Chapter 1122: Leaving
"Don't get too excited, take a deep breath first." Bu Lianxiang spoke in a serious manner after Li Qiye's shout. She continued to pour the purest dao force into Li Qiye's body.
Li Qiye took a deep breath and calmed his emotions. The thing that excited him the most was not obtaining the Space Scripture but rather defeating the monks in the temple.
Of course, winning using force was not worthy of this much excitement. But now, he used his dharma to defeat the monks there. Moreover, it was a test on the Nihility Scripture, the thing these monks understood the most.
With the help of Bu Lianxiang's dao force, Li Qiye recovered quite quickly.
"Hehehe, Boss, do you have it right now?" Little Autumn excitedly stared at him.
Li Qiye looked back and laughed: "Of course! Since I beat those monks, the Space Scripture is naturally in my hands now."
"The Space Scripture?" Bai Jianzhen gasped. He didn't specify what he was after before coming here to challenge the monks. But now, she was quite shocked to hear this: "One of the Nine Grand Heavenly Scriptures in the legends?"
"Yes, that's it." Li Qiye nodded.
The girls glanced at each other. Bai Jianzhen was the most astounded. The Space Scripture, a mythical artifact that the world thought didn't exist.
The nine scriptures were desired by even Immortal Emperors, but today, Li Qiye had actually obtained one of these legendary scriptures.
She murmured: "Legend states that Immortal Emperor Hao Hai had obtained the Space Scripture in the past as well."
This was her misunderstanding. Because the emperor had been here before, she assumed that the Space Scripture was left behind by him.
"To be exact, he only obtained a very small portion of the scripture, just one chapter." Li Qiye smilingly said: "The Space Scripture in the Nihility Temple has nothing to do with him."
In fact, the emperor actually wanted the Space Scripture after coming to the Nihility Temple back then. Alas, he failed the gamble.
"Heh, no one has seen the real Space Scripture for millions of years now." Little Autumn smirked and showed off its knowledge: "When the young Immortal Emperor Hao Hai climbed up the World Tree back then, he found a scroll left behind by the forefathers that contained techniques from the Space Scripture."
"As for the Space Scripture in the Nihility Temple, it has an even greater origin since it was given birth by the natural order. It is a supreme item in this world." The worm went on: "Of course, when we say that no one has ever seen it before, we're talking about the Desolate Era until now. In fact, back in the untraceable eras, a supreme existence had found it before and cultivated it to an unfathomable level. Otherwise, there would be no Lesser Imperial Devil World, this was a place created out of thin air…" Little Autumn was very knowledgeable about the scripture. The reason why it knew so much was due to its master wanting the book back then. As a True God, he challenged the Nihility Temple, but unfortunately, it ended in his demise.
Chen Baojiao curiously asked: "The scripture has been at the Nihility Temple for so long, has no one else tried to cultivate it?"
Li Qiye smiled and shook his head: "To the monks of Nihility Temple and even the entire plateau, merit laws and techniques, including the Space Scripture, are not important to them. These things do not matter, they only need Buddha in their hearts."
"With Buddha in their hearts, they will have everything." Li Qiye continued on: "They are eternal in this sense. It is a belief to the level that nothing else is worth caring about."
"The dharma in the Buddhist Funeral Plateau is a bewitching spell, one might even call it an evil art." The quiet Bai Jianzhen added. It seems that she had quite a negative opinion towards the dharma of the plateau.
Li Qiye only smiled and didn't comment in response.
"Hehehe, Boss, what about the broken pot? Did you get it as well?" Little Autumn looked up and down at Li Qiye and grinned.
Li Qiye looked at it with one eye and said: "If I obtained that pot, would you still be standing here right now? The entire plateau would be in chaos right now if that was the case."
"That's true." The worm scratched its head and said: "Aizz, what a shame, leaving that supreme pot to those bald donkeys." 1
Li Qiye coldly stared at it in response: "Even if you got your hands on the pot, could you handle it? You'll go crazy in less than three days."
"Well…" The worm rubbed its palms together in embarrassment. It knew Li Qiye was speaking the truth.
Not anyone could withstand the pot. Without sufficient willpower, its master would go crazy right away. Since time eternal, only incredible existences like Di Shi could handle the power of the pot as well as control it.
"What is this broken pot you two are talking about?" Li Shuangyan was curious. She heard them talk about it many times, but Li Qiye never revealed what the pot was.
Li Qiye said insipidly: "Myriad Thoughts Pot."
"Myriad Thoughts Pot!" Mei Suyao was shaken while murmuring: "The legend is true. The plateau truly hides one of the Nine Grand Heavenly Treasures!"
Bai Jianzhen's expression changed: "I thought they didn't exist…"
Her view was the same as many others.
Li Qiye smiled a little: "How can there be smoke without fire? Many things become legends for a reason."
The girls couldn't help but look at the Nihility Temple again. Who would have thought that such a humble-looking temple was actually hiding the Myriad Thoughts Pot?
