Chapter 173: The Death Register

In this cave, I almost forgot the feeling of sunlight. It was only twenty days, and when Elder Qi came to me again to explain the situation outside, he couldn’t help but sigh and tell me that my face looked pale and a little scary.

“Master, although the situation is urgent, you should also step up your training… but do you want to go out for a walk today?” While speaking, Elder Qiu put down a plate in his hand, which contained only a few simple stew pots, with old soup made from various precious medicinal ingredients and ingredients.

There were also some medicinal powders and pills… all made according to the prescriptions I provided, using the resources the Snow Mountain lineage could come up with.

When I took out these prescriptions a few days ago, it caused a sensation in the Snow Mountain lineage… especially among the practitioners of the medical arts, who were even more crazy… For them, these ancient single prescriptions, which had almost been lost, were so easily taken out by me, which always made people very confused.

But the old master forcibly suppressed this madness. He simply said, “In extraordinary times, we use the single-ingredient formulas that the Snow Mountain lineage originally treasured. The herbs used have already caused the Snow Mountain lineage to suffer. There are still single-ingredient formulas, but the herbs needed are almost extinct, and no substitutes can be found. You still want to research single-ingredient formulas? The situation is already so urgent, and everyone shoulders a great responsibility. Everything will be discussed after the war.”

In fact, the old master was almost telling the truth. Except for the fact that I provided the single-lens reflex camera, it seems that although I am the highest master of the Snow Mountain lineage, I actually lack a little bit of the majesty of a master.

If this were Chen Chengyi, he wouldn’t care… but I do. I’m not interested in power. I just agreed to help Chen Chengyi in this battle, and I have to consider all aspects… In the past, I always thought he thought too much.

Now it seems that I am also a person who thinks too much. The more I discover, the more I realize that this experience of the afterlife has made me discover a completely different version of myself.

“Head of the sect?” I was lost in my own thoughts and did not answer Elder Qi for a long time. Elder Qi could not help but urge me.

I subconsciously touched my face. Was it pale and terrible? If that guy came back and found that I had turned him into a pale face, would he be furious? That guy naturally meant Chen Chengyi. I and he were in the same body, so I naturally understood his thoughts… He was very concerned about this, although the possibility of him coming back was very small.

Thinking about this, I picked up a stewing pot and began to drink the soup inside. I said to Elder Qiu, “That’s fine.”

What I didn’t want to admit to myself was how I had started to pay attention to such trivial things. Things like being a little paler or a little darker were not worth mentioning to me at all… only that Chen Chengyi…

When I thought of this, I had already finished the bowl of stew in my hand and put down the stew pot… On the surface, I was calm, but inside, I was full of doubts. Wasn’t it only Chen Chengyi who thought like this? Why did my thoughts become more and more like his?

Perhaps in the end, even if his will disappears, it will still somehow cause some changes in me.

This is only natural, but I don’t know if this change is good or bad. I can’t think of an answer either. In the silence of my thoughts, I finished eating everything on the tray… In my cultivation, I only eat this kind of thing every day.

“Let’s go,” I said to Elder Qiu, and then I walked out of the small cave I was in. I made a detour and then walked out of the cave deeper into the mountain along another path.

Like the structure of a mountain range, it was built according to the mountain’s shape, slanting upwards… the cave at the highest point was the same.

I didn’t expect that at the end of the dirt road in the cave, there was a row of upward-facing bluestone steps.

I never thought that there was no point in building something, so when I saw these steps, I couldn’t help but think, is this the reason why the Autumn Elder wanted to show me the sunlight, and to show me the deeper secrets of the Snow Mountain Range?

Thinking about this, I couldn’t help but ask Master Qiu, “Is there a secret place above these stairs?” Could there be a cave underground?

Even if I am not from this world, the existence of that underground cave still shocked me. The place where I was seemed to have the same legend as here, although I had not yet examined the details in detail… but I could probably determine some through Chen Chengyi’s memory.

