Chapter 568 – There Is a Tourist on the Mountain (1/2)

Chapter 568 - There Is a Tourist on the Mountain

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

Chen Changsheng madly ran the entire way, his boots and the mountain crumbling together as he ran in a cloud of a dust. In a few moments, he had already run halfway up the mountain.

He did not know much farther it would be until he reached the Heaven Lake and the summit of Mount Han, only that he should make use of his time—that the farther he ran, the better.

But soon after, he stopped, because he sensed that something was wrong.

He sensed the stone pearls had become hot.

The mountains suddenly rumbled with thunder. Was this the sound of several hundred stones being forcefully moved and rupturing the air?

Soon after, the sounds of cliffs collapsing could be heard.

The sound grew closer and closer, and the Heavenly Tome Monoliths that were the stone pearls became hotter and hotter, almost to a scalding degree.

Suddenly, all noises vanished.

An item was reflected, or to be more precise, burst into his eyes.

It was a seal. He didn't know what sort of stone it was carved from, but he couldn't see anything strange about it.

The stone seal gently swayed in the wind.

The seal was tied to a man's waist.

It was the middle-aged scholar.

Then, Chen Changsheng saw the several hundred Heavenstones that followed the middle-aged scholar.

Hiding the sky and covering earth, possessing an unearthly energy, it was obvious that they were limiting his speed, attempting to hold fast this unusual being, yet it was like they were the same as the seal, becoming one of his trinkets.

This was a cliff. Atop it was a shallow ditch dug out many years ago to serve as a makeshift path, the ditch filled with moss.

Chen Changsheng was below the cliff while the middle-aged scholar was on it, the two separated by only a few zhang.

”You humans seem to love trapping yourselves in webs of your own making.”

The middle-aged scholar calmly gazed at him as he spoke, ”I don't know if this Heavenstone array sealing the mountain is a plot, I only know that this will seal your death in this mountain.”

Chen Changsheng did not reply because there was no meaning.

There was no despair in his heart, because this also had no meaning.

His spiritual sense fell on the black stone pearl, preparing to temporarily flee into the Garden of Zhou.

He didn't know if the middle-aged scholar could directly break through the spatial barrier around the Garden of Zhou—if his and Xu Yourong's conjecture was correct, this person had once infiltrated the Garden of Zhou. Thus, if he were to enter the Garden of Zhou right in front of this person, safety was by no means assured. But his back was to the cliff and he was already in dire straits, so he had to try.

What shocked him, what caught him by surprise, was that he was unable to use the black stone to enter the Garden of Zhou.

Nothing had changed—he was still in Mount Han with his back to the cliff.

He didn't know whether it was because the Heavenstone array had sealed off all space around Mount Han or if it was because the middle-aged scholar was so powerful that his mere approach was sufficient to influence spatial artifacts.

In short, he was not able to enter the Garden of Zhou and had lost his final technique.

But he still did not despair.

He raised up the Stainless Sword, gripped the Vault Sheath, and stared at the middle-aged scholar, his expression very calm.

This was a foe whom he could not possibly defeat, but so what?

The middle-aged scholar seemed to show a little praise in his eyes. ”You should know my purpose.”

Chen Changsheng nodded.

The scholar continued, ”With heartfelt appreciation, I will slowly dine on you.”