The World behind the Great Curtain
Wang Xuan felt heavy-hearted, his face more solemn than ever before. He finally knew what it was, and it was indeed similar to his earlier guess.
The curtain rises!
The scene there was hazy yet compelling, more magnificent than anything I had ever seen before; after all, it was now truly approaching the real world.
When he first encountered this thing, he almost had an accident. Back then, deep inside the Inner Scenery Realm, behind the curtain, Red-clothed Demon Immortal holding Oil-paper Umbrella almost broke through.
Now, he's actually seeing this kind of thing in the real world.
The light from underground continued to spread, expanding towards the lunar surface, and the scenery gradually became clearer from its blurry state.
How can the world behind the Great Curtain appear in the real world?
Suddenly, Wang Xuan sensed something different and saw something else. He then realized with a start what was going on.
As the curtain draws near to the present world, the light underground expands, but some desolate places slowly emerge from the Moon Crater and gradually reach the surface.
It was quiet and silent there; overall, it was dim and deep, an Inner Scenery Realm!
It is like a shadow, connected to the bright curtain, anchored in the present world, becoming an important coordinate. What kind of beings is it guiding back?
The Inner Scenery Realm hasn't fully revealed itself on the surface yet, but Wang Xuan has already seen part of the truth; there's actually... a hand inside.
A hand reached through the curtain into the Inner Scenery Realm, seemingly having worked for many years to emerge from the world behind the scenes.
Wang Xuan looked around and found that no one could see the strange phenomenon in the Moon Crater, not even the old Daoist priests in the Zhengyi Temple.
Unbeknownst to everyone, a terrifying event that could have far-reaching consequences and perhaps even reshape the entire world order is unfolding!
If that creature steps over, nobody knows what will happen.
Unless we use Super Battleship to completely lock onto him and eliminate him immediately, the consequences will be unpredictable if he escapes and becomes familiar with the real world.
It became increasingly clear, and the actual scenery could now be seen.
Behind the Great Curtain, the world is a desolate wasteland, littered with rubble and with fallen mountains, all in complete silence.
That world lacked vitality; there were very few plants, and even those that were present were almost withered. Overall, it was extremely desolate.
Although the curtain was soft and glowing, the world behind it was so desolate and barren.
An island was floating in the sky when one of them slowly fell, its pavilions and towers crashing to the ground and kicking up clouds of dust.
Further away, there were cities and villages, but few people could be seen; the area was quite desolate.
As the curtain draws closer to the real world, the world behind it is much clearer than before, as if it has been pulled closer and reflected in Wang Xuan's spiritual realm.
None of these things mattered; what truly shocked Wang Xuan was the area right next to the main curtain.
There was a tall, thin man with disheveled hair, bulging eyes that were vertical and strikingly distinctive.
He reached one hand out from behind the curtain into the Inner Scenery Realm, which seemed to have taken too much of his strength, as his body could not reach it.
There were several other people around him, some hazy and indistinct, shrouded in mist, their outlines barely discernible, some men and some women.
Someone was stabbing a sword into the curtain, causing it to vibrate continuously, which helped the man with the protruding eyes to try to cut open a gap, but unfortunately he could not succeed.
On this side of the curtain, the Inner Scenery Realm is dimly lit, like a shadow, and there are people inside!
There were monks dressed in ancient costumes sitting cross-legged and motionless, as well as modern people in Spacesuit, and even some in casual clothes.
This truly surprised Wang Xuan; how could there be modern people in the Inner Scenery Realm?
When he saw a Moonlight Bodhisattva, he immediately realized that they were all newcomers, and his spirit was brought into the Inner Scenery Realm.
Without a doubt, they were not flesh-and-blood people, but merely remnants of spirits.
Four Moonlight Bodhisattva once approached the Moon Crater. The spirits of three of them were completely annihilated, and it seems that one of them was accepted and absorbed.
Inside the Inner Scenery Realm, there was a peculiar old man sitting cross-legged, behind whom was a skeleton in the exact same posture.
The skeletons are real, but they are not in the Inner Scenery Realm!
When Wang Xuan saw this, his hair stood on end, and he felt that he understood the truth.
That old man can open the Inner Scenery Realm, like a key, connecting the world behind the Great Curtain. The two are linked, and this is helping the Transcendent Immortals anchor themselves in the mortal world.
Wang Xuan felt a chill run down his spine. The old man's current predicament foreshadowed his fate once he was subdued and manipulated!
He was even more attractive to the people in the ancient pit than the old man.
Because he is not yet truly extraordinary, his ability to open the Inner Scenery Realm is an exceptional case.
He stared at the old man closely. Around him were some middle-aged and young people, all dressed in ancient costumes, seemingly seated according to their social status.
After careful observation, Wang Xuan felt that the old man seemed to be the leader of a sect, capable of opening the Inner Scenery Realm, while the others were probably geniuses and disciples of the sect.
As for those modern people, they were assimilated later, absorbed into the community, and stayed in the outermost peripheral area.
The old man's physical body had long since died, but it was very important; it was a tangible object connected to his spiritual body, and he sat cross-legged outside the Inner Scenery Realm.
The skeleton seemed to have been very strong in life; the bones were white and shiny, and there was no sign of decay to this day. It even looked quite sacred.
