Chapter 109: Giant Lantern

Giant Lantern

The instant the giant hand reached in, the bodies of all the cultivators present who had entered the Hengze Heaven trembled. Even though they were still in a state of meditation, many had blood seeping from their ears and noses. Both Both Ruan Ci also felt the aura field above the great net suddenly fall into chaos, as if certain constant rules between heaven and earth were being stirred into disarray by this hand, making space extremely unstable. Furthermore, an extremely dangerous pulsation was brewing within. Her heart gave a slight jolt: "Will the intersection of reality and illusion trigger a violent spiritual tide? Could this pulsation be the origin of the spatial storm?"

The strength of this giant hand might be a notch higher than that of a Grotto-Heaven cultivator, but with so many cultivators here, they were not without the power to fight. True Person Wang struck the Wind-Wave-Calming Chime. With a light 'Clang', the chaotic space above the great net was suddenly stabilized. It was as if an extremely gentle yet irresistible great power was smoothing out the chaotic space one by one. Once struck by True Person Wang, even if it were just a phantom, this Wind-Wave-Calming Chime brought with it that great trend of 'calming' and 'settling'. In Both Both Ruan Ci's perception, it was countless times more effective than when Chen Jun had struck it in South Zhuzhou.

The great trend sought peace, and all the forces in the field that did not belong to the real space, having only snuck in by relying on chaotic rules, seemed to appear withered and decadent due to this chime. The pleasant female voice also spoke at the right moment, "Envoy, you guard the imaginary numbers; rashly harvesting the essence souls of the real numbers will likely provoke unexpected changes. The intersection of reality and illusion will likely shake the Dao rhyme barrier. Is the Envoy doing this intentionally?"

The Envoy's consciousness did not seem very clear, or perhaps the communication between reality and illusion was inherently fraught with such layers of obstacles. He tilted his head to listen carefully to the woman's voice, but it was as if he had heard nothing at all. Since the Wind-Wave-Calming Chime had temporarily suppressed his momentum, he leaned back, and his eyes disappeared for a period of time. Another giant hand reached into the hole, pushing outward with force, seemingly wanting to expand this thick darkness once more so that he could stick his head in and release more power.

At this moment, the thick black window in the sky was almost filled by the two giant hands. The eyes were only far away behind the hands, the pupils shrunk into small round balls like the sun and moon, rotating sneakily. This scene was enough to make one feel a bit nauseated, but True Person Wang, holding the Wind-Wave-Calming Chime, did not make a move. In the distance, someone gave a sharp cry, and a piece of thin gauze flew toward the window, seemingly wanting to cover it. But although it clearly reached the horizon, it seemed to be in a different space from the hands and could not block their movements. The Envoy continued to tear at the barrier of unknown origin in the void. Although he had not yet succeeded for the time being, the sound of tearing silk could be vaguely heard in the sky. Clearly, if he continued to tear, something bad was likely to happen.

Just at this moment, a light sigh suddenly came from the horizon, yet it seemed to be right in everyone's ears. Both Both Ruan Ci hurriedly used her spiritual sense as eyes and turned to look. She was extremely cautious, only daring to observe the outer shape from afar, not daring to view this person within the aura field, lest she suffer serious injury in return.

True Person Wang and the other Grotto-Heaven spiritual energy incarnations also turned their heads to look, nodding in acknowledgement. They saw a woman in black in the distance, walking gracefully from between the mountains and seas. Her giant stature was not far off from that of the Envoy, filling the space between heaven and earth. When she first appeared, she was still very far away, but her features were already clearly visible, just like a perfect sculpture. Although extremely huge, her brows and eyes were distinct, exquisite to the point where not a single flaw could be picked out. She carried a lantern in her hand, and with every step she took, it was as if she crossed thousands of mountains and rivers, walking straight from the horizon to the peaks of the mountains far beyond the Treasure Cloud Sea.

The Envoy's pupils suddenly began to rotate crazily again, and he said noisily in the aura field, "Qingshan... you... again... ruin... my... good... deed..."

Qingshan raised the lantern in her hand and blew into it. An extremely dazzling spiritual light erupted from the lantern, as if it were the sun that had been obscured by the thick darkness, which she had harvested and placed inside the lantern. That spiritual light reached the thick black horizon in an instant, and by a stroke of luck, it shone directly onto the black pupil, as if the pupil had happened to rotate to the position where the spiritual light struck. The Envoy let out another miserable howl, and a pair of hands suddenly retracted from the edge of the hole. The pupils also kept moving away and shrinking, as if someone were falling from beyond the sky, and soon that white pupil could no longer be seen.

