Blue Phoenix

by Tinalynge

  The medicinal plants for the Ancestral Worldpower pills were ingredients Hui Yue knew and was familiar with. They were herbs from his own world.

  ‘I guess that after each room is successfully passed a treasure is handed out,’ Lan Feng commented as he greedily licked his lips. These three recipes, although not useable yet as Hui Yue was not an alchemist, had such great potential that he was completely uncertain what to do with them.

  ‘If we run into that Saint, we need to fight him,’ Lan Feng continued. ‘He has gained a lot of treasures and these treasures can assist us in the future. I have a few ways of getting rid of memories from people’s minds.’ He continued as a smug smirk appeared on his lips once more. He was clearly greatly satisfied with himself.

  ‘Well before we do anything else, let us look at the room in front of us.’ He sighed, and Hui Yue changed his focus from the talking bird to the empty room.

  The fact that the room was empty worried the young man. No matter how he looked at it, all he found was a room with absolutely nothing in it; no energy ripples came towards him. There was no presence of any traps, nothing. And this nothing was exactly what frightened Hui Yue.

  He had managed to go from being in the middle of all these cultivators to leading them all now, and unfortunately, he could not expect many of the families to make it to the room he was currently in. It was simply too hard to successfully pass the previous room.

  ‘I really do not feel anything in this room, but I know that the Saint is about to make it here. When he does, we will either have to fight him, or let him go ahead of us. Since I do not sense anything here, let’s try and step forward. If something happens, be ready to jump back instantly.

  Tentatively, Hui Yue looked at the room in front of him. His face was grim, and his heart was beating erratically. Jumping into a room like this seemed dangerous and against everything he stood for, yet knowing that he had no other option he slowly stepped forward.

  The moment he stepped in, nothing happened. No energy started brewing, no traps deployed. In fact, nothing happened. The room stayed exactly as it had before. Another step into the room and the same result.

  ‘Could the trap perhaps have failed due to the passing of time?’ Hui Yue mused to Lan Feng, yet the Phoenix was as clueless as himself. None of them had even the smallest idea as to why the room was so empty.

  One step became two. Two became three, and soon he was almost halfway through the room. Just as he reached the halfway point, a light shone in the middle of the room as a beam descended. It was much like the beams from the teleportation and the young man who now stuck within the beam found himself incapable of moving even a finger.

  A sour feeling welled up in his heart as he heaved a heavy sigh. ‘I wonder what is going to happen to us,’ He said to the phoenix within him, but unlike before, the bird had become completely silent.

  Knowing that he could do absolutely nothing about the position he was currently in, Hui Yue just sighed and awaited his destiny. He hoped that he was as fortunate as the people who had stepped into the previous room and were teleported back to the entrance, but deep in his heart he knew that this was not likely. He was most likely incredibly screwed.

  Chapter 351 - To Be Brave

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  Chapter 351: To Be Brave

  The beam of light shone down making it impossible for the young man to even move an inch. His was unable to control his body causing him to grow increasingly worried. Nothing had happened just yet, and there were no indications that he was going to be teleported. As time went by he was worried that he would be trapped for an unknown amount of time.

  It was even impossible for him to turn around making it hard to determine whether or not other experts had reached the room. As Hui Yue was about to accept his fate, he started thinking that he had aimed too high; the benefits that he could obtain in the tomb were enormous, but unfortunately the price of failure was very steep.

  ‘I might have a solution for us,’ Lan Feng said slowly as his voice trailed off. He was clearly unwilling to give up, but both he and Hui Yue were feeling incredibly dejected.

  ‘Well let us wait a bit longer,’ Hui Yue said slowly. ‘We might be teleported somewhere else but for now, we should wait. It is still uncertain what will happen to us, but I assume that this beam cannot stay like this for very long. We need to remember that although it is created by an expert, he died thousands of years ago. His spells cannot stay as strong as they were when he was alive. Just see how they have weakened so far.’

  ‘I like your positive attitude,’ Lan Feng said dryly. The phoenix knew his emotions, and they both felt dejected and listless. It seemed that the words Hui Yue said were for himself as well as the phoenix.’

  ‘Well if we are stuck, then I have one option, but it is something we can only use we have no other possibilities. I am a phoenix and… ’ Just as Lan Feng was about to continue, he was cut off as he felt energy ripples appear from the top of the light beam they were caught within.

  Quieting downing down both Hui Yue and Lan Feng observed how the energy ripples were increasing in strength. As for why this was happening, neither of them knew.

  ‘We cannot afford to die,’ Lan Feng said slowly as his eyes shone with determination. ‘If it seems as though this is not a teleportation array but instead some sort of attack, I will have to use my strength to survive. I cannot guarantee what will happen to you, though, but don’t worry our oaths are forever in my soul. I will make sure your promises becomes fulfilled,’ He promised. His words made Hui Yue quite confused.

