Chapter 1254: Hidden Power in the Rift
Listening to Yi Jue's recitation, Shi Ban understood what he meant.
In the stone of the sea of consciousness, a number of smaller stone figures suddenly emerged.
The images recorded on the creation slate, which came like snowflakes, were diverted into these different sub-bodies.
The effect was so immediate that Shiban instantly felt a sense of relaxation that he had not experienced for a long time.
"This is just a buffer. If I want to completely solve my concerns, I need to store them."
The stone slab seemed to have realized something.
As his mind turned, the thousands of micro-bodies continued to expand and directly merged into the Evolution Stone.
The originally azure crystal, under the tempering of the stone slab method, turned into a miniature version of itself.
Through the eyes of the Huadao stone slab, you can see billions of different stone slabs, arranged horizontally and vertically. Just like in a mirror, there is no end.
"The computing power of this Dao Stone has been squeezed to the extreme. It is indeed worthy of being a rare object from outer space. Just one of the top-grade ones can take on the information of the Creation Slate without any burden..." Shiban couldn't help but admire it in his heart.
"And I still have control over these recorded data. After being sorted out and analyzed by countless Dao Stone sub-bodies, I can find them faster than before."
The hidden danger was eliminated, so he did not get up immediately.
Instead, they are enjoying the peace that they have never experienced in tens of thousands of years.
There were no longer countless images and noises constantly filling up his sea of consciousness. Instead, it was completely empty and dark, almost making Shiban want to cry.
After a long time, the stone slab finally stood up.
He bowed solemnly to the Holy Emperor in front of him and said, "Thank you, fellow Daoist, for your grace in saving my life!"
"It's just a piece of cake!" Although the Holy Emperor said so, he accepted it calmly.
After leaving the center of the formation, the Holy Emperor waved his hand, and the hole above his head was then covered by a mysterious aura.
Back in the Holy Throne, Li Ping also said frankly: "Although I helped you solve the problem of the messy information on the stone slab, I will not use this as a bargaining chip to ask you to do anything."
"Whether you are willing or not is entirely up to you, fellow Taoist."
Shiban could tell that the Holy Emperor spoke from the bottom of his heart and was deeply moved.
He said bluntly: "I and the Xuanhuang Realm have always shared the same fate. In the past, I was tortured by endless pain, so I had little interest in the secular world. But now that I have escaped, I will naturally not stand idly by and watch."
Li Ping just nodded slightly in response to Shiban's assurance.
However, he did not mention the previous guarantee [Xuanhuang Orthodoxy] plan again.
Instead, he asked about something else.
"What do you two think of the [Grand Mage of Tiandu]?"
"If I fight with Chuan Fa, will he take action?"
When this question was asked, Shiban and Yijue both had slightly strange expressions.
Shiban saw that Yi Jue had no intention of speaking, so he took the initiative to answer: "As far as I know, the great wizard has been recuperating in the sky above Daoyuan Province these years. Things in the outside world..."
"I'm afraid it will be hard to get his attention."
Shiban glanced at Fellow Daoist Yi Jue and said, "When the Ten Sects of the Immortal Dao were forced into a desperate situation by the catastrophe, they wanted to seek help from the Great Master more than once. But they were never able to get in."
"After leaving Tiandu, there was no chance to go back."
Slate's tone was slightly lamentable.
"King Xuantian is a man of outstanding character. You ten sects, for your own selfish desires, teamed up with the outsider, the Grand Master, to destroy the Xuantian Sect. You are accomplices to the evil one." The Holy Emperor commented indifferently.
Shiban smiled bitterly and didn't make any excuses.
Taoist Yi Jue had no unusual expression: "Saint Emperor is wise. It is true that the people of the ten sects were biased in the past. But everything is like a passing cloud, blown away by the wind. Those who started it back then are no longer with us. As for King Xuan Tian..."
"He will have to fight with the Great Master. Even if our ten sects were not there, it would still be the same. And according to the eyewitnesses, the disappearance of King Xuantian was also quite strange. It was not all caused by the Great Master."
"King Xuantian disappeared, and Xuantian Sect was in disarray. It was only natural for the ten sects to inherit the power. During the Xuantian Sect period, the oppression of the world's cultivators was too severe. After the ten sects came to power, they mostly adopted the strategy of recuperation, and the various sects, big and small, also ushered in a rare period of peace."
Yi Jue spoke slowly, not to excuse the Ten Sects, but to state the simple facts.
The stone slab also cooperated to project the images of that year onto the Holy Emperor Peak.
