Chapter 3832: The Immortal Truly Exists
"Wait a moment."
Zhang Ruochen shouted this, but it was already too late.
"Boom."
The ten-thousand-mile giant sword formed from light mist heavily struck the middle of the black mountain range.
About a hundred meters above the ground of the mountain range, vigorous and powerful characters emerged, connecting into a sacred article, shattering the giant sword into pieces.
Void Heaven retreated dozens of zhang, his clone becoming much blurrier. He carefully observed the characters enveloping the mountain range and said in surprise, "Yan style!"
"Hua!"
These characters surged wildly from the mountain range, crashing into the clones of Zhang Ruochen and Void Heaven.
The clones exploded, turning into strands of divine qi and divine soul thoughts.
Outside the Ten Thousand Beasts World, beside the blood pool.
Void Heaven's divine might surged greatly as he summoned the Seven Star Divine Sword, staring at the Ten Thousand Beasts Mirror at the bottom of the pool. "Did you see that? In that mountain range, there is calligraphy left by Yan Tingqiu, the Second Confucian Ancestor of your Kunlun Realm."
Zhang Ruochen said, "Calculating the time, the era of the Beast Taming Heavenly Palace overlaps somewhat with the era of the Second Confucian Ancestor. It's not strange for the Second Confucian Ancestor's calligraphy to appear in the Ten Thousand Beasts World. What did you mean by the heavenly secret you mentioned earlier, Senior Void Heaven?"
Void Heaven let out a deep, meaningful chuckle, then transformed into a sword light, charging into the Ten Thousand Beasts World with his true body.
Zhang Ruochen followed.
After entering with their true bodies, dealing with the dark and eerie aura of the Ten Thousand Beasts World became much easier. They didn't need to deliberately release sword qi; their protective divine light alone was enough to ward off all evil.
Worried that Void Heaven might act rashly again, Zhang Ruochen said, "Look over there. That should be the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Palace. I think it's necessary to go there first."
On the eastern ridge of the black mountain range stood a magnificent palace with golden tiles and red walls, emitting an eternal divine radiance that the dark and eerie aura couldn't erode.
"Shua!"
"Shua!"
Zhang Ruochen and Void Heaven appeared at the foot of the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Palace. On the square in front of the palace, dense characters emerged, scattered and arranged, forming a wondrous power like a formation.
Void Heaven, confident in his formidable spiritual power, flicked his sleeve.
A spiritual power hurricane formed, aiming to obliterate these characters.
Encountering the spiritual wind, the characters did retreat, but they soon surged back, extremely resilient, like cutting water with a knife only to have it flow again.
"Even if your Yan Tingqiu achieved ancestral-level spiritual power in life, after so many years, can it still block me?" Void Heaven sneered coldly, preparing to forcefully break through the character defense here.
"Wait a moment. I might have a way."
Zhang Ruochen took out hundreds of black and white chess pieces, activated them with spiritual power, and scattered them.
These pieces floated in midair, immobilizing all the characters.
These were the chess pieces from the Heaven and Earth Chess Platform!
"Let's go!"
Zhang Ruochen took the lead, walking into the sea of characters. After passing through, he finally arrived outside the gate of the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Palace.
This palace gathered many sacred beasts that had taken refuge here due to the appearance of the dark and eerie aura. The calligraphy left by the Second Confucian Ancestor did not block them.
Two divine beasts opened the gate of the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Palace and welcomed Zhang Ruochen and Void Heaven inside.
These two divine beasts were a five-colored phoenix and a snow bear.
"We pay homage to the upper gods."
The sacred beasts and divine beasts in the palace all bowed to Zhang Ruochen and Void Heaven.
Zhang Ruochen's gaze fell on the two divine beasts. "Are you divine beasts from the Kunlun Realm in the ancient era?"
The five-colored phoenix, like a mass of five-colored flame, hovered in midair. "This minor god was taken into the mirror by the Lord of the Beast Taming Heavenly Palace, but I've been sleeping all these years. Not long ago, black blood surged from the mountain range below, and I awakened."
