Chapter 102 With such a weak constitution, it's not appropriate to find a cultivation partner. ...
Seeing Bai Ye frozen in place, Bai Qingji assumed she had been struck by lightning and gone mad. Hesitantly, he waved his hand in front of Bai Ye's eyes. "Are you stupid?"
"I'm fine, let's keep going." Bai Ye's voice was weak and listless, and he seemed completely dejected.
Otherwise, we could find your ancestors and let those two ancestors fight it out.
"Little Wang, you're a genius! Where do you think I'm going to find a powerful ancestor to fight against a Celestial Emperor? Isn't that a bit too difficult? You're going to kill my ancestor!"
[Maybe you are a White Tiger, your ancestors must have been wealthy and powerful, and perhaps even produced some remarkable figures.]
"Alright, it's nothing." Bai shook his messy hair and quickly calmed himself down. "I'm not angry. Why would I bother arguing with an old man who has ascended to who-knows-where?"
She said no more, focusing all her attention on the stone steps beneath her feet. Bai Qingji also fell silent, and the two of them diligently climbed the steps.
After passing through the illusion, the real test on this path to heaven seemed to begin. With each step upward, the omnipresent pressure from all sides intensified.
It's like being in the deep sea with a giant mountain on your shoulders. With every step you take, someone adds more weight, pressing down on every bone and flesh in your body.
However, after climbing several hundred steps, their breathing became heavy, and glistening beads of sweat rolled down their foreheads, dripping onto the stone steps and splashing into tiny water droplets.
Bai adjusted his breathing, turned his head to look at Bai Qingji beside him, whose breathing was disordered, and teased, "Hoo hoo~ good sister, is it already not working? With such a weak body, you can't find a Daoist partner."
"Heh~" Bai Qingji squeezed out a breathy sound from her nose, too lazy to even roll her eyes at her, "Catch your breath first, then talk to your sister, you brat who hasn't been weaned yet."
"Ouch~" Bai said sarcastically, "You don't think that raising your voice proves you're strong, do you? Listen to the noise you're making, anyone who didn't know better would think someone was pulling a bellows~"
"Look, I've overtaken you again!" she said, gritting her teeth and jumping up and down, taking one step and clearing two steps, once again taking the lead over Bai Qingji by a body length.
Bai Qingji, who was already exhausted, was spurred on by her words, and his competitive spirit was rekindled.
She gritted her teeth, and the power of her bloodline came into play at this moment. Her pace suddenly quickened, and she caught up with Bai Ye almost instantly.
"The scenery ahead is really beautiful~" Bai Qingji replied, panting heavily.
Bai Yecai wasn't going to tolerate her and immediately retorted, "Walk ahead of me. Are you panting? Miss Qin isn't here, so no one's watching."
"You!" Bai Qingji was furious, racking her brains for a way to retort.
On the stone steps, two disheveled figures struggled to move forward under the overwhelming pressure, engaging in a verbal battle at a kindergarten level.
You said I crawled like a tortoise, I said you weren't even as good as a tortoise. It was precisely this pointless bickering that actually energized them both. As if they were competing with the creature beside them, even this seemingly endless road to heaven didn't feel so arduous anymore.
They continued to tease and provoke each other as they climbed thousands more steps. When they were still a hundred steps from the summit, Bai Ye and Bai Qingji both stopped.
The two stood still, feeling the sudden increase in pressure. Even though Bai had cultivated the Star Body, under this pressure, his bones were cracking and his skin was cracking.
Bai Qingji, standing beside him, was in even worse condition. She was practically covered in blood, with blood slowly seeping from all seven orifices, and a small pool of blood had accumulated where she was standing.
"This damned road is so difficult to walk. My mother, how did you even get up here?" Bai Ye's voice was hoarse, like a broken gong.
A similarly broken reply came from beside her, "Auntie...she possesses imperial blood...whoosh...she can easily reach the top. It's...we're too weak, that's why we find it difficult."
One sentence nearly cost Bai Qingji his life.
Seeing her miserable state, Bai had a thought, and a small green tree, radiating endless vitality, appeared in her palm.
The little green tree swayed and floated above Bai Qingji's head, casting a halo full of life energy that healed her injuries.
The cracks on Bai Qingji's body were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. She took a deep breath, moved her head with difficulty to look at the guy next to her, and her lips moved slightly, about to express her gratitude.
