Chapter 145: Heading to the Starry Sky
Dark clouds like spilled ink hung low over the entire Highest Council Submarine City, and the air was filled with an incredibly oppressive sense of suffocation.
The thirty-six tall towers standing throughout the city, with their outer silver curtain walls reflecting distorted shadows, seemed to tremble in this heavy haze.
All the Returning Void Realm cultivators in the entire city were alarmed, and cultivators at the Combined Dao level and above felt as if a peerless saber light, capable of suppressing the Nine Heavens and illuminating ancient and modern times, had appeared before their eyes.
Some young Returning Voids were panicked, not understanding what had happened.
Fortunately, this situation did not last long.
As the dark clouds dispersed, the full moon and stars reappeared on the dome, and the oppressive feeling also dissipated.
At the same time, Xu Xing returned to the residence arranged by the Righteous Path Alliance for the Immortal Sect viewing envoys.
He saw that Yuan Jun had arrived early and was waiting here.
Seeing Xu Xing return, she nodded gently: "Dao Brother."
"Mm." Xu Xing walked over and sat across from her, then also looked out the window.
"After many years apart, Dao Friend Gu Mo has finally reached this step."
The aura pressure just now was undisguised, and Yuan Jun naturally also sensed Gu Mo's current state.
Only one step remained before breaking through the Immortal Gate.
But...
This step was not so easy to cross.
Moreover, the aura sensed during the day was even stronger than that of Dao Friend Gu Mo.
After a pause, Yuan Jun asked: "Was Dao Brother's trip this time smooth?"
"It was quite smooth." A seemingly ordinary green jade appeared in Xu Xing's hand, and he sighed: "Yuan used his Divine Ability to hide it among the dust in the gaps between the bricks in the study, yet it was still found."
Yuan Jun couldn't help but smile upon hearing this.
This situation was too common. Some cultivators would emerge from a period of seclusion only to find that their Mystic Realm or cave dwelling where they stored cultivation resources had been discovered and completely looted.
It was truly not easy for cultivators to hide things, let alone for a cultivator like Yuan, who had a considerable reputation and a high cultivation Realm.
"What did Yuan leave this time?"
"I haven't looked yet. After sensing Dao Friend Gu Mo's aura, I left that place first."
Saying this, Xu Xing handed over the green jade in his hand.
Yuan Jun paused, hesitated for two seconds, then reached out and took it, examining it before her eyes.
She saw that the square green jade was about an inch in length, its texture warm and delicate, like solidified spring rain, emitting a serene green hue.
The surface of the jade was smooth as a mirror, yet faintly visible were fine Texture.
Just from its appearance, this was just an ordinary green jade stone.
"Bashan and Chushui, a desolate land."
A voice sounded.
Is that the activation phrase?
Yuan Jun understood in her heart.
The method used to create this green jade was very ingenious, far surpassing the red jade from before.
Furthermore, if anyone attempted to bypass the mechanism set inside the green jade to open it, this green jade would directly self-destruct.
Of course, this was only for ordinary cultivators.
For her, bypassing that phrase was not difficult.
Yuan Jun handed the green jade back to Xu Xing, and then continued to look out the window. She had no intention of asking Xu Xing about the phrase just now.
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Below the Council Speaker's Tower, in the secret chamber.
Crystals of various colors quietly floated on the stone platform, but soon, one of the crystals suddenly began to tremble violently.
Two disheveled figures fell out from it, stumbled back a few steps, and then collapsed outside the secret chamber.
It was the Chairman and that middle-aged Combined Dao!
The Chairman's bamboo crown for tying his hair had fallen off, and he was now disheveled, completely lacking his previous composure.
The middle-aged Combined Dao's eyes were filled with panic, his fear not yet subsided.
However, the two only looked a bit dejected and were not injured.
"Hmph!"
With a cold snort, a tall and imposing man appeared in the secret chamber. Gu Mo held a long saber in his hand, his cold gaze sweeping over the two people in front of the secret chamber door.
The entire secret chamber seemed to become crowded because of his appearance.
But he said nothing more, his figure flickered, and he disappeared into another crystal.
Seeing this, the Chairman couldn't help but secretly groan.
Clearly, in the past, Dao Venerable Senior would only ask a couple of questions and then let people leave, but he never expected that today he would suddenly become concerned about the situation on the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield.
How unlucky!
"Council Speaker..." The middle-aged Combined Dao was a bit apprehensive.
"Not a single word of what happened today is to be spoken outside. I will make arrangements later!"
"Yes, yes..."
The middle-aged Combined Dao stammered, not daring to look at the Chairman at all.
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A cold wind howled, and strange purple mist filled the entire world.
In the hazy mist, faint, distorted, strange figures could be seen, as if countless insects were lurking, and rustling sounds continuously came from all directions.
The ground was also a very strange purple, and bizarre black plants like sawteeth twisted strangely, like tiny tentacles.
Stepping on them, the soft and slippery feeling was like stepping on a fungal mat made of some kind of flesh and blood.
Gu Mo's expression remained unchanged as he strode forward.
After walking for an unknown distance like this, the strange purple mist became increasingly thin, and the purple on the ground also gradually faded.
Finally, he arrived in front of a huge purple flesh mountain, where thick blood vessels intertwined and wrapped around the surface of the flesh mountain, gently pulsating.
It was as if the entire purple flesh mountain had a life of its own.
Gu Mo reached out and lifted the flesh curtain in front of him, which seemed to be woven from flesh and blood, and walked in.
Instantly, everything before his eyes changed.
Clouds and mist lingered, peaks and ridges rose and fell, waterfalls and springs flowed, clear to the bottom, converging into a jade-belt-like spiritual river, winding and flowing, nourishing the strange flowers and plants in the mountains.
Auspicious beasts leaped among the mountains and forests, and the calls of spiritual birds were pleasant to the ear, forming a vibrant picture scroll of an immortal's home.
The bizarre contrast was enough to make anyone's heart pound, but Gu Mo remained calm and continued to walk forward.
He walked across a winding nine-bend bridge.
At the end of the long bridge was a rather elegant waterside pavilion, with bamboo curtains hanging on all sides, and a slender figure sat within, quietly watching him.
"Greetings, Sister-in-law." Gu Mo clasped his fists in salute.
"What are you here for." The cold voice carried no warmth.
Inside the waterside pavilion was a woman dressed in simple linen clothes with an exquisite and perfect face, her hair like a waterfall, a few strands of black hair falling over her shoulders.
"I wish to go to the Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield, and I have come to inform Sister-in-law."
"The frontline battlefield is the responsibility of those from the Immortal Sect, what does it have to do with you?"
Gu Mo frowned, feeling very displeased in his heart.
But the person before him had a different status, so he had to suppress the emotions in his heart, but his voice ultimately became a little colder.
"The Starry Sky Frontline Battlefield is a major matter for our Human Clan, how can it be unrelated to me!"
"..." There was a moment of silence, and the woman lowered her gaze, "As you wish."
"Then I won't disturb you!"
With that, Gu Mo said no more unnecessary words, turned around, and left.
Perhaps because of his displeasure, he quickly left the Mystic Realm.
The woman remained motionless with her gaze lowered.
After a long time, she suddenly looked up at a certain spot and softly uttered two words.
"Sword Ancestor..."
Faintly, her exquisite and perfect profile suddenly wriggled, as if a ferocious and terrifying monster was hidden beneath the skin.
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