Chapter 52: The Dao Scripture Was Hard to Cultivate? Not At All.

“Speak! Confess all your secrets!”

“Cackle, beat him harder! Beat him until he confesses how many times he wet the bed as a child!”

Inside the Red Dust Heart-Tempering Diagram, several ferocious Heterodox Sorcerers of strange shapes used all sorts of methods. After a round of torture, Wang Pan and Yun Bufan were already begging for mercy repeatedly, but all their pleas were useless.

“…”

A number of lofty loose cultivators and Mystic Gate cultivators watched this scene in silence.

Was this the scene Wang Pan had been so eager for everyone to see?

The crowd was inwardly abuzz.

“What in the world is going on? Does this Senior Brother Wang from the Tianhe Sect enjoy self-torture?” A female loose cultivator covered her small, rosy mouth, utterly astonished.

“What self-torture? He was probably plotted against, or some senior couldn’t stand the sight and tampered with it!” A lofty loose cultivator glanced over, a strange light in his eyes, his peripheral vision sweeping over the other lofty loose cultivators present, and even several Mystic Gate elders.

As for the other lofty loose cultivators and the Mystic Gate elders, they just secretly sneered, watching this farce with cold detachment.

Over there, Yun Bufan, after all, was no cultivator. He couldn’t hold out any longer and began to spill many secrets. From his youthful hobby of bone-setting, to peeping at his clan sister-in-law bathing, to all the dirty secrets within the Yun Family he had seen, it all came pouring out like beans from a sack.

This included scheming to seize property and secretly harming the Lin Family, with the intent to usurp the Lin Family’s business.

Even the purpose of today’s banquet was to use the power of the various Mystic Gate disciples to deal with Lin Yuan. He laid it all out clearly, leaving nothing unsaid.

Many of the gentry and officials seated as guests listened, their faces changing color repeatedly.

But upon hearing some of the later secrets of the Yun Manor, they acted as if their backsides were on fire. They could no longer sit still, hurriedly getting up and leaving, afraid of hearing some incredible aristocratic secret.

Nearby, many of Yun Bufan’s wives and concubines turned pale with fright.

Two of the wives stumbled up from their seats and stepped forward, weeping and begging several Mystic Gate elders.

“Elders, we do not wish to see this magic anymore. We beg you, venerable elders, to perform your arts and release our husband!”

“Honored superiors, please, for the sake of the some Mystic Gate seniors who came from our Yun Family, show us mercy!”

The faces of the several Mystic Gate elders were gloomy. They felt even more disgusted when Yun Bufan openly admitted that hosting the banquet was purely to use everyone, to kill someone with a borrowed knife. How could they be willing to pay any more attention to these women?

Finally, unable to withstand the women’s gentle pleas, they pointed to a dazed Tianhe Sect Daoist nearby.

“For this matter, you must go beg Nephew Xie!”

Seeing this, that Tianhe Sect Daoist, Xie Shouzhong, shook his head like a rattle-drum.

“Finding me is useless, ladies. This treasure is a Heavenly Mansion Rare Treasure obtained by my martial uncle. He only lent it for this journey because he was worried about my junior brother Wang Pan, for protection while retrieving treasure from the Water Mansion. I do not know the incantation to control it…”

“As Junior Brother Wang Pan said earlier, this supreme treasure is primarily for forging the Dao Heart and wisdom roots. Perhaps one must experience the various temperings of mortal dust…”

Xie Shouzhong took another look at the two being tortured by various cruel methods, his expression turning strange, and added,

“Once the heart-tempering is complete, I believe it will release them on its own!”

Hearing this, the several wives from the Yun Manor felt the world spinning around them.

After such torture, everything that should and shouldn’t be said would be spilled cleanly.

Xie Shouzhong’s gaze turned to Wang Pan on the other side. Wang Pan was also close to breaking.

Xie Shouzhong sighed inwardly. Why bring this upon yourself?

He understood Wang Pan’s earlier clever plan very well.

