The Prodigies War
chapter-1746

Like the Dao Endless Pagoda, the horsetail whisk named the Three Thousand Vicissitudes had come from the Master of Fangchun Mountain.

From Lin Xun's perspective, this horsetail whisk did not look eye-catching in any way.

It was two feet and four inches long and its handle resembled perfectly polished white jade. It was transparent and warm, and the handle was in the shape of a blooming lotus. The whisk silk floated idly in the air. Each strand was as thin as a cow’s hair, and they were all diffused with an obscure luster.

Perhaps it was as his Ninth Senior Brother Ge Yupu said, this treasure was so severely damaged that it now looked incredibly ordinary.

But at the next moment Ge Yupu's wrist shook, the whisk silk rose up and turned into a series of divine rainbows that resembled the divine chain of the dao, interweaving in the void.

At a glance, one’s mind immediately fell into the ups and downs of the dao, giving the person a sense that life and death were impermanent and beyond one's control!

"Although this treasure is severely damaged, some of its original power remains, so it is still an incredible treasure."

Ge Yupu then told Lin Xun about the wondrous abilities of the Three Thousand Vicissitudes.

Lin Xun then realized that he had made a mistake!

This horsetail whisk could actually turn into a kind of imprisoning power, like a cage made of the dao, trapping people in it, as if they were simultaneously floating and sinking without a fixed fate.

For countless years, Demon-Beast Emperor Dutian was suppressed by this horsetail whisk.

The one thousand eight hundred chains hanging on God Binding Heavenly Peak were actually the phenomena derived from the one thousand eight hundred whisk silks.

And the whisk silk in Lin Xun's hand was a strand of the origin power of the Three Thousand Vicissitudes, which played a key role in Ge Yupu's previous confrontation with Demon-Beast Emperor Dutian!

"The power of this treasure has been worn out too much, which is why Kong Dutian has been able to act occasionally in recent years to hunt down outsiders. If this horsetail whisk was intact, not to mention Kong Dutian alone, even if all seven Demon-Beast Emperors joined forces together, they would be suppressed by it!"

Ge Yupu's voice was full of pride.

He had seen the true power of this treasure with his own eyes.

Lin Xun took in a breath of cold air. When the horsetail whisk was intact, it could suppress the Primeval Seven Demon-Beast Emperors! Such a treasure was at least an extraordinary Emperor-grade artifact, or even stronger!

Ge Yupu then warned him, "Junior Brother, you must keep this treasure hidden as much as possible. Unless it is a critical moment of life and death, don’t let it appear. Otherwise, I'm afraid others will recognize it, which will bring you trouble."

While speaking, he handed the Three Thousand Vicissitudes to Lin Xun, "I hope that one day, you can completely repair this treasure and let it regain its former glory. Only in this way can it live up to its name."

Lin Xun nodded solemnly.

Ge Yupu smiled from the bottom of his heart and said, "My time has come. At this last moment, do you have anything to ask me?"

Lin Xun felt a little uncomfortable as he asked, "Senior Brother, is there really no hope for your survival?"

Ge Yupu shook his head.

Lin Xun couldn't help but let out a long sigh with a complicated expression.

Ghost King Xuan Kong was dead...

His senior brother who wielded the Sacred Combat Art had also left behind his legacy, and it was unknown whether he was currently alive or dead…

Now, Ge Yupu was also going to die, which made Lin Xun wonder, just how many successors of Fangchun Mountain were still alive in this world?

If they were alive, then where were they?

Lin Xun asked Ge Yupu all of these questions.

"In the Dao War of Emperors, our Fangchun Mountain lost five disciples, each of whom was a well-known expert in the Emperor Stage. They were Fourteenth Junior Brother Ji Xiu, Twenty-Sixth Junior Brother Wu Zang, Thirty-Seventh Junior Sister Wen Liu, Forty-First Junior Brother Gu Qingqu, and the Forty-Fourth Junior Brother Xuan Yuanzi."

