757 Returning from a Rewarding Trip! Back to Tian Xiang! (1/2)
This proved that the Power of the Five Elements in Jun Mo Xie's body were almost the same as the Essences of the Five Elements outside! If this helped him gain an overwhelming advantage in the future, then Jun Mo Xie's hard work would be considered a successful accomplishment.
Another day passed and Jun Mo Xie still remained seated peacefully, his face seemingly a little bit more relaxed. It was an extremely positive sign.
Jun Mo Xie exhaled slowly and the five colorful chopstick-thick lines surrounding him increased their speed again, pouring into his body in a frenzy. The five colored orbs had been absorbed to around the size of the fist. With this last intensive absorption, they were visibly shrinking very fast until they completely vanished.
In the next moment, all the respective colored stands began to radiate dazzling light, as bright as the sun! But it only lasted for a moment and the entire room soon turned into complete darkness, as dark as the night.
Jun Mo Xie, who had succeeded smoothly, let out a long cry before slowly getting back up. Every single joint of his body was cracking! All the hair on his head began to float up—every single strand stood straight up on his head, creating an extremely bizzare sight! More bizarre than a person's hair after receiving an electric shock!
And this sight was still far from ending. In an instance, it turned dark gold, then reddish gold, then radiant gold! Then in the next moment, the gold faded and became a dark forest green, then lightened to a dark green… Subsequently it turned dark blue, sky blue, scarlet, red, dull yellow, bright yellow, and many other colors…
When the standing hair morphed into a shade of light yellow, it began to flutter down slowly, returning to its initial color as it landed on Jun Mo Xie's shoulders.
Black! A black that was as dark as the night sky!
Absorbing the Power of the Five Elements came to an official end here.
Jun Mo Xie opened his eyes, revealing his unfeigned fear of the consequences and traumatic stress. This whole process had looked smooth-sailing and peaceful, but it was extremely demanding and taxing on the user's ability to control his own mind!
One mind, five tasks! As long as there was a slight bit of carelessness or a flaw, there was no hope of reprieve! As long as there were any clog ups of the absorptions, distribution, circulation, or integration of the five elements, it would have been completely over!
So in these three days and three nights, Jun Mo Xie's entire mind did not dare relax at all!
Only now did he really let out a huge sigh of relief.
This process that had looked completely harmless was even more threatening than battling a few Venerables and Saints!
Jun Mo Xie analyzed his rewards from this risky journey. He could see those different colored energies blending together with the Heaven Earth Spiritual Qi of the Art of Unlocking Heaven's Fortune, forming into a colorful orb in his dantian. Only at this moment did Jun Mo Xie affirm and confirm that he had actually perfectly accomplished this seemingly impossible task!
In the next moment, Jun Mo Xie could also distinctly feel an exhaustion that was ineffable all over his body; every single joint and muscle was aching! It was extremely difficult to muster the strength to even move a finger!
If someone were to barge in right now, as long as it was someone who could use a knife, he could easily end Young Master Jun!
These three days were truly not easy!
Be it physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually—he was thoroughly worn out!
Jun Mo Xie, who was so exhausted he could die, knew that it was not the time to rest yet. He used the Art of Unlocking Heaven's Fortune with great difficulty to recover his energy. He did not forget that there were seven tunnels and he had only entered two. There was still five more; would they hold an even greater surprise?
Actually, even if the remaining five tunnels were just empty traps, Young Master Jun wouldn't be too disappointed. After all, this surprise was really too good already.
He had his fill of the Power of the Five Elements. All that was left was for him to use the Art of Unlocking Heaven's Fortune to slowly cultivate the Power of the Five Elements stored in his body. Since they were all in his body, there was no big deal anymore. It was just a matter of time!
After circulating eighty-one times, Jun Mo Xie, who had greatly recovered his strength, drifted out of the room like a flowing cloud. As he exited, he wore a grin, looking back in the place meaningfully. Waving his sleeves, he returned to the center of the palace.
And this completely empty stone room, a spiritual conscience vanished without a trace.
This gigantic stone palace had truly become a possession of nobody!
