Chapter 343 (1/2)
Chapter 343
Chapter 343 – A Decaying Smell
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Concerning this stone tablet, the jade slip the inn had given him had some baseless rumors recorded on it . But, since these rumors were recorded down through the generations, even if they were without evidence, there should still be some tiny amount of credibility to them . The general idea was as follows:
100,000 years ago, the great vault of heaven shattered and a large stone tablet arrived from the nothingness . After a fierce battle, it was obtained by the Hulun Clan . Then over the thousands and tens of thousands of years, as their people slowly grew, they finally established the Souths.h.i.+ne Nation . Their legacy continued for dozens and hundreds of generations without peris.h.i.+ng, and they eventually became one of the royal families within the Land of Divinity and Demons with the deepest backgrounds .
The large stone tablet mentioned was this Good Fortune Tablet . Although there were many differing opinions, all of them were approximately the same: the reason why the Hulun Family remained prosperous all the way until now was because of this stone tablet .
No one knew what the truth was . But, the Good Fortune Tablet possessed an unimaginable degree of prestige and energy . This was an indisputable fact .
But, the ways in which this power could be unfolded were a bit out of the ordinary .
Cultivators, and only those who were younger than a hundred years of age, had a chance of perceiving a mysterious pill recipe when facing the stone tablet . And the pill refined was the Revival Good Fortune Pill .
This pill recipe existed within the soul . It was like a gift from the will of the heavens and earth . It could not be described nor could it be explained to anyone . Only the one who perceived and meditated upon it could control it . But, there was a point that was confirmed through countless instances of the Revival Good Fortune Pill being refined . And it was that every pill recipe that a cultivator perceived was different .
But through these differences, they all shared one thing . That was that the refining of the Revival Good Fortune Pill caused a cultivator to lose their lifespan .
Lifespan was an illusory and ephemeral concept . But for a cultivator, it was actually something they could accurately sense – an important existence that no one could neglect . After all, ultimately speaking, all things that had the will to cultivate did so in order to transform their life, to become more perfect, to become more formidable, and to also live for a longer period of time…objectively speaking, the last point was the most crucial one .
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Thus, to damage one’s lifespan to refine a pill was an incomparably ghastly and chilling idea . If it weren’t for the fact that after refining the Revival Good Fortune Pill one could then offer it as a sacrifice to the Good Fortune Tablet and receive rich rewards in return, then there was no one who would have the least bit of interest in this pill .
That’s right . After refining the Revival Good Fortune Pill, it had to be offered to the Good Fortune Tablet . There were even some people who made an extremely bold extrapolation based on this – the Good Fortune Tablet was alive, and it was a life form completely beyond anyone’s cognition .
It accepted the sacrifice in order to absorb the lifespan of the cultivator making the sacrifice . Like this, it could continue living longer . Thus, the rewards that the Good Fortune Tablet gave a person were more like a sort of transaction .
Qin Yu originally didn’t believe these rumors . After all, this was nothing but a stone tablet . No matter how much power it contained, how could it possibly be alive? But right now as he truly stood in front of the Good Fortune Tablet, he discovered that he had been mistaken all along .
The surface of the Good Fortune Tablet had no words written upon it . There were only dark golden textures and lines that wove together like a pile of chaotic weeds . Yet, it seemed to contain the highest, most supreme mysteries of the world . The dark golden light it emitted was vast and dignified, the powerful aura emanating without end . It was as if the slightest tremble of it would cause the world to shake along with it .
It was mysterious and formidable!
But at this time, Qin Yu could see through the incomparably dazzling surface of the Good Fortune Tablet and see something hidden within . This thing could be called old, weak, and even decayed .
That’s right, this was a feeling Qin Yu clearly felt after seeing the Good Fortune Tablet . He knew this was an inconceivable ability he obtained after he and the little blue lamp thoroughly fused together and he became the ruler of that spatial fragment in the distant nothingness .
None of this was false!
What the Good Fortune Tablet revealed this time was actually false .
Qin Yu took a deep breath and suppressed his shaking heart . He forcefully restrained his expression and put on a calm demeanor . After seeing through to the Good Fortune Tablet’s true situation, he seemed to vaguely smell the revoltingly decaying smell it emitted . This smell was comparable to a corpse that had been buried beneath the hot ground for months . No, it was at least ten times, or even a hundred times richer and worse .
But besides him, Zhao Jiutian, White Fengfeng, and the others seemed to be enjoying it . After approaching the Good Fortune Tablet, they took in deep breaths, as if they were absorbing the most amazing energy in the world .
At this time, Qin Yu’s hairs rose on end . He finally understood why Wei Ziqing had turned and left without hesitation, and why they could only stay here for 12 hours at most . Perhaps that was the limit they could withstand while remaining relatively safe .
The decaying scent that lingered around his nose became increasingly heavy . Even if he held his breath, he still couldn’t prevent it from invading his body . Qin Yu could only s.h.i.+ft his attention somewhere else . He no longer looked at the Good Fortune Tablet itself, but focused on the dark golden textures on its surface . Soon enough, that decaying scent vanished .
At this point, all of the youths who entered the cave, besides Qin Yu, had already approached the stone tablet and sat down somewhere nearby . Repressing their excitement, they started to carefully meditate upon the golden markings with a fervent mentality .