Chapter 953: Yun Taizhen’s Secret
“We can start watching a movie again.”
As Fu Ji spoke, she enthusiastically watched the changes in light and shadow in front of her.
The scene unfolded, and what appeared before Zhang Yu and the others seemed to be a school setting.
Children of various sizes lived and ate together in this school, receiving guidance and learning knowledge together every day.
And there was only one teacher in the entire school.
“Yun Taizhen.”
Looking at this familiar face, Zhang Yu said, “What period is this? Did she ever work as a school teacher?”
Immortal Slayer looked at Taizhen’s gentle appearance, watching her care for and nurture the children every day, and said, “It’s hard to imagine… Immortal Venerable Supreme Truth would have such a side.”
Fu Ji said, “Did you notice? The children in this place never go out, and no one comes to see them. Doesn’t it look like an orphanage?”
Under everyone’s gaze, Yun Taizhen carefully cared for the children in the orphanage every day, not only cooking for them personally but sometimes even feeding them.
Even when it came to reading and writing every day, and learning all kinds of basic Immortal Dao knowledge, she patiently taught them, as if treating all the students as her own children.
Fu Ji said thoughtfully, “But the students here don’t seem to like talking much. They’re all quiet and just know how to giggle foolishly.”
Zhang Yu noticed that as time passed, the weather seemed to turn slightly gloomy, and Yun Taizhen, who originally took care of the many students, also became a little impatient.
“Haven’t I taught this part of the breathing technique many times already? How could you forget again?”
“I don’t have time to cook today, just eat whatever.”
“Why can’t you still learn it? Exactly how many times do you need me to teach it?”
“The Immortal Dao develops, and the world changes. In the past, only the most talented people could cultivate the Immortal Dao. Now, it’s not just geniuses… even pig farmers can cultivate, and even pigs are coming to cultivate.”
The disappointment in Yun Taizhen’s eyes grew heavier and heavier, and her patience with the students seemed to gradually run out.
At some point, she seemed to have become too lazy to cook, and the students also stopped eating.
The students yelled and shouted, seemingly issuing continuous protests.
And with the cessation of eating, the entire scene of the schoolhouse abruptly changed.
The sunlight in the sky gradually darkened and turned gray, transforming into an intermittently flickering gloomy light.
The milky-white wall paint peeled off layer by layer, turning into mottled metal walls.
The familiar desks and chairs melted away, their wooden textures transforming into cold metal countertops, and the warm bedding turned into pungent cultivation pools.
And the introverted, quiet students turned into pale living corpses, constantly letting out miserable howls.
Looking around, the bright schoolroom from just a moment ago had now turned into a cold morgue and laboratory.
Meanwhile, Yun Taizhen formed hand seals, manipulating the corpses to circulate the Immortal Dao Technique.
After continuous observation, Fu Ji looked at an elderly corpse located in the center of the laboratory, which seemed to be valued the most by Yun Taizhen and had the most magical artifacts and equipment used on it.
Fu Ji analyzed, “This is the ancestor’s corpse we liberated, right? In his eyes, he is a child? And the surroundings were once a schoolroom?”
The Herald God observed the state of the corpses and said, “These corpses seem not entirely dead, but rather in a state between old death and new life. Perhaps… their newly born consciousness is still immature, so they are in a childlike state.”
“Coincidentally, the so-called dream tends to be beautified by memory. In his past memories, this place was like a bright academy, Yun Taizhen was like a gentle teacher, and his companions were all children who had yet to grow up.”
Immortal Slayer looked at the residual medicinal pills scattered on the ground, and then at the living corpses that were constantly screaming during the experiments.
He analyzed, “It is also related to the medicinal pills Yun Taizhen used. Previously, she must have used certain medicinal pills to stabilize the emotions of these living corpses and erase their pain, but she gradually stopped using them later on. This further shattered the living corpses’ self-beautification.”
And in everyone’s observation, Yun Taizhen’s movements became increasingly rough, constantly fishing out bodies that looked similar to her from the cultivation pool to conduct various experiments.
She calmly vivisected these living corpses, collecting data on their operation of Immortal Dao Technology in the most direct manner.
Then, she threw the living corpses that could no longer be experimented on into the Corpse Melting Pool, transforming them into pure materials, and tossed them into the Nurturing Pool to cultivate new living corpses.
