TROTLG Chapter 236(part 2)

 

It was not long before he woke up.

He seemed to be in a cave, with rocks all around him, while his body was submerged in a red liquid. The cave was huge, with only a small pool in the centre, which he was currently in.

The tip of his nose was filled with a fishy-sweet smell. He took his hand out of the sticky liquid and smelled it. His brow furrowed abruptly. Is this blood?

[S419M, are you there?] There was silence all around him, but his mind was even more silent than the surroundings.

There was only the sound of the blood rippling beneath him. After waiting for a while and still not receiving a response from S419M, Bai Lixin sighed in disappointment. He recalled the alarm signal sent out by the system when he entered this world.

It seemed that the system had once again fallen into hibernation to protect itself. The alarm that had been emitted came to mind once again. Was the system under attack? It seems that this world won’t be peaceful.

Bai Lixin carefully looked around again and realised that there was something else in this blood.

Several huge leaves floated behind him, and when he picked them up, he found that they were not individual leaves but had rhizomes attached underneath them. The leaves were wide and floating above the blood, but the rhizomes were submerged in the blood with the receptacle.

The colour of the leaves was a pale green, very fresh, but the receptacle was empty.

A receptacle? Blood? A cave?

Eh!

An image suddenly appeared in Bai Lixin’s mind, and he dropped the receptacle, quickly turning over and leaving a pool of blood.

It was only after leaving the pool of blood that Bai Lixin realised he was without a single strand of clothing.

He decided to pull out the broad leaves from the pool of blood and wrap them around his body before quickly leaving the cave through the dark passage.

Half an hour after Bai Lixin’s departure, dark clouds gathered in the sky with a constant roar of thunder.

The dark clouds rose and rolled, and there was great pressure on the land.

Several figures took advantage of the dark clouds to hide as they rushed straight down into the cave with a flash of light and shadow.

When they saw the mess in the pool of blood, the leader of the group exclaimed, “The Blood Iris is gone!”

Another older man was also astonished, “Could it be that the devil hid the Iris?”

“No, it’s impossible; the devil is now in seclusion for the tribulation and simply can’t leave the cave. We were ordered to fetch the Iris today, and now that it is gone, the Immortal Venerable will be furious. Look at the ground! The blood drops form a line; this must be left by the one who took the Iris. ”

Bai Lixin wrapped his body in leaves and ran through the jungle while cursing in his heart.

This damn system. You may not be able to find a suitable body for me, but couldn’t you find me a human body? What’s the point of putting me in a flower? This is no ordinary world; he is now a tonic to the cultivation world!

Although there was no S419M to transmit the world memory for him, Bai Lixin was very glad that he had paid attention to some of the images of this world before he entered it.

One of the images showed a pool of blood in a cave in which a colourful golden flower was swaying. This flower would only bloom once every ten thousand years, sucking up the essence of heaven and earth in the cultivation realm. A small petal could multiply a cultivator’s cultivation. The flower’s effect did not end there. If the whole thing is taken, the dead can be revived and the living could live forever.

And if he guessed correctly, he had now become this flower.

From the images he saw, this flower had a focal point in the main plot of this cultivation world.

The male protagonist entered a secret realm for training but encountered a crisis and was saved by the daughter of the sect’s master. To revive the daughter of the sect leader, the main protagonist consulted countless books and finally discovered the Iris, a miraculous object. The plot shifted from the sect to the main protagonist’s adventures.

The Iris had magical functions, but it was extremely difficult for it to survive. The Iris that bloomed in this life was in the territory of a demonic cultivator, the Nine Heavenly Demon King. So, to find this flower, one must first find the cave of the divine Nine Heavenly Demon Lord before they can do so. To find the Iris that could save the daughter of the sect master, the main protagonist embarked on a journey.

During this journey, he made many friends and also met many women who gave up their lives for him one after another. The son of the world was blessed with good fortune. With the help of the many women in his harem, he quickly went to being a man who stood at the top of the cultivation world.

The man eventually met a witch who served the Nine Heavenly Demon Lord. After quickly subduing the witch with his protagonist halo, she quickly agreed to take the man into the Nine Heavenly Demon Lord’s territory and to the pool of blood where the Iris cultivated.

The male protagonist went through many trials and tribulations and finally found the blood Iris. He returned to the sect with his harem of men and women and saved the daughter of the Sect Leader. The sect master was so impressed that he betrothed his daughter to him.

The man then lived a charming and flirtatious life with his harem from then on.

