noffsinger Chapter 1 Young Master of the Illusion Sect
Chapter 1 Young Master of the Illusion Sect
In the southern part of Tianluo Kingdom, in the northern region, the Yunhuan Mountain Range stretches for thousands of miles. From afar, one can see towering mountains and verdant peaks. The closer one gets to the center of the mountain range, the higher and more precipitous the peaks become, all shrouded in clouds and mist.
At dawn, the sun slowly rose from the clouds in the east, turning the vast mist that shrouded the entire Cloud Illusion Mountain Range into gold.
In the heart of the Cloud Illusion Mountains, amidst layers of clouds and mist, lies the Thousand Illusion Sect.
The center features dozens of mountain peaks, with palaces and pavilions built against the mountains, and layers of flying eaves and brackets. White marble bridges span the valleys and connect the peaks, while cranes and phoenixes fly back and forth.
A scene reminiscent of a celestial realm.
Inside the most central part of the Thousand Illusions Sect, on Mount Miluo, stands a magnificent and opulent palace with a plaque inscribed "Mi Xin Hall."
Inside the quiet room, the floor was covered with black ice, and the walls were inlaid with cold crystals, reflecting the clear light that shone through the room.
Su Mixin sat cross-legged on a jade futon, wearing a white brocade robe with gold thread patterns and a mutton-fat jade headband.
He had been in seclusion for nearly seven days, and the surrounding spiritual energy slowly flowed into his body.
Su Mixin slowly finished her practice, her eyes flashing with a sharp light. She exhaled a breath of cold air, her true energy surging throughout her body before gradually returning to calm.
His aura had clearly broken through to the ninth level of Qi Refining!
"Awakened past life memories five years ago, sixteen years old, late stage of Qi Refining!"
"Old Demon Han entered the Seven Mysteries Sect at the age of ten and broke through to the sixth level of Qi Refining at the age of sixteen. I broke through three levels faster than him."
"But I have an ice spirit root and am the young sect master of the Thousand Illusions Sect. I treat pills like candy, and there's nothing to be proud of."
That's right, Su Mixin has memories of her past life.
At the age of eleven, Su Mixin began cultivating and successfully guided Qi into her body, breaking through to the first level of the Qi Refining stage.
However, as soon as he broke through, he suddenly fell into a coma, his consciousness sinking into chaos.
While asleep, memories of a past life, dormant for many years, surged back without warning like a tidal wave, breaking through the shackles deep within the soul.
In the video, he is still a college student in his prime, wearing a simple white T-shirt and jeans. He used to bury himself in studying problems by the window in the library, sweat it out on the basketball court, and dream about the future with his roommates in the dormitory.
But fate played a cruel joke on him. A sudden medical examination brought the words "late stage cancer" crashing down on his life.
After that, the hustle and bustle of the university was replaced by the pungent smell of disinfectant in the hospital. His once upright body became weak and frail after chemotherapy, his hair fell out in clumps, his skin lost its color, and every breath was accompanied by unbearable pain.
He lay in his hospital bed, staring at the cold incandescent light on the ceiling, feeling life slipping away through his fingers. The helplessness and despair he felt were like the dark currents of the deep sea, engulfing him.
On his deathbed, the torment of illness kept him awake all night, and a wildly popular online novel, "A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality," became the only light in his darkness.
He curled up on the hospital bed, enduring the excruciating pain, and read the book word by word, following Han Li as he started as an ordinary boy from the Seven Mysteries Sect, struggled in the treacherous world of cultivation, and relied on his tenacious will, meticulous planning, and heaven-defying opportunities to turn danger into safety time and time again, and step by step defy fate.
Han Li's perseverance in the face of adversity, and his forbearance and counterattack against powerful enemies, are deeply imprinted in his heart.
He had fantasized countless times about whether he could escape this body destroyed by illness and gain the power to control his own destiny if he could step into that spiritually rich world of cultivation, no longer bound by the shackles of life and death.
This yearning for life and longing for freedom grew stronger with the development of the novel's plot. Even in the last moment when his consciousness sank completely into darkness, what appeared in his mind was still the image of Han Li flying on his sword, traversing the heavens and the earth.