Bai Jianzhen realized something and muttered to herself: "So Immortal Emperor Hao Hai came here for the Myriad Thoughts Pot…"
Li Qiye shook his head and said: "Such a thing does not come so easily, even for Immortal Emperors. Plus, obtaining it is not necessarily a good thing. There are many treasures in this world, not everyone can get something that is beneficial."
The girls were quiet. The nine heavenly treasures were not things they dared to dream about.
"Hehehe, Boss, since you've obtained the Space Scripture, will you, hehehe, teach me a couple moves?" Little Autumn was drooling at this moment.
Li Qiye glared at it and said: "Don't worry, I will teach you a couple moves, but don't disappoint me. If you don't try harder to strengthen your bloodline, you better watch yourself or I'll banish you for an eternity."
As a Space Crossing Worm, Little Autumn had a very rare bloodline. It had an unparalleled advantage regarding spatial comprehension. In other words, it was born as a genius with regards to space.
However, it loved to play around and couldn't truly tap into its natural bloodline. It wasn't until after they took a trip to the World Tree that its bloodline finally leaped forward.
"Hehehe, Boss, don't you worry. Just say the word and I will train day and night to not let you down. In just a few years, I will become the master of space…" Little Autumn patted its chest and voiced its promise.
Li Qiye only glanced at it briefly before ordering: "Come, we'll take our leave."
"Boss, wait for me!" Little Autumn quickly chased right after him like a cute puppy.
Li Qiye didn't only want to leave the Nihility Temple, he also wanted to leave the lesser world. He did everything he wanted to do here, so he no longer sought anything else.
Before leaving, he looked back at the lesser world one last time.
"Goodbye, Lesser Imperial Devil World. In the future, you shall be no more." Li Qiye sighed.
Such words startled the girls. Chen Baojiao had to ask: "Why do you say that the lesser world won't exist anymore?"
"In this generation, the lesser world will turn into ashes." Li Qiye slowly answered.
"That monk is really going to take action?" Bu Lianxiang knew more than the rest and was quite surprised as well.
Li Qiye gently nodded and stared at her: "Yes, so if the remnants of your Middle Continent leaves now, there is still a chance."
"Once one steps into the plateau, one will forever be a monk." Bu Lianxiang said: "It's not like you don't know this."
Li Qiye sighed again. He naturally understood this logic.
"What about the dark cultivators and imperial soldiers who are still here?" Li Shuangyan murmured while looking at the lesser world.
"Into ashes." Li Qiye gently sighed. He didn't want to stay here any longer and turned away to leave.
Don't ask me how a worm is scratching its head, but then again, it is more of a dragon now, right? ↩Chapter 1123: Space Scripture
Li Qiye and everyone else went back to the Buddhist Funeral Plateau and settled in at the Buddhist City. For Li Qiye, he had fulfilled everything he wanted to do during this trip and could leave whenever.
He was staying behind in order to witness the ascension of the Eternal River School's ancestor and to lend the person a hand if necessary. After all, Mei Suyao was following him, so she wasn't considered a stranger.
Ever since the inception of the sect, the river school had produced many supreme geniuses. Among them, quite a few had reached the Godking realm.
However, for cultivators, including those at the Godking level, there was something that they could never escape and lacked the power to face — death.
After millions of years, how many people who have lived for a long time actually faced death with peace and calmness? This was the case for the brilliant ancestors from the Eternal River School as well. They couldn't openly face their impending demise, so quite a few of them entered Spirit Mountain to become sacred monks in search of everlasting life.
With the grinding of time, their dharma eventually reached a certain level, allowing them to ascend to the Buddhist Kingdom.
According to the beliefs in the Buddhist Funeral Plateau, once the sacred monks' dharma reached this level, they would ascend and become a true Buddha with eternal life.
The day for ascension drew near, so Li Qiye's group chose to stay behind. Moreover, the girls had never seen an ascension before, so this would broaden their horizons.
Inside his chamber at the Buddhist City, Li Qiye used the pentagate to seal his room and opened a box.
This ancient box was matchless and had weathered countless years. He carefully looked at this box; it was seamless without any gaps and looked just like a big rock.
The only thing that could give others clues was the round dent in the box. It didn't look like it was engraved but rather formed by nature. The round dent and the box had always been one.
After seeing this round dent, Li Qiye smiled and said: "Man proposes but the heavens disposes. Without planning, how can there ever be success?"
With that, Li Qiye took out a treasure disk. It was the Fragmented Realm Spatial Disk. This was the supreme treasure of the Nantian Clan. He took it back then from Young King Nantian.
This was one of the keys to obtaining the scripture. It required the Myriad Thoughts Pot to move as well as the other three keys itself. This disk was necessary to open the box for the Space Scripture inside.
Later generations believed that the disk was created by Immortal Emperor Fei Yang, but the truth was not so. This disk had been passed down from an archaic age.
