Chapter 126 Exploring All Existence
Was it really Immortal blood? Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue couldn’t help having this thought pop into their heads.
The scarlet blood glowed brightly on the wall in front of them. The Immortal character was around nine meters long, its light glowing in every direction.
“Where is the secret to achieving Immortality?” Ji Ziyue looked around.
The bright bloody character gave Ye Fan a strange feeling. He calmed his mind and carefully felt it, trying to determine what the feeling was.
The primal chaos inside the great palace surged, Yin and Yang Qis circulating within it. That bright Immortal character possessed a difficult to describe charm.
Being ignorant, the two of them were both somewhat absent-minded. They seemed to have come across a strange meaning they couldn’t understand.
The area in front of them gradually became mistier. It looked more like an illusion, like they could not believe what they were seeing. Heaven and earth turned empty, and then once more became prosperous. Life evolved and then death destroyed it.
The large path within this emptiness seemed to continue on forever.
All kinds of indescribably strange sights appeared, causing them to become both intoxicated and blank, sinking into a muddled state. The two of them reached out their hands towards a strange orbit.
“Corporeal, the birth of all things. Heaven and earth took physical shape, Yin and Yang, soft and hard, combining to nourish and create all living things.
“Formless, the beginning of heaven and earth. Endless shapeless nothingness, like a balance spring eternally clicking in a clock. Never weakening, the genesis of heaven and earth, the root of all Daos.”
They were dazed. A sound reverberated throughout the great palace hall, tempting people into advancing and exploring the origins of the world and all its mysteries.
This was a great enticement. They felt as if the secret of achieving Immortality was right in front of them, the music of a Grand Dao was reverberating continuously.
Although Ji Ziyue had been sealed, her physical body now recovered its liberty. With a peaceful and blank expression, she started to walk forward step by step.
Ye Fan was the same. There seemed to be a bright lamp hanging above, released a divine charm that attracted him forward. The heavenly music seemed to convey truth. Endless enlightenment was before him, and a grand divine path appeared before his feet.
There was no way to resist the lure. They unconsciously strode forward, as if answering a summoning, they were being slowly led away.
At this moment, what was in their eyes was a sacred spring, golden lotuses falling from the sky, fluttering phoenixes and divine Luans[1], thousands of rays of auspicious lights, divine rainbows, bright lights that never ceased to wander.
Suddenly, Ye Fan’s golden Sea of Bitterness suddenly surged up, lightning and thunder crashed, and his body became a blazing golden color. All those auspicious signs became indistinct and his surroundings became mist again. He felt that he was now facing an abyss that led to hell. His whole body was cold and sweaty.
He was unable to see through his surroundings with the endless dense mist. A absolutely immense, dense killing intent completely enveloped him.
He quivered, sensing from the mist that his death was only one step away. The great path and heavenly music were illusory.
At the same time, Ji Ziyue’s charming body bloomed with pure white light. It was like she had been struck with a bolt of lightning, blankly stopping.
BOOM!
Within Ye Fan’s spring mouth at the bottom of his sea, the green copper gently trembled and he immediately felt his mind become completely clear. The mist gradually cleared and he found that he was now only just a step away from the bloody Immortal word carved into the wall.
As for Ji Ziyue, her jade hand had already reached out and was just on the verge of touching it.
He pulled her back before retreating. Once they were far enough, the two of them saw that their surroundings had finally cleared up and were no longer misty.
Looking back again, the huge Immortal character was extremely sinister and frightening. The blood seemed to drip and caused them to feel an endless killing intent.
The wonderful sights and the music of a Grand Dao had completely disappeared. There was no longer a mysterious Dao charm, only an extremely frightening aura.
“This is…”
Both of them were cold and sweating. If they had been one step closer and ended up touching that bloody Immortal character, they might no longer be of this world.
“I clearly heard the heavenly music of a Grand Dao. How could it completely disappear in just a flash, no more Immortal aura appearing…” Ji Ziyue was very puzzled.
Ye Fan was also cold. He had been trying to search for the mysterious of great wonders, but he had ended up facing a black abyss, the very edge of death.
But at the final critical moment, his Sea of Bitterness had surged and the green copper had trembled. At the same time he was surprised. Ji Ziyue’s body must also be extremely special. At that final moment she had also stopped before touching it. Although it was Ye Fan who pulled her back, this was enough to determine she was no ordinary person.
Gazing at the white skeletons in the huge palace hall, Ye Fan’s body sweat coldly. In order to find the secret of achieving Immortality, they ended up dying, resting eternally here. This was the true reality that existed behind the illusion.
The illusions had completely disappeared and the mist had scattered. All that remained was a killing intent that caused their bodies to turn completely cold.
“What does this mean? Could it be that the end of the path of cultivation is an abyss? It’s hell? There’s no way to achieve Immortality?”
“The peerless experts that had been chasing after Immortality within the Eastern Wastelands’ ancient history were all just following a broken path? At the very end is just a fathomless abyss…”
If this truly was reality, people would inevitably be bitterly disappointed. This was the hope of all peak cultivators, it was the whole point of cultivation.
