chsdbacks Chapter 18 Inside the Tomb of the Azure Emperor, Golden Pages of the Daoist Scripture
Chapter 18 Inside the Tomb of the Azure Emperor, Golden Pages of the Daoist Scripture
Step into the passage, and the light and shadow reverse.
It wasn't the gloomy and desolate tomb I had imagined, nor was it a cramped and oppressive underground palace.
What appeared before the four of them was a vast and boundless little world.
An intense, almost overwhelming spiritual energy wafted over us, condensing into glistening water droplets in the air.
Ahead lies a vast lake.
The vast expanse of blue water is shrouded in mist and haze, stretching as far as the eye can see.
The lake water is unlike anything else; its surface is as smooth as jade, shimmering and sparkling, like a giant piece of emerald inlaid between heaven and earth.
"Holy crap..." Pang Bo gasped, his eyes wide as saucers. "Did this old ghost's ancestors plunder the entire Eastern Wilderness back then? This huge lake, it's all spiritual liquid?"
The bronze plaque on his back trembled violently. From the depths of the Sea of Bitterness, the remnant soul of the Azure Lotus King let out a hiss, an instinctive excitement at sensing the aura of his ancestor.
"Be quiet, don't disturb my view of the scenery."
Pang Bo slapped the bronze plaque with his backhand, and a Buddhist aura flowed through it, forcibly suppressing the voice of the Azure Lotus King.
Vivi stood by the lake.
Spiritual patterns intertwined wildly within his azure eyes.
"It's not just the spiritual liquid." Her voice unusually trembled slightly. "Beneath the lake... there are weapons everywhere."
Everyone stared intently.
Countless lights shimmered in the Jade Lake.
Pearls, swords, bells, towers, cauldrons... thousands upon thousands of spiritual weapons floated up and down in the blue waves, breathing in and out spiritual energy, like living things.
"We've struck it rich! This is ours!"
Pang Bo's eyes lit up, and he rubbed his hands together as he ran towards the lake.
He spotted a purple jade axe closest to the shore and reached out to grab it.
"Be careful," Li Xian said.
late.
The moment Pang Bo's hand touched the water, the purple jade axe trembled violently, its blade reversed, and unleashed a purple beam several meters long, heading straight for Pang Bo's face.
Pang Bo's pupils contracted sharply, and he forcefully twisted his waist.
"clang!"
The purple blade struck the bronze plaque behind him, sending sparks flying.
The immense recoil sent Pang Bo flying, landing hard on his backside, his blood churning from the shock.
"These things are sentient." Ye Fan stepped forward to observe them. "They have a will and will actively attack anyone who gets close."
"A self-contained artifact prototype of the Nine Heavens series of divine jade, made of the materials of a legendary holy weapon, possessing the spirituality of a kingly divine weapon, is actually treated as a mere ornament. The Azure Emperor is truly insatiable in his extravagance..."
Li Xian thought further ahead, rode the rainbow into the sky, and pointed into the distance.
"Focus on the center."
Following the direction Li Xian pointed.
Weiwei, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo gazed into the distance.
At the very center of the endless lake lies the true essence of the Immortal Ascension Pool, a place of unparalleled wonder.
Several unusual treasures floated on the water.
A book that gleams with gold.
Greenish-brown copper sheet.
Ancient bamboo slips cast in black gold.
Each piece embodies profound and mysterious principles.
It appears to be an imperial-level scripture carrier crafted from nine types of celestial gold.
At the very center of these rare treasures was an extremely ancient copper block covered in green rust.
A three-leafed blue lotus takes root atop the copper block.
The blue lotus was small, swaying gracefully, yet it exuded a terrifying imperial aura that suppressed all ages and made even the stars of the heavens pale in comparison.
A crystal-clear jade coffin accompanies the scene, and one can vaguely see the blood-red heart inside, with strange phenomena of the birth and death of the universe and the proliferation of all living beings.
"That lotus..."
Weiwei only glanced at it, and her Fairy Spirit Eyes began to sting intensely, with two lines of blood trickling from the corners of her eyes.
She quickly closed her eyes: "I can't look! There are complete Great Emperor Dao principles here; if I look any further, I'll go blind."
"Close your eyes and step back."
Li Xian pulled Weiwei behind her.
"The Azure Emperor is very benevolent. His heart has refined all killing intent, and the Imperial Weapon has no desire to fight. Otherwise, we would have been reduced to ashes as soon as we entered."
His gaze was fixed on the gleaming golden pages of the book.
The complete text of the Dao Jing.
This is his highest priority goal on this trip: the strongest Sea of Wheels cultivation method in the world of Shrouding the Heavens, an essential foundation for the Speed-Passing Emperor.
