Chapter 188: Divine Ability

Zheng Fa felt as though his entire being was being "pulled" by something, his soul rising into the sky.

He passed through the roof of the Five Dragon Heavenly Palace and saw Brother Pang and others looking out from the main hall.

Then, he saw the entire Lei Chi market beneath his feet; the disciples in the market seemed drawn to this celestial phenomenon as well. Whether shopkeepers or customers, all tilted their heads, stood on tiptoe, and gazed upward.

They seemed unable to see him.

Zheng Fa continued to fly upward.

Gradually, the people on the ground shrank to the size of ants.

The Lei Chi market resembled a pile of children's building blocks.

Even the vast Lei Chi itself, after a cup of tea's time, became a single ink spot on the earth.

Even that ink spot soon became indistinguishable.

He passed through the sea of clouds.

Slowly, he stood shoulder to shoulder with the sun and moon.

But he did not stop; that force was still pulling him upward.

By the time he halted, there was nothing around him.

It was just that his soul seemed unable to fly any higher, as if it had touched a thick barrier.

Zheng Fa looked up, yet saw nothing before his eyes.

Is this... the shackles of heaven and earth that Tianhe Zunzhe spoke of?

He raised his eyes to look upward.

The scene above his head surprised him even more.

He saw a talisman diagram spinning above his head.

This talisman diagram was so large that Zheng Fa even suspected it might be bigger than Lei Chi.

What made Zheng Fa feel eerie was that, as this talisman diagram slowly rotated, its configuration seemed strangely familiar—the Five Elements Sub-Talisman.

Zheng Fa felt a sudden realization:

The thing pulling him upward was probably this very object.

Sister Zhang's Five Elements Ring resonates with the sky; could it be referring to this thing?

He reached his hand toward the sky above, but grasped nothing.

His hand passed through that spiritual talisman without any obstruction.

"Fake?"

Puzzled in his heart, he extended his hand again and discovered that the talisman diagram had revealed a gap in the shape of a right hand.

"A projection?"

He suddenly froze, then realized that this thing was also a projection.

Zheng Fa looked beyond the sky.

As far as his sight could reach, there was only emptiness; nothing could be seen at all.

The original body of this talisman diagram was unknown in distance; it might even not exist in this time and space.

Just as he understood this point, the huge talisman diagram above his head suddenly contracted into a ball of light. The ball of light emitted a blinding flash and crashed violently into him!

Zheng Fa was knocked dizzy and disoriented.

He felt only that he was falling rapidly.

In the next moment, he felt he had returned to his own body, while the ball of light formed from that huge talisman diagram plunged directly into the Mobius Talisman Foundation within his dantian.

Zheng Fa frowned as he looked, feeling that the originally simple Five Elements Sub-Talisman had suddenly gained some additional changes. These changes were hard to see with the naked eye, but it seemed he had acquired some new information in his mind.

"What you mean is... you seem to have obtained a Divine Ability?"

In Zheng Fa's room, Sister Zhang scrutinized him from head to toe; the pride and worry in her eyes were obvious.

"Yes..." Before Sister Zhang, he had nothing to hide: "This Divine Ability seems to be a gift from that talisman diagram, called the Positive-Negative Five Elements Divine Light."

"Positive-Negative Five Elements Divine Light; what power does this Divine Ability possess?"

"I just obtained this Divine Ability and do not fully understand it yet; it can probably control the opponent's magical treasure for a short time."

As he spoke these words, his expression became somewhat strange.

This thing... he seemed to have heard of something similar in the modern era.

After listening, Sister Zhang thought for a moment and said, "Short time? How short?"

"How about we try?"

Sister Zhang and Sister Yuan exchanged a glance, nodded lightly, and both drew out their innate magical treasures.

As expected, Sister Yuan's innate magical treasure was a feather fan made from her own feathers.

Sister Zhang's innate magical treasure, however, surprised Zheng Fa a bit—she was holding a writing brush in her hand.

"This is my innate spiritual treasure, the Flying Immortal Brush," Sister Zhang explained upon seeing his puzzled expression. "I forged this after achieving Jin Dan. The brush handle comes from a Vermilion Bird's beak, the brush tip is made from White Tiger fur, the brush well is taken from a Qilin's horn, and the material of the brush top is a Black Tortoise shell."

Listening made Zheng Fa's cheeks ache.

From sourness.

The fan in Sister Yuan's hand nearby even shrank slightly; she looked somewhat inferior.

"Senior Sister, the legendary Four Celestial Spirits of Heaven and Earth have been gone for tens of thousands of years; your materials..."

Sister Zhang said coldly, "I never fight battles without profit."

But you have fought many battles...

Understood.

No wonder Sister Zhang, with such talent, has a rather poor reputation in the Baixian Alliance.

Zhang Shijie produced this treasure not to show off.

She had Zheng Fa cast the Positive and Negative Five Elements Divine Light on herself and Yuan Shijie once each.

The effect was quickly tested.

Against Yuan Shijie, a Jin Dan, Zheng Fa could control her treasure within the time it takes to burn one stick of incense.

Against someone like Zhang Shijie, a True Person of Nascent Soul, the difference was vast.

The time the Positive and Negative Five Elements Divine Light could take effect was merely one breath.

Moreover, because these two treasures placed an extreme burden on his divine sense and magic power, he could hardly claim to use the other's treasure; at best, he could only be said to have interfered with Zhang Shijie and the other's control over their treasures.

"..."

After the test, Zhang Shijie looked at Zheng Fa's face, which had turned wrong.

"Zhang Shijie?"

"I finally understand how others used to look at me."

"..."

"They were probably thinking the Heavenly Dao is unjust, so they wanted to hit me."

