Chapter 162 The Deceitful Coffin

With the true meaning of the Three Teachings in hand, Ji Xiang could face any situation. As long as it wasn't too urgent, he could use deduction to turn the opponent's spells into useless tricks before him.

The blank divine tablet and the true meaning of the Three Teachings perfectly complemented each other. Ji Xiang mused that this might be one of the reasons why the blank divine tablet was drawn to the true meaning of the Three Teachings. This thing had tremendous appeal to the divine tablet.

"Just as the description of the true meaning of the Three Teachings says... Myriad techniques converge, none surpassing the boundaries of the Three Teachings!"

Any change in spells has a lineage. Even self-created spells in later generations were derived from the foundation of the Three Teachings. Even the "Heavenly Devil Arts" that Ji Xiang could deduce himself according to the blank divine tablet's description, forming his own school, was itself a branch of Taoism.

Therefore, the true meaning of the Three Teachings could give rise to the deducible Heavenly Devil Arts.

Otherwise, if the spell was completely born from nothingness, then the true meaning of the Three Teachings would not be able to deduce it. Obviously, there were currently no spells that could escape the deduction of the true meaning of the Three Teachings!

As for the Christian methods, after those missionaries entered the Ming Dynasty, they called themselves Western Confucian scholars. Furthermore, they had previously engaged in fierce debates with Buddhist teachings in India. During the deduction process of the true meaning of the Three Teachings, Ji Xiang had already tried it. The attribute of the Window of Heaven was very complex, but the main body was close to Confucian methods.

This was certainly not a Christian method extended from Confucian methods, but rather Christianity entering the Ming Dynasty and calling itself Western Confucianism, so that the true meaning of Confucianism fed back into Christianity.... Ji Xiang planned to carefully observe the issues within this matter later.

As for the spells of other lands, most of them had clear origins. Even Japanese Onmyōdō and Korean Shindo were all extended branches of Taoism, without a doubt!

An astonishing aura rose from Ji Xiang's body, and the entire grand formation in Kunlun Cave was shaken by this aura!

This aura gradually spread to the surrounding areas, sensing the key points of those formations!

There was obvious fear on the Eighth Sect Master's face. Even though he had already disregarded life and death when entering Kunlun Cave, he would still feel horror when truly facing a powerhouse who could completely crush him. Human emotional changes never end with facing death.

After all, after death, one can become a ghost and continue to experience fear....

Ji Xiang silently recited the sacred words in his heart: "There are not two paths under Heaven, and sages do not have two minds!"

Sacrificing a relatively powerful formation from Maoshan, the true meaning of the Three Teachings began to help Ji Xiang deduce!

A new formation gradually took shape, covering the outer formations of the Sky-Locking Grand Formation in a visible state. This scene shocked the Eighth Sect Master and was completely unbelievable!

"This, what kind of formation is this? I don't recognize it!"

The Eighth Sect Master looked at those newly appearing formation patterns, arranged in Kunlun Cave, gradually spreading towards the Mysterious Heaven Coffin. The outer Sky-Locking Formation was disintegrating and being replaced!

This showed that the new formation was not a means of violent cracking!

But rather, a true cracking formation corresponding to the Sky-Locking Grand Formation!

He couldn't understand the situation before him, only shaking his head constantly, taking a few steps back, and then starting to look around at those formation patterns, his eyes not blinking:

"Many formations in the world do not have reversal or cracking methods. The so-called cracking methods are often just some specific means. There is definitely no corresponding cracking formation. After all, when formations are born, they are meant to trap and kill enemies. Killing enemies beyond one's level is the true meaning of formations...."

"If every formation has a cracking formation, then most cultivators who practice the path of formations will probably be horrified by it. This matter will inevitably cause a huge uproar within these cultivator groups!"

"Because once these cracking formations are leaked out, it will be a disaster!"

"Once the art of unraveling the secret technique formations is mastered by their enemies, then their own ending will of course be death!"

The Eighth Sect Master muttered to himself, looking at the formation patterns around him, immersed in them. Those formation patterns contained the most excellent art of unraveling formations. He longed to learn, even though he didn't know where this new formation came from, it could unlock the Sky-Locking Formation....

Then, as long as he learned it deeply and researched it thoroughly, sooner or later, the formation principles contained in these formation patterns would definitely be mastered by them, and then they could draw inferences from one example to crack other formations.

The formation patterns continued to spread.... And then, they stopped.

At this time, Ji Xiang slowly opened his eyes, saw that those formation patterns had not completely cracked the Sky-Locking Grand Formation, but had only disintegrated the outer formations, and couldn't help but frown.

"I've already sacrificed a grand formation, and the calamity of the mortal world has already entangled me. The grade of this Sky-Locking Grand Formation is very high. Exchanging it for a Maoshan grand formation only disintegrated the outer layer?"

Ji Xiang didn't hesitate too much. Next, he continued to deduce. This time, it wasn't a grand formation sacrifice, but a direct sacrifice of a Heavenly Formation.