“Are there Immortals or not at the end of the cultivation path?” Ji Ziyue was now doubtful whether the peerless figures in the ancient histories of the Eastern Wastelands that were rumored to have achieved Immortality truly had managed to take that final step.
“Could it be this world simply doesn’t have any Immortals?”
“This is a path that just suddenly stops?”
At this moment, she thought of that nameless cultivator’s final worlds. “Dare I ask the Heavens, do Immortals exist?”
Ji Ziyue felt sympathy and sorrow when she thought back to them.
Ye Fan also thought about this issue. He had seen those nine dragons pulling the coffin, and even that powerful person inside the coffin had died while those nine dragons were completely lifeless. He had walked through the Great Thunderchant Temple, and that legendary ancient temple had become completely abandoned, and Buddha had already gone missing. Had Buddha only reached a certain realm, and was not an eternal Immortal?
This caused him to have some doubts. Whether this world truly had immortals was hard to say.
“No matter what, there are people who can traverse star fields, opening a path to the other side of the starry sky…”
What were immortals? No one could say. They existence had never been confirmed. There were only rumors.
“Within the ancient texts of the Eastern Wastelands are some recordings of people achieving Immortality. But as for the truth, it could never be verified…” Ji Ziyue was at a completely loss.
“Why do you need to think so much? Wait until you reach that level before worrying.” Ye Fan once again rapped her on the forehead, breaking her out of her stupor.
“You hit me again!” She rubbed her forehead, pained tears once more welling up and saying, “You’re provoking a future Immortal queen!”
“You already said yourself this world probably doesn’t have Immortals.”
“Well, once I achieve Immortality, won’t there be Immortals? If you dare hit me again, I definitely won’t forgive you in the future!”
Ye Fan laughed and pinched her fine nose, saying, “How narcissistic…”
“This is self-confidence!” Ji Ziyue dodged back and grinding her teeth in anger, said, “Don’t provoke a future Immortal!”
The dense killing intent filled the air. Despite withdrawing so far, the two of them still felt the bloody character’s frightening aura.
“How mysterious, the thick killing intent seems it could form a sacred chant….”
The illusory fluctuations once more appeared. The bloody Immortal character wanted to draw them in, beckoning them to explore the truth.
It wasn’t sound, and it wasn’t divine sense. It was an indescribable aura that caused people to mistake it for a Grand Dao’s divine music and truth.
Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue looked at each other in dismay, feeling it was becoming even more frightening. It was like sound, yet also like divine sense fluctuations, a cultivation Truth too wonderful for words, but they didn’t dare approach.
That path was a bottomless abyss. Although its surroundings might be amazing, but taking that one extra step could not be recovered from.
“Eliminate emotions and desires. Guard oneself. Mysteries within mysteries, Immortals within the Dao, explore the mysteries of all existence…”
An even more mysterious and difficult to endure fluctuation emerged. The blood Immortal character actually shook and split into two halves, revealing a mysterious door with ancient words on it: Mysteries of all Existences!
“It’s not a broken path! There’s hope for achieving Immortality! The broken bridge continues, and inside definitely contains the secret of how to achieve Immortality!”
She appeared extremely happy; however she didn’t advance forward. Casting a glance at Ye Fan, she said, “I’ll give you an opportunity to achieve Immortality. Go ahead.”
Was that door an abyss or a fortune?
Ye Fan felt his a chilling cold all over his body. He didn’t advance, instead actually retreating a couple steps. “Oh future Immortal, I’ll give this opportunity to you.”
Ji Ziyue also didn’t dare to advance. Following him in retreating a couple steps, both of their thoughts seemed to be similar. Both of them were feeling that this path was actually an endless abyss.
However, if they didn’t go forward, how could they escape out of here? There was no path to retreat behind them.
Suddenly, Ye Fan’s heart shook and he felt a small special aura, a fishy smell from the water.
The bloody Immortal character had split into two and become the door to the Mysteries of all Existences. Not far from it was the surging primal chaos and the Yin and Yang Qis. However they didn’t seem balanced, constantly subsiding.
“That is…” Ji Ziyue followed Ye Fan’s gaze and quickly noticed this abnormality. “There’s a path there!”
Ye Fan walked up and Ji Ziyue followed closely behind her. All kinds of wonderful truths and divine music once more appeared. Their wills were immediately invaded, and became somewhat dazed.
The green copper within Ye Fan resisted it, shaking lightly, dispelling the danger. Their minds cleared, and they continued forward.
Right beside the Immortal character and the primal chaos’ mist was a small opening. The bronze wall had been pierced through to reveal a winding path. Who know where it went...
“Heavens, who had such a tyrannical strength to pierce the bronze palace and open such a path?” Ji Ziyue called out in amazement.
The legendary Bronze Immortal Palace was indestructible. It was like heaven’s prison, unable to be broken. All of the experts of the Eastern Wastelands that had come within had died inside it.
It was said that the most successful expedition had led to them to taking out a corpse, but there was no proof of this.
However, this legend now seemed to have been broken!
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TL Note: Ziyue means “purple moon”.
[1] 鸾 luan, looks similar to a divine peacock.