Chapter 634 472: Ascending Sun Sees a Rainbow

"Brother, this magic artifact is somewhat out of the ordinary."

Li Qinghong handed over the jade bottle, showcased it, then erased his mana and spiritual sense, allowing Li Xuanfeng to infuse his own.

The body of the bottle flickered with golden light, emitting a bright golden mist that danced and leapt over Li Xuanfeng's fingertips. He looked down for a moment and replied:

"It's a relic from the Ancient Wei Country, might be a magic artifact of Mingyang. Bring it back home for the younger generation to try, there might be some transformation."

The two took to the skies, and as Li Xuanfeng observed the changing landscape beneath him, crossing great rivers, his thoughts had already flown to the lake. He turned to ask:

"I heard that my eldest brother is suffering from inner demons, is his dao heart not very stable?"

Li Qinghong nodded slightly, guessing his thoughts. Sure enough, Li Xuanfeng calculated with his fingers and asked again:

"Did our eldest brother have any more children afterward?"

"No."

Li Qinghong answered softly:

"With no more descendants, and those mortal clan uncles... also passed away some time ago."

Li Xuanfeng said in a hoarse voice:

"Brother... his last son perished in Cave Heaven, must have caused him unbearable pain!"

The two flew in silence as the sky grew dark and light intermittently. They soon arrived at the lake where the rain poured fiercely. Qingdu Mountain stood quietly in the rain. Li Xuanfeng, who had never returned and had never left his mark on the Great Formation, let Li Qinghong open it first, and they both descended.

Once they landed within the mountain, Li Qinghong respectfully passed the Immortal Mirror into Li Xuanfeng's hands, who received it with both hands. Together, they advanced.

Next to the stone steps of the mountain, there stood a young girl in a white dress with phoenix eyes, quite beautiful. Li Qinghong whispered:

"This is the orphaned child of our brother."

Li Xuanfeng nodded, watching as Li Qinghong took the girl's hand and stepped alone onto the somewhat unfamiliar steps, saying softly:

"I'll make a trip to the Ancestral Hall first, call everyone over."

Li Qinghong understood that he wanted to return the Immortal Mirror and announce his mission accomplished. He led Li Yuexiang away while Li Xuanfeng stepped into the hall, closing the door tightly to isolate it from the outside.

He paid his respects to the first row of nameplates, used the Immortal Mirror to check that there was no Zifu nearby, then entered the Stone Chamber and placed the grey Immortal Mirror on the secret-method spirit platform, and took out the jade buckle from his storage bag.

In an instant, the grey Immortal Mirror on the high seat suddenly lit up, vibrating incessantly and emitting bursts of dazzling white light.

A moon-white fog billowed out, the ground under the moonlight became bright, raising several complicatedly patterned sweet osmanthus plants. One by one, gold and white osmanthus flowers fell down, the golden stamens aromatic and delightful. From the dark corners, several agile and adorable jade rabbits leaped out.

With the sweet scent of osmanthus lingering, Li Xuanfeng lifted his hands, and the jade buckle slowly started to shine.

He had investigated the jade buckle earlier, and his spiritual sense found it to be just ordinary jade. After Yu Muxian's death, there was no reaction; it did not show any signs of recognizing a new master, nor did it dim or brighten.

Now, the jade buckle finally responded, turning into a stream of white light from top to bottom, plunging into the mirror, and disappearing. The grey mirror surface suddenly lit up, turning into a bright white color.

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Inside the world of the Immortal Mirror.

Lu Jiangxian was settling down, slowly digesting the feedback from the Talisman Seed. Li Yuanjiao's cultivation level wasn't particularly robust, but it was the first Talisman Seed of the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, which was much better than the previous ones.

Lu Jiangxian had always been satisfied and assured of Li Yuanjiao, who exchanged his own life for Yu Muxian's and the jade buckle, with various thoughtful and subtle considerations. Not only did Lu Jiangxian understand, but even Li Xuanfeng and Xiao Yongling who were present could sense some of it.

"The promise to Li Tongya, 'Jiao dare not forget'... not many could do it better than you... "

Lu Jiangxian was silent for a moment, scenes from Cave Heaven quickly appeared in his mind like an animation, continuously playing, watching Li Yuanjiao encounter the 'Triple Night Wall', enter the Illusionary Realm, and choose a Cultivation Technique to memorize...

The scene froze, and soon concentrated on the last moment of the stone wall, as lines of golden text slowly emerged. Lu Jiangxian's expression changed gradually, staring straight ahead.

"'Tongzhen Miao Jue'."

These four characters seemed to hold a kind of magic, bringing forth a range of thoughts in his heart, but what shocked him wasn't the golden lines of essential teachings to come, but the four characters themselves.

It had been more than ninety years since Lu Jiangxian had seen these characters.

"Seal characters..."

The script was unmistakably the Lesser Seal Script of his previous life!

The golden characters flew out of his mind, passing through his pupils, and hovered in this world. Lu Jiangxian sat straight in the center, watching the seal characters rotate around him, his eyes gradually lit up.

He remembered.

It was not learned or thoroughly studied, but emerged from the depths of his memory -- he might have studied this scripture a hundred or a thousand times, and now he understood it completely, remembering everything.

The true name of the 'Tongzhen Miao Jue' is 'Liang Zhi Zi's Observational Scripture of Prominent Essential Mystical Technique for Achieving True Completion', a cultivation technique for the ancient cultivators seeking nature and life, for actualizing immortality and acquiring wealth. In Lu Jiangxian's memory, he had perfected this technique.

Now, with his eyes slowly opening, Lu Jiangxian's whole demeanor had changed, lightly extending his hand with the palm facing upwards, and the cone-like brightness of the Mingyang Metal Nature appeared.

"Bright Splendor Radiant Sun Mastery of Interchanging Natures!"

"So it turns out... Metal Nature is such an entity! Life and nature intertwined, Metal Nature and fate are inherently one!"

He had countless insights in his heart but couldn't articulate them in words, just tears of joy, feeling that if he could hear the dao in the morning and die in the evening, he would be satisfied, whispering:

"No wonder the reincarnation of the Golden Core, with fate attaching... it turns out Metal Nature draws it, and fate fulfills itself!"

This bit of Metal Nature in his hands had utterly transformed from its previous static nature, spinning affectionately in his palm. Linking his index and middle fingers and lightly tapping with his thumb, the gold in his palm suddenly shone brilliantly.