"Tsk, look at you, so pitiful." Bai interrupted her, his tone seemingly carrying a hint of disdain. "No need to thank me. Just remember to pay when you get out. Medical expenses are very expensive."
Upon hearing this, Bai Qingji's eyes lit up with a smile, and he said in a hoarse voice, "The storage ring you stole from my father, aren't those things enough to cover this cost?"
"How can that be the same?" Bai Ye's eyes widened instantly, looking at her with an expression that said, "How can you be so shameless?"
“That’s something I got by my own skill, it’s spoils of war, it’s legally obtained. How can you include it in these medical expenses? One thing at a time, you understand?”
"Alright, save your energy. The longer you stay here, the harder it is to climb." Bai Qingji was too lazy to argue with her anymore. He lifted his heavy legs and took a step towards the mountain peak that was so close at hand.
Bai also gritted his teeth, mechanically lifted his foot, and took a step, with only one goal: to reach the top of the mountain, to see his mother whom he hadn't seen for a long time, and to see how she was doing.
Both of them had reached their limits, and it was only an unwillingness to admit defeat that propelled them forward.
Step by step. The stone steps were decreasing, and the thick fog around them was gradually dissipating.
My ears were ringing, and my vision was blurry; I could only vaguely make out the outline of the stone steps in front of me.
Time seemed to have lost its meaning here, and Bai had no idea how much time it took him to take that one step.
All she knew was to keep walking forward. Until she lifted her leg again and took a step.
With a loud "bang," it felt as if an invisible hammer had struck her hard on the forehead.
Bai was sent flying backwards like a kite with a broken string, plummeting straight down the mountain.
Bai Qingji exclaimed in surprise, "Bai Ye!!!"
She reached out to grab Bai Ye, but failed to catch the rapidly falling figure. She could only watch helplessly as the figure plummeted into the thick fog below like a shooting star.
The wind howled in my ears, thick fog swirled before my eyes, and I felt a strong sense of weightlessness.
All of this tells Bai Ye one fact: she was kicked off the mountaintop by that petty and cunning Bai family patriarch!
"You should have said so earlier if you didn't want me to climb!!!" Bai yelled at the sky, "You had to wait until people had gone through all that trouble to climb up before you ambushed them and kicked them down. How could you be so unethical? You can't take a joke, can you!"
With a deafening roar, she was met with another torrent of golden lightning.
"Ughhhh, I refuse to accept this!" Bai Ye convulsed all over, emitting blue smoke as he plummeted downwards.
A moment later, a loud bang came from the forest below.
A huge, human-shaped crater appeared on the ground, startling countless birds in the surrounding area.
After a long while, a charred hand tremblingly emerged from the bottom of the pit and clung to the edge. Then, a head emitting black smoke popped out.
Bai also shakily climbed out of the pit.
"Are you alright, Yezai?" Xiao Wang asked with concern. She had never seen Yezai in such a miserable state before.
His entire body was charred black and still emitting black smoke. His face and body were covered in ash and dirt, and his clothes were tattered. He looked even more miserable than a beggar on the street.
"I'm fine!" As soon as Bai Ye opened her mouth, a puff of black smoke came out. She coughed a few times before continuing, "Anger has filled my chest, and I will charge against the Bai family's Immortal Emperor!"
"I think we can't win against them right now, you should play it safe," Xiao Wang advised in a low voice.
"I know." Bai sighed helplessly. Having suffered losses twice, she wasn't stupid. How could she possibly continue to stubbornly confront them?
She shook her head, brushing off the dirt and fallen leaves, and cleaned herself up before taking in her surroundings.
This is not the entrance we entered when we first entered the forbidden area, but a completely unfamiliar valley, with towering cliffs reaching into the clouds and ancient trees standing tall, their branches and leaves blocking out the sun.
"What kind of hell did I end up in?" Bai muttered under his breath, looking at the dense jungle in front of him where there was almost no path, and felt a headache coming on.
This place is inaccessible even by divine sense, and for someone like her who has no sense of direction and is completely lost, she has no idea how to get out.
"Hey kid, I just scanned the area. It looks like you'll see a small courtyard if you go through this dense forest ahead."
"Let's go take a look."
Having a direction is always better than wandering aimlessly in the deep mountains and forests.
Bai walked in the direction Xiao Wang had indicated. Several hours later, she finally crossed the dense forest and saw the small courtyard Xiao Wang had mentioned.
