Eternal Tale

”Please speak.”

”The Tianhang Jade Stone rivals the effectiveness of top-grade spirit stones. In the past, powerful figures from the Sacred Land spared no expense to seize this vein, suggesting there might be a significant secret here.”

”Moreover, this vein has been mined for thousands of years, with mysterious earth energy continuously leaking, and every century, many cultivators mining here go missing.”

Wan Zeqian’s voice was cold as he continued to use spells to mine. ”It seems they’re using the lives of cultivators to fill this leaking earth energy. The true purpose of the Sacred Land might be here.”

”Hmm... makes sense.” Chen Xun mused slightly, ”It seems Brother Wan knows quite a lot, but I wonder why you’re telling me this. Are you planning to take the treasure?”

”How could that be?!”

Wan Zeqian looked at Chen Xun in shock. ”Given the current situation, our only option is to escape. The goal of the ancient beast might be this very vein.”

He finished speaking, looking at Chen Xun as if questioning his intelligence. Although the Wild Heaven Region is full of great opportunities, you first need the strength to covet them!

With his Void Refinement phase cultivation, he was tricked into coming here to mine. Yet Dongfang Xun still thought he was here to take treasure. His heart was truly big; surviving and leaving this vein would already be a blessing.

”I see, but we don’t plan to leave the vein for now.”Chen Xun nodded seriously, smiling, ”Thank you for your kind offer, Brother Wan. Perhaps you should ask others first; we’ll continue mining.”

Wan Zeqian was taken aback by these words, looking at Dongfang Xun, who remained indifferent, and sighed.

He naturally wouldn’t trust the old miners, hoping to gather some newcomers to escape amidst the chaos, at least increasing his chances of survival. He didn’t expect Dongfang Xun to be so ungrateful.

He snorted inwardly, confirming that these vein cultivators were indeed heartless, and stopped paying attention to Chen Xun, starting to look for others. He was determined to escape the Wanshou Mountain Range!

Deep in the cave.

Chen Xun and Black Bull sat together, holding a piece of Tianhang Jade Stone, their eyes thoughtful.

”Bull.”

”Moo?”

”Evil Marrow Crystals for the primordial spirit of the immortal puppet, Essence Flower for the blood, Heavenly Origin for the qi, and the ancient beast for the bones. The Tianhang Jade Stone seems like an excellent carrier for the qi of the Five Elements. Is it feasible to refine an immortal puppet with it?”

”Moo!” Black Bull snorted, nodding heavily. It could even inscribe formation patterns on it to capture the power of the Great Dao in the Wild Heaven Region, allowing the immortal puppet to break through the Void Refinement shackles and reach the Unity realm!

Then these immortal puppets could mine every day, eliminating the need for personal involvement. Black Bull’s eyes gradually showed a wise gleam, fully supporting Chen Xun’s decision.

”But it still can’t be perfect; the immortal puppet has a fatal flaw.”

”Moo moo?”

”It lacks the origin of immortality and a life imprint. Initially, we only integrated our immortal origin into the immortal puppets of Little Crane and others. Without this method, they remain soulless puppets.”

Chen Xun’s tone seemed somewhat dissatisfied, but then he seemed to recall something, his eyes slightly brightening, ”The art of painting... directly points to the source of life, the veins of heaven and earth, but this Dao Ancestor has only just begun...”

He sighed, realizing these skills were much harder than cultivating immortality. At least in alchemy, he had confidence in entering the path, but in painting, he felt uncertain, not knowing where to begin.

”Moo moo~” Black Bull patted Chen Xun’s shoulder, showing a simple smile, urging him not to worry.

”Hehe, it’s fine.”

Chen Xun smiled slightly, continuing to fiddle with the Tianhang Jade Stone. For now, it had no effect on their cultivation realm.

After absorbing the immortal thunder, for some reason... he always felt an urge to seek out late-stage Great Ascension cultivators, to devour the essence of the heavenly tribulation after they succeeded or failed in crossing it!

This Wild Heaven Region, with its orderly Great Dao and rule power, greatly suppresses the world’s energy. The range of heavenly phenomena triggered by duels here lacks the power seen in other regions.

Chen Xun had explored the veins and soil here, finding them incredibly dense, a hundred times more so than the Xuanwei Heaven domain, making it a suitable place for cultivating the power of force.

Due to the unique characteristics of this vast Wild Heaven Region, various massive beasts were born here, and even true spirits of heaven and earth favored this place.

The True Sun Fire and True Lunar Fire were rumored to have traces here in the Wild Heaven Region, both of which were part of Chen Xun’s future plans. For the first time, he felt an urgent desire to pursue strength like a grand world cultivator.

It was also the first time he stopped going with the flow, cultivating immortality as fate allowed, and began to truly plan his cultivation path.

Bang bang bang—

The sound of magical artifacts striking echoed in the cave. Chen Xun and Black Bull listened intently to the conversations of the Sacred Land disciples, beginning to form a vague outline of Wanshou Mountain and the entire Xuanji Sacred Land.

The next morning, the Wanshou Mountain Range was shrouded in mist, distant bird calls echoed, and occasionally, massive spirit beasts galloped past the distant veins, filling the air with a fresh scent.

In front of a cave, Chen Xun sat on a rock, sipping a cup of health tea, quietly watching the misty mountain scenery, a gentle smile faintly visible on his face.

Even after all these years, he still loved watching mountains and rivers, a passion that never changed, his state of mind incredibly strong.

”Roar—” ”Roar—”

……

Suddenly, two beastly roars capable of piercing the clouds and shaking the earth approached from afar!

In the distance, a mountain peak suddenly collapsed and shattered, dense smoke and dust rising, blocking the sky and sun, emitting a light of overwhelming pressure!

