newbobooks Chapter 368 Another Enlightenment
Chapter 368 Another Enlightenment
Chapter 368 Another Enlightenment
In this chaotic ancient battlefield, as long as you don't use spells or escape techniques, and don't actively create a vortex of spiritual energy, those raging spiritual energies of heaven and earth will not attack you.
In addition, Chen Yi's ability to perceive the world was practically cheating; his divine sense was like an invisible net, covering an area of dozens of miles.
Along the way, they skillfully avoided wave after wave of cultivators who broke in from rifts in other worlds.
They bypassed one after another local monster that exuded a terrifying aura.
It even avoided the invisible demonic souls and imagery filled with murderous obsessions that remained in the ancient battlefield.
The two sides headed towards each other.
About half an hour later.
Chen Yi and Ning Bu'er stopped in a narrow and secluded valley.
Not far ahead, two figures were waiting quietly.
This place is less than a few miles away from the Silver Spirit Clan's ancestral third-tier spiritual treasure—the Silver Sky Hammer.
The man in the lead was none other than Silver Horn.
More than a decade has passed, and his appearance has hardly changed, but the profound spatial ability he exudes is much stronger than before.
An elderly man was also with him.
The old man was hunched over, dressed in a simple gray robe, and carried an ancient stone box in his hands, following closely behind Silver Horn.
At first glance, his expression and posture made him look exactly like a loyal old servant.
Ning Bu'er only glanced at it casually before focusing his attention on Silver Horn.
Chen Yi's gaze lingered on the old man for a moment longer.
He was an ordinary old servant, so ordinary that he could be easily overlooked. He was withered and emaciated, with a restrained aura. He followed behind Silver Horn with his head bowed and eyes downcast, like a shadow that might disappear at any moment.
But the more this is the case, the more abnormal it becomes.
Out of an almost instinctive habit, he activated his supernatural ability to "perceive the heavens and earth".
The invisible fluctuations were controlled by Chen Yi in an exquisite way. His divine sense transformed into the gentlest spring breeze, silently brushing towards the old man.
This wisp of divine thought didn't even carry any intention to investigate; it was merely passing by.
However, just as the divine sense touched the outside of the old man's body...
Buzz—
An indescribable feeling of being devoured surged back along with the divine sense!
In Chen Yi's sea of consciousness, a barely perceptible ripple suddenly appeared.
His divine sense was not blocked or deflected, but completely "erased".
It was as if there was no flesh and blood body there at all, but a bottomless black hole, an absolute void.
Any attempt to penetrate this realm will be utterly thwarted, leaving not a trace.
This feeling —
The light in Chen Yi's eyes contracted.
In his system of "perceiving the world," there is only one situation that could cause such complete isolation.
That meant he had encountered a terrifying being whose realm far surpassed his own, who could perfectly integrate his own energy with the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, transforming the tangible into the intangible.
Fifth stage of Nascent Soul!
Another avatar of a Nascent Soul cultivator has arrived in person?
Chen Yi's heart beat very steadily, without faltering despite the sudden discovery.
The thought flashed through his mind in a split second, but it didn't show on his face at all.
Since the other party did not actively reveal their identity and chose to appear as an old servant, it means that the other party did not want him to know.
Then he would pretend he didn't know.
Chen Yi's gaze slid naturally away from the old man, as if it were just a casual glance, and finally landed on Silver Horn.
His smile remained gentle as he approached with unhurried steps.
"Fellow Daoist Silver Horn, how have you been?"
"I wonder how the preparations for what we agreed on last time are going?"
Chen Yi's voice was clear and steady, as if the breathtaking clash of divine senses had never happened.
Silver Horn's expression was somewhat complicated when he saw Chen Yi, but he still quickly flew over to him.
The old servant behind him followed closely, always half a step behind, his head bowed, his face obscured.
"Fellow Daoist Chen, I have brought the fifth-order Thunder Crystal Fruit and the Nine Yin Demon Flame Origin."
Silver Horn spoke, his voice as clear and bright as ever.
However, Chen Yi's attention was instantly focused on those two words.
Fellow Daoist.
Not a senior.
It seems that after their parting in the secret realm, Silver Horn indeed reported everything he had done upon returning. The true Nascent Soul ancestor behind him had become suspicious of his identity as a "reincarnated great power."
A change in a form of address can reveal far more information than the words themselves.
"only----"
Silver Horn changed the subject, took the box from the old servant behind him, opened it, and two items wrapped in spiritual light floated out.
