Chapter 2859 — The Reason for the Rampage
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Even so, in his heart he secretly resolved to do Wei Zhao in—once the white leader had outlived her usefulness, he would destroy the two of them together!
"Tianchan, you need not be too grieved. Matters of inheriting the origin power are, after all, left to the will of heaven; there is nothing we can do about them. You need not be too sad." Seeing the look of utter loss on Tianchan's face, Ancestor Xuanzhen consoled her.
Tianchan did not know whether she ought to be glad or sorrowful. Glad, because she would no longer be used as a chess piece and made to sacrifice herself; once that plan failed, she would no longer need to disguise herself as Tian Canbian, nor need those pretexts about taking wives and concubines—she could restore her identity as Tianchan.
In the past, Tianchan had not much cared whether she was male or female. Man or woman, she was the young sect mistress of the Xuandan Sect; so long as she could serve the sect's development, that was enough. But now she found herself wishing more and more that she were a girl...
This shift in feeling had come about overnight. Since returning from the Xuandan Sect's trial, the thought had grown stronger and stronger in Tianchan! Of course, reason told her that the time was not yet right—even though she had not received the inheritance, it still would not do!
So long as Taganlong lived, there was still hope. She must maintain the lie that she was Tian Canbian the man, and maintain the lie that she was a lecher who wished to take wives and concubines.
And what grieved her was that Tianchan did not know where her future lay. Even if she restored her identity as Tianchan, what then? If that plan failed, the Xuandan Sect would remain a vassal of the Five Luminaries Sect. Even if Ancestor Xuanchen died, his disciples would carry on his dying wish and strive for that goal, and the Xuandan Sect would still have to render full assistance...
"Yes... I am sorry. But I will continue to devote myself to alchemy," Tianchan sighed and said.
"After all these years, it seems alchemy will not do. Yours was an inheritance of the origin power, which is fundamentally different from an inheritance of insight passed to a successor. You cannot obtain the inheritance of the origin power from wood-element herbs, and an insight inheritance has no effect on you." Ancestor Xuanchen waved a hand. "Within your body, four true attributes form a cycle, lacking only the wood attribute. I used the Ten-Thousand-Year Spring Wood Pill to supply your wood attribute, and the Marrow-Cleansing Bone-Transforming Pill to refine your wood constitution—and yet you still did not receive the wood-element inheritance within the Five-Sha origin power. It seems this is the will of heaven!"
Among the five elements and seven attributes, six had a place of origin for their inherited power; only the wood attribute had none. The legendary Ten-Thousand-Year Spring Wood Forest was gone, and even the Ten-Thousand-Year Spring Wood had become extinct. So to become a wood-element inheritor, one had to take another, substitutable approach—this was the fruit of Patriarch Zhang Lifeng's years of devoted research: by daily contact with herbs, one might possibly gain insight into the wood inheritance.
But the origin power itself could no longer be obtained. Insight was but a moment of realization; it did not require truly gaining anything! RS