Wen Xuan held back the impulse to enter yuan gathering instantly and continued to walk forward.
After traveling some unknown amount of time, the devastating cold wind in the surrounding abruptly quieted as if he stepped through a barrier. Outside of this barrier, huge snow was still falling continuously. Yet inside the barrier, it was so quiet that not even the slightest wind could be found.
Wen Xuan examined the scenery inside the barrier. At the edge of the barrier, there was still white snow. Then, the ice and snow gradually melted, revealing blackish-brown earth as well as the lines that were carved into it.
These lines were carved by a sword, smooth and powerful. It extended in all directions. Interweaving together, it covered the whole area and formulated into a magic array. Wen Xuan wasn’t too knowledgeable about magic arrays so he couldn’t comprehend the details. Nevertheless, the complexity and intricacies within was enough to make him exclaim in awe.
Sure enough, this kind of magic array wasn’t something that Chu Lian could construct. It was definitely more of Ye ShengGe’s style.
In many aspects, that Daoist Master Ye, who had unfortunately fallen before Wen Xuan could remember anything, was an absolute, bonafide genius.
Immediately afterwards, Wen Xuan saw a cave appear before his eyes. The array tightly surrounded the entrance of this cave. Many lines even extended into the cave itself, making this cave the center of everything.
Wen Xuan stood cautiously outside of the cave for a moment. Making sure that there was no living creature inside the cave, he carefully walked in.
As soon as he stepped in, he discovered that although there was no wind inside the cave, it was exceptionally cold, as if all of the cold air from the ice mountain were gathered in here. No. Wen Xuan very quickly realized. It’s not ‘as if.’ It was the truth.
The lines of the magic array circulated inside the cave, absorbing the cold air in the cave into the array. All of the cold air on the mountain actually came from this place.
Wen Xuan unconsciously increased his pace and walked deeper into the cavern.
The lines of the array gradually merged before his eyes, circling the ground in the deepest area of the cave. Something unknown was buried in the ground. As soon as he got close, Wen Xuan felt the cold air besieging his face, so cold it felt like it could freeze his soul.
What’s surprising was that to the side of this area, there was a stone table placed there. On top of it were some scattered pieces of paper. There was also a stone stool to the side.
When Wen Xuan walked towards this stone table, he immediately saw the words curved on the surface. This writing style was somewhat familiar. Thinking carefully, Wen Xuan recognized that it came from the jade slip that contained the writing of his current cultivation method. That writing style was exactly the same as the ones on the table.
It was written clearly on this table how, after Ye ShengGe and Chu Lian executed this heavenly demonic beast, they discovered it left behind something they couldn’t deal with. Therefore, they could only seal it here. Then Ye ShengGe constructed a magic array here. One was to decrease the danger of this thing. Two was to prevent people from accidentally entering this place. After these words, Ye ShengGe specifically instructed, if anyone were to accidentally enter this place, please leave quickly. This thing was extremely powerful. If anyone touched it, even if they didn’t die, they’d be gravely injured.
Reading all of this, Wen Xuan then looked at the paper scattered on the table.
Although cultivators used jade slip to record messages, they occasionally used paper and brush as well. In comparison, jade slips were used to record messages that were meant to be saved for a long time. Whereas things written on paper and books were more temporary, for example, like drafts and sketches.
What was left on this table before Wen Xuan’s eyes was, coincidentally, a draft.
Wen Xuan only gave it a glance when he received an extreme shock.
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Back then, Ye ShengGe was only Nascent Soul. Yet he actually had the skills to create a cultivation method that advanced all the way to Nascent Soul?
Not to mention, it was a cultivation method that even top quality water roots can use. Although Ye ShengGe had an outstanding water root, it wasn’t a top quality water root. So what made him want to create this cultivation method?
Wen Xuan couldn’t figure it out at all and can only look at the draft all over again in amazement.
When he looked at it again, he finally realized it wasn’t only Ye ShengGe’s hard work. Although Ye ShengGe created the draft, the draft itself was extremely rough, with mistakes all over. There was a huge disparity between this draft and the completed work in Wen Xuan’s jade slip. Only the basic idea was here. Ye ShengGe naturally discovered these issues as well. In one of the papers, he wrote that once the sealing array was finished, he planned to return to ask his shifu.
