The Heavens: From Film and Mythology to Conquering Myriad Realms

Tangwu Mountain.

Lu Yao and his group left Tangwu Courtyard, and the soldiers escorted the cursing boy down the mountain.

"I don't want to go down the mountain! Let me go."

The boy's eyes were filled with fear, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.

The closer he got to the foot of the mountain, the more fear gripped the boy, for some reason, as if a great calamity was about to befall him.

Lu Yao had been observing the boy's condition, trying to figure out what kind of restrictions the Northern Rock Mountain Man had placed on him.

Finally, Lu Yao and his group emerged from Tangwu Mountain and reunited with the soldiers surrounding the mountain.

"I'm not dead! I'm fine! Hahaha."

The boy, already covered in sweat, cheered with joy when he saw that nothing had happened to him after he came down the mountain.

Looking at the lively young man, Lu Yao was also a little puzzled. Could it be that the Northern Rock Hermit had deceived his disciple?

suddenly!

The boy, who had been cheering, seemed to have his throat tightened and stopped cheering.

His eyes widened as if he had seen something terrifying; his pupils gradually dilated, and he collapsed to the ground.

Looking at the boy's appearance, Lu Yao frowned.

The soldiers nearby quickly stepped forward to check.

"Your Majesty, this man is already dead."

The soldier came before Lu Yao and reported.

"Is this the restriction imposed by the people of Beiyan Mountain?"

Looking at the boy's corpse, Lu Yao couldn't help but think to himself.

"Take his body back to Wudu."

Lu Yao gave the order, then got up and rode away.

The soldiers quickly followed, with 20,000 Wu Kingdom soldiers close behind.

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Wu Kingdom, Wu Capital.

Lu Yao summoned Yi Xiaochuan and Gao Yao to the side hall.

Yi Xiaochuan and Gao Yao stared intently at the treasure box; this was the mysterious treasure box that could take them back!

"Xiao Chuan, Lao Gao, are you really planning to go back?"

Looking at the two of them, Lu Yao couldn't help but ask.

Gao Yao is alright; he's all alone, focusing all his energy on cooking, and doesn't have any wives or concubines. Yu Xiaoyue also has Xiang Yu to take care of her.

But Yi Xiaochuan is not alone.

"I've made up my mind. I want to take Yu Shu back to the modern world with me. I've already asked Yu Shu for her opinion."

Yi Xiaochuan said with a happy expression.

"Brother Yao, aren't you planning to go back? That's right, you're the emperor now, and the Wu Kingdom can't do without you."

Yi Xiaochuan said with a sudden realization.

“Xiaoyue already has someone who loves her. I want to go back and take care of Gaolan now. She must be very sad after disappearing for so long.”

Gao Yao, who had been quite happy, couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache when he spoke of Gao Lan.

"Alright, Xiao Chuan, let me use the tiger-shaped pendant. Take Yu Shu with you tomorrow. Hopefully, the treasure box can take you all back."

Lu Yao nodded, borrowed the tiger-shaped pendant from Yi Xiaochuan, and said to the two of them with a smile.

After the two left, Lu Yao carefully examined the tiger-shaped pendant.

"It is indeed made of the same material as that meteorite."

Looking at the tiger-shaped pendant in his hand, Lu Yao thought to himself.

Lu Yao immediately ordered the master craftsmen in the court to make an identical tiger-shaped pendant according to its dimensions.

After dealing with the matter of the treasure box, Lu Yao entered the inner hall and came to the desk.

With a wave of his hand, he took out the two books from the secret cave of Tangwu Mountain from his storage space.

Lu Yao picked up one of the books, the title of which was "Notes from Beiyan" in large characters on the cover.

Lu Yao slowly opened the book and began to read it carefully.

An hour later, Lu Yao closed the book.

"Who in their right mind keeps a diary?"

Lu Yao shook his head and couldn't help but sigh.