That is why I was shocked by the existence of the underground cave. This is a shocking secret. Even I can’t imagine what would happen if something imprisoned in the underground cave escaped.

How could the snowy mountain range be so bold as to imprison these legendary places in the underground cave? When walking in it, in addition to the voice of the owner who didn’t know how deep the underground was, I also clearly felt some other thrilling breaths… In fact, what shocked me even more was that if there were any beings in the underground cave that I imagined, then in my original world they would also be legendary…

“The head of the sect will know if he goes up and takes a look,” I thought to myself. Elder Qi was walking behind me, and he answered my question quickly and naturally.

Still playing hard to get? I raised my eyebrows slightly… Fortunately, the stairs weren’t long, and soon we reached the end… At the end was a wooden door, perhaps because it had been there for so long that it had become somewhat rotten, and I don’t know where the wind came from, but it was blowing it slightly.

I placed my hand on the latch of the wooden door and looked at Elder Qi with some doubt. He smiled at me, which meant that he was telling me to open it and take a look.

I turned my head in confusion and then carefully opened the wooden door… A gust of wind blew my clothes and hair about. It turned out that behind the wooden door, there was nothing but a small platform that extended out.

I couldn’t help squinting. After I got used to the strong wind near the top of the mountain (the cave where the head of the clan is located is already near the top of the mountain), I saw the warm and dazzling sunlight, which was so appealing that I unconsciously walked onto the platform.

The platform is located high up, with the deep cliffs below, the faint mist rolling, and in the distance, the endless snow-capped mountains… You can also see the vast grasslands… and the clear lakes that appear from time to time (lakes on the plateau). Looking up, the sky seems to be right above your head, and reaching out… the sunlight shines through your fingers, as if your hand is also touching the sun.

However, being so close to the sky and the earth also makes one feel even more insignificant… In the wind, I couldn’t help but turn my head to look at the old man Qiu who had already stood next to me and asked, “Why is there such a place?”

“This is a platform deliberately left by the ancestors of the Snow Mountain. It is nothing more than a place to sense the world and reflect on oneself.” Elder Qi said calmly beside me.

“Is there any meaning to bringing me here?” I asked.

“Master, compared to the person you were outside the cave, I feel that you have changed… calm and cold, not even seeing friends who came to find you, I can feel your strong purpose… I’m afraid you’ll get lost.” The expression on Elder Qi’s face was a little frightened, but he still firmly said these words.

I stood in the wind and was silent… Am I really that different from him? Why is it that in the eyes of the old master and the autumn elder, it is I who is lost?

I didn’t say anything, and Elder Qiu didn’t continue on this topic either… He didn’t say what the purpose of bringing me here was, but I understood that it was to make me reflect on myself… I just didn’t know where to start.

At this time, Elder Qiu took out a booklet from his bosom and handed it to me gently, saying, “Master, the day is not far off.”

What day is not far off? I took the booklet from Elder Qi with some confusion, and opened it… There was nothing written on it, just neatly written names of people. In the small booklet, it looked quite a bit dense.

“What is this?” I flipped through the booklet and glanced at Elder Qiu.

“You know, Master, the battle has already begun… These names are the names of the cultivators who sacrificed themselves for our cause…” The tone of Elder Qi’s voice began to become heavy.

I originally took life and death very lightly. If you die for a good cause, or even die defending the truth, it is a cause for celebration, not sadness… But for some reason, when the wind blew, a feeling of sadness welled up in my heart, and the booklet in my hand suddenly felt like a thousand pounds.

“This is just a list of the dead. The Snow Mountain lineage has more detailed records of where and how they died. They were all heroes in this battle… But this collision is almost over, because it has reached a critical point. Neither we nor Yang Sheng can touch this critical point.” Elder Qiu said seriously.

Critical point? I raised my eyebrows… looking at Elder Qiu, I was a little confused as to what he meant.