Chapter 218: Chapter 190: He Looked at It Once, and It Died

Jiang Zhi held the Golden Alms Bowl in his right hand, looking at the scene inside, and even his left hand hidden in his sleeve couldn’t help trembling slightly.

He never imagined that a question which seemed completely unsolvable for everyone would actually be so easily resolved by the young man before him.

Chu Huaixu had merely walked over, glanced at it, and then solved everything from the very root.

This even left the people present feeling a bit numb on their scalps.

“If only Chu Huaixu had been born decades earlier, if only he could have…” Everyone’s mind was flooded with such thoughts.

Xiang Yan and the others knew full well that the person most affected by the scene before them was definitely Junior Martial Uncle.

Jiang Zhi looked up at the young man standing before him, parted his lips, wanting to say something, but couldn’t find the words for a moment.

Suddenly, he felt a lump in his throat, and his heart felt even more blocked up.

Only after quite a while did he speak in a low voice: “Chu Huaixu, do you know what this is?”

“A strand of soul?” Chu Huaixu probed.

“This is a Primordial Spirit,” answered Jiang Zhi. “A Primordial Spirit said to be immortal and indestructible!”

He held the Golden Alms Bowl in his hand and continued, “This Golden Alms Bowl is an Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact.”

“But that’s not the main point. It’s just a vessel. What’s important are the many Restrictions inside, as well as the Arrays, and this [Rootless Pure Land Holy Water].”

“The crimson stream you just saw is a Soul Seed of the Primordial Spirit.”

“We can use various Divine Sense methods to weaken and resist the Primordial Spirit, but we can’t truly destroy the Soul Seed, only use such means to imprison it!”

“That’s precisely why it’s said to be immortal and indestructible.”

Chu Huaixu listened, slightly stunned.

He thought to himself, “Primordial Spirit? That name sounds so familiar…”

Now he understood why Jiang Zhi had been doubtful earlier.

The problem was with this so-called Soul Seed.

“So none of them can destroy it?” This surprised him somewhat.

But in front of the Heart Sword, the Soul Seed was so fragile.

With a mere thought from Chu Huaixu, it was erased.

He suspected that, at root, it all came down to [Person]!

The Person level of the Soul Seed might be higher than everyone’s Divine Sense Power; thus no matter what they tried, they couldn’t destroy it.

But the Person level of the Heart Sword was at least on par.

Even when Chu Huaixu used his own Divine Sense, he couldn’t affect the Primordial Spirit at all.

The special one wasn’t himself; it had always been the Heart Sword!

And after extinguishing that apparently insignificant Primordial Spirit Soul Seed, the system once again rewarded him.

The reward was similar to before: increased [Information Detection] authority, and a slight boost to Chu Huaixu’s Power of Divine Sense.

Strangely, the system didn’t seem to take the Primordial Spirit all that seriously.

This could be seen indirectly from the reward given.

“Maybe it’s because the system’s Person level is even higher, so it doesn’t even bother worrying about such things?”

“If your Person level is high enough, then this strand of Primordial Spirit is really nothing,” Chu Huaixu mused internally.

Jiang Zhi looked at the young man before him, and once again asked, “Chu Huaixu, do you know where that strand of Primordial Spirit in my hand came from?”

“Disciple does not know. Please enlighten me, Junior Martial Uncle Ancestor,” he replied immediately.

Clearly, there’s a big melon to be eaten!

And very likely a world-shaking one!

“It comes from the Fifth Floor of the Origin Spirit Realm.” Jiang Zhi’s gaze hardened, his face showing a mix of reminiscence and sorrow.

Xiang Yan was worried Chu Huaixu hadn’t fully understood, so he added an explanation:

“You’re about to enter the First Floor of the Origin Spirit Realm, which only First Realm cultivators can enter.”

“The Second Floor of the Origin Spirit Realm is for Third Realm cultivators.”

“The Third Floor is Fifth Realm, the Fourth Floor is Seventh Realm.”

Chu Huaixu heard this, and since Xiang Yan didn’t keep going, he asked, “So the Fifth Floor, only Ninth Realm can enter?”