Ye ShengGe came from The Little Valley. In the cultivation world, The Little Valley has always been a mysterious place. Ye ShengGe’s shifu was an even bigger enigma in this mystery. Currently, no one knew his name.
Understanding the origin of his cultivation method, Wen Xuan tidied up these drafts and placed them back where he found them.
Then… The most shocking moment was about to occur.
Wen Xuan turned his gaze onto the area that was encircled by the magic array and slowly walked over there. When he finally stepped into this area, he couldn’t help but feel a wave of excitement that took him a while to calm. The remains of that heavenly demonic beast were buried right below him. Whether or not this was the extremely pure water object that Murong Feng needed, whether or not the effort of this journey was worth it, the answer was imminent.
However, according to what Ye ShengGe said, this thing was extremely dangerous. Wen Xuan unconsciously hesitated slightly.
Was he really going to dig out something that was buried with all that effort? What if after he dug it out, he couldn’t control it? It wasn’t a big deal if he got injured, but what if the cold air escaped and injured the mortals at the bottom of the mountain. Not to mention, he didn’t know where Jian Yi was right now. If he was still in the mountain, he could also be injured by this thing.
Despite having all these concerns, Wen Xuan still didn’t give up in the end. This was because he felt confident in his heart. The method that he discovered before to dissolve the cold air remained extremely useful at the center of this phenomenon. No matter how ferocious the cold air that permeated his body was, as long as he circulated his spiritual energy using that method, he was able to dissolve the cold air.
When he entered this cave, he also discovered that as the cold air increased in strength here, after he dissolved it, he was able to absorb a certain kind of strength from it. This dissolving method can be used to energize his own body.
Wen Xuan remained where he stood, silent for a moment. Then he abruptly mobilized all of the spiritual energy in his body and increased the circulation speed internally. Originally, the cold air in the cave spontaneously seeped into his body. After he activated his spiritual energy, it was all drawn into his body forcefully. This cold stream was very formidable. After it was rolled up by Wen Xuan’s spiritual energy, it was like the river entering the ocean. Within moments, it completely dissolved, making Wen Xuan feel much warmer.
Wen Xuan didn’t know why this was happening. He could only guess boldly that this was related to his cultivation method. Perhaps after Ye ShengGe returned to The Little Valley and consulted his shifu, he found the method to control that thing.
However, this wasn’t a completely surefire thought. Should he still give it a try?
Moments later, Wen Xuan smiled and asked himself: If he didn’t try, was he going to return just like this? Finally arriving here after all that trouble, he knew it was impossible for him to return just like this. His conflict at the moment was him overthinking.
Thinking this through, Wen Xuan took in a deep breath and finally used magic to dig open the ground before him.
This wasn’t an easy task. The ground has been frozen for 50 years. It was a lot more resilient than he imagined. Grinding his teeth, Wen Xuan increased the strength of his magic and directed his spiritual energy into the ground little by little. This entire process was maintained for about an hour. Sweat slowly poured from Wen Xuan’s forehead.
Finally, he felt the thing in the ground.
The thing felt like a solid crystal formed from the cold air. Yet, when Wen Xuan’s spiritual energy touched it, it also felt like it received an enormous shock. Countless waves of cold air began exploding outward, coiling around Wen Xuan’s spiritual energy and traveling upwards.
Before Wen Xuan could respond, that frozen ground, which couldn’t stand the attack of these cold air currents, split into pieces with a loud rumble.
The thing suddenly appeared before Wen Xuan’s eyes.
It was…… a horn?
That’s right. It was a horn, A sparkling translucent beast horn that looked almost like it was carved out of century old ice. The moment when it was unveiled, an enormous wave of cold air rushed out of this heavenly demon beast’s horn and attacked Wen Xuan forcefully. Immediately clenching his jaw, Wen Xuan circulated his spiritual energy frantically and wrapped it around this cold air tightly, dissolving it with all of his might.
The violent wave of cold air dissolved into a violent wave of energy. Then it was guided by Wen Xuan into his own spiritual energy, which then went on to dissolve even more cold air.
