My Wife Is The Leader Of A Demonic Cult

75  Chapter 75 The Three Religions originally came from the same source

An Jing glanced at Jiang Sanjia and said, "Not interested."

"You don't know!? Don't tell me you don't recognize Yan Shaoshan?"

Seeing An Jing's indifferent reaction, Jiang Sanjia's eyebrows twisted, seemingly becoming somewhat restless.

"Don't recognize."

An Jing shook his head.

Jiang Sanjia was stunned for a moment; his original intention for coming today was to have a showdown with An Jing, yet he hadn't expected that An Jing wouldn't even know who Yan Shaoshan was.

Then a thought struck him—could it be that Zhou Xianming had come upon the Daluo Heart Method of Yan Shaoshan by chance?

After pondering for quite some time, Jiang Sanjia said, "Brother Zhou, since that's the case, let me speak frankly. I used the Ghost Valley Heavenly Mechanism to divine your origins back when we were on the painted boats in Yu State City, but I was thwarted by a divine intervention. Just after the Ullambana Festival, I divined once more, and this time I found out that you carry the Daluo Heart Method."

An Jing looked him in the eyes and asked, "So, you came here to ask me about this?"

"It seems Brother Zhou truly knows nothing at all."

Jiang Sanjia paused then asked, "You must know about the Zhenyi Sect, right?"

"Who in the world does not know about it?"

The Zhenyi Sect was not only the national religion of Great Yan but was also highly esteemed in Jianghu. No one in Yan Country would be unaware of the Zhenyi Sect.

"The Daluo Heart Method you practice is the core mental method of the Daluo Sect."

Jiang Sanjia cast his fishing line into the river and said, "Before the Great Zhou Dynasty, nearly a thousand years ago, the Zhenyi Sect, Daluo Sect, and Ghost Valley Sect were one school, known as the Mystical Sect."

"Mystical Sect!?"

An Jing heard this and was slightly moved; this was the first time he'd heard of the Zhenyi Sect's past and present.

Jiang Sanjia slowly continued, "Lotus leaves, white lotus roots, red lotus flowers; the Three Religions were originally one family. This refers to the Mystical Sect. Even though Buddhism flourished in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the status of the Mystical Sect was also not inferior, and the only power that could contend with Buddhism in the world was the Mystical Sect."

"The ancestral court of the Mystical Sect is on Tianqing Mountain, on Yun Hua Dao, and the leader of the Mystical Sect is known as the Daoist Master. A thousand years ago, a great calamity befell the Mystical Sect when the Daoist Master of the time died suddenly under mysterious circumstances, leaving the Mystical Sect headless. They had to elect a new Daoist Master, but at that moment, severe discord arose within the Sect. Nobody wanted to back down, and under the instigation of some with ulterior motives, they even took up arms against each other, leading to the complete division of the Sect's three great masters. Two of the masters took numerous Mystical Sect masters with them, resulting in the establishment of what are now known as the Daluo Sect, Ghost Valley Sect, and Zhenyi Sect. Each of these two masters also took part of the Sect's supreme mental method, the 'Jade Emperor Scripture', which later evolved into the Ghost Valley Heart Method of the Ghost Valley Sect, the Daluo Heart Method of the Daluo Sect, and the Beidou Seven Stars Technique of the Zhenyi Sect."

"The Jade Emperor Scripture!?"

Hearing this, An Jing inwardly marveled, no wonder rumors abounded in Jianghu about the discord between the Ghost Valley Sect and the Zhenyi Sect, and even of Zhenyi Sect's masters attempting to move against the Ghost Valley Sect. It appears the two Sects truly have deep historical ties.

If the Ghost Valley Sect and the Zhenyi Sect are such famously renowned forces in Jianghu, why then does the Daluo Sect seem so obscure?

"The Jade Emperor Scripture is the supreme mental method of the Mystical Sect, and all three powers desire the complete 'Jade Emperor Scripture' to become the Daoist Master of the Mystical Sect."

Jiang Sanjia sighed and continued, "For nearly a thousand years, the masters of these three Sects have engaged in overt strife and covert battles, even causing several blood-stained tempests in Jianghu, all for this 'Jade Emperor Scripture', to become the rightful Daoist Master of the Mystical Sect. Yet until now, no master has achieved their wish."

An Jing, puzzled, said, "Could this Heavenly Martial level mental method be so formidable? Or is there some other mystery to it?"

