Chapter 3115: Three Jade Leaves

As a peerless supreme divine artifact, the Great Square Vessel still possesses myriad wondrous uses.

Sun Fuling glanced at the Great Shaman Zhaoman, then asked, "In a great decisive battle like this, aren't you participating?"

"I certainly want to, but my heart exceeds my strength." The Great Shaman Zhaoman smiled bitterly, "You should have also seen it — I am merely a wisp of an avatar; my true body fell long ago. But I promised the Dragon God, so in the thousands of years since the Great Square Vessel appeared, I have followed it, threading the needle for his choices, and never strayed far from it."

He paused. "Until twenty-seven years ago."

"Twenty-seven years ago?" Sun Fuling was now extremely sensitive to this number.

Twenty-seven years ago, the Great Shaman Zhaoman unprecedentedly left the Great Square Vessel he had guarded for thousands of years. Where did he go?

The answer was practically self-evident.

"You went to find He Lingchuan?" She let out a long "Oh." "So it was you who brought back Jiuyou?"

"That was the Great Square Vessel's will. Or rather, I followed the will of Chaos and brought He Lingchuan's divine soul back before that world was destroyed."

"Why?"

The Great Shaman spread his hands. "I'm not clear either. This question, I'm afraid only the Dragon God has the answer."

Sun Fuling looked at him strangely. "You're just an avatar; how do you have the ability to tear open the void and roam beyond the heavens?"

"Good question." The Great Shaman smiled. "Relying on myself alone, I truly couldn't do it."

He fished out a leaf-shaped piece of green jade from his bosom and spread it in his palm. "This divine object's era is extremely ancient."

"Jade Leaf?" Although this leaf looked no different from real green jade, Sun Fuling, as the possessor of the Death Godhead, could instantly sense the power contained within it — it was surging to a hair-raising degree! "What pure divine energy!"

If she closed her eyes, she would only feel a colossus on the level of the Earth Mother standing before her — no, even surpassing her!

Such vast surging power, yet it comes from a tiny little leaf — is that right?

"I have known the Dragon God for a long time. Long before the Ancient Great War occurred — that is, before the Heavenly Demons first invaded the mortal world — the Black Dragon had just obtained the title of Divine Sovereign and went to roam beyond the heavens for five hundred years." The Great Shaman spoke slowly. "No one knows where He went; He Himself remained deeply secretive about it, but upon returning He gave me three Jade Leaves as proof of His journey beyond the heavens."

"These three Jade Leaves each possess the power to break through spacetime barriers and pierce through the fog of karmic obstacles."

"The first one, I used on myself, and twenty-seven years ago I traversed spacetime as an avatar."

"The second one, I gave to He Lingchuan twenty-seven years ago, only he didn't know it." The Great Shaman said softly, "But a while ago, he used the Karmic Heavenly Barrier on the battlefield again — that most likely means he activated the Jade Leaf."

Sun Fuling's brow twitched.

On the night the Heavenly Demon descended, the Great Emperor Jiuyou used the Karmic Heavenly Canopy on the Ansha Fortress battlefield; she had heard about it afterward.

This was a strange matter, because in the final battle in the Panlong World, He Lingchuan had already repaid all karmic cause and effect. The Karmic Snake had also left before her eyes.

Why could Jiuyou still use the Karmic Heavenly Canopy? Or rather, why did Karma return to obey his command?

He Lingchuan hadn't explicitly told her about this matter.

But what kind of mind does Sun Fuling have? Knowing He Lingchuan's true origin, connecting the dots now, she already had a calculation in her heart.

The Great Shaman now handed the Jade Leaf to her. "Your great battle with the Holy Venerable Lingxu is imminent; I'll give you this last leaf — having one more divine artifact by your side is always good."

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Sun Fuling carefully accepted it, and the Jade Leaf emitted a faint green glow in her palm.

"This power is formidable, far more than just pure life essence!" Her expression changed.

Only upon taking it did she discover the power inside this leaf was very peculiar; it was her first time encountering it, and even she, this "God of Death," felt a sense of reverence. "This is————"

How to put it? She thought for a long time how to phrase it. "Penetrating power?"

Surging yet restrained, gentle yet powerful.

Contained yet not released, strong yet not ostentatious.

Only a powerhouse as extremely sensitive to power as she could experience the high-dimensional nature of this power — as if, if it wished, it could penetrate time, penetrate space, penetrate everything!

"Right?" The Great Shaman laughed heartily. "When the Dragon God produced these three Jade Leaves back then, I believed He truly had broken through the void and taken a trip beyond the heavens. Our mortal world could never possess such a thing."

"Oh, He also said that staying beyond the heavens might allow one to comprehend what lies above the Great Dao. But after deep consideration, He still decided to return to our mortal world, giving up that opportunity."

"Above the Great Dao?" Sun Fuling also listened with yearning. There are laws higher than the Heavenly Dao?

Indeed, there should be.

Beyond the heavens there are heavens.

The Great Shaman paused. "He said even He wanted to go, but He said He only stumbled into the beyond by accident; trying to go deliberately is impossible to find."

"What kind of plant could grow such leaves?" Sun Fuling sighed with emotion. "If the Holy Venerable Lingxu gets this leaf, it will be a calamity for the mortal world."

If the God of Life gets this thing, tsk tsk.

"Divine objects have spirits, unwilling to associate with them." For instance, the Great Square Vessel the Heavenly Demons pursued for hundreds of years — it refused to fall into the hands of the Spirit Mountain and the Heavenly Demons no matter what.

Sun Fuling carefully put away the Jade Leaf.

The power contained within is very beneficial for her comprehension of the Supreme Great Dao. Just holding this Jade Leaf, her Dao heart, still as dead water, stirred restlessly.

This thing is a supreme treasure for any True Immortal or Great Heavenly Demon.

The Great Shaman Zhaoman turned his head to look at her, and still decided to satisfy his curiosity. "Most of He Lingchuan's secrets you already know. He is not a person of this world — do you harbor any resentment in your heart?"

"Resentment?" Sun Fuling asked in surprise. "I admire him more than enough; why would I have resentment?"

"He was inexplicably sent here, didn't know he had enmity with the Holy Venerable Lingxu, yet could still cultivate and comprehend the Dao here, and even vowed to fight for the mortal world and countless living beings, walking all the way to today's stature." She said softly, "I admire him greatly; if it were me, I might not be able to do it."

Two hundred years ago, her motivation for guarding Panlong City stemmed from national hatred and family grudge, and the barrenness and unease brought by the wasteland. But He Lingchuan, as an otherworlder, originally had no home and no country here, yet unreservedly entangled himself in mortal karma, even sacrificing his body for the mortal world and for the Great Square Vessel.

His motivation and conviction are stronger than hers; she admires him greatly.

Sun Fuling extended a hand, and the Great Square Vessel appeared in her palm.

She gently stroked the Great Square Vessel and said in a low voice, "He has already sacrificed too much for the mortal world, and borne too much. So this time, let me shoulder the heavy responsibility."

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