pappabearbooks Chapter 1312 - 493: Ancient Soul Returning Hall (Part 3)
Chapter 1312 - 493: Ancient Soul Returning Hall (Part 3)
"Danzi was also conceived and born within an enormous furnace chamber,and when there are signs of its appearance, all the elixirs still being tempered in furnaces throughout the world will release their spiritual power, and the furnaces that refine these elixirs will flare up with giant flames, illuminating everything around them,
which is to say, in the moment just before a Danzi is born, throughout the whole Jing Country, wherever there is a pill furnace, everything in those places is taken in at a glance by the Danzi."
Zhou Xuan propped his cheek on his hand, nodding as he said, "I know now why you’re aware of so many secrets,
we can cooperate, fine, but you have to tell me, most of the secrets you know are concentrated where?"
"Mr. Zhou, Jing Country is a nation where multiple spaces and multiple times coexist in parallel,
and the nine Laws of the human world are all born from these spaces and times."
"Those spaces require certain special states in order to enter."
"For example, the ’Spirit Realm’." Zhou Xuan said.
To enter the Spirit Realm, aside from some very high-ranked figures who can enter at will, one must rely on the state of "Heavenly Contract" to do so.
"The Spirit Realm is one special kind of space; aside from it, there are many secret spaces."
Danzi said, "Zoroastrianism has done countless evils in the human world of Jing Country. Heavenly God Level beings have tried to ferret them out, searching for so many years, yet they’ve only managed to find a few insignificant fragments. Do you now know the reason?"
"I understand—they’re hiding in the multiple spaces of Jing Country."
Regarding the spaces and times of Jing Country, Zhou Xuan had heard Miss Qiang talk about them before; she had once said that Jing Country has many spaces, folded up.
"My Human Pill can allow you and your people to enter those spaces."
Danzi said, "Those places are the true essence of cultivation in Jing Country. I don’t know whether your ancient books in Jing Country ever predicted me—my name is ’Wujiang’."
"You are Wujiang?"
Alchemist Bai Lu couldn’t help himself and blurted out. He immediately said to Zhou Xuan, "In the ancient texts, the Masters of the Heavenly Dome did indeed predict a kind of Danzi; this type of Danzi can traverse time and space, and its name is ’Wujiang’."
Zhou Xuan glared at Alchemist Bai Lu. He felt that Old Bai Lu was fine in every regard, except that his temperament made it too easy to reveal their cards.
He then said to Danzi, "In a couple of days, I’m going to Yellow Field Prefecture. When we get to Yellow Field Prefecture, you’ll help me with something. If you pull it off, we’ll cooperate; if you can’t, I’ll take you for a braggart."
"What are you going to Yellow Field Prefecture for?"
"There’s a Fire Pit of Zoroastrianism in Yellow Field Prefecture. They refine Human Pills there, and I intend to destroy it."
"Why destroy it?" Danzi asked.
Zhou Xuan said, "Previously I sought Zoroastrianism in order to obtain their recipe for refining Human Pills."
"Then you don’t need to go. There isn’t a Human Pill recipe under Heaven that I don’t understand." Dan Demon said this with considerable backbone.
He himself was the most effective Human Pill; when it came to Human Pill recipes, he knew all the ins and outs.
Zhou Xuan only shook his head and said, "I’m still going."
"You’re still going even though you already have the recipe?"
"Between those of the same trade, what exists is the most naked hatred. If I don’t smash those Human-Pill-refining Fire Pits into scrap, how am I supposed to monopolize the elixir market of Jing Country with the pills I refine?"
Alchemy masters in this world are already few and far between; with one less Fire Pit, the Heavenly Dome has one less Human Pill supply point.
With fewer supply points for the Heavenly Dome, while demand for elixirs remains unchanged, Zhou Xuan’s elixirs will naturally rise with the tide.
