Chapter 306: Night Exploration of the Heavenly Stele
As Mo Yandao left sorrowfully, the people of the Immortal Spirit Holy Land settled down in the Immortal Spirit Pavilion.
Outside, the sounds of fighting still erupted from time to time. It seemed they were not the only ones dissatisfied with the arrangements made by the Tianji Pavilion.
However, regarding those ordinary sects, the Tianji Pavilion did not possess the patience it had for the Immortal Spirit Holy Land, directly suppressing them with force.
As the night deepened, the Heavenly Stele City finally quieted down.
After the last scream dissipated, the entire city was left only with the flowing light pillar of the Heavenly Stele Pavilion.
Aside from this, the lights of the three hundred and sixty-five pavilions remained lit.
Lin Wan stood alone on the observation deck. In this instant, it was as if she saw the night view of her previous life.
The night breeze brushed against her veil, and the Heavenly Stele light pillar nearby dyed her white skirt a flowing silver.
She didn't come here just to enjoy the scenery.
She recalled Ji Lingxiu's words from that day—the Great Zhou Grand Emperor Ji Wuque had suppressed the Xuanying Continent for ten thousand years, pressing down on the noble clans and sects until they couldn't catch their breath.
Although the combined strength of the Six Saints was powerful, Ji Wuque... would he really fall so easily?
She wasn't afraid of Ji Wuque.
With her current strength, even if it was just this avatar, she was confident that even ten Ji Wuques wouldn't be enough to fight her.
But what if Ji Wuque really had the Upper Realm standing behind him?
Having been in this world for several hundred years, she had already experienced a few matters related to the Upper Realm.
Looking back on them, although they didn't cause any losses, they were all huge troubles.
This made her unable to help but have a bad premonition about this Heavenly Stele Gathering.
Subsequently, a bold idea suddenly appeared in her mind.
Since I'm already here...
Why not go take a look!?
Once this thought appeared, it grew uncontrollably and frantically in her mind.
The next moment, the corner of her lips curled up slightly, and her figure gradually faded under the moonlight like ink wash.
...
Outside the Heavenly Stele Pavilion, twelve layers of restrictions glowed with a ghostly light in the night.
The outermost "Nine Heavens Thunder Tribulation Array" breathed out lightning snakes. Inside was the "Profound Darkness True Fire" capable of melting holy artifacts.
In the core, there was also the "All-Heaven Star Lock" claimed to be able to trap Holy Venerables.
The disciple keeping watch yawned, completely unaware that a white shadow had swept past from his side.
Lin Wan's footsteps fell before the first restriction.
She extended her index finger and tapped lightly on the thunder light with her fingertip—
"Pop~"
Like popping a water bubble.
The twelve restrictions rippled simultaneously, yet they didn't even trigger an alarm.
Her figure passed through all barriers leisurely, as if passing through morning mist.
When the last restriction closed behind her, that legendary Heavenly Stele was finally fully presented before her—
When Lin Wan penetrated the last restriction, that legendary Heavenly Stele finally unfolded completely before her eyes.
This was a huge stone tablet three zhang high, presenting a semi-transparent mysterious black color throughout, as if the entire night sky were congealed within it.
The surface of the tablet was not flat but covered with dense cracks. These cracks glowed with a faint silver radiance under the moonlight, like the trajectories of stars.
The most eye-catching thing was the huge crack that ran through the entire tablet body—extending from the top to the base, about three fingers wide, with jagged edges.
Surging from the depths of the crack was seven-colored flowing light. Sometimes it was hot like magma, sometimes cold like ice.
Looking closely, this crack actually divided the entire Heavenly Stele into three parts, just like three broken tablets forcibly spliced together by someone with great supernatural powers.
Golden runes would float to the surface of the tablet from time to time. These characters twisted like snakes and were completely different from any known writing on the Xuanying Continent.
Lin Wan stepped forward slowly and discovered that the tablet body was not fixed but trembling slightly.
Every time it trembled, the flowing light in those cracks would accelerate, projecting unpredictable patterns on the tablet surface—sometimes a vast starry sea, sometimes strange creatures, and sometimes completely incomprehensible geometric figures.
The strangest part was the base.
There, a circle of deeply concave patterns was carved, and silver liquid flowed within the patterns. When this liquid contacted the crack in the tablet body, it would make a faint "sizzling" sound, as if conducting some kind of repair.
When Lin Wan's shadow fell on the tablet surface, those flowing runes suddenly paused for an instant, then swam at a faster speed.
Under the moonlight, the entire Heavenly Stele was like a piece of porcelain that had been broken and then carefully repaired, exuding both an ancient desolate aura and a strange fluctuation that did not belong to this world.
The light flowing in the cracks would sometimes condense into beams and sometimes scatter into starlight, illuminating the top floor of the Heavenly Stele Pavilion like a dream.
This lighting effect...
It's a pity not to use it for computer peripherals.
Lin Wan couldn't help but complain.
Subsequently, she gently pressed her hand against the Heavenly Stele surface. The touch was cool like jade, no different from ordinary stone tablets.
She frowned slightly, just about to urge her divine consciousness to explore deeply—
[Ding!]
A crisp electronic sound suddenly exploded in her mind.
[Detected Host exploring the forbidden area Buzhou Mountain. Achievement triggered—Lower Realm Loiterer]
[System Tip: Epic achievement triggered: Lower Realm Loiterer]
Lower Realm Loiterer: Explore all seven forbidden areas in the Lower Realm. Completion [4/7]
[Complete the Lower Realm Loiterer achievement. Reward: One random Supreme Immortal Art (Complete Version)]
Lin Wan's pupils suddenly contracted like needles. Her fair white fingers unconsciously clenched the edge of the Heavenly Stele.
The cold touch was transmitted through her fingertips again, but it could not extinguish the sudden suspicion rising in her heart.
"Buzhou Mountain?"
She murmured low. These three words rolled between her lips and teeth, carrying a trembling of disbelief.
The top floor of the Heavenly Stele Pavilion was silent. Only those seven-colored flowing lights continued to flow silently in the cracks of the tablet.
The disciple keeping watch yawned, completely unaware of the abnormality on the pavilion roof.
This was too ridiculous—she couldn't help but think of the "God" who had hidden his head and tail behind the Hong family incident, who was from Buzhou Mountain.
And at this moment, she was clearly standing in Heavenly Capital City. Leaving aside where Buzhou Mountain was, the distance to the Hong family was more than ten million miles!
"System error?"
This thought was just born when she pinched it out.
As the greatest reliance of a transmigrator, the system had never made half a mistake.
Lin Wan's fingertips gently rubbed the tablet surface, thinking of another possibility: Could it be that the stone material of the Heavenly Stele... came from Buzhou Mountain?
But she immediately shook her head to deny it.
Even if this Heavenly Stele was carved from the stone of Buzhou Mountain, the system would not determine it as "Exploring the Forbidden Area".
She understood the temperament of that mechanical voice too well—unless one personally visits the dangerous situation, it would never easily issue an achievement.
The night breeze brushed the veil, and Lin Wan suddenly remembered the sect master's secret room where her main body was located in the Immortal Spirit Holy Land.
"Space....."
This thought was like lightning splitting apart the mist.
Her gaze suddenly became sharp, scanning every corner of the top floor of the Heavenly Stele Pavilion.
Those seemingly ordinary beams, pillars, and floor tiles glowed with a weird micro-light under the moonlight.
Was the problem not the Heavenly Stele itself, but... this space?
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