The Nine Nether First Young Master may have left this test, but he was still worried, so he had left a strand of his spiritual conscience as protection. Everything had the possibility of change; if there were any accidents, he could still be of aid. An opponent as excellent as Jun Mo Xie was really too hard to come by; if he were to be injured here, it would be regrettable.
But Jun Mo Xie never used this last safety measure from beginning to end. So this spiritual conscience automatically faded away as Jun Mo Xie left the stone room…
Somewhere far away, a nefarious, young, and handsome youth was watching with a smile. Countless of beautiful young ladies surrounded him. Shaking his hand, he laughed and exclaimed: ”Good lad!”
His face was surprisingly full of admiration….
As Jun Mo Xie looked at the third stone room, he thought it to be the biggest one of all the rooms! Even bigger than the central hall! This place looked as though it were linked to another room!
In the center was a heap of rare medicines!
No, it wasn't apt to describe it as such. Because all these rare medicines were still full of leaves, growing from the ground!
The large variety and number of rare medicinal herbs here was enough to make this Young Master Jun, who has seen many things in this world, flabbergasted.
These rare medicines in were old beyond words because this stone room was directly linked to the vital energy of the ground! In other words, these medicinal herbs were all grown in this stone room! It was safe to speculate that they had been growing in here for ten thousand years or more!
And how could the rare medicine that the Nine Nether First Young Master collected be common goods?
But all the rare medicine of this world had an expiration date. Like ginseng—it could exist for thousands of years, but beyond that, most ginsengs would turn into Heaven Earth Spiritual Qi on their own. Ling Zhi, Zhu Guo 1 , Snow Lotus, Shou Wu and other rare medicinal herbs were the same!
But in this stone room, this restriction was broken, almost as if there were no such expiration restrictions! Because Jun Mo Xie finally realized, that it was neither soil or stone wall or even Xuan Ice beneath this room, but an entire layer of Warm Soft Jade!
The entire piece!
Jun Mo Xie finally realized how that Warm Jade bed had came about…
So this entire place is full of this! No wonder he was so lavish with the the Warm Jade silk and everything… This place had this giant piece that could be retrieved endlessly from!
No wonder these rare herbs won't wither and fade away. Under the nourishment of this type of Warm Soft Jade, the endless Spiritual Qi was sealed in the body of these rare medicines and would become part of its medicinal property… Even ten thousand—no, even a million years later, these medicines would continue to grow in this place with no accidents!
Jun Mo Xie was sincerely troubled.
These rare medicines were undoubtedly priceless, with ten thousands years and above of age, but once they were harvested, if not consumed quickly, would vanish in an extremely short time!
And there are so many of them… how do I bring them away? The Hongjun Pagoda is on strike right now… Do I… hug all of them and carry them out? Then even if the Nine Nether First Young Master comes, it'll be enough to crush him to death…
But leaving them behind here doesn't seem apt either…. who knows when I can come back next time?
Besides, only god knew what sort of idea the Nine Nether First Young Master had. If this place was sealed up after he exited, then he would die from regret!
So many rare medicines! And any random one was of a type that he would be unable to digest currently! Even if it were an ordinary Ling Zhi—it would have at least ten or twenty thousand years of age… if he really ate it right now, he might get so bloated he would explode!
Another option was to just directly refine them into pills. But there was no need to use such high quality ingredients at this stage. Compromising and using them was not only an act of tarnishing heaven's treasures, but he also did not dare to use it! Because a large amount of Spiritual Qi would leak out as they were refined into medicine, which had a relatively large risk as well!
It was really too tempting… Jun Mo Xie estimated that the herbs here was enough to cultivate pills that were about five to eight levels of the Hongjun Pagoda! If they could be packed into the Hongjun Pagoda and brought along, it would really save him a lot of energy….
At this moment, Jun Mo Xie felt giddy. Hongjun Pagoda let out a hong and emerged from a faint light in between Jun Mo Xie's brows!
That small little pagoda descended before Jun Mo Xie, slowly turning and radiating thousands of beams of light. Then it slowly got bigger, becoming as tall as a human, flying into the fourth stone chamber with a whoosh.
Jun Mo Xie was stunned!
Since he had entered this palace, there was no movement from the Hongjun Pagoda. Jun Mo Xie had been wondering why this fellow was so desperate to enter this place, but remained silent the whole time afterwards. Even if you overate and couldn't digest properly, there shouldn't be a need to go to this extent, right…
To run out directly from his conscience!