"You want to wreck the Fire Pit of Yellow Field Prefecture as your pledge of allegiance on my behalf—that’s reasonable enough. However, let me first sell you a favor and help you destroy a small Fire Pit. The Fire Tower you saw at dawn—that was a Fire Pit."
Danzi lowered his head as he spoke.
Zhou Xuan immediately recalled that Mistaken Dreams. In the dream, an old man stood beneath a Fire Tower, using human limbs as fuel.
The white smoke produced by the burning limbs was being consumed by some unseen ’people’.
"So that was a Fire Pit?"
"That space is the ’Ancient Soul Returning Hall’. Such spaces are extremely numerous, but they are often quite small in scale."
Danzi said, "After the dead die, they are summoned by Soul Shepherd City; the dead will walk a road leading to Soul City. Certain junctions where too many dead gather are assaulted day and night by Yin Sha Qi, forming temple-like halls of space."
"This kind of space is called an Ancient Soul Returning Hall." Danzi said, "Disciples of Zoroastrianism refine Human Pills in these Ancient Halls."
Zhao Wuya asked on the side, "Then how do people of Zoroastrianism enter the Ancient Halls?"
Danzi sneered. "Under Heaven, is there any sect that understands the refinement of Human Pills better than Zoroastrianism? They have an ocean of Human Pills, and with them they can reach many secret spaces."
Zhou Xuan asked, "In the Ancient Soul Returning Hall, with all my Divine Skills gone, how am I supposed to deal with Zoroastrianism in that Fire Pit?"
"Mr. Zhou, I’m only responsible for helping you locate Fire Pits. As for how you deal with them, I can’t help. I am ’Wujiang’, not ’Martial Heaven’."
"What’s the soonest you can send me back into the Ancient Soul Returning Hall on East Market Street?" Zhou Xuan asked.
"I also need to rest and recuperate. Tonight—let me take a little break."
Danzi lowered his head and continued reciting scriptures,
while Zhou Xuan and the others left the stone temple.
The few of them had an unspoken agreement: once they stepped out of the temple, they would no longer discuss anything about "Danzi".
"Danzi" was something Zhou Xuan had hidden away from Heaven and Earth and Bai Yujing. If this matter were exposed, it would be a first-class event in Jing Country.
If it came to light, it would be a plunge straight toward the abyss.
...
Yun Ziliang, Li Changxun and the others each busied themselves with their own affairs, while Zhou Xuan sat quietly in the room, pondering—if he entered that Ancient Soul Returning Hall tonight, how should he deal with Zoroastrianism within the Ancient Hall when all his Divine Skills were lost?
He was in the midst of thinking when, suddenly, Sister Cui’s gentle call came from outside the door.
"Brother Zhou, something really strange."
Sister Cui said.
Zhou Xuan rose and asked, "What’s strange?"
"Last night, I heard sounds in the room and saw Hua Zi’s figure, but I just couldn’t find Hua Zi."
Sister Cui said.
"Is that so?" Zhou Xuan was somewhat puzzled.
At this moment, King Xishan also came in and said to Zhou Xuan, "I also spent last night at Sister Cui’s shop. At dawn, I seemed to see Hua Zi as well, but he seemed... seemed to be waving at us nonstop."
"And then?"
Zhou Xuan asked again.
"And then... then it was as if something invisible yanked him away."
King Xishan said, "I cast a Divine Skill, using the means of Saint’s Infinite, and struck behind Hua Zi, but I only hit a lump of light and shadow."
Hearing this, Zhou Xuan suddenly wasn’t puzzled anymore—Hua Zi’s soul had clearly been cast into the human world by Heaven and Earth, but before he had fully returned to life, he was seized by someone.
"As a wandering soul, Hua Zi must have walked the Yellow Springs Netherworld Road. On that Netherworld Road, who seized him?"
In Zhou Xuan’s mind, a word he had only recently heard surfaced for no reason—"Ancient Soul Returning Hall"...