Chapter 295 Three Celestial Beasts
The caller pulled the grass in his hand and told the little inside story of the Zhongqu Mountains that he knew in a disorderly manner. Luo Xuanyi kept asking questions until he fell to the ground with a strange cry and didn't say anything.
After carefully reviewing the caller's words, night had already fallen. The night in the Zhongqu Mountains was unaffected by the Feiyi disaster. A cool evening breeze blew, gently ruffling the strands of hair at Luo Xuanyi's temples. She was oblivious, lost in thought.
In short, the sky and earth of the Zhongqu Mountains were indeed two completely different realms, just as Luo Xuanyi had judged. However, the masters of these realms were not some kind of spiritual beast, but two celestial beasts.
Contrary to what Luo Xuanyi had heard, she had originally believed that the Zhongqu Mountains contained only one celestial beast, the benevolent Jinguang. Out of reverence for Jinguang, the demonic beasts and spirit beasts of the Zhongqu Mountains all showed kindness to ordinary mortals.
In fact, in addition to Jinguang, the Zhongqu Mountains also house the celestial beasts Quanxi, who governs the sky, and Duying, who governs the earth. Of these two, Quanxi deeply despises cultivators, and as such, has established a forbidden zone above the Zhongqu Mountains. Any cultivator who enters this forbidden zone will be lost in the endless sky.
Compared to the monk-hating Quanxi, Du Ying possesses a more gentle disposition. Du Ying controls the land of the Zhongqu Mountains, unaffected by the Quanxi forbidden area. As long as a monk walks within the land, Du Ying's blessing helps them find the right direction.
Aside from those who revere the benevolent celestial beast Jinguang, the demonic beasts and spirit beasts of the Zhongqu Mountains mostly follow Quanqian and choose to hunt cultivators. A few tribes, following Duying's example and friendly to human cultivators, now serve as mounts for the six major alliances. If we could avoid the beast tribes, our journey would be much easier, but based on the intelligence we have so far, exploring on our own would be too time-consuming.
"What we need to do now is to determine exactly where we are and which direction Yuqiong Mountain is relative to us."
Luo Xuanyi settled on her goal, took out a map, and unfolded it before her eyes, holding it with a deadly aura, carefully examining the mountain and river patterns on the fan. The skinny dog on her shoulder also raised its head and stared at the map.
"Yuqiong Mountain is here, where are we? Are there any obvious signs nearby..."
This map is quite simple. Apart from marking Yuqiong Mountain, all other mountains, rivers and streams are represented by only a few lines. There is no other information to supplement it, so it is impossible to determine their location.
Luo Xuanyi tried to find the river flowing out of the mountain under her feet on the map, but she couldn't find it after looking through the entire map. She couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Yu Linghe was overly confident in Luo Xuanyi's ability to find him. Luo Xuanyi recalled Yu Linghe's search for Long Tian's direction. She only needed to think, and the movements of people across the lands of various states would appear before her eyes. Perhaps that was why she left behind this simple map.
But this was within Luo Xuanyi's acceptable range. She turned her eyes away from the map and asked Shou Gou, "Did you see anything?"
The skinny dog pondered for a moment, then barked. Luo Xuanyi walked over to the caller lying on the ground, squatted down, and patted the caller's face, which was pretending to be unconscious. "What did it say?"
The caller refused to open his eyes. Luo Xuanyi withdrew her hand and said with regret, "It seems he's dead. He doesn't have much flesh left on him. Let's dig a hole and bury him."
The five-eyed toad jumped over very obediently and kicked the ground hard with its clumsy legs. Two deep scratches immediately appeared on the ground, and all the flying soil splashed onto the caller, who sat up suddenly.
"I'm not dead!"
"You're in your last moments, and you can't even speak clearly." Luo Xuanyi held up the skinny dog and tilted her head to look at the caller. "If you're not dead, translate what he said. Or are you dying and can't understand?"