The snow bear, three zhang tall, covered in white fur, with massive muscles and a proud look, said, "I followed the Immovable Bright King Great Venerable into the Ten Thousand Beasts Mirror. The Great Venerable ordered me to guard the Ten Thousand Beasts World. I awakened together with the five-colored phoenix. According to them, the Great Venerable has been fallen for ten eons? Has over a million years passed outside?"
The snow bear's cultivation wasn't exceptionally heaven-defying, only at the Grand Void realm.
Zhang Ruochen could guess the reason: the time power in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mirror only had a significant effect on divine beasts below the Infinite realm. It could slow time, allowing it to stay in the mirror for a long time. Once one reached the Infinite realm, the time flow wouldn't be so slow.
Zhang Ruochen said, "I am Zhang Ruochen, a direct descendant of the Immovable Bright King Great Venerable."
The snow bear was emotionally stirred, no longer daring to show arrogance. It immediately knelt. "I pay homage to the young master!"
Zhang Ruochen asked, "When the Great Venerable left you in the Ten Thousand Beasts World, did he have any instructions for you?"
"The Great Venerable said that if an incident occurs in the Ten Thousand Beasts World, I should immediately inform the owner of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mirror and ask the strongest of the Kunlun Realm to suppress the darkness. May I ask if the young master is the current strongest of the Kunlun Realm?" The snow bear looked at Zhang Ruochen with hopeful eyes.
Zhang Ruochen said, "Well..."
"I am the current strongest of the Kunlun Realm."
Void Heaven exuded an aura of immortal elegance.
The five-colored phoenix said, "Two upper gods, there are characters left by the Second Confucian Ancestor in the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Palace that might help you."
Deep within the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Palace stood a jade stele over ten zhang tall.
On the jade stele, ancient characters flickered: "Since the ancient desolate era, there has been a hand of annihilation deep in the vast universe, often devouring heaven and earth to nurture itself. All things are born and die in order, but it alone is immortal and imperishable."
"I, Qiu, seized the heavenly secret, aided the Human Ancestor, and fought in the River of Time, across past and future, to sever its body and suppress its hands and eyes. However, this battle exhausted my spirit, drained my lifespan, and I could not obliterate it. So I had to suppress it with the heavenly secret and seal it with characters, awaiting a future great sage to completely destroy it. Yan Tingqiu!"
Zhang Ruochen and Void Heaven were deeply shocked, their hearts stirring with unquenchable waves.
All along, everyone had speculated that the Immortal might exist.
But cultivators of the present age almost all believed that no one in the world could be immortal, because those stunning half-ancestors and ancestors in history had all turned to dust.
Yet the ancestral text left by the Second Confucian Ancestor confirmed this.
How could anyone remain calm?
Who doesn't want to be immortal?
"Two upper gods, what is written on the jade stele?" asked the five-colored phoenix.
"Can you see the characters on it?" Zhang Ruochen asked.
"I can see them, but I don't recognize a single one."
Both the five-colored phoenix and the snow bear said this.
Zhang Ruochen understood. Only those who had reached an extremely high cultivation level could decipher the ancestral text left by the Second Confucian Ancestor. Those with insufficient cultivation weren't even qualified to know that period of history.
"Haha!"
Suddenly, Void Heaven laughed heartily, stroking his beard. "So that's how it is. What a Yan Tingqiu. I never thought he really achieved ancestral status with spiritual power. Zhang Ruochen, do you know why so many people don't believe Yan Tingqiu achieved ancestral-level spiritual power?"
Zhang Ruochen said, "Perhaps because the Second Confucian Ancestor's peak period was too short, and his lifespan didn't reach the level an ancestor should have."
"Now it makes sense! Back then, he fought the Immortal, was severely injured, and his lifespan dried up, so he fell early," Void Heaven said.
Zhang Ruochen said, "According to the record on the jade stele, the Second Confucian Ancestor mentioned the Human Ancestor and the River of Time. Could it be that that battle happened in the past?"
All along, Zhang Ruochen had speculated that the Immortal was the Space-Time Human Ancestor, but the ancestral text left by the Second Confucian Ancestor overturned this idea.
