Chapter 418: Immortal Chasm (1/2)
Chapter 418: Immortal Chasm
Translator: Sparrow TranslationsEditor: Sparrow Translations
The four of them sat down once again on the deck of the flying ship. Master Pu Zi took out a bottle of exquisite spirit wine, and made a toast to Mo Wuji before speaking, ”Dao friend Mo, do you know why I was that emotional after seeing the battleship?”
Without Mo Wuji’s reply, Pu Zi carried on, ”It’s because this battleship was originally forged by me…”
Mo Wuji stared at Master Pu Zi with a shocked expression on his face. This battleship was obtained from a ghost cultivator in the sky sea. In fact, it shouldn’t be related to the Half Immortal Domain in any way, so how did Master Pu Zi forge it?
”More accurately, I took part in the forging of this battleship. The person that led this project was Master Jiang Ye. Master Jiang Ye’s smithing abilities far exceed my own, and most of the design and forging process was done by him. Myself and eight other guys were simply menial labour…”
”Master Pu Zi, you’re saying that 10 men forged this battleship? Who initiated this?” Mo Wuji asked in shock.
Mo Wuji was aware of Master Pu Zi’s smithing level, and it was the top 1% of the top 1%. Experts of such caliber could not be found in Zhen Xing. If Master Pu Zi was just a smith who did trivial work, then how strong would Jiang Ye be? And how much stronger would be expert that initiated the construction of the battleship be?
”It was Half Immortal Domain’s Dao Lord that initiated the construction of the battleship. However, it’s not the current one, Guang Quan. The purpose of forging this battleship was to take on the Immortal Chasm…”
At this point, Master Pu Zi waved his hand, signalling for Jia Qi to stop asking questions, as he would reveal the whole story.
”Before we can talk about the Immortal Chasm, we must first talk about the Half Immortal Domain. Of course, I do not know how the Half Immortal Domain came about. I only know that after I broke the void, I was already in here, and this was not the Immortal Realm. Back then, Half Immortal City’s Dao Lord was Wu You, and I must say that I’ve never seen someone as strong as him since I started cultivating. With my own eyes, I saw him battle a Heavenly Immortal expert and eventually he killed his opponent…”
Jia Qi couldn’t help himself, blurting out, ”Master Pu Zi, surely a Heavenly Immortal expert is considered as an actual immortal right? If we didn’t come here after breaking the void, would we have become Heavenly Immortals?”
In response, Master Pu Zi shook his head, ”Logically speaking, Heavenly Immortals are indeed considered Immortals, but in reality, I heard from elder Wu You that Heavenly Immortals are actually fake immortals, and cannot be considered as real Immortals.”
”Then what would make one an actual Immortal?” Mo Wuji couldn’t help but butt in too. He had also entered the void-breaking glowing light before arriving at the Half Immortal Domain, and most of the cultivators he saw in here were at the Great Circle of Earth Immortal Stage, and were not really beyond the level of an Earth Immortal.
Master Pu Zi sighed, ”We’ve all entered the void-breaking glowing light, and in fact, there’s something wrong with it. Heavenly Immortal lightning tribulation is supposed to occur after breaking the void, but since we’ve entered the Half Immortal Domain, there’s been a distinct lack of it. Other than a small number of geniuses among geniuses that can initiate lightning tribulation here to reach Heavenly Immortal Stage, most of us can only hide here and try to survive. Dao Lord Wu previously determined that the Half Immortal Domain was a cage that the fake immortals use to obstruct cultivators from breaking into the Immortal Realm. As for what would make one considered a true immortal, neither myself nor Dao Lord Wu You knows.
Upon hearing this, Mo Wuji actually felt that his ideas had some similarity to Wu You’s. Because of the Half Immortal Prison, he had already become rather suspicious of the Half Immortal Domain.
”Master Pu Zi, you’re saying that there’s still some geniuses that can initiate lightning tribulation here? Do you know where those cultivators that do so and advance to Heavenly Immortal Stage go to?” Jia Qi had answered this question before, but Mo Wuji still asked Master Pu Zi about it. It wasn’t that he did not trust Jia Qi, but Master Pu Zi could definitely shed more light on this issue.
To this, Master Pu Zi replied, ”Those geniuses were taken away by people from the Immortal Realm. Dao Lord Wu mentioned that these people were likely taken to be brought up by the fake immortals. Another possibility is that those people from the Immortal Realm imprison them. As for why the cultivators from the Immortal Realm would do so, Dao Lord Wu was not sure either. His guess was that these immortals were not really authentic.”
From Master Pu Zi’s reply, Mo Wuji’s respect for Dao Lord Wu increased, even though he never met the guy before. This guy was simply too impressive, and it was as though as he had seen everything with his own eyes. Regardless of whether it was real immortals or fake immortals, in reality these cultivators that underwent heavenly tribulation to advance to Heavenly Immortal Stage were imprisoned. Half Immortal Prison was a good example.
Suddenly, Mo Wuji recalled that Half Immortal Prison was just one of the 11 prisons of Yong Ying, and it already had that many genius cultivators in it. Wouldn't that mean that there were many other locations like the Half Immortal Domain where genius cultivators were taken away by the Immortal Realm and imprisoned?
”Master Pu Zi, may I ask where Dao Lord Wu You went?” Mo Wuji held Wu You in high regard, and couldn't help but ask.
Master Pu Zi answered with a tinge of sadness in his eyes, ”Precisely because forging the battleship was directly related to whether cultivators of the Half Immortal Domain could cross the Immortal Chasm, Dao Lord Wu led a group of smiths working day and night to complete it. But just then, news of it was leaked out, and people from the Immortal Realm rushed to the Half Immortal Domain.”