Chapter 538 - 537: All Small Tricks, Ancient Stone Tablet

Hearing Li Jing say that, the crowd didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

If they hadn’t seen Ling Ling before, they might have questioned someone.

The Spirit of Origin, the mighty one, can it be easily deceived with some delicious food?

Not to mention.

They are all original spirits, so shouldn’t they save face?

Wouldn’t it be embarrassing to be deceived by some delicious food?

However, under the premise of having seen Ling Ling, everyone felt that it was uncertain whether this could be accomplished.

Let’s not talk about Li Jing’s certain understanding of Ling Ling.

Just when the Blue Phoenix took out the jade nectar just now.

Ling Ling’s eyes were directly thrilled, and she even drooled.

There are even some water stains left on someone’s shoulder at the moment.

Since everyone is a Spirit of Origin, shouldn’t their natures be very similar?

After looking at each other, Shi Zixuan tentatively spoke out.

"High-quality and good-tasting, this covers a fairly wide range, and I think everyone here probably has a lot of similar things," she said, looking at everyone.

"But we are not trying to set a trap and wait for the rabbit, but to leave traces everywhere to try to attract the attention of the Spirit of Origin in the Ancient Fairyland, so the amount of ’bait’ we may need is demanded. At this critical moment, everyone should not be stingy, finding that Spirit of Origin now is more important than anything else."

Upon hearing this, everyone nodded in agreement and Shi Zixuan turned to Li Jing.

"What exactly does the Spirit of Origin like to taste? Or what kind of spiritual objects is it particularly fond of?"

As soon as she said this, Xiang Dong and Jin Ritian looked over, and Blue Phoenix looked sideways slightly.

They knew that the Spirit of Origin likes to eat.

But exactly what it likes to eat, and what taste it likes, to be honest, they are a bit blurred.

Holding this knowledge, they will be able to "prescribe the right medicine" when they encounter the Spirit of Origin in the Ancient Fairyland.

If they can raise one like Li Jing, the benefits are endless.

Even if there is no chance, it doesn’t matter, in the future, they can try to please this one raised by Li Jing.

The Spirit of Origin is naturally good and pure, once he is benefitted, he will probably respond in kind.

Li Jing could tell everyone’s intentions at a glance.

Shi Zixuan’s question seemed to be a bit "wicked" in her mind.

Considering that it’s impossible to attract the Spirit of Origin from the Ancient Fairyland just by relying on a bottle of jade nectar, and it’s indeed necessary to "raise funds" to gather enough resources to "set traps" everywhere, Li Jing replied without vagueness.

"I can’t say for sure about other Spirits of Origin, but Ling Ling in my house likes sweet food, and occasionally sour. As for what kind of spiritual objects, the little one doesn’t picky at all, as long as it’s delicious... no, she likes anything that’s edible."

With that said, Li Jing continued.

"Besides, it doesn’t have to be what we perceive as ’delicious’ and ’edible’ to attract her. For the Spirit of Origin, things like god patterns are rare delicacies, and absorbing them after eating will benefit them a lot. When I first met Ling Ling, I happened to enter a broken divine domain left by the highest god after a battle due to a coincidence. I tried to use a western divine art related to her to look for god patterns to attract her."

Hearing him speak, the eyes of the crowd brightened.

The Spirit of Origin is not picky about food.

It doesn’t have to be delicious, anything edible will do.

This is really something.

How greedy must this kind of existence be to be able to accept anything edible?

But that’s not the point.

The main point is.

The Spirit of Origin loves god patterns so much!

After digesting Li Jing’s words, Jin Ritian was the first to speak.

"As for god patterns, I have a lot of low-level ones in my pocket."

While speaking, he waved his hand to release a large number of lower god patterns, which piled up into a small mountain.

Seeing this, Li Jing was stunned.

That Jin Ritian had god patterns in his hand and could have so many was beyond his expectation.

So many low-level god patterns ...

Why does he keep them?

Doesn’t he use them himself or give them to others?

As if he knew his thoughts, Jin Ritian laughed.

"Don’t say it’s a lower god pattern, even the supreme god pattern is completely useless to us. If it’s in the fairy realm, only the supreme god pattern may be desirable."

Hearing this, Li Jing understood.

Also right!

If placed in Blue Star.

A few lower god patterns can easily cause a group of strong ones to fight, or even people in the belief system to go crazy for it.