This "Notes from Beiyan" is the diary written by Beiyan Shanren himself, recording his life's events.

According to the book, Beiyan Shanren was taken in as a personal disciple by his master at the age of three and was the hope of their lineage.

Before the Qin Dynasty, there were indeed people who cultivated immortality; they simply called themselves Qi Refiners.

However, as time went by, they found that Qi cultivation was becoming increasingly difficult. By the time of the generation of the Northern Rock Mountain Man's master, the art of Qi cultivation had declined, and there were very few people who had achieved success.

The man from Beiyan Mountain was born with a Daoist physique, a rare Qi-refining body that appears only once in a century. His master was overjoyed and accepted him as a disciple, devoting all the resources of their lineage to his cultivation.

The man from Beiyan Mountain lived up to expectations. He entered the Dao at the age of five, began practicing Qi cultivation at fifteen, reached the stage of refining essence into Qi at fifty, and cultivated to the stage of refining Qi into spirit at one hundred and thirty.

He became one of the top Qi cultivators of his time and was also proficient in divination.

After reaching the realm of Qi Refining and Spirit Transformation, Beiyan Mountain Man was trapped in this state for over a hundred years and had no choice but to seek another path forward.

As the recluse of Beiyan Mountain was about to pass away at the age of three hundred, he combined all his knowledge and finally created the art of transcending death through physical labor.

In his "Notes from Beiyan", Beiyan Shanren was very confident in his self-created technique of dissolving weapons and ascending to immortality.

This technique relies on the art of deduction, combined with the method of destruction and rebirth of the five elements, to reverse space, connect space with time, and form a closed loop of spacetime, thus allowing one to escape this world and ascend to immortality!

Based on the art of ascension through physical transformation, Bei Yanshanren used the treasures and rare materials passed down through his lineage to create a time-space treasure box as a spatial node. Using the art of deduction, he selected Yi Xiaochuan and Gao Yao as the people to complete the closed loop mission.

He had already calculated the location of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum and set up an ascension formation there, waiting for the opportunity to be resurrected and ascend.

The so-called elixir of immortality was indeed made by the man from Beiyan Mountain, but consuming it does not truly grant immortality.

This is actually a sophisticated method of puppet making. Those who consume the elixir of immortality made by the Northern Rock Mountain Man will gradually become living dead.

Outwardly, they appear no different from ordinary people, but their inner selves and souls are already corrupted, relying entirely on magical control to sustain them.

As time goes on, the puppet will become increasingly paranoid, losing its human emotions and living only for that one obsession in its soul.

In the original work, Yi Xiaochuan and Yu Shu are devoted to love, while Gao Yao is driven by hatred; both are controlled by the puppet technique.

The source of control is the meteorite and puppet array in the underground palace.

The layout of the underground palace of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum was also entrusted to Yi Xiaochuan by Beiyan. Every step Yi Xiaochuan took was within Beiyan Shanren's calculations.

As his disciple had said, Bei Er Yan Shan Ren was already dead.

At the moment of his death, he buried himself in the Ascension Array beneath the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor.

Beiyan Shanren only needs to wait quietly for two thousand years in the ascension formation of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum, until Yi Xiaochuan and Gao Yao open the underground palace and the space-time loop is formed, then he can break free from the constraints of the world and ascend to immortality.

"It seems that the Northern Rock Man's scheme in the original story was successful."

After reading Beiyan Shanren's notes, Lu Yao couldn't help but sigh.

This Beiyan Mountain Man was also a prodigy. If it weren't for Lu Yao's interference, he would have actually succeeded.

Unfortunately, he is now destined to be bound to this mythical world, unable to transcend it.

When Lu Yao arrived in the mythical world, Bei Yan had already passed away, and Lu Yao was not yet part of Bei Yan Shanren's deductions.

It can be said that Lu Yao completely ruined the Northern Rock Mountain Man's plan to transcend death and ascend to immortality.

He can only remain forever beneath the dark mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.