150: Chapter 149 Looking Back on the Past

The illusory form of Master Wangchen hung suspended in mid-air, looking at the four of Ye Qingxuan, with an unresolvable melancholy and helplessness hidden deep within her eyes.

"Time has fallen silent. I never expected that today, an otherworldly expert would step into this Secret Realm of my medicinal garden."

Her voice was soft and ethereal, carrying the exhaustion precipitated by the years. Her remnant soul projection swayed slightly, clearly having reached its limit in surviving until today.

Ye Qingxuan's expression remained consistently calm. She was merely a remnant soul in the Body Integration Stage; even in her prime, she would not have been his match.

He calmly spoke: "You seized a glimmer of survival, actively dissipated your cultivation to repay the Karma of Heaven and Earth, and leaped out of Karmic Obstruction, only then managing to retain a wisp of a remnant soul."

Master Wangchen nodded gently, her gaze sweeping across the vibrant medicinal fields below, her eyes filled with reluctance.

"This medicinal garden is my attachment, and it is also the only trace in this world proving that I once existed."

"Master, you..."

Looking at her Master's remnant soul, Xiaoyue's eye sockets turned slightly red as she silently lowered her head. Countless tens of thousands of years of persistence all turned into bitterness at this moment.

Duyuan and Lin Lei still kept their minds tightly strung. Although they possessed the cultivation of Half-step Integration, before this wisp of residual thought from a Body Integration expert, they were still like fireflies facing the bright moon, not daring to relax in the slightest.

Although Ye Qingxuan was by their side, this was the instinct of Cultivators facing danger.

Bai Yuekui quietly leaned beside Ye Qingxuan with a calm expression. She believed that her man would protect her well.

The National Fortune Live Broadcast Room bullet screen was flooded, with sighs filling the entire screen.

["So heartbreaking! One person guarded alone for countless tens of thousands of years!"]

["The entire Pangu Civilization is selfish, yet only this Master Wangchen is clear-headed and lucid. What a pity!"]

["The remnant soul can barely hold on anymore. This must be the final lingering glow!"]

["Only Daoist Ye can look at her calmly. If anyone else from our side came here, they would have been directly suppressed to death!"]

Master Yuanxin sighed softly: "The most painful thing is to be a lucid person. Caught in the great trend and knowing the ending, yet unable to turn the tide."

Celestial Master Zhang slowly shook his head: "With a heart for all living beings and strictly adhering to the Karma of Heavenly Dao, this person's Heart-Nature far surpasses other strong figures of the Pangu Civilization."

Master Kongming: "This Master Wangchen is quite carefree."

National Destiny Space——

Master Wangchen withdrew her gaze, looked solemnly at Ye Qingxuan, and her projection bowed slightly.

"My remnant soul is about to disperse. Today, I hand over this medicinal garden entirely to Fellow Daoist."

Ye Qingxuan looked at the remnant soul in mid-air with great interest: "What, you're just giving up like this? Do you not want to live out another lifetime? You are a remnant soul, and you still have a chance to survive."

Hearing this, Xiaoyue at the side immediately looked at her Master with eyes full of hope, secretly praying in her heart that her Master could find a glimmer of survival.

Master Wangchen's expression was calm as she softly asked in return: "Is what Fellow Daoist speaking of Possession? I am unwilling to do so. Forcibly occupying a body that is not one's own makes the Dao Heart uneasy."

Hearing these words, Duyuan and Lin Lei felt admiration in their hearts for Master Wangchen's unconstrained and open-minded nature.

The strings of their hearts, which had been tightly strung all along, also slowly relaxed at this moment.

Deep in his heart, Ye Qingxuan silently held her in higher regard.

Among the Cultivators of the world, none are not greedy for life and afraid of death. Those who can view life and death with such calm detachment and would rather die than damage their Dao Heart are few and far between.

He asked himself, if he were to fall to this state, he would definitely stop at nothing to first seek a glimmer of survival and stay alive before anything else. Once truly dead, everything becomes completely empty.

Of course, he also knew in his heart that even if Master Wangchen really harbored thoughts of Possession, with him here, she would not have any chance.

Looking at her, Ye Qingxuan opened his mouth to ask: "Tell me about your experiences. This Daoist is quite curious."

