Chapter 82 - 82: The Sound Lingers On_i
Chapter 82: Chapter 82: The Sound Lingers On_i
Translator: 549690339
Self-enlightenment?
The Sixth Elder was not foolish, and he instantly understood Uncle Tieyi’s presence at the Eighteenth Peak was probably for those from the Bliss Palace, right?
Almost all members of the Bliss Palace were women, and their cultivation methods were so indulgent…
Tsk, tsk…
“What are you laughing at? Go quickly!” rhe First Elder urged.
The Sixth Elder’s expression became serious. “Me, laugh? Haven’t you all said I’m stubborn? A person as stubborn as me wouldn’t laugh!”
“Compared to before, you’re not as obstinate. Such change is a good thing. In future you should…”‘
Before he could finish, both men simultaneously looked to the north!
In the northern sky, clouds of many hues swirled together, radiating an awe-inspiring aura and an Immortal’s might from an unknown distance.
“Another Immortal Artifact has been born. Is it the junior uncle?” murmured the Sixth Elder.
The First Elder nodded, “No wonder the junior uncle isn’t in seclusion within the sect; so this is rhe reason!”
He realized that the junior uncle chose to seclude himself outside to refine the Immortal Artifact!
Such phenomena, of course, were best not to occur inside the sect. Clearly, the junior uncle thought the same way.
“Should we go have a look?’ asked the Sixth Elder.
The First Elder shook his head. “There’s no point; if we went, the junior uncle would have already changed locations by the time we arrived!”
At that moment, within the Heavenly Mechanism Sect, figures broke through the air.
The First Elder scoffed at this. Most of those were from other sects. It would be futile for them to go as well.
In the ravine, Li Cheng channeled the Chaos Yuan Heavenly Scripture, absorbing the power of the baptism once again, “Little Tripod, release your power to your heart’s content!’1
The Purple Void Jade Emperor’s Tripod released Immortal Yuan fully for Li Cheng to absorb.
Li Cheng had discovered previously that leveraging the power of baptism heightened the speed at which he could absorb and refine Immortal Yuan. He would certainly seize the opportunity now.
After all, the duration of the baptism would not be long.
Above his head, a silver armor floated, alternating between several meters in size and the size of a palm under the baptism.
It was the protagonist of the baptism, the newly refined Nascent Soul armor of Immortal Artifact level.
About a minute later, the baptism gradually faded; the armor shrank to palm size and fell into Li Cheng’s hands.
Li Cheng stored rhe armor and turned his gaze outside the Formation.
In the depths of the ravine, an elder was racing towards him, apparently having been in seclusion deeper within and attracted by the commotion.
Without any intention to address the elder, Li Cheng prepared to dismantle the Formation and leave.
However, suddenly, Li Cheng’s brows lifted slightly. He looked again at the elder, who had a face full of tattooed lines, an overwhelming heat surrounding him, and a residual aura of Artifact Refining.
“An Artifact Refiner with a tattooed face… Could it be the Green-faced Elder from the Artifact Sect?” Li Cheng speculated.
Filled with suspicion, Li Cheng tried calling out, “Green-faced Elder!”
The voice traveled far, reaching the eider’s ears.
The elder halted, looking over, “Who is it? Apologies, I didn’t recognize you, fellow Daoist.”
So it was really him!
The entire Artifact Sect thought it was you who had refined the Immortal Artifact, yet here you are in seclusion?
However, the affairs of the Artifact Sect had been handed over to Mu Xingzhi. Now that more than a month had passed, the matter must have already settled.
There was no need to pay any attention to the Green-faced Elder any longer.
With that thought, Li Cheng altered the Formation, leaving many faults, before randomly using the Immortal Spirit Step to move away in some direction.
Not long after Li Cheng left, the Green-faced Elder arrived at rhe formation. May I know which fellow Daoist was here?”
There was no response.
The Green-faced Elder sized up the Formation, hesitated for a few seconds, then unleashed the power of the Transcendance Tribulation Stage, breaking through the Formation in just a few strikes.
However, within the Formation, there was nothing, only the lingering power from the purification remained!
Even so, the Green-faced Elder was overjoyed, “Such a remnant of power, which contains the essence of Artifact Refining, is marvelous indeed!”
Without hesitation, the Green-faced Elder sat down and quietly began to comprehend.
