CHAPTER 34: CHAPTER 33 ANCIENT BOOKS OF LAST WEEK

"Why does it sound a bit familiar?"

"Hunting over a hundred thousand beasts? Missing spirits of hybrid spiritual beasts? Refining the Ten Thousand Beasts Banner?"

Lu Yan was momentarily stunned, and then a thought emerged in his mind.

"Could it be that the Beast Slaying Demon Fiend the stall owner was talking about is me?"

During the three months of the Apocalypse Version, Lu Yan hunted more than a hundred thousand zombies and sacrificed over a hundred thousand Zombie Wandering Souls to obtain the Hundred Souls Banner in his storage bag.

The world version updates bring endless changes to this world, creating or erasing things out of thin air. However, in most cases, there are always traces of things between different versions.

Lu Yan’s sacrifice of over a hundred thousand Zombie Wandering Souls even caused a 0.2% change in the Apocalypse Version. The changes brought by this were mapped into the Xianxia version, making it appear that he was crazily slaughtering beasts with spirit beast bloodlines in Wushan Mountain.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that zombies are equivalent to those beasts. After all, zombies were everywhere in the Apocalypse Version, and there were even powerful Corpse Kings comparable to the Foundation Establishment Stage, which were nothing like the beasts in Wushan Mountain.

There is a connection between different versions, but they are not in a one-to-one correspondence, which is the norm for world version updates.

Realizing this, Lu Yan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

When slaughtering zombies in the Apocalypse Version, Lu Yan had wondered whether the information of these zombies he harvested would be mapped into other versions, making him a mass murderer of ordinary people.

Although he had some concerns at the time, Lu Yan didn’t let this stop him. Instead, he took advantage of the convenience of the Apocalypse Version to quickly enhance his strength and accumulate cards for himself.

Now it seems that the title of Beast Slaying Madman, although unpleasant to hear, is much better than becoming the murderous maniac who is the enemy of the righteous path. It’s still within an acceptable range.

After hearing the stall owner’s story, Lu Yan showed an appropriate look of shock on his face.

"I didn’t expect such a thing to happen in Wushan!"

Lu Yan’s shock pleased the stall owner. He was used to throwing out information that ordinary cultivators didn’t know about, in order to build relationships and turn them into returning customers.

"But speaking of which, how did you know about the Beast Slaying Madman and the Ten Thousand Beasts Banner? Did someone see that madman in Wushan?"

The stall owner waved his hand dismissively and said casually, "Even if you ask me, I won’t be of any help. I just heard others talking about it.

However, after the rumors spread, I heard that Wanling Mountain is preparing to send a Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator to Wushan to investigate, but those are just rumors.

After all, it’s just a hundred thousand beasts, it’s not worth the attention of those big figures."

As he spoke, a cultivator came to buy a book of talismans. The stall owner immediately went over and quickly concluded a transaction for two Spirit Stones.

Putting the two Spirit Stones into his storage bag, the stall owner then explained to Lu Yan with satisfaction,

"Actually, I think although this matter is widely spread, it’s not reliable in itself.

In three months, slaughtering a hundred thousand beasts means killing more than three thousand beasts a day. Not to mention how difficult it is to find so many beasts in the forest, but even if the beasts stood still for him, an ordinary Qi Cultivator couldn’t possibly kill them all.

Moreover, the Ten Thousand Beasts Banner that emerged from the Ten Thousand Souls Banner is nonsense. If it were really possible to use other creatures as substitutes for refining the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, the demonic path would have long dominated the Cultivation Realm."

At this point, the stall owner snorted disdainfully:

"Back in the Great War between Righteousness and Demons, the spark for the demonic path’s failure was that one Heavenly Punishment, but even before that, the demonic path was already in decline.

The reason is simple: the demonic path was killing senselessly back then. To refine the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, they slaughtered too many mortals without considering sustainability. By the later stages of the war, there weren’t many mortals left to extract souls from to use as material for soul banners.

The demonic path had also thought about using other life forms’ spirits as substitutes, but whether it was beasts, savage beasts, or spirit beasts, none could replace human souls.

Transformed demon tribes could be refined into a soul banner, but the problem is that transformed demon tribes have cultivation comparable to Golden Core True Persons and are scarce in number. It would be better to find a way to ambush and kill righteous path’s Golden Core True Persons."

"Only humans, as the leaders of all beings in heaven and earth, are favored by heaven and earth. The vengeful spirits refined from human souls have the ability to grow.

If one were to use beast spirits as substitutes, even if they could refine a soul banner, it would only be a superficial imitation.

Not to mention those beasts in Wushan born from hybrid spirit beast bloodlines. Many are outcasts rejected by heaven and earth from the start, with incomplete Three Souls and Seven Spirits, making them utterly worthless.

If you truly want to use those beast spirits to refine a soul banner, unless the Celestial Dao grants its blessing, it’s absolutely impossible!"

The stall owner’s words, vowed and sworn, left Lu Yan internally shaken.

Although this matter seemed absurd to others, as an Unchanging who has experienced several version updates, Lu Yan knows clearly that this matter is not baseless.

The Zombies Wandering Souls he slaughtered lacked the Celestial and Earthly Souls, which, upon tracing back, originated from the beasts in Wushan.

The version update converted these beasts’ incomplete spirits into the Seven Spirits of Human Souls, granting them characteristics similar to human souls, enabling Lu Yan to use Zombie Wandering Souls in the soul refining banners.

The changes brought by world version updates, to some extent, aren’t they also blessings from the Celestial Dao?

Lu Yan looked at the stall owner with an undetectable hint of surprise in his eyes.

This stall owner was just at the sixth level of Qi Cultivation, but his knowledge and insight seemed to far exceed the level of this stage.

Before Lu Yan could speak, the stall owner suddenly pulled an ancient book from the clutter on his stall.

"Seeing that fate has brought you to me, I’ll sell you this ’Heavenly Dao Discussion’ for the price of ten Spirit Stones.

It’s genuinely an ancient classic, expounding the Path of Heaven and Earth and the foundation of all things. It’s said that there’s hidden secrets within that are enough to ascend to immortality."

"Pfft!"

The moment the stall owner said this, the herbal medicine vendor next to him couldn’t hold back a laugh and said:

"A book full of whimsical guesses without any substantial content daring to call itself an ancient classic; He Dongsheng, you’ve truly gone mad with desperation."

He Dongsheng wasn’t angry about being exposed on the spot, instead, he smiled awkwardly, saying:

"Although ’Heavenly Dao Discussion’ isn’t related to cultivation, it merely expounds some principles of heaven and earth, but it is indeed an authentic ancient classic.

You can tell from the level of aging on the pages, the cover, and the remnants of ancient characters; it’s definitely a rare treasure.

They don’t buy it because they don’t recognize its value. Perhaps your fortune has come, and you can comprehend the Path of Heaven and Earth from this, then ascending to immortality won’t be just a dream!"

Lu Yan glanced at the ’Heavenly Dao Discussion’ in He Dongsheng’s hands and could faintly smell a hint of tea on the book, and his gaze changed immediately.

Tea-soaked and artificially aged paper, this is the most common method of aging pages in the Urban Version, even Lu Yan, an outsider, has heard of it.

This ’Heavenly Dao Discussion’ looks less like it’s ancient, more like it’s from last week!