"This... Zhang Shijie." Zheng Fa stopped her words: "Is it possible that they wanted to hit you might also have something to do with your personality?"

"..."

"The Heavenly Dao is unjust!" Pang Shushu cried out in sorrow.

He had just managed to send away those curious True Persons, hurriedly rushed to Zheng Fa's room, heard about the Positive and Negative Five Elements Divine Light, and slapped his thigh hard.

"Pang Shushu..."

No, is everyone in the Xuanwei Realm this jealous?

"That surnamed Yuan!" Pang Shushu suddenly cursed: "Clearly I wanted you first, he cut in horizontally!"

"Creating one's own Dao path, the heavens and earth celebrate it, innate divine ability!" Pang Shushu's tone grew more sorrowful and indignant as he spoke: "I and that surnamed Yuan are irreconcilable!"

"Pang Shushu, didn't you accept it long ago..."

"How would I know you are the next Tianhe Zunzhe?" Pang Shushu, hearing this, was even more pained: "If I had known you were, I would have rebelled against the Jiushan Sect myself, and still could not accept it!"

No, just two days ago you were willing to sacrifice your life for the Jiushan Sect.

Did you change so quickly?

It seems I just resolved the hatred between Pang Shushu and Huang Shushu, and this person seems to have hated his own Shizun again?

... Must a mortal enemy be chosen from within the Jiushan Sect?

"But speaking of Tianhe Zunzhe," Zhang Shijie suddenly said from the side: "The Tianhe Sect has always wanted to重现 the glory of Tianhe Zunzhe. Now it seems Tianhe Zunzhe probably also gained an extraordinary innate divine ability because of creating the method for one's own本命靈寶—that is why he could suppress the Xuanwei Realm."

"Because of this, it will be even harder for the Tianhe Sect to produce another Tianhe Zunzhe."

Zhang Shijie's analysis left Zheng Fa stunned, feeling it made a lot of sense.

"This matter absolutely cannot be heard by outsiders!" Pang Shushu said immediately upon hearing this: "Zhang Shixia, just say you gained further realization after forming your Nascent Soul; I will remind the others one by one, and if necessary, use some methods."

When he spoke these words, his face was somewhat fierce.

Zhang Shijie also nodded, looking at Zheng Fa and saying: "Even when Tianhe Zunzhe perfected the method for one's own本命靈寶, he was already a True Person of Nascent Soul. You are merely at Foundation Establishment now... indeed it is not suitable to be ostentatious."

"Thank you, Shijie and Shushu, for your protection."

He knew the good intentions of Zhang Shijie and Pang Shushu.

The talent he had shown so far was too astonishing.

But his cultivation was relatively too low.

"Hehe, who could know that our Jiushan Sect could produce another Tianhe Zunzhe?" Pang Shushu suddenly touched the bed in Zheng Fa's room and mused: "In the future, I will hang a plaque on this room, writing 'Zheng Zunzhe's Place of Realizing the Dao'."

"Ancestor! The Ancestor is reborn!"

Beside the Lei Chi, Yan Wushuang felt that his own setting-sun Sword Immortal had finally gone mad.

The short-statured Han Lao trembled by the Lei Chi, seeming as if he might fall into the Lei Chi at any moment.

"Han Lao, what is wrong with you?"

He hurriedly asked.

Upon hearing this, Han Lao calmed down, as if remembering something, tightly closed his mouth, and looked at him warily.

"Han Lao?"

"Don't ask; this matter is not suitable for an outsider like you to know."

"... Aren't you also of the Tianhe Sect?"

"... Yes, why am I of the Tianhe Sect!"

Upon hearing this, Han Lao immediately ground his teeth, his expression full of regret.

He thought for a long time, as if struggling in deep thought, and finally his eyes lit up, turning to Yan Wushuang and saying: "Before, didn't you cooperate with Zheng, uh, with the Jiushan Sect on the talisman seal matter?"

"Yes, Han Lao, didn't you look down on that talisman seal?"

"Who looked down on it!" Han Lao wore an expression as if you were slandering him: "If I looked down on it, would I have taken action?"

"That wasn't..."

"What wasn't or was." Han Lao cut off his words: "Regarding this talisman seal matter, don't you have to go to the Jiushan Sect properly to discuss and formulate a plan?"

"... Yes."

Looking at Han Lao, who was enthusiastically offering him strategies, Yan Wushuang felt something was strange.

"Then why don't you hurry and go!"

"Oh!"

Yan Wushuang scratched his head, preparing to walk towards the Jiushan Sect.

Although Old Han has always been strange in his daily life, he has indeed protected him for a long time and saved his life on many occasions.

Yan Wushuang has always trusted and relied on him.

"You're going just like that?"

Yan Wushuang checked his own attire and found nothing amiss: "How else should I go?"

"You're going empty-handed?"

"..." Yan Wushuang was stunned for a moment; with his status, where couldn't he go empty-handed?

"This makes our Tianhe Sect look so uncultured!"

"..." "Isn't that how our Tianhe Sect always is?" Yan Wushuang retorted: "Besides, I have no money!"

"Here!"

To his surprise, Old Han rummaged in his own chest and actually pulled out a storage bag.

"Buy some spiritual materials, prepare a visiting card, and be respectful, understand?"

Holding the storage bag in his hand, Yan Wushuang stared at him blankly.

He clearly didn't quite understand.

He even thought the old man was seriously ill.

"You... that talisman seal has great potential!" Old Han struggled for a long time before finally coming up with a reason.

"Is that so..." Yan Wushuang scratched his head: "Is my vision that good?"

Old Han sighed: "A bit blind, but lucky."