Chapter 101: The Former Master of Langhuan

The Former Master of Langhuan

Ruan Ci had been cultivating for less than ten years, but she had already experienced many dangers that many cultivators could not imagine. In her memory, those like Qu Pingting and Di Wu Cang, cultivation was nothing more than following the steps, and occasionally going to a place like the Green Jade Bright Hall was considered an adventure. When Ruan Ci was still an ignorant young girl, she experienced the tragic change of her family being destroyed, and was then carried to the peak of this world by Xie Yanhuan. Afterward, whether it was refining Donghua, apprenticing at the Altar City, crossing the virtual numbers, eliminating demons at Huang Shoushan, or even climbing the Dao foundation and shattering the void, all were big scenes that other cultivators could hardly experience in a lifetime. Invisibly, she had already cultivated a calm spirit. At this time, although she was teleported to the depths of the sea of spiritual energy, she was still not panicked in her heart. While trying her best to swim upward, she thought to herself, "Was I teleported here because of the Jade Dew? No, that's not right. Many cultivators have obtained the Hengze Jade Dew in the past. If everyone were teleported to the depths, the sect would naturally have given warnings long ago, telling me to be prepared."

If not because of the Jade Dew, then why? There were many special things about her, and she couldn't distinguish them in a hurry, so she could only try to swim upward. At this time, she was surrounded by formless and qualityless spiritual energy, but in the field of imposing auras, that extremely deep and thick spiritual energy seemed to have turned into a surging tide. In such depths, the seawater itself was a huge weight. Even though the Donghua Sword spirit protected its master and pushed away the spiritual energy pressure for her, the weight she felt all over her body, as if it were about to crush her bones, was still extremely painful. If she hadn't been tempered by the Donghua Sword intent, and her body strength far exceeded her peers, she would have been crushed and severely injured by now.

Ruan Ci gathered all her strength, but still couldn't swim upward, only struggling to maintain her position without falling. Just doing this, the spiritual liquid in the Jade Pool was constantly being consumed, walking through the meridians, stimulating the body's strength to resist that huge force. Under such heavy pressure, she could only move her eyes slightly to look around, but she saw that she was surrounded by vast spiritual energy, not knowing how vast it was. But because it was all spiritual energy, the field of vision was very broad. As her thoughts turned, she could vaguely see the undulating coastline, and even the faint broken walls and ruins on the seabed could be seen roughly. It was just that the distance her eyes could reach was very far, but her body couldn't move at all, forming a very sharp contrast.

"If I can't float up in a very short time, I'm afraid there will be trouble. Fengyu has a higher cultivation than me. According to common sense, I should naturally leave before her, which is considered mutual protection between fellow sect members. If I come out later than her, it will definitely attract everyone's attention. The Hengze Jade Dew is hidden on me, and with Yunzi covering my aura, none of those Foundation Establishment disciples noticed it. But Yunzi is just a piece of the Heavenly Mandate Chessboard, and I don't know if it can deceive the inspection of a Cave Heaven True Person. Someone has already gone up and told about the Eternal Dao City and even the Dao struggle. It just depends on whether it will alarm a Cave Heaven True Person to come here."

Various thoughts came to her mind, and Ruan Ci discarded them all. Enduring the severe pain, she struggled to move her limbs and kicked upward, but she still remained in place. The heavy pressure at this time was too great, and the earth-shattering kick in her heart was actually just a slight kick of her legs, not even stirring up a ripple.

At this time, above the spiritual energy Jade Pool, the spiritual energy essence that was like clouds and mist, naturally transformed due to the excessive density of spiritual energy, had been gradually absorbed and dissipated by her body, and one-third of the milky white spiritual liquid in the pool was gone. If she stayed for a longer time like this, once the spiritual liquid was exhausted, it would be the result of the Dao foundation collapsing. Ruan Ci was still not panicked, thinking in her heart, "Any illusion array secret realm can have its power slightly reduced by cracking its principles. A place where spiritual energy erupts like the Treasure Cloud Sea should not be something that a real-number Zhou Tian like Langhuan Heaven should possess. After all, in the memory, Huang Yang finally smashed the heaven and earth at the Foundation Establishment layer, and finally fell into this real heaven and earth where mortals live... Ah, if that's the case, then, then I have one more layer in Hengze Heaven that I haven't thought of."