By using this supreme treasure, Wang Pan intended to force out all the secrets on Lin Yuan’s person. Even if Lin Yuan had any blemish, Wang Pan could use it as a pretext to challenge him. Using Lin Yuan’s insufficient virtue as a reason, he could demand to take custody of the supreme treasure on Lin Yuan’s behalf.

Just think, even a good person might have done wrong before. How can anyone be flawless? Seizing the treasure would then be a natural progression.

Even if many of the lofty loose cultivators and Mystic Gate elders present had some opinions, they would consider the face of the Tianhe Sect and would not easily make things difficult.

Who would have thought something like this would happen?

That young master from the Lin Manor wasn’t captured, but Wang Pan and Yun Bufan got themselves locked in instead.

It was a classic case of failing to steal the chicken and losing the rice.

Coming out of that Red Dust Heart-Tempering Diagram, they would probably lose more than half their lives. They might even be directly tempered into idiots!

The Yun Manor banquet had turned into a farce.

The only question was, who was it that tampered with things in secret?

Not just Xie Shouzhong, many of the Mystic Gate disciples present, lofty loose cultivators, and some sect elders were all looking around, secretly filled with doubt and suspicion.

What mighty person could make Wang Pan suffer such a great loss without a sound?

One must know that although Yun Bufan was despicable, he was still an official with a government post, protected by Dragon Qi. Even if the Red Dust Heart-Tempering Diagram was a Heavenly Mansion Rare Treasure, it shouldn’t have been able to capture him so easily.

There must have been a mighty person who temporarily suppressed the Dragon Qi.

…

Inside the Lin Manor courtyard, black light swirled around eighteen Downfall Banners. Faintly, a mass of pale golden Dragon Qi tried with all its might to descend from above the Yun Manor, but it was firmly blocked by the fierce, baleful black light emanating from the eighteen Downfall Banners.

Lin Yuan opened his eyes, sensing the fierce power emanating from the Downfall Banners, power capable of grinding away Dragon Qi. A trace of awe flickered in his eyes.

That power was truly incredible. Dragon Qi was overwhelmingly domineering, causing even deities to retreat, but this baleful aura was enough to erode and block the Dragon Qi’s power.

It was hard to imagine what kind of might one would possess upon comprehending the true Downfall Formation.

Lin Yuan glanced in the direction of the Yun Manor. With the help of the Red Dust Heart-Tempering Diagram’s wondrous effect, Yun Bufan no longer required his direct action. With Yun Bufan’s temperament, nine times out of ten, that heavy treasure would turn him into an idiot. Even Wang Pan would probably end up crippled by his own doing!

The Lin Family could now consider its worries completely gone.

Over the next several days, Lin Yuan focused his attention on the River-Luo Primal Scenery Golden Tome.

The River-Luo Primal Scenery Golden Tome was exceptionally complex. According to the Ancient Water Immortal who left behind the Dao Scripture, a cultivator with the most superior comprehension would need to study the ways of River and Luo for at least a dozen years just to begin.

And to achieve great mastery would require at least a hundred years.

Yet Lin Yuan discovered that he had already comprehended the River-Luo Primal Scenery Golden Tome to great mastery in less than half a day, thoroughly digesting all the various secret River-Luo arts within along the way.

If this were spoken of, it would truly be hard to believe!

Integrating the profound mysteries of the River-Luo Primal Scenery Golden Tome into the Taixiao Dao Ming Scripture also didn’t take much time. In just a few short days, Lin Yuan had already mastered the Gui Water Thunder Technique, and the Ren Water Thunder Technique was also showing signs of progress.

Two days later, Lin Yuan received a message. With his Innate Dao Body, he had been accepted into the sect gate of the Chengyuan Immortal Sect, a sect under the Primal Yang Dharma Lineage, one of the upper three lineages among the Twelve Dharma Lineages of Dongyue Province.

He was about to leave Wenchang and truly enter a sect, and moreover, it was one of the True Inheritor-filled upper three lineages.

The magic ship coming to pick him up had already arrived that very afternoon!