Entering Revealing Cauldron
Qi collected in his chest, Mu Yu sat back down and ran Dustfallen Mental Cultivation again. Subsequently, he acquired a view of his body’s interior. He summoned Shadow Splitter Sword to his hand again, flicking qi of the blade from his exterior consciousness. His physical body continued performing Celestial Swords Nine Catalysts, while the potent qi he flicked started to circulate to his meridians.
The qi brimming with life passed the black and white spiritual energy without a challenge. In comparison, the soul energy and bloodlust energy fled from the qi. Though the soul energy and bloodlust energy could not do anything about the circulating qi, Mu Yu could not excrete them, either. In the end, he decided to usher them to his left arm and confine them there with his qi.
Revealing Cauldron heard Mu Yu’s decision and stopped pushing him away. Thus, he returned his consciousness to his body and noticed his left arm was perceptively heavy relative to the rest of his body. It was akin to an arm of darkness and a body of light.
This is the real me. Mu Yu got up to stretch and then sauntered over to Yao Wuji. “Alchemist Yao, Revealing Cauldron has acknowledged me.”
“R-really?”
Mu Yu squatted down and knocked on the formation underfoot with his right hand, then dipped his hand in.
“You did it! You did it! You really did it!” Yao Wuji grabbed Mu Yu’s hand, shedding tears of joy. “This means we’ll be saved. Brother Ku Mu, you must be protecting us from above.”
I failed to protect you, but I’ll protect your home, Dad, Mu Yu pledged in his mind. “I will protect Pill Cauldron Sect, Alchemist Yao.”
“Thank you! Thank you! Hurry on in. You must master Immortal Ancestor Dan Chen’s formation.”
“… Alchemist Yao, once I enter, you must leave this cavern so that no brows are raised. If you spend too long here, they w-”
“I know. I know. I’ll get going now.”
“As an insurance policy, I must wipe your memories. Though I removed the formation they cast on you, for your sake and everyone else’s sake, I must let them control you.”
Alchemist Yao heaved a heavy breath. “I understand what you mean. Since they think they have me in the palm of their hands, I won’t say a word. I’ll kneel and smile like their errand boy if I must for your sake and our sect’s sake. I can bear any degree of humiliation. If abandoning my pride will save Pill Cauldron Sect, then so be it. Third Heaven Palace has clouded my mind for too long. It’s time I face this without those clouds. That’s the only way I will know what Pill Cauldron Sect went through. I will consider these memories a lesson to remember.”
Looking into Yao Wuji’s firm gaze that he harboured admiration for, Mu Yu promised, “Alchemist Yao, you will not be disgraced for nothing. I will ensure you are paid back tenfold!”
“I trust you, and I believe you can succeed Immortal Ancestor Dan Chen to get us through this crisis. I will play my role to the best of my ability.”
Watching Yao Wuji depart, Xiaoshuai questioned, “Can he really play the role properly?”
“He and Daoist Yun Dan are the most rational people in Pill Cauldron Sect. He knows when and what he should do. Our job is to try and control Revealing Cauldron. Its qi strongly resembles Formation Palace’s. I reckon Pill Cauldron’s future hinges on whether or not we can make a Formation Palace out of this,” answered Mu Yu, sealing the soul energy and bloodlust energy in his left arm.
Xiaoshuai hopped onto Mu Yu’s shoulder, and the two of them entered the primordial world in Revealing Cauldron, a misty, yet clear, world. Text of varying size covered the walls of the cauldron in a specific order.
“Wait a second… I saw this text when Chang Tiancheng and I grappled for control of Formation Palace.”
Each character on the wall manifested in his head as a character that had come to life.
“This text is identical to scriptures. If only Big Earthworm was here; he’d be able to make sense of it.”
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