The courtyard looked extremely old; the fence had collapsed, and the crooked wooden door was half-open, as if it would fall down at the slightest touch.
"Is this the former residence of the Immortal Emperor they were talking about? It's so dilapidated!" Bai Ye wondered to himself, but he still stepped forward, pushed open the creaking wooden door, and slowly walked in.
Unbeknownst to her, the moment she entered the courtyard, it vanished into the valley like a phantom.
"This place...it feels so cold as soon as I walked in. Is it haunted? Is it because I cursed at her, so she's coming out to deal with me personally?"
Bai muttered to himself to distract himself. He kept walking, crossing the desolate courtyard and stepping into the main room.
The room was simply furnished, with only a dusty square table and a chair. Besides that, the four walls were covered with writing.
These characters are neither quite characters nor quite images, exuding an ancient and rustic feel.
"What is this drawing? I don't recognize it!!" Bai also widened her eyes and leaned closer to the wall to examine it carefully. Although she couldn't understand the content, she could feel the terrifying power contained in each character.
"I don't know, let me analyze it for you." After saying this, Xiao Wang tried to scan the characters on the wall. A moment later, she said helplessly, "I can't scan it. It seems like some strange magnetic field is interfering with my scan."
Bai wasn't too surprised by the result. "It's alright, it's alright, I won't look anymore. Anyway, I don't care about the things left behind by the stingy ancestor of the Bai family. This place feels a bit chilly and creepy, let's leave quickly."
After speaking, she left the main room without hesitation, quickly crossed the desolate courtyard, and pushed open the gate. The scene outside...
It felt strangely unfamiliar.
Bai stared blankly at the door. There were no mountains or forests, no trees, only a vast and boundless dark void. Countless dazzling aurora-like light bands flowed slowly in the void, radiating a dreamlike light.
Below, there was a vast, dark blue sea, its surface so calm and still that it resembled a dead sea.
"Huh???" Bai was dumbfounded.
【Huh? ? ?】 Xiao Wang was also dumbfounded.
Bai was stunned for a few seconds before he came to his senses and shouted at the sky, "Hey? You stingy old ancestor? What do you mean by this? Are you trying to kidnap me? Don't do this! Let's talk this out. We're all civilized people, aren't we?"
Her voice echoed in the void, but there was no other response.
"What do we do now? How about we walk out to sea?" Xiao Wang suggested.
"Let me think about it." Bai also squatted down, cupped her cheeks, and gazed down at the lifeless sea below. She felt that things were not so simple.
“I don’t think the sea will work. That stingy guy kicked me off the road to heaven and locked me up here. He would never leave such an obvious path for me to get out.” Bai Ye’s tone was very confident.
"If we stupidly jump down, we might end up as monster food."
"Yes, kid, I understand." Xiao Wang's voice was tinged with excitement.
Bai also raised his head, "I understand too."
"Escape room!" everyone exclaimed in unison.
[That's right, that's it. The writing on the wall is the clue. Once we decipher it, we can leave, right?]
"That should be it." Bai Ye stood up, supporting himself on his knees, and said with great enthusiasm, "Let's go study!"
She turned around and stepped into the main room for the second time.
This time, Bai was much more serious, his gaze fixed intently on the wall, reading each word carefully.
These characters were far too obscure and difficult to understand, far exceeding Bai Ye's capacity to comprehend. In the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the characters before her began to twist and deform, transforming into vortexes that devoured her soul.
A strong feeling of dizziness washed over him, his eyes throbbed, and Bai staggered back a few steps before collapsing onto the dusty floor with a thud.
"Ye Zai, are you alright?" Xiao Wang's voice was clearly filled with panic.
"It's nothing," Bai said weakly. "I just studied too hard and got a little carried away."
She lay on the ground for a while before raising her hand to rub her temples. She sighed helplessly, "No, the other side is too high-level. I need to call for reinforcements."
"Little Jin, Little Jin, are you there? Help..."
"Don't make a sound! I'm watching," Xiao Jin replied immediately.
Bai immediately fell silent, obediently shutting her mouth. Now that the foreign aid had entered the game, she wouldn't force herself anymore and would rest for a while.
As soon as she relaxed, a wave of exhaustion washed over her, and she collapsed onto the cold floor and fell into a deep sleep.
