Chapter 349: Facing the Abyss (Part )
The monkeys were very obedient, and Xing Tianli was silent.
In front of the gate of that world, the portal that the Tarot people had forcibly opened had already opened for nearly ten miles. In the open space in front of the gate, the newly mined metal ore piled up like a mountain. Several thin-skinned transport ships with bloated bellies quietly floated in the air a hundred feet above the ground. With the hatches opened, it could be seen that dozens of ore hills a hundred feet high had been piled up in the vast space inside.
Xing Tianli walked to the gate of the world and cautiously stretched out his hand towards the black jade slip floating in the air.
A weak resistance came over me.
This is the mark left on it by the not-so-strong mental power of the great elder of the Tarot people. With his soul strength barely equivalent to that of a cultivator in the Qi Refining and Spirit Transformation Realm, the mental mark left on this jade slip can only bring about a limited amount of resistance.
Five-colored lightning flashed in the palm of Xing Tianli's hand, and the weak resistance collapsed. A wisp of immortal soul power was exhaled, and the jade slip fell into the palm of Xing Tianli with a "swish", almost impatiently.
A cheerful chuckle emanated from the jade slip, and an extremely gentle spiritual power surged out, conveying a piece of information to Xing Tianli.
"Oh, these poor, big-headed dwarfs have finally been killed."
"No matter who you are, your soul power is considered to be relatively strong among the ants... New ant, Black Abyss welcomes you. Black Abyss looks forward to your visit."
"But remember, before you come to the Black Abyss, please bring enough treasures for trading... You won't be as poor as these big-headed dwarfs, right?"
Xing Tianli's expression was very strange.
He injected a ray of his magic power into the jade slip, and with a "whoosh" sound, a large area of dark light gushed out, quickly covering an area of hundreds of miles in radius. Countless extremely fine light points of various colors, a hundred times finer than sand and dust, began to flicker in the dark light.
Encompassing hundreds of miles of void, there are such tiny spots of light. One can imagine how many there are in total.
Among the countless light spots, Xing Tianli relied on his intuition to lock onto a reddish-blue spot that was three times larger than the nearby light spots and gave people a heavy, solid and wild feeling. A wisp of immortal soul power slightly touched the light spot, and sure enough, the light spot suddenly magnified a million times, becoming the size of an egg, and floated in front of Xing Tianli.
A small ball of light, on which you can vaguely see flowing clouds, the sea, and the continent.
One of the most vast continents, whose borders are so familiar, is the continent where the Western Chu Empire is located.
This ball of light was none other than the star Yaksha.
As Xing Tianli's magic power fluctuated, another light spot that was a hundred times smaller than the Yaksha Star suddenly lit up and slowly expanded, about a hundred light spots away from the Yaksha Star.
Between the Yaksha star and the ball of light, there is a thin halo crisscrossing back and forth.
Xing Tianli understood that this ball of light was the former home planet of the Tarot people, and this thin halo was the world passage opened up by the world gate between the two planets.
The next moment, a very thin ray of light spurted out from Tarot Star, and quickly shuttled through the black light. The thin light meandered forward in the black light, outlining an extremely tortuous area that could only be reached through seven wormhole shortcuts.
Due to the lack of reference objects and scale, Xing Tianli did not know how long this road was.
But according to the instructions of the Tarot elder, they drove the new warships traded from the Black Abyss, and it took them three hundred years to return to their home planet after being torn apart all the way.
On the Tarot Star, they easily wiped out a group of hunting troops that remained behind, and after holding a grand oath-taking ceremony with their flesh and blood, they used the power of the Black Abyss Jade Slip to forcibly open the World Gate and raid the Yaksha Star.
"These little dwarfs really pay attention to the sense of ritual." Xing Tianli was speechless.
With these new warships, it would not be difficult for these guys to attack the Yaksha Star directly. They had to open the world gate to attack just like the Yaksha people did when they raided their home planet.
Truly speechless.
The power of the immortal soul turned into wisps of thread and carefully wrapped around the Black Abyss Jade Slip.
The jade slip glowed with a hazy light, and turned into a transparent texture. Countless strange patterns rolled and surged in the jade slip, emitting a faint light. Xing Tianli frowned. He could not interpret these runes at all. This was simply the crystallization of wisdom from another system.
There is an extremely deep sense of horror that inexplicably surges out from my bones.