"The Nirvana Dao Ancestor fell here, doesn't that mean that this Treasure Cloud Sea was originally the wreckage of the Eternal Dao City... No! It should be said that the Eternal Dao City in Hengze Heaven was the presentation of Langhuan Zhou Tian at that time. Langhuan Zhou Tian was originally the inner scene heaven and earth of the Nirvana Dao Ancestor, just like the Qinghua All Things Heaven is transformed from the inner scene heaven and earth of the Qing Jun. The Nirvana Dao Ancestor is the former master of Langhuan Zhou Tian, and this Treasure Cloud Sea is the remnant of her dantian Jade Pool! The reason why these spiritual energies surge like seawater is because the spiritual liquid in the inner scene Jade Pool originally had some water-like characteristics... We, the living beings of Langhuan Zhou Tian, don't know how many were originally the dependents of the Nirvana Dao Ancestor!"

Just as she understood this layer in her heart, she felt the spiritual pressure around her lighten. The seawater no longer pressed her downward like a giant stone, but instead seemed to lift her up with gentle hands, revealing a sense of closeness and attachment. There was even more spiritual power that was pervasive, wanting to bypass the repulsive force emitted by the Donghua Sword and drill into her body. But the repulsive force emitted by the Donghua Sword was as thorough as ever. Those spiritual powers drilled in every way, only making Ruan Ci feel itchy all over, as if many small hands were tickling the soles of her feet, causing her to curl up, toss and turn in the sea, and let out giggles, shouting in her heart, "Stop messing around!"

She was secretly rejoicing, and also felt that there seemed to be heavenly will in the dark. If she had realized this layer in Hengze Heaven, she feared that the repulsive force between her and the Nirvana Dao Ancestor would be even stronger, and whether the power of the silver hairpin could link the two would be a matter of debate. It was also because Ruan Ci had grown up in Langhuan Zhou Tian since she was a child. In her heart, Langhuan Zhou Tian seemed to be an existence that was taken for granted, and it had nothing to do with the strange anecdotes she had experienced. With such limitations in her thoughts, her reaction was a bit slow. It was not until this moment that she fell into the depths of the Treasure Cloud Sea and had such an epiphany under heavy pressure.

"If I had figured this out in Hengze Heaven, would this trip still be so lucky? Would I have been immediately rejected by Hengze Heaven into the virtual numbers?" She couldn't help but think, "Probably not. Probably I was destined not to figure it out in Hengze Heaven... It's not that someone manipulated my thoughts, but someone manipulated my fate. Or, to change the idea, if I had thought of this layer in Hengze Heaven, then the silver hairpin given to me by Qing Jun might have been stronger, still enough to link me and the Nirvana Dao Ancestor."

The Dao Ancestor's game is mysterious and mysterious, and Ruan Ci didn't dare to hope to guess it completely. She only thought that if she was entirely due to luck and didn't realize this layer in Hengze Heaven, then the one favored by luck was not her, but Qin Fengyu. She had the Donghua Sword to protect her, and she was a chess piece in the Dao Ancestor's game. Even if she fell into the virtual numbers, she would have some adventures and would not easily die at the Foundation Establishment realm. But if Qin Fengyu had been told this complete truth at that time, she feared she would have immediately fallen into the virtual numbers and would never be able to return.

Although a bit noisy, Ruan Ci and Qin Fengyu had a good friendship. This thought made her feel cold all over, and she was secretly afraid. Only then did she know why Wang Panpan always said that some things were not told to her for her own good. Ruan Ci hated people who were secretive and didn't say everything in her life, but now she was taught to slowly have some of this appearance. In the cultivation world, even a slight carelessness in words could damage the Dao path and life of relatives and friends, so how could one not be secretive about the secrets of the upper realm!

She didn't know how many great experts had gathered above the sea surface. While still in the depths of the sea, with spiritual pressure covering her, she sorted out her thoughts for a while. She didn't dare to delay too long, and wanted to separate the seawater and swim upward. But although the seawater no longer exerted heavy pressure on her, when Ruan Ci’s thoughts were transmitted, the waves were still lazy and unwilling to lift her out.

Ruan Ci paddled her hands and feet a few times, but the seawater still didn't change at all, nor did she float up. She couldn't help but feel anxious in her heart. Her spiritual sense communicated with the jade bracelet transformed by the Donghua Sword, wanting it to increase the repulsive force. Unexpectedly, the Donghua Sword sent a sense of urging, seemingly not wanting to float up, but wanting to dive to the bottom of the Treasure Cloud Sea. The sense of urging and hunger was just as eager and impatient as when the Donghua Sword intent devoured the Phoenix Sand in Huang Shoushan.

Ruan Ci’s heart also jumped, and she thought, "Master told me that there is Donghua Sword intent left in Hengze Heaven. Could it be that what the Nirvana Dao Ancestor gave me was not the remnant of the Donghua Sword intent, but something else, and the real Donghua Sword intent is buried in the depths of the Treasure Cloud Sea?"