  Feeling slightly bitter, Hui Yue did not blame the bird that he was sharing a body with. If the choice was that both of them died or that only one of them died, it was obvious what they would both prefer. While Hui Yue preferred that Lan Feng live if he was to die, he was still not ready to end his second life. Unlike last time he had died, he was in no way content; he was not at peace or satisfied. He had so much more to live for, so much more to experience, and so much to do before he would be able to once more lay down his life with a contented smile.

  The energy ripple finally stopped surging, and a massive face was formed from the energy. A face with closed eyes, wrinkles all over, and long white hair. Looking at this face, Hui Yue felt fear. His legs would have been shaking had they had the ability to move, and right now he could not help but be grateful that the beam of light was holding him in place.

  “I bet I scared you witless,” An archaic voice sounded from the wrinkled face. The closed eyes slowly opened and displayed black eyes which seemed to hold thousand of glistening small stars. His eyes looked nothing like anything Hui Yue had ever seen before, but the closest to them would be the eyes of the Laws who he had encountered down in the Dungeons of the Divine.

  “You are either incredibly brave or incredibly dumb to enter this room. There was nothing happening here; it was clearly a trap, and anyone who saw it would definitely think that this was a trap, but even still you bravely stepped into the room. Stupidity? Perhaps, but I do love the foolish. Only with some sort of recklessness can one succeed in life.”

  “I don’t know when my grave will be opened. It could be days from now, a few years, or perhaps even thousands of years. My grave might have lost a lot of its initial strength, but even so, I hate the thought of people invading my final resting place. I wonder, will it become a massive gathering for the new generation of this unknown world I descended into? I do not know, but one thing I do know is that I wish to have the last say in what happens with my treasures.”

  “As I said, only I can decide the fate of my vast collection of treasures, and you are a very lucky little foolish cultivator. To have reached this far you have to be considerably skilled, and I will give you a choice no one else will get.”

  “You should already be familiar with my teleportation drink. Yes, it is a drink which allows a person to teleport from one location to another. I changed the recipe slightly, and it became a liquid which no longer needed to b
e drunk, but instead it teleports by touch. Perhaps you experienced this in one of my previous rooms. You should know that I did what I could to sent as many of you as possible back to the entrance.”

  “This drop will not send you to the exit of my grave; instead, it will teleport you further into my grave. Whether or not you’ll be able to reach the innermost parts of the grave will depend on your luck. Although your ability will be tested, the ability you need the most is luck.”

  “Anyway, I have spoken a lot. My energy is dissipating and cannot maintain the fragment of my soul which I have left here. If we are lucky, we might meet up in other parts of the grave as my soul has been scattered into thousand parts and each was given a specific task to oversee. Unfortunately, some of them are less friendly than me, but you will have to wait and see what happens.’ Laughing his voice became lower and lower as the energy faded away.

  It did not take long before the face completely disappeared and the beam once more was the only energy left within the room. Looking up, he saw a red drop of liquid gathering above his head and just as it dropped he heard the sound of footsteps. It was impossible for him to turn around as less than a moment after he felt the drop touch him. A cold feeling enveloped him, and made his entire body want to shiver, but the beam made it impossible.

  Anyone who looked at him could see him turning transparent as his body slowly vanished into thin air and shot off in the distance like a beam of light. Unlike the previous room, he was not rushing towards the beginning of the grave but was taken further into the undiscovered depths of the tomb.

  Left behind in the silent room was the Saint. He was gnashing his teeth, and anger and hate were visible in his eyes as he helplessly watched Hui Yue rush away, something he could do nothing about.

  Hui Yue was elated. The speed with which he moved was incredible, but even though that man had said this red liquid caused teleportation that was not really the case. Rather, it was more of an insanely swift movement technique. It was so swift that it was impossible for Hui Yue to see what they came across.

  Hui Yue was blessed with good luck. This beam of light shot him through every single room which had been filled with traps without the need to struggle against them; though he still managed to become the first person to exit them which allowed him to pick up one treasure after another. As for what these treasures were, he had no idea. He did not have the time to stop and look through the things he gained.

  While Hui Yue was speeding forward through one room after another, his body was incapable of controlling the speed. During the flight, his body was no longer bound by the beam allowing for him to grab the things he passed by. Despite his best efforts though rooms full of treasure were left behind as he could not slow down to pick anything up. Especially the pills he left behind made Hui Yue’s heart hurt.

  His flight through the rooms was done swiftly, but even at his speed, Hui Yue spent hours on end flying from one room to another. Soon he was completely numb to the sheer size of the grave he had entered.

  His flight took him a good seven hours before the speed finally dropped, and the young man fell from the skies plummeting towards the ground of the grave. With but a thought golden Wu Wei wings appeared on his backs letting him fall gracefully to the ground.