The jade slip in Xing Tianli's hand was only a pound, but at this moment it seemed to be heavier than the sun, pressing down on his wrist to the point of ache. Xing Tianli suddenly realized something terrible. The 'person' who made this jade slip, let's call him 'person' for now, he, or they, possessed a power and knowledge system that perhaps exceeded what he had believed in his heart...
'saint'……
All the knowledge systems of the Jiuzhou Legion come from the saints.
On the planet Tailan, the saints were extremely generous. Some of them were disciples in the religion, while others taught themselves. They imparted the essence of their own morality to the creatures of the Nine Provinces without reservation.
In Xiang Yu's army, there were many Taoist masters who had attained the Daluo realm on Tailan Star.
These two world gates were constructed by the Taoist masters according to the weapon refining methods they learned from the saints. They relied on the unique spiritual environment of Yaksha Star and used the extremely special and rare crystal stone "Void Pattern Crystal" to lock and transmit spiritual treasures in one-way space coordinates.
According to the Taoist Golden Immortals, these two world gates can only be opened from the Yaksha Star.
And these Tarot people, who only relied on external forces and had no power of their own, used the weak soul power of their chief elder to drive this "gift of the transaction". This seemingly insignificant jade slip actually forcibly opened the world door in the reverse direction from the direction of Tarot Star.
subversion.
Unbelievable.
Xing Tianli took a deep breath, squinted his eyes, and memorized the winding star road in the starry sky. Then he let out a long roar, and the Tongtian Miaozhu, which had transformed into a perfect immortal weapon of the Taiyi Golden Immortal Realm, let out a crisp sound, and a sword beam slashed at the jade slip with all its might.
Xing Tianli remembered it clearly.
The great elders of the Tarot people found a very famous astrologer in the Black Abyss and made a private deal with him.
Those warships are the high-tech weapons prepared by the astronomer for the Tarot people.
And this jade slip is the souvenir given by the astronomer after the transaction is completed.
It's just a small gift given to Tarot people casually...'that's all'!'choke'!With a loud bang, the Tongtian Magic Bamboo fell heavily on the jade slip. Xing Tianli's wrist shook violently, his five fingers felt severe pain, and he suddenly let go of the Tongtian Magic Bamboo.
A ray of cold light shot out to the sky, and the Tongtian Magic Bamboo shook violently and spun, and in an instant it flew out of Xing Tianli's sight.
This jade slip was quietly suspended in the air.
The whole body is smooth and crystal clear, without any marks on the surface.
It was just a little over a pound, with no support from anything, no surge of magic power, and no support from any power fluctuations that Xing Tianli could detect. It just floated there quietly.
Xing Tianli used the power of one star, exerted all his strength, and controlled a Taiyi Realm's ultimate 'immortal weapon' to chop down the jade slip that weighed only a pound. The jade slip was not damaged at all, and did not move at all, but Xing Tianli was almost injured by the shock.
A sharp sound of breaking through the air came.
A long rainbow came flying over, and Tongtian Miaozhu came back in anger.
Xing Tianli let out a long roar, and formed a sword gesture with his hands. A stream of mana mixed with a wisp of blood gushed out and poured into the Tongtian Magic Bamboo. The Tongtian Magic Bamboo suddenly split apart, and the sky was filled with flickering bamboo shadows. The sky was filled with surging sword beams, like a raging sea wave, fiercely slashing towards the jade slip.
'Choke~~~'!Three hundred million strikes in one snap of the fingers.
Every strike is blessed with the power of the sun.
The terrible crashing sounds stretched out in a line. Xing Tianli summoned all the Ghost Lords, Ghost Emperors, Ghost Kings, Ghost Generals and Ghost Slaves to form a huge witch formation, protecting the void within a radius of dozens of miles.
The formation shook slightly. Except for the Ghost Lords and Ghost Emperors, all the ghosts in the formation grimaced, vomited black blood and cried like ghosts due to the sound of swords colliding.
Ten moments passed in a flash, and Xing Tianli let out a long breath.
He had used up all his magic power.
The essence and blood in the body are almost exhausted.
His face was haggard, and he looked with despair at the jade slip that was floating quietly in front of him, intact and motionless.
He firmly believed that with the wave of attacks he had just seen, even if an immortal who had truly stepped into the realm of Daluo was faced with such a crazy attack, with three billion rays of power slashing at him, an ordinary Daluo would at least feel dizzy, right?
The jade slip was just floating there quietly.