He held in his hands one of the incomplete sections of the 'Jade Emperor Scripture', and if the Daluo Heart Method was of the True Martial level, then the 'Jade Emperor Scripture', if he guessed right, should belong to the top-tier Heavenly Martial level martial arts. While Heavenly Martial level martial arts were valuable, they hardly seemed worth causing a millennium-long conflict.

"Heavenly Martial?"

Jiang Sanjia scoffed, "Brother Zhou, this 'Jade Emperor Scripture' is one of the three great secret scriptures of our time, not just Heavenly Martial, but above Heavenly Martial."

An Jing's eyebrows shot up, his heart deeply shocked. Above Heavenly Martial? He had never heard that there was something above Heavenly Martial... Could the 'Jade Emperor Scripture' really be so incredible? Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Jiang Sanjia glanced at An Jing, "Brother Zhou, the Daluo Heart Method that you are cultivating should be at the True Martial level of martial arts. Actually, what you have is just an incomplete version of the Daluo Heart Method. Over two hundred years ago, the Daluo Sect began to decline. At that time, the Zhenyi Sect in Great Yan was already thriving. Afraid that the experts of Zhenyi Sect would snatch it away, the Sect Leader of Daluo Sect hid part of the Daluo Heart Method. Even to this day, people of Zhenyi Sect are still searching for that incomplete piece of the Daluo Heart Method, pursuing and killing members of the Daluo Sect."

A realization dawned on An Jing. So the Daluo Heart Method was incomplete. "So you're saying, in order to get this Daluo Heart Method, Zhenyi Sect will go to any lengths to deal with me?"

Jiang Sanjia nodded and said, "Correct. The one presiding over Zhenyi Mountain today is Xiao Qianqiu, who has dominated Jianghu for decades. This person is a rare genius of Zhenyi Sect in hundreds of years. Among all the Grandmasters of the world today, he is the most likely to make a breakthrough to become a Great Grandmaster. Whether it's becoming the Mystical Sect Daoist Master or aiming for the Great Grandmaster realm, he is determined to obtain the 'Jade Emperor Scripture'. It is something he must acquire."

"In the past, the experts of Ghost Valley Sect roamed Jianghu freely. Even if they couldn't suppress the Sect Leader of Zhenyi Sect, they could still hold their own. But in this generation, there emerged a person like Xiao Qianqiu."

An Jing did not speak, his thoughts unknown.

The three words Xiao Qianqiu weighed like a mountain on all the experts of Jianghu.

"Do you know how fearsome Xiao Qianqiu is?" Jiang Sanjia smiled, "My senior brother, the Ghost Valley Divine Sword, broke through his limits ten years ago. His swordsmanship reached a unity with heaven and earth, and his cultivation attained the Grandmaster Realm. Yet he doesn't even have the courage to climb up Zhenyi Mountain."

"He's actually a Grandmaster, do you know that? The Ghost Valley Divine Sword, a swordsman whose fame echoes loudly across Jianghu, ranked among the top three swordsmen in the world. Isn't it laughable... Hahaha."

As he spoke, Jiang Sanjia burst into laughter, a trace of mockery lacing his voice.

A twinge of bitterness filled his heart. Faced with the aggressive Zhenyi Sect, his senior brother chose to hide instead, or else he wouldn't have fallen to his current plight.

An Jing felt a chill in his heart.

Jiang Sanjia's laughter subsided, his gaze fixed on An Jing as he said, "Xiao Qianqiu wants to become the Daoist Master, and he aims to become a Great Grandmaster. If Zhenyi Sect learns that you possess the Daluo Heart Method, they will surely make a move to snatch it from you. Brother Zhou, would you willingly hand it over?"

To become the Daoist Master, to obtain the 'Jade Emperor Scripture,' — this was the goal that every Sect Leader of Zhenyi Sect wished to achieve.

"What? He can become the Daoist Master, and I can't?"

An Jing said with a smile.

Giving up his own Daluo Heart Method was somewhat reluctant in his heart. Besides, if Xiao Qianqiu wished to cultivate the 'Jade Emperor Scripture,' why couldn't he, An Jing, also cultivate it?

Upon hearing this, Jiang Sanjia's expression stiffened slightly before he sighed and said, "Brother Zhou, I fear that my journey to Yujing City bodes more ill than good..."

"Then why go at all?"

"I have reasons I cannot ignore."

An Jing nodded and asked no further.

After a prolonged moment of contemplation, Jiang Sanjia finally took out a book from his chest and tossed it to An Jing, "Brother Zhou, keep this. If I don't make it back, help me find someone to pass it on."

"The 'Ghost Valley Heart Method'!?"

An Jing, looking at the book in his hands, was greatly shaken.