Seeing Lin Suri Again
Chen Lingxi gazed at the numerous characters displayed in the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror.
The Daoist text in the mirror flowed like an inverted Milky Way, and the message "[Lin Suri, disciple of the Dao-Below Academy]" remained in its original place.
He pondered for a long time, then shook his head, focusing his consciousness on that line of tasks, and using Dao Origin as a guide, gently tapped it!
Instantly, the line of Daoist text transformed into a stream of light and fell into the Great Luo Heaven beneath his feet.
However, to Chen Lingxi's disappointment, he did not receive any useful information after accepting the mission.
"This also does not include the location of Lin Suri."
Chen Lingxi frowned slightly, lowered his head to think for a moment, and then raised his head again.
"Back in Weiji Grotto-Heaven, I didn't have many friends. Lin Suri and Xiangxia Academy did help me. Now that Brother Lin is in trouble, my cultivation is still weak, so even if I go to help him, it may not be of much use."
However... now that I know, I should go and see for myself, and perhaps try to use my Total Perception Evolution maneuver a bit. If I'm truly powerless, then I can come back."
"Furthermore, Dao-Below Academy is considered Great Dark Sect in this Nine-Towers Land, and it should not sit idly by and watch its disciples die."
Chen Lingxi made up her mind and secretly guessed, "I will first Dao-Below Academy and look for it."
I have Wandering Sight Divine Ability; I only need to enter the general area where Brother Lin is to find him.
So Chen Lingxi once again immersed his Divine Sense into the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror, and found a message about the location of the Dao-Below Academy among the Daoist texts in the mirror.
"100 Great Luo Dark Qi... This kind of information is actually priced outright."
Chen Lingxi shook her head, but without hesitation, she drew out one hundred Dark Qi and threw them into the mirror.
The mirror surface rippled slightly, and a circle of ripples slowly spread out from the center.
Where the ripples passed, a minimalist landscape map slowly emerged from the depths of the mirror.
On the map, ink and cyan intertwine, spreading out a western section of the Nine-Towers Land.
The map shows a complex array of place names, with mountains and rivers crisscrossing the area, and the Dao-Below Academy is located in the west of the map.
Chen Lingxi carefully examined the map, Consciousness Sea, and then slowly withdrew from the Great Luo Heaven-Observing Mirror.
He opened his eyes, and clouds rose beneath his feet as he headed west.
The Great Xuanzhuo Realm Nine-Towers Land are truly enormous.
Chen Lingxi set off from the territory of the Dragon-Offering Sect and headed west. The first cities he crossed were the more than thirty subordinate cities west of Dragon-Offering Territory, followed by the mountains and rivers under the jurisdiction of four or five medium-sized clans, and then the wilderness where no one was in charge.
In the wilderness, mountains stretch endlessly, and rivers flow freely.
Those mountains are not particularly high, but their terrain is extremely steep, often rising abruptly from the plains and plunging into the sea of clouds.
Amidst the surging sea of clouds, birds would occasionally flit past beneath his feet, their wings as large as doors and as big as mountain rocks.
Chen Lingxi fully activated the Wonder-Realm Cloud-Riding Method, and the clouds beneath his feet transformed into a faint streak of lightning, swiftly sweeping across the desolate landscape.
With his Dao Foundation Middle Stage Establishment cultivation and the Wonder-Realm Cloud-Riding Method, his speed had already reached its limit.
He continued westward in this way, occasionally letting his consciousness sink into the Divine Chamber, Sight-Roaming the Lin Suri.
However, within three months, Chen Lingxi's Sight-Roaming to observe Lin Suri were consistently unsuccessful.
In the past, Chen Lingxi's Sight-Roaming range was limited to a distance of 100,000 li (approximately 50,000 kilometers).
Given that scope, he would naturally assume that Lin Suri was still far beyond his Sight-Roaming.
However, since he entered the Dao Foundation Middle Stage, his Sight-Roaming range has increased dramatically to 500,000 miles in both horizontal and vertical directions.
Five hundred thousand li—what an enormous area that is!
Even so, he still couldn't Sight-Roaming Lin Suri.
For the first time, Chen Lingxi realized that the vastness of the Nine-Towers Land of the Great Xuanzhuo Realm was far greater than he had previously imagined.
He had previously thought that the world inside the Weiji Grotto-Heaven was extremely vast.
But now that I think about it, that Cave Heaven is probably just a drop in the ocean in this Nine-Towers Land.
As Chen Lingxi traveled westward, he gradually saw more and more things.
He once saw a city built on the summit of a mountain. Cultivators came and went in droves, their energy intertwined like clouds. There was even a Golden Grotto True Body hanging in all directions, shaking heaven and earth!
He once saw a great river flowing through the plains, its surface thousands of miles wide, with several islands floating in it. The Spirit Plant growing on these islands were even more precious than the spiritual fields of the Dragon-Offering Sect, yet no one dared to steal them.
He had also seen a giant sword plunging diagonally down from the sea of clouds, its blade over ten thousand feet long, covered with countless names, and below each name were extremely fine characters.
These sights broadened Chen Lingxi's horizons, but he had no time to linger and went straight to the Western Dao-Below Academy.
