Hidden Moth-Chapter 512 - 291: Watching Over the Ages, Guarding Through Millennia

Chapter 512: Chapter 291: Watching Over the Ages, Guarding Through Millennia

Master Dan Qiu’s voice rang out: "In the name of safeguarding the inheritance, you seize control of the Grotto Heaven, selfishly claiming heavenly achievements as your own, making all sorcerers under heaven revere you, committing acts that deceive and steal fame; this is the current Magic Sect."

Guo Qianhuai frowned and said: "What did he say? I didn’t understand a single word."

Gu Chun: "He said the Magic Sect controls all the major Grotto Heavens and is venerated as the orthodox technique sect, and he is unhappy, thinking this shouldn’t be the case."

Guo Qianhuai: "He says it shouldn’t be, and that’s it? It’s not like we are boasting, it’s just the truth."

Gu Chun: "His point is, facts are facts, but it shouldn’t be this way, and there should be changes."

Guo Qianhuai: "How can the Magic Sect change that? These are age-old inheritances, and the Magic Sect is the orthodox sect of techniques.

Just like this Xiaodanzi, if he crushes the egg, can he claim not to be his parents’ son? Things should go like this; he must first be his parents’ son before there can be an egg to crush..."

Li Xiuyuan interjected: "His egg is still there, uncrushed."

Guo Qianhuai: "I am just making an analogy."

Jiang Daozhen unhappily said: "Speak properly! Why are you all talking about eggs?"

Li Xiuyuan: "Xiaodanzi brought up eggs first."

Jiang Daozhen: "He talks about eggs, and so do you. If he wants to crush eggs, will you follow him? Isn’t his intention clear? He wants to seize the Grotto Heaven and have all sorcerers under heaven revere them."

Guo Qianhuai: "Isn’t he just slandering us?"

Jiang Daozhen: "Do you know how slander works? It’s by attributing one’s own past, present, and desired actions to the opposite party.

For instance, Zhang San picking on Li Si, if it’s a baseless accusation, looking at what slander Zhang San is hurling can reveal their own true nature..."

These words were exchanged through Divine Thought, happening so quickly that a blink of an eye conveyed so much.

Master Dan Qiu’s face turned livid as he shouted: "Utter nonsense!"

Jiang Daozhen smiled amiably and said: "Oh, so you admit it?"

Master Dan Qiu didn’t engage further, continuing with a deep voice: "How can the Magic Sect prove that what I just said is not the truth? Didn’t you seize the Grotto Heaven and commit acts of deception and stealing fame?"

Jiang Daozhen: "You are still trying to make us prove an innocent claim yourself, have some shame, will you? Yet today, you attempted to seize the Grotto Heaven and got caught in the act. How do you plan to explain that?"

Both sides are experienced, refusing to play by the other’s pace in their "debate."

Master Dan Qiu questioned again: "The major Grotto Heavens were developed by the founding sages, left as inheritance and blessed land for future generations. This opportunity should belong to the future disciples, but you monopolize it; isn’t this taking heavenly merit for one’s own?"

Jiang Daozhen also responded seriously: "You got a few words right; the major Grotto Heavens were indeed developed by the founding sages and left as inheritance and blessed land for future generations, and this opportunity should belong to the future disciples.

But your other words are wrong. The Magic Sect hasn’t taken the sages’ merit; we are simply fulfilling our responsibility.

The responsibility of the Magic Sect is precisely to uphold the sages’ grand wishes, ensuring that all major Grotto Heavens remain inheritance and blessed land for future disciples, preventing the sect’s teachings from being severed or the blessed fate from hiding, and guarding against people like you who want to seize them for personal possession.

Do you understand? We are guarding against people like you!"

Master Dan Qiu: "These words are truly laughable. Monopolizing is monopolizing; why deny it? Those who achieve success in cultivating techniques under heaven are all sorcerers; Grotto Heaven Blessed Land and inheritance opportunities should belong to all sorcerers, not just your Magic Sect disciples.

