Chapter 717: Other Shore Flower

Yin Qi walked straight onto the Bone Bridge, with Dugu Xiaoxuan following closely behind.

This time, without Yin Qi needing to say anything, Chen Nan directly opened his Inner Heaven and Earth, instantly enveloping the Stone Tablet within it.

It was another fragment of a Stone Tablet.

One wonders who created this Small Six Paths, to actually use fragments of Stone Tablets as signposts.

It is truly too extravagant.

On the Bone Bridge, several demonic shadows were wandering about.

Seeing Yin Qi and Dugu Xiaoxuan, they suddenly seemed to be frightened by something and scrambled into the waters of the Huangquan River. The previously churning waters of the Huangquan River also suddenly quieted down.

Where one could previously hear the wailing of Ghosts, now there was nothing at all, leaving only the sound of the rushing river.

Just as Dugu Xiaoxuan had said.

In front of devils, they were the real devils.

Baby Dragon poked its head left and right along the way and said very earnestly, "This is the Naihe Bridge, isn't there supposed to be an old woman selling soup? Where is she?"

Chen Nan retorted irritably, "What, if Meng Po were here, would you want to taste the Meng Po Soup?"

"Just tasting is fine, I won't drink it."

Baby Dragon licked its lips, its dragon eyes full of anticipation.

The Purple Gold Divine Dragon rolled its eyes.

The group continued forward, walking peacefully across the Naihe Bridge; the yellow mist gradually dissipated, revealing the scene ahead.

It was a sea of flowers, blood-red, so vivid it seemed as if it would drip blood, yet it was devoid of any vitality, deathly still, as if it had bloomed specifically for death.

Chen Nan felt his hair stand on end and said tremblingly, "Could this be the legendary flower of the undead, the Other Shore Flower?"

The Other Shore Flower had blood-red blossoms and not a single leaf.

On the stem of each plant, only blood-colored filaments were layered and coiled, dancing like blood-stained claws.

Baby Dragon shrank its head and muttered in a low voice, "God says, this flower blooms for a thousand years and falls for a thousand years; the flower and leaves will never meet for eternity. It is a demonic flower that heralds life and death."

"Wuwu, I'm so scared!"

Xiao Fenghuang whimpered, desperately burrowing into Dugu Xiaoxuan's arms.

The Purple Gold Divine Dragon was also somewhat afraid, its claws gripping Yin Qi's clothes even tighter.

"Isn't it just an Other Shore Flower? It only relies on the aura of death to survive. It can be considered a rare flower and is also good material for Alchemy."

Yin Qi shook his head. With a wave of his large hand, he uprooted patches of the Other Shore Flowers along with ten-plus meters of soil and stored them into his Inner Heaven and Earth.

The soil was layered with vast amounts of skeletons, which was exceptionally terrifying.

So fierce!

Chen Nan and the others swallowed their saliva in secret.

Even Dugu Xiaoxuan could not help but roll her eyes.

Just then, in the empty space, a strand of desolate flute music suddenly rang out.

The flute sound was ethereal, wailing with the wind. An endless sense of sorrow quietly rose from within people's hearts, evoking the most painful memories in their minds. Chen Nan and the Purple Gold Divine Dragon were already streaming with tears.

Even Baby Dragon and Xiao Fenghuang, two heartless Divine Beasts, had blurred eyes and misty tears at this moment; they seemed to recall certain fragments from their past lives:

A giant palm covered them, and their bodies instantly disintegrated.

Dugu Xiaoxuan's delicate body trembled violently. She turned her head to look into the distance, her eyes blurred with tears.

On the endlessly vivid Other Shore Flowers, a beautiful figure came stepping over the flowers.

The beautiful figure held a jade flute to her lips, emitting a desolate and melodious tune. Her stunning beauty made Heaven and Earth pale in comparison, but her face was covered in tear stains, which made one's heart ache.

"Little Mother!"

Dugu Xiaoxuan called out softly; she recognized the person.

It was her aunt, the Moon Goddess. It was a pity, however, that what manifested now was merely an image left behind by the Moon Goddess years ago.

