Chapter 252: Chaotian Palace of the East Sea (1/2)
Chapter 252: Chaotian Palace of the East Sea
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”Here it is. This island is the entrance to the Small Thunder Temple Ancient Ruins!”
After a two-day flight, Junior Leopard, Golden Rooster and Luo Haiyun finally rested on an isolated island located remotely in the East Sea.
Standing on the shore, Luo Haiyun took out a piece of black cloth that was made of unknown materials. No one knew how long it had existed, but it was releasing a stale smell.
”My family were wiped out because of this. Wang Family in Cenzhou, you were my, Luo Haiyun's, sworn enemy!” Luo Haiyun roared under his breathe.
Junior Leopard kept his head up and fixed his eyes on the skyline far away. They had found that the phantom of the Ancient Ruins hanging in the sky didn't come any closer than what they sensed when they were in Junior Leopard's northwest fief. Even after flying for two whole days and crossing thousands of miles, it hadn't gotten any closer.
However, having mastered Space Division Skill, Junior Leopard felt an unusual sense on the island.
Subtly, he sensed that there was a hidden passageway connecting the Ancient Ruins and the island, which was unlike both the Three Realm Division and the Space Division, but was just like the Space Transport Passageway that Junior Leopard himself comprehended from the Hollow Magic Carpet.
That was to say, there was a Space Transport Passageway between the isolated island and the Ancient Ruins.
”How can we get into the Ancient Ruins?” asked Golden Rooster, inadvertently showing a bit of anxiety.
Luo Haiyun knew that the entrance to the Ancient Ruins was here, but obviously, he was not the only one who knew it. In a very short time, five groups of experts had arrived at this small island.
”I have no idea. The only thing I know is that this piece of kasaya is the key. But I don't know the exact way to—”
His words were broken by Junior Leopard's sudden movement in which he snatched that piece of kasaya.
”What are you doing?” Luo Haiyun roared. But just as he was about to strike, he was stopped by Golden Rooster beside him.
”I know what it is!” Prickle-eyed, Junior Leopard shot a glance at Luo Haiyun. ”I also know how to use it, but this piece alone is not enough.”
”You mean?”
Without answering him, Junior Leopard raised his arm and said, ”My friends, just show up. We share the same purpose, but nobody can reach it without cooperation now.”
”You know how to use the kasaya?”
A hoarse voice came out from afar.
”I've seen it before, it is probably a fragment of Hollow Magic Carpet or something alike, if I'm not mistaken. It works the same as a Hollow Magic Carpet, which means it may enable us to hollow travel and open the passageway between here and the Ancient Ruins. But this piece is not enough!”
”You know Space Division Skill?” Another voice came from the dark, this one was a bit shrill.
”I don't know Space Division Skill, but I do know some skills of space!” Junior Leopard nodded and said.
”Are you sure you can open the passageway?”
”A man in Immortal Palace wouldn't make fun of you on this issue!” Golden Rooster said grimly, ”Just come out. United, we will all find ourselves in a win-win situation. Divided, it shall be lose-lose. I don't think there is anyone who wants a fight before getting into the Ancient Ruins, is there?”
”Absolutely not!” A robust figure from whom that hoarse voice belonged, suddenly appeared.
With the appearance of this man, more people showed themselves from the dark.
”Man, none of them is lower than Level Seven!” thought Junior Leopard. People came one by one and it sent a chill up his spine.
There was no need to hide now. There were 6 groups of people including the group of Junior Leopard. The biggest group consisted of four people, and the smallest one was made up of two, altogether there were 19 people. None of them was under Level Seven.
”The number of experts here is almost one-third of all Level Seven experts in this world!” Junior Leopard thought.
These groups of people seemed to be familiar with each other and had nodded at each other upon coming out. They did not show much hostility or kindness.
They all fixed their eyes on Junior Leopard. The hoarse-voiced man also held a piece of kasaya in his hand, which was a little larger than Luo Haiyun's. He handed his piece of kasaya to Junior Leopard without hesitation, ”I am Sect of Flame's Mo Antong, this is the fragment that we, the Sect of Flame own!”
”Sect of Flame?!” Junior Leopard looked at Mo Antong, spotted the flame embroidered on the corner of his clothes, and nodded towards him. He was not so familiar with the Sect of Flame, but he knew Prince Xiaoming, the Level Nine expert. He remembered that he owed Prince Xiaoming a promise, the Earth Fire Yuan Essence.
”Mingyi School, Jin Longyu!” Said the owner of the shrill voice. He walked to Junior Leopard, and passed his kasaya to him, not forgetting to glare at Mo Antong.
The Sect of Flame and the Mingyi School were the two biggest opposite influences in the Great Jin. Mo Antong and Jin Longyu were Level Eight experts. It was unexpected for Junior Leopard that they were not fighting with each other when meeting here.
Junior Leopard took these two fragments of kasaya, and put them together with his own fragment.
”Hmm, with these two, it is enough.”
In fact, Junior Leopard had already found the way from the island to the Ancient Ruins, but he could also feel that there was a powerful inhibition in the way. Junior Leopard could not cut out the entrance with only his Space Division Skill.