"Old Pang," Li Xian said quickly, without wasting a single word, "release some of the suppression from the bronze plaque and let out as much of that old ghost's aura as possible from within you."
"Let him out? What if he rebels..."
"He wouldn't dare. This is his ancestral grave; he's more afraid than you are now." Li Xian interrupted him, "Quickly!"
Pang Bo gritted his teeth and slightly loosened the Buddhist light emanating from the bronze plaque of the Great Thunder Temple.
Instantly, a pure aura of a powerful demon race emanated from Pang Bo's body, carrying the unique bloodline fluctuations of the Azure Emperor lineage.
The group of summoned weapons, which had been restless and ready to attack at any moment, fell silent as soon as they sensed this aura.
They all retreated to the lakeside, making way for a shimmering avenue leading straight to the center.
"The mechanism is right."
Li Xian's lips curled into a smile.
Players don't rely on brute force when clearing dungeons; they rely on understanding the mechanics.
The Qingdi Tomb's defense mechanism makes it naturally immune to the descendants of the demon race.
"Leaf." Li Xian turned to Ye Fan, pointing to the copper block covered in green rust in the very center, "See that broken copper block? That's your exclusive loot. Use your Sacred Body's Sea of Bitterness to sense it and find a way to get it."
Ye Fan didn't ask why; along the way, he had an almost blind trust in Li Xian's judgment.
He stepped forward and closed his eyes.
The previously dormant Bitter Sea of the Ancient Sacred Body within his body suddenly erupted.
Golden waves surged skyward, the roar of the tsunami was deafening, and golden light emanated from his body, making him look like a war god.
As the Sacred Body's essence was fully activated, the nameless bronze block covered in green rust at the center of the Immortal Transformation Pool actually resonated slightly. It trembled slightly, and some of the green rust on its surface peeled off, revealing an ancient aura that suppressed all the heavens and myriad realms.
"I'll take the gold pages."
Li Xian moved.
He rode the divine rainbow, his entire body transforming into a gray shadow, and rushed straight to the center of the Immortal Transformation Pool along the path cleared by the spirit weapon.
A distance of a hundred feet can be covered in an instant.
When they were still ten feet away from the golden page, an invisible array of demon emperor patterns appeared, with cyan and silver Dao principles flowing around it, enough to annihilate any living being that dared to approach.
"Nine Slashes of the Demon Emperor - Annihilation!"
Without pausing, Li Xian drew his tattered dagger from his waist, his divine power surging wildly within him. He formed hand seals and unleashed a slash.
The cyan-silver blade tear through the void and slammed into the Demon Emperor's array patterns.
The secret techniques of the same origin, coupled with the aura of the Azure Emperor's bloodline emanating from Pang Bo in the rear.
The seemingly indestructible array patterns showed a slight pause at this moment.
That one moment is enough.
Despite the backlash from the array patterns, Li Xian's left arm muscles ripped apart, blood splattering everywhere. But he didn't even flinch, forcefully reaching his hand into the gaps in the array patterns.
He grabbed the golden book.
Extremely heavy.
"I can't lift it..."
Li Xian acted decisively, tearing off the first page of the golden book—the "Taoist Scripture: The Sea of Wheels" volume.
"Boom—!"
The moment the golden page detached, the entire ancient hall shook violently.
A deafening roar came from the outside, and the aftershocks of various spells and weapons from the Dao Palace Realm and even the Fourth Level Realm passed through the gate, disturbing the spiritual energy inside the hall.
"They came really fast."
Li Xian put the golden page into the Sea of Bitterness and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
Looking longingly at the remaining pages of the gold book, the green bronze book, and the black gold slip, reason told him that he should leave immediately.
The leaders and elders of the six great grotto-heavens, as well as the great demons of the demon race at the Dao Palace Realm, have stormed in.
"Old Immortal, the leaves are still there!" Pang Bo roared.
Li Xian turned her head.
Ye Fan's golden sea of bitterness had reached its boiling point.
The copper block covered in green rust detached from the root of the green lotus, transformed into a stream of light, and headed straight for Ye Fan.
"puff!"
The green copper block pierced through Ye Fan's body without any hindrance and sank directly to the bottom of his golden sea of suffering, as stable as Mount Tai.
At the same time, the immortal spirit eye Weiwei obtained a five-colored, misty Dao stone with exceptional eyesight. Legend has it that the combined refinement of the Nine Heavens Divine Jade can forge an Emperor Weapon, and the weapon forged from the five-colored Divine Jade can be refined to the level of a Quasi-Emperor Weapon without any problem.
As for Pang Bo, with the help of the aura of the Azure Emperor's grandson, he obtained dozens of spirit weapons, a truly bountiful harvest.