On the long assembly line, one body after another, looking exactly like Supreme Truth, was raised, torn apart, and destroyed by her… Her movements grew faster and faster, as if what was before her were no longer humans, but chunks of meat.
And the living corpses that appeared before her, aside from possessing the appearance of Yun Taizhen, gradually began to include more and more different forms — men, women, the old, and the young… everything one could imagine.
They were like newborn babies, looking at the laboratory before them with blank expressions. After being used by Yun Taizhen, they were then recycled… But Supreme Truth only felt it wasn’t fast enough, not enough in quantity. She needed more data; she needed more experiments.
Right at this moment, the laboratory doors opened, and a figure instantly drifted in.
“Yun Taizhen?” Fu Ji said in surprise. “A second Yun Taizhen?”
The newly arrived Yun Taizhen scanned the situation in the laboratory, frowned, and said, “Why aren’t you using the potion?”
The Yun Taizhen conducting the experiments stared at the other in slight astonishment, then sighed a moment later, “What’s the point? Their spiritual intelligence is insufficient, and they only live for such a brief moment, so what does it matter if they feel pain? Using the potion on them is a pure waste of my time, a waste of our funds…”
The other Yun Taizhen said solemnly, “This isn’t for them, but for us. If we lose our patience with artificial humans who have the exact same appearance and are extremely close in essence… how will we view mortals in the future?”
“The step-by-step change in one’s thoughts begins with these minor details.”
“Since I have made up my mind to suppress all the Demonic Paths in the world by myself, I cannot fall into the Demonic Path myself…”
“Demonic?” The experimenting Yun Taizhen sneered and said, “When we can create life and resurrect the dead at will, when the boundary between life and death is broken, do all the past red tape and formalities still have any meaning?”
“The Immortal Dao must seek truth from facts. All etiquette, laws, and rules in the world are based on reality. In past human societies, slaves were customary, but later slavery was gradually abolished. This is the adaptation of rules and concepts to the advanced technological power of the Immortal Dao.”
The experimenting Yun Taizhen looked at the other with disdain. “The progress of Immortal Dao Technology will inevitably change the environment, change the concepts of intelligent life, and lead to the birth of new rules, new customs, and new etiquette.”
“What is considered demonic today may be righteous in the future, and what is righteous today may become demonic in the future.”
The incoming Yun Taizhen sighed and said, “You have already become demonic.”
The next moment, the experimenting Yun Taizhen had turned into a cloud of blood mist and was thrown into the recycling pool, similarly transformed into basic materials.
The incoming Yun Taizhen then approached the experimentation table and began a new experiment.
But as the experiments continued, as she experienced more and more life and death by her own hands and wiped out more and more artificial humans, the incoming Yun Taizhen’s gaze gradually changed… becoming unable to empathize with her former self.
A long time later, when she finally snapped back to her senses, she realized that the laboratory door had opened, and another Yun Taizhen walked in: “You have become a demon.”
The Yun Taizhen conducting the experiment was slightly taken aback and sighed, “So I wasn’t the main body either?”
Watching yet another Yun Taizhen being replaced, Immortal Slayer analyzed, “Yun Taizhen… she treats her clones as her gloves. When the gloves get dirty, she changes them, using this method to prevent her mind from being polluted by the Demonic Path.”
“But how long can this last?”
As if confirming Immortal Slayer’s words, after an unknown amount of time had passed and countless Yun Taizhens had been replaced, the ancestor’s corpse was transported out.
And the scene before everyone’s eyes… also began to change, following the line of sight of this ancestor’s corpse.
Various different laboratories appeared before them, with increasingly large spaces, increasingly advanced equipment, increasingly diverse artificial humans, and an increasingly precise and ruthless experimentation atmosphere.
They saw a group of Yun Taizhens surrounding a massive corpse, discussing something.
“Is this the wreckage of the first Monster Saint?”
“We need to use her flesh and blood to cultivate a new her, and then spread her among the Ten Great Sects.”
“From the moment the [Aspiration for the Immortal Dao] was established, the prosperity of the Demonic Path was already a foregone conclusion. The Ultimate Doomsday… will also eventually come.”
“Only by using demons to control demons can we reboot the world after the doomsday.”
One Yun Taizhen said, “The people of the world, shall I alone give them life?”
Another Yun Taizhen said, “No! It is the people of the world… giving life to me alone!”
