Chapter 619: Listening to the Sound of Heaven, the Heaven of the Primordial Yellow

Hum~

The flowing light was like water, and in an instant it had already enveloped the gray stone platform.

Li Yuan closed his eyes and concentrated his spirit, naturally switching the weapon he was wielding to push his perception to its absolute limit, sensing the changes within that single instant.

Whoo~

In a daze, Li Yuan felt as if within the flowing light that enveloped him there were countless murmuring voices, an inexhaustible cacophony of overlapping sounds; the moment he tried to sense them, his mind went utterly blank.

"Not good!"

Li Yuan decisively stopped his perception, an involuntary chill rising in his heart. In that single instant, he felt as if he had become a leaf swept up by a flood, drifting with the current, as if he could be smashed to pieces at any moment.

Whoosh!

The instant he stopped perceiving, Li Yuan's spirit had already been lifted up along with the flowing light—in less than a thousandth of an instant, it seemed he had already flown beyond the ninefold gale clouds, the speed far surpassing any previous listening.

"Something's off about this listening to the Heavenly Sound…"

Li Yuan forcibly restrained himself from perceiving the source of the Heavenly Sound again, forcing himself to stay alert as he observed.

Just like the soul-out-of-body sensation from previous listenings to the Heavenly Sound, the difference being that this time it was far more ferocious and swift than any before—land, mountain ranges, sea of clouds flashed past in a blur,

Before he could even form a single thought, when he perceived again what he saw was already an endless, boundless starry sky!

Hum~~

Beyond the heavens was deep and remote, vast and boundless; countless stars flickered in and out of the darkness, the deep darkness the sole backdrop.

Higher!

Higher!

Li Yuan's thoughts could no longer turn—the information perceived in an instant had far exceeded his capacity to bear.

Babbling~

Li Yuan heard the sound of water; concentrating his spirit and looking all around, he again saw incomparably intricate light and shadow weaving and overlapping, as if a river were rolling and surging.

"Bizarre and unfathomable, impossible to comprehend…"

Li Yuan no longer concentrated his spirit on outward observation, but chose to let everything he saw settle down into the depths of his heart.

Several more breaths passed.

The starry sky was still vast and boundless, the darkness still covering everything in sight, but within it there was a change—vaguely, Li Yuan perceived that beneath the starry sky, another world existed.

Faintly perceptible, seeming illusory and unreal, omnipresent, yet also seeming not to exist.

"You Jing."

This was the thought that rose in Li Yuan's heart.

The next instant, an extremely dazzling divine light burst forth before his eyes.

……

Hum~

It seemed like only an instant, yet also as if a very long time.

When Li Yuan came back to himself from his daze, all around was still a deep starry sky, and he himself was plummeting at extreme speed from the starry sky toward a truly massive star!

"This is…"

Li Yuan's heart gave a jolt as he gazed into the distance.

This planet was truly massive; looking down from above, one could see endless mountain ranges stretching on, boundless Wang Wang Yangdahai, and a sea of clouds that covered the mountains and seas, almost blotting out the sky.

One Gaoshan after another rose straight from the earth, poking their heads out from the sea of clouds; at first glance, they looked like solitary islands atop the sea of clouds, and at the very center of the sea of clouds, surrounded by mountain ranges, stood a 'giant pagoda' and 'bell tower' that rose from the earth to the heavens like a pillar supporting the sky.

That giant pagoda was incomparably tall and grand; upon it countless divine patterns flowed and interwove, like an incomparably noble, majestic, ancient divine dragon.

【Suppressing Prison Dragon Tower (Fifteenth Order)】

【... A supreme divine treasure forged by the Prison Race's 'Heavenly Craft Prison Hero' using the divine patterns left by the Suppressing Prison Dragon King as material, tempered and nurtured by incense and prayer-power over countless years… within it is contained the Suppressing Prison Dragon King's… True Form Diagram…】

【Wielding Condition One: Prison Dragon Bloodline, Form of a Thousand Dragons】

【Wielding Effect:????】

【Wielding Condition Two:???】

【Wielding Effect Two:???】

【Suppressing Prison Dragon King… True Form Diagram…】

A flood of information surged into Li Yuan's eyes the instant he glimpsed that massive bell tower, the divine light dazzling, and it was not just one item.

