Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
“There?” Yanyan said. “The secret scrolls in that room have no rank. They are a bunch of rubbish.”
“Rubbish?” Yang Dingtian was doubtful.
Yanyan explained, “The secret scrolls stored there are either very low quality or can’t be learned at all. According to the elders, these secret scrolls were all written by very weak martial artists in ancient times. However, they were still treated like treasures by later generations who unearthed them. It was only after learning them did they discover that the martial arts were either useless or caused numerous injuries. Each faction has many such rubbish secret scrolls.”
“Let me take a look,” Yang Dingtian said.
“Why do you even want to go there?” Yanyan asked.
“Just bring me there,” Yang Dingtian insisted.
Yanyan frowned but eventually led Yang Dingtian to the tenth room where the rubbish secret scrolls were located.
When the door opened, a mountain of dust rushed out. They weren’t sure how long was it since someone entered, but there was thick dust everywhere. There were no bookshelves. Instead, thousands of scrolls were littered all over the ground, some of which were even broken.
Yang Dingtian bent down and picked up a scroll that was half opened. He found that it was already half rotten and threw it aside. He picked up another scroll with the title “The Universe Devouring Great Law”. The name was really arrogant. However, when he opened it, he noticed that the lines were all doodles, and several parts were already broken. Although Yang Dingtian did not understand this secret scroll, he was still able to identify it as rubbish.
After looking through several secret scrolls, he discovered that they really were all garbage. It was impossible to expect to find treasures among the rubbish.
“That’s enough. Stop looking. It’s all rubbish,” Yanyan interjected. “There were many people who thought as you did, but they all ended up disappointed. I can tell you that I’ve looked through each and every piece of rubbish here. I once had the same idea.”
Yang Dingtian was extremely disappointed. It turns out he could only go back and learn the Chaotic Heaven Destroyer Sword Tactic. He followed Yanyan and turned away from this rubbish secret scroll room.
“Crakk…!” Suddenly, the sound of something shattering could be heard. The hard slate floor cracked, and then, a golden light shot out.
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Yang Dingtian was greatly surprised and ran over to get a closer look.
Through the cracks in the slate, he a scroll laying a few feet underground. It was a golden secret scroll, the only one of its kind that Yang Dingtian had ever seen.
Yang Dingtian excitedly took out the scroll, filled with high expectations. He opened it. There were four words written on top: Pig-Killing Sword Tactic.
Yang Dingtian instantly wanted to vomit blood. This secret scroll had appeared to be so domineering and mysterious. However, the name, Pig-Killing Sword Tactic, sounded extremely strange and lame.
Furthermore, there were no line marks in the scroll. It was completely empty.
Yanyan, on the other hand, was laughing. She said, “You must have thought that you found a treasure, thought that you had encountered a miracle.”
“You are at least the 100th person to open this secret scroll. This is rubbish even among the rest of this garbage. There is nothing inside. Many people have tried examining it with their Xuan energy, but it remained completely unresponsive. This is a completely blank secret scroll.”
She was right. When Yang Dingtian held the other secret scrolls in his hands, he could feel surges of energy. This Pig-Killing Sword Tactic did not give him any such signals. However, Yang Dingtian didn’t know why, but when he held this secret scroll, he was filled with an extremely strange feeling.
“Huh?” Suddenly, Dongfang Niemie’s voice sounded in his mind. “This secret scroll is very, very strange.”
“How strange?” asked Yang Dingtian.
“Normally, even if the secret scroll is very advanced, when I look at it, I would be able to see images, martial arts images,” Dongfang Niemie explained. “But, when I look at this secret scroll, I can’t see anything. It’s not a blank space. I want to get close to it, but it’s extremely proud and arrogant and refuses to let me see. I’ve learned a ninth rank secret scroll, but even that hadn’t given me such a too-high-to-reach feeling.”
“Of course, this is just my intuition.”
Yang Dingtian was excited. “Master, I don’t know why. I get a very special feeling when I hold this secret scroll. It’s as if I am about to swallow it, or it is about to swallow me.”
Indeed, when he held the Chaotic Heaven Destroyer Sword Tactic, his Xuan energy had seemed indifferent. But now, there was a deadly attraction, resembling the desert’s unending yearning for the rainstorm.
“Follow your heart. Perhaps this is your fate,” Dongfang Niemie said slowly.
Yang Dingtian closed his eyes and looked inwards for a long time. When he opened his eyes again, his face was filled with determination.
“That’s it. I’ll believe in my own intuition.” Yang Dingtian opened his palm and inserted his Xuan energy.
“Yang Dingtian, you are crazy?” Yanyan admonished. “Several people once thought the same as you and decided to learn this blank secret scroll. Do you know what the consequences will be after you insert your Xuan energy?”
“What?” Yang Dingtian asked.