Even the dark light it emitted did not move at all, and countless tiny points of light flickered quietly, as if it was not affected at all.
"You are, what, a thing!" Xing Tianli whispered, "Just now, you told me to go to the Black Abyss... Hey, say something."
The jade slip was floating quietly, without any sound or movement. Xing Tianli whispered, "Heavenly Calculator?"
"It can be seen that you are not a kind person. That's right, you told the Tarot people that they could use that bunch of metal scraps to kill all the Yaksha people on Yaksha Star - because the masters of the Yaksha people were all killed by me."
"That metal lump that can unleash a Daluo attack is indeed enough to suppress me - you didn't lie, that metal lump is enough to suppress all the 'living things' on Yaksha Star... You didn't lie, because I am only at the Taiyi realm. If I don't use the witch formation they formed, I can't take that Daluo attack."
Xing Tianli looked up at the countless Ghost Lords, Ghost Emperors and the large army of evil spirits that he had cultivated with great effort.
That's right, they are not 'living beings'.
"But the thirteen Yaksha kings were refined into ghost lords, and even in my Tongtian Creation Tower, there are three Daluo realm commanders suppressing them... You didn't tell those unlucky guys about this."
"You gave them this jade sword and left a message inside. Are you sure that I will go to the Black Abyss?"
Xing Tianli looked up at the sky.
Will you go?
Xing Tianli knew nothing about the unfathomable Black Abyss. Should he go there? Why should he go there?He questioned the great elders of the Tarot people and searched the souls of two great elders - only then did he know that these Tarot people were accidentally swept into the Black Abyss by the turbulence of space. With their own abilities and the crude warships produced by their civilization, they would never be able to enter the Black Abyss in their lifetime while fleeing in the void.
They were just lucky to be involved.
It was an extremely strange place, so strange that the Tarot people completed the transaction in it and left the Black Abyss with a very powerful fleet.
But they had forgotten most of the details of what they encountered and what they did in the Black Abyss.
All they remembered was that they inexplicably found the astronomical master, completed the transaction, and then returned... They even completely forgot the details of how they left the Black Abyss. By the time they came to their senses, they had already been on their journey home for ten years.
They had no idea how those ten years had passed.
The more this happened, the more they believed in the predictions made by the astronomer for them. They returned to their home planet with full confidence and even ambition, and launched a retaliatory raid on the Yaksha Star!
It's so weird and unpredictable.
Xing Tianli stretched out his hand, and the jade slip retracted all its dim light and spots, returning to its dark appearance, and fell into Xing Tianli's palm again. It was smooth and still weighed only a pound, and it was impossible to tell that it had survived Xing Tianli's full-force attack for ten finger snaps without any damage.
Xing Tianli has even more powerful means.
He also has the 'Mountain and Sea' witch formation.
He also has the Zhu Xian Sword Formation.
He also has the incarnation of Pangu.
But he didn't dare to use them... The above three methods were his last resort. If none of these three methods could destroy the jade slip, or in other words, they could only leave a tiny mark on the jade slip with great difficulty...
Xing Tianli was afraid. He was afraid that he didn't even have the courage to face the abyss.
"My ancestor..." Xing Tianli suddenly cursed in a very vulgar way: "How come I, the Taoist priest, am the Taiyi Golden Immortal with the strongest physical body under the Heavenly Dao, the Taiyi Golden Immortal who has no more power than anyone else... and yet, I am just a slightly stronger one among the ants?"
Taiyi is just an ant.
Daluo is probably the same.
Then, what about the Quasi-Saints above Daluo? What about the Semi-Saints?Or even, what about a 'saint'?
Well, let's not talk about the 'saint'. The Mother Tree of the World has said that the 'saint' is just a 'mayfly' who was lucky enough to grow wings and struggled to fly out of the small pond that nurtured him before his weak fate came to an end, and got a glimpse of the 'real scenery'.
A 'mayfly' that lives in the morning and dies in the evening.
In the eyes of the Mother Tree of the World, a 'saint' is nothing more than this.
The only thing to be happy about is that mayflies are still much stronger than ants, right?"But if the mayfly dies, countless ants can also eat it... In fact, mayflies and ants are just insects, right?"
Xing Tianli felt cold all over, the cold air coming out from his bones, making him shiver all over, and his eyes went black.