The urban landscape of Earth intertwines and collides with fragments of the plot of "A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality".
Upon waking, he combined his memories of this life with information about Tiannan, Tianluo Kingdom, the Six Demonic Sects, and Qianhuan Sect, and was shocked to realize that his dream had come true—he was actually living in the real world of this novel.
What shocked him even more was that, combining his own identity with the details of the plot, he suddenly realized a cruel fact: he was most likely the "fish that slipped through the net" in the original work, who had a small role but was extremely impactful.
The direct descendant of the Thousand Illusions Sect who cultivated the Great Luo Thousand Illusions Technique, transformed into a bearded giant named "Du Dong" to infiltrate the Falling Cloud Sect, and stole the Spirit Eye Tree Elixir after the Sword Trial Tournament, piercing through the illusion of "Han Li's chest" with a single blow, is very likely his future self.
In the original novel, the Thousand Illusions Sect has very little screen time.
In the early stages, when the six major demonic sects invaded the Yue Kingdom, even if the other five major demonic sects had very little screen time, their characters still made an appearance.
Leaving aside the fact that the Ghost Spirit Sect is the main villain, the Joyful Union Sect is undoubtedly the core leader of the villains, and the Spirit Control Sect's role in turning the Spirit Beast Mountain against the enemy also gives it a presence.
Even in the battle at the spirit stone mine, the Demon Flame Sect had Lian Feihua, one of the young masters of the demonic path, make an appearance. The Heavenly Fiend Sect also had an old man in a yellow robe accompany Lian Feihua as a protector.
Only the Thousand Illusions Sect appeared once throughout the entire series, merely filling a place among the six sects of the demonic path.
Even the Ghost Spirit Sect, which was supposed to be able to directly confront all six sects of the Yue Kingdom and thus ranked last among the six sects, was portrayed as the weakest, and the Blood Slaughter Sect wanted to take its place. The Blood Slaughter Sect was featured more often than the Thousand Illusions Sect.
In the middle of the story, when Han Laomo returned to Tiannan and the three sects of Yunmeng fought over the Spirit Eye Tree Elixir, the Thousand Illusions Sect finally made its dazzling appearance. However, from beginning to end, only the young master of the Thousand Illusions Sect, who was disguised as Du Dong, appeared.
The renowned "Great Luo Thousand Illusion Technique" was easily seen through by Song Yu, a mid-stage Core Formation cultivator from the Luo Yun Sect. Despite being an expert in illusion techniques, he was mocked by Yin Yue face-to-face.
It's absolutely awful.
Apart from that, the only other character who appears is the Old Monster Burning, who is mentioned by others.
After that, only Elder Lu, a Nascent Soul stage cultivator from the Thousand Illusions Sect, spoke before the great battle between Tiannan and the grasslands.
Throughout the entire book, the Thousand Illusions Sect appears very rarely.
In this life, Su Mixin was born into the Thousand Illusions Sect, a powerful sect on the very periphery of the original story, which finally revealed part of its true nature to him.
The Thousand Illusions Sect is by no means ordinary among the six sects of the Southern Demonic Path. It is a strong sect in the middle to upper rank, second only to the Joyful Union Sect and the Spirit Control Sect. Its strength and foundation are so profound that they make the various sects of the Righteous Path Alliance wary.
Compared to the Heavenly Fiend Sect, the Demon Flame Sect, and the Ghost Spirit Sect, the Thousand Illusions Sect not only has a long history, but also possesses a superior level of combat power—the sect openly has eight Nascent Soul Ancestors in charge, each of whom is a powerful figure in the demonic path who dominates the southern region.
Three of them have reached the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and one of them is at the peak of the mid-stage and has touched the threshold of the late-stage Nascent Soul realm. Such a lineup is enough to make the Thousand Illusions Sect firmly occupy the third place in the Six Sects Alliance, and its voice is very important.
Among them were Su Mixin's biological parents in this life.
As the only son of two Nascent Soul giants in the demonic path, Su Mixin was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, making her a top-tier second-generation cultivator.