Three months later.
On this day, Chen Lingxi slowly descended from a sea of clouds and landed on a deserted, solitary peak.
At the summit of Lone Peak, Chen Lingxi sat cross-legged and attempted to immerse his Divine Sense into his Divine Chamber.
He activated his Wandering Sight Divine Ability once again.
Within the Consciousness Sea, clouds surged, and tadpole-shaped characters hung in the Void.
Chen Lingxi focused her consciousness on the name Lin Suri!
The next moment, his perspective rose, soaring into the sea of clouds, crossing countless mountains and rivers, passing over a hundred cities, and heading straight west.
After flying for an unknown amount of time, Chen Lingxi suddenly felt a sense of relief.
The mountains receded from his feet, replaced by a vast, open plain.
The plains are dotted with lakes, hills, and villages, as well as several pillars of Spiritual Qi that seem to hang from the sky, converging in one place from all directions.
That place was the Dao-Below Academy.
Chen Lingxi looked out into the distance from Sight-Roaming's perspective.
Dao-Below Academy is situated in the center of a plain surrounded by mountains, and its structure is extremely magnificent. The Main Mountain is over ten thousand feet high, and the area above the mountainside is covered by a sea of clouds, with only a few halls half-exposed from the clouds.
There are several side peaks on the left and right sides of the Main Mountain, which are connected by rainbow bridges. Occasionally, streaks of light flash across the rainbow bridges, which are the disciples of the Academy walking back and forth.
To the west of the Dao-Below Academy lies a secret realm.
That secret realm wasn't very large, only a few hundred miles in circumference.
A thick layer of spiritual mist surrounds the secret realm, separating that area from the entire Dao-Below Academy.
Chen Lingxi's gaze passed through the spiritual mist and fell directly into the secret realm.
Then, he saw Lin Suri.
Lin Suri sat cross-legged on a blue stone deep within the secret realm, dressed in a Dark Daoist Robe embroidered with cloud patterns from the Dao-Below Academy Pool-Soul Institute Lineage.
Compared to his time in the Weiji Grotto-Heaven, Lin Suri's aura was quite different, with a mysterious spiritual light faintly emanating from within.
The spiritual light enveloped Lin Suri, locking all his Dao Origin, Qi, and essence deep within him.
And at this moment!
A small sun hung high above Lin Suri's head.
The sun was about a foot in diameter, its entire body a pale gold color, with a layer of extremely warm and pure radiance flowing over it.
The radiance descended slowly from the sun, flowing into Lin Suri's crown chakra and coursing through his body along his meridians.
Chen Lingxi saw it very clearly from the perspective of Sight-Roaming.
That sun is transforming Lin Suri's body.
From skin and flesh to fascia, from fascia to bones, from bones to internal organs, everything around Lin Suri was undergoing a mysterious transformation under the radiant light.
Chen Lingxi's heart stirred.
"Brother Lin must have encountered some extraordinary fortuitous opportunity."
He Sight-Roaming in silence, and then waited until Lin Suri awoke the next day, gazing into the distance beyond the secret realm.
Outside the secret realm, an extremely thick layer of spiritual mist swirled around.
Beyond that expanse of spiritual mist, in the distant mountains, more than twenty streams of energy were scattered about.
Those vital energies are sometimes hidden, sometimes revealed; some are concealed in the clouds, some lie dormant in the forest, and some sit upright on a certain peak like a small mountain, their vital energies as deep and profound as an abyss.
Chen Lingxi looked at each item one by one.
Among those auras, seven or eight were only at the Dao Foundation Early Stage cultivation. Although their forms were distinct, they did not give him a strong sense of oppression.
Four or five of them were already at the Dao Foundation Middle Stage, possessing a robust aura and a faint spiritual light flowing around their bodies.
"These Dao Foundation Realm cultivators... are all waiting in this secret realm."
Chen Lingxi raised an eyebrow slightly, continuing to observe from Lin Suri's perspective, and was immediately startled!
It was all because Lin Suri saw a wisp of energy.
The aura was hidden behind a solitary peak that was extremely high and far away in the southwest of the secret realm. When Chen Lingxi swept his Sight-Roaming over that aura, a deep sense of oppression arose in his Consciousness Sea.
"A Dao Foundation Late Stage cultivator is also coveting Brother Lin?"
Chen Lingxi a deep breath.
These monks were scattered far apart, and they did not talk to each other or approach one another.
They each stood guard in their respective positions, but their gazes were all fixed on the spiritual mist.
Chen Lingxi slowly withdrew her gaze from Sight-Roaming.
He opened his eyes atop that deserted, solitary peak and slowly exhaled a breath of stale air.
"I see."
"Brother Lin must have obtained a great fortuitous opportunity in the secret realm."
The sun overhead is the source of that fortuitous opportunity, fortuitous opportunity is currently transforming Lin Suri's body. If Lin Suri can completely refine it, his future Dao Path will likely be much broader.
"And within the secret realm, there are more than ten cultivators eyeing the opportunity covetously, including a powerful expert at the Dao Foundation Late Stage. They are likely after this very fortuitous opportunity."