vstars Chapter 93 Canglan Peak 4
Chapter 93 Canglan Peak 4
The moment they emerged from the Ghost Realm, Cheng Jiu and his companions looked at the familiar scenery and felt a sense of sudden enlightenment.
"Let's go back to find Master, Junior Sister, Junior Brother. What about you? Are you going back to Medicine Peak too?" Standing at the sect gate, Yingyue stretched. This training trip had been too long. She needed to take some time to calm down and hopefully break through to the Nascent Soul stage.
"No, Senior Sister, I'm going back to Canglan Peak. I've been away for so long, I miss Master. If you have time, you can come visit Canglan Peak." Cheng Jiu shook her head; she wanted to go back and see her master.
"We're also getting ready to go back to Yanqian Peak. I wonder if Master has missed us after being away for so long. We brought him some gifts." Gong Yu scratched his head. Although they usually bickered with their master, he had missed him a little after not seeing him for so long, and he missed his brother too.
“Yes!” Miyagi nodded from the side.
"Okay, let's part ways here. But what happened today? Why are there so few people?" Wen Sishu looked at the main entrance, where the usually bustling crowd was now almost deserted.
Cheng Jiu looked around. Yes, compared to before, there were indeed far fewer people. They must have only been gone for nine years!
"Idiot, you forgot? Next year is the sect competition, they're probably preparing in advance!" Yingyue patted Wen Sishu's head.
"That's way too early," Wen Sishu muttered, but she also felt that her reason was acceptable.
Cheng Jiu looked at Gong Cheng and Gong Yu: "Senior brothers, let's go back together! It's on our way."
“Okay!” The Miyagi brothers nodded.
Cheng Jiu summoned Yunbao. The little cloud beast cheered when it saw the familiar surroundings and flew around in the sky. Cheng Jiu smiled and watched it. It must be homesick after being away for so long!
The little cloud beast had its fun and slowly descended.
It gradually grew larger, just big enough to accommodate Cheng Jiu, Gong Cheng, and Gong Yu.
The three of them mounted the little cloud beast: "Then, senior brothers and sisters, we'll be going now."
"Junior brother, junior sister, be careful on the road." The two nodded and said goodbye to Cheng Jiu and the other two, and then embarked on their journey back to their own peak.
Yanqian Peak was still shining brightly, looking brand new. Three people saw a huge lion flying into the air, and Gongcheng and Gongyu jumped onto the broad back of the blue-eyed, golden-haired lion.
"Junior sister, be careful on the road."
"Goodbye, Senior Brother," Cheng Jiu said. Seeing that only Cheng Jiu was left, the little cloud beast sped up and disappeared from their sight in a flash.
"Jin Yuan, where is Master? We've been gone for so many years, has Master missed us?" Gong Yu said, burying his face in Jin Yuan's thick mane, which smelled of sunshine.
Jin Yuan is a very clean Leo.
"Master has been in seclusion, preparing to break through to the Mahayana stage. You may not be able to see him this time you come back." Jin Yuan said indulgently as he escorted the two back to their courtyard.
Gong Cheng and his brother got off Jin Yuan: "It's alright. My brother and I are also planning to break through to the Nascent Soul stage during this time. If Master comes out of seclusion, you must let us know."
"Okay." Jin Yuan nodded, then lowered his head and picked up Gong Yu.
"Hey, what are you doing? Let me go!" Gong Yu struggled around its mouth.
"Our master instructed that you should not stay in the same place when you break through to the Nascent Soul stage. He did not want to hear the devastating news that you had been turned to ashes by the lightning tribulation of the Nascent Soul stage as soon as he came out of seclusion."
When they broke through to the Golden Core stage, they startled Lord Qingyang. These two idiots were actually undergoing tribulation in the same place, and the lightning tribulation was directly upgraded.
Although he survived that time, it served as a wake-up call for him: the Nascent Soul stage was absolutely out of the question!
The lightning tribulation was not even in the same league. He didn't want to hear that his disciple had died in such a terrible way as soon as he came out of seclusion, as it would make people doubt the quality of his disciples!
Therefore, before going into seclusion, he instructed Jin Yuan to make sure that such a thing did not happen.
"Master is overthinking it." Although he said this, Gong Yu stopped struggling. After several years of training outside, he had matured a lot.
Jin Yuan carried him to the independent main hall at the other end of Yanqian Peak. It must have been temporarily set up, as it only contained a bed and basic items.
On the other side, Cheng Jiu also returned to Canglan Peak. She originally planned to go see her master first, but she wondered if it was just her imagination, but the temperature in Qingxu Palace was even lower than it was nine years ago, and the surrounding icy spiritual energy could condense into beads.
She pulled her hands back slightly, but her robes were strong enough to withstand the strain.
But even a Golden Core cultivator like her couldn't withstand the cold on her exposed skin; it was so cold!
She touched the ring; although it contained mostly wood-elemental resources, she could still find one or two fire spirit jades.
Why didn't she think of preparing gloves and such?