"The Prison Dragon race?"

Daoist Li found his eyes unable to look away; atop this bell tower, there also hung a great bell whose divine light was restrained within, yet which one glance told was no Fan Pin:

【Great Prison Divine Bell (Fifteenth Order)】

【... The Prison Dragon race's 'Heavenly Craft Prison Zheng Yin'… using incense and prayer-power as fire, the scales of the Suppressing Prison Dragon King as material, supplemented with ten thousand kinds of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, along with the forms of multiple starry-sky divine beasts… nurtured by incense for many years…】

【Wielding Condition One: Great Prison Divine Patterns, Prison Dragon Bloodline, Divine Bell Spirit Form】

【Wielding Effect One:???】

【Wielding Condition Two:???】

【Wielding Effect Two:???】

【Hung high upon the Dragon Tower, within the divine lies the Dao!】

【If the Dragon Tower and Divine Bell are united as one, they can advance to a Dao Treasure!】

"Two quasi-Dao Treasures, and once united they can advance to a Dao Treasure! No, in a certain sense, these are already Dao Treasures!"

Li Yuan's eyes were very bright; against a treasure of this caliber, he truly had no resistance. A treasure forged by drawing upon divine patterns is called a Law Treasure; one that gives birth to its own spirituality is called a Spirit Treasure; one in which the spirit gives birth to the divine may be called a Divine Treasure; only one in which the divine contains the Dao is a Dao Treasure!

Let alone a Dao Treasure—even with a single Divine Treasure in hand, one could roam freely as a power even within Tian Shi Yuan, and moreover, this was clearly not a sealing-type treasure like the Burial God Coffin, but a slaughter-type treasure!

Not to mention the extraordinary origins of these two Divine Treasures.

He had just recently thoroughly searched through intelligence regarding the Prison Dragon race; although the information was sparse, it vaguely mentioned that this race originated from that 'Suppressing Prison Dragon King' who had suppressed the 'Heavenly Prison' for the Origin Divine Dynasty!

Suspected to be a true dragon of the Divine King level!

Legend has it that this Prison-Suppressing Dragon King possessed the mighty power to suppress all gods, and was recognized by the starry-sky divine beasts as one of the Ten Great Divine Kings!

Hum~

Before Li Yuan could turn a few thoughts over, he had already followed the trajectory of the Listening Sound, drifting down onto that bell tower which looked enormous from afar and appeared even more majestic up close, like a pillar of heaven!

This bell tower was wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, yet its peak was still broad as a vast plain. At a single glance, one could see clusters of palace halls, along with towering platforms of varying heights inscribed with intricate divine patterns, and dazzling spiritual light from dharma treasures.

This place was clearly the treasure vault of the Prison Dragon clan, merely concealed by the radiance of the Prison-Suppressing Dragon Tower and the Great Prison Divine Bell, making it impossible to glimpse more.

But even those things that had leaked out were already enough to make Daoist Li unable to look away.

"What a filthy rich clan!"

Li Yuan clicked his tongue in amazement.

When he had previously scoured the San Yuan Ten Thousand Clans Ranking, he had only sighed that these great clans each had extraordinary origins; only now did he truly appreciate what "extraordinary origins" meant.

The Prison Dragon clan's ranking on the Ten Thousand Clans Ranking was even lower than that of a formerly subordinate clan, showing its decline, yet this foundation was still shockingly immense…

!

"Moreover…"

Li Yuan slowly raised his head.

He could sense an extremely dense aura of incense offerings coming from all directions, converging upon this Dragon Tower—so plentiful that it even made his breathing slightly labored.

"Tian Shi Yuan, or rather these great clans, must possess a unique method for gathering incense offerings."

Li Yuan muttered to himself, then drifted along the trajectory of the Listening Sound into a palace.

Within the grand and solemn great hall, all was silent, with only Longhu Longhu Dandan's divine light flowing.