Previously, when he used the Heavenly Secrets Technique to deduce, he only calculated the general past of the Pangu Civilization, but he had no way of knowing the more detailed secrets within it.

Ye Qingxuan continued to ask: "Why does your civilization insist on bearing the name of Pangu?"

Hearing these words, a trace of sorrow instantly flashed through Master Wangchen's eyes, containing both recollections of the supreme glory of the former civilization and endless regret over the ultimate destruction of her ethnic group.

"Since Fellow Daoist wants to listen, I will elaborate on it in detail."

At this moment, not only did Duyuan and the other three listen attentively, but the entire National Fortune Live Broadcast Room and all Blue Star citizens watching the live broadcast pricked up their ears, their gazes tightly fixed on the screen.

Everyone's heart was immensely curious: what kind of ignorant people dared to presumptuously name a civilization after Pangu?

Master Wangchen fell into distant memories, her voice ethereal and vicissitudinous.

"It is too distant, so distant that I can no longer remember the specific years. The founder of the Pangu Civilization was originally a Mortal, born without a name, and everyone called him Nameless."

"In a secret place, he obtained a wordless heavenly book."

"He firmly believed that this heavenly book concealed the ultimate secrets of Heaven and Earth. Day after day, he studied and comprehended it, experiencing countless years, and from the wordless heavenly book, he enlightened a complete cultivation system—Cultivation."

"And it was precisely this method of cultivation that opened the precedent of spiritual practice, serving as the earliest and most fundamental origin of the Pangu Civilization."

"After Nameless passed down the cultivation method, he disappeared, and no one ever saw him again. As for why the civilization was named Pangu, it has long been impossible to verify."

Master Wangchen softly recounted her past, her tone full of vicissitudes.

Duyuan could not help asking: "A wordless heavenly book?"

Master Wangchen: "Correct. I only heard it from my Master; I have never seen it myself."

Ye Qingxuan said thoughtfully:

"It should be an item from an Advanced world, or perhaps a treasure of this world, similar to the Jade Disc of Good Fortune and the like. That Nameless should be the Child of Luck of that era."

Lin Lei: "Big Brother Ye, isn't that the kind of thing like the stone tablet you gave me?"

Duyuan: "Pretty much. However, this impoverished monk is more inclined to believe it is a treasure from an Advanced world. After all, if that Nameless could comprehend a complete path of cultivation from nothing, he shouldn't not know the name of Pangu."

Bai Yuekui looked at her man and asked: "So, from the moment they named their civilization with the name of Pangu, the root of disaster was planted?"

Ye Qingxuan nodded, looked at Master Wangchen, and said: "Continue speaking!"

Master Wangchen nodded and continued:

"I was originally an orphan, depending on my older brother for survival in my youth. But one day, my older brother suddenly disappeared without a trace. Some said he died, while others said he was taken as a Disciple by an Immortal and stepped onto the Immortal path."

"In order to search for my older brother's traces, I wandered the world alone. Later, I was fortunate enough to meet my Master, the number one Alchemist of the Pangu Civilization."

"He led me onto the path of cultivation. My Aptitude was ordinary, neither good nor bad, but I did not disappoint my Master's expectations, taking three thousand years to cultivate to my current Realm."

"I even surpassed my Master and became the number one Alchemist of the Pangu Civilization."

"It's a pity that until my death, I never found my older brother's traces. It is still somewhat of a regret."

Saying this, Master Wangchen could not help shaking her head and sighing.

Hearing this, Ye Qingxuan muttered inwardly: Depend on an older brother for survival? Isn't this fucking the template of the Ruthless Great Emperor?

Bai Yuekui seemed to sense Ye Qingxuan's bizarre inner thoughts and looked at him curiously. Ye Qingxuan smiled and rubbed her white hair. Feeling the warm big hand on top of her head, Bai Yuekui's face blushed slightly.

Duyuan and Lin Lei kept their eyes on their noses and their noses on their hearts, pretending not to see anything.

A group of female perverts in the live broadcast room wailed upon seeing Ye Qingxuan's smile.

This left Master Yuanxin in the CCTV Livestream with a face full of bitter laughter.