Li Cheng chose a direction at random and used the Immortal Spirit Step, ail to avoid being detected for having refined the Immortal Artifact. After taking more than ten steps in succession, he stopped.
In front was an area surrounded by mountains and water, with perilous peaks and clear beautiful rivers.
Li Cheng landed casually on one of the strange peaks, sensing rhe gains from this recent retreat.
The Thunder Law remained at ten, unchanged, while the Rule of Fire had reached one hundred. Time Law was at fifty, Life Law at fifty, and Space Law had increased from ninety to one hundred.
In total, he had improved by ninety-five Laws. Moreover, his Spiritual Sense had also become much stronger. This was the result of thirty-nine rounds of Enlightenment.
Additionally, with this purification, his Immortal Yuan had now reached eighty percent.
[Disciple Yun Tianqiong has made great gains, awarding 5 Enlightenment chances.]
[Disciple Ling Xi has made great gains, awarding 5 Enlightenment chances. ]
[Disciple Qi Jingtian has made great gains, awarding 5 Enlightenment chances.]
[Current remaining Enlightenment chances: 15 times. ]
When busy with important matters, the system usually doesn’t interrupt, but now that he had some downtime, the notification sounded.
An entire month and a half had passed, and although he did not know their exact progress, the notifications suggested they must have improved considerably.
Contemplating, Li Cheng took out a storage ring to examine it.
This was Lu Sanqian’s storage ring, along with rhe Immortal Weapon War Blade, both of which he had collected, but had yet to examine.
An Immortal’s storage ring was, of course, something to look forward to.
But after looking through it, Li Cheng realized what it meant to be poor.
A Heavenly Immortal at Complete stage, yet in his storage ring, there were only slightly more than eight thousand Immortal Stones and two Immortal Infants with their consciousness erased. The rest were miscellaneous Artifact Refining materials, with very few Immortal Materials, mostly Spirit Materials.
Compared with the Immortal Materials left by Qi Jingshen…
There was simply no comparison. Li Cheng felt it was better nor to compare; after all, without comparison there would be no harm.
Tossing the Immortal Stones and Immortal Infants into the Purple Void Jade Emperor’s Tripod, Li Cheng looked around intently, “Strange, where is this zither music coming from?”
Li Cheng had already explored with his Spiritual Sense, and within ten thousand miles, there was no one, only Demon Beasts and ordinary wild animals. Yet, now there was faint zither music?
What was even stranger was that within his Spiritual Sense, he couldn’t identify the source of rhe sound!
You see, sound should cause vibrations, and these vibrations can’t be concealed from Spiritual Sense.
Spiritual Sense did detect vibrations, but these vibrations seemed to have no source, as if they were everywhere, with no origin to be found!
Could it be any more peculiar?
Filled with curiosity, Li Cheng used a small Teleport in various directions, traveling hundreds of miles, and finally found that rhe vibrations coming from the north were slightly stronger.
He flew thousands of miles to the north, and the music began to reach his ears, clearly getting closer and closer.
Li Cheng locked on to the direction and continued flying. Soon, at the summit of a peculiar peak in front of him, a faint glow emerged, and the music originated from there!
As he approached, he saw that it was a vision. Within the vision, a woman with stunning beauty lightly strummed the ancient zither. The woman’s face bore a gentle smile, like a briefly blooming Epiphylium, her elegance so sublime that it captivated onlookers, demanded reverence, and forbidden desecration.
Li Cheng was slightly spellbound. Although it was just a vision, the woman’s eyes were bright and clear, her gaze tender and soft, her body faintly glowing, as if she were a pure and holy Immortal, unforgettable at just one glance.
After a long while, the vision dissipated, and Li Cheng also slowly came to his senses. He looked at the empty mountain peak and took a deep breath.
“The residual sound lingers for three days without fading. What’s the story behind this woman playing rhe zither?”
Li Cheng recognized that the vision had not been created intentionally, rather, the zither music had triggered certain rules of heaven and earth, momentarily recorded by those laws, resulting in the phenomena of residual sound lingering for three days.’
To move the rules of heaven and earth with zither music, Li Cheng was seeing such a person for the first time, despite it being merely a vision.
Regathering his composure, Li Cheng flew towards his sect. With the Sect Gathering approaching, he could no longer wander outside..