Jun Mo Xie quickly followed after it and was stunned at the sight in the fourth room!
In the center of the stone room, a vague object floated in mid-air, radiating a strong, white light all over. When the light reached a meter in diameter, it suddenly exploded into colorful lights, slowly turning without stop!
The Hongjun Pagoda floated and approached this object gradually, but didn't conceal its anticipation or excitement! Jun Mo Xie felt as if it were a mother who had finally found her lost son after being separated for many years! Or a pair of brothers who were reunited in the streets after being separated for ten, twenty years!
With a pop, the radiance of the object floating mid-air, after noticing Hongjun Pagoda, blended together with the radiance of the Hongjun Pagoda! Then it let out an elated and happy cry, like a child running into the hug of his long lost mother!
In a flash, it appeared above the Hongjun Pagoda and slowly descended, turning into five colorful pearls, fitting perfectly on the tips of the roof of the Hongjun Pagoda!
The Hongjun Pagoda's aura changed in an instant, becoming long and desolate, as if in that moment, everything in this world underwent reincarnation! In this moment, Jun Mo Xie could distinctly feel that the Hongjun Pagoda's aura had suddenly become stronger by thousands and hundreds of folds!
There were no major changes to the appearance of the Hongjun Pagoda, but Jun Mo Xie distinctly felt it. The current Hongjun Pagoda was the real Hongjun Pagoda—the complete Hongjun Pagoda!
The Hongjun Pagoda slowly floated back and shrank dramatically before Jun Mo Xie's face. Then, it entered the space between Jun Mo Xie's eyebrows and returned back into Jun Mo Xie's conscience.
The doors of the pagoda opened and waves of Spiritual Qi rushed out as if in celebration!
Jun Mo Xie felt his whole body become extremely comfortable, but a bitter smile appeared in the corner of his lips.
He finally understood!
He finally understood what the Nine Nether First Young Master's surprise was! It wasn't those Essences of the Five Elements, or the clothing, or even the rare medicine from earlier!
The real surprise for Jun Mo Xie was this pearl!
This pearl that had originally belonged to the Hongjun Pagoda!
This was the real surprise!
Jun Mo Xie also finally understood that his transmigration was definitely due to the Hongjun Pagoda!
But Jun Mo Xie firmly believed that this was only reason. He could tell from the Nine Nether First Young Master's message that there were many many civilisations in this universe, but why did he specifically transmigrate here?
It was all due to this pearl!
It was due to the connection and attraction between the Hongjun Pagoda and this pearl that led to his transmigration here! It could even be said that had this pearl not been here, he could have just died back then! And really reincarnate like other, ordinary people!
But why would this pearl be here? Jun Mo Xie pondered for a while before found a somewhat suitable reason. The Nine Nether First Young Master mentioned that he had suffered a great disadvantage back on Earth, so he had to rush back.
Or perhaps, escaped back.
Obviously, the one who made him suffer that disadvantage was the Hongjun Pagoda!
And it was the Hongjun Pagoda at its peak, in the hands of the Great God Hongjun!
However, despite suffering a disadvantage, in his last blow he managed to damage the Hongjun Pagoda and break it into two! And he, not knowing for what reason, grabbed this pearl and ran…
Jun Mo Xie finally understood. And he couldn't help but feel deeply moved.
As the saying went, ”From every single drink to every single bite, there is nothing that is not preordained.” No wonder!
He had found it odd that the Great God Hongjun had left a treasure like the Hongjun Pagoda in the Kunlun Mountains instead of bringing it along with him. Why would a treasure of such great might fall into the hands of foreigners?
And why would a magical treasure like this give him a petty gain?
Everything had been revealed in this moment!
It must be due to that battle the Nine Nether First Young Master had last time! That led to so many causes and effects afterwards! This sort of heavenly treasure naturally had its own fate, so at that moment the pagoda and pearl had separated, as unwilling as the Great God Hongjun was, he had to let Hongjun Pagoda wait for its own destiny!
So two thousand years later, an Evil Monarch of his generation transmigrated!
The new owner of the Hongjun Pagoda!