Chapter 773: Chapter 736: Undeterred by Failure on the Path to Wisdom
“It wasn’t until you ntioned that Guan Changge might be swallowed up by the Imasurable Barrier that it crossed my mind,” Nangong Shirong reminisced with a sigh.
“Since your lordship has once ventured into the Imasurable Barrier and broken out, I presu you could easily rescue Guan Changge,” said Yan Yiqiu, one of the accompanying cultivators, flattering hastily.
Nangong Shirong’s expression darkened: “I can’t guarantee success. It will depend on the boy’s luck.”
Taken aback by the frank response, Yan Yiqiu bowed his head in embarrassnt.
At this mont, Xu Bai interjected: “My Lord, what makes the Imasurable Barrier so peculiar?”
Nangong Shirong turned to Xu Bai’s curious face, pondering for a mont before explaining: “I can’t be certain, but based on my experience, the Imasurable Barrier may be a naturally occurring place for Enlightennt. It has a chance of pulling nearby cultivators into it when certain scenes erge.”
“Once inside the Imasurable Barrier…”
He squinted, “It’s as if the [Spirit Awakening State] function of the Tianxuan Mirror has been activated—no, it’s even stronger than that. Ideas co flooding in effortlessly. I still rember that joy.”
“But there’s a downside. This enhanced ability for perception seems to be directed only at the practitioner’s deepest held concepts. At that ti, I was pondering on…”
Nangong Shirong paused, skipping his own insights and continued: “I was close to achieving my goal. Under the enhanced effect of Enlightennt, it didn’t take long to realise it. As a result, I naturally broke out of the barrier.”
Looking at the Imasurable Barrier, Xu Bai reflected on the clues he had gathered, and shared: “It is said that Guan Changge greatly respects Guan Xingxiu, especially his Sword Art. However, Guan Changge himself lacks the talent to cultivate the Sword Art…
“I’m afraid that even with the Imasurable Barrier’s Enlightennt, it will take him ten years or half a lifeti to make any progress. Is this the truth behind his disappearance?”
“And the cultivators who were with Guan Changge reported seeing a cultivator performing a Sword Dance on the Imasurable Barrier, which matches your speculation…”
Xu Bai spoke all his deductions in one breath, attributing them to Nangong Shirong’s guesses.
Nangong Shirong neither confird nor denied it.
Instead, he added after a pause: “The flow of ti inside and outside the Imasurable Barrier may not be the sa. Moreover, staying too long in the Imasurable Barrier may make it impossible to leave, even if one successfully gains Enlightennt.”
“So if we want to save Guan Changge, we have to act quickly.”
Yan Yiqiu spoke up again: “So, My Lord, how do you enter the Imasurable Barrier?”
Nangong Shirong turned his head, his face slightly darkened: “Are you asking ?”
“Of course not!” Yan Yiqiu hurriedly explained.
Nangong Shirong gave a cold hum: “If I knew what to do, why would I bring you guys here?”
Yan Yiqiu inwardly chastised himself, wishing he could slap himself.
But even before Nangong Shirong finished speaking, Xu Bai had already flown back to the base of the Imasurable Barrier.
He pondered to himself: “Since it’s not categorised as strange, but a natural place of Enlightennt, with the affinity of this body for the Heavenly Dao, there should be so perception.”
After a long observation, still discovering nothing unusual, Xu Bai reached out with both hands and touched the wall.
His eyes were closed and he didn’t move for a long ti.
At Nangong Shirong’s glance,Yan Yiqiu and the other two also started exploring the Imasurable Barrier by touching it with their hands.
Before the Radiant Mirror, there were instantly four stone statues.
Xu Bai perceived that the originally hard wall seed to gradually soften under his unwavering touch.
His body also began to soften and gradually lted into the wall.
After hesitating for a mont, Xu Bai didn’t resist.
He let the Imasurable Barrier swallow his body.
In the exclamation of Yan Yiqiu and the others, Xu Bai vanished in an instant.
Nangong Shirong rely watched the place where Xu Bai had disappeared, his eyes flashing a mysterious expression.
Knowing the secrets of the Imasurable Barrier beforehand from Nangong Shirong,
As he entered, Xu Bai was thinking about “how to move this Imasurable Barrier”.
He didn’t hold much hope for this, so he was slightly surprised when nurous thoughts spontaneously erged in his mind.
However, it was quite clear that he had wasted this opportunity for Enlightennt.
Because according to the answer given by the Imasurable Barrier itself, moving it without affecting its Enlightennt function was impossible.
The birth of the Imasurable Barrier was a rare event. Even Heaven and Earth itself couldn’t easily duplicate it.
Xu Bai was slightly disappointed, but he quickly regained his normal state.
Xu Bai, who had experienced one round of enlightennt, was not expelled by the Imasurable Barrier. He then began to search for Guan Changge within the barrier.
This place was sowhat similar to the scene inside the [Root of Heaven and Earth]—cultivators existed in the form of abstract, twisted lines. However, the lines here were dressed in colourful hues, fluttering like seaweed in the water.
Xu Bai keenly noticed that as ti passed, so of the lines making up his body were slowly dissolving and blending with the Imasurable Barrier.
The hazy, lifeless figures he occasionally glimpsed, leaving behind only the faint contours of a body, seed to be traces left by cultivators who had accidentally entered the Imasurable Barrier and failed to leave, becoming one with this space.
Quickly traversing through the Imasurable Barrier, guided by occasional disturbances, Xu Bai soon found Guan Changge.
By this ti, his body had been reduced to the size of a seven or eight-year-old child. He was oblivious to this, clumsily waving around the few sparse lines that symbolized the ‘sword’ in his hand.
“Guan Changge!” Xu Bai attempted to call out, hoping to awaken him.
Alas, there was no such thing as “sound” in the Imasurable Barrier. It seed that so lines were draining from Xu Bai’s body and disappearing into the surroundings, failing to attract Guan Changge’s attention in the slightest.
So, Xu Bai flew directly to his side and grabbed the ‘sword’ from his hand.
Without hesitation, he concentrated his thoughts on leaving with Guan Changge.
However, at the last mont, the part of Guan Changge that Xu Bai was holding detached itself from Guan Changge’s body.
Slightly taken aback, Xu Bai saw Guan Changge maintain eye contact and slowly shake his head.
His shrunken body transford into a sword once more. With an obsessed yet unwavering expression, he continued to wield it.
“To learn the Dao in the morning and die in the evening could be considered a fulfilled life.”
A feeling stirred within Xu Bai.
After a mont, he stopped insisting, took part of Guan Changge, and broke out of the wall.
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