Consecutive Reward Drops, the Emperor Dies and the World Falls into Chaos

[You and Liu Jinchan arrived at the Tomb of the Living Dead.]

[The scene before your eyes left you both greatly shocked.]

[You saw!]

[Lu Yu was dragging a white-robed monk in his hand, like a dead dog, on his last breath.]

[When Lu Yu saw you, he was overjoyed for a moment and hurriedly gave you a hug.]

["Brother, just now I thought I'd never see you again."]

[Liu Jinchan crouched down and carefully examined the white-robed monk on the ground. His expression changed abruptly as he recognized him as Chan Master Withered Wood of Great Snow Mountain, a great grandmaster famed throughout North Wind.]

[The more than three thousand disciples of Great Snow Mountain all took him as their leader, the master of an entire sect.]

[Now, all the bones in his body had been shattered, and he had only one breath left hanging in him. He probably could not live.]

[You were filled with doubt, and asked Lu Yu the reason. Lu Yu then slowly related his experiences from Yellow Dragon to Chan Master Withered Wood.]

[After listening, you and Liu Jinchan exchanged a glance.]

[You sighed in your heart, "My younger brother is invincible under heaven."]

[Liu Jinchan sighed, "My disciple is invincible under heaven."]

[However, you immediately realized the change in the situation. Since Huang Dao had come to slay the dragon, Lu Yu's departure might have placed Emperor Qing in danger.]

[Once Emperor Qing died, Great Qing, which had not long been at peace, would likely be thrown into chaos across the realm once more.]

[Now that Lu Yu was by your side, you were not afraid. It seemed you had to make a trip to the summit of Mount Zhongnan.]

[At this moment, the white-robed monk who was on his last breath lay on the ground and called out weakly, "Three benefactors, please wait."]

[The three of you originally did not wish to stay any longer.]

[Prompt: Obtainable item detected.]

[Faced with this scene, you weighed it in your heart, and so you decided...]

1. Listen to the old monk finish speaking.

2. Leave.

3. Participate personally (1/3)

Yu Ke's eyes were excited as he looked at the three options.

An obtainable item!

Wasn't this equipment dropping?

Ever since his innate reincarnation, he had only obtained a letter from when Lu Yu was young. Now, at last, he had gained something again.

He rubbed his hands together, full of anticipation.

He prayed it would be an extraordinary item.

Golden legend!

Forget it, forget it.

He just hoped it would not be an empty package.

Yu Ke chose 1. Listen to the old monk finish speaking without the slightest hesitation.

Following your decision.

[You called Liu Jinchan and Lu Yu to a halt. Lu Yu did not care; what did the emperor's life or death have to do with him?]

[Liu Jinchan seemed rather anxious, but seeing that both you and Lu Yu had stopped, he could only wait helplessly.]

[Withered Wood laboriously raised his head, a faint light flickering in his eyes as he looked toward the three of you.]

["Though I have suffered this calamity today, there is no resentment in my heart. I know my time of death has come, and there is only one thing I ask."]

[His voice revealed endless vicissitudes. The face that should originally have been young now showed an aged state, his hair white and hoary. Clearly, with all his martial arts lost, his true age had been exposed, and he had turned into an old monk.]

[Your gaze turned to the old monk on the ground. He struggled to take a secret manual sewn from thick sheepskin out of his robes.]

[The old monk said in an earnest tone, "When a man is about to die, his words are good. This old monk earnestly asks the benefactor to send this secret manual back to Great Snow Mountain. As for the martial art recorded within it, if the benefactor wishes, you may cultivate it yourself."]

[The white-robed monk's face was full of bitterness. He sighed and said, "This old monk has failed the patriarchs of every generation. I never thought the inheritance of Great Snow Mountain would be severed in my generation."]

[You casually opened the secret manual and saw that it recorded methods for men and women to cultivate, with both pictures and text, vivid as life and dripping with sensuality, exceptionally erotic.]

[However, the written portion was in Sanskrit, and you could not read it directly. Judging from the old monk's solemn expression, it indeed should have been the supreme inheritance of Great Snow Mountain.]

[You looked at the monk and asked in return, "If I choose not to send it back to Great Snow Mountain, then what?"]

[The white-robed monk helplessly shook his head and sighed, "There is nothing this old monk can do either."

["However, this martial art was written in the script of Great Snow Mountain. Only my disciples can decipher the mysteries within it."]

[Lu Yu gave a cold laugh and mocked, "You certainly know how to scheme."]

[You flipped through the secret manual from beginning to end!]

[Prompt: Secret manual obtained. It can only be claimed after the simulation ends.]

