Translator: GodBrandy Editor: Kurisu
That group of celestial won that was rrily laughing earlier had—in the next mont—turned into spooky skeletons with snow-white bones, and each of their bones was refracting dazzling rays of light. This scene really made the hearts of the onlookers ache.
“If the western monk were here, his comprehension toward buddhist teachings would have surely increased after witnessing this scene,” Song Shuhang muttered to himself.
Oh, wait a mont... that western monk actually belongs to the daoist faction. No matter how good his comprehension in regards to buddhist teachings gets, it’s still completely useless.
Su Clan’s Sixteen asked, “Senior White, are those things monster skeletons or sothing similar?”
“Not even I have seen such marvelous monster skeletons before!” Venerable White said.
Song Shuhang said, “This is, after all, an illusory reality, and it’s difficult to distinguish between illusion and reality in this place.”
Venerable White said, “Moreover, there is sothing wrong with this ‘illusory reality’. This is not sothing an ordinary Seventh Stage Venerable can create. Even if it was I who created the illusory reality, there was no way the spiritual qi inside would be so rich and dense! Rather than an ‘illusory reality’, this is more like a ‘small world’!”
“But isn’t that the sa ability as the nucleus inside Song Shuhang’s Heart Aperture has?” Sixteen asked.
Venerable White said, “To be more accurate, it should be a low-quality version of the ability of the nucleus in Song Shuhang’s Heart Aperture. Compared to a real world, this illusory reality has a lot of deficiencies. From what I rember, when the scholarly faction created their small world, the small world could be already considered a complete world, and the nucleus in Song Shuhang’s Heart Aperture is sothing of the sa rank as the golden lotus of the scholarly faction.”
While they were discussing, the multicolored light in the distance slowly faded. Those female cultivators that had suddenly turned into skeletons had disappeared as well.
Song Shuhang said, “They all disappeared... was it just an illusion?”
“Let’s go take a look at that place. Perhaps we can find so clues.” Venerable White dashed forward, quickly heading toward that place where the multicolored light had disappeared.
Song Shuhang and Su Clan’s Sixteen closely followed after Senior White, likewise dashing toward that place where the multicolored light had vanished.
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“We have arrived. It was precisely here.” Venerable White stopped, and what appeared before their eyes was a big and dried up lake.
Without the moistening of the water, the bottom of the lake was already full of cracks.
At this ti, only bones and skeletons were left of the creatures that had originally inhabited the lake. The remains of fishes, shellfishes, and other similar creatures were scattered all over. There were also traces of withered vegetation.
However, they didn’t see the skeletons of those ten or so celestial won that had appeared amidst the multicolored light.
“It seems that this lake has dried up since a long ti ago.” Song Shuhang pondered for a mont, and then said to Su Clan’s Sixteen, “Do you still have so of those fried beans? Can you throw them in the center of the lake to see if there any dangers there?”
“I don’t have any more fried beans, but I have so lon seeds.” Su Clan’s Sixteen slightly raised her small face and stretched out her hand, scattering around a handful of lon seeds.
“Thud, thud, thud.”
The lon seeds fell to the bottom of the dried up lake.
Anyway, it seed that Sixteen was carrying with her a lot of snacks, and of several different types at that.
Around ten seconds later...
Song Shuhang said, “From the looks of it, there is no danger.”
However, his voice had yet to fade that he was imdiately slapped in the face.
Mounds of earth erged from the bottom of the dried up lake one after another. From the looks of it, sothing was about to drill out of the ground of the lake.
“Sothing is coming out... are they the skeletons of those celestial won from before?” Su Clan’s Sixteen looked at the mounds of earth with a curious expression.
“Clang, clang, clang~”
A grating, tallic sound echoed all around.
In the next mont, several figures wearing armor all over their bodies drilled out of each mound. What they were wearing were sets of full body armor, exquisite and pleasing to the eye. Even if they had just drilled out of the ground, the armor was still glistening and shining.
Although these figures were wearing full body armor, they didn’t appear cumberso. On the other hand, they looked graceful and curvaceous. From the model, it seed a set of armor that won would wear.
Each of their actions was issuing a sharp and clear sound of friction.
It seed that whoever made these set of armor was definitely soone very bored.
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Venerable White gently raised his finger, and teor Sword started to hover next to Song Shuhang and Su Clan’s Sixteen, getting ready for all eventualities.
At this ti, the silver-armored figure standing in the forefront position took a step forward, and said, “Great Master of the Divine Beast Departnt, stop imdiately and leave this place. What lies ahead is the forbidden area known as ‘Jade Lake’, you are not allowed to enter this place.”
The voice was that of a woman, but after passing through the armor, it beca sowhat strange.
After saying this much, the figures wearing steel armor didn’t attack the trio, but assud a defensive formation instead. From the looks of it, they weren’t planning to attack Song Shuhang and the others as long as they didn’t advance any further.
Venerable White, Song Shuhang, and Su Clan’s Sixteen looked at each other.
The Great Master of the Divine Beast Departnt? The forbidden area known as ‘Jade Lake’?
“Who is this Great Master of the Divine Beast Departnt?” Su Clan’s Sixteen looked at Venerable White and Song Shuhang. After all, it surely wasn’t her. She was a saberswoman, and didn’t have any talent in raising pet animals.
Venerable White turned his head around and looked at Song Shuhang. “Shuhang, when did you beco a Great Master of the Divine Beast Departnt?”
“I never beca the Great Master of the Divine Beast Departnt! Oh, wait a mont... perhaps it’s related to this.” Song Shuhang suddenly thought of sothing. Therefore, he stretched out his hand and took out two thick golden chains from his size-reducing purse.
It was precisely that golden chain connected to the Thirty-Three Divine Beasts’ Sect; it was a treasure used to pass down the legacy of the sect.