  Landing, Hui Yue instantly looked around him. Behind him was the massive door he had come through which led back to the many rooms filled with treasures that he had moved through. Lining the wall through most of the chamber were more gates that looked exactly the same as the one he came through; clearly, these gates led to other tunnels filled with treasure, much like the one he had entered through.

  That these gates led to other tunnels much like the one with the rooms that Hui Yue had gone through was not hard to guess, however, Hui Yue was confused about why there were twenty entrances. At the entrance of grave there had only been a total of fourteen tunnels. As to where the final six came from, Hui Yue had no idea.

  None of the other doors were opened except the one he had come from. These doors lined the back of the room and as Hui Yue looked ahead he saw one massive door; a door so massive that Hui Yue felt his heart race just from the sight of it. It seemed to be two hundred meters tall stretching all the way to the ceiling, and at least three hundred meters wide.

  There was no way to see how this door opened as it seemed impenetrable; it seemed to be something that would keep anyone from advancing no matter their cultivation.

  ‘We need to wait here for other Saints to appear,’ Lan Feng mused slowly. ‘We cannot break open this door on our own, not even if we combine our powers. We will need the assistance of at least ten Saints to break it open. I recognize the energy it is sealed with, and it is without a doubt ancestral Worldpower. I think we are to enter the inner parts of the grave,’ Lan Feng said not just to Hui Yue but also to himself.

  Nodding his head, Hui Yue sat down on the ground and started to cultivate. He was aware that it would take the other experts quite some time to arrive at this chamber, especially considering that he had flown here so easily. This time would be best used to reach his peak state. Only after doing so would he be able to look at his treasures in peace knowing that he could protect the treasures he had gathered.

  Chapter 352 - Heaven’s Door

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  Chapter 352: Heaven’s Door

  Seated in the dim light of the room, Hui Yue was the most relaxed he had been since entering the grave. There was clearly no traps around him and bitingly cold Yin energy was pervasive in the room he was at.

  Sitting down, Hui Yue was completely submerged in the cold energy which rushed into his body. He knew that he should spend some time looking through the treasures he had obtained on the way; however, he was simply incapable of not absorbing the abundant energy into his body first.

  The energy had been stored within the room for thousands upon thousands of years, and the room had become so filled with energy that even just breathing caused quite a lot of energy to enter his body. It was as though he was able to absorb endless amounts of Yin energy. The energy that Hui Yue absorbed was so much that he felt his Yin Yang balance within his Wu Wei core slowly moving; it crept towards being in perfect equilibrium. This was something that he had wanted for a long time and it caused a great smile appeared on his face as he greedily absorbed the energy into his body.

  One day took another and soon three days had passed where Hui Yue had not moved an inch. He sat there unmoving as the air in the room changed. The first day it had been dense, filled with astonishingly cold Yin energy, but now there was a slight warmth to the air. A warmth which was pouring out of the young man slowly taking over the entire room.

  As the fourth day came to a close, Hui Yue opened his eyes and exhaled a stale breath of air. He had been fully focused on absorbing the Yin energy in the room and he had finally succeeded in absorbing it all.

  Deep in his eyes was an icy gleam which slowly melted as all the cold energy was claimed by the young man. A great smile spread on his face as he slowly rose from the ground. His entire body was bursting with energy. He was currently at the peak of the ninth star. He was so close to breaking through into the Emperor rank; so close that he could almost feel the abundant energy which would be his as soon as he managed to cross the final barrier.

  The Yin energy had not only managed to boost his strength tremendously, it also let him perfectly balance the energies within his consciousness. The Yin and Yang energies. He no longer had an imbalance like the one he experienced after absorbing the energy of the Jing family’s men.

  As he stood up, Hui Yue stretched his body before he picked up a few storage stones containing the many treasures he had grabbed on the way in.

  Looking at the room with the open door, he knew that the groups of experts were currently rushing towards him. They were rushing through one room after another to finally reach the inner area of the grave where he was located right now. When they made it here, it was likely that a fierce battle would occur, but it
was also possible that the Saints would team up to open the heavy door behind him.

  Sighing, Hui Yue sat down and slowly opened the storage stone then he picked up one item after another. The first thing he looked at was a leather scroll. Opening the scroll he found a painting of multiple beasts sealed by inscriptions. Looking at these sealing inscriptions he found that they were far different than any inscriptions he had seen before.

  ‘This seem to be some sort of soul shadows from another world,’ Lan Feng said slowly. ‘They appear differently from the soul shadows in our world, and not only that, their inscription patterns are also something I have never seen before.’

  ‘Then they are of no use to me,’ Hui Yue said dejectedly, but he was quickly rebutted by Lan Feng. ‘They are worth far more than soul shadows from our world!’ He exclaimed.

  ‘This inscription is a sealing inscription, something you should learn from. With it you might be able to seal living beings. And the best is that no one knows these inscription patterns. They will be unbreakable to everyone.’