Reunion After Fifty Thousand Years

Chapter 41: Reunion After Fifty Thousand Years

"Qingran, it's time to go."

Her master's voice reached her, pulling Ye Qingran's thoughts back to reality.

She slowly turned around and said to her master, "Master, I've thought it over. I want to enter seclusion at the Dao Ancient Sky Pool."

The moment she said this, Song Zhi'an and Huang Yingying beside her both revealed shocked expressions.

Within the Dao Ancient Divine Sect's internal barrier pocket world lay a Sky Pool Forbidden Ground.

This Sky Pool Forbidden Ground had once been brought back to the sect by the Founding Ancestor, who lifted the entire Sky Pool Sacred Island from above the Endless Southern Domain.

It was said that the ancestor had carried the entire Sky Pool Sacred Island across boundless void to the Dao Ancient Divine Sect, then set up a spatial barrier within the sect and placed the island inside it.

From then on, the Sky Pool Sacred Island secret realm, renowned across the continent and coveted by countless people, became the Dao Ancient Divine Sect's private secret realm and was renamed the "Dao Ancient Sky Pool."

However, because the ancestor had brought the entire Sky Pool Sacred Island over intact, the Ferocious Beasts that had originally lived on it, along with some exceptionally dangerous places, had also been preserved.

Throughout the years, only the Dao Ancient Divine Sect's finest disciples, those with the highest talent, were qualified to enter the Dao Ancient Sky Pool for secluded cultivation and training.

The Dao Ancient Divine Sect's Eighth Generation Sect Leader, Ninth Generation Sect Leader, and Eleventh Generation Sect Leader had once cultivated in seclusion within the Dao Ancient Sky Pool for a hundred years. There, they obtained supreme fortuitous encounters and rose like a song of triumph, growing from insignificant outer disciples into the rulers of the Divine Sect! Later, quite a few others in the Divine Sect also obtained fortuitous encounters. Some left the Divine Sect and became towering figures in their own regions of the continent, while others became sect elders, passing on teachings and nurturing disciples until their students filled the world.

In short, the Dao Ancient Sky Pool was one of the Dao Ancient Divine Sect's most important secret realms.

However, great fortuitous encounters were often accompanied by extreme danger.

Over the years, the mortality rate among Divine Sect disciples who entered the Dao Ancient Sky Pool for training had been terrifyingly high.

The most horrifying case had occurred a thousand years ago. Ten core disciples, all burdened with great expectations, entered the Dao Ancient Sky Pool to train at the same time. The entire force was wiped out—not a single one survived.

That incident had dealt the Dao Ancient Divine Sect a tremendous blow. The painstaking efforts of more than a century, poured into ten core disciples, had vanished just like that.

Thus, those hundred years had been the Dao Ancient Divine Sect's most difficult century. With its finest younger generation all fallen, it had endured ridicule and mockery from other sects throughout that time.

During those hundred years, the Dao Ancient Divine Sect could not be seen in any contests, tournaments, or battles involving the younger generation across the continent.

Only after a full hundred years of recovery, when the next generation of disciples had grown up, did the Dao Ancient Divine Sect's younger generation return to the stage of the era.

Therefore, from then on, the Dao Ancient Divine Sect's upper ranks no longer relied excessively on the Dao Ancient Sky Pool to cultivate disciples, and the requirements for entering it were raised to an extremely high threshold.

That was why everyone had reacted so strongly when Ye Qingran said she wanted to go to the Sky Pool.

Li Changtan also frowned and asked, "Have you truly thought this through?"

"Reporting to Grandmaster, this disciple wishes to give it a try."

The Founding Ancestor's words just now had thoroughly moved her. The world was vast, and she too hoped that one day in the future, she could leave this continent and journey to a higher world.

Therefore, she had to make efforts that ordinary people could not endure and challenge dangers that ordinary people dared not face.

"Since you've made your decision, then go and give it a try."

Although Li Changtan had been in seclusion for many years, he still knew of Ye Qingran, this newly promoted Holy Maiden. At such a young age, she had already stepped into the Golden Core Realm. Her future was limitless.

"Let's go."

Inside the Stone Hall of the Four Emperors Forbidden Ground.

The Four Emperors sat around a square stone table. They looked at one another and saw the marks of time upon each other.

Yes, fifty thousand years had now passed.

They had never imagined that once trapped in this world, they would remain trapped for tens of thousands of years.

They still remembered that when they had first arrived on this continent, it had been a barren wasteland where not even a living creature could be seen. Only later did they learn that before their arrival, this continent had undergone an earth-shattering war.

Later, after tens of thousands of years of development, life gradually returned to the continent. Many human cultivators migrated over from several continents neighboring the Endless Sea, and over time, this land slowly transformed from barren desolation into flourishing prosperity.

They gathered once every hundred years, and by now, they no longer knew how many such centuries had passed.

At last, in this century, they had finally found the legendary Time Wood.

Bone Emperor, Dark Emperor, Cosmos Emperor, South Emperor.

Although they had aged greatly in appearance compared to fifty thousand years ago, their auras had grown more powerful.

Bone Emperor had now reached Heavenly Immortal Great Perfection.

Dark Emperor was a ninth-level Heavenly Immortal, while Cosmos Emperor and South Emperor were both eighth-level Heavenly Immortals.

They had never imagined that one day, they would still be able to attempt the supreme Immortal King Realm.

The Heavenly Immortal Realm and the Immortal King Realm appeared to be separated by only one major realm, but the gap between them was like an impassable chasm.

For a cultivator to achieve the Immortal King Realm, peerless talent was needed—but more importantly, they needed fortune that defied the heavens.

Throughout the Myriad Antiquity World, those with great talent were as numerous as crucian carp crossing a river, an endless torrent.

Yet the vast majority could only reach the Tribulation Transcendence Realm. Even ascension was beyond their grasp, and they were still a hundred thousand miles away from Heavenly Immortals, let alone the supreme and exalted Immortal Kings.

Which one of the four had not once been a Heaven's Chosen who suppressed an era? Yet in the end, they had all stopped at the Heavenly Immortal Realm, never daring to hope for an attempt at the Immortal King Realm.

But now, they actually had the qualifications to challenge the Immortal King Realm! This was something they had never dared dream of, and all of it was because of that man guarding the River of Time.

Thus, they had long since stopped resenting that man. On the contrary, they were all deeply grateful to him.

"Bone Emperor, so much time has passed now. Your Excellency's mission was likely already too late."

Dark Emperor sighed wistfully.

"Too late. The mission can be considered a failure. We have disappointed Your Excellency's expectations."

"It can't be helped. We've already done everything we could."

"However, if we strive to break through to the Immortal King Realm and support the Main Battlefield, perhaps we may be of even greater use."

Bone Emperor murmured.

"Yes. To think that one day, we too would have hope of challenging the Immortal King Realm—it truly feels like a dream."

Cosmos Emperor sighed.

"The fortuitous encounters on this continent have more or less all been taken by us. If we continue to remain here, I fear we will be unable to make another breakthrough."

"We have already found the Time Wood. It is time to set foot upon the River of Time once more."

With a sweep of Bone Emperor's hand, a massive piece of Time Wood appeared in his palm. At a thought, the great piece of Time Wood transformed into a Big Ship, two meters high and ten meters long.

"Have you prepared your River Crossing Fees for this trip?"

Bone Emperor suddenly recalled something and asked the other three Emperors.