One-Tenth True Essence
After traversing tens of thousands of miles of ocean, Bai Qiuran arrived at the second Divine Mountain.
The situation on this Divine Mountain was much the same as the previous one, "Daiyu." Bai Qiuran landed on the flat summit and found the Stone Stele. The Divine Script on it indicated that the mountain's name was "Round Ridge."
This Stone Stele tablet also bears inscriptions left by the First-Generation Heaven's Envy.
"Give me another three hundred years, just three hundred years, and I will be able to surpass Eastern Emperor Taiyi and save my people!"
What happened?
As Wisdom Immortal translated the text, Bai Qiuran had a bad feeling.
"The First-Generation Heaven's Envy possessed True Essence and should have been stronger than me, so why does this passage imply that his time is near?"
"Perhaps it was left behind before he obtained True Essence?"
Wisdom Immortal comforted Bai Qiuran, saying, "We need to see him alive or dead. We can't make any assumptions before we see him in person."
You're right.
Bai Qiuran composed herself and continued her search.
After searching for a while, he found three more Divine Mountain nearby. Bai Qiuran discovered that although these five Divine Mountain were constantly drifting in this bottomless ocean, like rootless duckweed, they always maintained the same distance from each other under a mysterious force. After a simple measurement, Bai Qiuran found that these Divine Mountain were all 70,000 li apart, no more and no less.
Two of them are named "Square Vessel" and "Ocean Continent," and they bear inscriptions left by the First-Generation Heaven's Envy. According to those inscriptions, the last Divine Mountain should be the "Penglai" he is looking for.
The last Divine Mountain is similar in appearance to the other four, but for some reason, in the center of its vast mountaintop plain, there is a huge, bottomless crater, as if it had been hit by a meteorite.
Next to the pit is the Stone Stele, on which are indeed written the two large Divine Script characters "Penglai".
Moreover, someone had carved a row of large characters next to it. Judging from the depth of the carving, the person who carved those characters must have been very excited.
"I've finally found Penglai!"
Wisdom Immortal translated.
"So, the only place he might be right now is..."
Bai Qiuran's gaze fell upon the deep pit beside the book.
The darkness in this deep pit gave him a very strange feeling, as if it connected to another Void.
How so?
Wisdom Immortal glanced at the dark space inside and asked.
"We've come this far, there's no reason to give up halfway."
Bai Qiuran gritted her teeth.
The Clear Autumn Waters sword on his back was drawn with a clang, carrying him and Wisdom Immortal, slowly sliding down the pit wall into the dark abyss.
"I have a bad feeling..."
After descending only a few hundred meters, Wisdom Immortal said, "Why do I feel like something is watching us..."
"It's probably just your imagination."
Although Bai Qiuran said this, she remained secretly on high alert.
They continued their descent, and after falling for about a mile or two, darkness enveloped them, gently embracing them. The entire space instantly became dark, and they could see no light in any direction.
Bai Qiuran paused for a few seconds, then suddenly exclaimed in surprise, "Something's not right!"
He accelerated downwards, and sure enough, beneath his and Wisdom Immortal's feet appeared some shattered planets.
"We've been Spatial Teleportation?"
Wisdom Immortal exclaimed in surprise, "You actually managed to deceive someone who had mastered spatial Arts during the Holy Dynasty? This kind of technique..."
"Who else could it be but the unpopular Heaven?"
Bai Qiuran tense, like a shooting star falling from the sky. He crossed the broken Star River and saw the Penglai Divine Mountain floating on the bottomless ocean. Then he raised his True Essence and true True Qi together and activated the Spatial Teleportation with all his might.
His figure appeared countless miles away in the blink of an eye, and successfully returned to the sky above the huge pit on the top of Penglai Divine Mountain.
Upon arriving here, Bai Qiuran immediately descended at full speed, rushing into the boundless depths of darkness.
Perhaps his speed was too fast, and even the Heavenly Dao did not have time to react quickly. This time, the phenomenon of spatial transfer did not occur. However, after Bai Qiuran rushed down thousands of miles, he suddenly felt an enormous pressure appear below him. This pressure was almost solidified, preventing him from continuing to descend.
Because of this pressure, Bai Qiuran's figure was slightly hindered. Then, the same pressure came from above him. The two pressures sandwiched him like a sandwich filling. This pressure was even stronger than when he first encountered the Heavenly Dao in the River of Time.
This time, Heavenly Dao abandoned its cunning manipulation of the timeline and instead concentrated all its power on suppression, intending to crush him directly.
Do you really not want me to see the First-Generation Heaven's Envy?
Having been repeatedly thwarted by the Heavenly Dao, Bai Qiuran felt a surge of anger. He fully opened his Purple Mansion, and all the abundant True Qi within his body surged out from his limbs and bones, forming a large circulation on his body surface and inside, resisting the pressure from the Heavenly Dao.
Despite the even greater pressure, Bai Qiuran steered the Clear Autumn Waters forward with unwavering determination.
Under the pressure of the Heavenly Dao, his progress was very slow, descending only a few meters per minute.
Even so, neither Heavenly Dao nor Bai Qiuran showed any intention of backing down. The former extracted energy from the Void outside the realm and channeled this endless energy towards Bai Qiuran, determined to crush him.
Meanwhile, within Bai Qiuran's Purple Mansion, boundless True Qi also arose from nowhere, stubbornly advancing despite the pressure from the Heavenly Dao.
However, neither side in the standoff noticed this detail. Only Wisdom Immortal, who was hanging from Bai Qiuran's waist, noticed it. Within the protective shield of True Qi that had formed a large circulation on Bai Qiuran's body, streams of True Essence compressed into Golden Threads were becoming more and more numerous and obvious.
At the same time, Wisdom Immortal also felt that the terrifying aura emanating from the man next to her was still rising steadily.
With each passing minute, Bai Qiuran's speed increased, and the True Qi within his body became more concentrated.
The terrifying pressure squeezed his flesh and bones, causing them to crack and pop. But Bai Qiuran's body began to operate the Fortune Body Forging Technique on its own. Unconsciously, he created a higher level of the Fortune Body Forging Technique Cultivation Technique put it into practice. He made further progress and his body became even stronger.
Finally, when the True Essence within Bai Qiuran's body accounted for approximately one-tenth of his True Qi, he successfully broke through the shackles of the Heavenly Dao.
The surrounding Void cracked with a series of loud bangs, Bai Qiuran's figure, like a white rainbow, pierced through the Heavenly Dao's seal, the pressure of the Heavenly Dao no longer able to Restraint him.
He led Wisdom Immortal and successfully arrived at the bottom of this dark place.