Moments later, not only was Wen Xuan not hurt by the cold air, he even felt a bit unable to handle all the energy he absorbed. He desperately transformed this energy into his own spiritual energy, but very quickly it exceeded his limit, like a person who was overstuffing himself with food.
Yet he couldn’t stop at a time like this. If he stopped, this cold air would spread outside. He didn’t know what would result from that.
But if he kept going, sooner or later, he would explode from all the excess energy.
In this current situation, there was only one path for survival.
Wen Xuan closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and firmly took that step.
Yuan gathering.
His spiritual energy was already circulating in the pattern of the yuan gathering stage anyways. Now that he had made his decision, his spiritual energy promptly intertwined together and rushed towards that threshold. No one has ever gathered so much spiritual energy before entering the yuan gathering stage. And no one has ever conducted such a long warm up duration before entering the yuan gathering stage. Even that unknown obstruction that was blocking the way had already disappeared when Wen Xuan reached enlightenment a while ago.
His spiritual energy was like the water of a river pouring out of a broken dam, crashing into each other, converging together to become even stronger.
This was a very bizarre situation. Wen Xuan looked at his own body, like looking at numerous intercrossing river channels. Very quickly, the spiritual rivers were no longer satisfied with the already enlarged pathways and started to batter into other obstructed areas, attempting to expand their territories.
At this time, Wen Xuan finally realized what a huge difference there was between the cultivation method he learned before and the one he has right now.
When he entered yuan gathering last time, Wen Xuan broke through 12 new channels with all of his strength, and felt it was pretty good. But at this moment, in such a short period of time, he already broke through 20 new channels and his spiritual energy was still surging in his body. Under this powerful spiritual flood, nothing can obstruct it.
That was, until this spiritual energy crashed into that place.
That was also a place inside Wen Xuan’s body, but it wasn’t like a regular blocked channel. The spiritual energy crashed into it, like crashing into a block of slippery ice. It was instantly redirected, unable to exert force onto the obstruction at all.
Wen Xuan never knew he had such a place like this in his body. If he wasn’t entering yuan gathering right now, it’d be impossible for him to discover this place. He didn’t even manage to find this place last time.
Wen Xuan became interested and shifted his focus over there, watching to see just what kind of obstruction this was. At this moment, his spiritual energy was still full of strength. He couldn’t be stopped here. He needed to break through everything.
When he saw this place, however, Wen Xuan was stunned.
It really was a block of ice. The area that this piece of ice covered was bigger than what he imagined, as if it were sealing something inside.
Wen Xuan controlled his spiritual energy and ordered it to twist into a drill shape before sending it to hit the surface of the ice.
This was very effective. A hole was instantly smashed into the surface of the ice. Wen Xuan followed up quickly and formulated a second spiritual drill. If he hit the same spot one more time, maybe it can completely destroy this ice block.
However, before the second attack landed, a person’s figure suddenly appeared, blocking in front of the ice.
Wen Xuan was astonished. The spiritual energy he gathered instantly dispersed.
What kind of situation was this? Why was there someone else in his body?
Wen Xuan cleared his eyes to look again. Actually that figure wasn’t a person, but rather, it’s a divine memory that someone had buried inside his body.
But that still didn’t answer the question. Why would there be the divine memory of someone else in his body?
With cold sweat gathering on his forehead, Wen Xuan looked at this divine memory carefully.
This was a very young and virtuous looking cultivator. He was currently smiling lightly at Wen Xuan. The corners of his mouth hooked upward slightly. This smile was extremely gentle and soft. Clearly this was a person he’s never seen before, along with a faint smile that he never seen before either. Yet for some unknown reason, Wen Xuan felt it was somewhat familiar.
In his daze, Wen Xuan recalled one thing.
When he first obtained the jade slip with his current cultivation method and probed it with his divine sense, he read some words that were left to him by his shifu, Chu Lian.
“If you continue down this path, one day you will discover that someone left a certain something in your body.”
“That’s for your protection and affects you enormously. Don’t be in a hurry to pry it open.”
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Oooh~
Why so many secrets???
Quebra cabeça confuso, e quem começou vai ter que terminar
EVERY CHAPTER MY THEORY FEELS MORE CORRECT.
what? 👀
The suspense is killing me~