Rumble!
Only after a long while did the tremendous noise gradually subside!
The white light slowly dissipated, and the surroundings grew quiet again, as though nothing had happened.
"How strange. Why didn't that strike shatter this layer?" Su Changge was a little bewildered. That sword strike had been every bit as powerful as his earlier punch, hadn't it?
On the tenth layer, the Feather Robe Youth heard this and was speechless. "This brat really has some nerve!"
"Fine, fine. Since he passed the Ninth Layer's trial, I'll open the passage for him."
He really was scared! If he hadn't reinforced the Ninth Layer's restrictions at the last moment just now!
It probably would have shattered too!
"I still have to go through the formalities, or it won't have enough flair!"
As he spoke, he waved his hand, and a mysterious aura spread from the Sky Peak Tower!
Above the Sky Peak Tower, space twisted, and divine light suddenly shone within it!
The sky shattered layer upon layer!
An enormous white stone tablet slowly emerged!
It was suffused with the sense of endless ages!
"The Divine Son succeeded! The Sky Peak Tablet has descended!"
"The Sky Peak Tablet! A legendary treasure of the Immortal Dao! It can examine a person's future and destiny!"
"With his talent, the Divine Son is sure to become a towering figure one day!"
The eyes of the Returning Origin Holy Land's many disciples shone. The legendary Sky Peak Tablet!
What kind of surprise would their Divine Son bring them this time?
"A stone tablet that predicts someone's future and fortune? Let's see whether it's really as miraculous as they say."
Su Changge used sword qi as his brush, but the instant he carved the character "Su" into the tablet, it began to rumble!
Crack!
The sound of cracking rang out. The tablet seemed to have been affected by something unknown! It kept trembling and rumbling!
Each tremor produced another enormous crack!
"The Sky Peak Tablet... is it about to shatter?"
"The Divine Son only wrote one character! The Sky Peak Tablet can't bear it?"
Even the Feather Robe Youth on the Sky Peak Tower's tenth layer paled! In all these countless years, he had never seen anything like this!
"The Immortal Apex Tablet passed down from the Immortal Domain is actually breaking because of a single character?"
This was a Supreme Treasure used to anchor fortune. By all rights, something like this should have been impossible!
"Could it be..." Something occurred to him!
There had once been an ancient legend in the Immortal Domain about the Sky Peak Tablet: if a person's future achievements far surpassed the world, the Sky Peak Tablet would be unable to bear that weight of fate and karma. Even the Heavenly Dao would not dare touch that person's fate and karma! Such a person was called an eternal taboo!
"What a brat. He has such terrifying potential before he's even grown!" The Feather Robe Youth shuddered. He noticed that Su Changge actually intended to write a second character!
He trembled in fright and hurriedly withdrew the Sky Peak Tablet!
"That was close! The Sky Peak Tablet nearly shattered!"
A single character had nearly shattered it, and he actually wanted to write a second?
Su Changge was utterly baffled. Wasn't he supposed to write his name? Why had the Sky Peak Tablet run away after just one character?
The atmosphere grew rather awkward. The auspicious clouds that had filled the heavens and earth with the Sky Peak Tablet's descent vanished without a trace!
The sky was perfectly clear, as though nothing had happened!
"Ahem..."
"Well... little fellow, you've already passed the Ninth Layer. Can you step onto this road this time?" The Feather Robe Youth was rather embarrassed too. He was, after all, an accomplished senior.
Why did he feel so humiliated?
A golden road of runes extended out of an unknown space once again, and only then did Su Changge come back to his senses.
As he stepped onto the golden road, he felt a little dazed, as though heaven and earth were changing.
To the watching crowd, their Divine Son was enveloped in golden light the instant he stepped onto the golden road!
Immediately afterward, the golden road dissolved inch by inch, as though it had never appeared in the world!
"What a mysterious road!"
"Why have I never seen a teleportation formation like that? Shouldn't an ordinary teleportation formation leave traces of its aura?"
"Perhaps that senior's power is already beyond our understanding."
Many people were deeply envious of Su Changge. Surely their Divine Son had been transported somewhere like an immortal paradise!