Watching the scenes flashing by quickly, Li Ping nodded slightly.
After a moment of silence, Li Ping said, "The Great Master is faintly beyond this world. Although the possibility of him intervening is very low, we must be on guard."
Shiban and Yijue were slightly stunned. They didn't expect that Li Ping still hadn't changed his plan.
"But I have my own way, you don't have to worry."
"How much do you two know about the current Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance?" Li Ping started another topic.
After a moment of silence, the stone tablet shook its head slightly and said, "The headquarters of the Immortal Alliance is located in the space of the Xuantian Treasure Mirror. It is a world of its own, shielding the perception of the Creation Stone Tablet. Although I have records of some of the states of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance over the years, I actually know very little about the core secrets of the Immortal Alliance."
"However, the highest level of the Immortal Alliance, the ones who spread the Dharma, are all the surviving cultivators of the Xuanhuang Realm. I have all their information here. But it is only limited to before they hid in the Xuantian Treasure Mirror."
"Since the re-establishment of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, they have been collecting resources from the Xuanhuang Realm to enrich their own exclusive world. With the blessing of secret treasures, their strength must be far different from what it was back then. The information I gave you can only be used as a reference." Shiban said solemnly.
A blue light spot, condensing a large amount of light and shadow information, slowly flew in front of the Holy Emperor.
As he absorbed it, countless images suddenly appeared in Li Ping's mind.
"These are enough." He said in a deep voice.
At this moment, Taoist Yi Jue coughed lightly: "The scene inside the Immortal Alliance headquarters..."
"We in the Du'e Sect do have some clues."
"Huh?" This time, Shiban was a little surprised.
"That's not right, Yi Jue. When your entire sect was suppressed by the Chuan Fa, the current Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance didn't even exist, right?"
Feeling the slate's suspicious gaze, the golden man smiled slightly.
"This is also a coincidence. When the Immortal Alliance headquarters was built, there happened to be a space where the World-Observing Divine Eye was located. They dug it out and implanted it into the space of the Immortal Alliance headquarters."
"Although I'm not in a core position, I've seen some things over the years. I'm not completely ignorant."
As Yi Jue spoke, the Book of Deliverance kept flipping through the pages as if he was offering a treasure, and the changing light and shadows slowly condensed into a page.
Slowly floated in front of Li Ping.
Li Ping absorbed this page of the book and quickly browsed the images recorded in it.
After a long time.
"In the Xuanhuang Realm, does this divine eye that I cannot sense still exist?"
The Holy Emperor spoke again, without any praise, but asked this question.
Taoist Yi Jue quickly stated: "Except for the special reason of the Mysterious Heavenly Treasure Mirror's isolation, all other divine eyes have been recovered by the Holy Emperor."
“But…” Daoist Fellow Yi Jue hesitated.
"But it's okay."
"Those places where the God's Eye of Observation was originally placed, although the God's Eye has been taken back now. But because the God's Eye has been stationed there for too long, the space itself has been contaminated with some of the characteristics of the God's Eye."
Upon hearing this, Shiban's expression suddenly became serious.
Yi Jue continued, "That is to say, we in the Du'e Sect can still sense what is happening near those [points]. But the effect is not as good as the observation of the divine eye."
As if to verify his statement, Yi Jue flipped through the Book of Du'e and projected the countless lights and shadows recorded at different points.
The range was smaller than that controlled by the Guanshi Divine Eye, and the image was also very blurry.
But as Yi Jue said, it's just the performance that has declined, the most critical [monitoring] function is indeed not lost.
"Yi Jue, what is the origin of this divine eye that observes the world?"
Shiban pondered for a moment, somewhat shocked, and asked the question that Li Ping had in mind.
You know, the fact that the Divine Eye can change the nature of the space it is in is not as simple as it seems.
If you really think about it, this can be considered as going against the laws of nature in a sense.
Taoist Yi Jue did not hide it: "When the Tianjian Sect created the Divine Weapon to split the world, it split the world and shook Xuanhuang. I went to the ruins of the Tianjian Sect to see it."
"That crack in the world is a shattered space, and no one knows where it leads to. If an ordinary cultivator enters it rashly, he will die. But our Du'e Sect's [Eternal Tribulation] can temporarily protect us."
The look in Slate's eyes suddenly became interesting.
"However, I was able to enter the crack of the world rift only at the risk of my life. Following the breath of the world rift divine weapon, I went deeper and deeper, just to confirm whether the Tianjian Sect was successful..."