Unexpectedly, the Sect Leader waved his hand, his tone growing heavier: “No, there are no restrictions for the Fifth Floor. Anyone can go in, and there isn’t even a cap on numbers. But, anyone below Seventh Realm will explode the moment they enter.”

Chu Huaixu: “…”

This is too nuts—so my useless Second Master, Chu Yinyin, would just drop dead upon entering?

Thinking this, he cast a glance at the old young lady.

The old young lady instantly guessed what Chu Huaixu was thinking, her big round eyes glaring fiercely at him as if she wanted to kill him with her gaze: What are you looking at!

“Sixth Realm, so what? Your old lady can make a Realm Breakthrough at any time!” she grumbled to herself.

Apart from that, Chu Huaixu connected a lot of dots.

“So, next year’s Third Realm competition is actually for the Origin Spirit Realm’s Second Floor.”

“No wonder there’s only a competition for First and Third Realms—nothing for the Second!”

“Turns out it’s because this Origin Spirit Realm dungeon has such special level gating?”

And he was keen enough to spot another point.

“If you follow that timeline back, then the time the Fourth Floor of the Origin Spirit Realm opens would match up with the death of my future First Master!”

“At least the same year!”

So, did the strongest female Seventh Realm Sword Cultivator get killed inside?

Right now, Chu Huaixu was deep in brainstorming, while Jiang Zhi simply gazed deeply again at the Golden Alms Bowl, staring into the fully purified [Rootless Pure Land Holy Water], and gave a long sigh.

He placed the Golden Alms Bowl on the table.

He felt that since Chu Huaixu had gained another unique trait, it was time to share some Daoist Sect secrets with him.

What’s more, he had planned to tell him part of the truth about the [Origin Spirit Realm] and the [Heaven-Earth Cataclysm] today, so he could prepare early.

“Chu Huaixu, do you know why, out of my generation of Junzi Temple disciples, it’s said that I’m the only one left?” he asked.

“Disciple does not know.” Chu Huaixu got in ahead of the gossip.

“Because that year, all my senior martial brothers and sisters entered the Fifth Floor of the Origin Spirit Realm. I had injuries at the time, so I didn’t go in with them.”

At this, he fell silent for a moment.

Chu Huaixu, hearing this, showed shock and hesitance on his face.

“Judging by your expression, I guess you’ve figured it out,” Jiang Zhi gave a bitter laugh, his face incredibly ugly.

“That day, only my Fifth Senior Brother made it out of the Fifth Floor.”

“But after he came out, he lost his mind.”

“And the cause of his insanity was precisely that strand of Primordial Spirit you just saw!”

“The immortal, indestructible Primordial Spirit!”

“Fifth Senior Brother used his body and Sea of Consciousness as a vessel, sealing it inside himself!”

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Chu Huaixu hadn’t expected the Fifth Floor of the Origin Spirit Realm to be so dangerous, with such a tragic outcome.

The mighty Daoist Sect, one of the Four Great Sects of the East Continent, almost lost an entire generation in there?

And according to Jiang Zhi’s account, that generation of Junzi Temple disciples were all prodigies, true geniuses never seen before.

Their combined strength rivaled even the direct disciples of the Dao Ancestor.

That whole group were at least Eighth Realm, some even Ninth Realm!

His revered Fifth Senior Brother was terrifyingly strong; someday he could have been the equal of the Second Generation Observatory Master, Yan Shen.

And yet, even so, this was their fate?

After all these years, the wounded Daoist Sect still hasn’t fully recovered.

“So, among Jiang Zhi’s generation of Junzi Temple disciples, only he and a lunatic are left?” Chu Huaixu thought.

From Junior Martial Uncle Ancestor’s account, he mostly figured it out.

Originally, that Primordial Spirit probably tried to possess the predecessor named Zhong Ming.

But he resisted with some methods and forcibly sealed it inside himself.

The Soul Seed itself was weak, but its Person level was too high, so no one could kill it.

Later, the Daoist Sect put in a ton of effort to extract it from Zhong Ming and then sealed it inside the Golden Alms Bowl.

For all these years, the Daoist Sect had been researching how to destroy it, using it as a test subject to see if anything besides Evil Qi could work, but got nowhere.

Until a few minutes ago, Chu Huaixu wiped it out with a single glance….

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