She tucked the Fire Spirit Jade into her hand and hurried up the mountain. Reaching her master's palace, the snowdrift at the entrance stirred, and a dragon, its massive body blotting out the sky, slowly raised its body. Its majestic and cold eyes gazed at her, subtly exuding authority and dominance. "Little Nine, you're back!"
“Uncle-Master Xuanze.” Cheng Jiu looked her over. The ice dragon was entirely ice-blue, and one could vaguely see the flow of ice-elemental laws as it moved. Its figure covered the sky and the sun. Looking down at her was like looking at a small animal. It was powerful and domineering.
But soon this feeling seemed like an illusion. Xuanze lay limply on the ground, his head resting on the large platform, his whole body exuding an air of utter dejection: "If you're looking for your master, he's currently in seclusion, preparing to break through to the Mahayana stage."
"So, Uncle Xuanze, are you here to protect the Dharma?" Cheng Jiu looked at him, his body enveloping the entire Qingxu Palace, like a giant dragon guarding a treasure.
"No!" Xuanze lazily moved its body: "After your master was about to break through to the Mahayana stage, the ice spiritual energy here became very abundant. It's even more comfortable here than my cave, so I moved here." As it spoke, it stretched its body, and the ground trembled slightly with its movement.
It looked at Cheng Jiu's hand, which was stiff from holding the Fire Spirit Jade, and said, "The ice spiritual energy here is too strong for you. Go back first! Your master will definitely come to find you when he comes out of seclusion. Don't go out to train for the next few years. Watching the Mahayana stage breakout will be very beneficial to your future cultivation."
Cheng Jiu nodded; she couldn't very well disturb her master's seclusion.
It just so happens that she brought a piece of Ice-Containing Spirit Jade with her. She had originally planned to give the jade to her master and let him craft it himself. But since her master was in seclusion, she decided to use this time to craft a finished product herself and give her master a surprise.
She walked down the mountain along the road. The small courtyard where she lived was a Buddhist temple. Although she had been away for so many years, it was still as clean and new as ever. Everything was the same and it felt familiar.
She took a shower, lay in bed, and spaced out for a while before thinking of someone.
My friend Li Weixin, who I used to share my melons with, has been gone for nine years and I haven't been in touch with him since. I don't even know if he still remembers me.
She opened her communication device, which was still showing her asking Li Weixin if she wanted to join her in training.
She hesitated for a moment, then finally sent a message: Are you there?
A reply came quickly on the communicator: "Cheng Jiu, you're finally back. I'm so sorry, my master took me on a training trip and we lost contact. When I came back, I asked Mao Hongsheng of your Guiyuan Sect, and he said you hadn't returned yet."
Li Weixin had a lot to say about this. It's no wonder he hadn't returned. Not long after returning to the sect, his master dragged him into the sea of lightning for tempering, which he thought would be the same as before.
But the next day, his master said that his grandmaster had told him about an excellent opportunity. Thunder was related to heavenly punishment, and there were relatively few thunder-type resources on the continent, and of course, even fewer thunder-type spiritual roots.
This makes high-quality lightning-related opportunities extremely rare. This time, a small world did something that attracted the wrath of the Great Dao, and the Great Dao itself intervened to destroy it.
Although it is only an avatar, it is still an extremely rare opportunity to come into contact with the Great Dao, a once-in-a-millennium chance for someone with a lightning spirit root.
Originally, Li Weixin was at the Golden Core stage, making it difficult for him to cross the Star Sea. However, Venerable Qianli treated his disciple very well, spending a great deal of effort to bring him along; otherwise, he could have enjoyed this opportunity all to himself.
After searching for a long time in the sea of stars, they were fortunate enough to arrive at the outer edge of that small world before the Great Dao made its move. They observed the Heavenly Punishment, the Great Dao's avatar left, and the small world became a lightning domain.
The small world is extremely rich in lightning spiritual energy, which is a remnant of the Great Dao, with extremely high purity and residual traces of the laws.
Of course, Lord Qianli did not want to miss this opportunity, so he took Li Weixin into seclusion in this small world to prepare for a breakthrough to Mahayana.
Li Weixin remained within the small world, so naturally he couldn't receive the message from Cheng Jiu. This small world had become a lightning domain due to the Great Dao Tribulation.
His master was quite at home in this environment. The lightning spiritual energy here was so abundant that if he didn't cultivate, the lightning spiritual energy would easily stagnate in his body and accumulate in his meridians.
He originally planned to break through to the Nascent Soul stage at the age of twenty, but he couldn't hold on any longer at sixteen and chose to break through.
Fortunately, he was not short at sixteen, so the tragic fate that befell their sect's Grand Elder did not occur.
After breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, his cultivation progressed more slowly, and as a Nascent Soul cultivator, he couldn't return to the Xuan Tian Continent.
They could only stay in that small world and wait for their master to break through, or continue cultivating.
Finally, he complained, "It's so boring there!"
Because of divine punishment, almost all the creatures inside were wiped out, leaving only an endless expanse of lightning.
Under the Heavenly Punishment, the Heavenly Dao of this small world was also annihilated. Who knows when this small world will become a secret realm and be absorbed by the greater world.
In that small world, he did nothing but cultivate every day. There was no communication, and no one shared melons with him.
