Chapter 335 — The Peerless Master Who Courts Death
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 4
"What kind of cultivation art is this?
" The scroll was the Golden Book Precious Scroll, all but impossible to destroy. It bore few words, and those few were terse — "Magpie Bridge," "Mystic Guidance," "Divine Crossing," and the like — their meaning unclear. Ban Gongcuo's gaze fell upon the illustration on the first page: a radiant heavenly court, resplendent in gold and jade.
The golden light that had just flooded the hall was the very glow emanating from that painted court. Though it was only a painting, it was so vivid it seemed a real heavenly court lay hidden within the book. Before the heavenly court stretched a broken bridge, and at its severed end stood a figure like a god.
Ban Gongcuo was briefly startled; the scene looked familiar.
He scanned the edges of the painting and saw the sun, the moon, and the Five Luminaries, and at last he was certain: "This is the Spirit Bridge Divine Treasury!
That godlike figure must be the primordial spirit! Why would the Golden Book Precious Scroll paint such a picture? Isn't the Spirit Bridge of Wuyou Township complete? Why is the bridge in this painting still broken? " Beyond this one there were other illustrations, each depicting a different circulation path: how vital essence moved through the spirit fetus, how to command the five breaths of the Five Luminaries Divine Treasury, how to fix the Six Harmonies to steady heaven and earth, how to link the Seven Stars, how to fuse soul and vital essence into one and consolidate the primordial spirit, how to pass through life and death and behold the Dark Capital.
By the eighth illustration it was the Spirit Bridge Divine Treasury again, and Ban Gongcuo's heart gave several violent throbs. He saw how the first seven pictures laid the groundwork: by the eighth, the vital essence had undergone a wondrous transformation, drawn in as if by some nameless force, spreading forward along the broken bridge like magpies. "The Magpie Bridge! " Ban Gongcuo's heart pounded.
This was the method for cultivating the Magpie Bridge — the Magpie Bridge Formula recorded in the Golden Book Precious Scroll. Cultivate it, and the broken bridge could be rejoined! He hurriedly turned the page. In the painting the primordial spirit had reached the end of the Magpie Bridge, yet an insurmountable distance still separated it from the heavenly court ahead.
Here the circulation path changed wondrously again: a mysterious resonance arose with the heavenly court, the vital essence was drawn flying toward it, and from the heavenly court a bridge began slowly to take shape.
"The Mystic Guidance Formula! " Ban Gongcuo was so stirred that stars burst before his eyes; he hastily steadied himself and looked to the next page.
This was the last page of the Golden Book Precious Scroll, depicting the Divine Crossing Formula. Activate this art, and the primordial spirit could fly across, leaping from one end of the Spirit Bridge to the other and stepping into a profound new realm!
"How could anyone have created such an intricate art? " Ban Gongcuo suppressed the urge to cheer.
The methods recorded in the Golden Book Precious Scroll were truly too intricate; had it been left to him, he could never have devised such a complex and ingenious art to reconnect the Spirit Bridge — yet the people of Wuyou Township had actually created it.
It was simply inconceivable!
"One Golden Book Precious Scroll surpasses all the wealth I amassed in my past life! So what if that brat surnamed Shen seized part of my past-life fortune? With this scroll I can break through to the Spirit Bridge realm and become a god!
" Ban Gongcuo rose, only to feel dizzy and dazed.