If the images he saw were correct, the plot should roughly be like that.

The fact that I have become the Iris… doesn’t that mean that I was born to be used by the male protagonist to honour the daughter of the sect leader?

I’m so not doing that.

Although the leaves were very wide, they weren’t the right size. Bai Lixin thought to himself as he ran around wrapped in them: if only I could find a set of clothes.

The thought passed through his mind for only a moment before the huge leaves miraculously began to change in his hands. The leaves slowly melted into liquid at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the liquid wrapped itself around his body as if it were alive. The liquid began to solidify and morph, and in the blink of an eye, turned into a set of flowing light green robes. Even his feet were clad in a pair of comfortable boots.

The change in the leaves once again confirmed Bai Lixin’s suspicions. Alas, there was no escape.

Bai Lixin sighed, helplessly accepting the fact that he was cultivator food.

Since he was the Iris, and the Iris grew in the middle of the Nine Heavenly Demon Lord’s territory, wouldn’t that mean that this was the territory of the Nine Heavenly Demon Lord?

The Nine Heavenly Demon Lord? Could Dijia be the Nine Heavenly Demon Lord?

The dark clouds in the sky were getting thicker; lightning flashed; a thunderbolt violently struck down. It went straight at a mountain and cut the tip-off in an instant.

Just as one thunderbolt struck, another struck, this one more fierce than the previous one.

Bai Lixin stopped and looked at the change in the sky not far away, and his eyes widened slightly.

Someone was in the middle of tribulation? With such a powerful thunderstorm, this person’s cultivation must have reached an immeasurable level. Who else could there be who could have such a cultivation level in the land of the Nine Heavenly Demon Lord? It must be the Nine Heavens Demon Lord!

The Nine Heavens Demon Lord was crossing the tribulation. At what point had the plot reached now?

From what I saw before I entered this world, the Nine Heavenly Demon Lord used his blood to raise the Iris flower in case he failed in his tribulation.

In theory, if the Nine Heavenly Demon Lord were to go through the tribulation, he would have taken the Iris with him, but he was now going through the tribulation on a mountain hundreds of miles away from here.

One lightning strike after another fell, and Bai Lixin carefully counted the number of lightning strikes: one, two… ten, eleven….thirty-nine, forty…..

When he reached forty, a painful wail suddenly came from the ground. The rolling clouds in the sky, which had been growing stronger, slowly began to recede and dissipate, and a few moments later, the sky cleared again.

Forty thunderstrikes? Only forty thunderstrikes? When one reaches the level of the Nine Heavens Demon Lord, there should at least be seventy-nine, and at most ninety-nine thunderstrikes, but now there are only forty.

The air was filled with the smell of burning plants. Bai Lixin looked at the horizon and his eyes grew cold. His divine sense retracted and he hid in the grass.

In the sky, several cultivators flew past on their magic weapons, and Bai Lixin only heard one of them shout hastily, “That devil has failed to cross the tribulation! Great, let’s go back quickly and tell the Immortal Venerable the happy news! ”

“Where’s the Iris?”

“Let’s go to the mountain where the devil has been secluded and check the remains of his body to make sure that he has fallen before we tell the Venerable.”

“Okay, senior brother is right, there’s no time to lose. Let’s go now. ”

The voices faded away, and Bai Lixin’s eyes flickered as he remained in his concealed position without coming out. After about half an hour, the men flew over the hill towards his way again. “That devil’s body has been burnt to ashes, and there’s even no trace of his aura around. Hahaha, senior brother, should we now tell the lord? ”

“Although we didn’t find the Iris, we know that the Nine Heavens Demon lord has fallen during the tribulation.

The merits and demerits will be offset, and we brothers will suffer less punishment. Let’s quickly go back and tell the Immortal Venerable about this! ” Once again, the voices faded away.

Only when the figures of the men were completely out of sight did Bai Lixin burst out of the bushes to re-emit his divine sense. He glanced at the lightning-blackened mountain, not daring to stay around for long as he quickened his steps to follow the direction of those people’s departure, leaving the territory of the Nine Heavenly Demon Lord.

These people were aiming for the Iris, ah no, they were aiming for him. It seemed that besides the Nine Heavens Demon Lord and the male protagonist, there were others who wanted the Iris as well. Who is the Immortal Xianzun? Could it be a false god?

Pseudo Lord God, was this your tactic? To make me transmigrate into the blood Iris?

Do you want me to be hunted down and killed by all the cultivators? To make me a treasure that everyone in this world aspires to, to be chased by them and never have a day of peace?

