135 I am the Immortal Behind the Encounter (2)
“Sit down!” Dr. Sun waved at him to sit down. He took out a bottle of wine and poured a glass of wine for each of them.
He took a sip first, but shook his head and said, “The wine brewed with the berries in the forest is tasteless compared to the wine you brought back then.”
Jiang Ming pretended not to hear his fake nostalgia. He sat down with a smile and drank the wine in the glass.
“Tell me, Dr. Sun, what are you doing here?” Jiang Ming slammed the wine glass on the stone table and stared at Dr. Sun with burning eyes.
“Why am I here?” Dr. Sun smiled and said frankly, “I’m the immortal behind the encounter!”
Jiang Ming’s whole body trembled, and he stared at Dr. Sun in disbelief.
“How is that possible? That person is already dead!” He subconsciously tightened his grip on his blade.
“There are thousands of martial arts techniques in the world. Even if this world suppresses my power, it’s still easy for me to fool you martial artists.” Dr. Sun smiled, but then he seemed to remember how terrifyingly powerful Jiang Ming was, and his smile instantly disappeared. “But now, it’s no different from being dead.”
He shook his head helplessly.
Jiang Ming took a deep breath and calmed down.
He stared at Dr. Sun and in a deep voice, “What’s going on? Who are you?”
“I was only left with a broken body that was struggling to keep me alive. Everything seemed to have stopped for me. My memories had become fragmented, and sometimes I couldn’t tell day from night. I can’t even distinguish reality from my dreams,” Dr. Sun mumbled. “When you saw me back then, only a part of my memories had come back.”
“Stop speaking in riddles; tell me what you can remember.” Jiang Ming frowned.
Dr. Sun laughed and shook his head. “I only remember that it seemed to be more than a thousand years ago. I was seriously injured by the enemy and escaped to this world. With the help of my unique means, I used immortal cultivation techniques and killed many immortal cultivators who were chasing me. But in my memories, the enemy outside this world was terrifying. I didn’t dare leave this world anymore, so I found the Cloudy Dream Mountain Forest and hid here to recuperate. Sometimes I’m awake, sometimes I’m muddleheaded, and I’ve even lost a lot of my memories.”
He said it lightly. However, Jiang Ming was shocked.
If what Dr. Sun said was true, then he must have lived for at least a thousand years. His strength among the immortal cultivators was probably also terrifying. Then how ridiculously strong was the enemy who had seriously injured him?
Jiang Ming thought for a long time before he continued, “Then, what is going on with this world? And what’s the secret of the Cloudy Dream Mountain Forest?”
Dr. Sun glanced at his chest as if he were looking at the green wooden seal in Jiang Ming’s arms. Then he smiled and said, “You’ve experienced the terrifying power of this world?”
Jiang Ming nodded in silence.
“Actually, I don’t know the secret either.” Dr. Sun shook his head gently. “I only remember that I escaped into this world back then because I knew the rules of this place. I could kill all those who used immortal cultivation techniques. That was how I managed to escape with my life! But from what I can remember, this terrifying law has existed for more than a few thousand years. It’s so old that it can’t be traced back. Even the masters of the great sects in the immortal cultivation world who sit above the clouds will be killed if they enter this place to perform immortal cultivation.”
Jiang Ming’s eyelids twitched as he listened. He felt that this world getting more and more mysterious by the second.
“As for the Cloudy Dream Mountain Forest, there seems to be a big secret hidden within. However, with my injured body, I didn’t dare investigate further. I only treated this place as a blessed land where spiritual energy occasionally erupted. I paid a great price to set up a formation and slept in this source of spiritual energy to recuperate!”
Dr. Sun pointed behind him at the crack he had just walked out of, indicating that the source of the spiritual energy was in the crack.
“Every hundred years or so, the spiritual energy in the Cloudy Dream Mountain Forest will have a small eruption, but it only remains in this deep valley. Other than causing a few fire mayflies to mutate and then induce the birth of the fire cloud grass and the King of Medicine, there is no other major impact. Every few hundred years, there would be a huge explosion of spiritual energy, which would even affect the surrounding mountains and forests. Occasionally, the bursts of spiritual energy will overlap with each other.”
As Jiang Ming listened, he suddenly thought of the storm brought by the King of Medicine and the immortal encounter decades ago. That should have been the overlap period.
“I will only wake up from my deep sleep when the spiritual energy erupts on a large scale. Then, I will absorb the spiritual energy and repair my broken body. I will also leave an opportunity for those who come here by chance to help me find various rare treasures in the world to help me heal.”
Jiang Ming suddenly said, “Then, when the Grandmasters besieged this place, how did you escape?”
Although Dr. Sun’s methods were strange and unpredictable, since he did not want to fight to the death with Jiang Ming, it meant that there were still some restrictions in place for him. If he had been surrounded by those Grandmasters back then, he probably would not have been able to escape death.
“Hey, what siege? More than a hundred years ago, during the small explosion of spiritual energy, when Zhou Pingshi first came here to fight for the King of Medicine, he eyed this place with malice. I was woken up back then!”
Dr. Sun suddenly sneered, “A mere martial artist actually wanted to scheme against me! Of course, he slipped away in advance and spent a lot of effort to refine the corpse of an immortal cultivator, who had once intruded, into a puppet, placing it here to pretend it was the immortal behind the encounter!”