Chen Beiwu swept his divine sense over the jade slip and discovered a large blank stretch after "the great calamity thus arose," as though someone had deliberately erased the contents without leaving a trace. The latter half of the jade slip recorded numerous rumors and anecdotes about powerful figures from the ancient sects of the Southern Wasteland.
For instance, the Taiyi Dao Venerable had been abandoned in the snow by his parents and raised by a Fourth-Realm Demon King, a Six-Eyed Mysterious Ape. He had entered the Dao through demon blood, then switched to Five Phases cultivation, reversing his demon blood to become an immortal...
"What wild unofficial history!" Chen Beiwu raised an eyebrow.
As one of the branches of the ancient Taiyi Dao Sect, the Mirror Moon Sect naturally retained some records of the Taiyi Dao Venerable's life.
According to the sect's ancient texts, the Taiyi Dao Venerable had been born toward the end of antiquity, and both his parents had been mortals.
One day during her pregnancy, the Dao Venerable's mother dreamed of a five-colored divine pearl entering her belly. Upon waking, she suspected it had been an illusion, but discovered that her breath was fragrant and her skin was like jade. She then understood that it had not been a dream, but a revelation from an immortal.
On the day the Dao Venerable was born, the earth shook and heavenly phenomena descended. Five-colored divine light surged forth, and the cultivators throughout the city cried out that an immortal had descended into the mortal world.
Without question, compared with what Chen Beiwu knew, the contents of this jade slip were practically a different version altogether.
At this thought, Chen Beiwu pondered repeatedly.
His intuition told him that the sect's ancient records might contain some embellishments, and that the