Global Awakening: I'm the Only One Ready

Chapter 332. A Small Folded Space, the Founding Celestial Master’s Pill Furnace

That was right. Lu Yuan’s destination this time was the legendary ancestral ground of Daoism, the very place where Young Celestial Master Chunyang had studied under. It was also Lu Yuan’s first time coming to Mount Hulong since the beginning of the new era.

Hearing Jiang Ningxian’s words, Lu Yuan nodded with a faint smile.

Back then, in this very place, he had obtained a Wordless Stone Stele. Upon it had been inscribed a supreme divine ability—the Jade Emperor’s Divine Thunder Art.

Although Lu Yuan had not used this technique very often, it had given him a decisive edge in many battles. Once unleashed, it could even suppress the Celestials, who wielded the powers of wind and thunder, which was enough to show just how formidable it was.

Now he decided to come here again to push his physique another step forward.

During his battle with Jiang Haokong, Lu Yuan had realized that in terms of physique, he could not achieve overwhelming dominance against prodigies.

It was not really a major issue, but his standards were high, and since he already knew there was a way to improve, he had come without hesitation. The method was naturally hidden within Mount Hulong.

Standing in the void and looking out over the mountains before him, Lu Yuan could not help sighing inwardly once more.

After the arrival of the new era, every famous mountain and great river had undergone tremendous changes. In the beginning, Mount Hulong had still been inhabited by Daoist disciples, but as time passed and the number of mutated beasts increased, many people gradually left.

That was also why Chunyang had previously appeared among the official forces.

Mount Hulong had entered into cooperation with them, and as a result, there were now very few humans left in this ancestral ground of Daoism. As for why they had never returned afterward, it was because many folded spaces had appeared here, and danger lurked everywhere.

For safety’s sake, they ultimately sent only a few people over to keep a loose watch on the place. After all, with the establishment of the Celestial Court, most powerful figures and major forces had already been brought together.

”Let’s go.”

With that, Lu Yuan stopped thinking about it further and descended with Jiang Ningxian.

Jiang Ningxian herself was naturally very interested in the legendary Mount Hulong. She had seen many records about it in the Jiang Clan’s ancient texts.

The two of them descended steadily, occasionally catching sight of mutated beasts and Awakened below. But because their realms were far too high, they weren’t discovered.

Under Lu Yuan’s guidance, they did not head directly into Mount Hulong’s Daoist grounds. Instead, they went to the rear mountain.

As he moved, his memories of his previous life began to surface again.

There is a small folded space in this place, and there’s a divine artifact within it. Whether my physique could undergo another transformation would depend on it. Lu Yuan thought to himself.

The reason he had not come earlier was simply because the time had not yet arrived. But now, the moment was just about right.

”As expected of the ancestral ground of Daoism, Mount Hulong really is just as the rumors say. The aura here is very special,” Jiang Ningxian said. ”This place is extremely suitable for cultivation. The Heaven-Earth energy here is denser than elsewhere, and purer as well.”

Ever since entering the area, she had been observing it carefully, and she found it remarkable indeed.

The sight of a dragon and tiger contending against one another within the mountains and river was exceptionally striking. That was not a sign of danger, but rather a phenomenon that only appeared once the Heaven-Earth energy had grown strong enough.

”That’s right. In truth, the same is true of all the famous mountains and great rivers.” Lu Yuan smiled. ”That’s why I chose Mount Tai as the main base of the Celestial Court. Mount Hulong is not much inferior to it. It’s just that the time was not right to come here before.”

The Celestial Court had only just been established, and was still in the process of accumulating strength. Sending people here now would only scatter their forces. With Outer-Cosmos beings eyeing them like tigers watching prey, there was no way he would take that risk.

Jiang Ningxian nodded. She could more or less guess what he was thinking.

After speaking, Lu Yuan opened his Martial Dao Heavenly Eyes and began observing the surroundings.

Fortunately, having already reached the Sage Realm, he was now far more sensitive than before to fluctuations in space. It did not take long before he found the target of this trip.

It lay near an inconspicuous hill overgrown with wild grass. There was nothing special about it at all, save for a small crack hanging in midair.

This was a spatial fissure. Such fissures were rare elsewhere, but were often seen among the famous mountains and great rivers. Some of the dangers in those places came precisely from them, because one never knew when they might step into one by accident and never find a way back out.

”A small folded space?” Jiang Ningxian looked at it with some curiosity, but did not ask any questions. She only said, ”Go on. I’ll look around nearby. I won’t go too far.”

She knew that since Lu Yuan had come specifically in search of such a small folded space, he naturally had his own reasons. Though she was curious, she restrained herself. After all, everyone had secrets, even from those closest to them.

”All right.”

Lu Yuan naturally had nothing more to say.

Jiang Ningxian truly was worthy of being the Saintess of a great clan. She was poised and proper, and when it came to important matters, she never asked too many questions.

In that respect, she had an excellent sense of boundaries and never overstepped. It was just like after she had begun cooperating with Lu Yuan, she only provided resources, and she never interfered as to how they were used.

Very soon, she left to wander around Mount Hulong.

Meanwhile, Lu Yuan took a deep breath and walked straight to the spatial fissure. Without another word, he stepped forward and entered it.

The folded space was really small. Once inside, Lu Yuan found that he had entered a cave, with stone walls on every side. Lamps still burned along those walls, though it was impossible to tell what material they had been made from. They seemed capable of burning for centuries, even millennia.

Lu Yuan paid them no attention and simply continued forward.

Before long, the path ahead gradually widened, because he had already reached the end.

This folded space was not only small, it contained almost nothing. The only thing standing before Lu Yuan was a furnace.

More precisely, it was a three-legged alchemy furnace, mottled with rust and covered in dust, though fortunately still intact.

Of course, even so, an ordinary person would not think much of it at first glance. Only upon closer inspection would one discover that this three-legged alchemy furnace seemed to have been passed down from a very distant age. It carried the aura of time itself.

After drawing near, and observing it with the Martial Dao Heavenly Eyes, Lu Yuan could perceive strands of Dao resonance upon it.

They drew the mind into silent contemplation, compelling one to study them further. One could even sense a power within one’s own body beginning to stir restlessly. It was extraordinarily strange.

”Who would have thought that the alchemy furnace of the legendary Founding Celestial Master of the Zhengyi School would be hidden in a place like this?”

Lu Yuan gazed at the alchemy furnace and murmured to himself, a smile spreading across his face as he stated its origin.

This was an alchemy furnace forged by the Founding Celestial Master of the Daoist Zhengyi School.

The identity of that Founding Celestial Master naturally resounded like thunder. He was Zhang Daoling, foremost among the Four Great Celestial Masters in myths.