65: Chapter 64 Reject Gambling

Inside the Sect Masters Hall.

Lin Chen had just sat down when he suddenly remembered something and sent out a voice transmission.

A moment later, a figure hurried in.

Gu He walked into the Sect Masters Hall with an irrepressible smile on his face. Ever since he obtained the Immortal Herb Garden, he had been walking with a spring in his step these past few days, grinning at everyone he met.

"Subordinate Gu He pays respects to the Sect Master."

Lin Chen raised his hand slightly. "Rise."

Gu He stood up and asked, "Sect Master, did you summon your subordinate for any specific instructions?"

Lin Chen nodded faintly and waved his hand.

A lotus, crystalline throughout, with nine blooming petals and flowing with endless life Qi, slowly hovered in mid-air.

As soon as the lotus appeared, the entire Sect Masters Hall was enveloped in a vast, ancient, and endless medicinal fragrance.

Gu He's eyes went straight instantly.

He stared fixedly at the lotus, his eyes unable to turn, his mouth opening and closing, but he couldn't utter a sound.

Seeing him like this, Lin Chen couldn't help but laugh.

"Do you recognize it?"

"Th-this is..."

His whole body was trembling slightly as he pointed at the lotus, his voice shaking: "Sect Master, c-could this be... the legendary Undying Divine Medicine?!"

Lin Chen said calmly, "The Nine-Turn Nirvana Lotus."

Gu He gasped.

Undying Divine Medicine! This was a life-saving treasure that even Emperors would fight over!

He had only seen a few lines of description about it in ancient books.

And now this thing was right in front of him?

"Sect Master."

Gu He's eyes shone, his voice trembling, "H-how should we handle this? Should we find a place to enshrine it? Should we set up a Formation to protect it? Should we..."

Lin Chen raised his hand to interrupt him.

"Just plant it in the Immortal Herb Garden, and take good care of it."

Gu He was stunned for a moment, then instantly overjoyed.

The Immortal Herb Garden!

The Immortal Herb Garden that he managed!

This Undying Divine Medicine would be under his care from now on?

As he was getting excited, a thought suddenly popped into his head.

If he could refine this thing into a Medicinal Pill...

As an Alchemist, his first reaction upon seeing a top-tier Spirit Medicine was always how to refine it into a pill.

Although he knew that using an Undying Divine Medicine for Alchemy was simply a waste of a heavenly treasure, he couldn't help but let that thought surface.

Just then, the Nine-Turn Nirvana Lotus suddenly trembled.

Its lotus leaves curled slightly, and the outlines of the nine lotus petals retracted, as if it had sensed something terrifying and was shivering.

Gu He: "..."

Lin Chen glanced at him.

"What were you thinking about just now?"

Gu He gave a dry laugh: "N-nothing, just thinking randomly..."

The Nine-Turn Nirvana Lotus trembled even more violently.

Lin Chen shook his head: "Alright, stop scaring it. It can sense every little thought of yours."

Gu He coughed awkwardly and hurriedly composed himself, trying his best to keep only the words "take good care of it" in his mind.

The Nine-Turn Nirvana Lotus then slowly relaxed, but its leaves remained slightly curled, as if ready to flee at any moment.

Gu He looked at it and suddenly sighed.

"Sect Master, your subordinate has a presumptuous request."

"Speak."

"When your subordinate reaches the Emperor Realm..."

He paused, looking at the lotus seedling with complex eyes, "Could you let me study it then? Not refine it, just... study it."

The Nine-Turn Nirvana Lotus's leaves, which had just relaxed, curled back up again.

Lin Chen laughed: "Let's talk about that after you reach the Emperor Realm."

Gu He nodded and carefully took the lotus seedling from Lin Chen's hand, as if holding a rare treasure, terrified of bumping or damaging it.

"Then your subordinate will go plant it now."

Lin Chen waved his hand: "Go."

Gu He held the lotus seedling and turned to walk out, his footsteps so light as if afraid to startle it.

Upon reaching the door, he suddenly turned back and whispered to the lotus seedling: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I was just saying that, I won't really refine you..."

The Nine-Turn Nirvana Lotus trembled.

Gu He hurriedly shut his mouth and left quickly.

The hall returned to silence.

Lin Chen picked up his teacup, and just as he took a sip, the System's voice suddenly rang out.

[Ding — Host, your current Prestige Point balance is 140,000~]

Lin Chen's hand paused.