Ge Yupu said, "As for the other successors, some followed Master, some had gone traveling through the depths of the starry sky eons ago, and some wandered on the Ancient Nebula Road either to seek the dao or to prove the dao..."

Lin Xun couldn't help but ask, "But didn’t they know that you, Ninth Senior Brother, are trapped here?"

Ge Yupu scratched his head and responded, "When I decided to guard this place, I asked Master first for permission and then also requested that Master not tell the others about this.”

Lin Xun sighed.

What else could he say?

From the very beginning, Ge Yupu had been prepared. Death might really be an ending without regrets for him.

"Junior Brother..."

Ge Yupu spoke, his voice becoming more and more faint.

Lin Xun then noticed that a ray of glowing rain was flying from Ge Yupu, making his figure become ethereal as if it was about to disappear completely.

"Would you like to have one last drink with me?"

Ge Yupu was a dull and boring person, but at this last moment, he seemed extremely heroic, free, and at ease. He raised a jar of wine and looked at Lin Xun.

Lin Xun felt his nose become inexplicably stuffy, so he took a deep breath and also raised a jar of wine.

Ge Yupu laughed, raised his head, and drank freely.

Bang!

The empty wine jar fell to the ground and broke into pieces.

Ge Yupu had also completely vanished into thin air.

In the void, only a ray of light was left, and the light and shadow vaguely looked like a towering figure, striding towards the end of nothingness...!

Then, this ray of light turned into a ray of obscure power as it poured into Lin Xun's heart.

"I have this Yellow Court method, which gives birth to five spirits, the dantian is divided into three flavors, the mysterious aura turns the wheel of dao, and there is a wonderful and subtle place where the dao platform opens the gate of heaven..."

Lin Xun's heart was then filled with a burst of dao sounds.

In the end, these dao sounds condensed into the Grand Dao Yellow Court Classic!

The east is represented by the first two heavenly stems and the element wood, the south is represented by the third and fourth heavenly stems and the element fire, the center is represented by the fifth and sixth heavenly stems and the element earth, the west is represented by seventh and eighth heavenly stems and the element metal, and the north is represented by the ninth and tenth heavenly stems and the element water.

Therefore, ‘yellow’ was the color of the center, and ‘court’ meant the center of the four directions.

The Grand Dao Yellow Court Classic expounded on the profound truth of ‘being the center above the grand dao.’

This was the dao that Ge Yupu sought. His perception and summary of the dao was embodied into this classic and left to Lin Xun when he died.

After an unknown period of time, Lin Xun woke up. He was stunned for a moment before he finally picked up a nearby wine jar and drank it silently.

It was not until much later that Lin Xun learned that during the Dao War of Emperors, there was a dull-looking man who held a battle ax, like a woodcutter in the mountains. That person killed nineteen Emperors in a row. His power was like light, illuminating the heavens!

Since then, everyone in the Emperor Stage knew of the Yellow Court Emperor.

But very few people knew that the Yellow Court Emperor had come from Fangchun Mountain, was ranked ninth among its successors, and his name was Ge Yupu!

…

Boom~~

Accompanied by a deafening sound, the tall and steep God Binding Heavenly Peak collapsed and turned into smoke and dust.

Lin Xun and A'hu stood far away, and their expressions were quite complicated.

Under that mountain that made cultivators shudder at its name, there were many shocking secrets and inside stories.

Ge Yupu, the ninth disciple of Fangchun Mountain, and Kong Dutian, the leader of the Primeval Seven Demon-Beast Emperors...

These two supreme giants had been fighting to this day because of the Dao War of Emperors!

In the end, Kong Dutian was suppressed in the Dao Endless Pagoda. Within ten years, he would be completely refined and destroyed.

And Ge Yupu had vanished today.

This middle-aged woodcutter had a simple and dull temperament, and, on his deathbed, he drank and chatted with his Junior Brother Lin Xun like an honest and amiable elder.

