Cohabitation with Sword Spirit

Chapter 589: Chapter 84: Writing and History

The place Zhao Chenlu pointed to was where a woman held a jade seal with both hands. Its style was simple, yet it carried an extraordinary significance.

That was the personal seal of the Saint Sect’s Sect Leader.

Generally speaking, such a personal seal was seldom used. In the power structure of the Xiangzhou Continent, the Saint Sect held a transcendent and detached position. The limited manpower in the Myriad Forms Garden was not enough to manage the entire continent, so most of the practical affairs were entrusted to specialists of the Three Academies. These specialists further delegated to the Seven Families and various sects. On this basis, matters that needed to alarm the Sect Leader were few and far between. Even if the Sect Leader intervened, it was mostly with verbal orders. Places requiring a written seal were rare, let alone the use of the Sect Leader’s personal seal instead of the sect’s official seal.

Therefore, Zhao Chenlu had only known that each Sect Leader possessed their own personal seal, resembling the sect’s seal but slightly smaller in size, never having seen the actual seal until now. Upon seeing it, she was instantly filled with indescribable shock.

"Yimila... How could this be happening!?"

As she spoke, Zhao Chenlu couldn’t help but reach out her hand to grab the seal, but her wrist was blocked mid-air by a blunt Sword Qi.

"Don’t touch recklessly. The seal doesn’t have a Space-Time Anchor and can’t withstand external contact."

Zhao Chenlu took a deep breath, calming herself down and realizing she had been too hasty. She asked, "Dear, am I seeing this correctly? It’s ’Yimila’?"

"No mistake, the patterns on it are very standard..." Wang Jiu paused for a long time before saying, "Demon Script."

Demon Script, the writing of the Demon Race.

The Demon Race, a powerful civilization spanning the Myriad Realms, naturally had its own script system, which was very similar to the Jiuzhou Continent’s script and belonged to pictographic writing but was far more complex. It wasn’t until the late stage of the Immortal Demon War that Jiuzhou humans barely managed to decipher the Demon Race’s script system. Wang Jiu and Zhao Chenlu happened to be experts in Demon Script deciphering at the time.

The Demon Race civilization and human civilization shared many similarities, including individual naming — many races did not have individual names.

The Demon Race not only had individual names, but names above the Demon General level were unique and had exclusive divine techniques. For example, demons named "Alabatia Ahedao" often possessed powers like corrosion and combustion, while those named "Hade" excelled in physical attacks like tearing and piercing. However, even experts like the Celestial Divine Sword only had a rudimentary understanding of the connection. Until the war’s end, he and the Jiu Immortal Venerables had only begun deciphering the reading and grammar rules of Demon Script, while deeper laws remained exploratory.

Yimila, according to Wang Jiu’s memory, was a standard Demon Script but extremely awkward, like a grammatical error forcibly twisting unrelated content together... but the grammatical issue wasn’t key at that moment. The key was why this script, which should have vanished with the Demon Race, boldly appeared on the personal seal of the Saint Sect’s Sect Leader!?

"They’re not joking around, are they?" Zhao Chenlu’s voice was dry, "If it were others, it might be shrugged off, but the Saint Sect had some knowledge about the Immortal Demon War of old. They explored the Primordial Ruins the most and had the most comprehensive historiography. They would never play around regarding the Demon Race. Moreover, this seal’s material is Red Jade, a unique product of the Myriad Forms Garden, formed when Jiuzhou’s White Jade Mountain was stained with blood and floated in chaos for millennia. It’s extraordinarily rare, and I couldn’t mistake it."

The material was correct, meaning this was a bona fide Sect Leader’s seal, but with Demon Race script carved on it, which means...

"Could it be tampered with by later generations... impossible." Zhao Chenlu muttered to herself while denying this answer, "This Red Jade has peculiar physical characteristics. A Red Jade can only be processed once, and if reprocessed, it would shatter instantly, so the seal’s text can’t have been tampered with later. Besides, who would write Demon Script in today’s Xiangzhou Continent? Besides, this Demon Script is incredibly standardized. According to Demon Race aesthetics, its calligraphy might surpass mine."

At this point, Zhao Chenlu’s complexion turned ashen.

Among the Jiu Immortal Venerables, her Demon Script calligraphy was only second to Lu Jintong, and even the most adept in Demon Script writing, Lu Jintong, couldn’t produce such standard Demon Script.

Demon Script writing isn’t just about outlining characters but requires an extremely profound understanding and insight into the Demon Race’s internal laws. In this aspect, Lu Jintong far surpassed others, only slightly inferior to the Celestial Divine Sword. While the Celestial Divine Sword’s insight ability was peerless, his calligraphy talent was truly lamentable...

But in any case, if even the Jiu Immortal Venerables couldn’t write such standard Demon Script, it means...

Thinking of this, Zhao Chenlu was utterly horrified.

It’s like seeing a ghost.

To suggest the Saint Sect colluded with the Demon Race would be absurd. Firstly, Wang Jiu himself had resided in the Myriad Forms Garden and had long suspected the Saint Sect of having issues, repeatedly using the Demon-Pointing Sword to search for links with the Demon Race, but every probe confirmed the Saint Sect’s innocence. Secondly, the Sect Leader was nurturing Wang Jiu as the next Sect Leader, with no false pretense in the costs incurred. If the Saint Sect were truly entangled with the Demon Race, how could they openly make a nemesis of the Demon Race their leader?

Moreover... over the past decades, Zhao Chenlu has often interacted with the Saint Sect. As one of the Jiu Immortal Venerables of old, she didn’t think she would be dull enough to be clueless about a Demon Race in close proximity. If the Saint Sect were truly colluding with the Demon Race, it shouldn’t have waited until the Celestial Divine Sword awakened for her to have realized it!