life within the world?"

"Naturally," said the Daoist Master. "You cultivators often pride yourselves on eradicating demons to protect the path, and you praise the Shu Mountain ancestors for their heroic acts in saving the Mortal Realm. But does the Mortal Realm need your salvation? Even if the Demonic Clan ruled the world for thousands of years, it would merely be another type of being taking over. Even if all life were to perish, this world would not be damaged in the least. As long as the Spiritual Energy remains, in a million more years, new life would emerge."

"From what senior suggests, the destruction of this world would be the loss of Spiritual Energy?" Chu Liang grasped the information mentioned by the other party.

"Exactly," the Daoist Master smiled. "There is only one path that would cause the destruction of heaven and earth."

"Ascension?" Chu Liang guessed.

"Precisely," the Daoist Master nodded.

"So Shenxu Temple’s existence is to prohibit ascension?" Chu Liang was somewhat shocked.

Could it be that this Taoist temple hid some kind of power that could suppress a Ninth Realm Godly figure? That was indeed shocking.

"It won’t exactly prohibit it," the Daoist Master replied. "Shenxu Temple was established by Saint Li before his ascension, where he laid down three prohibitions known as the Ascension Law."