He gave the Three Thousand Vicissitudes to Lin Xun, and instructed him to remember to collect the Five-Colored Tail Feathers left by Kong Dutian after his death...

Even when he died, he did not forget to pass on the Grand Dao Yellow Court Classic that embodied his lifelong cultivation to Lin Xun.

Lin Xun felt bitter and inexplicably disappointed.

Ninth Senior Brother was not rebellious, confident, accomplished, or wise...

He was simple as wood, dull as stone, but was also approachable. In fact, it was easy for one to forget that he was actually a terrifying existence that had once dominated the Dao War of Emperors.

He said that he was just a woodcutter, the dullest of the successors of Fangchun Mountain. Apparently, even their master had said that he was a blockhead.

But in Lin Xun's heart, Ninth Senior Brother Ge Yupu was the most respectable person he had ever met! He was an elder who was as majestic as a mountain and worthy of complete trust!

He took a deep breath and suppressed the turmoiled emotions in his heart. Lin Xun's eyes were firm as he murmured in his heart, "Senior Brother, sooner or later, I will find out all the inside stories regarding the Dao War of Emperors and avenge you. At that time, I will come to drink with you again..."

Lin Xun vowed to never forget that Ge Yupu had once wailed angrily that if it were not for this Lord Nirvana character helping his enemy in secret, he would have killed Kong Dutian long ago.

I will never forget that even now Ge Yupu has been feeling guilty and blaming himself for not being able to kill Kong Dutian!

"Lord Nirvana, Kong Dutian..."

Lin Xun's dark eyes were cold, and he engraved those names onto his heart.

"Brother Lin,” A'hu said from his side.

"Hmm?"

Lin Xun turned his head to look at her.

"The dead are gone."

"Mmm." Lin Xun exhaled a long breath, his dark eyes flashed with coldness, and said, "A'hu, do you think if Meng Yi sees me alive and well, would he think that he was looking at a ghost?"

A'hu was startled and couldn't help a smile from raising the corners of her rosy lips, "Then shall we go meet this 'good friend' of ours?"

"Okay." Lin Xun agreed with a smile.

A'hu's eyebrows immediately rose, and she said, "But how should we get out of here?"

Right then, a voice inexplicably emerged in Lin Xun's heart. "If you are undecided, you can ask Vicissitudes."

He froze. Ninth Senior Brother?

However, after searching all over the place and checking his body inside and out, he did not see any trace of Ge Yupu, which made Lin Xun sigh silently.

After thinking for a while, he took out the Three Thousand Vicissitudes.

"Fengshan Platform?" Lin Xun said to himself.

Buzz~

A wisp of whisk silk rose up like a gentle spring breeze and pointed in a direction in the distance.

Lin Xun smiled, stroking the jade-like handle of the horsetail whisk with his palm, and muttered in his heart, "Ninth Senior Brother, if anyone dares to say that you are stupid again in the future, I will smack them until they are bruised and bloody..."

He had guessed that this must have been the backup plan arranged by Ge Yupu!

Before he could even start to figure out how to navigate the forbidden zone surrounding Fengshan Platform, his senior brother had already prepared a path for him like a kind elder.

"A'hu, let's go!"

Lin Xun no longer hesitated and strode forward. His moon-white clothes fluttered around him, and his tall figure was as free and easy as a banished immortal.

A'hu grinned and chased after him.

She was keenly aware that Lin Xun seemed to be happy again.

In the distance, the two disappeared in the vast gray sky and earth.

On the ruins of the collapsed God Binding Heavenly Peak, a shadowy figure stood, wearing a straw raincoat and a bamboo hat like a woodcutter.

While looking at the direction where Lin Xun and A'hu left, he scratched his head and then laughed.

"If you are undecided, you can ask Vicissitudes... Junior Brother, you must remember..."

Gradually, this shadowy figure vanished bit by bit.