Chapter 57 - The Brass Piece’s Strange Movement (2/2)

Old Man Liu had already gone to bed. Jiang Xiaofan didn’t bother to wake him up, nor did he interrupt Lin Quan’s and Tang You’s cultivation. Instead, he went up to the top of the mountain and sat in a lotus position on the rock below the precipice.

The booklet that Liu Cheng’an had given him was indeed a work of art. There were annotations written everywhere which thoroughly detailed and analyzed the four realms from the Micro Realm to the Realm of Dust, Phantom Saint, and Human Emperor. Jiang Xiaofan was very grateful because there were many details which he hadn’t known of before, and after studying this booklet, he immediately felt like a new world was opening up to him.

What surprised him the most was that the perceptions of cultivation noted down reached as far as the ninth heaven of Human Emperor. Jiang Xiaofan speculated that prior to Liu Cheng’an’s qi deviation, the old man had cultivation at the ninth heaven of Human Emperor. Wow, insanely powerful!

Based on what he knew, only the sect leader and the supreme elder of the Emperor’s Heaven Sect had cultivation beyond the ninth heaven of Human Emperor and were at Mystic Immortal. Those two were the pillars of the sect. However, he had never thought that Liu Cheng’an was once a ninth heaven Human Emperor cultivator. Now that he pondered over it, something had to have gone wrong when Liu Cheng’an had aimed for the realm of Mystic Immortal which led to a loss of all his cultivation.

Jiang Xiaofan could only lament. The gods have no mercy! How could a nice, good-natured old man like him not overcome that hurdle to the higher realm? How could he succumb to the instability of his cultivation base, and lose everything that he had worked so hard for? Heaven is so unfair!

He shook his head and put away the booklet. Jiang Xiaofan then activated his Buddhist Sutra and channeled his spiritual awareness throughout his body. Because of his recent breakthrough to the Realm of Dust, he needed to further stabilize his cultivation base.

As the Buddhist Sutra channeled qi, the golden spiritual energy perfused every inch of his blood and flesh. This would make his body stronger and anchor his cultivation base like an indestructible diamond.

After his battles at the Forest of Scorching Flames, with Ying Tianyang, and with that disciple from Ziyang Sect, he discovered numerous problems with his cultivation. His Buddhist Sutra was indeed peerlessly powerful and mystical because written in it were countless methods and their techniques. However, other than the Shadow Steps, he could not activate the other methods by will due to the over uniqueness of his golden spiritual energy. There were no records of any person on Planet Ziwei who had possessed this color of spiritual energy before.

Being unique wasn’t always a good thing. Jiang Xiaofan was deeply aware of this. Ye Yuanxue was the only one who knew the color of his spiritual energy. He even told her to keep it a secret from Ye Qiuyu.

Dipankara, Buddha of the Past, had warned him that unless he was facing special circumstances, he should never expose the Buddhist Sutra and his brass piece to anyone. Otherwise, it would only bring about unnecessary trouble.

He was someone whom Jiang Xiaofan had heartfelt admiration and respect for because Dipankara was considered a holy being in Buddhism Therefore, whatever the Buddha had said, regardless of the reasoning, Jiang Xiaofan had obeyed.

Whenever he battled someone, punches and Shadow Steps were his default attack moves. Of course, he had earlier learned the Thirteen Swords of the Clear Moon and recently, space spirit channeling. Despite them all, he still didn’t think that they weren’t enough.

“Forget it. Let’s just take it one step at a time.”

Jiang Xiaofan sighed. Being assigned to Standstill Peak corresponded to being labeled as a waste. Thus, the sect wouldn’t provide him with any advanced cultivation method scrolls, but he didn’t care since he didn’t want them anyway.

He already had the primordial Buddhist Sutra. Its mystical cultivation methods weren’t any less inferior to the greatest cultivation methods of the other sects. In fact, the Buddhist cultivation methods were far superior to them. He believed that his cultivation methods could overpower all others on the planet.

He cleared his mind again and combed through his body with his spiritual awareness as the Buddhist Sutra continuously channeled qi. His Diamond Sutra had been activated as well. His inner body glowed brighter than before, and each cell sparkled with life and immense energy. He could feel the tremendous might from within himself and felt that with one punch, he could break the ground.

With the Buddhist Sutra as his foundation, his spiritual awareness was far more powerful than anyone else’s in the same realm. Now that he was a Realm of Dust cultivator, he could fight a Phantom Saint cultivator nearly match for match. This was the ultimate trick up his sleeve!

He continued to sweep his spiritual awareness throughout his body and finally arrived at the multicolored, small lake. It was mysterious and tranquil as if it was a sacred land that was isolated from the rest of the world. In the middle of that lake was the unmoving palm-sized, silver-colored brass piece on top of the water, akin to a pillar of the sky that supported the Heaven and Earth.

Suddenly, something blurred before his eyes. He sensed that the silver brass piece had moved, but he soon ignored it. This brass piece is stubborn as an ox, so why would it randomly move? He refused to believe it no matter what. That was just a trick of his eyes because of his intense yearning to hold that brass piece in his hands.

As he continued to channel his Buddhist Sutra, the spiritual energy steadily coursed through his body, and not long after, body temperature rose. Jiang Xiaofan gradually widened his eyes. This time, he had seen it. That brass piece had definitely trembled!

His Buddhist Sutra began to automatically channel spiritual energy and increased the speed of the flow. The brass piece trembled again and emitted a thin stream of multicolored light. It shook once more before disappearing from the inside of his body and suddenly appearing right in front of his eyes.

Jiang Xiaofan’s eyes bulged in response, and waves of emotions washed him over.

Ever since he had gotten that brass piece and experienced multiple incidents afterward, he learned of one thing. If there was nothing special happening, that brass piece wouldn’t budge no matter what. This time though, not only had it vibrated and emitted light, it was now hovering outside of his body! Too abnormal! Too weird! Extremely weird!

Just then, Jiang Xiaofan keenly sensed that this world had somewhat changed. All was silent. The stars were unmoving, and the sky was still. There was a large-scale evolution taking place. The budding and the decaying, creation and destruction, and all living things were affected. The passage of life continuously flowed. Everything was in the hands of reincarnation.