Chapter 31: The Abnormalities of the Nervous System

This day for the three of them—Wade, Miles, and Sam—was no different from thirty years in hell.

Nathan continued to punch and kick them, with Wade suffering the most as he lost his memory.

Every hour or so, he would wake up, his face swollen and bewildered, looking around and asking:

Who am I? Where is this?

Nathan would respond with a sudden punch, causing him to faint once more.

Devil, what do you want?

Miles and Sam huddled in the corner, their limbs twitching and trembling. They had met cruel people who acted decisively, but they had never met someone as perverted as Nathan, torturing their opponents without any reason and finding an excuse to beat them up whenever they liked.

Listen carefully; whatever I ask, you answer. If you're honest, I'll spare your lives. Miles and Sam nodded, like chickens pecking rice.

First question: has anything unusual happened in the church recently?

While asking, Nathan clenched his fists, which frightened the other two, and quickly replied:

Nothing strange!

Why nothing? You want to trick me!

Nathan looked frustrated and pretended to be ready to charge.

Nothing is nothing. How do you want me to answer to your satisfaction? Recently, a demon possessed a senior brother who perished while breaching the realm of the Five Gods. But this was also a normal thing in Aquatic Dao; over the past thousand years, many geniuses had fallen before this step.

Miles said it all without even daring to stop to breathe, afraid that the pervert would get frustrated and really attack.

That senior brother possessed a supreme talent; within a short time, he had reached the 49,000 zhang sea of bitterness. Following the battle for the young master's position, he initiated closed-door training aimed at breaking through the Five Gods realm as described in the Void God Scripture. Who would have thought that he would go crazy and kill wildly at night in the Purple Void Mountain? Even the Chaos Origin Realm cultivators could not stop him from dying at his hands.

After alerting the sect leader Jiang Chen, he subdued the senior brother and brought him back to Yun Xu Palace for treatment. Three months later, Jiang Chen announced that the senior brother had died, and the elders began to rush around to arrange his funeral.

"Could it be that there is a problem with the Void God Sutra?"

Nathan's expression turned cold, and he began to thoroughly question the backgrounds of the geniuses who had died in the past hundred years. Aquatic Dao meticulously arranged these geniuses, only disclosing their deaths as a result of a breakthrough in their respective fields; he remained utterly bewildered. Furthermore, there was insufficient evidence to confirm the existence of a problem with the Void God Sutra.

Miles said:

"The last person to break through to the Five Gods realm was Sect Leader Jiang Chen eight hundred years ago. At that time, the sect master had fought a major battle with Henry of the Wilson family, and although he lost, he still made the monks respect him immensely. In that battle, he revealed seven deities with three-tenths of his own cultivation, which was extremely astonishing.

Nathan learned about Henry's fear from Mia Wilson's father. A thousand years ago, Crazy Man, the foremost genius of the younger generation, was known by this name. Known for his invincibility in the Great Dao realm and beyond, he launched a direct assault on the Holy Land, eliminating the supreme genius from the Levant Sea and traversing the ancient forbidden land as if it were uninhabited. Only Jiang Chen, the sect master, possessed the qualifications to fight him at that time. After a three-day battle, Henry slashed Jiang Chen to pieces, reducing his strength, leading to a humiliating defeat.

"You guys retreat. If you need to know anything more, I will come find you. Remember not to act foolishly; otherwise, things will not end so easily like today."

"So it's easy?"

Sam shed silent tears as he struggled to carry the unconscious Wade on his back, and Wade dragged Sam out of the cave. The cave door opened, and outside was a middle-aged man in his forties, dressed simply, stretching out his arms to breathe the early morning air. When he saw the three miserable-looking people leaving Nathan's cave, he jumped up.

"Monster, which demon race are you three from that dare to mix in here?"

It's no wonder he had such an association.

Wade's face was completely deformed, purple and black, and swollen like a real gorilla.

Nathan had inflicted two bumps on Miles's head, resembling two deer horns, after interrogating him for more than three hours without stopping.

Sam wasn't doing much better either; Nathan slapped him until all his teeth fell out, leaving his mouth crooked like an old man.

Although it appeared horrifying, Nathan's decision to not destroy their cultivation was already too merciful.

The three of them originally wanted to leave here quietly to save face, but someone else saw it. For seventy-seven years, Josiah Kelly, known for his laziness, struggled to break through Qi Condensation and enter the Chaos Origin Realm. However, his relationship with Elder Kelly kept him within the sect until today. Because he was lazy, he had a lot of free time, only going back and forth in the sect to gossip and spread rumors.

Miles angrily shouted:

You damn demon race, you useless Qi Condensation for seventy years, you dare to poke your nose into my business?

Sam coldly snorted:

Josiah, if you dare to reveal today's matter, I swear to God I will use all means to make you disappear from Aquatic Dao.

The middle-aged Josiah smiled bitterly and scratched his head, taking a few steps back.

Okay, so it appears that some geniuses within the sect are involved. Zi Hao swore not to reveal a word about this matter.

Humph, consider yourself sensible!

Miles and Sam glared at him a few more times before going straight to the top of the mountain and returning to their caves.

