Chapter 150: Finally Seeing the Five-Colored Altar
It was a pity that Yuhua Qingjin was ultimately unable to fully awaken the secret of his flying immortality. After memorizing the "Yuhua Sutra", the two of them got up and left the central hall.
They came to the next palace, which seemed to be the Sutra Library. Here, there were ancient books like a forest, and each volume exuded the fragrance of history, telling the glory of the former Yuhua Dynasty. Zixia gently stroked the covers of these ancient books, and her heart was filled with endless reverie about that glorious period.
Those ancient books are extraordinary, containing various unknown and lost secret techniques. These secrets can no longer be seen in this world, but many of them are recorded in the Sutra Library of the Yuhua Divine Dynasty.
"Close!"
At this moment, the bronze ring on Zixia's finger trembled slightly, as if a force was pulling them forward. They followed this inexplicable guidance and came to an ancient temple covered with star maps. The star map flickered in the dim candlelight, just like the real universe, vast and boundless, inspiring imagination.
The star map must be related to crossing the universe. Does this ruthless man want me to find a way home for Ye Fan? Just as she was thinking about it, Ji Ziyue's excited voice came.
"There is a mechanism here!"
Ji Ziyue, relying on the spatial perception of the Void Sutra, keenly noticed the anomalies in the stone carvings. These stone carvings, sometimes hidden and sometimes visible, seemed to hide the door to the unknown realm. Zixia also quickly joined the exploration, her eyes wandering in the star map, trying to unravel the mystery.
"Each stone carving leads to another place. This is misleading. There must be something else going on." Zixia was also thinking, staring at the stone carvings one by one, connecting those seemingly chaotic stone carvings one by one, as if she was drawing a star map leading to the truth. As her fingertips lightly tapped on the most dazzling stars in each star field, the entire ancient temple seemed to be activated, and the light was bright and dazzling.
"Crack, crack", a low and abrupt sound exploded in the silence, attracting the attention of the two. In the corner, a stone door seemed to appear out of thin air, slowly moving away, releasing a disgusting smell of decay, and a secret room appeared.
"Mysterious room! Could it be the deep secret of the Sutra Library?" Ji Ziyue's voice was full of excitement, and she couldn't wait to walk towards the stone door that had just been opened. However, the scene in front of her made her face change instantly.
"Oh! How disgusting! A pile of meat paste, it simply pollutes my eyes!" Ji Ziyue covered her nose and quickly retreated to Zixia's side, her eyes full of disgust.
Zixia took a few steps forward calmly. The stench became stronger and stronger, accompanied by a heart-pounding murderous intent. She stared at the seemingly lifeless pile of mud and thought to herself.
"This is the body of a saint, but why is his flesh so rotten?" Ji Ziyue whispered softly in Zixia's ear. In her opinion, even if the ancient saints died, their flesh should be lifelike, not as terrible as it is now.
Zixia pondered for a moment, recalling the classics she had read before: "When a saint dies, he should be transformed into the world without leaving any trace. But this corpse was obviously damaged by an external force, and the existence of a force far greater than his own could cause it to gradually lose the immortality of the saint's body and eventually turn into mortal world."
Ji Ziyue couldn't help but gasp when she heard this. She couldn't imagine how powerful a being could be to so easily dissolve a saint and let him decay step by step. The two didn't stay too long on the saint's body that was about to turn into nothingness, because even if it once had supreme majesty and power, it was now just a pile of mud that was about to dissipate. The rotten flesh quickly turned into ashes as soon as it came into contact with the air, leaving only a precious piece of clothing that had not yet decayed.
In the secret room, there was nothing else except the shocking corpse of the saint. However, Zixia was not disappointed. She had studied tomb-robbing novels in her previous life and had a deep understanding of mechanical devices. She casually waved her palm and immediately blew away a stone slab on the ground, revealing a hidden groove.
Zixia tapped the groove with her fingertips. After a series of clicks, the stone wall in front of her slowly moved away, and a beam of brilliant light shot out from inside, illuminating the entire space. A more open and unknown stone palace appeared before them without any warning.
"It's so beautiful!" Ji Ziyue couldn't help but exclaim in admiration. The scene in front of her was shocking. The entire space seemed to be filled with endless stars, each of which emitted a soft and mysterious light, wrapping them in a vast starry sky. In this boundless cosmic painting, four particularly dazzling stars stood out. They were not only brilliant, but also materialized, the size of a fist, suspended above the starlight, becoming the focus of this starry sky.
What I see before my eyes is like an endless starry sky, like the universe stretching before me, with a sense of grandeur and vastness permeating the air.
Zixia's eyes were attracted by these four stars, two of which were particularly special. And one of them was emitting a charming purple light. Zixia recognized it at a glance. It was her hometown in this life, the ancient star Ziwei. Its unique landform was as clear as yesterday in her memory.
Another aquamarine planet, with rippling blue light like the depth and vastness of the ocean, occupies most of its surface. That is her hometown deep in her soul - Earth.
As for the remaining two stars, they are full of unknowns and mysteries. Where do they come from? Do they also give birth to life? These questions stirred ripples in Zixia's heart. They are even more dazzling under the backdrop of starlight.
"These stars seem to contain the coordinates of the sky." There was a hint of excitement in Ji Ziyue's voice, and she seemed to have seen through the secret.
"Yeah!" Zixia nodded. If she guessed correctly, this was the navigation key to open the five-color altar.
At this moment, the bronze ring shone again, emitting a guiding light, leading them through the depths of the ancestral temple and heading towards a place shrouded in thick gray fog. There was no life there, no trees, only dead silence and mystery. The gray fog was like a wall, blocking the view, making the five-colored altar in front of them look even more hazy and depressing.
They walked forward together, in this empty and silent world, with only the sound of their footsteps echoing, as if they were the only two people left in the world. The five-colored altar was looming in the distance, and through the thick fog, one could still feel its vicissitudes and solemnity that spanned the years. Each piece of five-colored stone carried a heavy history, quietly telling stories of the past.
Finally, the Five-Colored Altar was within reach. Ji Ziyue's eyes widened in disbelief, her voice trembling slightly: "The Five-Colored Altar... actually exists! The records in those books are actually true! Can we really go to the outer realm from here?
(End of this chapter)