If Heaven wants to kill me, I will live to show them!

If you want me to be chased by cultivators, I will go among them!

The most dangerous place was also the safest place. Who could imagine that the magical flower, which everyone wanted to obtain, would be in human form and hiding among them?

Bai Lixin stood at the foot of the mountain of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, looking at the crowd of busy people, and quietly lined up at the end of the line.

The Ten Thousand Sword Sect was the second largest sect in the Cultivation World. It was also the sect where the male protagonist, Feng Baixiao, lived. The best way to know the point in time was to get close to the male protagonist and use his actions to deduce the direction of time.

Bai Lixin thought that this body might be a demon cultivator with the Iris taking human form, but through these ten days of deliberate contact with cultivators, they had never discovered the demon aura among themselves.

Although he did not know whether it was because of the nature of the Iris or because of his soul, as long as the cultivators could not find out that he was not human, he would have a chance to enter the Ten Thousand Sword Sect and get close to Feng Baixiao.

When Bai Lixin arrived at the foot of the Ten Thousand Sword Sect’s mountain gate, he found it was the time the sect accepted disciples. Once every three years, the qualifying test would begin at the foot of the mountain.

As long as one ascends the mountain gate at the specified time, one is qualified to enter the mountain gate, but entering the mountain gate did not necessarily mean that one could become a disciple of the Sect. Being able to enter the mountain is the threshold, but beyond that was the entrance test.

Only if they passed the entrance test could they become inner disciples of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect. If they fail that test, they could either start as outer disciples, or they could leave the mountain and find another sect.

The trial began five days ago, and it was the last day of registration when Bai Lixin arrived at the foot of the mountain. There were not as many people as the previous days, so Bai Lixin walked up to the white-clad disciples of the Ten Thousand Sword Sect and registered his name and received his jade slip, before following the large group up the first steps.

The gate of the Ten Thousand Sword Sect was high in the clouds.

There were more than 100,000 steps in total to reach the gate, and the Ten thousand Sword Sect was built in the middle of the sky. Even cultivators would find it difficult to walk from the bottom of the mountain gate to the top.

This test was on perseverance and determination for the Ten Thousand Swords Sect. Only those with enough perseverance and determination will become its disciples.

The mountain gate test alone would eliminate almost 90% of the people.

This step might be a difficult task for others, but it was nothing more than a trivial matter for Bai Lixin.

Not to mention the fact that his body had been transformed after absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon for ten thousand years, not many people could match Bai Lixin’s soul endurance.

However, he didn’t want to stand out; he only wanted to blend in with the Ten Thousand Swords Sect and then see what had happened so far.

The system had gone into hibernation, so he could not get any more information from S419M. This world was a blank to him, and finding Dijia was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

In previous worlds, Dijia would have been with him already. But now the pseudo lord god must have interfered with it…… No, he would have blocked him. It was now questionable whether Dijia would appear next to him.

He first guessed that the Nine Heavenly Demon Lord was Dijia, but the Nine Heavenly Demon King had failed to pass the tribulation and had fallen, so it seems that his lover was someone else. Where he was now was something he could only figure out with time.

As the sun sank in the west, the moon gradually emerged above the mountain top.

The journey up the mountain was not as easy as just climbing. It would take three days and three nights to reach the mountain gate, but the disciples of the Ten Thousand Sword Sect had collected all the water and dried food from the examinees before the ascent.

For three days and three nights, they would either climb to the top of the mountain or die of thirst and hunger, with no chance of rest at all. If the examiners found that they could no longer proceed, they could either choose to descend the mountain themselves or break the jade slips in their hands and surrender. Once they had surrendered, a disciple from the Ten Thousand Sword Sect would go to meet them and take them down the mountain in case their lives were in danger.

Bai Lixin walked slowly, step by step. As the sun slowly rose again in the sky, more and more people around him began to crush their jade slips.

Fewer and fewer people were around him. Another day passed, and only a dozen people remained of the original hundred.

Three days passed in a flash for some people, but it was like years for these examinees.

Finally, after three days had passed, Bai Lixin stepped onto the last step. The mist in front of him instantly faded away, and a tall and majestic gate appeared in front of him.

It was inscribed with majestic characters: “Ten Thousand Swords Sect!

In the distance, a bell rang, the lofty mountains floated in front of him, and a majestic and vibrant voice cut through the air; The Gate of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, towering into the clouds, is difficult to climb and soar to the sky!