From childhood, in order to build a solid foundation for the body, rare and nourishing elixirs were supplied in an endless stream.
When he was three years old, his spiritual root was tested and found to be a rare ice-attribute spiritual root. This spiritual root was not only extremely pure, but also had a wonderful compatibility with the core technique of the Thousand Illusions Sect, the "Great Luo Thousand Illusions Technique". When practicing illusion techniques, it could add a bit of icy and bone-chilling lethality, and when concealing his aura, he could use the icy aura to cover up his own spiritual power fluctuations.
Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages. The "Great Luo Thousand Illusions Technique" is only a top-level cultivation technique in the human realm.
In the original story, Han Laomo, whose divine sense was comparable to that of the early Nascent Soul stage, was able to discern the unusual identity of Du Dong by sensing the sinister aura emanating from him.
Su Mixin grew up in the core area of the sect.
After learning to read and write, they can freely browse through the advanced cultivation techniques and secret manuals in the sect's library.
After gaining basic knowledge at the age of eleven and perfecting his physical body, he officially embarked on his cultivation journey. He entered the first level of Qi Refining after three days of meditation, and then progressed through each level every few months. Five years have passed, and he has now broken through to the late stage of Qi Refining.
Even the Golden Core elders within the sect treated him with utmost respect, and none of his fellow cultivators dared to disobey him.
Such top-tier talent made Su Mixin's position in the Thousand Illusions Sect completely unshakeable.
The entire Thousand Illusions Sect tacitly agrees that this young sect leader will inevitably inherit the position of sect leader and lead the sect to new heights. His growth trajectory has already been planned as a broad road paved with resources and glory.
However, Su Mixin was well-versed in the original work, and he clearly remembered that in the original work, the young sect master of the Thousand Illusions Sect, who was disguised as "Du Dong," revealed his true identity and displayed a cultivation level of mid-stage Golden Core.
When I first awakened my innate wisdom, because of my understanding of the original plot, one of the most important things to do in order to gain the advantage of foresight was to determine the timeline.
When he learned that the Ghost Spirit Sect, one of the six sects of the demonic path, also had a peerless genius with a unique spiritual root, the young sect master Wang Chan, who was nearly ten years older than him.
At that time, Wang Chan was nearing the end of the Qi Refining stage, and news had spread two years prior that he had just successfully established his foundation.
Wang Chan and Han Laomo were of the same generation. When Han Li and Wang Chan first met at Yan Family Fortress, Han Li was in the early stage of Foundation Establishment, and Wang Chan was in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
I'm sure I'm of the same generation as Han Laomo, and it's estimated that we're not that far apart in age.
In the original story, when Du Dong revealed his true form to face Old Demon Han, Old Demon Han was 198 years old and in the late stage of the Golden Core realm, while Du Dong was only in the middle stage of the Golden Core realm.
In the original story, when Han Laomo returned to Tiannan and met Wang Chan again, Han Laomo was about 220 years old, only 22 years after Du Dong appeared. At that time, Wang Chan had already reached the Golden Core stage and the Nascent Soul stage.
Based on this information, it can be inferred that the young sect master of the Thousand Illusions Sect in the original world is far inferior to Wang Chan, this "useless" man, and his cultivation level is far behind.
Of course, Wang Chan in the original work wasn't actually that useless. He was just used as a contrast to Han Laomo, and he failed to form his Nascent Soul due to his inner demons. His cultivation speed before reaching the Nascent Soul stage was consistent with his genius status.
Based on speculation, the "Du Dong" in the original work was quite ordinary. He was nearly two hundred years old and still in the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm. Of course, he could be considered a genius with the potential to reach the Nascent Soul stage.
However, this person has absolutely nothing to do with the geniuses who have the potential to reach the late Nascent Soul stage or even the Deity Transformation stage.
Moreover, and more importantly, a young sect leader went undercover in a Nascent Soul sect and risked his life to steal their prized possessions right under the noses of several Nascent Soul masters.
Is there really no one left in the Thousand Illusions Sect? Are other Golden Core cultivators incapable of undertaking this dangerous task? It requires the young sect leader to take the risk himself.
