MW Chapter 1991 (1/2)
Chapter 1991 – Little Fishy
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The three avatars sat around Lin Ming, and in front of him lay the third volume of the Asura Sutra.
Within the thick and ancient bronze book, every word was condensed with heaven and earth origin energy and the true strength of the absolute beginning. If an ordinary martial artist were to look at these words, even if they focused all their sight they still wouldn’t be able to make out anything from them. All they would see would be strange runes with unknown meanings.
Lin Ming had completely entered the ethereal martial intent state. Page after page, he carefully read through.
Within his eyes, the Asura Sutra was similar to a universe. The writings of the Heavenly Sutra could manifest supreme demon gods, magnificent divine palaces, and boundless galaxies…
After refining the three avatars, Lin Ming’s understandings towards the Asura Sutra could no longer be compared to the past. The mysteries within the writings deeply marked themselves in his mind.
Time passed, year after year. As Lin Ming finished reading the third volume of the Asura Sutra, ten years had flown by. Lin Ming discovered that the third volume of the Asura Sutra was where the essence of the entire cultivation method was located. The intricate and diverse Laws contained within this volume were nearly equal to the sum of the first two volumes combined!
Lin Ming originally thought that the Asura Sutra was equally skilled in essence, energy, and divine. But now, it seemed that the Asura Road Master was not some omnipotent god. There were some fields in which he excelled and some fields in which he didn’t.
What he was most proficient in was the essence gathering system! Thinking about it, this was also reasonable. The Asura Road Master had once been the master of the Purple Card, and the Purple Card was the condensed essence of the energy within a universe. It was the highest divine tool of the essence gathering system.
This was also the reason why the Asura Road Master placed the third volume of the Asura Sutra in the final trial’s seventh level; because it was the most essential volume of his inheritance.
When Lin Ming flipped to the last page of the Asura Sutra’s third volume, he was stunned. This page didn’t have any writings nor were there any traces of Laws. It was completely blank, and all that was left in this bronze page was a rectangular groove in the center.
This groove emitted a strange and mysterious aura that left Lin Ming startled.
This groove… a light lit up in Lin Ming’s mind. He recalled the past when he underwent his nine by nine Life Destruction and reached 33 Heavens, where he then saw the Purple Card phenomenon. As he compared it to the shape of this groove, he guessed that this was where the Purple Card was once kept.
Purple Card…
Lin Ming gently traced this groove. He could feel the aura left behind by this ancient divine tool, and his mind trembled.
“I wonder how this mysterious Purple Card affected the Asura Road Master’s road of cultivation in the past…”
According to what Clear and Ink thought, the three supreme divine tools were likely the surviving condensed forms of essence, energy, and divine, left over upon the destruction of a super universe. Their main role was not to help a martial artist in cultivating. They were simply travellers passing by in this universe, and possibly even the starting point of the next universe’s big bang.
Regardless of who it was, anyone that obtained one of these supreme divine tools could only use an infinitesimally portion of their power. Even the Asura Road Master was no exception.
“When the High Lord wrote the Asura Sutra in the past, he used 100 million years to do so. Every time he learned something new, became aware of something new, he would add it to the Asura Sutra. At that time, the Purple Card had been placed in the last page of the Asura Sutra’s third volume, but later it disappeared without a trace.”
An old voice echoed from behind Lin Ming. Lin Ming didn’t turn around, but instead traced the groove in the Asura Sutra where the Purple Card had once been.
He asked with some surprised, “The three books of the Asura Sutra took Senior Asura a hundred million years to write?”
Lin Ming was stunned upon hearing this timespan.
“Yes. But the High Lord didn’t spend every waking moment of this hundred million years writing the Asura Sutra. This 100 million years was only the time period in which the High Lord wrote the Asura Sutra. During this time, the High Lord also had many other matters he needed to handle. For instance, this was also when he chose to establish the Asura Road…”
“When the High Lord completed the Asura Road, he placed the third volume of the Asura Sutra in the final trial’s seventh level. The first person to open it was a human, the human race’s Divine Seal. In the past when Divine Seal opened it, although the Purple Card was no longer there, he still took away a wisp of aura left behind by the Purple Card…”
“Mm? The Purple Card’s aura?” Lin Ming repeated. “What is that?”
“The Purple Card followed the High Lord for far too long. The High Lord’s aura, Laws, and energy, poured into the Purple Card and accumulated over time. Slowly, it bred an aura with a spiritual intelligence of its own. You might call it something like an artifact spirit.”
“But this artifact spirit is different from the artifact spirit of an Empyrean spirit treasure or True Divinity spirit treasure. A True Divinity spirit treasure’s artifact spirit can completely control that True Divinity spirit treasure; they could even be called the true master of the spirit treasure. But, the artifact spirits born from the three divine tools do not possess such an ability. Even so, they still have the ability to enhance and manipulate the three divine tools because they in themselves are evolved from the aura of the three divine tools. They can be called a bridge, a medium that connects the divine tool to the user…”
“That spiritually aware aura that was similar to an artifact spirit was taken away by Empyrean Divine Seal?” As Lin Ming heard this, his mind began to race…