allonlinenovel 98. Undersea Palace
98. Undersea Palace
Gao Zhun's tone and Yun Mu Ning's expressionless face made Gu Xin Ling swallow back what she wanted to say about finding the most suitable place on the island. Among everyone present, she was the most innocent-minded, but it was also because of this innocence that she noticed something was wrong.
"What do you two mean?" Gu Xinling automatically included Yun Mu Ning in Gao Zhun's camp as well.
Gao Zhun twitched the corner of his mouth but didn't say anything. As for Yun Mu Ning, she nodded, and it seemed that everyone understood her gesture.
This left Gu Xinling and the others, including Ah Zhong who had always known that Gao Zhun had come in with the intention of plotting something big, completely astonished. Were they really going to give up the island where they could potentially reap many Enlightenment Fruits and go to the best location they had analyzed?
Wuya Qiubai was the first to stand up in support. She grinned and said, "Although I am just one step away from breaking through to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, the Enlightenment Fruit is extremely important to me. However, since Xiao Zhun and Xiao Ning are so insistent, I might as well risk my life to accompany them. The people here are not lacking in this opportunity to obtain the Enlightenment Fruit, but missing out on that place would be too much of a loss."
Wuya Qiubai's words reflected the sentiments of everyone present. Each of the ten was renowned for their exceptional talent, considered a prodigy of their generation. Even without the Enlightenment Fruit, they wouldn't necessarily be outshone by those who had entered this secret realm and obtained it. Therefore, the opportunity of the Enlightenment Fruit was truly dispensable to them. However, the Endless Sea, the most suitable place for the Enlightenment Fruit to grow, was something that could only be encountered by chance. No one could guarantee that they wouldn't advance to the Nascent Soul stage in the next ten years. Once they did, they would be forever separated from the Endless Sea.
"So, everyone has already made up their minds?" Gao Zhun looked at everyone and saw that they all had a firm expression on their faces. While she was gratified, she also felt ashamed of her initial decision. She had originally planned to act alone with Ah Zhong. After all, she didn't know if human cultivators could absorb the Dao for their own use like those who had attained enlightenment. She didn't want these people to give up the opportunity that was within their grasp to do some scientific experiments with her. Now it seemed that she had underestimated these close friends.
"Yes." The unified voices seemed to dispel even the slightest hesitation in everyone's hearts. Ha, it's just the Enlightenment Fruit. For what they were about to do, the Enlightenment Fruit was really no opportunity.
Gao Zhun smiled and pointed to their respective communication jade discs. Based on the calculated location, she determined its direction. According to their walking speed, it would take about a month to get there. Considering the three and a half months they had already spent, they would have half a month to rest after arriving at their destination.
One month later——
"This must be it." Xuan Yuan Huan Yu sighed. As expected of the location they had calculated over three and a half months, the concentration of spiritual energy here was extraordinary. Although a month was not a long time, being able to meditate and comprehend the Dao of Heaven in this place was still a remarkable blessed land.
It seems everyone is quite satisfied with this place. Gao Zhun smiled. However, there is no land for thousands of miles around. It is not difficult for the people who have already reached the Nascent Soul stage to keep them suspended in the air. However, it is still not convenient. While thinking, he took out a celestial boat with a spatial array from the storage ring he carried with him.
Although it's not as powerful as the spatial array in the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion, it's sufficient for the ten people present.
As soon as the immortal boat appeared, Xuan Yuan Huan Yu remembered that his cousin had become quite wealthy after passing through the Inheritance Hall, so he didn't stand on ceremony and was the first to go in.
"I didn't expect you to have such a celestial vessel, Xiao Zhun. It looks like it was made using techniques from ancient times. Could it have been taken from your family's inheritance hall?" Gu Xinling's eyes lit up when she saw the celestial vessel. She murmured to herself, "Even though there are no records of any family's inheritance being interrupted, there are many things from ancient times that we really can't make now. The things in the Gao family's inheritance hall are the most obvious example. Could something have happened in ancient times that none of us know about?"
What was said in jest was taken seriously by the listener. Only Gao Zhun and Ah Zhong knew of the existence of the Luo Tian Continent. In fact, Gao Zhun had long suspected that perhaps a great war had taken place between the two continents in ancient times. Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain what Gu Xinling had just said, or the round table in the Ancient Treasure Temple that provided the connection.
However, suspicion is just suspicion. From ancient times to the present, countless wars have occurred between humans and demons. Yet, after each great war, there are always traces of the aftermath in the realm of living beings on the Immortal Spirit Continent. But the ancient war she speculated about, let alone written records, doesn't even have a battlefield with any trace. Perhaps, over the millennia, those traces were destroyed by the Immortal Spirit cultivators on the Luo Tian Continent who communicated through the Round Table.