But in the Fairy Realm...

Lower god patterns are not more than the beginning of the Sky Realm.

Middle ones correspond to the late stage of Sky Realm.

The upper ones are only entering the holy...

Who wants it if it’s not comparable to the venerable realm’s supreme god pattern?

While tasting this, Li Jing thought about it again and felt that something was wrong, and he said suspectingly.

"As far as I know, absorbing and refining god patterns can at least possess one power, that is, the power of rules. This...doesn’t it have a market in the Fairy Realm?"

"Refining god patterns is extremely troublesome, not as simple as you think."

Xiang Dong shook his head, saying.

"And once refined and absorbed, it takes at least a hundred years to remove the impurities of divinity, which is detrimental to our Orthodox Immortality Path. The lower the level of the god pattern, the more impurities of divinity."

As soon as the words fell, Shi Zixuan interjected.

"It’s okay if the strength is enough. If you can’t bear the power of the god pattern, you have to start from the lower rank gradually. In this period, it takes thousands of years to eliminate the impurities, it’s not worth wasting so much time and effort for the rules that god patterns can provide and some dispensable power. Rather than that, it’s better to close a dead end for a thousand years."

Hearing the two speaking one after another, Li Jing was stunned.

The refining of god patterns, is there so much attention to it?

Divinity, does it have a great harm to Orthodox Immortality Path?!

This...

Doesn’t that mean his family...

Worried about this, Li Jing’s thoughts entered the Little Universe.

At this time inside the Little Universe, Ling Ling was quite unhappy.

She was greedy for sweet nectar but she would never steal or rob without someone’s consent, right?

At most...

She would pester Li Jing by acting cute and spoiled, right?

But for someone to lock her up in a Little Universe without a care, that’s too much, isn’t it?

Li Jing’s thoughts entered, seeing Ling Ling sitting on a branch of the Life Tree, pouting high in the air. Instinctively, he took out a pile of God Patterns from Jin Ritian and handed a dozen to her.

Seeing the God Pattern appearing out of nowhere, Ling Ling’s eyes lit up, and she became visibly excited.

She grabbed one and took a bite looking at the sky.

"Speak up! What happened?"

Li Jing himself did not enter.

However, this did not prevent Ling Ling from realizing that the sudden appearance of the God Patterns next to her was his appeasement.

Having easily pacified Ling Ling, Li Jing began speaking about the essentials of refining a God Pattern.

Ling Ling listened, and replied dismissively.

"I thought it was something serious. You worry too much, didn’t Liu Sisi and the others refine the God Pattern with my help?"

With that, she shrugged and said.

"Don’t worry. I’ve altered their constitution to perfectly accommodate divinity. There are many benefits to having divinity, especially the supreme level one. Even with insufficient strength, it naturally suppresses middle and lower gods."

Hearing Ling Ling’s explanation, Li Jing was relieved.

It makes sense.

After all, Ling Ling would never harm his people. Ordinary people who refine God Patterns lack an aiding Spirit of Origin, so it certainly wouldn’t be the same.

With his thoughts retracting from the Little Universe, Li Jing made a mental note.

It’s true that people like Liu Sisi absorbed God Patterns with the help of Ling Ling.

But those he gave later were not.

Like his father-in-law and his wife, and his mother-in-law Liu Shi...

When they no longer want to stay on Blue Star and refine God Patterns to ascend, he must prepare for that.

Otherwise, if their cultivation is hindered in the future, his good intentions will end up doing harm.

Ancient Fairyland.

Everyone saw Li Jing taking out more than a dozen lower god patterns and knew that he was appeasing Ling Ling.

Everyone present did not break this truth.

Jin Ritian himself had no objections either.

These lower god patterns were like trash to him, with only a slight collectible value.

Looking at Xiang Dong and Shi Zixuan, Jin Ritian spoke up.

"Elder Xiang, you and Zixuan probably have a fair number of God Patterns too, just take them out. This thing is useless to us, using it as bait is just fine, and saves us wasting precious Spiritual objects."

The two nodded in agreement, each producing a number of God Patterns comparable to Jin Ritian’s.

Blue Phoenix, standing to one side, blinked twice and followed suit, removing quite a few God Patterns too.

Unlike the three of them.

Blue Phoenix’s God Patterns came in all three levels - upper, middle, and lower, and even had a Supreme God Pattern amongst them.

