Hearing Jiang Xuanfeng say this, Dongfang Yuejian grew even more curious about these inauspicious objects.
She therefore asked Jiang Xuanfeng with great curiosity:
"Elder Jiang, could you tell us in more detail? Just what disasters and misfortunes befell the cultivators who chose inauspicious objects?"
Jiang Xuanfeng glanced at the nearby pillar of light and briefly recalled the past before saying gravely:
"Let us leave the distant past aside and speak only of the most recent case."
"Some sixty-odd years ago, True Lord Huayang of Luofu Grotto-Heaven in Chenglong Heaven completed a bounty issued by Great Emperor Zongyun and earned a chance to enter the Chenglong Great Emperor Treasury to choose a treasure."
"What happened was much the same as with Fellow Daoist Taiping."
"The moment he entered, he took a fancy to the inauspicious objects the Great Emperor had collected. No matter how I tried to dissuade him, he insisted on going inside to choose one."
"In the end, he selected a piece of calligraphy and painting containing exceptionally powerful sword intent from among those inauspicious objects."
"Initially, after examining that piece myself, I also felt that True Lord Huayang had indeed chosen an exceedingly rare treasure. For even to my eyes, the sword intent within it was wondrous and unfathomable."
"At the time, I thought True Lord Huayang could use the sword intent within that work to claim the pinnacle of swordsmanship in Shangqing at the upcoming True Martial Sword Champion Assembly."
"But unexpectedly..."
"Within a few years, word came from Luofu Grotto-Heaven that True Lord Huayang had suffered cultivation deviation while practicing his sword."
At this, Dongfang Yuejian asked in some puzzlement:
"True Lord Huayang suffering cultivation deviation while comprehending sword intent hardly counts as something sinister, does it? After all, such things aren't uncommon in the cultivation