Chapter 27: The Monument of Enlightenment

On the other side, Jiang Chen and Bai Linger traveled for half a day, reaping a lot of treasures from heaven and earth. Jiang Chen uprooted and packed all the valuable spirit herbs and medicines they encountered.

After about three hours,

the two had ventured deep into the depths of the Fallen Saint's Secret Realm and arrived at a divine peak.

"Here it is, Ji Xuan's aura is right here," Jiang Chen said as he and Bai Linger descended from the divine rainbow and walked on the divine peak.

They saw many cultivators on the peak, including those from the royal family, disciples from the top ten sects, and a large number of royal descendants. They all surrounded a stone monument at the top of the peak, seemingly contemplating something.

Outside the peak, more cultivators arrived one after another, following the crowd towards the peak.

Jiang Chen sensed Ji Xuan's aura at the top of the peak, seemingly contemplating something before the stone monument.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

With a few flashes, Jiang Chen and Bai Linger appeared at the top of the peak.

They saw that the top of the peak was extremely spacious, like a small plain, with a gigantic stone monument at its core, towering a kilometer high, seemingly piercing the sky. The surface of the stone monument was covered with mottled sword scars, each containing awe-inspiring sword intent.

If one comprehended this sword intent carefully, they could grasp a sword technique from it. Moreover, the strength of the sword scars increased from bottom to top.

Many cultivators, after comprehending one sword intent and attempting to understand a stronger one, would fail and suffer from the backlash of the sword intent, forcing them to retreat and recuperate before attempting to comprehend again. However, the chance of success in re-comprehension was low.

The failed comprehension represented the limit of the cultivator's understanding.

"The Monument of Enlightenment? Interesting," Jiang Chen's eyes sparkled slightly. He was very familiar with this thing.

The Monument of Enlightenment was a kind of inheritance item, where powerful individuals engraved all their knowledge on a special material to create the monument. The difficulty increased gradually from bottom to top. If one could comprehend all the way to the top, they would inherit all the knowledge of the previous owner and obtain a clean Monument of Enlightenment to inscribe their own knowledge, passing it on to future generations.

This was one of the most common inheritance methods in the cultivation world.

Jiang Chen had spent a lot of time comprehending such monuments in the Chaotic Sacred Land.

"This Monument of Enlightenment seems to have a familiar feeling," Jiang Chen suddenly felt an inexplicable connection with it, as if it was calling out to him with some kind of innate affinity.

Suddenly,

an idea flashed through Jiang Chen's mind.

Wait a moment,

Familiar feeling?

The Monument of Enlightenment is made of Chaotic Source Gold!

His cultivation of the Chaotic Immortal Scripture allowed him to sense few things with such familiarity,

combined with the information given by Dantai Yue,

Jiang Chen instantly concluded,

this colossal stone monument before his eyes was transformed from Chaotic Source Gold.

This Monument of Enlightenment was a method left behind by the Great Qian Dynasty's Saint Ancestor. He inscribed all his knowledge on the stone monument, hoping that future generations could inherit his knowledge and obtain the Chaotic Source Gold, rising to glory!

However,

the Great Qian Saint Ancestor probably didn't expect that his descendants would be a bunch of trash, fighting internally. Now, they had even fallen to the point of sharing the Fallen Saint's Secret Realm with outsiders.

Moreover,

according to Jiang Chen's observation, the sword intent on this Monument of Enlightenment posed no difficulty for him!

After all, he had grown up comprehending the Monument of Enlightenment left by the Great Emperor since he was a child. Although he didn't have any special innate comprehension talents like the Heavy Pupil, his comprehension was many times stronger than that of an ordinary person.

Chaotic Source Gold,

this time, it was going to be his!

"Master,"

a call brought Jiang Chen back to reality.

Ji Xuan noticed Jiang Chen and Bai Linger who had arrived at the divine peak and greeted them with a smile.

He was a bit worried about Bai Linger getting into trouble, but now that he saw her with Master, all his worries vanished.

Master was a super powerhouse he couldn't fathom!

"Oh? Your cultivation has improved again, reaching the Triple Sea Realm? Not bad," Jiang Chen glanced at Ji Xuan, praising him with a smile.

Jiang Chen never hesitated to praise his disciples, believing that encouragement was essential for building confidence.

Jiang Chen felt more and more like an old father.

"A bit of a lucky encounter," Ji Xuan explained, then said, "Master, there's a great opportunity here before us."

He pointed to the text at the bottom of the stone monument and continued, "Master, beneath this stone monument lies the words left by the Saint Ancestor of the Great Qian Dynasty. It roughly means that there are countless sword intents on the monument. Whoever comprehends them all can obtain his true inheritance, one of the Nine Secrets, the Combat Character Technique."

"The Combat Character Technique?"

Jiang Chen raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised.

Originally, he thought their harvest this time was only the Chaotic Source Gold, but he didn't expect there to be another Combat Character Technique!

The Combat Character Technique wasn't an Emperor Scripture, but it was comparable to one. It specialized in the path of attack and battle. A king once dominated an era solely with the Combat Character Technique derived from the Monument of Enlightenment, displaying an invincible posture.

This showed how formidable and domineering the Combat Character Technique was.

"Master, are you interested in comprehending it?" Ji Xuan asked with a smile.

He knew his own limitations. With the system at his disposal, his future achievements would probably not be low, but he himself wasn't a true genius. He was even called a waste back then.

However, his Master was a genuine young hero, terrifying in strength and mysterious in identity. Ji Xuan believed that with Master's intervention, those sects and royal families wouldn't stand a chance.

"I do have such an intention," Jiang Chen smiled and, accompanied by Ji Xuan and Bai Linger, walked towards the Monument of Enlightenment.

The movement of the several people attracted the attention of many.

"It's Ji Xuan."

"Why has he come back? Didn't he just challenge it? He failed on the tenth level of sword intent. Could it be that he's made a breakthrough again?"

"Unlikely. Ji Xuan's Master is with him this time. It seems his Master is going to take the challenge."

"Yeah... that makes sense. I heard that Ji Xuan's Master is extremely terrifying. He killed a Dao Foundation First Layer Mo Lord at the auction venue."

"Yes."

The members of the royal family and the cultivators from the top ten sects discussed among themselves.

They were all cultivators who had been teleported to a distance from the Monument of Enlightenment after entering the secret realm. They were unaware that Jiang Chen had slaughtered many high-level elders of the top ten sects.

If they knew about it,

their expressions would be quite interesting.

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