God of Pets

Chapter 964: Sky Garden

"Long Yue, he has nothing to do with me, it would be useless for you to capture him," Lady Snake said."How could it be useless? You’re here, aren’t you?" Long Yue squinted his eyes as he spoke, secretly thinking to himself, "No connection, my foot. If there were no connection, would Mi Xiang come to Sky City for an unrelated person? No matter what, I can’t let this guy go."

Mi Xiang adjusted his glasses and said, "You just want me to go with you to venture into Sky City. I’ll go with you, but there’s no need to drag others into it."

"How could it be dragging others into it? He’s just an ordinary Secret Spirit, Sky City won’t trouble him," Long Yue obstinately refused to let Chen Guan go.

"If you want the Virgo Race to break away from Sky City, you’ll need to fight your way up to the Sky Garden. Since I’ve agreed to go with you, I won’t go back on my word, bringing him along will only be a burden," Mi Xiang tried to persuade further.

"There’s nothing to be burdened by. I’m breaking away from Sky City according to the rules, not making enemies with Sky City. All I need is to reach the Sky Garden by passing through the checkpoints, he just needs to watch from the sidelines..."

Listening to their conversation, Chen Guan finally roughly understood the situation.

Long Yue is the king of the Virgo Race, and she wants to lead the Virgo Race away from Sky City and welcome back the Virgo Race residents inside Sky City.

Sky City has established rules: if you want to break away from Sky City, you must fight your way up the Sky Way to reach the Sky Garden. As long as you obtain a relic from the Sky Garden, you can break away from Sky City.

The Sky Way is guarded by Secret Spirits elected by various races, with a total of three checkpoints where the guardian of each checkpoint is unmatched.

Long Yue is not entirely confident she can break into the Sky Garden, so she can only invite Mi Xiang to assist.

According to Long Yue, Mi Xiang has the experience; with Mi Xiang’s help, the Virgo Race can smoothly exit Sky City.

When hearing this part, Chen Guan was already certain of Mi Xiang’s true identity.

In the latter part of the Serpent Race’s chronicle, there is indeed a record of the Serpent Race residents breaking away from Sky City.

However, it doesn’t detail how they broke away, only mentioning that the Holy Mi King of the Serpent Race welcomed back the Serpent Race residents from Sky City.

Long Yue says Mi Xiang has experience, so Mi Xiang should be that former Snake King.

From this information, Chen Guan also realized a problem.

Sky City might not be as magnificent as the ordinary Sky Secret Spirits imagine, the various races’ Secret Spirits residing in Sky City seemingly aren’t that free.

Listening to Mi Xiang and Long Yue’s conversation, Chen Guan feels that the various races’ Secret Spirits in Sky City are more like hostages.

If Sky City were really that great, others would rush to enter rather than wanting to retreat.

From Mi Xiang and Long Yue’s dialogue, Chen Guan realized that even if he followed them, there shouldn’t be too much danger, and it’s a good chance to follow them into Sky City to see what kind of place it really is.

Such an opportunity is hard to come by, Chen Guan certainly wouldn’t let it slip.

Seeing that Long Yue refused to let Chen Guan leave, Mi Xiang could only say to Chen Guan, "Stay by my side and do not act rashly. At the right time, I’ll send you to a safe place. You just need to observe from the side, absolutely no wandering."

"Who exactly are you?" Chen Guan feigned ignorance as he asked.

"Mi Xiang, your little lover still doesn’t know your true identity?" Long Yue said with a laughing squint.

"I’m called Mi Xiang." Mi Xiang didn’t elaborate, his gaze turning toward the Sky City in the void of darkness.

"Let’s go." Long Yue snapped her fingers, a massive sailboat appeared out of thin air, arriving directly beneath the three’s feet.

The sailboat sailed towards the Sky City in the darkness, suddenly giving Chen Guan a wondrous feeling, clearly sensing the boat wasn’t moving, yet the celestial bodies in the void were rapidly receding.

The dark emptiness drew ever closer in his vision, and the exceedingly magnificent ancient city grew ever larger in his eyes.

As the vessel entered the absolute dark void, a cold voice resonated directly within their minds.

"Identity authentication... Identity authentication successful... Permission granted..."

Chen Guan knew this wasn’t a voice, but rather a direct transmission of consciousness, more advanced than verbal language.

"Please confirm destination..." The voice echoed again.

"Sky Garden." Long Yue calmly pronounced the four words.

"Sky Garden is a forbidden zone in Sky City, only those who violate the Sky Treaty can enter. Upon entering Sky City, resident status will be revoked and all permissions will be dissolved. Do you wish to continue to the Sky Garden?"

"Yes." Long Yue replied without hesitation.

"Set sail... Sky Garden..." As the voice faded, the void darkness began to move.

Indeed, the dark region moved, not the large ship.

Chen Guan felt as if watching a lantern play, with the ancient city drawing ever closer to the vessel, and continuously enlarging and clarifying in Chen Guan’s eyes.

Originally, Chen Guan saw a city, yet as the distance closed, he realized that the city he was seeing was actually constructed from numerous individual cities.

Simply put, every brick and tile of that city was a miniaturized ancient city.

As the distance closed further, the ancient city became unimaginably massive, even the brick city became incredibly majestic.

More terrifying, even as the brick city drew near, each was composed of several brick cities.

Just like viewing through a microscope, the city contained bricks, the bricks held city, and again city within brick, seemingly endless.

Chen Guan couldn’t imagine what kind of enormous ancient city this truly was, even a galaxy cluster wouldn’t be as large as this ancient city.

While the ship didn’t move, the city did, with the majestic city shifting, the ship entered the skies above the city, moving toward the high point of the city.

The high point of Sky City was an exquisite pagoda-like structure, every brick forming the pagoda was a different city, stacked together, reaching into the darkness void.

At the top of the pagoda, there was a ball of glowing brightness akin to the moon.

From afar, it appeared to be a holy garden, like the legendary Pure Land of Bliss, emitting a sacred radiance that purified the soul, while also fostering incredible miraculous flowers and grasses.

When the lantern-play like world ceased revolving, the ship had already settled before the entrance to the Sky Garden atop the pagoda.

A winding wooden path lay in front of the sailboat, resembling a dock.

On that dock stood a figure, akin to a lonely lighthouse guiding the sailboat into berth.

Chen Guan clearly saw the figure, and his body trembled, the person standing on the path was indeed human, moreover, someone Chen Guan knew well.

"King Ji!" Chen Guan was unbelieving, yet dared not show his emotions, merely observing the person calmly.

It couldn’t be mistaken, that was King Ji, perhaps there were many stronger than King Ji in the world, but none had the unique aura of King Ji.

That aura of Unity of Yin and Yang couldn’t be possessed by humans, inherently differentiated by gender.

"To disembark, you must first pass my test." King Ji, clad in simple robes, showed no special expression, didn’t even glance at Chen Guan, only speaking to Long Yue indifferently.