From beginning to end, Qing Shan stood in place, watching with extreme indifference as the Emissary was defeated. The True Persons also maintained their posture of looking up at the sky, not moving. The spiritual light from the lantern shone upon the thick darkness, and the blackness continuously melted and disintegrated. In the end, only a tiny black dot remained in the sky, appearing like a needle-prick that had pierced the skin, leaving behind a small wound that had yet to heal. However, one could feel the surrounding rules constantly surging forward, attempting to mend the black dot. It was just that it likely could not overcome the piercing intent attached to the black dot, and it did not succeed immediately.

The spiritual light of the lantern gradually dimmed. True Person Qing Shan stood on the mountain peak, looking like the candle-holding immortal maidens often seen in murals; her beautiful posture was entirely silent. But Both Both Ruan Ci could sense that her gaze, along with those of the other True Persons, was concentrated on that black dot. She was also curious in her heart, and seeing that True Person Wang did not stop her, she also channeled her spiritual sense to probe into that hole.

As soon as her spiritual sense approached the needle-prick, it felt as if it had traveled into a tunnel with no end. As she followed her intent to move forward, it began to be consumed crazily. Both Both Ruan Ci's spiritual sense was absolutely superior among those in the Foundation Establishment stage, but after only a moment, she felt it was on the verge of exhaustion. She thought this was because her level was insufficient and she was not capable of probing outside the Zhou Tian. Just as she was about to regretfully give up, she suddenly felt a familiar spiritual sense waiting in front of the tunnel. Both Both Ruan Ci mustered her last bit of strength, flew to the side of that spiritual sense, and touched it slightly. In a trance, she seemed to see the figure of True Person Wang sitting cross-legged with lowered eyes in his grotto-abode, and a faint joy of reunion welled up in her heart. That spiritual sense, however, did not respond; instead, it wrapped around her, and in an instant, she had flown out of the tunnel and pierced into a boundless void.

Both Both Ruan Ci had returned to the scene of Qingjun creating the world countless times while refining the Donghua Sword. Standing in the cosmic void at this time, her spiritual sense spread to the surroundings, and it was all boundless nothingness. But far away above, below, left, and right, there were infinite brilliant stars, slowly moving along mysterious trajectories in the extreme distance. Although they were very far apart, there was nothing else in the universe. The spiritual light shone through, and even in the infinite distance, there was starlight projecting and turning. Yet, it was subtly and tangibly different from the feeling of looking up at the starry sky within the Langhuan Zhou Tian.

Looking back at the Langhuan Zhou Tian, she saw that this extremely vast Zhou Tian was nothing more than a giant ball emitting fluorescent light in the void. Outside the ball were two thin films flashing with spiritual light. Both Both Ruan Ci measured it secretly, knowing that if she peered inside while sticking to the film, the eye projection in the sky would probably be as large as the Envoy's. She knew in her heart that they had probably escaped by using the tunnel left by the Envoy, which was why there was such a change in her perception. If it were like Sister Xie Sister Xie Yan Yan Huan, who shattered the barrier himself and escaped with his true body, looking back at the Langhuan Zhou Tian might be another scene entirely.

A dozen figures stood silently in the air, all looking at the stars of the Zhou Tian. It was unknown how much time had passed; it seemed only a very short instant had passed. A warning sign appeared in Both Both Ruan Ci's heart, and she knew that the tunnel was likely about to close. She couldn't help but feel a trace of urgency. True Person Wang, however, was still unhurried. Just as the tunnel was about to close completely, leaving only a tiny, almost invisible gap, he moved like lightning, carrying Both Both Ruan Ci and passing through the last gap in the blink of an eye, returning to their two bodies by a hair's breadth.

After him, the dozen spiritual lights also solidified again, all looking at True Person Qingshan. True Person Qingshan slowly opened her eyes, those eyes like deep pools and large lakes, staring at the people who were like dust on the Treasure Cloud Sea. Her red lips parted slightly, as if she were about to speak. She took a slight breath, and the figures of the people on the clouds swayed. Some Foundation Establishment cultivators were blown rolling on the auspicious clouds, and Both Both Ruan Ci was also blown swaying, feeling even more nauseated: she had exhausted her spiritual sense to traverse the needle prick just now and could not reflect the Jade Pool. The spiritual power in the Jade Pool overflowed like water. If it weren't for the fact that her body seemed to have been refined again in the Treasure Cloud Sea and had undergone changes, the overflowing spiritual power would have shaken her meridians and caused her some minor injuries.

