Ling Aotian chatted for hours on end, with Ling Aotian explaining about how he suddenly got memories of a possible future and what happened during that future. Wu xiantian was first hesitant to believe what Ling Aotian was saying, thinking that the Ying Yang truth talisman he had painstakenly refined was damaged. He tried lying and ..bang..!! Lightening struck his talisman shop and onto his body in a flash within a mere breaths time.
This made him totally won over. From this point forward, he believed everything that Ling Aotian was saying, even though it was unexplainable. The things coming out of Ling Aotian were so bizzare that he thought that maybe the Ying Yang truth talisman had a loop hole,something like where if one truly believed what he was saying , then the truth was relative. He tried using a hipnosis technique on himself to make himself believe in a lie. He then asked Ling Aotian to ask him a question with a Yes or No answer. The result, as expected, was another strike of lightening that roughly destroyed the whole roof of the Talisman shop.
Wu Ke'er had already woken up, eagerly placing her ears to hear of the tales that Ling Aotian was narrating. She found it exciting and hurriedly clapped once or twice whenever lightening descended to strike her adopted grandfather. She jumped up and down.
Ling Aotian however was incensed. It seamed that heaven would not even allow Gui Ying's name to remain on the minds of other people. Everytime he would mention him, Wu xiantian would forget and feel as if Ling Aotian's story had loopholes. Fortunately, Wu Ke' er was a little monstrous, even shocking Ling Aotian when she remembered the name of the hero of the righteous path that defeated a thousand demonic cultivators alone. She could not forget him after all the stories about him that Ling Aotian was telling.
In the end, this became further proof that what Ling Aotian was saying was true. It showed that heaven was angered by the action of Gui Ying sect and erased everything about it.
" Wait..wait ..Brother Ling..? I believe you, but why is Ke' er not in your memories of the future..?" Wu xiantian finally asked. He had been listening to Ling Aotian's accounts of his future memories but not even once did he once heard about his adopted granddaughter.
Ling Aotian's eyes became watery, his demeanour became sombre as he looked at Wu Ke' er with sad eyes. Wu Xiantian's heart sank. His emotions were stirred, his heart acheing as he looked as his little mischievous demon dejectedly. " It couldn't be...!!" He still wanted confirmation. Ling Aotian looked at Wu Ke' er who was now in tears.
She was five years old, but was not stupid. Having been listening to Ling Aotian narrate the future, she thought it all but a tale. Now however, judging by her grandfather's expression. She understood and could not stop feeling bad for her poor grandfather. How could she leave him alone to live for thousands of years with regret..?
"Ke' er was one of brother Wu's greatest regrets. You could not save her after all the efforts you made in my future self's memories. She died of old age after not being able to awaken her spiritual Qi."
"How, she's a demon..!! She's supposed to have greater lifespan than humans...!!" Wu xiantian could not accept this reality.
"Do not worry, brother Wu..!! That was just a possible future. It does not mean that she will die in this lifetime, I guarantee that..!!"
Wu Xiantian's smile could not be hidden.." Could it be..?"
"Yes, in my future self's memories, You and I searched all over the various secret realms in the central state to find a cultivation technique for Wu Ke' er. It's just that we were late after the time dilation of the secret realm was too long for Wu Ke' er. When we came back, she was already.." Ling Aotian paused, looking at Wu xiantian.
However, what he saw left him dumbfounded. Wu Xiantian was not sad, or sombre. He was excited.." You said your memories carried the whole sect's Legacy, does that mean you have the cultivation technique..??"
"Fortunately, I do." Wu Ke' er clapped her little hands as she lunged into Ling Aotian's arms with ecstacy. She then leaped towards Wu Xiantian while screaming.." Ke' er is going to be a cultivator..a cultivator..a cultivator.."
She looked at Ling Aotian and asked with excitement.." Will Ke' er fly on a sword ..?" Ling Aotian smiled already looking at the little demon. He somehow felt that the little girl didn't know just how hard cultivation was. He even thought that this girl was just pretending to be sad moments ago since the mood was sour.
He nodded at the little girl, then looked at the light coming out of the hole in the talisman shop. The sun was already rising. It seemed that they talked for almost twelve hours.
Ling Aotian looked at Wu Xiantian and said.." Would brother Wu take me around the city. I will explain on Wu Ke' er's situation as we take a stroll."
"Please do, brother Ling ..This way." He showed Ling Aotian the way out of the talisman shop.
Wu Ke' er was energetic, she leaped into Ling Aotian's hands and played with his hair as they strolled around the city.