If the Treasure Cloud Sea is regarded as the remnant of the Dao Ancestor's Jade Pool and the reflection of the Eternal Dao City wreckage in reality, then it is logical for the Donghua Sword intent to be buried on the seabed. But the spiritual pressure here was no longer something Ruan Ci could bear. If she wanted to dive further down, she had to have the cooperation of the seawater. She urged her thoughts repeatedly, but the waves of the seawater remained unmoved. Ruan Ci tried to swim downward, but as soon as she moved her hands and feet, she felt the mountain-like heavy pressure attack again, as if it had annoyed the tide, scaring her to immediately give up this thought.

Being neither up nor down like this, isn't it awkward? Although her life was safe, she couldn't be trapped here forever, right? Time passed bit by bit, and Ruan Ci couldn't help but feel a little anxious, but she calmly discarded it. She thought of all the ways in her heart, and after thinking about it, she still took out a jade bottle, injected a little thought into it, and projected her spiritual sense into it. The next moment, her heart also shook slightly, feeling that at this moment, the vast spiritual energy of the Treasure Cloud Sea was all related to her, as if her every breath was connected to the fluctuations of a large area of the Treasure Cloud Sea. A surge in her heart lake would stir up thousands of waves on the Treasure Cloud Sea.

This hallucination was only fleeting. The next moment, she returned to reality, feeling that there was something mysterious in the surrounding sea area dripping into the bottle. The speed was quite slow, as if it would last for a long time. But Ruan Ci had no time to care about the time. The jade bottle became hot, stuck to her palm, and emitted bursts of scorching heat. This heat seemed to lead directly to her spiritual platform and sea of consciousness, making her extremely painful, but she couldn't shake it off. From her palm, strands of numb spiritual power spread into her body's meridians. The Donghua Sword jumped twice on her hand, conveying a sense of dissatisfaction, as if it wanted to increase the repulsive force, but that repulsive force could only repel the seawater spiritual power and had no way to deal with this mysterious thing that was dripping down. It could only sit and watch the aftertaste of this thing slowly spread into Ruan Ci’s body.

Even when the Donghua Sword intent tempered her body at that time, I'm afraid it was only this painful. Ruan Ci almost wanted to roll in the seawater. The seawater rippled gently, slapping her hands and feet, as if it were soothing her pain, but it was just a drop in the bucket. Wherever this numb force went, faint blood color appeared on her skin and was swept away by the seawater, as if her blood vessels couldn't bear such heavy pressure and had already begun to collapse. Ruan Ci’s body seemed to be paralyzed wherever it went, just like when she refined the Donghua Sword and gradually couldn't move. It was just that she was a mortal at that time, and her five senses were not yet opened. At this time, she was already a cultivator, and she was more sensitive to the spread of pain, so naturally, the feeling was richer and harder to bear.

That mysterious thing was still dripping slowly, and the spread of the aftertaste was also slow and firm. Ruan Ci could no longer distinguish time. She bit her teeth tightly, kept her spiritual platform clear, and didn't even have any extra thoughts. There was only one thought of persisting. She didn't admit defeat in front of the Donghua Sword when she was a mortal, and she wouldn't give up now. If her thoughts were blurred and she died here, then she would accept her fate. But as long as there was a trace of consciousness, she would not give up resistance, and would still keep her clarity, letting the pain sweep over her.

I don't know how long it took, as if it were after endless years. In the last trace of sensing, the inexplicable thing finally all fell into the bottle. The Hengze Jade Dew jumped slowly in the bottle, just like a heartbeat, and the scorching aftertaste also expanded and contracted three times, suddenly all collected into the bottle. Ruan Ci’s hands and feet suddenly lightened. With a slight movement of her thoughts, as soon as she turned around, she rolled out from the original place, rolling for a hundred feet before stopping. She couldn't help but be stunned in her heart, thinking that the seawater pressure was completely eliminated, but she still used the strength she had just used to resist the heavy pressure, which was why she had such a performance.

As soon as she sensed it, she was shocked again. The weight of the seawater was still the same, and that gentle feeling had completely faded. But it seemed that some other things had disappeared with it, making the pressure of the seawater on people a little less, but the weight was still there. It was Ruan Ci’s body that had become extremely tough, and even without using spiritual power, she was enough to move freely under such heavy pressure. That was why she had used the spiritual energy she had just mobilized to turn around, which was why she had rolled for hundreds of feet, making a not-so-small joke.