Look at Wang Chan, who is also a young sect leader. He has two Golden Core bodyguards protecting him when he goes out. That's normal treatment.
So this matter is logically suspicious. Is it because Du Dong's cultivation level is lagging behind, and the sect believes that he has no hope of reaching the Nascent Soul stage and has no bright future?
Or did something else happen?
The story behind this remains unknown.
So, will Su Mixin, who replaced this "Du Dong," follow the same old path?
Obviously not, not to mention that Su Mixin has a precognitive perspective.
The key point is that Han Laomo has the Little Green Bottle, and Su Mixin also brought her own cheat system when she transmigrated.
At this moment, Su Mixin used her divine sense to touch an ordinary-looking ring on the finger of her right hand.
Then he instructed, "Feng Hou, scan my entire body and, based on the current situation, formulate the next training plan."
A divine voice immediately relayed from the ring, "Received, Master. Initiating a full-body scan. Current progress: 1%, 2%, 3%... Based on Master's body data and collected information, creating a new cultivation plan. Continuing analysis..."
Waiting takes time, so Su Mixin stood up, opened the restrictions on the meditation room, and prepared to leave seclusion.
As soon as she stepped out of the meditation room, a communication talisman floated at the doorway. Su Mixin put the talisman away, read its contents, and then went to the palace entrance.
At this moment, a Golden Core cultivator with a dark complexion and an honest appearance was already waiting at the door.
Upon seeing Su Mixin emerge, the Golden Core cultivator quickly stepped forward, bowed, and presented her with a jade slip with both hands.
"Young Master, this is information from the spies sent to Yue Kingdom regarding the seven factions in Yue Kingdom recently."
Su Mixin took the jade slip, placed it in front of her forehead, and examined it carefully.
A moment later, he instructed the Golden Core cultivator, "Old Li, you can go now. Continue to gather intelligence on the Yue Kingdom and report back to me regularly."
The Golden Core cultivator clasped his hands and said, "Yes, young master. I will take my leave now."
After waiting for Lao Li to leave, Su Mixin let out a long sigh, finally confirming the timeline completely.
Previously, based on Wang Chan's situation and the undercurrents within the six sects of the demonic path, he sensed that the time for the demonic invasion of Yue Kingdom, as described in the original story, was getting closer, but it was definitely still several years away, and the exact time could not be determined.
So he simply sent his men to gather intelligence on the cultivation world of Yue Kingdom.
Among the intelligence sent back this time, one thing caught Su Mixin's attention: the seven sects of Yue Kingdom had just finished a blood-red trial. Among them, the Hidden Moon Sect not only dispatched the Golden Core stage Fairy Ni Chang to lead the team, but also the Fake Infant stage Old Monster Qiong appeared in this event.
Qiong Laoguai also set up a betting game with Li Huayuan, a Golden Core cultivator led by Huangfeng Valley, and Fuyunzi, a Golden Core cultivator led by Qingxu Sect.
In the end, Li Huayuan won the bet by a narrow margin, not only winning a Bloodline Flood Dragon's demon core from Fuyunzi, but also obtaining the Invisible Needle, Qiong Laoguai's prized talisman.
"This confirms that this Crimson Trial is the one that Old Demon Han participated in."
"At the age of twenty-one, Han Laomo participated in the Blood Trial; at the age of twenty-five, he successfully established his foundation and immediately went to the Tianxing Sect Market, where he acquired the first four levels of the Great Evolution Technique and also met Xin Ruyin and her husband; at the age of twenty-nine, he participated in the Yan Family Fortress Treasure Hunt and was chased by Wang Chan; in the same year, the demonic invasion broke out, and Han Laomo discovered the teleportation array while guarding the spirit stone mine that year."
"When Old Demon Han was teleported to the Chaotic Star Sea, he was already thirty-one years old."
"So I'm five years younger than Old Devil Han. I need to hurry up and snatch some necessary opportunities before Old Devil Han does."
After confirming the timeline, Su Mixin felt that time was pressing and she had to speed up her cultivation progress.