Wang Lin carefully scanned the jade slip with his divine sense.
"It's already been three years … Second Junior Brother is dead, and Third Junior Brother is also dead … They've become Lost Ones, drifting aimlessly in this place … I saw them four days ago, but they don't recognize me anymore. They walked past me … I can't let things go on like this, I have to think of a way."
"This is the sixth year I've been here. I found a jade slip with a restriction called Time. I have to learn it …
"Martial Uncle left. He went deep into this place and told me that there was a voice calling out to me … This is the 11th year I've been here … I've gained some understanding of the Time Restriction.
"How long has it been … It should be 30 years. The Enlightened Ones attacked again, and I clearly saw Martial Uncle among them … They took Sixth Junior Brother and Fifth Junior Brother away …
"I finally comprehended the Time Restriction. In a mountain valley, I and the remaining members of my sect set up a true Time Restriction Grand Formation. Ninth Junior Brother sacrificed his own lifespan to strengthen the Time Restriction Grand Formation. Before he died, he asked me to bring his corpse back to the Heaven Breaking Sect … I agreed, but could I do it …?"
"The Time Sealing Formation has protected this valley. This place has become my home … However, I haven't found the warmth of a home. The only thing I can do is watch as familiar faces gradually become strangers."
"I can't continue like this. I have to think of a way to save them!"
Wang Lin silently pondered as he raised his head and looked at the skeleton before him. The content of the jade ended here.
His gaze fell on the second jade slip. He picked it up and sent his divine sense inside.
"It's been 100 years. There is no day or night here, so it's impossible to calculate the exact time. However, based on the strength of the Time Restriction formation, it should be 100 years. However, why do I feel like it's been 1,000 years … Junior Brother Shi San destroyed his body and his dao disappeared … He couldn't withstand this life that was like a prison.
"The people around me have all become Lost Ones or Enlightened Ones. The only ones left are me, Sixteenth Brother, and Fourth Martial Uncle.
"I know we are sinners. Perhaps this is our punishment, but I can't accept this!!
I can't accept this! "
"Today is an unforgettable day. In the 130 years since I came here, the Defying Ones have appeared for the first time.
Fourth Martial Uncle has become a Defying One … "
"They're all gone, there's only me and Sixteenth Brother left … But I've thought of a way, a way to save them. I must try it, even if I die!
After bidding farewell to Sixteenth Brother, I walked out of the valley. "
"I brought Second Junior Brother and Third Junior Brother back from the Lost Ones, as well as all of our fellow disciples who had become Lost Ones … I entered the depths of this mountain range and found Fifth Junior Brother and Sixth Junior Brother who had become Enlightened Ones in the mist and brought them back.
I went to the deepest part of this place. I am very familiar with the path there … "
"I found Second Martial Uncle and brought him back."
That was the end of the jade slip. Wang Lin put it down in a daze. After pondering for a long time, he picked up the third jade slip!
"I've been here for more than 300 years. I've been to all the places I can go. I found a bead that can seal the spells of the Defying Ones!
I don't know what it is, but in order to save Fourth Martial Uncle, I searched most of the places and found some. "
"This is the fourth time I've entered the depths of this place. I know that Fourth Uncle is there … Facing those powerful Defying Ones, I used the bead to seal all of their divine abilities … After searching for several years, I finally found Fourth Uncle … But … I didn't expect him to be here as well. I failed … I was nailed into my body by a seven-colored nail … This nail is very strange, as soon as it enters my body, it immediately melts."
"I finally escaped. In a blur, I returned to the valley. My consciousness gradually dissipated, and a crazy thought kept appearing in my mind. This crazy thought made me want to kill everything I saw … However, aside from me, the only living thing here was Sixteenth Brother."
"I chased Sixteenth Brother out of the valley and gave him my identity token and the beast bone pill recipe. I told him to leave the valley and come back ten years later … Sixteenth Brother left … I sat in the valley and looked at the seven-colored sky outside, waiting for the final madness to come."
"Second Junior Brother, Third Junior Brother, and all fellow disciples, as long as any of you awaken and look at my jade slip, you'll be able to know everything that has happened in this place during the past few hundred years … Moreover, I've collected many of those strange stone pearls, and I've vaguely noticed an inkling on them. These stone pearls aren't formed naturally, but were refined by someone. Their size and weight are exactly the same, and there's not the slightest difference … It seems like someone has been ceaselessly using a special Divine Ability to create these stone pearls here a very, very long time ago …"
"My consciousness is becoming more and more blurry, but I have a feeling that there is a force sucking in my soul … I don't know why, but at this moment, my consciousness actually became clear, and a crazy idea emerged in my mind … Maybe, I should do this … If I succeed, I won't go crazy, I will … be reborn!"