"Unfortunately, the cracks healed faster than I thought. A power I had never seen before, which did not belong to the Xuanhuang Realm, was actively repairing the wound. I lost the trace of the world-splitting divine weapon, and I had reached the limit of what I could bear, so I had no choice but to return..."
"This divine eye of observation... was refined using the power I collected from the cracks in the world."
Taoist Yi Jue’s words came to an abrupt end.
But the scene described in the words made the other two people in the hall think more.
Shiban suddenly understood: "So, this World-Observing Divine Eye was not made into this shape by you on purpose. Rather, it is the manifestation of its power essence?"
Fellow Daoist Yi Jue nodded.
"Otherwise, how could our Du'e Sect suddenly come up with a method that even the Dharma Transmission is helpless against?"
There was a sudden silence in the Holy Emperor's throne.
In Li Ping's perception, this little golden man from the Du'e Sect did not lie.
Then the meaning of his words is really terrifying if you think about it carefully.
Does this mean that there is still a higher-level power, like the God's Eye that is monitoring the Xuanhuang Realm?
What kind of existence is behind it?
Is it outside the high wall, or...
Shiban suddenly remembered something and his expression changed.
But when the words came to his lips, he stopped.
Li Ping naturally noticed the abnormality of the stone slab, but he just locked onto it with his mind and did not speak.
Shiban understood Li Ping's concerns and waved his hand: "Daoyou, you misunderstood."
"I just suddenly remembered a rumor about the origin of Xuanhuang Realm."
"That was information I accidentally found at the bottom of the Genesis Slate. It must be hundreds of thousands of years old at least."
As soon as these words were spoken, they attracted the attention of Li Ping and all the paper figures of Du'e Sect.
Shiban frowned and said as he recalled: "In the era when the calamity had not yet come and the immortal way was flourishing, our Xuanhuang Realm seemed a little different in the endless starry sky."
"In addition to more frequent exchanges with the upper realm and numerous immortal artifacts, our Xuanhuang Realm also has an existence called [Great Celestial Venerable]."
"You know, after a cultivator ascends to heaven, he is basically completely cut off from the lower realm. But this Great Celestial Venerable can not only contact the upper realm, but also bring items from the immortal world to Xuanhuang."
"Moreover, the Great Celestial Venerable also has authority in the Xuanhuang Realm that is difficult for many cultivators to reach..."
Having said that, Shiban looked at Li Ping.
Li Ping shook his head slightly: "I have no memory of this."
Shiban didn't take it seriously and continued, "But the Great Celestial Venerable at that time was also different from the Great Celestial Venerable we know today. His cultivation and strength were not necessarily that high. He was more like a..."
"Official position."
Shiban pondered for a moment and uttered these two words.
"It's like an official position conferred by the upper realm. As long as you get the upper realm's approval, even a weak mortal can take on the position of a great celestial master."
"But now it is completely different. Without absolute strength, you will not be recognized by Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao. You will definitely not be able to achieve the position of Great Heavenly Venerable."
"I don't know when the difference between the two began. But what I want to say is..."
"The power of the simulated divine eye that appears in the crack of the rift doesn't necessarily come from outside the sea of stars. Perhaps it's a characteristic of the Xuanhuang Realm itself." Shiban looked at Li Ping again.
This view made all the disciples of Du'e Sect bow their heads and ponder.
"The original Great Celestial Venerable was able to control the world with a mortal body. He probably relied on a power similar to the divine eye that was hidden deep in the Xuanhuang Realm. However, at some point, the connection between this power and the Xuanhuang Realm was inexplicably severed."
The words of the stone slab echoed in the Holy Emperor's throne.
The ancient secrets involved in these words were unknown even to Li Ping before.
"Before the immortal path was cut off, changes must have occurred in the Xuanhuang Realm that ordinary cultivators could not detect." Li Ping said in a deep voice.
"That's just my guess. My original intention was that there's no need to worry too much about the forces outside the Star Sea. Even if there really is external interference, they haven't shown up in the Xuanhuang Realm for so many years..."
"It's too far for them to come here."
Slate said softly.
"I think so too." Fellow Daoist Yi Jue echoed, returning to his previous calm expression.
"What we have to face first now is the threat of spreading the Dharma. As for these..." Li Ping also came to a conclusion.
"Although it's not worth worrying about, we still have to be on guard."
The Holy Emperor still used the same words as when he mentioned the Great Master Tiandu, which surprised Yi Jue and Shi Ban.
"I have my own way, you don't have to worry."
(End of this chapter)
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