Chapter 866 - 783 Xuanwu Cipher Text_2
Upon hearing this, everyone couldn’t help but nod in agreement.
“Big Brother Da Hei, then who could the ‘that person’ I wrote about be?”
Little Turtle was still worriedly asking.
“It’s simple, you saw another ghost and mistook it for your master.”
Big Black Dog hazarded a guess.
Upon hearing this, everyone thought… that must be it.
Back then, Turtle must have encountered something unclean, mistaking it for “that person.”
“What about the other characters, what do they mean?”
Wu Dade scratched his head, puzzled.
Everyone was also at a loss.
But this time, the Peach Tree did not offer an answer again.
The chickens continued pecking at the corn on the ground as usual, and the koi resumed their swimming.
“Back then, Turtle must have been saved by her…”
Big Black Dog mumbled to himself, saying:
“The scenes he saw before losing his memory must be related to her…”
“Did she cut herself off?”
“Twelve Bets of Life and Death? Did she make a bet with someone?… Twelve Evil Corpses… This might be related to the deaths of the ten pre-life sovereigns…”
Thinking it over, Big Black Dog became irate and said:
“Woof, even my imperial dog brain is getting too big! You dead turtle, even in leaving a will, couldn’t you have been clearer? Sticking us here trying to solve riddles?”
On hearing this, Turtle also used a claw to scratch its head, saying:
“I don’t know… Maybe I was nearly out of breath at the time, so I could only leave the most crucial information.”
“Turtle makes sense.”
At this time, Qing Chen spoke, saying:
“The fog that shrouded the Primordial Ancestral World after the Era of the Latter White Mist must be related to the content written here.”
“Tomorrow, I will take Turtle, along with Brother Long, for a trip. Perhaps we might gain something.”
On hearing this, everyone nodded in agreement.
For now, they could only take one step at a time and see where it leads.
“Dinner is ready.”
At this moment, from the kitchen, Li Fan came out carrying two dishes, with Yun Xi and Gong Ya following close behind.
Suddenly, many disciples put aside the riddle of Turtle and gathered together to begin their meal.
Today’s meal was very rich, with a variety of meat and hearty dishes to choose from.
In the small courtyard, there was a chorus of laughter and conversation.
As night fell, it was deep into the night.
Li Fan and the disciples had all fallen asleep.
A chilly breeze blew, and in the empty courtyard, the sound of the old hen arose:
“Following her master’s footsteps, she too took that step.”
“Cutting off her White Mist body, embarking on the Ash Mist path… She created the Nine Laws; she must have succeeded.”
“Twelve powerhouses suppress the Twelve Evil Corpses… This must be the safeguard she left behind when she departed from the Ancestral Realm.”
The branches of the Peach Tree drooped gently, saying:
“Beyond the Ancestral Realm, dense curtains lie heavy, and I have already sensed many scarlet ghost eyes, spying through countless epochs.”
“The calamity she faced in olden times is… much more difficult than we imagine.”
“The Four Domains and Eight Desolations form the array, the twelve powerhouses form the city, protecting the Primordial Ancestral World, waiting for the master to return.”
“If she had not stopped that great calamity back then, and left a light for the master to return to… perhaps the master would have truly…”
The old hen also fell silent for a long while before saying:
“When the curtain is lifted, war… may come as well.”
By the pond, a draconic figure shook the heavens, as a divine True Dragon roared:
“We of the Dragon Clan… have been ready for war for a long time!”
The war intent was shocking!
“Don’t always shout so loudly; it makes you seem foolish…”
Tao Jie spoke up, her words seeming to hold some disdain:
“Just a friendly reminder… the meat in their Cold Box isn’t much.”
The True Dragon paused in shock, then plunged into the water.
The moonlight was like water, the courtyard quiet.
…
Meanwhile,
in the Martial Desolate Realm,
somewhere in the Eastern Wilderness where mountains and rivers undulated continuously.
This place was extremely terrifying, emitting a dense forbidden aura. At the entrance of this forbidden land, on a giant stone that reached the sky, three ancient characters could be faintly discerned:
“Martial Desolate Forbidden!”