Outside the courtyard, the illusory sky changed from dark to bright daylight, and then from daylight back to night.
Time passed quietly, and Bai, who had slept for a full day and night, finally woke up.
She lay there for a moment, blinked blankly, and looked at the unfamiliar room, still somewhat disoriented.
Fortunately, the fatigue that felt like it was tearing my soul apart finally subsided. I don't know if it was just my imagination, but after a good night's sleep, I felt much clearer and my soul seemed stronger.
"Xiao Jin, have you figured it out yet?"
"Yes, this is the White Emperor's understanding of the laws of heaven and earth. Every character on the wall is a path to the heavens," Xiao Jin said calmly.
Upon hearing this, Bai sat up abruptly, looked up at the characters engraved on the four walls, and asked in shock, "You mean, as long as you can decipher just one character, you can become an Immortal Emperor?"
"Not an Immortal Emperor!" Xiao Jin corrected. "It's the path to immortality. The difference between an Immortal and an Immortal Emperor is like the difference between a mortal and a cultivator. They are worlds apart and cannot be compared."
"The realm of the Immortal Emperor is far beyond what one can reach by mastering a single Great Dao. It is a realm where one can command all laws, whose words become law, and who is above the laws themselves."
Bai was somewhat mesmerized by what he heard, and asked in his mind, "Can these characters be copied?"
“These are not simple characters, but rather evolved from laws. You cannot copy them.” Xiao Jin said, then added in a tone of encouragement, “Don’t waste time. You should start learning now. In my estimation, it would take you about ten thousand years to fully understand all these characters.”
"What? Ten thousand years?" Bai jumped up from the ground in shock, his voice cracking. "Ten thousand years? You must be kidding me, that's ten thousand years!!!"
"What's the rush?" Xiao Jin said calmly. "Don't you still have me?"
"Yes, I also have a cheat code, what about you?"
“With my guidance and instruction, and with your talent, hmm…” Xiao Jin seemed to be estimating, and after a moment of silence, he said, “Ten or eight years should be about right. As for the rest, you can learn slowly after you go out.”
Bai Ye felt terrible at the thought of having to stay in this dilapidated house for ten years. What was the difference between this and being in prison?
"Isn't there a faster way?" Bai asked with a mournful face, clinging to his last glimmer of hope.
"Yes, there is." Xiao Jin answered very decisively. "The key is your own hard work in learning, which will also make you more efficient. You have already learned the basics of the Great Dao of Stars. The Great Dao of Stars is one of the important laws that constitute the Great Thousand Worlds. It is of a very high level. With this as the core, you can naturally understand other branches of the laws and achieve twice the result with half the effort."
Before Bai Ye could react, Teacher Xiao Jin had already entered teaching mode. "Come on, let me explain to you first, starting with the most difficult opponent you have encountered so far, the Bai family's Imperial Blood Domain, and what it means to be invulnerable to all laws?"
"First, you must understand that invulnerability to all laws is not about brute force, but rather a domain constructed through your own understanding of the laws. You understand the principles governing the operation of all laws and defend yourself at the level of those laws..."
Bai sat on the ground with lifeless eyes, seemingly out of his mind, as if his soul was about to fly away at any moment.
Every word Xiao Jin uttered transformed into a brass bullet filled with gunpowder. These brass bullets pierced her hard skull, leaving bloody marks inside her head, before flying out through the back of her head.
It seems like a lot was left behind, but all it brought Bai Ye was pain.
Is this what learning feels like? It's truly intoxicating!
"That's it, understand?" Xiao Jin concluded.
"I understand, teacher. I feel like I can take on ten of them now," Bai said, his mind still hazy.
Studying is painful, but with daily study, the pain gradually becomes numb.
Bai, who was initially confused, gradually came to understand what Xiao Jin was saying.
Although she has not yet fully mastered those laws, she has gradually been able to integrate these profound laws with her own Star Dao.
If he were to encounter Bai Qingji again at this moment, he would definitely be able to break through her Emperor Blood Domain with a single punch, and might even beat her so badly that her parents wouldn't recognize her.
......
On the other side, at the mountaintop, lies the Heritage Pool.
On a vast platform paved with white jade, in a spiritual pool shrouded in seven-colored light, two enormous golden lotus flowers, in bud, floated quietly in the center of the pool.
The pool was filled with milky white spiritual liquid, mixed with wisps of pale golden mysterious light. These golden rays, like swimming fish, continuously flowed into the two golden lotus flowers, nourishing the beings within.