Yu Ke looked at the prompt on the light screen above the cauldron!

He was slightly stunned, as if he had not expected that obtaining this secret manual would even have a "cooldown time."

There was no hurry either. In reality, it was only one night.

The simulation continued.

[You handed the secret manual to your master Liu Jinchan for him to examine. He studied it carefully for a moment, but he also could not recognize the Sanskrit within.]

[He only hastily swept a few glances over those erotic illustrations, then hurriedly closed the secret manual and muttered in a low voice, "Sinful."]

[Seeing this, Lu Yu could not help teasing, "Master, at your age, what haven't you seen?"]

[Liu Jinchan said angrily, "Your master still possesses a body of primordial yang. For many years, my heart has only wished to serve the several patriarchs. Do not speak nonsense!"]

[You also smiled. The three of you all seemed to be no longer young, yet none of you had married.]

[At this moment, Withered Wood's gaze turned to Lu Yu, complex emotions interweaving in his eyes. He slowly spoke:]

["Actually, there is one more thing I must say. This old monk is about to leave this world."]

["After death, perhaps I will not see the Buddha either. Though I cultivate Buddhism, I have never truly believed in the Buddha. Consider this a good deed I do before my death."]

[Withered Wood turned to look at you, his gaze deep as he said, "This younger brother of yours is no ordinary person. At such an age, he could knock open the gate of the innate realm and comprehend the true meaning of his martial dao. Most likely, it is related to that prophecy from thirty years ago."]

["Prophecy?"]

[You were slightly stunned. You only knew that after the sky fell, spiritual energy vanished, entering the warring Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, until now when spiritual energy had revived.]

[Withered Wood enunciated each word:]

["When heaven and man meet at the boundary, spiritual energy returns."]

["In the struggle of Dao and Demon, martial force shatters the void."]

["Since the Daoist school has such an unparalleled genius as Lu Yu, and heaven and earth flow on without end, there are naturally two faces of yin and yang. The Demon path must naturally have a corresponding existence as well, only I do not know upon whom it will fall."]

["A pity this old monk is not fated to see it.]

["In this old monk's life, the women I have ridden were without number, yet in the end I do not even have a single child or descendant. Lamentable indeed."]

[After saying this, Withered Wood used up his final breath and quietly passed away.]

[This was the first time you had heard this prophecy. Yet the moment the last four words, "martial force shatters the void," came out, you instantly felt your heart grow hot, as if the pursuit of your entire life were hidden within those four words.]

[You gained some understanding of "when heaven and man meet at the boundary, spiritual energy returns," knowing that this referred to the opportunity for spiritual energy's revival, while "in the struggle of Dao and Demon, martial force shatters the void" foretold a great transformation in the world of martial dao.]

[Liu Jinchan also sighed softly. He naturally understood the far-reaching influence of that prophecy from thirty years ago.]

[At this moment.]

[A blaze of fire rose on the summit of Mount Zhongnan, illuminating the night sky.]

[You raised your head and looked over.]

[You saw figures in the firelight shouting anxiously, but because the distance was too great, you could not hear the exact content clearly.]

[Lu Yu listened from the side, and spiritual energy gathered into a faint glow around the rim of his ear. After a while, his expression turned somewhat helpless as he said,]

["Those eunuchs are shouting that the old emperor has died."]

[After hearing this, Liu Jinchan's expression changed. He knew that after Lu Yu broke through to the innate realm, he possessed some strange abilities.]

[The emperor died at Zhongnan!]

[This news meant that the court would fall into turmoil. Now that Great Qing had deposed the crown prince, the Eastern Palace had not yet been established.]

[Liu Jinchan could not help sighing, "Great Qing is about to fall into great chaos!"]

[Prompt: Obtainable Mediating Mother Qi nearby. Automatically obtained.]

Text appeared on the light screen.

When Yu Ke saw this, his spirits immediately lifted.

He knew that Mediating Mother Qi had a miraculous effect on repairing meridians. The Mediating Mother Qi from last time had already helped him repair his acupoints.

Now that he had obtained it again, there was hope that he could use Mediating Mother Qi this time to repair his meridians.

Then he could cultivate again.

Yu Ke was somewhat shocked. Last time, he had led the army north and broken North Wind's eight-hundred-thousand-strong army.

Only after changing the situation under heaven had he obtained a strand of Mediating Mother Qi.

Today's arrival was utterly inexplicable!

Damn!

Tonight he had really opened a golden legend.

But where had it come from?

He did think of one possibility: the prompt had appeared just after the emperor died.

Could it be related to Emperor Qing's death?