Transmigrating over ten thousand years late, I was forced to become a mighty presence

Chapter 507: Chapter 224: Wholeheartedly for My Child, Please, Taoist Priest, Take the Chess Pieces_1

Great Xia’s 9th Princess, the last descendant of the Tianyun Sect!

Ordinarily, the Tianyun Sect was nothing more than a sect that had been lost for ten thousand years, and there were countless sects like it within the realm of Great Xia. Its last descendant was hardly anyone of note, far less distinguished than the identity of Great Xia’s 9th Princess.

But to Shen Yuan, the descendant of the Tianyun Sect had another meaning.

In the Ingenious Tiny World of countless eons ago, it was from Hoe Changzai that Shen Yuan received “Ziwei Enclosure Fortune-telling,” which enabled him to master this Divine Skill after the passing of ten thousand years.

Hoe Changzai had intentionally sold “Ziwei Enclosure Fortune-telling” to Shen Yuan for the price of a spirit stone, cutting off the karma within it and freeing Shen Yuan from the troubles of karma.

However, this method also resulted in the Tianyun Sect forming a bond of good fortune with Shen Yuan.

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Because he was not burdened by karma, Shen Yuan did not notice the existence of Xia Yunqiu when he was searching for his own karmic ties.

It was not until he began to predict the fate of humanity and those related to it that he touched upon this bond of good fortune and traced it back to Xia Yunqiu.

Upon entering the Imperial Capital Marketplace and learning from the Old Divination Master that the Enlightenment Pavilion’s Fortune Borrowing Methods were somewhat similar to those of the Tianyun Sect, Shen Yuan had his suspicions.

That’s why he exchanged for the long banner at the Old Divination Master’s stall, on which were written the four large characters “Ever-constant in Heaven’s journey.”

“Ever-constant in Heaven’s journey, Tianyun’s legacy everlasting.” These were the principles underlying the various methods of the Tianyun Sect, and the subtle change in Xia Yunqiu’s demeanor upon seeing the banner did not escape Shen Yuan’s eyes.

It was this detail that allowed Shen Yuan to confirm Xia Yunqiu’s identity as a descendant of the Tianyun Sect.

As for being the Great Xia Imperial Family’s 9th Princess, that was somewhat unexpected for Shen Yuan.

Shen Yuan looked at the elegant and beautiful woman before him, a faint smile appearing in his eyes:

“Before I came to the Imperial Capital Marketplace, it also surprised me that there was still a living descendant of the Tianyun Sect in the world.”

“The ancient Dao lineage of the Star Inn Dao split more than ten thousand years ago, giving rise to the two major Dao veins of Tianyun and Tianji.

The Heavenly Secret Pavilion prevailed in the inheritance of the Dao lineage, becoming one of the few grotto heavens sacred grounds in the world, while the Tianyun Sect continued to decline over the following thousands of years, almost coming to extinction.

But after the Primal Chaos Realm went through the Great Schism for ten thousand years, the once-peak Heavenly Secret Pavilion’s grotto heavens sacred ground collapsed, and its Dao lineage was completely severed. In contrast, the once-declining Tianyun Sect managed somehow to survive to this day.”

A hint of a bitter smile appeared on Xia Yunqiu’s beautiful face as she spoke softly:

“Laugh if you will, Daoist, but although I am the last descendant of the Tianyun Sect, it is the first time I have heard of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion and the Star Inn Dao that you mentioned.”

The inheritance of the Tianyun Sect was fragmented, with many Divine Skills and historical records disappearing during the long era of Spirit Energy depletion. Today, only one thousandth of the Tianyun Sect’s inheritance remains.

Even she, as the last descendant, did not know about the relationship between Tianyun and Tianji, let alone the Star Inn Dao – the orthodox Xuanmen lineage from Ancient Times.

Shen Yuan’s casual mention of secrets not even the rightful heir of the Tianyun Sect knew must mean he had a very close connection to the Tianyun Sect.

Moreover, Shen Yuan’s act of protecting the Enlightenment Pavilion made Xia Yunqiu wonder about his identity.

Shen Yuan appeared stunned.

Although Shen Yuan had anticipated the decline of the Tianyun Sect from seeing Xia Yunqiu’s state, knowing that even the knowledge related to the Heavenly Secret Pavilion and Star Inn Dao had not been handed down showed the extent of Tianyun Sect’s destitution.

“From where do you derive your knowledge of the Tianyun Sect’s history?”

Xia Yunqiu spoke earnestly:

“In the recorded inheritance of the Tianyun Sect, it only goes back as far as the deeds of our ancestor Hoe Changzai ten thousand years ago.

According to the records of the sect, ancestor Hoe Changzai, while presiding over the Tianyun Sect, struggled at the Spirit Transmutation Peak and the sect was on the verge of decline.

Yet, subsequently, ancestor Hoe, by chance, met a banished Immortal who had yet to rise to power. With insight, our ancestor gambled the sect’s treasures on him, and eventually, in a certain trial, the banished Immortal made a remarkable name for himself in the Primal Chaos Realm.

Our ancestor rode on the banished Immortal’s luck to break through the Spirit Transmutation Stage and become a Spirit Refining True Being, even receiving a treasured gift from the banished Immortal.”

“Initially, since the banished Immortal was of low status, no one paid attention to the treasured gift, and our ancestor managed to keep it.

But as the banished Immortal’s reputation grew, some began to covet the treasure, including the interference of some Void Refining True Monarchs.

In desperation, our ancestor had to dissolve the Tianyun Sect, used the treasure to attract outside contention, and disguised himself to live among mortals, preserving the lineage through bloodline, passing on the Tianyun Sect’s Dao through family blood.

From then on, the world only knew of the Hoe Family of Heaven Traversing Sect, and the name of the Tianyun Sect was no more.

It was through the maintenance of the bloodline that the Tianyun Sect’s Dao could continue to be passed down without the support of a grotto heavens blessed land.”

After hearing Xia Yunqiu’s story, Shen Yuan’s expression carried a touch of sentimentality.

In the scale of the Primal Chaos Realm, eons had passed, but the time Shen Yuan had personally experienced, even including the trials in that tiny world, amounted to just over a decade. @@novelbin@@

Without having witnessed the true passage of time, it was hard for Shen Yuan to imagine that the old Daoist, who struggled to break through Spirit Refining, could have had such fortuitous encounters.

The legacy he left behind even surpassed that of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion, which Shen Yuan had been eager to catch up with; indeed, the ways of the world are unpredictable.

Letting go of the thoughts surfacing in his mind, Shen Yuan turned to Xia Yunqiu and said:

“So, your maternal family is the Hoe Family of Heaven Traversing Sect that carries on the Tianyun Sect’s legacy?”

“Exactly.”

Xia Yunqiu’s words paused briefly, then she added:

“However, the Hoe Family of Heaven Traversing has become a thing of the past, and now only I remain from the Hoe family.”