Heaven Earth Life Severing Array, Another Part of the Truth

An hour passed, and Chen Changsheng successfully emerged from his cultivation state.

Feeling his Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivation, Chen Changsheng smacked his lips and said,

"Nascent Soul Late Stage should be enough. If I want to break through to the Spirit Transformation realm, I reckon it'll take ten years. That's not worth it."

As he spoke, Chen Changsheng climbed out of the Stone Coffin and stretched his stiff body.

At the same time, he began pondering the problem of his disappearing Spiritual Power. Whenever he fell into slumber, all life within his body ceased to function.

That meant the Spiritual Power in his body would slowly evaporate, like moisture in meat.

Although he could cultivate it back quickly, having to recultivate every time he slept was far too troublesome.

With that thought, Chen Changsheng took out the Beast Hide Book and flipped through it. Before long, he found a solution.

"Heaven Earth Life Severing Array."

"This is the one!"

Chen Changsheng slapped the Beast Hide Book and chose an array with a beaming smile.

The Heaven Earth Life Severing Array was one of the three great Killing Arrays recorded in the Beast Hide Book.

According to its description, those who entered this array would be cut off from the path to heaven above and the Yellow Springs below—heaven severed, earth severed, and life severed as well.

Such an incomparably formidable array should surely be able to seal the Spiritual Power slowly leaking from his body while he slept.

Having chosen the array, Chen Changsheng happily walked out of the Bronze Ancient Hall and continued working on the Dao Patterns outside.

The Heaven Earth Life Severing Array was a Killing Array. Turning it into one that trapped without killing would not be simple.

But Chen Changsheng had time. As long as he took it slowly, he could finish it eventually.

"Phew~"

Carefully taking the final step, Chen Changsheng finally reached the safe range of another Bronze Ancient Hall.

"Your Majesty, I spent a full ninety years collecting your corpse."

"I trust you won't let me go through all that for nothing."

After muttering a few words to Emperor Zuo's bones, Chen Changsheng placed Emperor Zuo's crystalline bones into the coffin.

As for Emperor Zuo's missing lower body, Chen Changsheng could not find it at all. Left with no choice, he used a Wooden Sculpture in its place.

After burying Emperor Zuo, Chen Changsheng naturally received two rewards.

One was the Zhenwu Sword, now missing its tip, while the other was a golden sheet Emperor Zuo had used as a Heart Protecting Mirror.

Turning the golden sheet over in his hand, Chen Changsheng frowned and muttered,

"Isn't this Xuanwu Kingdom's Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique?"

"And I feel like I've seen this thing somewhere before."

As he spoke, Chen Changsheng rummaged through the System Space and eventually found a golden sheet made of the same material.

The gaps in the two golden sheets slowly joined together, ultimately forming a flawless, complete page.

Faced with this, Chen Changsheng looked speechlessly at Emperor Zuo's coffin.

"Your Majesty, that's rather underhanded of you!"

"So someone from Xuanwu Kingdom's ancestors entered the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground long ago and even brought some things out."

"I used to wonder how Xuanwu Kingdom, despite never having anyone enter the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground, knew there was a Bronze Ancient Hall inside."

"Now that the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique serves as proof, this mystery has been solved."

After saying that, Chen Changsheng looked at the golden sheet in his hand. He did not recognize a single word on it.

The only reason he could identify this thing as the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique was entirely due to a fortunate coincidence.

Among the things Zuo Xinghe had asked him to retrieve was a translated version of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique.

Beside the name Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique were four strange and peculiar symbols, and Chen Changsheng had casually asked about them at the time.

Zuo Xinghe had said those four symbols represented the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique. As for how to translate that script, no one in all of Xuanwu Kingdom knew.

Chen Changsheng had not paid much attention to it then.

After arriving at the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground, Chen Changsheng had one day picked up the lower half of the golden sheet from the dirt.

The golden sheet was indestructible, and its edges were extremely sharp. Though he did not recognize the symbols on it, Chen Changsheng had still kept it as a collectible.

If he had not found the upper half of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique here with Emperor Zuo, Chen Changsheng could have lived another ten thousand years

and still never known that this was another part of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique.

With that thought, Chen Changsheng patted Emperor Zuo's coffin and sighed.

"Your Majesty, perhaps all the unsolvable mysteries in this world come about like this."

"Someone from Xuanwu Kingdom's ancestors entered the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground. How much did Xuanwu Kingdom's forefathers truly know about the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground? I'm afraid only you knew."

"Also, Xuanwu Kingdom's forefathers brought a fragment of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique out of the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground."

"Bringing something out of such a dangerous place is enough to prove that it was no ordinary thing."

"Now that you're dead, all those secrets have been carried into the coffin with you. What a pity."

After saying that, Chen Changsheng turned and walked toward the Bronze Ancient Hall.

Ever since learning that Nian Sheng had disappeared within the Teleportation Array of a Bronze Ancient Hall, Chen Changsheng had been investigating the Bronze Ancient Halls.

It had taken a full two hundred and ninety years to finally get what he wanted. Naturally, the first thing Chen Changsheng needed to do now was understand the Bronze Ancient Halls.

Inside the Bronze Ancient Hall.

Countless patterns continuously arranged and recombined, eventually forming a partially incomplete picture.

Unlike the Bronze Ancient Halls in the Boundless Secret Realm and the Night Moon Kingdom Forbidden Ground, the Bronze Ancient Halls in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground had been preserved relatively intact.

Therefore, Chen Changsheng obtained a picture containing more of the story.

Long ago, all living beings had borrowed the power of the Calamity to escape the pursuit of the "Giant Hand."

At first, all living beings had indeed driven back the "Giant Hand."

But later, all living beings discovered that the power of the Calamity was actually eroding the world.

Faced with this situation, all living beings joined forces with the "Giant Hand" again and successfully drove back the Calamity.

Although they had driven back the Calamity, a portion of its power still remained.

To prevent the Calamity from making a comeback, all living beings and the Giant Hand forged these Eighteen Bronze Ancient Halls together and entrusted them to eighteen races for safekeeping.

Nine of the Bronze Ancient Halls were entrusted to the "Giant Hand." Moreover, so they could remain in contact with one another,

when constructing the Bronze Ancient Halls, they had also drawn upon the forces of heaven and earth to carve Tri-Color Teleportation Arrays within them.

Not only could these Tri-Color Teleportation Arrays teleport across immense distances, they could not be interrupted by outside interference.

By all rights, after sharing hardship, all living beings should have been able to coexist peacefully with the "Giant Hand."

Yet who would have thought that they would fight again? By this point, the story had clearly split into layers.

The patterns at the beginning and the patterns at the end had clearly not been carved in the same era.

After reading the entire story, Chen Changsheng was rendered speechless.

The Tri-Color Teleportation Arrays had originally been able to teleport to designated destinations, but after the ravages of war and time,

the Eighteen Bronze Ancient Halls had most likely long since left their original positions. As a result, the Tri-Color Teleportation Arrays could only teleport randomly.

With a one-in-seventeen chance, could he really find Nian Sheng safely?