This Zi Xu Mountain was located alone in the middle of a majestic mountain range blocking the east of the Chu Yu Empire. Although the Aquatic Dao sect was only located on Purple Void Mountain, it was enough for seven thousand disciples to cultivate together. In fact, Purple Void Mountain was very large, with six thousand outer disciples living alone on the mountainside. One thousand inner disciples occupied a slightly higher altitude, where the spiritual energy was denser. Past this area, there would be a martial arts arena, an alchemy room, a military training pavilion, a spirit beast, and an equipment exchange market.

The eight Great Dao Realm elders and the sect leader's residences were located on top. Yun Xu Palace was Aquatic Dao's holy land; normally only those of the Response Tribulation Realm could cultivate here.

Middle-aged Josiah finally felt a sense of relief when Miles and Sam vanished, rubbing his chest as if he had been extremely scared all along.

Are you acting for me?

Nathan's voice suddenly rang out from behind Josiah.

Is this brother, John, newly transferred here? What type of role do you think I'm playing?

Josiah turned back to look at Nathan, still holding a friendly smile on his lips.

Nathan looked at Josiah deeply. If he only felt it briefly, this was truly a useless person; the sea of suffering was only nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine zhang. He was afraid that he would have to stop at Qi Condensation for the rest of his life, despite the heavy damage to the last zhang mark that had allowed him to break through the Chaos Origin Realm.

But being around such a trivial, useless person made Nathan feel extremely dangerous. His intuition told him that if the two of them fought, and if he was even slightly careless, he would fall into a state of eternal damnation. This person's cultivation clearly concealed something.

- Brother John, you are too suspicious. I, Josiah, have been unable to break through the sea of suffering for seventy-seven years. The sect master has long since given up hope on me. If it weren't for my acquaintance with Elder Kelly, I would have been chased down to the outer sect to suffer...

Josiah smiled, but his eyes were a little sad as he looked towards the distant horizon:

But misfortune comes with fortune. The Void God Sutra is extremely miraculous but very difficult to cultivate. In the past thousand years, no one has ever cultivated it to the realm of the five great gods and passed through the sea of suffering of fifty thousand zhang. They all gradually died. The sect master was so sad that he buried these geniuses with his own hands. How sad for him...

His mouth said that he was sad for Sect Master Jiang Chen, but in reality, it was no different from mocking him, causing Nathan to rack his brains to think about what Josiah was implying.

"Brother John, you have defeated Jing and Wade, so your strength must be no less than forty thousand zhang." Ah, perhaps the sect master will have to mourn for his brother again soon...

Josiah sighed as he walked, then returned to his cave, leaving Nathan in constant silence.

Returning to the cave, the first thing Nathan did was to use his thoughts to fly straight into the sea of consciousness to search for his true self. But what made Nathan feel horrified was that his true self had already cultivated the Void God Scripture without him knowing. He even had no way to influence it now and had to watch it cultivate according to its own will.

In the sea of suffering, an illusory god gradually appeared beside the first god, the whole process happened while Nathan was beating up Wade, Miles, and Xiao Yan. Yet he, as the owner of this "body", did not know anything.

- Damn it, he was infected with a Nine Turn Heavenly Art, and now he was infected with a Void God Scripture. Could this be a forbidden cultivation method?

His face was dark, remembering Josiah's insinuations. He had an extremely dangerous aura on him, but his cultivation was pitifully low. It was obvious that he had used some method to suppress his cultivation, not allowing the Void God Scripture to act freely.

- So quickly, you came to find me?

In Josiah's cave, Nathan sat down at the table, picked up the cup of tea he had prepared, smiled bitterly, and drank it all in one gulp.

- The Void God Scripture is poisonous, once you cultivate it, you can never stop, continuously condensing the deity until its full potential is revealed. Unless you cut off your own Dao root, making yourself forever unable to break through Qi Condensation like me, then you can escape death. Or maybe your aptitude is low, and you don't have enough potential to condense the fifth deity, then you can also escape death...

- What do you mean by death? Will Sect Leader Jiang Chen harm you?

Hearing Nathan's question, Jiang Chen shook his head:

- Don't frame the Sect Leader without evidence. In the past seventy-seven years, I have personally seen more than thirteen of the sect's geniuses go mad when they broke through the Five Great Gods realm, and then they went crazy, killing and devouring their fellow sect members' blood essence. Sect Leader Jiang just appeared at the right time, cleaning everything up...

Appearing at the right time, means that Jiang Chen has been waiting for these thirteen geniuses to go crazy, and as soon as there is a change, he will immediately take action. If he already knew that the Void Divine Scripture had a problem, then why did he let his disciples cultivate it?

- Could it be that before Jiang Chen, cultivating the Void Divine Scripture was also this difficult? The Aquatic Dao has been passed down for five to six hundred thousand years, there is no way such a fatal flaw could exist!

Nathan was silent. If a sect caused its geniuses to fall for a long time, the news would definitely leak out of the Chu Yu Empire, leading to the sect's demise. But here, it was clear that outside of the Chu Yu Empire, people did not know what had happened to the Aquatic Dao geniuses. In the seventy-seven years, thirteen geniuses appeared that could be compared to Begonia, it would be more powerful than the Holy Land.

- Before Sect Leader Jiang succeeded to the throne, Aquatic Dao was attacked by a powerful enemy. This person burned down the entire Daoist monastery containing countless books of the sect. This caused Sect Leader Jiang to summon the elders to start sorting out the scriptures. Everything was fine for the next three hundred years, the sect's talents appeared everywhere. It was only five hundred years ago that it became so desolate.