She passed through the group and gradually dissipated.

Yin Qi said softly, "During that battle back then, the Moon Goddess thought your father had fallen, so she played the sorrowful flute music to see him off. He is perfectly fine now, so you do not need to be too sorrowful."

Dugu Xiaoxuan wiped away her tears and shook her head, saying, "I just miss my mother. Yin Qi, you must know where my mother is. When will I be able to see her? Can you take me to see her?"

Yin Qi shook his head and said, "Everything has never ended, and it has never begun. Now is not a good time to see your mother. You do not need to worry about her; she is still traveling on the Space-Time channel. When the time comes, she will naturally return."

Back then, the Space-Time Great God risked his life to perform a great divine ability, opening two Space-Time channels from the Taigu era leading to the future to save the gods. Dugu Xiaoxuan's mother, Xuanxuan, was on one of those Space-Time channels.

Dugu Xiaoxuan suddenly said, "Yin Qi, is all of this really just something you calculated? If so, does that not mean there are no secrets in this world that you do not know?"

Yin Qi smiled: "Guess."

"Hmph! If you won't say it, then don't. Sooner or later, I will definitely be able to find out your background."

Dugu Xiaoxuan snorted coldly with feigned arrogance.

Chen Nan, Baby Dragon, the Purple Gold Divine Dragon, and Xiao Fenghuang were all immersed in sorrow, unable to extricate themselves until a long time later when they slowly regained their senses, though their faces were already covered in tears.

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Chen Nan wiped the tears from his face: "Brother Yin, excuse me. By the way, I wonder who the previous figure was, and why the flute music was so desolate?"

Yin Qi said, "She is the Moon Goddess, the wife of Dugu Baitian. During the Taigu battle, it was rumored that Dugu Baitian had fallen, so the Moon Goddess played the flute music to see him off."

"So the Goddess is the daughter of the Great God Dugu!"

Chen Nan and the others were all shocked.

They remembered that Dugu Xiaoxuan had called the Moon Goddess 'Little Mother' earlier.

This really is a Goddess!

……

The group continued forward, soon passing through the sea of Other Shore Flowers and arriving before a Sea of Blood.

This Sea of Blood was boundless, with no end in sight.

A massive Stone Tablet stood by the seaside, with two vigorous and archaic characters carved upon it: "Bitter Sea."

Chen Nan was already proficient by now; he stepped forward, opened his Inner Heaven and Earth, and swallowed the Stone Tablet directly inside.

He had obtained another fragment of the Stone Guardian.

"This must be the Asura Path!"

Standing by the edge of the Sea of Blood, Yin Qi stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes once again veiled in a Qing mist as he carefully scrutinized the Asura Path.

Under the Po Wang Eye, the semi-destroyed Asura Path held almost no secrets from him.

He "saw" that the entire Asura Path was shrouded in layers of profound Array Formations; beneath the Sea of Blood gathered countless departed souls that should have long since perished, yet they miraculously existed to this day, nurtured by the profound Array Formations.

"What a profound Array Formation."

Yin Qi exclaimed in wonder.

It could be said that these Array Formations represented the pinnacle of arrays in the Shenmu World.

Even for him, it would require careful study and comprehension.

"Hiss, so this is the Asura Path!"

Chen Nan exclaimed: "Who on earth created this Small Six Paths? Such a vast Sea of Blood—how many people must have died to gather it? That person is simply a peerless Great Demon King."

Baby Dragon, the Purple Gold Divine Dragon, and Xiao Fenghuang all nodded in succession.

Dugu Xiaoxuan, however, shook her head and said: "Although this Asura Path gathers the blood of all living beings, it was not the creator who killed them. They all died at the hands of the Heavenly Dao during the Great Calamity, and they harbor endless resentment toward the Heavenly Dao, with their departed souls hidden within the Sea of Blood."

"Ah, the Heavenly Dao?"

Chen Nan was stunned: "Is this person so arrogant that they dare to call themselves the Heavenly Dao!" (End of chapter)