Seeing this, Li Jing was slightly stunned, and asked in surprise.

"How do all of you... have God Patterns?"

"There are many, many factions of foreign gods, both original and later ones, and we in Immortal Realm can’t even figure out how many Divine Domains exist."

Xiang Dong started.

"It is certain though, that not a single one of these so-called gods in these Divine Domains is calm. From time to time, foreign gods attempt to invade the Immortal Realm, and some even launch large-scale attacks."

Before the words fell, Shi Zixuan spoke.

"In recent years, the situation of foreign gods invading has been somewhat rare. I’m not sure if they are afraid of getting killed or what. But before I became emperor, every year or half a year some strange foreign god would appear in the Four Realms of Immortals. After becoming the emperor, gods from all realms continued to cause trouble, and I’ve probably killed between seventy and a hundred thousand foreign gods."

"I’m not much different, I’ve probably killed even more than Zixuan."

"After all, I was emperor early and was immediately voted as Southern Demon Emperor. Normal events are one thing, but defending against foreign invasions is my responsibility as Southern Demon Emperor. This is my duty as the master of the Southern Fairy Realm, and the same goes for Elder Xiang and others."

Following the three of them, Blue Phoenix also spoke.

"I haven’t killed too many foreign gods, just early in the past when the Immortal Music Palace was besieged by foreign gods and almost destroyed. I intervened to help them fend off the disaster and killed a few in the process."

Listening to the four people’s conversation, Li Jing was taken aback.

The Immortal Realm forbade the people of the Divine Domain to interfere, as the Star-Picking Elder had told him when he first ascended.

But listening to the four now.

Invasions from the Divine Domain appeared to be commonplace in the Immortal Realm in the past.

Even one of the two life and death crises of the Immortal Music Palace was caused by the invasion of foreign gods.

This...

Such good luck is possible!?

Damn it!

He missed out!

Li Jing felt regretful, wishing he was born hundreds of thousands of years earlier, and then ascended after his time-travel.

Leaving Blue Phoenix aside.

Shi Zixuan and others each had nearly a hundred thousand "God Lives", how much Essence Source was wasted?

While sighing inwardly, Li Jing looked at Shi Zixuan and the other three strangely.

Blue Phoenix took out all her "stock" at once.

But Shi Zixuan and others clearly held back, taking out only lower God Patterns.

These three...

No wonder they are managing the realms of the Immortal Realm.

They have so many tricks up their sleeves.

It seems...

Afterwards, it will be necessary to open the Little Universe to the three of them and get Ling Ling to cooperate, in order to trick some high-level God Patterns into returning.

Li Jing himself doesn’t particularly need any God Patterns.

Liu Sisi and the others have all achieved supreme status, with the exception of Ya’er, who has yet to receive her Supreme God Pattern.

But at Chen Tang City, aren’t there others beside them?

There are over five hundred descendants of the Ancient Gods squawking there, just waiting to be tricked... ahem!

To take advantage of.

Wouldn’t it be delicious to let the descendants of the Ancient Gods collectively achieve godhood, thus significantly increasing their overall strength?

While secretly calculating, Li Jing remained calm and collected on the surface, stretching out his hand to collect all the God Patterns that everyone had brought out into his Little Universe.

"Next, we will need to start leaving ’bait’ everywhere. The Ancient Fairyland is not like the Broken World we were previously in, where there are threats like the Deceiving the Heavens, and even potentially rotting factors left by the powerful beings buried in the Burial Fairyland. It is not advisable for us to act separately. I will keep all the objects here, and I will set them up. You all should have no objections, right?"

When Li Jing spoke like this, naturally no one would object.

In the Ancient Fairyland, it is indeed not suitable to act separately.

Seeing that no one was opposed, Li Jing nodded in agreement, summoned the Linglong Tower with a wave of his hand, and ascended into the sky with everyone. He himself stayed outside the tower to face the tribulation.

By the way, he quietly sent a message to Blue Phoenix.

Explaining that he needed that Supreme God Pattern for his adopted daughter, Ya’er.

Blue Phoenix had met Ya’er.

Even shared meals together.

Of course, she allowed Li Jing to use it.

And since someone had already agreed to let her live in the Little Universe, she had plenty of chances to interact with Ling Ling in the future. She was not lacking in opportunities to find out if the little one had any other likes.

