Chapter 271: The Secret of the Heavenly Secret Mirror

Su Chen's fingers were already hooked onto the jade talisman inside his sleeve.

Bai Diyuan's pair of pale golden slit pupils stared at him, while the Great Priest Bai Xuanli's staff swirled with divine light, scanning him from head to toe.

One Quasi-Sage, one Great Luo Immortal.

Inside the hall, there were other Bai Hu clan experts whose cultivation levels Su Chen could not discern.

He had absolutely no chance of escaping.

Even if he crushed the jade talisman, whether Chang Xi could take him away from the Bai Hu clan's territory was an unknown.

But other than that, he had no other choice.

Su Chen's fingers inside his sleeve were already prepared to exert force and crush the talisman.

But at this moment, the Bai Hu statue behind Bai Diyuan suddenly erupted with blinding white-gold brilliance.

A Geng-metal law force, even more intense than during the sacrificial ceremony, surged from the statue and instantly filled the entire Holy Hall.

Bai Diyuan turned his head abruptly, his expression changing drastically.

Great Priest Bai Xuanli's staff trembled, and a look of disbelief appeared on his withered face.

"How has the Holy Ancestor descended again?"

Bai Xuanli's voice was filled with astonishment.

The sacrificial ceremony had already ended, and the Holy Beast's will had already dissipated; how could it descend again at this time?

One had to know that every descent of the Holy Ancestor required the Bai Hu clan to prepare a vast amount of resources beforehand.

The once-in-ten-thousand-years Holy Sacrifice could only support the Holy Ancestor's descent for a brief moment.

Yet right now, without any preparation, the Holy Ancestor had descended of his own volition.

The Bai Hu statue's eyes lit up with pale golden light once more, and white-gold divine patterns emerged one after another on the stone tiger body, as if something was being injected into the statue bit by bit.

Next, the Bai Hu statue's claws moved.

Stone chips fell away with a rustle, and it slowly raised its head; those golden slit pupils were no longer cold stone, but two living eyes.

Bai Diyuan reacted extremely quickly, immediately kneeling on one knee and saying in a deep voice, "Bai Diyuan respectfully welcomes the Holy Ancestor's descent!"

Great Priest Bai Xuanli trembled as he prostrated himself on the ground.

The rest of the Bai Hu clan members in the hall also knelt down in a mass.

Only Su Chen did not kneel, because given this turn of events, he had already put away the jade talisman in his sleeve; if the Bai Hu Holy Beast was present, Su Chen was certain that even if Chang Xi came, she would not be able to take him away.

It was better to wait and see.

The Bai Hu Holy Beast's statue had completely "come to life."

Its gaze passed over the kneeling Bai Hu clan members and landed on Su Chen.

Stared at by this gaze, Su Chen felt as if all his disguises had been stripped away—his transformation technique, his aura concealment, his Hunyuan Jin Dan, and even the Nine Demon Tower within his sea of consciousness—everything about him became transparent before those golden slit pupils.

After a moment, the Holy Beast's will withdrew its gaze.

A divine sense reached out and entered Bai Diyuan's sea of consciousness directly.

Bai Diyuan's body stiffened.

Su Chen could not see what they were communicating, but he noticed that Bai Diyuan's shoulders, as he knelt on the ground, were taut, clearly indicating that the content conveyed by the Holy Beast had shaken even this Quasi-Sage.

A few breaths later, Bai Diyuan slowly raised his head and looked back at Su Chen.

That look was extremely complex, containing scrutiny, confusion, and deep bewilderment.

"Everyone, withdraw from the Holy Hall."

Bai Diyuan stood up, his voice not loud, but unquestionable.

Great Priest Bai Xuanli hesitated, "Clan Leader, this person—"

"It is the Holy Ancestor's command." Bai Diyuan interrupted him.

Bai Xuanli shut his mouth and stood up tremblingly.

The Bai Hu clan members filed out, each of them unable to resist taking an extra look at Su Chen as they passed by.

An outsider of unknown identity being asked to stay alone by the Holy Ancestor—this had never happened in the history of the Bai Hu clan.