The leading Yun Taizhen said firmly, “I want to give everyone a chance to start over.”
“If everyone has a chance to start over, then no matter how the Demonic Path develops, how out of control this world becomes, or when the Ultimate Doomsday arrives, I alone will be able to save everyone.”
Hearing these words from Yun Taizhen, Zhang Yu was startled in his heart: “The Ultimate Doomsday… Did Yun Taizhen also have this concept? Or rather, was this concept born a very long time ago?”
“Yun Taizhen is right,” Immortal Slayer said. “From the moment the [Aspiration for the Immortal Dao] was established, the rapid advancement of Immortal Dao Technology became an inevitability of the era, and the birth of outstanding individuals was also inevitable. Therefore, the arrival of the Ultimate Doomsday is still inevitable.”
Fu Ji asked in confusion, “Tai Yuebai and Ying Xintian’s ideas were all about delaying the Ultimate Doomsday. But Taizhen, does she feel that the Ultimate Doomsday is bound to arrive and stopping it is meaningless, so what she’s considering is how to rebuild the world after the Ultimate Doomsday ends?”
“But what exactly does she plan to do?”
Just as Zhang Yu was also feeling curious, a loud boom rang out as numerous cultivators broke into the laboratory.
“Yun Taizhen!”
“What are you doing?”
“Demon! Demon!”
Looking at the situation in the laboratory, the arriving cultivators all cried out in alarm.
Yun Taizhen looked at them and said calmly, “As long as the matters here do not spread, only we will have entered the demonic path. If the matters here do spread, and everyone in the sect learns the source of the materials and technology they use every day, then the entire Myriad Laws Sect will have entered the demonic path.”
“Think about it carefully. With your level, could you have found this place on your own? An expert led you here.”
Speaking up to this point, Yun Taizhen frowned slightly. “That person is likely in cahoots with the one who provoked the great Righteous-Demonic War.”
“The other party merely wants to make the entire Myriad Laws Sect fall into the Demonic Path…”
As she said this, a young figure surfaced in Yun Taizhen’s mind.
But the cultivators who had rushed over were no longer willing to listen to Yun Taizhen’s explanations. One of them even pointed at the ancestor’s corpse and said:
“Master!”
“Taizhen! You actually dare to steal Master’s corpse?!”
Yun Taizhen sighed, grabbed the ancestor’s corpse, and said, “Master, I’ll have to trouble you to hide with me for a while.”
In the earth-shattering great battle, countless Yun Taizhens died.
Meanwhile, the ancestor’s corpse was buried in an unknown location and fell into a deep slumber.
It wasn’t until time had passed and an unknown number of years had gone by that the ancestor’s corpse saw the light of day again, unearthed once more by a drastically changed Yun Taizhen.
“Hey, you are watching this part right now, aren’t you?”
Seeing Taizhen’s gaze looking over, Zhang Yu and Fu Ji were both slightly startled, having the illusion that the other party was speaking directly to them.
“Ying Xintian should be coming over soon to take Master away.”
“Then help me take this thing away together with him; otherwise, I won’t be able to withstand the interrogations from the Immortal Emperor and the others for much longer.”
After saying that, Taizhen pointed a finger out. It seemed as if a massive amount of information converged at her fingertip and poured into the glabella of the ancestor’s corpse.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Yu thought to himself, “Did Supreme Truth… anticipate that Senior Ying would find and take away the corpse, and then hide it before leaving the sect?”
Zhang Yu recalled Ying Xintian’s actions before leaving the sect — battling numerous Immortals, leaving behind a labyrinth, and hiding the ancestors’ corpses one by one.
“So this scene we’re seeing of Supreme Truth now, is it from shortly before Ying Xintian broke out of the sect and moved the Sixth Layer away?”
“What exactly did Yun Taizhen hide inside?”
Boom!
Accompanied by a violent suppression of Qi, Tai Yuebai completely overpowered the fake Ying Xintian in front of him.
But in the next moment, his gaze slightly narrowed as he shockingly discovered that a mass of information sent by the other party had appeared within his Tranquil Heavenly Palace.
Tranquil Heaven was a Dao Seed he had stolen from someone else, allowing him to possess a secretive Dharma Realm Immortal Abode that was almost impossible for outsiders to detect.
Yet the other party seemed to have known about this Tranquil Heavenly Palace all along, unexpectedly and precisely sending a mass of encrypted information into it.