Without evidence or clues, Gao Zhun inexplicably thought of Yongcheng again. The situation there was so similar to that of the current Immortal Spirit Continent. The Blood Shadow and Light Shadow, who had been fighting for a long time, joined forces because of Akomo's invasion. If the cultivators of the living world knew that there were cultivators from another continent eyeing their continent covetously, would humans and demons also join forces?
The more Gao Zhun thought about it, the paler her face became. She felt that she might have figured out the truth. Otherwise, she couldn't explain why Yun Chengyun of the Yun family left behind such a city. It was said that Yun Chengyun was the most powerful bloodline inheritor of the Yun family and could foresee some future situations.
If cultivators from the Luo Tian Continent were to descend upon the Immortal Realm like Akomo, then the world would be vast, and where would be a paradise? Where could she, Ah Zhong, Lady Zhu, Gao Ling, and all her friends present hide?
While Gao Zhun was lost in thought, Wu Yaqiu's white eyes suddenly flashed with a sharp light, and she exclaimed in surprise, "There seems to be something on the seabed."
"There's something at the bottom of the sea?" Gao Zhun immediately snapped out of his reverie and projected his divine sense downwards, but found nothing. Suddenly remembering Wu Yaqiubai's bloodline talent, he asked uncertainly, "Are you saying that in half a month, when everyone is here to comprehend the Dao, there will be something at the bottom of the sea, and you have some foresight about it right now?"
Upon hearing this, Wuya Qiubai nodded, but judging from her expression, there was no trace of panic. Instead, she was somewhat excited. She took out three copper coins and a tortoise shell from her storage ring and immediately performed a divination for the place.
Gao Zhun twitched her lips, wanting to ask Yun Mu Ning when her husband had learned the ways of a fortune teller. However, everyone's focus was on the divination that Wu Ya Qiu Bai was about to receive, so she didn't say anything, lest it affect Wu Ya Qiu Bai's concentration and cause the divination to go wrong.
Although she really wanted to complain, Wuya Qiubai, who clearly had a cute, innocent face, now looked like a charlatan.
"I've figured it out." Wu Yaqiu Bai fiddled with the hexagram for a while, her eyes shining even brighter: "The Qian hexagram, the Qian hexagram is full of auspicious hexagrams, haha, we are all going to share in Xiao Zhun's good fortune."
"Me?" Gao Zhun pointed to his nose, then waved his hand in disbelief, saying, "Opportunities are predetermined. How could it be that you all benefit from my luck? Perhaps it is because of your arrival that this place can display such a divination."
This place was already a blessed land, and now it had obtained the Qian hexagram. Everyone, including Gao Zhun, was looking forward to the thing that would appear at the bottom of the sea in half a month. Perhaps the appearance of the Enlightenment Fruit was directly related to that thing.
Half a month is nothing more than a short meditation session for a Nascent Soul cultivator. On this day, just as midnight struck, the ten people who were meditating and cultivating in the immortal ship opened their eyes at the same time. Sensing the turbulence of the sea beneath the immortal ship, their hearts surged with excitement, and they all walked out of the cabin and came to the deck to look at the sea beneath the immortal ship.
A mysterious aura rushed towards the ten people as the thing on the seabed rose. In just a moment, the entire sea surface was devoid of any boats or people, and the seawater returned to calm once more.
At the same time, on all the islands of the Endless Sea, Enlightenment Fruits ripened in succession. In some places where there were no Enlightenment Fruits before, dozens to hundreds of Enlightenment Fruits suddenly appeared. In an instant, the peace of the Endless Sea was broken, and the cultivators stopped their search. A battle for Enlightenment Fruits had already quietly begun in some corners.
"Where is this?" Just as that mysterious aura appeared, the group of people who were preparing to meditate and experience it were sucked into the seabed by a powerful force before they could react. They were then drawn into the thing rising from the seabed.
“Xuan Palace.” Qin Hanyuan looked at the two characters that no one present recognized and said, “Han Yue is a spiritual treasure that has been passed down since ancient times. Although her memories are incomplete, she still recognizes these characters.”
“Ancient script…” Gao Zhun searched through all the books in the Gao family library and found no relevant records. He sighed inwardly, “A great war must have happened in ancient times, which caused many traditions to disappear. The fact that this place still has a relic is only because it has the best of both worlds.”
“In ancient times, something must have happened that we don’t know about.” Xuan Yuan Huan Yu sighed softly. In fact, everyone had this guess in their hearts. Because no clues had been found for a time, some cultivators deceived themselves into thinking that the ancient cultivators brought those inheritances to the Immortal Realm. Now it seems that things are not so simple. Even those who spread such news may have unknown purposes.
"The Xuan Palace naturally belongs to us human cultivators and Daoists. So, shall we go in?" Wu Yaqiubai looked at the crowd standing at the entrance of the Xuan Palace, each with their own thoughts, and reminded them, "We only have one month. After one month, we will be teleported out. If there's anything you want to figure out, just go in and you'll find out."