Following a Hundred Years of Cultivation, I'm dying Before I Got Cheats - Chapter 1957: Rescuing Huo Tian — The True Secret (Part 2)
Chapter 1957: Rescuing Huo Tian — The True Secret (Part 2)
Facing the overwhelming onslaught, Jiang Chengxuan knew he could no longer hold back.
With a grand sweep of his hand, he invoked the Ninefold Bodhi Lotus Lamp. Behind him, within his Golden Immortal Universe, a divine lotus slowly bloomed, radiant and magnificent among the dazzling stars of the galaxy!
In an instant, boundless immortal energy surged forth, merging into Jiang Chengxuan’s body. His aura soared to a terrifying height, leaving all who witnessed it in astonishment.
Then, with two fingers brushing over the sword’s blade, the Everlasting Manifestation Scripture illuminated its surface. A sacred aura gathered as immense immortal energy poured into the sword.
“Slash!”
In the next moment, Jiang Chengxuan swung the Primordial Chaos Sword at the oncoming, devouring Kirin apparition.
Instantly, a blast of radiant immortal light exploded. A fragment of a shattered universe manifested from thin air!
Within it, immortal energy surged and sword intent rampaged unrestrained, sacred brilliance filling the cosmos. Faintly, it even carried a trace of the primordial mixed-yuan energy!
“Boom—Roar!”
Amid the turbulent heavens, the universe fragment reversed direction and collided with the roaring dark Kirin.
The clash unleashed terrifying shockwaves.
Very soon, the fragment’s power swelled like a gaping abyssal maw, swallowing the dark Kirin’s apparition whole!
Countless sword rays flashed, turning into streams of heavenly rivers that engulfed the foe, unleashing a violent assault that shredded the Kirin into countless wounds, drawing out pained roars!
In just a few exchanges, Jiang Chengxuan’s sword intent had suppressed the Guile Heaven cultivator’s killing technique—truly terrifying!
But the real danger was yet to come.
In a moment, the Golden Immortal master unleashed his divine technique. His strange totems collapsed like an endless torrent; where they passed, the void shattered inch by inch, Dao laws were annihilated, light extinguished—a cataclysmic destruction!
“Boom!”
Yet Jiang Chengxuan showed no retreat. With a gesture, his Primordial Chaos Sword pointed, and the reversing universe fragment shifted its course, slicing at the wild, bizarre tidal wave of totems at a speed visible to the naked eye!
The clash of two Golden Immortal-level forces surged violently, causing unimaginable destruction.
Even the entire domain trembled under their power.
Far away, the Nine Secrets Auction House was shaken, activating protective formations to avoid the violent shockwaves!
Countless immortals gasped, eyes turning toward the scene, hearts trembling.
“Who on earth is battling with such power, threatening to destroy this place?!”
“What terrifying force! Which ancient clan’s progenitor is fighting? Have they gone mad?”
“To dare unleash such fury in the territory of the Nine Secrets Sect—who could it be? Impossible to imagine!”
Many stared at the distant chaos, as if the heavens themselves were collapsing, the universe leaking an immense void.
Explosions of power made them feel as if they had fallen into an ice cellar, chills rising.
Such terrifying might—if they were caught inside—would be like dust in the wind.
…
Finally, under the blessing of the Ninefold Bodhi Lotus Lamp, Jiang Chengxuan’s sword strike suppressed the Guile Heaven cultivator.
At Jiang Chengxuan’s level, opponents of equal rank were already rare.
With the last remnants of the shattered universe fragment vanishing, countless totem Dao laws were severed, scattering into fragments of broken patterns across the sky.
The Guile Heaven cultivator suffered backlash, trembling as his own universe was deeply torn.
“Let’s go.”
At this moment, Jiang Chengxuan’s voice sounded beside Huo Tian, who was momentarily stunned but quickly recovered and silently followed Jiang Chengxuan, transforming into a streak of light and escaping.
Obviously, Jiang Chengxuan had no intention of settling the score with the two Guile Heaven cultivators.