Yet imagination and reality often did not stand opposed.
Su Changge was a little dumbfounded. This felt exactly like the previous layers.
Everything around him was still a vast expanse of white!
By the conventions of fantasy novels, shouldn't an accomplished senior like this have created a world?
Sacred palaces, divine towers, Penglai Immortal Island-bring them all out!
But what the hell was this?
There was nothing but fog. If the system hadn't notified him that he had completed the tenth layer's task, he would have suspected he had been tricked!
"Little fellow, I've been waiting for you for a long time." A mysterious voice rang out.
A faint figure emerged in the mist, indistinct and blurred.
He sat cross-legged, with what appeared to be a chessboard before him. At that moment, he was placing a piece.
So clichéd! Do all these accomplished seniors like this sort of presentation?
Their usual tricks amount to wrapping their faces in fog so the other person can't see them clearly.
Or altering their voices with spiritual qi to make them sound mysterious.
Su Changge couldn't help inwardly grumbling, but grumbling aside, he could only put on an apprehensive expression. "This junior, Su Changge, pays his respects to you, Senior!"
The Feather Robe Youth was very pleased with Su Changge's reaction. He had finally regained a little dignity!
What he didn't know was that Su Changge was deliberately playing along!
What these so-called accomplished seniors cared about most was their dignity! To put it bluntly, they liked hearing people praise how awesome they were!
"Hahaha! Little fellow, do you know who I am?"
"Though this junior does not know, I can sense your extraordinary divine prowess, Senior!" Su Changge said respectfully. In truth, he was going mad inside! I'm clearly the protagonist! Why do I still have to watch someone else show off?
The Feather Robe Youth placed another piece. "My name is Grand Void True Person. Strictly speaking, I am not from this world."
"I come from..." As he spoke, he pointed upward.
Su Changge understood. Oh, so Kidney Deficiency... Grand Void True Person comes from the upper realm.
From what he knew, the upper realm should be the Immortal Domain.
"Since you come from that place, Senior, why are you in the Sky Peak Tower? Don't you want to return?" Su Changge asked in confusion.
Grand Void True Person let out a long sigh without speaking.
Return? Could he still return to that place?
Countless epochs had passed since that great battle. Whether the Immortal Domain truly still existed was unknown.
In truth, he had already lost most of his memories and could only sense scattered fragments.
Terrifying figures, power that did not belong to the Immortal Domain...
"Alas! I lost most of my power long ago. I no longer have the ability to return."
"If anyone from this world can reach the Immortal Domain in the future, it will only be you."
"Me?"
The Feather Robe Youth nodded firmly at Su Changge. "That's right. Your potential rivals that of some of the Immortal Domain's former prodigies. Only someone with the makings of a True Immortal can open the Path to Immortality."
"So far, you are the only person in this world I have found with the makings of a True Immortal."
As he spoke, the Feather Robe Youth took an object from his robes, sacred radiance flowing over its surface.
With a wave of his hand, it drifted down before Su Changge like a ball of light.
"This is the Immortal Treasure Key, the key to opening the Bronze Divine Hall."
"The Bronze Divine Hall? What's that?" Su Changge grew increasingly lost. He couldn't understand a word the other man was saying.
The Feather Robe Youth did not explain further. His memories were steadily fading, and all he knew was that something extremely important lay within the Bronze Divine Hall.
It even concerned the fate of all the heavens and myriad worlds!
"I'm very sorry. Very little of my memory remains. I can only tell you that something extremely important is inside. You must go there in the future."
[Ding! New choice quest detected. Option one: the karma involved is too great; refuse outright. Reward: a Remnant Immortal's resentment. Option two: accept for the sake of all the heavens and myriad worlds. Reward: Immortal Treasure Key (unsealed version).]
Hearing the words "Remnant Immortal," Su Changge was a little dumbfounded.
An immortal? That was an existence far beyond this world!
If he chose to refuse, he would add a Remnant Immortal's resentment to his collection!
It looked like two choices, but there was really only one!
What a fine case of making a feint in the east to strike in the west, openly repairing the plank road while secretly marching through Chencang!
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