Inside the lotus, Bai Qingji sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, surrounded by a rich golden light.
The medicinal power of the Supreme Creation Pill circulated within her body, merging with the golden light surging into her, constantly tempering her physique and strengthening her White Emperor bloodline.
This long tradition has been going on for a very, very long time.
On this day, two golden lotuses bloomed simultaneously, radiating brilliant light. The golden petals slowly unfolded layer by layer, revealing two people sitting cross-legged inside.
The two opened their eyes at the same time and looked at each other.
A hint of confusion flashed in Bai Shu's eyes, but when she saw the person in front of her clearly, it turned into surprise. She asked gently, "Aji, when did you enter this place?"
Bai Qingji stood up respectfully, cupped his hands in greeting, and said, "Aunt, I entered the forbidden area with my cousin Bai Ye six years ago."
"Ah Ye? She's come to the Bai family?" Bai Shu was so shocked by this that he stood up immediately.
Bai Qingji nodded, a hint of embarrassment on her face. "Yes, Aunt, my cousin Aye defeated all the other geniuses of the Bai family in the clan competition and won the right to enter the forbidden area."
"Where is she?" Bai Shu completely ignored the "defeat everyone" part in her words and only focused on one thing: his own brat had actually come knocking on his door so quickly.
She hadn't seen that little brat in so long, and she wondered if he had grown up.
"Uh...this..."
Bai Qingji was speechless for a moment. She organized her thoughts before saying, "That day, we went up the mountain together. Just as my cousin Aye was about to reach the summit, she suddenly lost control and fell into the depths of the clouds below."
"Now that so much time has passed, I suppose she has already left the forbidden area on her own?" Bai Qingji hesitated as she said this, actually more worried that something might have happened to Bai Ye. But she couldn't say this in front of Bai Shu now.
"They've left? Then let's get out of here as soon as possible. We've been here long enough." Bai Shu said, taking a step forward and arriving at the edge of the spirit pool.
Her steps seemed leisurely, but in reality, they were incredibly fast, as if she had shrunk the distance to an inch. In just a few steps, her figure had already disappeared from Bai Qingji's sight.
Seeing this, Bai Qingji quickly followed. The speed of going down the mountain was much faster than going up. The pressure on the stone steps posed no threat to them. Before long, the ancient and heavy stone door appeared in front of them.
The two suddenly emerged from seclusion, causing a stir in the Bai family. The news quickly reached Old Madam Bai.
She had barely received the news when the doors of Taiwang Palace were pushed open. Bai Shu rushed into the palace, not even bothering to bow, and asked, "Grandmother, where is my little brat?"
Grandma Bai was somewhat surprised to hear this. "Ah Ye, isn't he staying in the back mountain?"
"Reporting to Great-Grandmother..." Bai Qingji stepped forward, bowed respectfully, and briefly explained what had happened back then.
Grandma Bai frowned slightly, recalling some rumors she had heard about the forbidden area, and had some guesses in her mind.
However, she did not speak directly to the impatient Bai Shu, but gently comforted him, "Don't worry, A Ye may have received a great opportunity. Let's wait patiently, and he will come out one day."
"Grandmother, what exactly is this opportunity? Please stop keeping us in suspense. Where did my A-Ye go?" Bai Shu asked anxiously.
"Alright, alright, don't you still believe Grandma?" Grandma Bai said, standing up and walking over to Bai Shu, patting her on the shoulder.
"Indeed, you've become much stronger. You were really foolish back then. The family bloodline is such a precious thing; how could you seal it away like that? If you had come back a few years later, even if you had entered the inheritance pool, I'm afraid you wouldn't have been able to save it, and you would have been a mortal forever." The old lady's tone was full of lingering fear.
Upon hearing this, Bai Shu's eyes darted around. "I don't think there's anything wrong with being an ordinary person. Working at sunrise and resting at sunset, living a simple and peaceful life, I was very happy in those years."
"And what about your child?" Old Mrs. Bai went straight to the point. "You're just going to ignore your little brat? Let me tell you, that little guy is a real troublemaker! Even worse than you were when you were a child."
"Now that you've become someone's mother, you have to take responsibility and plan for your child's future. Don't you want to be a support for your child? You had your family to rely on when you were young, how can you bear to let your child have nothing?"
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