Mar Long city was divided into four regions. Walls making circular boundaries for each region untill reaching the core region where the city Lord's mansion was located. The band of three walked around untill arriving at the second inner bronze gate. The wall was a little lower compared to the outer copper gate.
Asking Wu Xiantian, Ling Aotian got informed. The gates divided the population of the city into four, based on the cultivation of people. In Mar Long city, the first gate was of Copper color and material. A sign that all mortals and spiritual Qi awakening cultivator may dwell in the first region.
The second gate was of bronze color, representing those of the Qi refining realm and above could enter. The third was of silver and the forth was golden, showing social heirachy of body and soul tempering cultivators and core formation cultivators respectively. This was a clear distinction, with only few special people allowed to visit other regions due to their special status. Wu Xiantian was one of such people. His formations guild badge being a sort of ticket at the gate.
The three walked into the silver gate, into the social status of body and soul tempering realm cultivators domain. Here the streets were not as crowded as the other two regions. Ling Aotian noticed the disparity; the regions population decreased the more gates one entered, while the living conditions increased drastically.
They walked passed many sights and buildings that Ling Aotian made mental notes off. He was actually making a mental map, but he would obviously not tell Wu Xiantian that. He felt bad for the old guy, he had already used up all the shock of a lifetime listening to Ling Aotian. However Ling Aotian did not make him lose out. He talked about Wu Ke' er special condition as they walked.
" Wu Ke' er has a special physique unique to demons. It's called the 'three daos mysterious transformation'. It's a unique physique that only manifests itself in the Qelluo race of the demon race."
Wu Xiantian gasped, this was knew information to him, even though he was the one who did all the research and told Ling Aotian... In the variable future that is. Presently, he urged Ling Aotian to continue..
"This Physique holds three dao fragments. It's recorded as the second strongest physique by the heavenly daos, since it contains the primordial law of space, time and the dao of thought."
Wu Xiantian almost tripped, his eyes wide enough that his eyeballs almost rolled out of his eyes. Wu Ke' er on the other hand was fidgeting with excitement.
" Ke' er is going to be awesome..!! "
Ha ha ha Ha ..! Ling Aotian laughed, his next words making Wu Xiantian pale.
"All these laws manifest into one physique, making it hated and loved by the heavenly daos at the same time." He paused.
"What I mean is that the heavenly daos does not tolerate anything with temperal laws. Take me for an example, the Patriach only sent my memories back to the past but the resulting karma made the Gui Ying sect disappear from history, erasing and redirecting fate."
Wu Xiantian became serious.." Brother Ling, please get to the point, what solution did we come up with..?"
"Three mysterious daos returning to source technique.." Ling Aotian muttered continuing before Wu Xiantian made his remark.." This technique seals the three fragments of law of the physique into a primordial source law. The technique is based on the order and birth of the world where, one births two, two births three and three births all things. But in reverse."
" Whaat ???" Wu xiantian couldn't help but gasp. This was too far for his own mental realm. Just listening to Ling Aotian made him make breakthroughs in his mental realm. It was a new experience, especially for one who relied in breakthroughs in formation to widen his mental realm.
"The technique involves compacting the three into one, "primordial source" then making the source into two: Ying and Yang. The second part then involves splitting the half of each side to form two fragments of law that would then fill the split,Ying and Yang into a full Tai chi diagram containing, Ying, yang and laws of Ying and Yang respectively."
Boom! Boom! Boom!
At this moment, three seals broke inside of Wu Xiantian's body, advancing three minor realm's at the same time. He was now at the nine heaven stage of the body and soul tempering realm.
The passersby were startled. Just what was happening..? How could an old man, who was just walking,suddenly break through three whole minor realm's at the same time..?
A commotion was immediately started, people stoping their happenings to look at Wu Xiantian who was now consolidating his realm at the center of the street. It seemed that his enlightenment was still not over. Ling Aotian smiled. Only he knew what was happening.
This was an epiphiny, a phenomenon that only happens once in a cultivators life. It was a situation of..if it doesn't happen it doesn't happen, but when it does happen, the future is limitless.
"This must have happened because he was compacting his cultivation, not advancing forward due to his mental realm lagging behind. Just how many times did he compact his cultivation..?" Ling Aotian couldn't help but wonder.
At this moment however, Wu Xiantian open his eyes. He stood up, looked at Ling Aotian, then, in the middle of the streets. In front of many body and soul tempering cultivators, he got to his knees and kowtowed towards Ling Aotian...
"Disciple Wu Xiantian greets Sect leader..!!"