However, it was totally different with the kasaya in hand. It was just like Hollow Magic Carpet, in which a Space Formation was embroidered with golden threads.
Neither the kasaya nor the formation was complete, but to Junior Leopard, these were already enough.
He was sure that he could open the passageway to the Ancient Ruins with his Fiery Eyes, his understanding of the space, and the uncompleted formation.
After putting the three pieces of kasaya together, with a simple flick, Junior Leopard made the parted kasaya pieces recover as one piece after a green streamer flickered on its surface.
After which, Junior Leopard waved his hand and threw the kasaya away, but not too far away. It was floating about a hundred feet away from people, and started rapidly whirling.
A light green streamer began to appear and deepen on the kasaya as it whirled and then it condensed into a pillar of green light, shining in front of all people here.
”This is...”
All people on the spot began to stare at Junior Leopard. Without a word, he just walked forth and stood in the shower of the green light. At the same time, a sound of ”Shhhh” was heard, and he then disappeared in front of everyone.
”It's Guiding Light! The Guiding light of the Ancient Ruins!” A man behind Mo Antong cried as he suddenly thought of something.
Mo Antong looked back to glare at him and encountered with Jin Longyu's provocative face. Mo Antong responded to him with a grim smile and stepped into the green light.
What happened next was in accordance with expectation. Those experts entered the green light one by one as if there was some prior consultation. Without fight or congestion, they just stepped into the light by order of strength.
Golden Rooster was the third to get in, followed by Luo Haiyun, who had already changed into the clothes of the 28 constellations of Immortal Palace so that nobody here recognized him.
But it was believed that at the moment they went back to the Central Plains from here, they would obtain information on Luo Haiyun, at which point they would await the fool show of the Wang family. But for now, their attention was fixed on the Ancient Ruins.
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”What the hell is this place?”
With a flash of green light, Junior Leopard appeared on the vast ruins, and as two flashes of green light followed, Golden Rooster and Luo Haiyun arrived beside Junior Leopard.
”How dense the essence of the world is!” Golden Rooster exclaimed as soon as he got here. After hearing his words, Junior Leopard recognized that in this grey space, the essence of the world was at least ten times denser than that of outside. TEN TIMES!
As the green light continued flashing, the experts on that isolated island had been shifted here, and after their arrival, most of them were shocked about the density of the essence of the world here.
Junior Leopard felt differently.
The space of the Ancient Ruins was highly problematical because it was unstable and full of cracks that could not be seen with normal eyes, making it like a big splintery glass bowl which seemed as though it could break at any time.
”I was doing well in my business before. Why did I come to such a godforsaken place?” Junior Leopard thought to himself and then winked at Luo Haiyun and Golden Rooster.
”Everyone, since we have gotten into the Ancient Ruins, what you can get will be based on your own abilities!” Golden Rooster folded his fist towards the others and then took Junior Leopard and Luo Haiyun away after waving goodbye.
The rest of the groups of people cautiously looked at each other and silently left towards different directions.
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”I wouldn't recognize it as a temple if you didn't tell me that it was some ruins of Small Thunder Temple.”
As the three were flying and looking down on the ruins, Junior Leopard sighed and said,
”Small Thunder Temple was a great sect during antiquity times. It's a pity for them that they offended the Demon tribe of antiquity. As soon as the Demon tribe entered the temple, the ancient temple which might have existed for hundreds of thousand of years was totally torn down. Not to mention the treasures in the temple, which were all taken away by the Demon tribe. There was nothing left!”
”Then what did we come for?” asked Junior Leopard.
”Hmm, natural sources were very abundant in antiquity times. Things of value at that time would be a priceless treasure now. What antiquity practitioners saw as useless, would be treasures of heaven and earth now. Look!”
When talking, Golden Rooster seemed to notice something and pointed forward. ”It looks like Crimson Snow Grass, a perfect material for calming, but it has ceased to exist in our world a thousand years ago.”
Golden Rooster stopped before a white, dandelion-like plant and carefully dug it up, along with its root, and then stored it.
”Things like it were just as useless as weeds, but now, they are priceless treasures!”
”What I care about is the underground palace of the Small Thunder Temple.” Confirming that no one was near, Junior Leopard reminded him with a low voice.
During the first two days on that island, Luo Haiyun had told them the whole story about how he got the piece of kasaya, how the Ancient Ruins showed up, and how his family was wiped out by Wang Family.
He unexpectedly got this piece of kasaya along with a diary covered by the kasaya in a remote temple three years ago. He came to learn that the temple was the Uniform Dao, passed on by a monk who ran away from Small Thunder Temple in antiquity times. However, his Uniform Dao had been lost.
Secrets concerning Small Thunder Temple were written on the diary, but some of them were lost or were actually just surmises of descendants that had possessed the diary, since many people had held it over such a long time. In the end, the only thing that Luo Haiyun could be assured of, was that although Small Thunder Temple was torn down and robbed, the underground palace of Small Thunder Temple had not been found yet.