This tone...

[Do you want to draw again? 100,000 per draw, take a gamble, turn a bicycle into a motorcycle~]

Lin Chen raised an eyebrow.

A lottery?

He instantly recalled the last lottery, where he had painstakingly saved up 100,000 Prestige Points, only to draw a pile of 100,000 Spirit Stones, as if being dismissed like a beggar.

He replied irritably, "No draw."

[Host, consider it, what if you draw something good this time?]

"No draw."

Lin Chen put down his teacup, expressionless. "Last time I spent 100,000 Prestige Points and drew 100,000 Spirit Stones." "100,000 Prestige Points exchanged for 100,000 Spirit Stones." "Do you know what that concept is?"

[...] [Host, you can't say it like that. Lotteries have risks, investment requires caution, but what if you get lucky this time?]

Lin Chen said firmly, "Ever since the last lottery, I have sworn! I, Lin Chen, will never coexist with gambling and drugs!"

After rebuffing the System, Lin Chen picked up his teacup to take a sip.

Boom!!!

The entire Eastern Region suddenly shook.

The teacup in Lin Chen's hand wobbled, and the tea almost spilled out. He frowned, stood up, and looked outside the hall.

That vibration was not an ordinary earthquake, but came from the depths of the Void Realm, carrying a vast and ancient pressure, as if something that had been sleeping for eons was struggling to break free from the endless Void Realm.

[Ding — Abnormal spatial fluctuation detected in Cang Province!] [Fluctuation Rank: Emperor Realm!] [Suspected ancestral land of an ancient Imperial Clan emerging from the Void Realm!]

Lin Chen raised an eyebrow.

An Imperial Clan's ancestral land?

Somewhere in the desolate mountains of Cang Province.

Above a previously unremarkable valley, ten thousand miles of the Void Realm shattered with a roar, and an ancient city that spanned heaven and earth, boundless and majestic, slowly emerged from the Void Realm.

The city walls were covered in runes, each line containing residual Emperor prestige; even after endless years, it still made people tremble with trepidation.

And at the very center of the giant city, on the highest watchtower, two ancient, vigorous characters that spanned the firmament were engraved.

Kunlun!

Cultivators within a thousand miles were alarmed, taking to the air one after another, staring at the golden light in dumbfounded silence.

"Th-what is this?!"

"A city! A city has emerged from the Void Realm!"

"Look at the characters on that watchtower! Kunlun! It's Kunlun!"

"Kunlun?! Which Kunlun?!"

Within the crowd, an old man with extensive knowledge trembled all over, his hair and beard standing on end, his voice filled with uncontrollable shock: "Could it be... the legendary Kunlun Imperial Clan?!"

As soon as he said this, the whole scene fell into dead silence!

The Kunlun Imperial Clan.

This name had been silent in the legends of the Eastern Region for far too long.

So long that most Cultivators could only glimpse a fragment of that era in the scattered words of ancient books.

That was after the end of the ancient era.

In the ancient era, the Heavenly Demons invaded, and living beings were plunged into misery. The various ancient clans joined forces to fight against the Heavenly Demons.

In the battle against the Heavenly Demons, almost all of the Eastern Region's long-standing Emperor-level forces were wiped out. Emperors fell like rain, and Holy Lands were reduced to ash.

By the time the Heavenly Demons were repelled, the Eastern Region was already devastated.

It was in that era that a person suddenly appeared.

With supreme Aptitude, he rose from the ruins and attained the Dao of the Emperor Realm in just a thousand years. Subsequently, he swept across all directions and unified the entire Eastern Region.

He was Great Emperor Kunlun.

The force he founded was the Kunlun Imperial Clan.

Under his rule, the Kunlun Imperial Clan was at its peak, with countless experts and vast Emperor prestige.

Then, a change occurred.

No one knew what exactly happened. They only knew that one day, Great Emperor Kunlun suddenly fell, and the entire Imperial Clan vanished overnight, as if they had never existed.

Some said they suffered divine retribution.

Others said they were besieged by Emperors from other regions.

Still others said that Great Emperor Kunlun touched a taboo he shouldn't have, bringing the entire Imperial Clan to be buried with him.

One hundred thousand years had passed, and the truth of that year had long been submerged in the river of history.

No one expected that the Kunlun Ruins, which had vanished for one hundred thousand years, would reappear before the eyes of the world in such an earth-shattering manner!