Eternal Tale

”Moo!”

Looking at Wan Zeqian’s corpse, Black Bull felt a bit sentimental.

Compared to strangers, they had chatted with Wan Zeqian in the mine, making him the first cultivator they had some interaction with since arriving in the Wild Heaven Region.

Even though he was now a powerful Tribulation Crossing cultivator, Black Bull felt that meeting him and having a few words was a kind of fate!

Everyone has their own path to walk.

Although he and Chen Xun didn’t want to interfere too much with the trajectories of these ordinary cultivators,

they also didn’t want to see him die like this.

Chen Xun naturally sensed Black Bull’s emotions and sighed lightly, ”Meeting is fate. For us now, even though he was just a small cultivator in the Void Refinement realm, we too once walked the path of Void Refinement.”

”As they say, when fate begins and ends, let’s send him off.”

”Moo~”Black Bull nodded silently, summoning a row of incense burners, and wisps of blue smoke spread out immediately.

He and Chen Xun took out suonas and began to play.

The unique sound of the suona echoed in the mine, appearing particularly desolate.

Yellow paper money made from the Crane Spirit Tree was scattered around, falling to the ground.

In this eerie mine, a funeral ceremony personally conducted by two Tribulation Crossing experts began.

Due to the isolation of the mist, the outside world knew nothing of what transpired here.

When the funeral ended, Black Bull dug a large pit in the ground and laid Wan Zeqian to rest.

He then crafted a tombstone from the wood of the Crane Spirit Tree, engraving it with ”Tomb of Wan Zeqian.”

To prevent the grave from being damaged by the mist or other cultivators, Black Bull used mana to set up a formation around the tombstone.

Instantly, the seemingly ordinary grave became radiant with divine patterns, the divine light of the Five Elements dazzling, and strands of terrifying laws of heaven and earth suppressing everything, preventing the mist from approaching or corroding.

After finishing everything, Chen Xun and Black Bull continued on their way, leaving a solitary grave standing quietly behind them, watching as they walked further away.

The deeper they went, the thicker the mist became, obscuring everything from view.

Even Chen Xun and Black Bull’s divine senses were suppressed, unable to extend beyond ten meters.

Even the rule power around their bodies was compressed, only able to form a protective shield within a meter’s range.

More terrifyingly, the dense mist seemed to carry immense weight, making Chen Xun and Black Bull feel as if they were being suppressed by the Three Thousand Great Daos, making each step difficult.

This situation shocked them internally.

Since crossing the Tribulation, it seemed to be the first time they felt an unseen oppression.

”Bull, it seems there’s truly something good inside, to make us feel such pressure.”

Chen Xun’s eyes no longer shone with brilliance, but a pair of cold eyes gradually emerged.

He began to operate the rule power within him, causing the ground to tremble, attempting to deduce something.

Black Bull did the same, showing unprecedented seriousness since becoming a Tribulation Crossing expert, urging the mana and formations within him, also trying to deduce the origin of the mist.

Yet, invisibly, there was always a mysterious force blocking everything, making it impossible for them to see through or calculate.

Chen Xun was furious!

”Damn it, I refuse to believe we can’t find the source of this mist!”

”If we can’t deduce it, then let’s refine it all!”

”We’ll charge straight to the bottom of the mine!”

”If we don’t figure everything out today, this Dao Ancestor won’t leave!”

”Moo moo~”

Black Bull snorted a wisp of white air, bursting with terrifying momentum, clearly angered as well!

He and Chen Xun shone all over, the Five Elements Law activated, strands of colorful divine radiance spreading, illuminating the entire mine.

Then, the Five Elements Law merged, forming a multicolored vortex above their heads.

The vortex generated a terrifying suction, frantically devouring and refining the surrounding eerie mist, refining it all.

For the first time, the red mist felt fear, retreating desperately as if encountering a plague, trying to distance itself from these two.

But it was too late!

Chen Xun and Black Bull, like whales swallowing water, left no energy around them untouched.

In moments, the mist in the entire mine thinned considerably, yet a large amount of new mist surged from deep underground, seemingly endless.

However, after devouring a large amount of mist, Chen Xun and Black Bull were surprised to find their cultivation levels slowly increasing.

The power of the Five Elements Law became more transparent, beginning to ascend once again.

”Unexpectedly, this mist actually benefits our Five Elements Law!”

Chen Xun was overjoyed, devouring even more energetically, unwilling to miss a single wisp.

”Moo!”

Black Bull also mustered all his strength, pushing the law formation to its limit.

After cultivating in the depths of the mine for a while, seeing no end to the mist, Chen Xun’s eyes flashed, and he said, ”Let’s go, Bull, don’t consume all the mist here, or those outside will seize the opportunity to come in, wouldn’t that be helping them?”

”Besides, this is just the surface, the mist is surging from underground, there must be a source below, with even purer mist.”

”Let’s charge straight down, take the core, and bring it back to refine slowly, without being greedy.”

”Moo!”

Black Bull snorted in agreement.

Otherwise, when the experts from Xuanji Sacred Land or other forces arrive, a battle would be inevitable.

For these people, Black Bull and Chen Xun naturally weren’t afraid, but having finally slipped into the shadows, they didn’t want to expose themselves easily.

More importantly, when they arrived in the Wild Heaven Region, they had already visited the mine.

At the time, it seemed unfamiliar, wanting to gather information, but in reality, it was to test the waters.

However, since this place was the territory of the Sacred Land, Chen Xun worried there might be hidden experts, so he left after a brief conversation with Wan Zeqian.

Until the appearance of Tai Yu and the ancient beast, which became Chen Xun’s touchstone.

They launched such a fierce attack on the mine, yet no other experts intervened, indicating this place wasn’t a focus of Xuanji Sacred Land.

So, with the mist outbreak this time, Chen Xun dared to enter first to investigate before other experts arrived.

However, they had stayed in the mine for a while.

Calculating the time, including experts from Xuanji Sacred Land and other forces, might be arriving soon.

The two no longer wasted time, directly using the Five Elements Law to pave the way.

The hard stone walls shattered like cutting tofu.

Enveloped in colorful light, they reached the depths of the mine, witnessing an unbelievable scene.

”A hidden secret realm...”

Chen Xun and Black Bull exchanged a slow glance, a hint of interest in their eyes.

Compared to exploring treasure lands at lower realms, they preferred to explore these secret realms with higher cultivation, though those cultivators exploring the secret realm might face disaster.

This situation was reminiscent of the Secret Realm of Nandou Mountain, where a group of Qi cultivation phase disciples competed, only for an Elemental Infant ancestor to suddenly appear... and he would still say, this place is fated with me.

Chen Xun and Black Bull traversed the rock layers of the mine, delving ten thousand miles underground, never imagining that beneath the seemingly barren mine lay a secret realm.

And the mist above was escaping from the secret realm, which made sense.

This secret realm wasn’t very large, spanning only tens of thousands of miles.

Within the secret realm, the sky and ground were entirely reddish-brown, very monotonous, and all the soil, rocks, and so on were composed of Tianhang Jade Stone, just like the outside mine.

The difference was, the quality of Tianhang Jade Stone was higher, mostly top-grade.

In the central position of the entire space, a mountain ten thousand feet tall rose from the ground, majestic, standing between heaven and earth.

The mountain emitted a red brilliance, with the power of heaven and earth rules flowing, and ancient aura pervading.

This mountain was the only one in the entire space, like an ancient war god guarding the place.

”Bull! Damn it, the entire mountain is made of top-grade Tianhang Jade Stone!”