This is... after the Donghua Sword intent tempered her body, did the inexplicable thing come again? The last time was a necessary process for refining the Donghua Sword. This time... it seems to be the process of being affected by the dripping of the mysterious thing while holding the Jade Dew purification bottle?

No matter what the mysterious thing is, it can merge with the Jade Dew left by the Nirvana Dao Ancestor, it must be a treasure of the upper realm. Ruan Ci freed the Nirvana Dao Ancestor from the emptiness of the virtual numbers, and the two had a deep connection. She believed that the Nirvana Dao Ancestor would not intentionally harm her. She naturally gained some benefits, but Ruan Ci didn't feel very happy in her heart, only feeling that there was another layer of mystery on her body.

She didn't rush to explore what changes she had, but hurriedly swam upward. This time her physical body was enough to resist the heavy pressure of the seawater, and under the urging of spiritual power, she rose straight up, and there was no obstacle.

Ruan Ci swam very fast. After swimming upward for a while, the color of the seawater faded, and she could vaguely see many figures struggling to swim above. Ruan Ci’s heart moved, and she sensed a familiar aura staying diagonally above, so she swam toward Qin Fengyu. Qin Fengyu was just about to swim downward. When their eyes met, Qin Fengyu was extremely surprised, and made a gesture for her to swim upward, indicating that she was following behind.

Her face was pale, and her red clothes were wet and stuck to her sides, as if she had stayed here for a period of time. One must know that when swimming out of Hengze Heaven, everyone’s depth would make people uncomfortable. The higher the cultivation, the stronger the pressure. Qin Fengyu was actually able to withstand the pressure and wait for her here, and even wanted to swim downward!

Ruan Ci had some indescribable feelings in her heart. While going up, she made a gesture. Qin Fengyu recalled and compared a "two" to her. Ruan Ci was also slightly shocked in her heart: the endless time just now, according to Ruan Ci’s own sensing, was at least several years, but here in Qin Fengyu, it was only two sticks of incense?

Was it her sense of time that had hallucinations below, or was the flow of time below different?

This question was at least temporarily unanswerable by anyone. Ruan Ci didn't delay any longer, controlled her speed to float up, and could vaguely see Jiang Youwen and Su Jingxing not far above. In fact, with their cultivation, they should have floated to the surface long ago, but they were clearly slowing down on purpose, wanting to confirm her safety.

When their eyes met, they all understood. Jiang and Su only glanced at her, then accelerated to float up one after another, leaping out of the cloud layer first. Not long after, Ruan Ci also grasped the cloud head and turned onto the cloud surface. At this time, dozens of people had already landed on the shore one after another, and the sound of calling was endless. She also heard a familiar female voice, smiling, "Ah, it's my Shangqing disciple."

As soon as the voice fell, a gentle magic power lifted her and moved her over. Lu Huangning smiled and pointed at Ruan Ci, and the water vapor all over her body evaporated. Ruan Ci looked at his concerned expression and hurriedly said, "Fengyu is below, she will be up soon."

Before the words were finished, Qin Fengyu turned onto the cloud top, lying on the cloud head and panting, clearly extremely exhausted. Lu Huangning was anxious to protect his disciple, so he hurriedly took her to his side, patted a ray of spiritual energy to check her injuries, and took out an elixir from his arms and handed it to Qin Fengyu. Just as he was about to speak, his expression suddenly changed again, and he looked up at the sky.

He was a Nascent Soul cultivator, and his five senses were naturally much sharper than those of Xu Shaowei, Ruan Ci, and others. Ruan Ci was still confused and didn't know what was good to look at in the clear sky, but the Nascent Soul great experts everywhere on the cloud head all made similar moves one after another. Just as she was about to ask in detail, a figure flashed before the eyes of the Shangqing Sect members, falling from the cloud top from nothing, and everyone exclaimed, "Master?!"

"Master!"

"Little Martial Uncle!?"

"Grandmaster?"

True Person Wang’s face was glowing with spiritual light, clearly a spiritual energy incarnation. Spiritual light appeared frequently around the Treasure Cloud Sea. In an instant, more than a dozen Cave Heaven True Persons had manifested here. They looked at each other and didn't say much, all joining hands to lift upward, as if resisting something. At this time, Ruan Ci and others heard a rumbling sound coming from the sky. The sunlight that had just been dazzling and bright suddenly dimmed, and in an instant, a thick blackness spread, and a huge aura was slowly brewing in the blue sky, as if something major was about to happen!

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Updated, sorry for the wait, everyone. I'll send out red packets in a while.

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Question for this chapter: What is the mysterious thing that dripped down?

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