"Is the celestial sound I'm meant to listen to this time right here? 1"

Li Yuan looked around. Upon reaching Daodadian, the guidance from the Listening Sound dissipated.

He surveyed his surroundings. This great hall was covered in divine patterns, their flowing interweaving making the hall appear immensely vast and tall. Faintly, he sensed a subtle binding force—clearly also part of that Prison-Suppressing Dragon Tower.

"The divine patterns here should be related to suppression and binding?"

Even pushing his perception to its absolute limit, Li Yuan could not glimpse the true form of the patterns beneath the hall, but he had some guesses in his heart.

Hoo~

As Li Yuan looked around, the tightly shut doors of the great hall suddenly swung wide open. Following the sound, he saw a white-haired old man walk in slowly, followed by a mysterious figure shrouded in a black robe.

Both of them had the faint Yi Kan Dao Fa glow of dharma treasures about them, though both were extremely restrained.

"What great experts!"

Even in this state, Li Yuan's heart still trembled. The moment the auras of these two leaked out even slightly, he felt an immense pressure bearing down on him.

In his perception, the aura of this white-haired old man was extremely similar to that of the Dragon Tower itself—like a divine dragon amid clouds, with neither head nor tail visible; catching even a glimpse of one corner made one's spirit shudder with dread.

As for the black-robed figure, he was like the starry sky itself—unfathomable, his aura profound and terrifying. Staring at him gave one the sensation of peering into You Jing.

"Eh?"

Suddenly, the black-robed figure halted his steps, and two clusters of purple flame lit up beneath his dark hood:

"It is said that the Prison-Suppressing Dragon King mastered the divine patterns of 'Day and Night' to their utmost, allowing him to observe all places where light and darkness intertwine. Now it seems this is indeed true—even a divine treasure forged merely from shed scales gives this one the sensation of being watched…"

'So sharp?'

Li Yuan startled, hastily averting his gaze, nearly believing that the black-robed figure had discovered him.

"This?"

That white-haired old man was also startled, then Yu Yu Xuanji shook his head: "Daoist Xuandao has misunderstood. The remnant scales shed by the ancestor contain no 'Day-Night Divine Patterns.' What you sense as being watched comes from the 'True Form Diagram of the Prison Dragon' within the tower."

"Oh?"

The black-robed figure called Daoist Xuandao replied with great interest: "This is the True Form Diagram of the Prison Dragon clan? I fear not necessarily so! Hmm, it seems Clan Leader Yancang still does not trust this one, still worries that this one covets the inheritance of your Prison Dragon clan?"

"You jest. In all of San Yuan Fa Jie, who does not know that you are about to enter 'Shihuang Heaven'? How could you covet the trifling inheritance of our clan?"

Yancang's heart skipped a beat. He forced a laugh and changed the subject: "May I dare to ask, Daoist Xuandao, what orders bring you here?"

"It's not exactly an order."

Daoist Xuandao smiled, not minding the change of subject. He unhurriedly walked to the throne at the very center of the great hall, gently stroking the dragon head on the throne, and said casually:

"Several hundred years ago, the 'Blood Phoenix God' was invaded by You Jing and went mad, slaughtering a great You Jing city before vanishing without a trace. Recently, this one heard news that it is suspected to have wandered to Tian Shi Yuan…"

"The Blood Phoenix God…"

Yancang's expression changed several times: "You mean to surround and kill the Blood Phoenix?!"

"Exactly!"

Daoist Xuandao sat down with an unhurried air, as if sighing: "The initiation ceremony of Shihuang Heaven is far too harsh. By comparison, slaying a single evil god alone is rather easier to accomplish…"

Yancang fell silent, his expression ugly.

"The Blood Phoenix clan descends from the 'Undying Divine Phoenix,' whose fame rivals that of your clan's Prison-Suppressing Dragon King. I have heard that your clan's 'Great Prison Divine Bell' is particularly effective against it, hence I have come to borrow the treasure."

Daoist Xuandao stated his purpose:

"What does Clan Leader Yancang think?"

(End of this chapter)