"My consciousness seemed to have left this place and extended to a strange space … I saw … a person, a middle-aged man in a black robe. There was a round mark between his eyebrows … He said his name was the Sovereign …"
Wang Lin's face turned pale and he gasped. He subconsciously took a few steps back as he stared at the jade and the skeleton in his hand. His eyes were filled with disbelief.
"Sovereign …" This name wasn't unfamiliar to Wang Lin!
In Celestial Emperor Qing Lin's cave, he learned that there was a powerful existence among the people of the Outer Realm named the Sovereign!
However, he felt that this existence named the Sovereign was very far away from him and was a powerhouse from the same era as Qing Lin. It had been a long time since then.
However, Wang Lin didn't expect to see information about the Sovereign in the Cloud Sea Star System, in the Seven-Colored Realm, and in the jade in the valley!
Closing his eyes, Wang Lin couldn't help but think of the time when he and Shimizu battled Wang Yue in the void. As a result, the void collapsed and two mysterious cultivators, one old and one young, appeared!
Those two were people of the Outer Realm!
If not for the appearance of the Heaven Defying Bead, he would have been captured by them!
"When that old man saw the Heaven Defying Bead, he called me the Sovereign of the Sealed Realm …" Wang Lin opened his eyes and took a deep breath. The information he had obtained from the three jades was like a raging sea in his mind, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.
"This Seven-Colored Realm is related to Tian Yunzi and the Sovereign … When the seven-colored nail enters one's body, it can indeed make one go crazy and want to kill everything they see … Back then, Senior Brother Shimizu said that before the Celestial Realm collapsed, he was in closed door cultivation, but he suddenly went crazy. Even he didn't know why … He also went crazy!!
"Also, the old Divine Emperor Rosefinch said that after Senior Brother Shimizu went to the Cultivation Alliance, he went crazy again … What kind of secret is there? It must be related to the Sovereign!
Tian Yunzi, Shimizu, Sima Mo, the Sovereign … "Wang Lin silently pondered.
After a long time, he let out a sigh and looked at Sima Mo's skeleton with a complicated expression. This person's skeleton was here, and there were no signs of damage. This meant that Sima Mo didn't go crazy in the end!
Since this person didn't go crazy, then the thought related to the Sovereign must have succeeded!
"I didn't expect this to be the spatial rift the Heaven Breaking Sect found … It is also the place where the beast bone recipe first appeared!
"However, why did the beast bone and jade end up outside … Could it be that Brother Sixteenth left this place and caused the jade and pill recipe to reappear in the Cloud Sea Star System …"
"Also, the person mentioned in the jade … Who is he … According to what he said, the Heaven Breaking Sect didn't know about this spatial rift and only found this place after listening to him … And Sima Mo unexpectedly saw that mysterious person here hundreds of years later!" Wang Lin rubbed the spot between his eyebrows. The more he knew, the more confused he became.
Wang Lin raised his head and looked at the nine caves sealed by the mountain rocks. His body flickered and he arrived before the first cave. He looked at the mountain rock and his eyes lit up. After a long time, he placed his right hand on the rock and gently injected origin energy into it.
Suddenly, a rumbling sound reverberated through the air. The mountain rock slowly moved to the sides and opened up.
The moment the cave opened, the smell of decay rushed out. This cave wasn't large, only 100 feet wide. There was a flash of grey light in the air, and there were 10 beads the size of a baby's fist floating in the air.
Each bead had a faint rune on it that would occasionally flash. However, the light was also grey, so unless one looked closely, it would be difficult to notice.
The moment Wang Lin saw the bead, he was shocked. He immediately recognized it as the bead that Master Ashen Pine had used to summon the Defying Ones!
"The contents of the jade are indeed true!"
Wang Lin's eyes lit up and his right hand reached out to grab one of the beads. His divine sense spread out and he carefully looked at it.
With one look, Wang Lin's expression changed greatly!
His mind trembled as if thunder was rumbling in his ears!
When Master Ashen Pine took out the bead to attack, he was very fast and couldn't be distracted during battle. Wang Lin's gaze only swept by and didn't have the chance to carefully examine it like now.
"Heaven Defying Bead …"
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