”Roar—” A deafening beast roar echoed in all directions, two blood-red beams of light shot from the dark clouds, pointing straight at the sky.

The dense white clouds were torn apart, revealing a massive figure, an ancient beast over a thousand feet tall, its exact appearance unclear, as majestic as an ancient mountain!

Its eyes were blood-red, exuding a chilling murderous aura, instantly enveloping the entire Tianhang Jade Stone vein.

In an instant, all the vein cultivators felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave, their limbs cold, unable to muster any strength, filled only with despair and fear...

Some edge cultivators were even instantly killed by this chilling murderous aura, torrential blood rain falling from the sky.

The sudden change was too abrupt, the eyes of the mining cultivators from various races scattered, stunned like wooden chickens.

In front of the cave, the tsunami-like dust and killing intent also surged towards the man and bull, who slightly lowered their heads, revealing a meaningful smile, also enveloped by the dust.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

……

Several streams of powerful light shot out from the massive dust cloud covering the entire vein, young and old alike, all cultivators stationed by the Xuanji Sacred Land, their eyes filled with fear and disbelief as they looked into the distance.

There stood another ancient beast, but on the shoulder of that ancient beast stood a figure!

The figure’s robes fluttered, incredibly calm, as if the surrounding chaos had nothing to do with him, the deafening cries and wails of millions of cultivators not reaching his ears.

At this moment, every vein cultivator felt as if their heart was gripped by an invisible giant hand, unable to breathe.

The pressure emanating from that figure far exceeded that of the ancient beast, making all the cultivators feel as if they had fallen into an ice cellar, their limbs cold and weak, kneeling but unable to fall.

The oppressive fear had already permeated every corner of their bodies, pinning them firmly in place.

They didn’t even dare to breathe loudly, fearing that the slightest sound would provoke the figure’s wrath and destroy everything, only able to look up at the boundless oppression descending from the sky, like an invisible boulder pressing down, unable to move.

The figure standing alongside the ancient beast looked down indifferently at all the cultivators below, like ants not worth noticing.

His thin lips parted slightly, speaking word by word, ”Mere cultivators, dare to look up at me?”

A vast and calm voice slowly spread, yet it was like a thunderclap in a clear sky, the pressure contained in that calm voice far surpassing the roar of the ancient beast.

Each word thundered in their minds, a pain as if their heads were about to explode.

All the vein cultivators’ souls trembled, their faces drained of color, a deathly silence freezing the entire space, all lowering their heads, as if their bodies no longer belonged to them at this moment.

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!

The sound of blood spurting and retreating echoed simultaneously, the disciples stationed by the Xuanji Sacred Land unable to withstand the pressure of a single word from this person, their faces deathly pale.

An elderly white-haired man, exceptionally terrified, incredulously shouted in a low voice, ”It’s you... the ancient immortal clan—Tai Yu!!”

”Xuanji Sacred Land, it’s time to return this treasure land.”

”Tai Yu... do you intend to wage war against my Xuanji Sacred Land?! Aren’t you afraid of dying?!”

”If you want to kill me, let the Xuanji Heavenly Sovereign come personally, but today, you’ll all stay as blood food.”

Tai Yu spoke coldly, his disdainful eyes not considering anyone here worth noticing, looking to the side and speaking, ”A Da, A Er, do it.”

Roar~~~

Just as the two ancient beasts were about to crush these ants, the air suddenly froze, and in an instant, the world lost its color!

A supreme and majestic heavenly might descended, causing countless beings in the Wanshou Mountain Range to change color, stunned in place, looking fearfully at the sky!

The originally clear morning sky suddenly became overcast, the weather changing abruptly.

Thunder rumbled from all directions, rolling in from the horizon, and in an instant, dense dark clouds covered the sky, blocking the clear morning light.

”Boom—”

A thunderous roar tore through the sky, splitting the dense clouds with a massive hole, and immediately, countless electric lights burst forth from the hole, like a billion silver lotuses blooming in the sky.

”Boom boom boom!” Massive bolts of lightning shot down from the dark clouds, each as thick as a mountain, the electric light illuminating the sky like dragons soaring, their power astonishing.

The sky was instantly lit by the lightning, each thunderbolt containing the boundless power of a thunder tribulation, seemingly about to split the heavens and earth.

A heavenly thunder with a diameter of thousands of miles roared down through the clouds, like the Milky Way pouring down, crashing towards the ancient beast in an instant!

Buzz—

The astonishing thunder tribulation strike caused the mountains within tens of thousands of miles to tremble, the earth rumbling and shattering, the terrifying power of the heavenly tribulation sweeping across the land.

Tai Yu’s robes fluttered, his black hair danced wildly, his pupils contracted sharply, his arm involuntarily trembling at that critical moment.

His eyes were filled with the reflection of the heavenly tribulation thunder, because that thunderbolt struck right beside him, almost directly descending upon him...!

Drip...

A drop of exceptionally powerful life force blood dripped from his face, Tai Yu looked down with difficulty at the blood he had shed, his heart churning, murmuring in shock:

”What kind of... existence is this.”

”Your two ancient beasts have been quite noisy these years, how about we become your opponents?”

Boom boom boom—

A calm and peaceful voice sounded, and as the voice fell, massive pillars of lightning spanning the heavens and earth crashed down, destruction filling all directions, even enveloping the ancient beasts!

Tai Yu’s scalp tingled, his deep gaze suddenly looking at the silver-haired man bathed in the vast heavenly tribulation, as if the might of the heavens had descended, overlooking the river of time, undying through countless tribulations, eternal in the heavens and earth!