After all, Heavenly Formations were all Thunder Formations. One less or one more didn't make a difference. There were many wonderfully useful formations within grand formations. If they were all sacrificed to crack this one Sky-Locking Grand Formation, it would be too wasteful.

Sacrificing a Heavenly Formation, the second deduction began, and this time, rumbling thunder sounded within Kunlun Cave!

Those formation patterns began to change. This was the second stage of disintegration. The internal formations also began to collapse. Countless formation patterns completely filled Kunlun Cave, and then climbed onto the Mysterious Heaven Coffin!

After the formation patterns locking the Mysterious Heaven Coffin were replaced, Ji Xiang's eyes narrowed, and he flew into the formation. The outer grand formation had completely disintegrated, and those formation patterns were slowly dissipating!

"Wait a moment, I haven't written them down yet!"

The Eighth Sect Master looked at those disappearing formation patterns, somewhat panicked and anxious. After all, there were many formation patterns that he had not completely written down, and now they were about to disappear before his eyes, so he was busy fighting wits and courage with those stone walls, but Ji Xiang didn't care what he was doing!

Arriving in front of the Mysterious Heaven Coffin, he pushed his palm, and the coffin lid spun twice in the air, flying up!

"What is this thing!"

The coffin was pitch-black, but the things inside startled Ji Xiang.

There was actually a Maoshan inside this coffin!

Mountains and rivers, divine palaces and immortal abodes, everything was complete. Ji Xiang even waved his hand, and that world could change. Ji Xiang saw a second self inside, as if peeping at the lower realm from the sky!

So he suddenly turned his head, and above him was the Kunlun Cave ceiling filled with formation patterns. There was no second self peeping at him!

"This thing is not a coffin."

Ji Xiang was shocked. There was actually a world inside the coffin that was exactly the same as the outer mountains and rivers?

It was like seeing a small person when opening a box, and that small person was actually you!

Ji Xiang saw the coffin lid that he had overturned.

Then, he activated his mana and slammed the edge of the coffin!

Divine light floated within the coffin. At this moment, the Inner Vision Divine Tablet reacted and gave an explanation:

[Mysterious Heaven Stone Coffin: The year has its Yang spring, and the Mysterious Heaven has its sun and moon.]

[The main body is a stone chest, outwardly appearing as an ordinary object, but inside it contains the universe, sun, moon, and a vast world. It belonged to the immortal Sima Jizhu during the Qin and Han dynasties and was placed in the stone chamber of Changshan. Later, the Shangqing School learned the "Weiyu Mountain Immortal Technique" and brought this item back to the Shangqing Kunlun Cave.]

[Above the Mysterious Heaven Stone Coffin, there is also the Changshan Bronze Cabinet.]

[The Mysterious Heaven Stone Coffin can reflect the desires in people's hearts, transforming itself into a phantom world, causing those who enter the coffin to sink into it; while the Changshan Bronze Cabinet is "said" to be able to transform into a real world......]

[Sky-Locking Grand Formation: The core of the Sky-Locking Escape-Destroying Grand Formation is in the coffin world (operating).]

[Shangqing False Form: The Shangqing Maoshan reflects the appearance of the entire Shangqing School into it. If Shangqing is destroyed, the stone coffin will be opened, and the coffin world will be reflected into the real world, restoring everything to its original state.]

[Reflection of Desire: Transforming into the world of people's hearts (locked), due to the locking of the Reflection of Desire, those who enter the coffin's mountains and rivers will lose their original true memories and become survivors in the illusion.]

[Crossroads of the Human World: No different from the outer mountains and rivers, the behavioral memories made in the coffin world will be fed back to the real world, but will not affect the situation in the real world.]

[Truth is also False: The real body enters the coffin world and can perform corresponding reflections on the outside world.]

[Immortal Treasure: Somewhere within the mountains and rivers of the Mysterious Heaven Stone Coffin, there is a Weiyu Mountain Immortal Technique hidden (with reclusive immortals)!]

The coffin was powerful, and there was also an immortal hidden inside?

Ji Xiang turned his head and saw that the Eighth Sect Master was still fighting wits with the stone walls, so he used a wind talisman to roll him over. The Eighth Sect Master lay in front of the stone coffin, saw Ji Xiang's face clearly, and saw that the coffin lid was missing, his expression was shocked!

"You actually really opened it!"

Ji Xiang grabbed his neck: "Don't talk nonsense, tell me what this is, why is there a world inside that is exactly the same as the outer mountains and rivers? You have to tell me carefully. If there is even half a lie...."

"If you don't listen, I'll throw you in to see!"

After pinching him, he let go. The Eighth Sect Master breathed out. Of course, it was impossible to be strangled to death at his level. If he wanted to, he could even not breathe.

After all, breath control was a basic skill of Taoism. Cultivating to a high level, the whole body could breathe the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

"This thing is called the Mysterious Heaven Coffin. Some of the spells of my Shangqing School's Pure Emptiness Ancestor lineage come from Sima Jizhu of the Qin and Han Dynasties. This thing is Sima Jizhu's spiritual artifact...."