After greeting Blue Phoenix, Li Jing immediately ordered Ling Ling to take the Supreme God Pattern and catch Ya’er, and forcibly made the little girl absorb it.

Ling Ling happily took the order.

The Spirit of Origin not only had a passion for food.

But was also interested in play.

In Li Jing’s Little Universe, there were tons of God Patterns at this moment. She wouldn’t be coveting just one Supreme God Pattern.

Although she didn’t know where certain someone got so many God Patterns from and what they were used for when she was outside, as long as there were leftovers in the end, they would end up in her pocket.

Li Jing had been spoiling her for quite some time now.

...

Leaving Ling Ling aside.

In the Ancient Immortal Realm, Li Jing led everyone to travel on the Linglong Tower.

Every time they arrived at a continent, they would drop a few God Patterns.

By the way, they would fill a paper cup with a drop of golden liqueur and place it aside, then change the method of leaving messages with paper pieces.

No matter whether the Spirit of Origin could understand the universal text of Blue Star or not.

Messages like "I have something tasty here", "Come find me, once you find me, I’ll let you heh heh" were left behind.

When it comes to playing games and having fun, Li Jing was the most experienced among the five people on this trip.

Blue Phoenix and others witnessed his behavior all the way and were full of admiration.

The same things.

If it were them, they could never do it.

After traveling across dozens of fragmented continents in a row, they unexpectedly found the fragmented continent that they used as the meeting point in the Broken World.

This was indeed a bit of a coincidence.

The spatial coordinates left in the mark by the Spirit of Origin did not correspond to the location in the Broken World, but to the location they had not explored in the north and south.

And in fact.

Li Jing and the others were all heading west on this journey.

Having found the fragmented continent used as the meeting point, Li Jing suspended the Linglong Tower, turned around and looked at everyone.

"If everything goes as expected, the correct landing spot of the broken Ascending Path in the Fairyland should be on a certain continent near this one. Since we happened to bump into it, how about we slow down and explore a bit?"

Hearing this, everyone looked at each other, nodded, and agreed.

On the way here.

Whenever they passed a continent, they always stopped, but mainly to leave "bait" and not really to explore.

What exactly was there on the continents they passed by? They only paid attention to them when they were passing over them from the sky, and had no idea about the details.

Almost all of the continental plates were mirrors of each other.

Most of the things were corresponding.

But it’s possible that what’s in the Broken World is just a facade.

And in the Ancient Fairyland, who knows, it might be hiding secrets for advancing beyond the Venerable Realm.

This.

Is really worth exploring when we get a chance.

Right then, everyone landed and discussed a bit. They decided to act separately on individual continents for convenience in supporting each other. One by one they explored the surrounding continents, looking for traces of the Ascending Path and other potentially useful things.

Worth mentioning is.

With Li Jing there, no one needed to worry about the problem of exotic beasts.

Someone with a huge moving tribulation cloud hovering over his head was completely a "ghost-sees-sorrow" in the Ancient Fairyland.

Wherever he went, the tribulation cloud completely covered an entire fragmented continent.

From the time he entered the Ancient Fairyland till now.

Wherever he went, chaos ensued.

Each and every exotic beast that encountered Li Jing.

No matter how fierce they were, or how powerful.

Every single one of them was rolling and clawing, howling and fleeing far away from the continent they were residing in. They dared not linger for a moment.

About this.

Li Jing was full of complaints.

If the problem can’t be solved, can you solve the problem that brings it!?

The tribulation cloud is terrifying, wouldn’t the problem be solved if they killed him who was undergoing the tribulation? So they don’t have to escape anymore?

Unfortunately, the exotic beasts in the Ancient Fairyland were all very timid and valued their lives very much. They were not as fierce as those in the Broken World.

They would run at sight, without the slightest hesitation.

Putting aside this digression.

People dispersed on the continents corresponding to the rendezvous point and quickly completed their exploration.

There was no sight of discoveries, so they immediately moved to another continent.

You wouldn’t believe it.

They were quite lucky.

Just after relocating to a nearby continent and dispersing, a large Sun Demon Fire shot up to the high sky and then exploded with a loud bang.

The people scattered everywhere understood upon seeing this that Jin Ritian had made a discovery and immediately moved towards the location where the Demon Fire rose.

By the time Li Jing arrived, people like Blue Phoenix had already reached.