Void Heaven said, "There are no ancestors in the present age. Who knows how powerful an ancestor's methods truly are? Someone like the Space-Time Human Ancestor, who cultivated both time and space to the extreme, could cross the River of Time from the ancient desolate era to the future. After all, Di could do it."
"Perhaps Yan Tingqiu's spiritual power was guided by the Space-Time Human Ancestor. After all, the First Confucian Ancestor of your Kunlun Realm wasn't that strong in spiritual power. For Yan Tingqiu to achieve ancestral status through the Confucian path through his own exploration, how stunning must that be?"
"Moreover, even if Yan Tingqiu's spiritual power reached the ninety-fifth level and he became an ancestor, he could never be a match for the Immortal. In the river of history, there have been several with spiritual power at the ninety-sixth level! Did they gain any advantage against the Immortal?"
"So, according to my guess, the one who directly fought the Immortal should be the Space-Time Human Ancestor. Perhaps the Space-Time Human Ancestor is also an Immortal, and the two have been fighting over limited resources. The Space-Time Human Ancestor cultivated the Second Confucian Ancestor to break the balance and defeat the opponent."
"Forget it. Speculating out of thin air is meaningless. I can't understand how powerful an ancestor's methods can be. Let's get the Heavenly Secret Brush first!"
The "heavenly secret" mentioned by the Second Confucian Ancestor on the jade stele clearly referred to the Heavenly Secret Brush refined by Murong Buhuo.
A Fuya had speculated that if Murong Buhuo had preserved his divine heart and divine body, they must be stored in the Heavenly Secret Brush. Only by fusing with the divine heart and divine body and wielding the Heavenly Secret Brush could Murong Buhuo possess the combat power of a Heavenly Venerable and stand at the pinnacle of the universe.
But this guess was clearly wrong.
Murong Buhuo had been silently suppressed in the Kunlun Realm by Tai Shang and Wen Tianjun, which meant Murong Buhuo wasn't that strong. He had only returned as a remnant soul!
No wonder Void Heaven was so excited. The Heavenly Secret Brush plus the Fate Heavenly Book was undoubtedly the number one spiritual power divine artifact in the universe, a treasure comparable to the Nine Cauldrons.
Zhang Ruochen reminded him, "If this mountain range suppresses the hands and eyes of the Immortal, does Senior Void Heaven have the confidence to obliterate them?"
Void Heaven said, "The hands and eyes of the Immortal are certainly extraordinary. One hand could probably suppress a Heavenly Venerable-level being, and a single glance could annihilate an Indestructible Infinite peak. But the Second Confucian Ancestor's power has already weakened and dissipated. Isn't that why it can't be suppressed anymore?"
"The darkness has already spread, even leaking out of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mirror."
"If we don't act now to obliterate it, once it recovers some strength, who can deal with it?"
Zhang Ruochen said, "I think we could take the Ten Thousand Beasts Mirror to the Luozu Cloud Mountain Realm and ask Heavenly Mother to intervene?"
"Do you have no confidence in me?" Void Heaven was truly angry. Was he really that useless?
Once upon a time, aside from Hao Tian and Fengdu Dadi, he had looked down on everyone, considering himself third in the world.
If the Ten Thousand Beasts Mirror were taken to the Luozu Cloud Mountain Realm, the Heavenly Secret Brush would certainly be taken by Heavenly Mother.
Void Heaven knew that since the Second Confucian Ancestor had used the Heavenly Secret Brush to deal with the Immortal, it meant the brush could definitely counter the Immortal. Such a treasure, capable of determining the future landscape, couldn't fall into someone else's hands.
He, Xu Fengjin, was the first choice to face the Immortal and the Calamity of Quantities in the future, destined to be praised for ten thousand generations.
Void Heaven's tone softened. "Ruochen, think carefully. Didn't the Immovable Bright King Great Venerable come here? How could he not have acted to obliterate the Immortal's hands and eyes? Even if the hands and eyes remain, how much power is left? You're now at the Indestructible Infinite level of combat power. What is there to fear in the world?"
"Of course, let's agree first. The Heavenly Secret Brush belongs to me. If there are other good things, they're yours."
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