238: The heart of origin!

Lu Hao smiled as he answered, and continued:

"Senior Guo, please resolve the confusion in my heart next."

"Ask whatever you wish."

Lu Hao raised his wine cup, took another sip, and asked slowly:

"I presume the person who gave me the Nine-Rank Pill Formula was you, Senior?"

"Yes, I had Qi Yuda pass it on to you for me."

"Then why didn't you appear yourself to give it to me back then? Were you worried that I might harm you?"

"Not at all, not at all."

Guo Yongsi shook his head and said:

"Little brother, at that time I only had some optimism that you could refine a Nine-Rank Pill, but I had no certainty, so I dared not bet everything on you!"

"That is why I dared not come out to see you then. We have been lingering on in a precarious state for far too long. If I were to appear and be exposed under the Heavenly Dao, I would certainly be reduced to ashes within three years!"

Lu Hao asked:

"Senior Guo, then I do not know why you have appeared now? Do you really believe that I can successfully refine a Nine-Rank Pill?"

"Originally, I was not very certain, but this time when you arrived at the Miao Dan Sect, I became certain!"

"Because I sensed that the Origin of Alchemy within Danling State has already begun to converge upon you! This is a phenomenon that only occurs when one is about to ascend to the Realm of the Supreme Grandmaster of Alchemy!"

Lu Hao understood. The Origin of Alchemy? Why couldn't he sense it?

He thought silently for a moment; it must be because his true cultivation Realm was too low. After all, anything involving the Origin could only be sensed by those at the Peak of the Nascent Void or the Yang Solid Realm.

His true cultivation was merely at the Mahayana Perfection.

However, Lu Hao still had many doubts, and he continued to ask:

"Senior Guo, I do not know why you were selling wine in that village? And how did you determine that I could save Danling State?"

"Also, what exactly is the crisis in Danling State? Why must I be the one to intervene? Can the local people of Danling State not solve it? Although you are a remnant soul, you are at the Void Realm, and I cannot defeat you with my own strength right now."

"And, when I first arrived in Danling State, I met Dan Ding, who is the current Sect Master of the Ancient Pill Sect. He was quite friendly to me at the time and even told me the history of the Nine-Rank Pill in Danling State. Why is he now trying to stop me from refining the Nine-Rank Pill?"

Lu Hao's words came one after another. These were all questions that had been confusing him for some time, especially the 180-degree turn in Dan Ding's attitude, which puzzled Lu Hao the most.

This series of questions caught Guo Yongsi somewhat off guard. He fell silent for a moment, sorted out his thoughts, and began to speak slowly:

"Little brother, as you have seen, this old man is a remnant soul. The one selling wine in the village before was a Clone of mine. Although it had a Physical Body, its cultivation was extremely low."

"As for why I was in that village, it is because I practice the art of divination. The hexagrams told me that by waiting in that village, I would eventually meet someone who could solve the crisis of Danling State!"

"I waited bitterly for decades, and finally, I waited for you to come and buy wine. After meeting you, I divined that you are the greatest variable! Therefore, I felt that you are the one who will save Danling State!"

"After learning the news, I rushed back to my main body and informed it. My main body resides within the Void Space."

"That place isolates Karma, so the Clone and the main body cannot communicate. I could only learn about this matter after the Clone and the main body achieved Fusion, which is why I suddenly disappeared overnight."

Lu Hao nodded in sudden realization. No wonder the old man who had been selling wine there for half his life suddenly disappeared.

Guo Yongsi cleared his throat and continued:

"As for the crisis in Danling State, that is a long story..."

Time passed slowly. Lu Hao listened to Guo Yongsi's words very intently, nodding from time to time and occasionally revealing a thoughtful expression.

After half a quarter of an hour, Lu Hao finally understood the predicament currently facing Danling State!

Why there were no Supreme Grandmasters of Alchemy in the entire Danling State, and why the twenty-three Grandmasters of Alchemy of Danling State would join forces to refine a Nine-Rank Pill with all their might!

Why there were only twelve Grandmasters of Alchemy now, only half of what there were in the ancient era!

So that was it! Moreover, as he spoke, the Heart-Questioning Mirror did not react in the slightest, clearly indicating that Guo Yongsi was not deceiving him, which also increased Lu Hao's favorable impression of him significantly.

This matter must be traced back to when two peerless experts shattered the Eastern Region, causing the Eastern Region to split into 108 States.

For an unknown treasure, two peerless experts fought fiercely across the territory of the Eastern Region!

Their cultivation was astonishingly high. While shattering the Eastern Region continent, they actually scattered the Heart of Origin of the Eastern Region!

The Heart of Origin is the Foundation of the Eastern Region! There are only five Hearts of Origin in the entire Tianxuan Ancient World, located in the five major regions of East, South, West, North, and Center.

Each one is an extremely rare treasure!

For those born and raised there, the most important thing on the path of cultivation is the Heart of Origin. If one wishes to achieve Immortal Ascension, one must comprehend the Heart of Origin.

A complete Heart of Origin is formed by the Fusion of three thousand kinds of Origin Dao. Within it, every strand of the Origin Dao intersects and intertwines, emitting all sorts of mysterious and unfathomable power.

The matter of the Heart of Origin being scattered was completely unexpected by everyone in the Eastern Region, and it directly brought an inescapable catastrophe to the experts in the Eastern Region!

As long as a Cultivator's cultivation reaches the Void Realm, they begin to slowly comprehend the Origin!

Anyone who wants to achieve a Breakthrough must rely on comprehending the Heart of Origin of the Eastern Region to do so!

Therefore, it is only natural that this Heart of Origin has become their Dao and their Foundation!

Now that the Heart of Origin has been scattered, it is equivalent to their Dao being gone... their Foundation being broken... how can they possibly survive?

For a time, countless experts perished because of this. Regardless of what methods they possessed, or whether their combat power was strong or not, all of them perished the moment the Heart of Origin was scattered.

Their Dao vanished, and their bodies died! It was equality for all living beings in the truest sense...

Throughout the entire Eastern Region, there were phenomena of experts perishing everywhere—all sorts of weeping from the heavens and the dissipation of various Dao rhythms—as if it were a living hell!

The entire Eastern Region's Cultivators were directly cut off!

But those two seemed completely unconcerned about this and continued to attack, once again inflicting world-destroying damage on those of lower Realms.

After the Heart of Origin was scattered and then subjected to such devastation by the two of them, the highest cultivation level of those who survived was only the Yuán Xū Realm.

Later, the two peerless experts seemed to end their dispute and left one after another, leaving behind an Eastern Region that was ruined beyond recognition.