One of them was a fist-sized fruit, entirely purple-gold in color, with lightning arcs constantly leaping across its surface. The lightning power contained within it was extremely violent, causing the surrounding space to ripple and twist.
The other item was a black flame sealed within a transparent crystal. The flame had no temperature, but it exuded a chilling aura that could freeze the soul. It burned quietly, as if it could devour all light.
The two items, the Thunder Crystal Fruit in front, were actually close to the peak of the fifth-grade low level, and the Nine Yin Demon Flame Origin in the back was not the quasi-fifth grade as previously said, but the fifth grade!
"Both of these items are of a higher grade than we agreed upon."
"I wonder if Fellow Daoist Chen is capable of refining it?"
Silver Horn's gaze was fixed on Chen Yi, his words carrying a hint of probing that was barely perceptible.
"in addition----"
Seeing that Chen Yi's gaze was fixed on the two treasures and that he didn't seem intimidated by their quality, Silver Horn spoke again, his tone becoming much more serious.
"Fellow Daoist Chen, I lent you the Space-Stabilizing Silver Plate more than ten years ago. I wonder where it is now?"
"Have you finished using this treasure? Can you return it to me?"
The moment those words were spoken, the atmosphere in the room became subtly tense.
The old servant, who had been keeping his head down, seemed to make a very subtle movement at that moment.
Let's rewind to the time after Silver Horn left the secret realm last time.
Inside the ancestral hall of the Silver Sky Clan, Silver Horn reported everything that had happened in the secret realm, especially the various miraculous events concerning Chen Yi, to his ancestor.
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Upon hearing his account, the Silver Spirit Clan Ancestor, Lord of the Silver Sky, who sat on the throne, flew into a rage.
"idiot!"
A furious shout, like a thunderclap, reverberated throughout the entire hall.
"Where would a high-level expert reincarnated and start cultivating again come from in this barren, low-level cultivation world? You've been fooled!"
The ancestor's figure was shrouded in divine light, making it difficult to see clearly, but his rage, as fierce as burning the heavens and boiling the seas, was undisguised.
"He only wanted your fixed-space silver plate and used sweet talk to swindle it away!"
"How could an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator from a lower-level cultivation world possibly refine the rare treasure of my Silver Sky Clan? And he even has the audacity to claim he can learn our clan's spatial condensation defense technique—pure nonsense!"
Silver Horn knelt on the ground, enduring the ancestor's thunderous wrath, yet he still couldn't help but plead, "Ancestor, that Chen Yi is no ordinary cultivator; he is in the secret realm—"
He described in detail how Chen Yi easily saw through his spatial supernatural power, how he revealed the origin of the Fixed Space Silver Disc in a single sentence, and even how he displayed combat power far exceeding that of the Nascent Soul level at the last moment.
After hearing this, the figure within the divine light fell into a long silence.
The anger gradually subsided, replaced by deep doubt.
But no matter what, he refused to believe that a boy of unknown origin could actually help him retrieve the Silver Sky Hammer, the family's most precious treasure that had been sealed for countless years and which even he himself was helpless against.
To admit this is tantamount to admitting one's own incompetence.
This matter was thus shelved.
Until this time, the Black Mountain Secret Realm reopened, and the rules changed, allowing cultivators at the peak of the mid-stage Nascent Soul realm to enter.
The opportunity is here.
The Lord of the Silver Sky acted decisively, at great cost, to create a clone.
Logically speaking, the higher the cultivation level of a Nascent Soul cultivator, the higher the minimum cultivation level of their clone. Under normal circumstances, the minimum should be the late Nascent Soul stage.
He used a secret technique to forcibly suppress the cultivation of this clone to the critical point of the mid-stage Nascent Soul realm, thus gaining the qualification to enter the secret realm. Before this, there was no way he could have entered.
"That kid has quite the ambition, daring to ask for a fifth-tier Thunder Crystal Fruit and the origin of the Nine Yin Demon Flame."
Before leaving, the Lord of Silver Sky's clone transformed into an old servant and coldly spoke to Silver Horn.
"The items aren't difficult to obtain. I'll take them with me and accompany you inside to take a look."
His voice was old and hoarse, devoid of any emotion.
"However, since I have personally gone in to retrieve the Silver Sky Hammer, there is no need for him to come and get it. I will retrieve it myself."
"If I find out that kid was lying to you then—"
A chilling murderous intent flashed in the old servant's cloudy eyes.
"He must not be spared!"
Of course, there was one more thing the Silver Spirit Clan's ancestor didn't say to Silver Horn.
