Chapter 543

"Want to visit the founder's place of enlightenment?" Qiu Jinan was stunned for a moment after hearing the Transmission Elder's words.

Ten thousand years ago, when the founder had just succeeded in enlightenment, the immortal realm was a forbidden area, inaccessible to anyone below the Tribulation Transcendence stage. As time passed, ten thousand years went by. During this period, countless young geniuses and world-shaking great powers of the Wuxing Sect entered the immortal realm to seek opportunities and insights, trying to reproduce the founder's feat, but not a single one succeeded.

As for the immortals playing chess and the scene of history repeating itself, it never appeared again. There was no conclusion as to who those three ancient immortals were.

Qiu Jinan looked up and happened to see the ancient painting hanging on the wall. The ancient painting was filled with immortal energy, containing infinite mysteries that could not be understood or fathomed.

Although it was an ancient painting, it was protected by some inexplicable power, and one could not tell at all that it was a painting from ten thousand years ago.

In the ancient painting, two immortals were sitting on stone chairs, looking thoughtful. Although their faces could not be seen, one could imagine that these two immortals must be bowing their heads in contemplation, their brows slightly furrowed. The third immortal was carrying firewood on his back, watching the chess game intently. The face of the third immortal could not be seen either.

On the chessboard, black and white were locked in a stalemate, chasing and blocking each other, never able to connect into a single piece. The fighting was intense and inseparable.

Mr. Tian Kui was a Confucian cultivator with profound painting skills. This was the scene he painted after walking out of the immortal realm.

Next to the ancient painting was another ancient painting, also a work by Mr. Tian Kui.

In the other ancient painting, Mr. Tian Kui was wearing a white Confucian robe, high-spirited, fully displaying the demeanor of a great power, stepping on two famous world-shaking great powers—the ancestors of the Meng family and the Jiang family.

These two world-shaking great powers were covered in wounds, and it could be seen that they had experienced a life-and-death struggle, yet they still could not defeat Mr. Tian Kui.

Mr. Tian Kui was a Confucian cultivator with profound painting skills. This was a scene from his imagination.

Qiu Jinan withdrew his gaze from the two paintings and agreed after a little thought.

"It's probably because the children haven't been in contact with immortal relics and want to see the world. That's understandable."

"Very well, then let me take them to see it."

It was the founder's place of enlightenment after all. Although it only had commemorative significance now, the due importance should still be given.

Lu Yang and the other four learned that they were allowed to enter the immortal realm, and that Qiu Jinan would lead them personally. Everyone had a smile on their face.

This was the legendary immortal realm.

Among all the public secret realms, no secret realm had been confirmed as an immortal realm, which was enough to prove the preciousness of the immortal realm.

Of course, for Lu Yang, who had the Immortal Realm inside his body, the immortal realm was not a big deal.

Under Qiu Jinan's leadership, the five of them soon arrived at their destination.

The immortal realm was located at the junction of the fire vein and the water vein.

"What a high mountain." Man Gu exclaimed. The mountain towered into the clouds, with white clouds blocking the mountainside, making it impossible to see how high the mountain really was.

What was certain was that the height of this mountain was definitely no less than the Tianmen Peak.

Qiu Jinan explained casually: "The immortal realm is in a cave in the mountain. The founder was worried that just moving the cave would destroy the immortal's layout and the integrity of the immortal realm, so he moved the entire mountain over."

For cultivators like Mr. Tian Kui, moving mountains and filling lakes were just trivial matters.

Lu Yang noticed a fence around the mountain, forming a faintly visible barrier. It should be to protect the immortal realm so that disciples wouldn't sneak in and destroy the immortal's chess game.

Lu Yang noticed half a very inconspicuous yellow talisman not far from the entrance of the fence, stubbornly stuck to the fence, fluttering in the wind.

"The seal drawn on this yellow talisman is very clever." The Decayed Fairy glanced at it and calculated the appearance of the whole yellow talisman and its contents based on the half of the yellow talisman.

Hearing this, Lu Yang was startled. Could it be that there was not only an immortal chess game in the immortal realm, but also a world-shaking demon?

Lu Yang imagined a scene: Mr. Tian Kui accidentally encountered a world-shaking demon, fought hard, and finally lost by one move. In desperation, he could only seal the demon in the immortal realm and suppress the demon with the immortal's chess game.

As time passed, the people of the Wuxing Sect forgot this history, and the demon had broken the seal and escaped from the immortal realm!

Or could it be that the demon also mastered something like the Dao Fruit of Causality, making people forget his existence?

Observing Sect Master Qiu's reaction, it seemed he didn't notice the existence of this half of the yellow talisman.

Lu Yang raised his hand, pointed to the inconspicuous half of the yellow talisman not far away, and asked: "Sect Master Qiu, what is that?"

"Is it a seal?"

"It's a sealing strip."

Lu Yang: "..."

"The founder was in a hurry when he moved the mountain and did it without the imperial court's permission. The imperial court naturally wouldn't have it, so they sealed the immortal realm and put up a sealing strip."

"After paying the fine and bailing the founder out, the imperial court agreed that they could allocate the mountain and the immortal realm to our Wuxing Sect, and the sealing strip became useless."

"The sealing strip wasn't torn off cleanly at the time, and later generations felt that it was a cultural relic of some size, so it was kept."

A sealing strip that could seal an immortal realm was naturally not an ordinary object.

Seeing that everyone had no more questions, Qiu Jinan led them across the fence to the foot of the mountain.

The closer they got to the mountain, the more they could feel the pressure brought by the mountain. The group did not stop and walked into a damp cave.

As soon as they entered the cave, everyone's restless hearts suddenly calmed down, as if the state of mind of the immortals playing chess thirty thousand years ago had influenced the present.

The cave was silent, dark, and deep, with only their footsteps echoing in the cave.

The deeper they went, the drier the environment became, as if the inside and outside of the cave were two different worlds.

"This is it," Qiu Jinan said.

Presented before everyone was a stone table. Black and white pieces filled the chessboard, with no more empty spaces. Counting carefully, neither side had connected five pieces.

The result of the immortal chess game was actually a draw.

The stone table, stone chairs, and Gomoku pieces were all ordinary objects. Only because the immortals had used them for a hundred years and were stained with a trace of immortal energy could these ordinary objects survive the long years without being eroded by the river of time.

Qiu Jinan shook his head with regret. Sure enough, no matter how many times they came in, it was impossible to reproduce the scene at that time.

The founder's opportunity was an immortal fate that could be met but not sought, and it could not be repeated.

What Qiu Jinan didn't notice was that Lu Yang's eyes were vacant, as if he had lost his will.

Lu Yang lowered his head as if he were dozing off, then he suddenly raised his head. What came into view was the empty chessboard and two strangers with their hands reaching into the chess box, touching pieces in preparation to play.

Meng Jingzhou, Tao Yaoye, and the others were all gone, leaving only Lu Yang as an observer.

Lu Yang's heart was startled. How did this scene look like a reproduction of Mr. Tian Kui's story?

Before he could react, he heard the two chess players talking.

The voices of the two chess players contained a special power that could calm the mind and stabilize the spirit.

"Ying Tian Immortal, you go first?"

"Alright."

*Clack*, a white piece landed in the center of the chessboard.

The Ying Tian Immortal made his move.

The second update will be at eleven o'clock.

(End of chapter)