Chapter 203: Re-attaining the Nascent Soul, Gu Mingyue's Predicament!

Inside the great hall, the person who spoke managed to divert the gazes of everyone present away from the new Emperor Jing in just a few short sentences.

Especially upon hearing the words of this powerhouse at the Heaven and Earth Enlightenment realm from the Celestial Master Mansion, the great hall suddenly became somewhat silent.

"Although the relationship between the Demon Race and our Human Race has always been tense, and those of the Demon Race covet our Human Race's territory even more."

"Yet in the past years, the Demon Race has mostly used the frontline battlefield to consume some of their own excess cannon fodder, and then used this frontline battlefield to seek out talents."

"This state of affairs has already lasted for a full tens of thousands of years; if the Demon Race is entering in large numbers, is there someone behind it directing them?"

Following the opening remarks of that first person, one voice after another continued to ring out within the great hall.

The war between the Demon Race and the Human Race is considered a tacit understanding between the two; for one, the Demon Race does indeed covet the Human Race's territory—after all, the Human Race occupies the two-tenths of the land that is the most vast and fertile in Heaven and Earth, so it would be strange if they were not coveted.

Secondly, whether it is the Human Race or the Demon Race, both actually treat this frontline battlefield as a place to train troops.

Not to mention anything else, even among the Human God powerhouses in this great hall, there are countless numbers who came from that frontline battlefield.

"Whether someone is directing this from behind can be set aside for now; everyone, please first discuss what actions we should take in the face of the Demon Race that has already entered our borders!"

"The Beidi frontline has collapsed, and in just a short time, the number of Demon Race who have entered must be in the hundreds of millions!"

"With so many of the Demon Race entering, those towns under the main cities are all in extreme danger."

Another Human God who worried about the country and the people stepped out to speak freely in the great hall, and for a time, the entire central hall of the Human Race's core territory became as noisy as a common vegetable market.

The many powerhouses of the Human Race were thinking for the world, but Gu Jiangming in Leping County did not know much about the many affairs of Heaven and Earth.

As time passed, the connection between the Taiyi Stone on Gu Jiangming and the Qilin Grotto-Heaven grew increasingly tight; although it had only been a short two or three months, Gu Jiangming was already able to use the Taiyi Stone to travel between the two realms.

The only thing that made Gu Jiangming feel a bit of regret was that he could not yet bring Long Xi and Jiu Jiu into the Qilin Grotto-Heaven! "Mingyue's state seems to be much better than before?"

In the Qilin Grotto-Heaven, after the passage of 150,000 years, this Qilin Grotto-Heaven had already expanded to a diameter of ten million li.

It was just slightly strange that within this Qilin Grotto-Heaven, there was no sun illuminating the four directions, only a bright moon blooming with a shimmering glow in the clear sky.

"If it didn't get better, wouldn't all my efforts these days be in vain?"

"Mingyue has been in a deep slumber for 140,000 years and has long since entered her own Inner Scene; she is obsessed with her own Inner Scene, and even though she knows that everything she sees within it is illusory, the Inner Scene always maintains the appearance of the former Niankong Villa."

Liu Moxuan and Gu Jiangming looked together at that bright moon above the firmament; both of them knew that this bright moon was what Gu Mingyue had transformed into.

Solitary Yin cannot grow, and solitary Yang cannot flourish.

The Yin and Yang within the Qilin Grotto-Heaven were unbalanced, and as Gu Jiangming had expected, there were no living beings within this vast Grotto-Heaven.

The only things to be seen were the treasure-filled mountains, one after another, in the distance.

Those mountains were true treasure mountains; even a single rock from them would be a treasure that ordinary cultivators in the outside world would break their heads trying to obtain.

This was the cultivation resource Gu Jiangming had left for himself. As the last Heavenly Human of the Heavenly Human Era, even though he had not forcibly seized from the world, there were many races or other powerhouses in the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations at that time who wanted to offer treasures to Gu Jiangming. Just look at when the three Gu Mingyue siblings became Supremes—which race in the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations dared not send gifts? The gifts received just when the three Gu Mingyue siblings became Supremes were enough to fill more than ten mountains!

"Sinking into the Inner Scene..."

"If Mingyue becomes an immortal, I fear she may still have to pass one more trial of the Inner Demon..."

Gu Jiangming listened to Liu Moxuan's words and sighed helplessly.

The Inner Scene seems to have everything one could want, even allowing one to do as one pleases or have one's wishes fulfilled, but for outsiders, sinking into the Inner Scene is not a good thing.

If one sinks too deeply into the Inner Scene, I fear that after walking out of it, one will not be able to distinguish between reality and illusion.

As a Heavenly Human, the scene of Gu Mingyue sinking into her Inner Scene was even more mysterious.

At the very least, Gu Jiangming and Liu Moxuan saw that in the northern territory of this Qilin Grotto-Heaven, there was a familiar Wanglin Mountain, and to the east of Wanglin Mountain, there was a Niankong Villa.

Even though it was just an Inner Scene, Gu Mingyue's strength had reached the Heavenly Human Realm, and she had forcibly turned this Inner Scene into an Outer Scene, constructing a Dream Bubble from a long-lost era within this Qilin Grotto-Heaven.

And if one looked closely, one could see that within that layer of illusory scenery, there were also the figures of Gu Nianmo, Gu Shengxi, Gu Jiangming, Liu Moxuan, Jiu Jiu, Long Xi, and Wang Qinghe.

"Go and talk to her!"

"The Inner Scene is formed by all the longings in one's heart, and her own will is also cast upon the illusory Gu Mingyue."

"Although I have replaced myself in the Inner Scene over the past few months, Gu Mingyue cannot take in much of what I, her aunt, have to say."

"This matter, I fear, can only be solved by you and Jiu Jiu."

A look of exhaustion hung between Liu Moxuan's brows; during these three months, not only did she have to help Gu Mingyue break free from her own Inner Scene, but she also needed to constantly help the Qilin Grotto-Heaven and the Taiyi Stone connect.

Even though Liu Moxuan could exert the strength of a Two-step Quasi-Supreme within this Qilin Grotto-Heaven, three consecutive months of running about still left her feeling mentally and physically exhausted.

"Hmm..."

Gu Jiangming let Liu Moxuan lean on his shoulder, then looked at the boundary where reality and illusion met, and responded softly.

The disturbances of the outside world seemed completely unrelated to Gu Jiangming; in the years to come, Gu Jiangming would either stay at home to accompany Jiu Jiu and Long Xi, or be within the Qilin Grotto-Heaven, playing the role of his 150,000-year-old self in the illusory scene.

Even though Gu Jiangming needed to start his cultivation from scratch in this life, when he walked into the Inner Scene and inhabited his own self in the illusory scene, countless cultivation insights surged into Gu Jiangming's mind like a tide, one after another.

In just a short twenty days or so, with sufficient resources and the assistance of Gu Mingyue's Inner Scene, Gu Jiangming had already re-attained the Nascent Soul Realm.

If others knew of such a fast cultivation speed, they would likely doubt whether this End of Dharma era was real.

But this period of time only lasted for twenty days; after Gu Jiangming achieved the Nascent Soul, Jiu Jiu and Long Xi both brought back some not-so-good news.

(End of this chapter)