The provocation method is obvious, but it is enough to be used on the caller whose IQ is lower than that of a child.
"It says this is the terrain of the Zhongqu Mountains a thousand years ago!"
The caller fell straight down again after shouting: "I fainted! Not dead! I fainted!"
The terrain from a thousand years ago. Yu Linghe lived 10,000 years before Luo Xuanyi's time. Why is the map he left behind a thousand years before Luo Xuanyi's birth?
Luo Xuanyi remembered that when she met the Jade Spirit Crane, she hadn't yet fully grasped the Dao Ancestor's power, and could only see a thousand years into the future at best. But by the time Luo Xuanyi left, she had already made a deal with the Pagoda Spirit, fulfilling her role as witness, thereby guiding the ghost world to descend and disrupt the present world. It's possible that the Jade Spirit Crane had fully mastered the Dao Ancestor's foresight.
However, Daozu Yu Lu killed the Heavenly Beast Mirror to seize the throne, and the body used by Yu Linghe was Daozu's. If he had complete control, he wouldn't have had such a mediocre prediction as the map from a thousand years ago.
Luo Xuanyi suddenly had a strange idea.
Perhaps in Yu Linghe's foresight, Luo Xuanyi was born a thousand years ago?
Or perhaps something happened a thousand years ago that disrupted fate and derailed Yu Linghe's predictions...
A thousand years ago, a thousand years ago. The greatest chaos of that time was the Daowang Sect's Heaven-Severing Battle. Four great demonic cultivators wielded four demonic blades, led by the demonic blade Shadao, slicing through the heavens. The Daowang Sect mobilized in full force. Over ten thousand Nascent Soul cultivators of the righteous realm perished, and even six Spiritual Transformation cultivators perished. The earth was shaken and the sky was torn apart, devastating all life.
Later generations believed that the Daowang Sect had not harmed the Heavenly Dao in the slightest, because the Heavenly Dao was supreme and beyond the reach of ordinary cultivators like them who had never ascended to the heavens. What if this judgment was wrong?
Because the Heavenly Dao is merely a celestial beast usurping its throne. If it were truly weakened by injury, the souls of cultivators who died in battle would likely be devoured by it directly in order to heal their wounds, preventing them from entering the cycle of reincarnation, thus disrupting the destined cycle of reincarnation.
Could it be that the reason why Luo Xuanyi is able to deceive the Heavenly Dao with her physical body and the Soul-Locking Technique is because of the wound left on the Heavenly Dao by the Battle of Slashing the Sky a thousand years ago?
Fate was clearly invisible, yet Luo Xuanyi seemed to see a tangled web of threads. Strangely, she felt as if these threads actually had their own order, though she couldn't yet see the full picture.
But even if fate is arranged, what does it matter?
The ghost world's arrival in the world was a departure from the destiny arranged by Heaven, and Yu Linghe's predictions were also deviated by a thousand years due to the Battle of Slashing the Heavens. This proves that whether it is fate arranged by Heaven or by man, it can be changed.
Luo Xuanyi stood up and felt the solid ground with her feet, without a trace of confusion in her heart.
She raised her hand and gently stroked the top of the Five-Eyed Toad's head, then lowered her head and asked, "Can your five eyes sense the nearby demonic beasts and spirit beasts?"
The five-eyed toad croaked in confusion, but still tried to activate its five eyes to begin sensing.
Since I am lost in the Zhongqu Mountains, I will go to ask the demon beasts and spirit beasts. If they are not polite enough to ask, I will beat them. Anyway, I have the caller and the skinny dog here, so I can push them out cleverly.
Luo Xuanyi had come this far, and she had only one choice: to continue living. Everything else would have to wait.
First update~Thanks to Du Chong Gu Ge for the 100 starting coins~
In the next part of the story, various spirit beasts will appear, which are basically based on the Classic of Mountains and Seas and then transformed.
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