Chapter 308: Heading to the Mountain Peak
Lin Wan's pure white figure stood motionless in the howling gang wind. The bronze wreckage at the foot of the mountain had now turned into black stones on a chessboard, rapidly shrinking in her field of vision.
Those seemingly chaotic ruins actually revealed a hair-raising regularity. Every piece of wreckage was precisely situated at the position of the Zhoutian stars, constituting a giant sealing array covering a radius of a thousand li.
At the eye of the formation, on a broken stone tablet, the last stroke of the character "Suppression" was still spitting out a ghostly blue spiritual light, as if suppressing some unspeakable existence.
The Zhoutian Star Array...
Benefiting from recently cramming a lot of legends from the cultivation world on Ji Hongli, she quickly recognized that this was clearly the unparalleled formation recorded in ancient books, used by the Ancient Heavenly Court to suppress chaos.
What was even more palpitating was that the surfaces of those bronze wreckage were all carved with the same strange totem: a vertical pupil imprisoned by nine chains. The pressure remaining in the totem even made her Immortal Venerable Dao Body feel stinging pain.
Lin Wan noticed that the depth of the carvings of these totems varied. The most ancient ones had merged with the bronze, while the newest one looked as if it was carved within the last millennium.
Up close, the crack traversing east and west on the mountainside appeared even more hideous and terrifying.
The rocks at the edge of the fissure presented a strange vitrification, as if melted instantly by some kind of high temperature beyond cognition.
From time to time, seven-colored auspicious light sprayed out from the gap. That light contained highly concentrated chaotic qi. Every eruption was accompanied by a strange pulsation of the mountain body, as if something was deep in the wound... breathing.
Until this moment, the entire Buzhou Mountain, in addition to that kind of majesty and vastness originating from the ancient era, also gave people a hair-raising sense of strangeness.
The moment the altitude broke through the cloud layer, Lin Wan's Dao Heart suddenly trembled violently.
Hanging down from the fissure in the sky above were tens of thousands of crystal "threads".
These threads were not physical entities, but manifestations of broken laws. Under the blood-colored sky light, they refracted a dazzling and bewildering luster.
Some threads wrapped around fragments of stars, colliding with the rhythm of destruction in the gang wind. Others bound fuzzy shadows. The silent roars emitted by those shadows when struggling directly shook the spirit and soul.
"Stellar Great Dao... River of Time and Space..."
Her pupils shrank to the size of needle points.
These broken law threads meant that at least three Immortal Venerables who mastered supreme laws had fallen here!
What was even more horrifying was the burn marks remaining at the points where the threads broke, which were clearly caused by some kind of power beyond cognition.
Lin Wan suddenly noticed that the direction of all the threads pointed to the same place—that huge crack traversing the mountainside.
Her figure resembled a stream of pure white light, continuing to soar straight up along the steep mountain body of Buzhou Mountain.
The gang wind tore at her clothes, yet turned into gentle ripples the moment it touched her skin.
Just then, a concave pit with a diameter of a thousand zhang suddenly appeared on the surface of the mountain body. The edge still retained five hideous claw marks—that was clearly the footprint left by some prehistoric giant beast!
The claw marks were bottomless, and the rocks at the edge showed a strange crystallization, refracting seven-colored light under the sunlight.
When Lin Wan touched the edge of the claw marks, she felt a slight stinging pain in her divine consciousness. The evil energy remaining in these wounds had not dissipated after ten thousand ages.
Her flight trajectory had to detour around these astonishing traces.
Some claw marks were as deep as a hundred zhang, and small lakes had already formed inside them. The lake surface was as calm as a mirror, yet could not reflect any figure.
When her shadow swept across the lake surface, half a skeleton lying at the bottom of the lake suddenly "looked" at her. A flash of crimson appeared in those hollow eye sockets.
Other claw marks were covered by strange vines. The leaves of those vines were as large as building boats, and golden juice flowed in the veins, making strange sounds similar to chanting in the wind.
"Xuantian Ancient Vine..."
Lin Wan recognized this plant that only existed in ancient books.
Legend has it that they use dragon blood as nourishment, and a single leaf can allow a mortal to shed the mortal body and exchange bones.
At this moment, these ancient variants that should have been extinct were growing lushly here.
A giant tree with a crimson body suddenly entered her field of vision. The natural patterns on the trunk formed ancient totems.
As the altitude continued to climb, the surrounding scenes became increasingly amazing.
Embedded in the rock wall on the mountainside was half of a broken bronze giant sword.
The exposed part alone was three hundred zhang long, and the sword body was covered with long-lost Primordial inscriptions.
Even stranger was that this sword was still seeping dark green liquid, and even the rocks were corroded into deep pits where the liquid dripped.
"Hiss—"
The sound of the liquid falling into the abyss echoed for a long time.
Lin Wan's fingertips lightly brushed over a carving on the rock wall.
That trace looked casual, but actually contained a certain rhythm of the Great Dao.
A huge shadow suddenly swept across the mountain body. She raised her head abruptly, but only saw a large area of rolling clouds.
She suddenly remembered the Primordial novels she read in her previous life—Buzhou Mountain, Gongong's angry collision, Nuwa mending the sky...
All sorts of signs were confirming her conjecture: the so-called "Ancient Era" of the Xuanying Continent was exactly that legendary Primordial World.
And the mountain before her eyes was probably the main body of the Heaven Pillar that propped up the sky back then!
"After the Primordial World shattered..."
She murmured to herself, her figure continuing to climb upward.
With the increase in height, the surrounding spiritual energy began to become violent and disordered, as if still remaining in the chaotic state when heaven and earth first opened.
If a cultivator of today were to inhale this kind of spiritual energy, they would probably explode and die instantly.
But what shocked her most were those battle marks on the rock wall—some looked like they were chopped by a giant axe, while others were obviously left by the collision of some kind of divine abilities.
The Dao rhyme remaining in these traces was completely different from today's cultivation system, yet it made her feel inexplicably familiar.
On a protruding platform, nine jade coffins were neatly placed.
Each coffin was entwined with chains of different colored laws, and the chains were covered with densely packed curse runes.
The mountain body suddenly shook violently again, and countless stones rolled into the abyss.
Lin Wan stabilized her figure, and golden light flickered in her eyes.
She finally confirmed: After the Primordial World shattered, the Xuanying Continent, as the largest fragment, not only inherited the geographical relics of the Primordial Era but also carried that obliterated cultivation civilization.
It was just that the rules of heaven and earth changed drastically, which gradually evolved into today's cultivation method, as well as the pattern of the Upper Realm and the Lower Realm.
And this reconnected Buzhou Mountain before her eyes was like a Primordial seal forcibly glued together, slowly revealing the secrets that had been dust-sealed for ten thousand ages.
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