As soon as he arrived, he saw Blue Phoenix and three others gathered together in ruins full of destroyed walls.

Similar ruins exist in the broken world as well.

And they are basic on each continent.

Li Jing, Blue Phoenix, and Shi Zixuan have attempted to explore during their expedition in the broken world, but they have not made any discoveries. The ruins are just ordinary remnants.

In fact.

The continent where everyone is currently situated is one that Li Jing, Blue Phoenix, and Shi Zixuan have explored.

At that time, they carefully searched these ruins.

But as previously mentioned.

What corresponds to the ancient fairyland in the broken world might just be a facade.

Jin Ritian sent a signal, obviously indicating that he had made some discovery.

Just about to land and take a look, Xiang Dong looked back and said.

"Brother Li, you better not come down, lest the divine calamity destroy the rare discovery."

Upon hearing this, Li Jing paused midair, unable to descend.

At this moment.

He was indeed a bit troubled.

With only him being chased by the calamity, it would not strike elsewhere.

But as time passed, the descending divine calamities were getting thicker and heavier, and the landing spots were getting larger and larger. Things nearby him would be affected by the calamity.

Hovering in midair, Li Jing looked down.

He saw that everyone gathered in front of a stone stele, half-buried in the ruins, engraved with special characters.

Seeing this situation, Li Jing frowned slightly.

He, along with Blue Phoenix and Shi Zixuan, had explored this area before.

At that time, they had seen this stone stele, but there were no engraved characters.

Noticing that those characters were not the common language that Li Jing recognized, and that Blue Phoenix and others seemed to understand and discuss it, Li Jing voiced out.

"What is written on the stone stele?"

"We haven’t figured it out yet."

Shi Zixuan turned her head and said a few words, then said,

"This is quite an ancient language. It has appeared in ancient texts in the Ancient Fairyland, but we haven’t studied it much, so translating is a bit difficult. Had I known this would be the case, we should have brought some people who have studied ancient languages."

Before she could finish her sentence, Blue Phoenix muttered.

"What’s written on the stone stele seems to have something to do with the void."

"Void?"

Xiang Dong was surprised.

"Yes."

Blue Phoenix nodded, then pointed to the four characters in the ancient text and said,

"I can’t say I recognize the other ancient characters, but these four mean ’from the Void’."

From the void?

Li Jing pondered.

Did this mean...

Something came from the void to the Ancient Fairyland?

Below.

Jin Ritian, on hearing that Blue Phoenix was sure the four characters meant "From the Void", thoughtfully said,

"From the Void, this should not have much to do with the legacy or mark left behind. So far, I have not heard of anyone who can use the power of the void."

As he spoke, he narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Which means, this stele might be a trace left by the predecessors of the Ancient Fairyland, intending to tell something to the future generations."

"So the question arises, what could come from the void which is full of nothing?"

Shi Zixuan raised a question.

Looking at the only four characters that only Blue Phoenix recognized, while the rest just saw similar ancient text without understanding their meaning. Li Jing grinned, and said,

"Instead of blindly guessing here, you guys might as well dig this stele out. The parts outside are obviously just half of it, there must be other characters underneath. Maybe the remaining part has characters that you recognize, which can provide some reliable information."

What does it mean to wake up from a dream by hearing someone’s words?

On hearing someone say this, Blue Phoenix and others suddenly realized.

They were only concerned about looking at the part exposed outside and hadn’t thought of digging out the stele.

Xiang Dong and Jin Ritian immediately started digging up the ground. Blue Phoenix and Shi Zixuan silently stepped back.

Such rough work as digging up the ground, how could this be something that the two fairies like them should do?

Xiang Dong and Jin Ritian knew their place, and they didn’t expect these two to help. Both of them worked harder than the other in digging.

In a short while, the two had dug out most of the stone stele.

Just as they were about to finish digging, Jin Ritian’s claw, which was in the air, flew out of the soil, bringing out two fragmentary skeletons.

Seeing this scene out of the blue, Jin Ritian was startled.

Xiang Dong was also stunned.

Shi Zixuan reacted very quickly, waved her hand in the air, and used a gentle force to catch the two skeletons.

Even so.

The two skeletons that had been thrown high into the air were like objects left behind by powerful beings in the burial grounds. They turned into a rain of dust and dissipated as they were caught.