Our Xiao Alliance sorcerers should also enjoy this!"

Jiang Daozhen nodded and said: "You said that correctly, but you have misunderstood one thing.

The so-called Magic Sect is a sect that upholds inheritance opportunities, not anyone’s Magic Sect, certainly not my Magic Sect. It is the sect of all sorcerers under heaven, embracing all rivers, blending into the mundane world; do you understand?

As long as sorcerers under heaven break through Tier Four Cultivation, they can sense the Grotto Heaven Summon. They can all come here to receive secondary inheritance, becoming members of the Magic Sect, including independent cultivators of Jianghu and Xiao Alliance disciples, all treated equally."

Master Dan Qiu sneered: "That’s just self-promotion, but you can’t do it."

Jiang Daozhen: "I can tell from your sincere remark; you genuinely believe that way.

There are people in this world who, if they can’t do something, think others can’t either. Even if others have done it, they refuse to believe it, thinking it’s just a facade, convinced there’s a secret reason behind it."

Master Dan Qiu: "According to you, I, too, am a sorcerer and should enjoy the inheritance and blessed fate of this Grotto Heaven."

Jiang Daozhen: "If you came normally, as long as your past conduct is without blemish, even knowing you are a Xiao Alliance disciple, you can still join the Magic Sect to receive the secondary inheritance and benefit from the insights of past sages.

But what did you come here to do? To steal and rob! We are burdened with the responsibility to guard against people like you... If someone came to the Xiao Alliance to steal and rob, what would you do?"

Master Dan Qiu: "Sounds nice, but anyone can make excuses."

The conversation earlier did not use Divine Thought; it was accompanied by Magical Combat talk, and only Jiang Daozhen was speaking among the four old men.

Gu Chun also spoke at this moment: "Proving it is simple. Is Geng Yanxin not the sorcerer trained by your Xiao Alliance? After he broke through Tier Four, he concealed his origins, but the Magic Sect found no past misconduct.

As long as he does not violate Sect Rules, the Magic Sect treats him equally. He even became a Steward of the Alchemy Sect... but today’s actions deserve execution, so I have killed him earlier."

Master Dan Qiu: "You never intended goodwill; you had long planned to use him to set up today’s trap, didn’t you?"

Gu Chun finally sighed and said, "Then, what about Qi Nansheng? He is also the sorcerer from your Xiao Alliance, right? He lived in the Magic Sect for sixty-five years and served as the Sect Leader of the Alchemy Sect and the Elder of the Ancestral Hall, but now he has retired into seclusion."

That seemingly light sentence holds so much information! The Supreme Elder and former Sect Leader of the Alchemy Sect, Qi Nansheng, is actually a sorcerer of Xiao Alliance?

Jiang Daozhen spoke the truth, but some situations were not introduced.

After Qi Nansheng broke through Tier Four, he accepted the Grotto Heaven Summon and arrived at the Immortal Pot Grotto Heaven, officially returning to the Magic Sect; that was sixty-five years ago.

Back then, the New Eastern Country had just been liberated and was still very impoverished, having suffered through a hundred years of chaos with everything needing renewal. Under the conditions of communication and transport at the time, sorcerers scattered all over were practically no different than Loose Cultivators.

The Alchemy Sect dispatched people to investigate Qi Nansheng’s past conduct, finding no misconduct, and discovered his character sounded quite good.

He claimed that as a youth he encountered a mysterious figure in Jianghu, obtained the Alchemy Cauldron Skill heritage, and later broke through Tier Four through persistent cultivation... this experience is similar to today’s Chang’an Residence.

Thirty-two years after returning to the Magic Sect, Qi Nansheng achieved Tier Six Pharmacist cultivation.

Seventeen years later, which was Qi Nansheng’s forty-ninth year after returning to the Magic Sect, the former Sect Leader Lu Wenxuan failed to reach Tier Seven and, knowing he was dying, convened the Ancestral Hall to decide to pass on the Sect Leader position to Qi Nansheng.