Bai Diyuan was the last to leave.

He walked to the hall door and waved his hand, closing the Holy Hall's doors.

In the vast Bai Hu Holy Hall, only Su Chen and the Bai Hu statue possessed by the Holy Beast's will remained.

The two stared at each other.

Finally, the Bai Hu Holy Beast spoke first, though it did not use words, but transmitted its divine sense directly into Su Chen's sea of consciousness.

"There are two things on you that have caught my attention."

Su Chen's spine stiffened.

"The first is that demon tower. It is an object of Luo Hou; naturally, I recognize it. However, rest assured, this object has nothing to do with me, and I have no intention of asking where you obtained it."

Su Chen did not respond.

"The second thing..."

The Holy Beast's divine sense paused, and the light in those golden slit pupils flickered, as if it were weighing its words.

"You have the aura of the Heavenly Dao on you. It is not the Heavenly Dao of this world."

"What?"

Su Chen's pupils contracted sharply. He actually had the aura of the Heavenly Dao on him, and not of this world? Could it be that the Bai Hu Holy Beast could actually see that he was a transmigrator?

Before Su Chen could think it through, the Bai Hu Holy Beast's voice sounded again.

"I am one of the Four Symbols Holy Beasts, having initially merged with the Heavenly Dao. I am one of the first existences in these Three Realms to perceive the abnormalities in the operation of the Heavenly Dao. The Heavenly Dao is being devoured; this began a long time ago. But today, what I sensed on you is not the aura of the incomplete Heavenly Dao of this world."

The Holy Beast's golden slit pupils stared at Su Chen.

"That is the Heavenly Dao of another world. And, it is a Heavenly Dao that has already collapsed."

As the Bai Hu Holy Beast's words fell, Su Chen noticed that the Heavenly Secret Mirror, which had been silent for a long time in his sea of consciousness, was now actively reacting.

In his sea of consciousness, dense patterns emerged on the ancient mirror. These were not runes, nor were they arrays, but—laws.

These were Heavenly Dao laws.

Broken, shattered Heavenly Dao laws from another world.

A stream of information, unlike anything he had ever experienced, poured from the Heavenly Secret Mirror into Su Chen's mind.

He finally understood the true nature of the Heavenly Secret Mirror.

The Heavenly Secret Mirror was not some magic treasure.

It was the final remains of the Heavenly Dao from his previous world after it had collapsed.

The residual will of that world's Heavenly Dao had condensed into the Heavenly Secret Mirror after its failure, drifting through the endless void.

Until it made contact with Su Chen, and through Su Chen, it sensed the existence of the Journey to the West space-time.

It had no possibility of recovery in that world, so it brought Su Chen's soul across time and space, hoping to be reborn in this world.

It concealed Su Chen's heavenly secrets, not to protect Su Chen.

But because it was the Heavenly Dao itself, naturally, no one could calculate it.

Unless it was an existence of the same level.

Su Chen stood in place, silent for a long while.

He had always thought he was a pawn chosen by some great power, or an accidental transmigrator caught in the pull of karma.

It turned out that from the very beginning, he was the final gamble of a Heavenly Dao.

"You seem to know more than I do." Su Chen looked up at the Bai Hu Holy Beast.

The Holy Beast's will did not respond immediately.

After a moment, the divine sense came again: "Now that the Heavenly Dao is incomplete, a calamity is imminent. I have merged with the Heavenly Dao and cannot sit by and watch it collapse, becoming a wedding dress for others."

"The remains of the Heavenly Dao you carry might be the key for the Heavenly Dao of this world to turn the tables. In you, I see a glimmer of hope, so I want to make a deal with you."

Su Chen's heart skipped a beat.

"What kind of deal?"

"I know what you want."

In the Holy Beast's divine sense, an image appeared before Su Chen's eyes.

Deep within the Geng-metal Ancestral Vein, a white-gold light emitting a scorching brilliance was coiled, inhaling and exhaling Geng-metal energy.

That was the Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light.