That is, this operation is far more than just retrieving a family treasure.
These Nascent Soul level beings from the outside world had already communicated in secret and reached a certain tacit understanding.
This entry into the secret realm is an opportunity, a springboard.
Their real goal was to take this opportunity to enter the vast and boundless Qing Dynasty territory in one fell swoop.
This is not a simple invasion or plunder.
Their goal was even grander—to explore the fundamental mysteries of the legendary Dao of Heaven and Earth in the Great Qing Realm, and to find the possible star teleportation array or ancient star road leading to the legendary "Spirit Realm".
Although the Great Qing Realm was demoted to a lower-level cultivation realm, it was completely different from other dilapidated small worlds.
The spiritual energy and fortune of this world are exceptionally comprehensive and all-encompassing; however, its rank was forcibly lowered in that earth-shattering war tens of thousands of years ago.
The foundation remains.
This is why there are so many secret realms in this vast human cultivation world where they live, and their exits are mysteriously connected to the Great Qing Realm.
This in itself is a huge mystery, and also a huge temptation.
"Feel sorry."
Chen Yi's voice was calm, without a trace of apology, more like stating an unchangeable fact.
"I have already refined that space-fixing silver plate."
"We simply can't afford it right now."
The moment he finished speaking, Silver Horn felt the temperature of the surrounding void drop sharply, and an invisible chill seeped out from the depths of his bones, making his soul stiffen.
As expected of a senior, such courage is truly impressive.
Silver Horn groaned inwardly, adding a sentence, but his lips remained tightly pressed together, not daring to utter a single word.
He clearly sensed that just as Chen Yi uttered the word "refine," an extremely dangerous fluctuation appeared in the aura of the ancestor's avatar behind him.
That wasn't anger, but a chilling scrutiny born from having one's authority challenged.
"Refine?"
as predicted.
A voice imbued with metallic quality and boundless majesty resounded, and Silver Flame, the patriarch of the Silver Spirit Clan, took a step forward.
This step caused even the normally stable void to tremble slightly.
His gaze was no longer the indifference of their first meeting, but had transformed into a tangible spiritual pressure, attempting to peel away all of Chen Yi's pretenses and see his true nature.
There was an undisguised disdain and mockery in his eyes.
"In just over a decade, let alone a Nascent Soul stage cultivator without spatial abilities like you, even I myself would find it extremely difficult to completely refine that Space-Stabilizing Silver Disc."
Yin Yan's voice was not loud, but every word struck the soul, carrying the absolute assertion of a superior.
"Boy, you're not planning to steal my Silver Spirit Clan's treasure for your own use, are you?"
The final question was already tinged with a chilling murderous intent.
Silver Horn's body tensed even more; he could almost feel the terrifying power within the ancestor's clone that could erupt at any moment.
However, Chen Yi, who was in the eye of the storm, still stood with his hands behind his back, his figure as steady as a mountain in the void.
"Fellow Daoist, my agreement with Silver Horn back then was not a lie."
Chen Yi met Yin Yan's gaze without flinching.
"I did indeed refine that Sky-Stabilizing Silver Disc."
He paused, his tone still calm, but with an indescribable depth.
"Everyone knows that my Great Azure Realm is weak, which leads others to believe that the laws of this realm are incomplete and the cultivators have shallow foundations."
"But little do they know, our Great Azure Realm possesses all the laws of heaven and earth, only lacking in spiritual energy and resources."
"I didn't cultivate before, not because I couldn't, but because I didn't have the resources. This simple spatial compression defense technique isn't difficult for me to learn."
These words, though calm, revealed an astonishing arrogance.
Although the opponent sent a Nascent Soul clone, its spiritual energy fluctuations were only at the peak of the mid-stage Nascent Soul realm.
Before Chen Yi witnessed Hu Mingyue's Nascent Soul stage, this level of cultivation might have made him wary and required him to be careful.
But now, everything is different.
Witnessing Hu Mingyue's Nascent Soul formation firsthand, and seeing the dozens of Daoist principles of heaven and earth that she effortlessly and freely wielded, opened a completely new door for Chen Yi.
Especially after he himself had begun to grasp how to resonate with the fundamental principles of heaven and earth, how to guide, dissect, learn, and ultimately integrate that vast primordial power into the process of shaping his own Daoist practices —
The mysterious veil surrounding Nascent Soul cultivators was largely lifted in his eyes.
The so-called "transformation into a deity" is nothing more than the control and application of the Dao of Heaven and Earth, reaching a deeper level.
But this "depth" also has its limits.
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