Destiny is ashes

Chapter 275 Taiming Sect in the Shadows (13)

"Alas, Aunt Huai passed away."

"Really?! I remember the old man was in pretty good health, right? Before the frost disaster, wasn't he still..."

"It's the Frost Tribulation! Damn it, it's all the fault of those True Demon Sects! They keep torturing me and even drove the old man out of the house!"

"That's right. We all suffered a lot when we caught a cold in the heavy snow. Auntie was already in very poor health at that time..."

"Alas, it's fine if the old man doesn't get sick, but once he gets sick he collapses immediately... He survived the frost, but didn't make it to spring."

On the streets, similar conversations took place among all the people who were familiar with Aunt Huai.

Most people feel very sorry about Aunt Huai's situation, but seriously speaking, it doesn't feel strange.

After all, Aunt Huai was indeed very old, and it would not be surprising if she died at any time.

It has been very difficult for them to survive the recent chaos caused by the True Demon Sect and the frost disaster. Although his death now is regrettable, it is indeed reasonable.

However, there is a small number of people who have received kindness from Aunt Huai or have been raised by her since childhood, so they are particularly sad about the old lady's death.

They took the initiative to find Jing Xuan, who was presiding over the funeral. Even if their families had no money to contribute, they would still take the initiative to do some work, chop some firewood, and take care of some small things for the old man's funeral... If it really doesn't work, it would be good to get some people together to make it more lively.

As for Jingxuan, who presided over Aunt Huai's funeral, people's opinions are quite different: some people think that Jingxuan is grateful, powerful, and ruthless to the True Demon Sect. He is truly the most popular first-class good man in the Northwest Frontier.

However, some people think that Jingxuan is just being a playboy and has to show off in front of others, as if he is very familiar with Aunt Huai. So many families who have been on good terms with Aunt Huai since childhood don't allow this, so why let a Chenli person from another place be allowed to preside over it?
On the side of the road, someone sighed: "Good people are really rewarded. I heard that Aunt Huai was able to survive the frost disaster because Master Jing got the secret medicine from his hometown..."

Someone grumbled, "Isn't this still not cured? It feels like... a waste of time."

A passerby was shocked when he heard this: "Hush! What are you talking about! Medicine can't cure old age! Doctor Bao said that the old lady didn't die of a cold, but of old age. She should be buried happily!"

"What's more... Ren Jingxuan is the disciple of Master Shenzang! How dare you talk to him like that? Are you crazy?"

"Yes." Another passerby also whispered: "He is willing to do this for an old man who just did him a favor. He is really a good person!"

In general, as an outsider, Jingxuan's reputation in Kanming City is already quite high.

[I didn’t expect… that everyone remembered it so clearly]

Although she could only wake up occasionally, Aunt Huai's spirit did see her coffin being carried along the long street, and wherever it passed, there would be people paying their respects.

They walked all the way to the cemetery, and as the coffin was buried, Aunt Huai's life came to an end.

[I thought my journey was coming to an end, and my previous life was coming to an end... But now, I can still do more]

After the funeral, Aunt Huai's soul felt sleepy again, but it was obvious that her condition had improved a lot. Dragon Jade can indeed nourish the soul, which made An Jing think of the "Taiming Sutra" that he asked Huo Qing to learn.

If it is a dragon jade plus a soul-nourishing formation, then the soul in the dragon jade may really be able to exist for a long time like the underworld, until the soul's lifespan comes to an end.

In addition, An Jing also had a guess about the affairs of the underworld.

Ming Guangchen, who had been very busy moving back and forth recently, not only taught An Jing the "Shaoyang Sword Technique", but also explained to An Jing the structure of the Five Sects of Chenli.

Hundreds of years ago, Dachen was extremely aggressive. The conquest army continuously expanded and compressed the vague space between Chenli and the Northern Frontier. The entire Hanbei Road was a new area that was completely opened up at that time, and the An family also made their fortune in the Northern Frontier at that time.

As a large region located in the north of Dachen, the five sects of Chenli formed an alliance with the only sect of Chenli, the 'Xu Shenshan Taiming Sect' as the core, and secretly resisted the encroachment of Dachen.

But what is strange is that after opening up Hanbei Road and Chiye Territory, Dachen completely ended its nationwide outward expansion and turned completely inward.

Soon after, Emperor Tianyou ascended the throne, but then passed away... Although it did not shake the foundation of the country, anyone with a discerning eye could see that Dachen was in a delicate state. As a result, the originally stable sects and forces in various places were ready to move, and the internal situation of the Chenli Alliance was also slightly loose.

The Mingjing Sect is the most powerful of the four central sects in Chenli in the past thousand years. The Hongfushan and Huangyang Sects, which also have Chunyang, are inferior to it, and even the Taiming Sect is very wary of it.

Because three thousand years ago, one of the two Pure Yang Heavenly Lords in the Taiming Sect, together with King Dachenqi, discussed the Dao with the Taiyuan Demon God, who was at the peak of Pure Yang and was about to cross the nine tribulations of Lingxiao.

After returning to the mountain, the Taiyuan Demon God went into seclusion, and ultimately failed to survive the nine calamities and his Tao collapsed, without even leaving any heritage behind.

King Qi was seriously injured for a hundred years and lost his way to advancement. Later, Honglong Tianjun of Taiming Sect also went into seclusion in the sect and passed away in the same year as Taiyuan Demon God.

The loss of Chunyang not only caused the Taiming Sect to lose its absolute prestige among the Five Sects, and the alliance of the Five Sects became even looser, but also caused Bai Ze Mountain (the sect of the Taiyuan Demon God), which had originally hoped to unify Taiyuan, to fall back to the lower reaches of the middle sect, and also made Taiyuan a place where demons from the True Demon Sect were rampant.

This is also the historical background of why Ming Guangchen was abducted as a medicine slave and why he was rescued by the Five Sects of Chenli.

At this point, although the power of the Mingjing Sect is still not as strong as that of the Taiming Sect, it has the confidence to bypass the Taiming Sect and communicate with Dachen and other large sects on its own, and even open up branches in Taiyuan.

However, the Mingjing Sect is now only at the end of its glorious era. If it follows the laws of history, it will probably be reduced to an ordinary middle-class sect with only four or five saints when its ancestor Chengguang Tianjun dies.

But perhaps it was because the Mingjing Sect's strength over the past thousand years was really something that too many people could not stand - the Shangmen couldn't stand that a poor upstart Zhongmen dared to show his teeth to them, and the Zhongmen couldn't stand that the poor guy suddenly became rich - so the Mingjing Sect's potential seeds of sainthood have always been targeted.

An Jing felt that this might be the work of the Taiming Sect. The evidence was obvious, that was the book "The Wonderful Scripture of the Divine Mantra of the Emperor You Taiming God to Bind the Netherworld and Control the Spirit".

This magical spell and sutra can be used to control ghosts and gods in the underworld, as well as demons, and it is closely related to the Taiming Sect.

Although it may sound a bit like a pun, it is really impossible to say that Taiming God has nothing to do with Taiming Sect.

(End of this chapter)