“You become a blank space,” she answered. “No matter how high your talent, after inserting Xuan energy to learn this, not only will you learn nothing, but you also become a blank space. In the past, an eighth rank genius tried to learn this Pig-Killing Sword Tactic. Not only did his cultivation not improve, he eventually wasn’t even able to become a Novice Martial Artist until the day he died.”
“Every genius who was stubborn and learned the Pig-Killing Sword Tactic become useless forever after. This secret scroll is a disaster. Cloud Sky City wanted to destroy it a long time ago. However, they somehow couldn’t destroy it no matter what, so they buried it under the floor. I never thought that the floor would break today and that you would find it. In conclusion, as soon as you learn this secret scroll, you will be completely doomed.”
“As such, I will not let you learn this shitty Pig-Killing Sword Tactic no matter what,” Yanyan said.
“But, my heart tells me that this is what I want,” Yang Dingtian argued.
“Many others thought the same as you,” Yanyan said. “Leave with me now. Leave this room. I am going to bury this disastrous thing back into the ground. Go learn the Chaotic Heaven Destroyer Sword Tactic.”
Yang Dingtian held this secret scroll tightly, refusing to move. His eyes were filled with urgency.
“Yang Dingtian, are you listening to me?” Yanyan instantly became furious. “Am I not your wife? Are you going to listen to what your wife is telling you?”
“Are you not going to put that down? You’re still not moving? Don’t force me to make you. Don’t force me to beat my husband.” Yanyan got angry and was about to hit him. “Yang Dingtian, can’t afford to let you take this risk. You cannot. You really cannot.”
“I must,” Yang Dingtian said clearly.
Yanyan’s small face changed. She suppressed her anger and said gently, “Good boy, listen to me. Go learn the Chaotic Heaven Destroyer Sword Tactic. I am your wife. I rely on you to protect me, my husband…”
She called him husband at the end in such a soft and sweet voice that Yang Dingtian’s entire body went numb.
Yanyan’s soft attack had moved Yang Dingtian’s heart, but he bit his lips. He looked at Yanyan resolutely and said, “Yanyan, I’ve decided.”
At the moment, it was as if Yang Dingtian was under some spell.
Yanyan stared at Yang Dingtian for some time. She took a dozen steps back and pulled out her dagger, placing it against her neck. She said coldly, “Okay, go and learn it! After you learn this disastrous thing, I will have no hope left. Why not just let me die like this? You just have to insert your Xuan energy, and I will die in front of you.”
“I, Ximen Yanyan, have an extremely fiery character. After meeting an asshole like you, I’ve mostly held in my anger. You try and see if I dare? As soon as you insert your Xuan energy, I will immediately cut open my throat.”
Yang Dingtian was stunned. Yanyan was so tough and so cruel that he really had no clue what to do. Of course, he couldn’t let her cut her throat, but must he just give up this Pig-Killing Sword Tactic?
Yang Dingtian took a deep breath. “Yanyan, I feel that this thing really is heaven’s gift to me. Of course, many people in the past also felt the same and ended up becoming useless.”
“Without a doubt, choosing this Pig-Killing Sword Tactic is very risky,” Yang Dingtian said. “However, the fact that I came to this world was already a miracle, an almost impossible miracle.”
“Sorry, you still won’t convince me,” Yanyan said. “I’m giving you two options. Leave the secret scroll and go with me, or I cut my throat and let the blood splash over your face.”
“This is a secret that I’ve told no one other than my Master. I didn’t even tell your dad.” Yang Dingtian took a deep breath. “The fact that I came to this world is an impossible miracle. I am not from this world.”
“What?” Yanyan was stunned.
“I am not from this world. I came from another world, a world completely different from this chaotic mainland, a world that you will find very strange.” Yang Dingtian smiled. “Of course, in that world, there were no girls as beautiful as you.”
“Impossible!” Yanyan’s gaze became confused.
“I am from another world, so I must learn this Pig-Killing Sword Tactic,” Yang Dingtian affirmed. “I will take this risk. I will protect you. I will complete your father’s mission….”
While he was talking, Yang Dingtian inserted his Xuan energy into the secret scroll.
Yanyan only stared dumbly at him. Of course, she did not cut her throat. She was distracted by what Yang Dingtian had just told her.
When he inserted his Xuan energy, line marks appeared on the secret scroll and then promptly vanished.
Pig-Killing Sword Tactic! The line marks on this scroll were stranger than those on the other secret scrolls. They were extremely mysterious.
The entire secret scroll vanished inch-by-inch and eventually, it completely vanished from Yang Dingtian’s hand. It had vanished from the world.
Yang Dingtian closed his eyes and slowly floated in midair. Bright lights shot out and enveloped his body.
This mysterious bright light enveloped Yang Dingtian just like how a mother’s womb protected her baby. Countless lights then shot into his body.
Staring at this scene, Ximen Yanyan was completely stunned.