Though he had suppressed them, killing a Golden Immortal opponent was no simple matter.
His purpose was simply to take Huo Tian away—and that was enough.
Before the Guile Heaven cultivators could react, Jiang Chengxuan and Huo Tian flickered through space several times, becoming nothing more than distant shadows on the horizon.
“Damn it! Damn it!”
“I, Guile Heaven Sect, will never let you off so easily!”
Moments later, the two Guile Heaven cultivators roared in furious frustration, eyes blazing red.
They had finally cornered Huo Tian, but in the end, the duck was snatched away from their jaws.
…
“Master, are you well?”
Escaping the Guile Heaven Sect’s pursuit, Jiang Chengxuan and Huo Tian fled for days, reaching a quiet place in the neighboring wilderness domain to hide.
“All minor injuries, nothing serious…” Huo Tian replied calmly when Jiang Chengxuan inquired.
“Why did you save me?” Huo Tian then asked directly.
Jiang Chengxuan chuckled lightly, his tone less serious than before:
“If you think I’m some hero who saves the oppressed, you’re mistaken.”
“In truth, I’m just curious about the supreme being you mentioned. I don’t know the secret you carry.”
This was Jiang Chengxuan’s true feeling.
He didn’t rescue Huo Tian because he believed he held any particular secret, but rather because of his own curiosity and speculation.
Huo Tian studied Jiang Chengxuan for a long moment, then seemed to trust him enough to slowly speak:
“You seem to have some connection with that great being.”
“Ask whatever you want to know.”
Though he had given up on himself, he wouldn’t ignore Jiang Chengxuan’s kindness—that was his bottom line and dignity.
Jiang Chengxuan paused thoughtfully before voicing his question:
“If that supreme being transcended the immortal Dao, why have I never heard his legend?”
“Who is he? What is your relationship with him?”
The questions were not difficult. Huo Tian did not hide anything, but his answers were ambiguous, leaving Jiang Chengxuan puzzled.
“That great being, having transcended the immortal Dao, naturally dwells beyond where we can see.”
“We have never met him personally, only found his traces and legacy. We are his followers!”
Jiang Chengxuan was stunned.
Never met him, yet became his follower?
Huo Tian was no ordinary lost soul.
“Then what about you? You didn’t always seem like this.”
“What does the Guile Heaven Sect want from you?”
Jiang Chengxuan pressed on with sharper questions.
Huo Tian hesitated, then sighed with both nostalgia and confusion:
“I was once a follower too, once at the Da Luo realm. But due to certain accidents, for survival, I severed my cultivation…”
Jiang Chengxuan was startled.
Though he had suspected it, he never expected this disheveled immortal to have once been a Da Luo Golden Immortal—a true pinnacle figure of the ancient realm, an immortal beyond death and life.
This made Jiang Chengxuan even more curious about that supreme being.
A Da Luo Golden Immortal follower who had never met him—what kind of existence was this being?
“That Guile Heaven ancestor, somehow knowing I possessed the secret to breaking through the mixed-yuan, wanted to seize it.”
“Little do they know—without mixed-yuan energy, who can break through?”
As Huo Tian continued, Jiang Chengxuan was shaken further.
The mixed-yuan energy—this crucial element—had again entered his vision.
“Mixed-yuan energy is extinct? Weren’t all the immortals in the forbidden zone waiting for it?”
Eagerly, Jiang Chengxuan pressed on.
Huo Tian knew too much—secrets Jiang Chengxuan had never heard.
“Haha! Since that great being fell silent, the chance for mixed-yuan has long vanished!”
“Those cowards lack the courage to open the forbidden zone gates and claim it themselves.”
“They only wait. What use is it to break through the mixed-yuan realm like that?”
“How can one resist the invasion of the ominous?”
Jiang Chengxuan’s words seemed to provoke Huo Tian. His eyes grew fierce as he cursed the invisible heavens above—anguished, disdainful, yet furious.
The information embedded in his words struck like thunder in Jiang Chengxuan’s mind—
The true secret was finally unveiled!