Yun Huan, watching the live broadcast in the Heavenly Demon Palace, gritted her teeth, while Lin Yao on the other side was filled with envy in her eyes.

Fortunately, Qingling had not yet come out of seclusion; otherwise, once Ye Qingxuan went back, he would be in for a hard time.

National Destiny Space——

Watching the interaction among the four people in front of her, a trace of gentleness flashed through Master Wangchen's eyes, likely recalling something. She continued her narrative:

"However, those peaceful years did not last long. One day, my Master told me that the Clan Chief intended to lead the entire Pangu Civilization in an ethnic-wide Ascension."

"At that time, the Clan Chief had long crossed the Heavenly Tribulation, and his cultivation had reached the Mahayana Late Stage. Yet his cultivation was stuck right there, finding no path forward and unable to make further Breakthroughs."

"Accidentally, he obtained the handwritten notes of Nameless, the founder of the civilization, and learned that outside this world, there were worlds of a higher level."

"Unwilling to stop there, an obsession grew within him. He wanted to lead the entire ethnic group to transcend this heaven and earth and go to a higher world to cultivate."

"During a session of seclusion and enlightenment, I glimpsed many secrets of the operation of Heaven and Earth, and knew that Ascension requires repaying the Karma of Heaven and Earth. I immediately went to admonish the Clan Chief, advising him to give up the obsession with Ascension. If he insisted on Ascension, he must first repay the Karma of Heaven and Earth nurturing the ethnic group."

"Yet back then, it was not just the Clan Chief who was obsessed and unenlightened. The strong figures within the clan who reached the Body Integration Stage all felt that I had gone mad from practicing Alchemy, and everyone thought I was alarmist."

"The entire clan was preparing for an ethnic-wide Ascension, and no one was willing to stop. I ran around everywhere, searching for like-minded people, hoping someone could listen to my advice, repay the Karma of Heaven and Earth together with me, and preserve the last trace of a spark for the Pangu Civilization."

"However, not a single person believed me, and even my Master was no exception. At that moment, I completely gave up hope."

Master Wangchen raised her eyes to look around this medicinal garden, her eyes filled with sighs.

"I had long anticipated the ending of the ethnic-wide Ascension; the general trend of Heavenly Dao is irreversible. To preserve the last trace of a spark for the Pangu Civilization, I actively dissipated my cultivation, took root in this place, and left the moon wheel in the Secret Realm."

"Back then, Xiaoyue was just a clueless and ignorant newborn artifact spirit. I never expected that after countless years of precipitation, absorbing the remnants of my Dao charm day and night, it would evolve complete spiritual intelligence and grow into its current appearance."

"The Spirit Medicine in this medicinal garden are all seeds I left back then. This moon wheel is my Lifebound Treasure. I originally hoped it would grow together with me and accompany me to roam the heavens in the future, but after all, it failed to fulfill my wish."

Looking at Xiaoyue, Master Wangchen's gaze was incomparably loving, just like looking at her own child.

Xiaoyue stood in place, her eyes brimming with tears as she looked at her Master, her heart filled with bitterness and sorrow.

Master Wangchen smiled gently and continued softly: "I was originally a rootless and helpless stray soul. Being able to walk to this day, I have long had no regrets, bearing no resentment toward Heaven and Earth, nor toward my clansmen."

"Everyone can guess the ending of subsequent events. The moment the Clan Chief led the entire clan to forcibly ascend, Heavenly Dao descended, completely obliterating all clansmen who attempted to ascend without repaying their Karma, returning all of theirs entirely to Heaven and Earth."

"Only I, having dissipated my cultivation in advance and repaid all the Karma of Heaven and Earth, was treated with leniency by Heavenly Dao, which retained a wisp of a remnant soul for me."

"Relying on a rare treasure obtained by chance, the Soul-Nurturing Pearl, to nourish my Divine Soul, this remnant soul was able to span through ages of time and survive until today."

After listening to Master Wangchen's complete past, Ye Qingxuan and the others nodded inwardly.

Master Wangchen's Heart-Nature was lucid and resilient. If she had been born in a higher-level Major Thousand Worlds, at the very least she would have been able to cultivate into a Golden Immortal by now. Alas, she was born in the Pangu Civilization and dragged down by the entire clan, meeting such an end.