"Could he have been close to reaching the Ascension level?" Wang Xuan wondered, speculating about his strength in life.
"Its spirit and Inner Scenery Realm are attached to the remains of its true body in the mortal world, while the person behind the Great Curtain indirectly touches the mortal world through the Inner Scenery Realm, wanting to return!" Wang Xuan's expression was uncertain.
He was suddenly struck by a realization that he must be more cautious and careful in the future, lest he be targeted and captured by the ancients, or his fate might be dire.
This person should indeed be the leader of a sect, but how did this old man who can open up Inner Scenery Realm get to the moon? Was it the work of the Transcendent Immortals, or did he use other methods?
Thinking about this, Wang Xuan had even more doubts. Was the old man from the Old Earth, or was he an ancient person from the New Star?
To this day, he still doesn't know what the New Star is like. He only knows that it is suitable for human habitation, has an environment similar to the Old Earth, and is full of life and diverse species. He wonders if there were humans there before.
However, he didn't have time to think about it further, and he set his sights on the Moon Crater again.
There was clearly something wrong with that dark Inner Scenery Realm. As the hand in the large screen struggled, the Inner Scenery Realm shrank slowly, like a deflated sphere.
Furthermore, the spiritual entities within them had all dimmed considerably.
It's unclear how long this Inner Scenery Realm has been connected to the world behind the Great Curtain, but it's evident that this has had a significant impact on the spiritual entities within, causing them to weaken year after year!
He could sense that the Mysterious Factor in the Inner Scenery Realm were extremely thin; compared to what Wang Xuan had seen before, it was practically a barren land.
The Inner Scenery Realm within the Moon Crater had been severely damaged by that hand; it was no longer a place for recuperation, but rather a place that could take lives!
Several Dao Body behind the Great Curtain moved, assisting the man with the bulging eyes. They actually tried to force their way over, using their weapons to slash at the curtain, causing it to tremble violently.
It was indeed effective; after all, one of his hands had reached out. However, the exertion seemed immense. Their relentless attacks caused the Inner Scenery Realm to tremble and crumble at any moment.
Finally, the others stopped, while the man with the bulging eyes forcefully opened his hand, and light shone from the Inner Scenery Realm, heading directly towards the lunar base.
The beam of light was like a tidal wave, crashing towards the protective layer.
However, before it could truly enter, a dazzling radiance burst forth in the Zhengyi Temple, and countless talismans emerged, eventually coalescing into a large seal.
Boom!
Wang Xuan felt dizzy and his mental domain almost exploded. The large seal smashed towards the Moon Crater, shattering the tide of light.
At the same time, a swastika appeared at White Horse Temple and also crashed into the Moon Crater, illuminating the vast "tide" with Shine Upon.
All the light emitted by that giant hand was extinguished!
In the Moon Crater, the man with the vertical gaze let out a powerless sigh, as if it were a sign of helplessness at failing to intervene in the present world, a sense of loss at paying a heavy price for nothing, and even a hint of despair.
"Yangping Zhidugong Seal!"
Wang Xuan was staring in astonishment at the Zhengyi Temple, where a small seal was emitting light, and it was from this seal that the radiant glow fell into the Moon Crater.
The Yangping Zhidugong Seal is recorded in the History of Daoism with a clear description, and it has indeed not been lost and has been preserved to the present day.
It is Zhang Daoling's personal seal and also the most important treasure of Dragon Tiger Mountain.
Wang Xuan was amazed. It was rare for this thing to be preserved here. The tycoon hadn't taken it for himself and kept it in the library. It seemed that a master had indeed arranged it here more than a hundred years ago.
With a low roar, the creatures in the Moon Crater stirred again, and beams of white light surged forth like a tide. Unfortunately, they were once again crushed by Yangping Zhidugong Seal and the swastika symbol from the White Horse Temple.
Furthermore, something extremely terrible happened: the Inner Scenery Realm couldn't withstand such a violent tremor and drain, and slowly crumbled. The spiritual entities within opened their mouths, but uttered no words, and vanished without a trace!
This was an absolutely astonishing battle of the extraordinary, but ordinary people were oblivious, unaware, and saw nothing.
Wang Xuan felt a pang of emotion; the real world is full of unpredictable and mysterious events, and what he had seen was probably only a glimpse of the truth.
"Will it eventually perish?" A voice came from the Moon Crater, and Wang Xuan actually understood it, leaving him stunned.
He quickly realized that it wasn't that he understood the language, but rather that the man with the protruding eyes was experiencing a fluctuation in his spirit, which those who had cultivated the spiritual realm could perceive.
In an instant, he felt that Old Chen was a liar who had fooled him by saying that he had studied the ancient language of Jiangnan from more than two thousand years ago, so he could understand the words of the Red-clothed Demon Immortal.
Now it seems that's not the case at all!
As the Inner Scenery Realm faded and the curtain receded, the world behind the scenes blurred and disappeared.
"The ascension is not dazzling, but the human world remains vibrant..." The man with piercing eyes behind the Great Curtain roared, his hair flying wildly. He was filled with despair and resentment, his long hair turning crimson, like dazzling lava pouring out, as he let out his final roar.
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