Chapter 24: Baitian, do you want to succeed or not? If you do, speak up

The Shenmo Lingyuan, as the most iconic location in the center of the Tianyuan Continent, is where the most renowned Gods and Demons from ten thousand years ago are buried, including both Eastern Immortals and Western angels.

During the day, this place is sacred and transcendent.

One can see Eastern Immortals dancing gracefully within it, and also see pure and flawless sacred angels walking through the mountain forests.

Yet once night falls, it becomes filled with sinister demonic energy; terrifying demons spew out endless demonic aura, covering everything here, terrifying to the extreme, like a human purgatory.

Things from ten thousand years ago have long since become a mystery, leaving behind only the graves of those who were once the strongest of that era.

Therefore, this place has also become one of the Holy Lands for practitioners of both the East and West, with countless people coming here to pay their respects every year.

Outside the Shenmo Lingyuan, in a small wooden hut not far away, an elderly man with a trembling frame and a face full of wrinkles squinted slightly as he gazed at the scene of Immortals and angels dancing within the Shenmo Lingyuan.

Lying on a recliner, swaying along with it, he looked just like a decrepit old man merely lamenting his final days.

The only thing that weighed slightly on his mind was the young man who had crawled out of the absolute yin and absolute cold region in the very center of the Shenmo Lingyuan not long ago.

Someone had actually resurrected a person who had been dead for ten thousand years right under his nose; such an earth-shattering feat was carried out with such ease.

It made his heart tremble.

It was a pity that the young man's strength was low and his realm insufficient; he was by no means a supreme, great figure, and there was no way to learn more detailed information from the young man's mouth.

And Shoumu Laoren did not notice that as his thoughts wandered, at a moment he was unaware of, a hazy shadow flickered in the very center of the Shenmo Lingyuan, outlining a human figure.

That figure carried an infinite and mysterious aura, with invisible shadows flickering around his body, easily isolating everything, jumping outside the Three Realms, and not within the Five Elements.

As the mist flowed, it naturally carried the most ancient and profound aura; any deduction regarding fate, the future, or the past could not take effect on him.

His entire being was a mystery; fate formed a closed loop around him, and apart from himself, no one could probe him—it was as if it were the highest realm that a practitioner sought to pursue.

For a martial arts expert, such a figure would feel fascinating even just to look at.

The surrounding scene of dancing Gods and Demons not only failed to make this figure lose his corresponding sense of mystery, but even added a touch of sanctity to this mysterious and powerful figure; standing here, he seemed like the God of Gods, the King of Kings.

Hmm, at this very moment, the God of Gods and King of Kings, Zhang Xuan, gazed at the scene of headless Immortals dancing and broken-winged angels flying, and the corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

This scene made his skin crawl; although he had read about various scenes depicted in many novels, seeing the real scene with his own eyes was more stimulating than the most perfect 3D movie.

Just at this moment, a war god with missing arms and legs roared toward the sky, and a demon god with a broken body let out a silent howl; the rolling momentum permeated the space between heaven and earth, making one feel increasingly uneasy—the battle of Gods and Demons left the sun and moon without light.

"Damn it, this high-level world is too scary!"

Although he knew these existences could not harm him, Zhang Xuan still muttered a complaint in his heart, disregarding his image.

After calming down for a moment, completely settling his mood, and going over the plan in his heart twice to ensure there were no omissions and that it could be carried out, Zhang Xuan gritted his teeth and decided to proceed.

During the time he was thinking, the images of Gods and Demons wandering in the Shenmo Lingyuan passed through his body several times, but they didn't cause him any harm; his body was just like a phantom.

"No problem, you can do it, Zhang Xuan!"

Zhang Xuan secretly cheered himself on, stood on the small grave mound where Chen Nan had originally crawled out, and spoke softly: "Dugu Baitian!"

Those were four words spoken with spiritual intent; as the four syllables fell, Zhang Xuan stared unblinkingly at his surroundings, watching as a mass of ghostly mist rose silently before him.

Silently, a tall, god-like and demon-like body emerged from beneath the Shenmo Lingyuan, and a pair of eyes, deep to the extreme and boundless in their domineering aura, instantly locked onto Zhang Xuan.

A terrifying and peerless power permeated this heaven and earth; above the dome of the sky, there was even an infinite amount of lightning about to condense.

That was this heaven and earth hating this man; to the Heavenly Dao, this man was a taboo, someone who should not exist.

The vast and infinite lightning condensed, but before it could fully bloom, the man opened his mouth and swallowed; the lightning that filled the entire sky turned into a Thunder Pill and was swallowed by the man in one gulp.

Zhang Xuan's heart trembled, but having reached this point, he didn't feel fear; instead, he felt excitement—the stronger the figure before him, the less he felt he was losing out.

He had never seen the figure before him, but he was by no means a stranger to him; he was an existence in the Shenmu World with even higher popularity and more uniqueness than the protagonist.

The first taboo of the ancient times, Dugu Baitian.

Because of this figure's existence, the Heavenly Dao spent supreme costs, forcibly using boundless ability to seal a piece of ancient history, so that no one could know of his existence.