Song Shuhang had once used the ‘secret appraisal technique’ to appraise that golden chain, and he had obtained the following result—[The Spirit Beast Chain, an item forged with pure gold. It’s the status symbol of the disciples of the 88th departnt of the ancient Heavenly City, the ‘Divine Beast Departnt’. Spirit Beast Chains are conferred only to ‘Master Spirit Beast Tars’ that have received the official recognition of the ancient Heavenly City. It’s a symbol that shows one’s social status.]
The Divine Beast Departnt was the na used in the Heavenly City to refer to the ‘Thirty-Three Divine Beasts’ Sect’. The ‘Divine Beast Departnt’ of the Heavenly City was none other than the predecessor of the Thirty-Three Divine Beasts’ Sect.
After linking the words of this silver-armored figure standing before their eyes together with the words ‘Divine Beast Departnt’ and ‘Jade Lake forbidden area’, one would imdiately think of a certain place.
Song Shuhang looked toward that figure wearing bright silver armor, and asked, “Is this place the ancient Heavenly City?”
Or perhaps it was actually a fragnt of the ancient Heavenly City?
After the ancient Heavenly City got destroyed, the whole thing was torn into several pieces.
Then, just as he thought of the ancient Heavenly City, the picture of a huge gate suddenly appeared in Song Shuhang’s mind as he was looking at the dried up lake.
This gate was covered in magical mist, with a myriad of glittering golden rays radiating from it. It was deep-green in color and seed as though it was made of glass. In addition, it was shining very brightly, just as if it had been adorned with precious stones!
It was the Southern Heavenly Gate!
However, in the picture in Song Shuhang’s mind, the Southern Heavenly Gate was damaged in many spots, and soone seed to have forcefully patched it up...
Where had he seen this picture? Why couldn’t he rember anything about it?
Song Shuhang thought for a mont, and then quickly rembered the reason.
It was sothing he had once seen firsthand... it was a mory from the ‘mysterious island’.
For so unknown reason, that portion of his mories had been sealed.
However, now that he ca in contact with the ‘Jade Lake’, part of his sealed mories was unexpectedly unsealed.
When I was on the mysterious island, did I co in contact with the ‘Heavenly City’? Song Shuhang thought to himself.
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When faced with Song Shuhang’s question, the silver-armored figure didn’t reply.
She calmly stood at the bottom of the dried up lake and gazed at Song Shuhang and the others without saying a word. They were worried about them trespassing the boundaries of the so-called ‘Jade Lake’, and were fulfilling their duty as ‘guards’.
Su Clan’s Sixteen said, “Are the won inside these suits of armor the sa celestial won we’ve spotted within the multicolored radiance earlier?”
“Are they the guardians of the Jade Lake? It seems as if they aren’t human beings, but at the sa ti, they are different from puppets too. Is it possible that they are sothing that was materialized through this illusory reality?” Song Shuhang said in a soft voice.
The illusory reality was a mixture of truth and deceit, and one couldn’t distinguish what was real and what wasn’t.
“Ancient Heavenly City? In other words, this illusory reality is the ancient Heavenly City or a portion of it?” Venerable White’s eyes imdiately lit up.
“Yes, that should be the case,” Song Shuhang said.
“That’s it!” Venerable White clenched his fists, and said, “So this is what the treasure was... Shuhang, let’s take away this piece of the ancient Heavenly City!”
“Ah?” Song Shuhang gazed at the huge lake before his eyes. “Can this portion of the ancient Heavenly City even be taken away?”
“Of course it can. As long as we manage to find its core, I’m pretty confident I can take away everything. In the end, this thing is still an ‘illusory reality’!” Venerable White said.
Song Shuhang said, “But how can we find the core?”
“Generally speaking, the core is the most important place of the illusory reality. If this place consists of only the ‘Jade Lake’, the dried up lake before our eyes is the core. But if the range of this illusory reality is bigger than this, and there is an even more important place, that place will be the ‘core’. After all, the illusory reality is originally centered in one point and then spread outward. In short, let’s look for the core first,” Venerable White explained.
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At this mont, sowhere inside the illusory reality.
Elder Lushan Street of the Limitless Demon Sect was sitting cross-legged in a state of deep ditation, attempting to break through to the Eighth Stage Profound Sage Realm.
Demon Monarch Lushan Street was a highly experienced Venerable, and his age was very advanced.
Along with the passage of ti, he did not have many years left to live.
As such, he’d decided to return to this ancestral land of the Limitless Demon Sect and enter into a state of deep ditation in hope of breaking through.
Actually, several disciples of the Limitless Demon Sect were wondering as to why Demon Monarch Lushan Street had decided to return to this ancestral land with low spiritual qi to enter into a state of deep ditation and try to break through.
After all, wouldn’t his chances of breaking through be much higher if he were to enter into a state of deep ditation in the head altar, where the concentration of spiritual qi was much higher?
Was it really for the sake of old tis? According to the rumors, when Demon Monarch Lushan Street was young, the head altar of the Limitless Demon Sect was still located in this ancestral land.
However, the real reason Demon Monarch Lushan Street had decided to enter into a state of deep ditation in this ancestral land was that a huge secret was concealed here.
This secret involved a fragnt of the Heavenly City, the Jade Lake forbidden area.
This fragnt of the Heavenly City had been below this ancestral land of the Limitless Demon Sect all along while concealed. But, forty or so years ago, the fragnt of the Heavenly City ca out of its concealnt.
At the ti, Demon Monarch Lushan Street was lucky to be the first person to co in contact with this fragnt of the Heavenly City.
After all, this place was the turning point that would allow him to advance to the Eighth Stage Profound Sage Realm, as well the turning point that would allow him to advance to the Ninth Stage Tribulation Transcender Realm in the future!
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