a Man Like None Other Chapter 7090 is no different
“Shen Yue has caught the attention of the Border Patrol Division. They took him away, saying that his talent belongs to the ‘unorthodox’ path and that he must be corrected by orthodox Taoist methods.”
I was naive then, thinking it was just a formality. But after he was taken away, he never came back.
I went to ask the inner sect elder, who said that he had “failed the lineage verification” in the Heavenly Trial Secret Realm and had been treated as a heretic.
“I don’t believe it. I spent three hundred years secretly investigating the Border Patrol Division and finally got the truth out of an exiled old deacon.”
After Shen Yue was sent to the Heavenly Trial Secret Realm, he was not killed. Instead, he was sent to a hidden secret realm called the ‘Origin Furnace’.
The Patrol Division drained, refined, and purified all of his spiritual power, origin, foundation, and essence of the soul, transforming them into pure Heavenly Dao origin, which was then delivered to the Order Keepers.
After draining his energy, they used orthodox Taoist methods to reconstruct an empty shell of a body, containing only the most basic spiritual energy circulation procedures, devoid of memory, consciousness, and self.
Ling Shuang’s voice finally cracked slightly, like an undercurrent surging beneath the surface of ice.
“I saw that empty shell with my own eyes. The Border Patrol Division sent him back to the inner sect of the Tian Shu Sect as a model disciple of ‘successful Daoist lineage correction’.”
He sat in front of me, his face still that of Shen Yue, his aura still that of Shen Yue’s spiritual energy fluctuations, but his eyes were as empty as two dry wells.
He smiled at me and said, “Hello, Elder Ling Shuang,” his tone as standard as if he were reciting a text.
At that moment, I knew Shen Yue was dead. The one sitting before me was merely a puppet wearing his skin.
Chen listened quietly without interrupting her.
He could sense that while Ling Shuang was recounting this past event, although she was trying her best to keep her aura stable, there was a deep crack in her soul that was faintly aching.
Three thousand years have passed, and that wound has never healed.
“From then on, I began to secretly gather intelligence on the Border Patrol Division.”
Ling Shuang took a deep breath, suppressing her emotions, and her tone became cold and rational again. “Over the past three thousand years, I have figured out the rules of the Heavenly Trials, the deployment of the Border Patrol Division, the location of the Origin Furnace, and the operating mechanism of the Heavenly Palace.”
But I haven’t found a way to break this deadlock. My cultivation level isn’t high enough; even if I break through to the fifth rank of Immortal Lord, I’m still far from being a match for Heng Xuan.
Behind Heng Xuan stands the Order Keepers, and behind the Order Keepers stands the entire cage system of the Thirty-Six Heavens.
“I can’t do anything by myself.”
She looked up at David, her gaze calm and resolute: “Until you appear.”
David leaned back in his chair, his purple eyes slightly closed, processing Ling Shuang’s words.