Even in that period of history, the Heavenly Dao thought it had successfully killed this most powerful heaven-defying person since ancient times, but it still dared not let the corresponding history spread, fearing that the deeds of this peak powerhouse since ancient times would influence those who came after.

"Who are you?"

Dugu Baitian was over a zhang tall, his body wrapped in black mist; occasionally, the mist would flicker, revealing a torso that looked like it was cast from bronze and iron.

Hard, powerful, and indestructible; just for an instant, the information revealed made one feel that the figure before them was invincible.

When Zhang Xuan faced such a figure, his heart instinctively tightened, but he quickly calmed down again.

"My name contains too much information, just like my appearance; you cannot look directly at it, nor can you understand the full picture..."

The eyes of Dugu Baitian opposite him instantly turned gloomy, as if he felt offended.

As one of the most heaven-defying people to ever stand at the peak in this world, his strength was beyond doubt.

Even in that battle in ancient times, when the so-called Blue Heaven killed him and his son in that story, it was merely a play he had acted out on purpose; he had personally fought and killed several Heavens.

His existence was a legend; he lived as the peak of strength and realm, and now someone actually told him that with his strength, he could not see the face of the person opposite him, and was not even worthy of hearing the other party's name.

As he exerted his strength, infinite lightning flashed between heaven and earth; Dugu Baitian's eyes were deep, and rays of light over a zhang long shot out from them, wanting to see through this mysterious person.

As a result, his light passed directly through the mysterious person's body, but it had no way to affect the mist around him at all, and he could not see the other party's face clearly.

"Hmm?"

Dugu Baitian raised an eyebrow, never having thought he would encounter such a scene.

After that battle back then, his strength had improved further.

Even if the Heavenly Dao stood before him, wanting to hide its identity to talk to him like this mysterious person, it would be seen through by him, yet he could not see through this figure before him.

Dugu Baitian did not believe in evil; who was he?

He believed that there were people in the world who could hide, leaving him unable to explore them.

But when this person stood before him, if he still could not perceive the other party's origin or understand the slightest bit of the other party's karma or fate, then he would have lived as Dugu Baitian in vain.

He reached out a hand, and with a boom, the entire heaven and earth seemed to be grasped in that palm out of thin air.

But the humanoid creature before him was clearly standing right in front of his eyes, yet the Divine Power that could forcibly grasp a world in its palm passed through him out of thin air, leaving not the slightest trace.

Dugu Baitian's heart shook, and he whispered: "Mirror flower, water moon? Dreamy flowers in the void?"

His heart was extremely shaken, and he was still making countless guesses, while Zhang Xuan, who had been very nervous during the other party's initial probing, felt completely settled now that he knew the other party could do nothing to him and that the Chat Group's ability was extraordinary.

After Dugu Baitian finished his probing, he then said faintly: "There is no need to probe further; I came here just because I found it interesting and wanted to verify a guess."

Dugu Baitian remained silent, just watching quietly, while countless thoughts churned in his mind.

Another supreme figure had appeared between heaven and earth, a figure not inferior to himself, yet he knew nothing of this person's life or past, and he did not know if this was a good thing or a bad thing.

As for the trade the other party spoke of, he would just listen quietly.

"To verify this round of ideas, I need a perfect Inner Heaven and Earth Seed, plus the most authentic cultivation method of your native land, cultivated all the way to the opening of an Inner Heaven and Earth, as well as the subsequent methods for perfecting the Inner Heaven and Earth..."

"Of course, any single method will do, but it would be even better if there were a few more."

"You want to open up a brand new Shi Jie again?"

Dugu Baitian frowned; the most supreme figures of this world had all once possessed a perfect Inner Heaven and Earth Seed.

He and the Demon Lord relied on this to refine two Taiji Gods and Demons Diagrams, while the Human King refined a perfect world, though it unfortunately collapsed later.

It could be said that a perfect Inner Heaven and Earth Seed was also extremely important; as for the top-tier cultivation methods of this world proposed by this mysterious person, Dugu Baitian saw them as a distraction.

What was truly important was not the methods; the most supreme methods in the Human World could basically be collected with a little effort, and with the mysterious person's strength, they could be obtained very easily.

"No, I just want the cultivation methods of your world."

Zhang Xuan spoke to himself in his heart, but his face showed not the slightest hint; the perfect Inner Heaven and Earth Seed was the distraction he had provided.

"I have no intention of being your enemy; I just want to make a trade with you!"

Seeing that Dugu Baitian remained silent, Zhang Xuan had no choice but to use a heavy dose: "According to your own deductions, the highest win rate for that final battle is at best infinitely close to fifty percent."

Dugu Baitian felt a shock in his heart; that was the most secret calculation among their group, known to no one except himself, the Demon Lord, and other supreme figures.

Yet the mysterious person before him was able to discern it.

"Now I can give you the methods of another world, which are vastly different from the cultivation Dao of this side of yours; stones from other hills can serve to polish the jade of this one. I wonder what you think?"

(End of chapter)