Chapter 851

Chapter 851: Understanding Desolate Mark

At this moment, Nan Yunruo’s voice sounded again, "So what do we do now?"

"You keep studying your medicine, your path of medicine, while I continue to take care of these plants."

"Just like that?"

"Just like that!"

"But…"

"There’s nothing but. Neither you nor I are a match for Tianluo. If he really wants to kill us, there’s nothing we can do, we can’t even run away!"

"So instead of worrying all day about how to deal with him, it’s better to put everything aside for now and focus on what you need to do!"

After listening to Jiang Yun’s words, Nan Yunruo nodded silently and was about to turn to leave.

After a short moment of hesitation, Jiang Yun called out to her, saying, "Miss Nan, I know this might be a bold question, but I still want to ask, what did your teacher leave for you?"

"I don’t know!"

Nan Yunruo smiled bitterly, as if afraid that Jiang Yun wouldn’t believe her, and explained, "I’m not hiding it on purpose, I really don’t know."

"My teacher said he hid that thing in my soul and sealed it. To obtain it, one would have to kill me or forcefully break the seal, but that will destroy the thing too."

"Only by using a special technique to unseal it can one get that thing!"

Nan Yunruo’s words made Jiang Yun nod, saying, "So that’s it! The teacher thought it through!"

After speaking, Jiang Yun closed his eyes and fell silent, while Nan Yunruo stood silently for a moment before finally turning back towards the small building.

But as soon as the door of the small building closed, Jiang Yun’s eyes suddenly opened wide, a cold light shining in them as he said, "Lv Lun, I used to think you were a good teacher!"

"But now I see, I was wrong!"

"The importance of that thing in your heart is far more than the life of your disciple!"

Keeping the thing hidden in Nan Yunruo’s soul was not a good thing for Nan Yunruo!

Although killing Nan Yunruo wouldn’t get that thing, it didn’t mean that those who coveted the thing would spare Nan Yunruo!

Jiang Yun always believed that nothing is more precious than life!

However, Lv Lun’s actions clearly showed a disregard for Nan Yunruo’s life!

Although Jiang Yun was surprised to know this, it was ultimately a matter between their master and disciple, and he couldn’t intervene easily.

When Jiang Yun asked what thing Lv Lun left behind, it wasn’t to possess it but to see if he could find out where Lv Lun had gone through it.

Since even Nan Yunruo didn’t know, Jiang Yun had to put this matter aside for now.

Then, Jiang Yun took out several spirit stones and set up several isolation arrays around himself.

Nowadays, even though he has regained some of his strength, it’s still not enough.

However, his goal now is not just to restore his strength, but he has another idea in mind.

Tianluo, like a sword hanging over his head, could fall at any moment. He couldn’t just sit still and wait for his fate, so he had to find a way to resist it!

This method came from the seven-grade spirit stone he got from Luo Xin!

In the seventh layer of water transformed by the Tao Seal fragment, there is a rune called Desolate Mark!

The Desolate World tribe is an ancient clan!

This tribe doesn’t cultivate spirit energy or techniques, only Desolate Mark!

With Desolate Mark, they can not only perform various spells, but most cultivators’ spells have no effect on them!

They can even use Desolate Mark to imprint others, making them servants.

Jiang Yun was only curious about the Desolate World tribe and their unique cultivation methods.

But now, with his cultivation suppressed and unable to recover in a short time, he came up with a bold idea to try practicing the Desolate Mark!

If successful, Jiang Yun could completely ignore the finger inside his body.

Only with the Desolate Mark, he could still possess great power.

This was not just Jiang Yun’s wild idea.

Because he believed that Dao Yuanzhi, who founded the Seeking-Tao Sect in the Mountain-Sea World, was also a descendant of the Desolate World tribe and practiced both the Desolate Mark and spirit qi.

Otherwise, even if he hid it well, he couldn’t deceive the experts of the Main Seeking-Tao Sect, let alone be sent to create the Branch Seeking-Tao Sect in the Mountain-Sea World.

Moreover, Jiang Yun vividly remembered that when the Seeking-Tao Five Peaks held the Hidden Tao Sword, the Sky Palm technique they used contained spirit qi, Desolate Mark, and Tao Mark!

Using the Tao Mark as a medium, they combined spirit qi and Desolate Mark together!

This shows that Dao Yuanzhi is skilled in both Desolate Mark and spirit qi.

Seeing how Dao Yuanzhi managed it, Jiang Yun believes he can do it too.

Besides marking objects, Tao Seal fragments can absorb things for insight, needing enough the Meaning of the Tao to achieve it.

Jiang Yun’s Sword Intent, along with the final move of the Demon-Refining Nine Seals, the Demonic Life-Death Seal, is gradually understood through this kind of insight.

Even though Jiang Yun had thoughts of understanding Desolate Mark before, he couldn’t do it.

Since Desolate Mark is in the seventh layer of water in the Tao Seal, without gathering enough the Meaning of the Tao at once, it can’t appear.

Now that Jiang Yun has Luo Xin’s seventh-grade spirit stone and can open storage artifacts, he can finally understand Desolate Mark!

Despite setting up a barrier formation, Jiang Yun still hesitates, afraid that if the Tao Seal fragment is revealed, Tianluo may notice.

Nevertheless, he decides to go for it, having encountered many strong foes without anyone noticing the Tao Seal fragment yet, trusting Tianluo won’t notice it either.

"Bang!"

A seventh-grade spirit stone was crushed by Jiang Yun without hesitation.

A powerful spirit energy instantly surrounded him.

And in the presence of the spirit energy, a total of twenty-one "Meanings of the Tao" entered Jiang Yun’s dantian and merged into the fragments of the Tao Seal!

"Buzz!"

The Desolate Mark indeed flew out from the water transformed by the Tao Seal, flew to Jiang Yun’s front, floated above his brow, and embedded deeply into it.

…

Just as Jiang Yun began to comprehend the Desolate Mark in his closed-door cultivation, Tianluo atop Tianluo Mountain frowned, staring intensely at Jiang Yun with a deeply puzzled expression on his aged face.

His confusion was not because he saw the fragments of the Tao Seal within Jiang Yun.

Just like Jiang Yun thought, even though he was powerful, he couldn’t see anything at all.

His confusion started when Mirage appeared, and it had been going on for three days now!

"Jiang Gui!"

Suddenly, a name was shouted from Tianluo’s mouth.

Immediately, the square thousands of feet away trembled slightly, emitting a black light that appeared directly in front of him, turning into a hunchbacked bald old man in black clothes.

The old man looked unimpressive, resembling an ordinary old man. The most striking thing was that he only had one eye!

His other eye was just a black hole.

Obviously, this old man was Jiang Gui, the Tao Achieving Demon secretly helping Jiang Yun!

Jiang Gui stood in front of Tianluo, bowing to him and saying, "Greetings, sect master!"

Tianluo’s puzzled expression disappeared and he said blankly, "I’m asking you, which clans in Gu Clan have exceptionally strong physical strength?"