The only thing that could be considered entertainment was the storybooks he brought with him, but eight whole years! He was really going crazy.
"What did this little world do that even the Great Dao finds outrageous?" Cheng Jiu asked.
"This Little Heavenly Dao is extremely... well, I don't know how to say it. Well, wait a minute, let me sort this out." Li Weixin had indeed pieced together some truths during those eight years.
"Alright! That's roughly it. The minor Heavenly Dao of that world created a Chosen One and a Chosen Daughter."
In Xiao Tiandao's original script, these two were a perfect match, destined to complement each other and ascend to immortality together.
As it turned out, neither of the two he chose were good people. The man, relying on his status as the chosen one, wanted to take any woman with a little bit of beauty into his harem. The woman, relying on her status as the chosen one, wanted to take any man with a little bit of talent into her lover.
With their character, if they weren't the chosen ones of this Heavenly Dao, they certainly wouldn't have been so popular.
As a result, they were still not satisfied. After learning of each other's existence, they did not fall in love as Xiaotiandao had imagined, but instead began to love and kill each other.
The two each controlled half of the small world's power and launched a large-scale war without any justification, resulting in countless deaths and injuries. But the most impressive thing was actually the latter part of their operation.
"What kind of operation is this?" Cheng Jiu listened with great interest; these two were really too outrageous.
"I don't know if they were acting together or if it was really like that. During the war, nearly nine-tenths of the people in the small world died. They also usurped the origin of the small world, absorbed the origin, and intended to ascend with their respective harems."
The small world also collapsed because of their mess.
The Great Dao observed the situation and advised the Heavenly Dao of the Small World to make timely corrections. However, the Heavenly Dao still wanted to excuse its two chosen children, saying that they were still young and ignorant, and did not agree to make corrections.
He even begged the Great Dao to save him. The Great Dao was almost driven mad by this Heavenly Dao. It had messed up its world and already made a huge mistake, yet it still wanted him to save it!
Although the Heavenly Dao governs a world, it does not mean that it controls a world.
The destruction of this world also bears some responsibility from this minor Heavenly Dao. Not only does it not want to atone, but it also intends to indulge these two. Once they ascend, taking with them the fortune of a small world, won't they wreak havoc on its upper realm?
The souls of this world, now free from the influence of the Chosen One and Chosen Daughter, began to awaken.
The world is collapsing, and the heavens are biased. They feel that the heavens are unjust and how they chose these two things!
The Lesser Heavenly Dao lost the hearts of the people and offended the Great Dao, leading to its immediate collapse, yet it stubbornly refused to correct itself. As a result, the Great Dao unleashed a heavenly tribulation. Li Weixin, mentioning this, also felt the Lesser Heavenly Dao had gone mad; was this something a human would do?
"What about the creatures inside? There must be innocent lives among them." Cheng Jiu thought of the people who might still be alive after being tormented by the two crazy people. There must be innocent people among them.
"I was transferred by the Great Dao to another world lacking the evolution of living beings." After Qianli Venerable Lord broke through, Li Weixin asked his master.
"That's right, Heaven deserves it!" Why should the whole world pay for its mistakes? Cheng Jiuguang was just thinking about what would happen if one day Heaven chose this crazy couple as the chosen ones in his world.
Putting everything else aside, Yao Muqing of the Yunxiao Sect was truly a so-called chosen one. Her thought at the time was probably that she wanted to defy the heavens.
"And what about you? I've shared so much with you, did you encounter anything during your training? Don't forget me!" After recounting her own experiences, Li Weixin became curious about Cheng Jiu's nine years of training.
Cheng Jiu told him about what happened in Kamule City, as well as the past events of the Xuan Tian Continent that the Ghost Emperor had mentioned.
Li Weixin listened with great interest: "Oh, so that statue on the Jin Yao City ruins is you! What a pity, if I had been there, I would have definitely gone with you, it would have been so much fun!"
Cheng Jiu rolled his eyes as he looked at the message coming in: "This is not fun at all!"
Although the gossip about the nobles at the end was rather dramatic, the city of Kamuler gave her a feeling of oppression and heaviness; both Agana and Nabu died.
The only consolation was that the Ghost Emperor said their souls had been preserved by the Phoenix.
The small world and the Xuan Tian Continent were completely merged, and their souls successfully entered the Ghost Realm.
They had cursed over 100,000 people and carried a great deal of sin on their bodies.
But in the end, they chose to forgive, and with the protection of the phoenix, they were able to be reincarnated smoothly.
As for the members of the three major families, the Ghost Emperor said they deserved their misfortune. According to the original rules, although they had karmic burdens, given the circumstances at the time, they would be punished, but not severely, and could be reincarnated after a thousand years.
However, since the Heavenly Dao has taken on its responsibilities again, it has re-established the rules of the Ghost Realm.
They were in this range, living in an era where the Heavenly Dao's control was relatively loose, but their return to be reborn was when the Heavenly Dao rewrote the rules.
After discussion, it was finally decided to follow the new rules. So although they eventually returned to the past to be reincarnated, the new rules were used for the reckoning.
They are still being tortured, although many have already lost their souls during this time.