Qi Nansheng was older than Jiang Daozhen, yet his tenure as Sect Leader began much later.

If someone was familiar with this history, they might find it illogical. For Qi Nansheng had long reached Tier Six cultivation; why did Elder Lu wait seventeen years to pass the Sect Leader position to him?

Even more intriguing is that Qi Nansheng claimed to be of humble talent, and steadfastly refused to accept. What is the situation with that? If he wasn’t Sect Leader, who would take the role?

According to Magic Sect tradition, a Sect Leader should have Tier Six or above cultivation, and upon becoming Sect Leader, would have a status in the Ancestral Hall. If Elder Lu retired, at that time, only Qi Nansheng was qualified to succeed him.

In Magic Sect history, if there has been an interruption, meaning the Sect Leader dies but no disciples have reached Tier Six, a Tier Five Steward temporarily assumes the position without enjoying Ancestral Hall Elder status.

If a younger disciple breaks through Tier Six, the current Sect Leader would be eager to quickly retire for leisure and devote themselves to cultivation.

It is said that on the night before the new Sect Leader succession ceremony, Lu Wenxuan and Qi Nansheng had a lengthy private talk, and no one knew what they spoke of, but Qi Nansheng still formally succeeded as Sect Leader.

During the succession ceremony, Qi Nansheng recited the Sect Rules item by item and swore to adhere, puzzling those attending. Because this content belongs in the Secondary Inheritance ceremony for disciples breaking through Tier Four, not in the Sect Leader succession ceremony.

Qi Nansheng also swore to responsibly guard the Ancestral Hall, not fail to protect the Sect, which was the normal procedure.

But then he tearfully swore never to betray the Magic Sect or fail his master’s grace... this was self-added drama, but it certainly heightened the atmosphere accordingly.

Shortly after Qi Nansheng succeeded as Sect Leader, Lu Wenxuan passed away.

Actually, after Qi Nansheng returned to the Magic Sect, he lived unobtrusively, focusing on cultivation, and few disciples knew him.

After he achieved Tier Six Pharmacist cultivation, he couldn’t keep a low profile anymore, and Lu Wenxuan wanted to pass the Sect Leader position to him immediately, but Qi Nansheng persistently refused to accept, until Elder Lu couldn’t delay it any longer.

Qi Nansheng’s term as Sect Leader wasn’t long, only ten years.

Six years ago, Mei Guyu broke through Tier Six Pharmacist cultivation, but she was very young at that time, just turned twenty, lacking in many aspects, and Qi Nansheng could have waited like Lu Wenxuan for a while longer.

Just then, Qi Nansheng clashed with the Wild Phoenix, and he resigned from the Sect Leader position, went into seclusion at Taihua Mountain, and conveniently passed the Sect Leader position to Mei Guyu.

Looking back now, if Lu Wenxuan had held out for another ten years, he might have directly passed the Sect Leader position to Mei Guyu, and Qi Nansheng wouldn’t have been involved at all.

Upon hearing Jiang Daozhen’s words, many doubts seem to find resolution.

Qi Nansheng broke through Tier Four cultivation and was sent by the Xiao Alliance to infiltrate the Alchemy Sect—it was sixty-five years ago, when the Master Dan Qiu hadn’t even been born yet.

Those in the Xiao Alliance who knew about it back then are long gone, yet the Master Dan Qiu is aware of it.

This is one of Xiao Alliance’s top secrets, without any documentation, only known by the core high-level who break through Great Success Cultivation, who swear not to disclose it.

Among the Seven Great Magic Sects, Xiao Alliance specifically targets the Alchemy Sect, even seeking an opportunity to seize the Immortal Pot Grotto Heaven, with Qi Nansheng being a crucial reason.

Former heads of Xiao Alliance collectively made one decision, ordering successors to abide by it: under any circumstances, Qi Nansheng should not be directly activated as a pawn.

Inserting people without ever using them in any circumstances seems pointless, but can’t be said that way; the rationale is complex, for now Xiao Alliance risked too much, the situation might spin out of control!

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