Tongtian Miaozhu, who had just chopped madly for a while and was now "panting" and floating beside Xing Tianli, with a flickering light all over his body, suddenly woke up, and flew to the top of Xing Tianli's head on his own. He, who had already developed a trace of spirituality, mobilized a trace of the fused "essence" in his body, and suddenly transformed into a dark yellow and exquisite pagoda.
Strands of Xuanhuang merit power fell from the pagoda. The merit of heaven and earth that Xing Tianli had accumulated over the years turned into strands of strange and wonderful sounds and extremely cool strange power, which slowly merged into his body and slowly dispelled all his fear, anxiety, confusion and bewilderment, and completely calmed the uneasiness in his heart.
Thus, the immortal soul, which was forcibly born by the Mother Tree of the World and had a weak foundation due to its overly rapid growth, was consolidated little by little, condensed and clarified at a very fast speed, and became extremely stable.
In the immortal soul that collapsed into a singularity, the legacy of the ancient bronze sword quietly started to move.
A young and clear voice sounded softly in Xing Tianli's immortal soul. It was just a simple chapter of "Huangting Sutra", but it inexplicably caused a rain of flowers to fall around Xing Tianli. The earth with a terrifyingly high metal content suddenly turned into fertile soil, and pure flowers grew slowly and quickly bloomed.
Five-colored spiritual clouds were surging in the sky above the entire Western Chu Empire.
The next moment, rain with a faint fragrance fell along with the sound of the Tao. Wherever the rain fell, the Tao of the whole world seemed to have a hint of fresh breath.
"Yes." Xing Tianli's immortal soul was clear, his Tao heart was more stable than ever before, and he felt a great courage and the strongest longing for the new and wonderful world.
What are you afraid of?
An unpredictable world, a powerful and unpredictable existence...
But the "saints" in Xing Tianli's heart are also moving forward bravely, and they are also using unpredictable means to continuously give back to future disciples like Xing Tianli.
The fundamental law of "A Stick of Incense in the Furnace of Heaven and Earth" is a fundamental law that allows Xing Tianli to move freely without any worries in the Dharma-Ending Age, in the world of no spiritual beings. It is unprecedented, right?
Taught by the ancient bronze sword.
This is the latest method compiled by the 'Saint' himself.
Xing Tianli suddenly realized that this fundamental law did not exist for the Dharma Ending Age on Tailan Star at all. The 'saints' might not even know that after they left, their unworthy descendants in later generations would turn Tailan Star into the Dharma Ending Age.
This fundamental law exists entirely for the sake of the vast void.
This is a fundamental law that allows human cultivators to take root and survive in any time and space.
"The Dharma will be passed on to those who are destined to be with you." The young and clear voice finished chanting, and a sigh echoed in Xing Tianli's mind. Xing Tianli realized that with his current cultivation and his current realm, he could peel off some of the bronze tripods in his body and pass on the fundamental Dharma of "One Stick of Incense in the Furnace of Heaven and Earth" to those he recognized.
Unfortunately.
There is only one ancient bronze sword.
The good fortune carried by the ancient bronze sword, those innate treasures, the 'essence' of innate spiritual treasures, can only be found in one copy.
The small bronze tripod differentiated from Xing Tianli can only assist those cultivators in cultivating the most primitive form of the fundamental law of "A Stick of Incense in the Furnace of Heaven and Earth". It is difficult for them to have such a terrible fortune as Xing Tianli in this fundamental law.
But, who knows?"The void is vast and the creation is infinite. We cultivators should strive to make progress bravely so as not to disappoint the grace of the 'saint'."
A flash of inspiration came into Xing Tianli's mind, and he must have chosen the person to teach him this fundamental law.
"But, the furnace of heaven and earth... a stick of incense!"
"The furnace of heaven and earth!"
"It is not about turning the heaven and earth into a furnace... The ultimate goal of this fundamental law is to remelt all of heaven and earth... Reopen the earth, water, fire and wind, and recast the great way of heaven and earth."
“No matter if it is the Dharma Ending Age or the Age of No Spirits, wherever the furnace passes, all the worlds will be transformed into paradise for the Miao people of Jiuzhou… This is the ultimate purpose of the development and transmission of this technique.”
Xing Tianli clapped his hands and laughed: "Saint, disciple, I understand."
He weighed the Black Abyss Jade Slip in his hand and said softly, "Black Abyss? I will go there naturally."
“But before you go, Yashaxing, your world of absolute spirits must be destroyed… our paradise of the Miao people of Jiuzhou must be revived!”
(End of this chapter)