True Person Qingshan seemed to sigh, and a wind force a thousand times stronger than before blew out from that mountain-cave-like mouth. Everyone on the Treasure Cloud Sea was blown into mid-air. True Person Wang's spiritual energy incarnation flashed and disappeared in the air, but Lu Lu Huangning seemed to have received instructions, wrapping all the disciples together and hurriedly fleeing forward along the wind force of True Person Qingshan.

Both Both Ruan Ci looked down from the air and saw that the endless auspicious clouds of the Treasure Cloud Sea were all blown away by True Person Qingshan. The sea of spiritual energy was already in the tide, and being blown like this, it stirred up invisible giant waves. True Person Qingshan stood on the mountain top, looking down, seemingly carefully checking the changes in the sea of spiritual energy. There were a few other figures beside her who had not been blown away. Both Both Ruan Ci wanted to see more clearly, but Lu Lu Huangning fled very fast, and after just this one glance, she lost her perception.

She wanted to see Lu Lu Huangning's escape route again to see if she could see the monster in the Fengfu River or see Huang Shoushan, but Lu Lu Huangning's escape light was high and fast. Both Both Ruan Ci's spiritual sense had just nourished a little after being exhausted, and she was truly exhausted in her heart. Now that she was under the wings of her sect, she no longer needed to worry about her own safety, so she gradually relaxed and slowly fell asleep.

Before falling asleep, she was still thinking about Wang Wang Panpan: "It promised to wait for me outside the Hengze Heaven, but as soon as I came out, there was such a change. I don't know where it is hiding now, whether it is scared and running around, or whether it was seen by my master. The True Persons didn't allow the Foundation Establishment and Golden Core cultivators to watch the confrontation with the Envoy, there must be a reason. Wang Panpan is only at the Golden Core cultivation level, and Master is so stingy, I wonder if he will protect it... Master is not here, and my cultivation is low, Wang Panpan is really such a pitiful little cat..."

After coming out of the Hengze Heaven, variables arose suddenly. Both Both Ruan Ci still couldn't act on her own until now, but she was truly thinking about Wang Wang Panpan in her heart. This sleep was not peaceful. As if responding to her thoughts before sleep, she heard many cat calls in her dream, as well as Lu Lu Huangning's vague voice. She didn't know how long she had slept, but when she opened her eyes and sat up, she almost knocked Wang Wang Panpan, who was standing on her chest, down.

"You're awake!"

Wang Wang Panpan stretched out its claws, hanging onto the brocade quilt on Both Both Ruan Ci's chest, which was why it wasn't thrown off. It slowly slid down from Both Both Ruan Ci's body, dragging the brocade quilt and making it fuzzy. Its cat face was tilted up, sniffing around on Both Both Ruan Ci's face, as if checking her safety, "You slept for such a long time, that deer even came to see you several times."

Speaking of Seeing Tianlu, it was quite disgusted. It sniffed Both Both Ruan Ci again, twitched its nose, stretched out its tongue and licked Both Both Ruan Ci's cheek, and said with some confusion, "Why has your smell changed... ah, that silly deer is here again."

As it spoke, it jumped off the bed, ran out in a few leaps, and bumped the door open. Sure enough, not long after, Seeing Tianlu rushed in from the door, ran to Both Both Ruan Ci's bed, then raised its hand and braked sharply, throwing itself on Both Both Ruan Ci's knees, and said with surprise, "Miss Ci, you're finally awake!"

It also said, "The True Person said, he wants to see you when you wake up."

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

There will be a lucky draw tomorrow. If you have any questions about the Hengze Heaven, you can ask them under this chapter today. I will answer anything you don't understand about the Hengze Heaven dungeon, except for those that obviously involve spoilers or will be explained later~ I won't go to Weibo, here is fine.

I had stir-fried bitter bamboo shoots for lunch today. I love bitter bamboo shoots so much. I must have been a bamboo rat in my previous life!

Also, to celebrate the double festival, I posted a sudden little side story on Weibo about "a woman who adorns herself for the one she loves." Old readers of "A Woman Who Adorns Herself" can go take a look~

. Thanks to the little angels who cast overlord votes or irrigated nutrient solution for me during 2020-10-01 12:02:01~2020-10-02 12:06:29~

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Thank you all very much for your support, I will continue to work hard! ===== CHAPTER 110 =====