Reincarnation Ended.
This Reincarnation Rating: D+ (All gifts have their price secretly marked in advance.)
Accumulated Cultivation: Early Passable God Realm
Reincarnation Reward: Accumulated Cultivation Coefficient × 1.1
Reincarnation settlement complete. The host will return to the previous reincarnation save point, inherit the accumulated cultivation from this reincarnation, and restart life.
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Chen Yan opened his eyes.
At this moment, he was sitting in the small courtyard at the Beiguang River Ferry, the one originally rented by Mr. You.
Compared to the oppressive feeling brought by the dense, towering ancient trees within the Fallen Sword Mountain Range.
Beside the well in the courtyard, Si Youyou was lying there, fast asleep.
After the previous reincarnation ended, the current save point had not progressed further.
However, what made Chen Yan feel even more unbelievable was that the rating for this reincarnation was only D+.
Chen Yan had originally thought the reincarnation rating would be higher.
After all, he felt he had done many things in the previous reincarnation.
Whether it was the various pieces of intelligence obtained from Mr. You, or crossing two major realms to kill Kongshan Sect's current Sect Leader, Yun Yichen...
Speaking of this matter, Chen Yan always felt a bit sorry for his master's master.
Fortunately, there was still a chance to start over.
Although, under those circumstances at the time, killing Yun Yichen was an act of necessity to avoid the risk of a dead-end save.
Back when he was still in Kongshan Sect, Yun Yichen had definitely treated him very well.
When he was trapped in the Dao Domain by Li Haoran, under Yun Yichen's direction, Kongyuan Mountain had almost completely torn off all pretense of cordiality with the Supreme Imperial Law Court due to Chen Yan's sudden disappearance.
If the reincarnation save point had refreshed to a later point, and Yun Yichen was completely killed by his own hand, beyond saving, Chen Yan would have felt somewhat uneasy in his conscience.
So, why on earth was the rating for this reincarnation only D+?
After some contemplation, Chen Yan deduced one highly probable reason.
That was, in the previous reincarnation, aside from bringing back some intelligence from the Fallen Sword Mountain Range, he had actually accomplished nothing.
The fact that the reincarnation save point did not refresh further was the best proof of Chen Yan's speculation.
Chen Yan suddenly remembered the first time he received a rating higher than D. He remembered clearly that the reincarnation rating that time was also D+, and the reward was Accumulated Cultivation Coefficient × 1.1.
Similarly, the reincarnation save point had not refreshed to a later point.
This meant that in the previous reincarnation, he had changed nothing.
Everything that happened in the previous reincarnation had dissipated like smoke, as time returned to this current point.
In the past, when reincarnation ratings were higher, the save point always progressed further.
But this time it didn't.
The only thing Chen Yan gained in the previous reincarnation was Mr. You's intelligence.
"The cause of Heavenly Summit Mountain's destruction was the Cause of Calamity..."
Chen Yan murmured to himself, beginning to organize the various pieces of information Mr. You had given him.
The Cause of Calamity did not appear after the path to immortality was severed on Chenping Continent, but rather emerged sixty thousand years ago, when Heavenly Summit Mountain was destroyed.
There was no so-called opportunity within the Heavenly Summit Palace. Instead, it concealed the truth behind Heavenly Summit Mountain's overnight destruction.
The method to eradicate the Cause of Calamity lies within the Heavenly Summit Palace.
Only by entering the Heavenly Summit Palace while carrying any fragment of the Heavenly Summit Mirror can one glimpse the truth from within that fragment.
The Heavenly Summit Mirror, according to Mr. You, is the only dao artifact in this world.
What its specific functions are, Chen Yan did not know.
But from the intelligence he could obtain from Mr. You, he learned one thing.
That is, the Five Great Sects are all extremely wary of this dao artifact, even though at the time, some sects even had great powers at the Immortal Ascension Realm sitting within their gates.
Over the past sixty thousand years, more than six thousand champions of Heavenly Summit Mountain have stepped into the Heavenly Summit Palace, seeking the opportunities left behind by the former number one immortal dao sect of Chenping Continent.
But ultimately, they all returned empty-handed.
Who could have thought that the truth of the Heavenly Summit Palace's destruction could only be discovered by entering it while carrying a dao artifact?
No one...
No, wait. If that's the case, how did Mr. You know?
Peering into the secrets of heaven?
Admittedly, cultivators at the Immortal Ascension Realm can peer into the secrets of heaven, even catching a glimpse of a corner of cause and effect.
But if that were truly the case, if the Cause of Calamity had already emerged over sixty thousand years ago, causing the destruction of Heavenly Summit Mountain, and later even leading to the severing of the path to immortality...
Then why, in these sixty thousand years, with so many Immortal Ascension Realm cultivators emerging on Chenping Continent, did none of them go to eradicate the Cause of Calamity?
This was the first point in the intelligence obtained from Mr. You that Chen Yan found highly suspicious.
After eradicating the Cause of Calamity, the shackles restricting this world will be opened.
Then, Chenping Continent, silent for a full seven thousand years, will once again see real people at the Immortal Ascension Realm.
And it's very likely that when they appear, there will be seven Immortal Ascension Realm cultivators simultaneously.
Such a thing is practically unheard of in the history of Chenping Continent. In the long river of the past, at most, only four Immortal Ascension Realm cultivators have ever existed in the same era.
Below Immortal Ascension, all are ants.
This was the comment left by Chen Yan's reincarnation rating.
If that era with seven Immortal Ascension Realm cultivators simultaneously truly arrives, then this statement would indeed be perfectly accurate.
After processing all this intelligence in his mind, what Chen Yan needed to do was formulate the next plan.
Find a fragment of the Heavenly Summit Mirror.
As mentioned before, the Heavenly Summit Mirror is the only dao artifact in this world. Even the Five Great Sects, which back then still had great powers at the Immortal Ascension Realm sitting within them, were extremely wary of it.
Therefore, Chen Yan clearly understood that obtaining a fragment of this Heavenly Summit Mirror would not be easy.
The Heavenly Summit Mirror was divided into five fragments by the Five Great Sects. He needed to obtain one of them.
If he had to say which sect's Heavenly Summit Mirror fragment would be easiest to obtain, it might still be Kongshan Sect, after all, he knew many people there.
But this was only relative.
Because it was a fragment of the Heavenly Summit Mirror, a fragment of the only dao artifact on Chenping Continent.
The existence of these Heavenly Summit Mirror fragments is undoubtedly of paramount importance to the Five Great Sects, as can be seen from their caution and wariness when dividing Heavenly Summit Mountain's legacy sixty thousand years ago.
After all, it is the only dao artifact of Chenping Continent.
To obtain a Heavenly Summit Mirror fragment, there are only three methods in total.
Either ask for it, steal it, or seize it by force.
Stealing from or forcefully seizing from the Five Great Sects is rather unrealistic.
It seemed all three methods had little chance of success.
So, if that's the case...
Sitting in the small courtyard, Chen Yan gazed at Si Youyou, fast asleep by the well, and fell into deep thought.