"Mount Meru is an ancient divine mountain. It is said that it was once used to guard the boundless darkness at the border of the primordial universe. It is similar to Goddess Nuwa's Divine Sky-Mending Stone. The Mount Meru you see here is only a small fragment. The real Mount Meru is countless times larger. It still protects the primordial universe from being devoured by the darkness."
As Meng Die explained, Su Chen continued to walk towards Mount Meru.
The closer he got, the more deeply Su Chen felt the terror of Mount Meru. That indescribable pressure far surpassed anything Su Chen had seen before. This kind of fear was an innate fear of the unknown. It made Su Chen tremble in the depths of his soul.
There was clearly no sense of danger, but every step Su Chen took required great determination and willpower.
In comparison, Meng Die was much more relaxed.
"After all, I have lived in the Boundless Sky Realm since I was young. When I first saw Mount Meru, I was terrified just like you. But after seeing it many times, I gradually adapted to this feeling. As long as you try to accept this fear, Mount Meru will gradually open its arms to you." Meng Die gently held Su Chen's hand.
Su Chen's expression changed. He took a deep breath and no longer hid the fear in his heart. Instead, he boldly opened his heart and let this fear pour into every corner of his body. He felt it and adapted to it.
Sure enough, when Su Chen accepted this fear, he could feel that Mount Meru had accepted him as well.
Su Chen let out a sigh of relief and sighed emotionally, "A divine mountain is truly a divine mountain."
Meng Die's eyes lit up when she saw this. She hadn't expected Su Chen to be able to adapt to Mount Meru's environment so quickly. Ordinary Sky Pillar Realm cultivators would need at least two months to calm their minds after seeing Mount Meru for the first time.
The stronger one's soul and willpower, the faster one could adapt.
To be able to adapt in such a short time, Su Chen's soul and willpower had probably reached an unimaginable level.
It was almost comparable to the Spirit Race!
In fact, although Su Chen did not deliberately pay attention to it, the strength of his soul had indeed far exceeded the standard of others. It had nothing to do with strength, because Su Chen had cultivated the Immortal Soul Transformation. Moreover, Su Chen had obtained a Soul Flower in the ancient tomb of the Spirit King, which had fused into his soul.
Even now, Su Chen didn't know what the Soul Flower was used for. However, under the constant nourishment of the Soul Flower, his soul had indeed been greatly strengthened.
In the past, the Spirit Race possessed the strongest and most tenacious soul among the billions of living beings. They even attempted to create a soul immortality method to allow the Spirit Race to live forever. Unfortunately, they failed at the final step and the Spirit Race was completely annihilated. Although Soul Palace was known as the Spirit Race's inheritance, they didn't even obtain one ten-thousandth of the Spirit Race's inheritance.
However, Su Chen felt that the Soul Flower he had obtained might contain the true inheritance of the Spirit Race. It might even contain the true secrets of the soul.
However, his current realm was not high enough to obtain the Spirit Race's inheritance recorded in the Soul Flower.
Even so, Su Chen's soul had already left others in the dust.
It was no exaggeration to say that even a Heaven's Equal Realm Saint's soul might not be as strong as Su Chen's.
"Based on our current speed, we might be able to cross Mount Meru and enter the territory of the Heavenly Clan in three days."
"Then let's hurry up. We must reach the Heavenly Clan before the experts of Spiritual Mountain arrive. Otherwise, by the time we arrive, the Heavenly Clan will have mysteriously become a subsidiary of Spiritual Mountain. Everything will be too late then," Su Chen said.
Meng Die nodded.
Two hours later, the two finally reached the foot of the mountain and officially began to climb.
Mount Meru was not an ordinary mountain peak. It did not have a fixed physical body. The entire mountain range was formed by overlapping layers of space. The main body of the mountain was energy. Under certain restrictions, these energies formed a structure similar to divine runes. From there, they weaved together to form the visible Mount Meru.
Upon closer inspection, Su Chen did not see a mountain peak at all. Instead, it was a large solid body of energy. To be precise, it was not completely solid. It was wriggling, like a giant jelly pudding that had been shaken. Fleshy ripples constantly appeared on its surface. It looked surprisingly … disgusting.
That's right, it was disgusting.
Su Chen had a headache at the thought of having to cross such a mountain peak.
Mount Meru was at least fifty thousand meters tall.
Su Chen had tried flying, teleporting, and short-distance teleportation formations. None of these methods worked on Mount Meru.
If he wanted to cross it, he would have to cross it one step at a time.
"Then let's go."
Su Chen pulled Meng Die into his arms. At the same time, his legs erupted with ferocious strength. With a single leap, he jumped two thousand meters into the air. Before he even touched Mount Meru, Su Chen had already formed a large net of divine runes. It stuck to Mount Meru and pulled it up into the air.
Although he could not fly, the process of climbing the mountain was not that difficult.
"Holy shit! Brother, you're so brave! Give me a hand!"
Just as Su Chen reached the height of ten thousand meters, he suddenly heard a voice.
Looking over, he saw a man in white clothes with a wretched expression hanging from the mountain wall. He was unable to move forward or backward. His face had already turned the color of oil.
Su Chen did not plan to stay, but the man immediately shouted, "Send me across Mount Meru. I'll give you ten billion spirit stones as compensation!"
Ten billion spirit stones was not much to Su Chen, but it was still a small sum. He immediately stopped.
"Fifty billion." Su Chen extended five fingers.
The wretched man's mouth twitched. He looked up at the distant mountain peak and gritted his teeth. "Deal."
Su Chen did not say anything else. He formed a divine rune that wrapped around the wretched man. Using the elasticity of the divine rune, he tossed him ten thousand meters into the air. Then, Su Chen continued to climb. When the wretched man was about to fall, Su Chen used another divine rune to wrap around him and toss him up again.
After a few times, Su Chen had successfully reached the peak of Mount Meru. The wretched man had also reached the peak. However, his face was pale and he was about to faint.
"I … damn … you win!"
The wretched man lay on the mountain peak, panting heavily.
"Give me the money." Su Chen said.
"You still haven't sent me down the mountain."
"Pay up first. Otherwise, you can just stay here." Su Chen formed a pair of huge wings with his divine rune and prepared to glide down the mountain.
The wretched man did not dare to hesitate. He immediately took out a spirit card. "This is an anonymous spirit card. There are three hundred billion spirit stones in it. I'll give it all to you. However, after we get down the mountain, you have to protect me for a while and escort me to the Heavenly Clan's territory."
Su Chen furrowed his brows. "Why are you going to the Heavenly Clan?"
"Cough cough …"
The perverted man's legs trembled as he stood up. He forced himself to tidy up his hair and clothes, then said in a showy manner, "Let me introduce myself. I am Bai Xiaosheng, the Hall Master of the number one intelligence organization in the Tranquil Province of the Spiritual Mountain, the Hall of All-Knowing. I am going to the Heavenly Clan this time to obtain first-hand information."