In fact, when Immortal Emperor Fei Yang entered the Nihility Temple, he also wanted to confirm the existence of the Space Scripture. Alas, he didn't have the three keys, so all was in vain. He had to retreat and come up with a second plan, which was to trick a stone Buddha from the temple.
"Clang—" After placing the disk into the round dent, a gentle click came about. The stone box actually broke open with plumes of light shooting out.
Li Qiye was happy to see this familiar light. Only the nine heavenly scriptures would emit such a light. This was the Space Scripture without a doubt.
It emerged before Li Qiye with a sacred light. Its glow made Li Qiye uncontrollably excited.
He had three out of the nine right now: the Space Scripture, the Physique Scripture, and the Death Scripture. In the future, perhaps it wouldn't be impossible for him to gather all nine.
The grand beginning gave birth to the Nine Words, the Nine Words created the Nine Treasures, and from the Nine Treasures came the Nine Scriptures! This was an irresistible scripture.
Li Qiye opened it and found the writings inside to be profound to an inconceivable level.
He was quickly immersed in an unimaginable world while given the ability to see through its constructs.
He saw straight into the profundities of the grand dao. The most mysterious aspects of the Space Scripture presented themselves, causing him to feel intoxicated.
Other people, including peerless geniuses or even Mei Suyao with her immortal bone, wouldn't be able to understand the scripture in a short period of time, let alone grasping its fundamentals.
Peerless geniuses would require centuries or even a millennium to understand a scripture on the level of the nine heavenly scriptures. However, it wasn't too difficult for Li Qiye to do so. He had spent millions of years researching the nine heavenly scriptures and treasures.
He had even obtained a few chapters from the Space Scripture before along the long years. Of course, these chapters were incomplete and were far lesser than the real scripture.
Nevertheless, with so much past research, he had quite a deep understanding of the Space Scripture. So today, with the scripture in his hands and actively unraveling its mysteries, he was a fish in water or a tiger with wings. This feeling couldn't be described with words.
He was thirsty for knowledge, a cotton boll absorbing the misty dew from the Space Scripture. He wished to grasp all of its mysticisms.
In the next several days, he was lost in its wonders and locked himself inside his room.
The girls knew that he was studying the Space Scripture, so they didn't bother him.
Meanwhile, the Buddhist affinity grew increasingly stronger at Spirit Mountain. Buddhist lights emerged in an uprising manner as well.
Eventually, this light could illuminate the entire plateau. Even those who had never seen the world before understood that something big was going on.
"The ascension is about to take place." Someone knew what was about to happen after seeing the light cover the plateau.
Mei Suyao, in particular, paid great attention to the changes at Spirit Mountain because the person ascending this time was her ancestor. The moment the ancestor ascended, one would be able to see the elucidation culminated from everything the ancestor had learned in their life.
This elucidation had a significant meaning to the Eternal River School, so Mei Suyao must take it. She wouldn't want other treasures, but the elucidation must be hers for the sake of her school. Her present self didn't require it, but the other disciples were in dire need of this new source of knowledge.
"I wonder which ancestor from your sect will ascend." Chen Baojiao was very curious about this ordeal as well. She had only heard about it but had never seen it with her own eyes.
"I don't know the details." Mei Suyao gently shook her head: "The elders could only guess that one of our ancestors is about to ascend, but not which one in particular. We can only find out on the day itself. I heard the elders said that some of our ancestors at Spirit Mountain have incredible attainments on the dharma."
The Eternal River School, as a sect with three emperors, had never lacked talents. A conservative estimate listed at least ten big shots from the school entering Spirit Mountain. The weaker ones were of the protector level while the strong ones were Godkings.
"Clang—" While many were still curious about the ascending ancestor, a heavy roar came about. It was not overly loud, but it seemed that everyone at the plateau could hear it.
"The gate to Nalanda is opening." Someone shouted, prompting many to immediately look over to Spirit Mountain.
Sure enough, the gate was indeed opening today. It was as deep as an ocean with no end in sight. It seemed that beyond the Buddhist gate was a boundless world capable of accommodating the nine heavens.
"Buzz!" Many people were startled to watch this opening. Shortly afterward, a light suddenly descended from the sky. Another Buddhist portal emerged in the sky above Nalanda.
This portal gave the illusion that by walking through it, one could cross the entire world and time itself.
The torrential Buddhist light cloaked an area with chanting monks.
"Buddhist Kingdom, the Buddhist Kingdom in the legends!" Many were astonished to see the kingdom on the other side of the portal. A big shot intensely stared at it in order to peep at the mysticisms inside.
The crowd quickly held their breaths. Very few had ever seen the Buddhist Kingdom. For millions of years, no one had ever been able to enter this kingdom that granted immortality outside of ascending sacred monks.
And so, the portal in the sky and the kingdom beyond it was full of temptation for many people. In a flash, several powerful figures shot up. They wanted to soar into the Buddhist Kingdom.