— Since ancient times, the Martial Desolate Forbidden had always been a forbidden area in the Martial Desolate Realm.
No one dared to set foot in it!
However, a month ago, a stone coffin had flown in from outside the heavens and landed on the highest peak of the Martial Desolate Forbidden.
Within the Martial Desolate Forbidden, countless desolate slaves were picking precious herbs from the forbidden land, delivering them to the mountain where the stone coffin was located.
At the foot of the mountain, numerous powerful desolate slaves knelt deeply before departing immediately.
Afterward, two young girls descended from the mountain and took away those forbidden precious herbs.
“Sister Ling’er, who exactly is that being in the coffin, and why are they bestowing upon us so many precious herbs?” one of the girls asked curiously.
The other girl, dressed in a long dress that flamed like fire, shook her head in response:
“I don’t know.”
“But we don’t need to ask too much. That being clearly has a history with Senior Li and is probably being so kind to us because of the favor of those two paintings.”
These two girls were none other than Mu Qianning and Fire Spirit!
— Ever since they had entered the Yang Realm from the Yin Realm, they had been waiting for the small mountain village to appear.
Later, in the Mortal Divine Realm, after hearing news about the Desolate Heaven Alliance, they were en route to join them when the emergence of a heretic coincided with the defeat of the Primordial Sun Emperor and Zu Tiandao at the hands of this heretic.
At that time, they had intended to use the Map of White Tiger Emperor Peak and other items given by Senior Li to assist the Primordial Sun Emperor and others, but it ended up triggering the stone coffin.
The paintings drawn by Senior Li were taken by the being inside the coffin, and the two of them, along with the Primordial Sun Emperor, were swept into the Primordial Ancestral World, appearing within the Martial Desolate Forbidden.
During this time, they had grown accustomed to this kind of life.
The desolate slaves within the Martial Desolate Forbidden would bring many precious herbs for them to cultivate, and occasionally, scriptures would appear from within the coffin for them to study.
“I wonder when we will be able to see Senior Li again, to see Sister Nan Feng and the others…” Mu Qianning sighed lightly, her beautiful eyes filled with longing.
They took the Spiritual Medicine and returned to the mountain peak.
The stone coffin stood erect upon it, with Yang Chu standing silently to one side, about ten steps away, reverently respectful every day.
“Senior, the precious herbs have been brought back. Please start taking them,” Mu Qianning said to Yang Chu.
Yang Chu nodded and replied:
“Alright.”
After saying this, he performed the great ritual of three prostrations and nine bows to the stone coffin, and only after completing it did he come over to begin absorbing the precious herbs.
— In those days, the Primordial Sun Emperor was an old soldier who had followed the Ten Spirits to the Yang Realm. As time passed, all his acquaintances died, and in order to hide himself in the Yang Realm and guard the Pure Land and the Fire Seed, he severed himself with a slash, cutting away his cultivation level of the Chaotic Realm.
Nowadays, his cultivation level had once again entered Chaos, and he was retracing the path of cultivation.
It was as if he was living a second life, and in this life, his cultivation was far stronger than in the last.
The three of them quietly circulated their profound skills.
However, at this moment.
Deep within the forbidden land, a voice echoed.
“Hehe… You and I had a wager in the past. I guarded the Evil Corpse for you until someone in a later generation came to show me the way forward… Now that we’re at the dawn of a great change, I’m afraid there’s no one left from that later generation.”
“Even the medicine he left in the ocean is being occupied and refined by Ash Mist Creatures.”
“He’s dead.”
The forbidden land was stirring, as if some terrifying existence was about to emerge; a large hand reached out toward the stone coffin on the mountain peak.
However, the stone coffin merely let out a stream of Qi.
In an instant, the large hand was crushed and dissipated!
The terrible being beneath the ground roared reluctantly:
“Damn it, still so strong…”
“Since your fist is so large, I’ll wait a few more days!”
“If by then, no one comes to take over for me on this broken path… I will slaughter the entire Ancestral Realm!”
…
Goodnight.