Everything the Eighth Sect Master said was exactly the same as what Ji Xiang had seen before. Ji Xiang's eyes narrowed, and he immediately threw the Eighth Sect Master into the stone coffin!

The Eighth Sect Master was shocked: "What are you do..."

Before he could finish his words, he fell into the stone coffin and was immediately swept away by a strange and bizarre cloud of mist and disappeared.

Ji Xiang moved those clouds with his hands and quickly found the Eighth Sect Master. He seemed to have forgotten how he appeared in this coffin world and was standing blankly at the gate of Maoshan.

"Sure enough, entering this coffin's mountains and rivers will make people forget their original situation...."

Exposing himself within the mountains and rivers was not a wise move. Ji Xiang reached out and shot out lightning. Suddenly, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled throughout the coffin's mountains and rivers, and a tribulation descended, striking the Eighth Sect Master thoroughly!

The latter was completely confused by the tribulation. Ji Xiang was just testing it out, but he didn't expect that external interference would have a reaction to the coffin world....

"Now is not the time to care about you, I'll come back to see you later."

Ji Xiang moved the clouds and found the Little Kunlun Cave in the illusion of the Shangqing School. The two people from the Quanzhen School were trapped in this Little Kunlun Cave, and the location was the same place where he had just broken the formation.

It was just that the core formation of the Sky-Locking Grand Formation was in the coffin world....

"In other words, what I just cracked was just a fake formation reflected in the outside world by a formation in the coffin?"

Ji Xiang couldn't enter the coffin world himself. There was a risk of amnesia, and in this Kunlun Cave, Ji Xiang was always afraid that after entering the coffin, a pair of hands would appear from some corner and press the coffin lid to death!

Moreover, there was a hidden immortal in the coffin world, but even though he had made so much noise on the coffin, this immortal didn't come out at all. He was probably sleeping inside, or he was a corpse-releasing immortal.

Combining the spells he had obtained before, he could use the body of a corpse-releasing immortal to refine a Dharma Protector puppet that was almost comparable to the Ascension Realm, but if the other party suddenly returned to his senses, his actions would seem a little awkward.

Ji Xiang himself would not do these reckless corpse-stealing things.

In order to crack the core formation in the coffin, Ji Xiang sacrificed another grand formation to deduce it and quickly got the answer. Dense formation patterns appeared in the illusory world in the coffin. Ji Xiang reached out and waved his hand, and those clouds lifted the formation that was about to disintegrate. Ji Xiang immediately rescued the people!

The two Quanzhen disciples were rescued without any danger. Nanyangzi and the Fallen Immortal appeared in the outside world with blank expressions. This was still the Kunlun Cave in the formation, but it was different from before. There was an extra Ji Xiang here.

"Daoist Ji!"

"Immortal!"

The two Quanzhen comrades were pleasantly surprised and relieved. This time, they had truly escaped from danger at a critical moment.

But Ji Xiang asked them a strange question:

"Did you see me just now?"

The location of the two people just now was still in the Kunlun Cave in the coffin world. What Ji Xiang saw when he first opened the coffin was that place, but just now, there was another self in the world inside the coffin.

"You? When did you appear in front of us? You only appeared in front of us now."

The two Quanzhen cultivators looked at each other. Nanyangzi shook his head: "I can't escape with escape techniques. This is the first time we've seen you."

Ji Xiang pressed: "Just now, when I opened the coffin lid, there was a shrunken me inside. Didn't you see it?"

Nanyangzi and the Fallen Immortal shook their heads again.

At this time, Ji Xiang looked back down. What was manifested in the coffin world was still Kunlun Cave, but in Kunlun Cave, there was only himself, and Nanyangzi and the Fallen Immortal were not reflected.

Suspicion arose in Ji Xiang's eyes. He carefully watched the two of them, which made them very nervous, and they also checked each other.

Nanyangzi: "Could it be... could it be that we were taken over without us knowing?"

The Fallen Immortal: "Immortal, don't look at me with such strange eyes, I'm scared."

Ji Xiang asked them to go over to watch. The two of them peeped into the coffin world. There were no abnormalities in Kunlun Cave, and no one appeared.

But soon, the illusion changed and became Xuanmiao Temple.

Nanyangzi exclaimed, and his eyes gradually became blank. The voices from inside were constantly heard, all the chanting of the Taoists in Xuanmiao Temple, but soon, Ji Xiang kicked the coffin lid shut, and the roaring sound shocked Nanyangzi, and he hurriedly retreated a few steps in horror!

"Xuanmiao Temple is already destroyed, how could it be in this coffin!"

Ji Xiang reprimanded: "Guard your original heart! This is not the real Xuanmiao Temple!"

"This stone coffin seems to have a problem. Ancient spiritual tools are not very reliable either."

Ji Xiang looked at this stone coffin again. In the previous Reflection of Desire entry, the locked label... suddenly disappeared!