Vol 19 Chapter 23 (1/2)

Book 19, Empyrean God, Chapter 23 – Stone Stele

The enormous black stone stele was 299 meters tall, and it emanated an aura of majesty that was so faint, it could only be sensed from less than 300 meters away The aura, however, had an exalted quality about it Ji Ning only sao enore characters carved into the face of the stone stele facing hie characters that were clustered as densely as ants

“These characters…?” Ning examined them carefully “I’ve never seen these characters before It seee like this”

Ning had never seen them before, but was certain that these were characters froe, because they were actually quite similar to the characters of the human race The two enor could almost sense what they meant

“Letwilled his coresense to surge forward

“This…?” Ning stared at the stone stele in surprise “How can this be? I at all? It’s as though nothing is there”

“Can it be that this stone stele is covered with a restrictive spell that blocks out coresense?” Ning pondered for a moment “Let me try with heartforce”

Heartforce was invisible, undetectable, and extremely formidable

Instantly, his true body in the outside world sent its powerful heartforce into the underwater estate to cover the stone stele This caused Ning’s face to truly change, because he discovered…that all his heartforce found nothing whatsoever It was as though the stone stele didn’t even exist

“But, but…” Ning stretched his hand out to touch the stone stele The stone was icy cold, and its surface was very rough “This stone stele is clearly right in front of me How can it be that not even heartforce can detect it?”

“This is an extraordinary item In fact…it isn’t even of the Three Realms”

This thought instantly flashed past Ning’s mind

The two enorraved on the stone stele…the countless tiny characters on the back of the stele…the unique runes engraved on other parts of it…clearly, someone had created this item! The stone stele’s aura was so powerful that the creator had to at least be on the level of the Buddhist and Daoist leaders In fact, he ht be even more powerful

For heartforce to be unable to discover the stone stele when one could see it with the naked eye and touch it with the hand…Ning had never, ever heard of such a strange item Such an item shouldn’t be able to exist within the Three Realms

Then…

It had to have come from the primordial chaos outside the Three Realms! Ever since the most ancient of days, the unique iteenerally referred to as Chaos treasures They were either used as ingredients for forging treasures, or used as treasures themselves When used as treasures, they would become far more powerful than Protocosmic spirit-treasures, and so they would be titled ‘Chaos treasures’

Where and hoere Chaos treasures born? Hard to say The priive birth to Chaos treasures, but the terrifying goles’ had created were definitely no weaker than any Chaos treasure Thus, the Three Realms had suspected for some time now that some of theartifacts that rivaled Chaos treasures in ht

“Can this be a Chaos treasure?” A thought flashed through Ning’s mind

Whoosh!+

Instantly, a figure appeared Ning’s true body descended upon the clone,left a small amount of his divine power there, in the form of yet another clone

“Neither coresense not heartforce can detect it That leaves just divine power and Iently placed it doithin the very center of the hall Previously, he had thought this to siflame Freak had acquired by luck; he didn’t think it could possibly be particularly powerful But now, it seeround to it

Not even coresense or heartforce could detect it Most likely, the other major powers of the Three Realms didn’t even know that it existed

“Youngflaflame Freak For a Celestial Immortal like you to have been in possession of a treasure like this…if it wasn’t for the fact that I wanted to gain revenge for my mother and for junior apprentice-brother Northson, I probably wouldn’t have been able to acquire so like this This should be an item from the pri felt a certain itchiness in his heart If this really was a Chaos treasure, this would be a tremendous stroke of luck for him

But of course, not all items from the primordial chaos were particularly valuable For exa had been able to shatter apart ‘chaos goldstone’ Shennong located many different medicinal herbs within the primordial chaos, but their value was far, far lower than that of a Chaos treasure

“Letsat down in the lotus position, placing his hand atop the giant stone stele The stone stele was nearly 300 meters tall and nearly 30 ’s body instantly flooded into the stone stele

“Eh? Not a Chaos treasure?” As soon as Ning sent his divine power into it, he realized so There was no way to bind this treasure Ning knew exactly how it felt to bind a treasure, even a Protocosmic one, but when his divine power flooded into this treasure, he found the insides to be e at all for him to bind

However, when his divine power flooded into the two massive characters at the front of the stone stele, a ripple of infor’s mind

“Seventeen” Ning instantly understood what the enormous characters meant

“Those tords mean ‘seventeen’ What does that mean? Can it mean that there are many of these stone steles, and that this is the seventeenth?” Ning guessed “Right; there are many other characters at the back”

Swoosh!+

Ning’s body blurred, then he appeared in the lotus position to one side of the stone stele He began to pour a large amount of divine power into the stele As his divine power flooded into it, it quickly began to interact with the countless characters on the other side of the stone stele As it did, Ning could sense a tre his oer; clearly, to forcibly scan and understand the information contained within those countless characters was beyond what his capabilities

“Wait” Ning came to a halt “The front side only has two characters, whereas the back side has at least a ive ht away, but a million is far more than what I can handle”