Tai Yuebai frowned and said, “What is this? Why do you know… about this place?”
The ‘Ying Xintian’ before him smiled faintly and said, “Just some things I want to say to you. When the time comes, you will naturally know its contents.”
“Deliberately mystifying things.” Tai Yuebai snorted coldly. He briefly inspected the clump of encrypted information and discovered that it had undergone multiple layers of encryption. It would take quite a bit of time to decrypt it.
Just as he was thinking about how to handle it, he heard ‘Ying Xintian’ say, “This is all I can do for now.”
“The rest, I leave to you.”
“Remember, stop the 11th Immortal Emperor. Do not let them be born.”
Tai Yuebai’s gaze shifted as he sensed Zhang Yu’s approach; the latter had already arrived by his side.
And the words spoken by ‘Ying Xintian’ before them were clearly directed at both of them.
Zhang Yu pressed him, “You want us to stop the 11th Immortal Emperor, so tell us who the 11th Immortal Emperor actually is!”
Ying Xintian smiled faintly, seemingly having no comment.
The next moment, he exploded with a bang, turning into a wisp of blue smoke and dissipating between heaven and earth.
“Why?” Infinite doubts rose in Zhang Yu’s heart. “Why tell us to stop the 11th Immortal Emperor, yet refuse to tell us who the 11th Immortal Emperor is?”
Tai Yuebai stood to the side. Seeming to sense the confusion in Zhang Yu’s heart, he spoke, “It is merely an artificial human created by Yun Taizhen. You don’t need to put too much trust in their words.”
Despite saying so, as Tai Yuebai felt the encrypted information within his [Tranquil Heavenly Palace], a wave of deep confusion washed over his heart.
At the same time, Zhang Yu was also silently sensing the ancestor’s corpse within the Immortal Grotto-Heaven, secretly thinking, “What exactly is the content of the message Supreme Truth left in the ancestor’s corpse?”
Right after the dream ended, Zhang Yu became incredibly curious about this. Unfortunately, what Yun Taizhen left behind was an encrypted message. Zhang Yu probed it a little and realized that decrypting it was absolutely not something that could be accomplished in a short amount of time.
However, as time passed, Zhang Yu could feel that this encrypted message seemed to be releasing itself.
Immortal Slayer said, “This should be a message that automatically plays once a certain countdown ends.”
Zhang Yu secretly thought, “So, when Supreme Truth left this message, she had already decided the time of its release?”
He thought in shock, “When she left this message, it was at least before Brother Dao took away the Sixth Layer, which was at least seven or eight years ago.”
“Could it be that seven or eight years ago, she had already anticipated today’s situation? And set a specific time… for this packet of information to be released?”
Thinking of it this way, Zhang Yu also felt it was highly unlikely.
Immortal Slayer thought the same: “Even with the cultivation of an Immortal Venerable, it is impossible to anticipate the development of a situation influenced by so many Immortal Emperors, Immortal Venerables, and Immortals.”
“Rather than saying she anticipated this early on, is it more likely that she launched the plan according to her own schedule?”
Hearing Immortal Slayer’s guess, Zhang Yu still felt it was weird.
Yun Taizhen was following her schemes from at least seven or eight years ago, executing a seven or eight-year-old plan today? But there were too many variables and unexpected events involved in this. No matter how he thought about it… Zhang Yu felt it was highly unlikely.
“We must be missing something,” Fu Ji said. “We’re missing some kind of key information. It’s useless to think about it now.”
Zhang Yu knew Fu Ji was right, so he temporarily reined in his distracting thoughts and refocused his attention on the ancestor’s corpse. He watched as surging Grotto-Heaven force erupted from within this ancestor’s corpse, which he then extracted into the Immortal Grotto-Heaven.
“Is there no True Spirit awakening?”
Zhang Yu secretly thought to himself, “Or could it be that the True Spirit of this ancestor’s corpse is different from the previous ones, more ignorant and lacking the desire to communicate?”
The next moment, as Zhang Yu transferred the encrypted information from within the ancestor’s corpse into his personal Calculation Pool, his speed of extracting the ancestor’s corpse’s Grotto-Heaven force grew faster and faster, causing the Immortal Grotto-Heaven to experience another unprecedented surge of expansion.
Zhang Yu also sensed his [Immortal Descendant] seed skyrocketing continuously, charging toward a new level.