Chapter 380 - 159: Celestial Patrol Bureau, Heaven and Earth as a Chessboard, Descendant of a Great Demon, Wang E Temple of the Underworld
’Who is Su Bai!?’
At that moment, Chen Shaoyou was so horrified he almost leaped to his feet.
’Something’s wrong!’
’Something is very wrong!’
’Isn’t the Boxing Scripture Beginning Chapter a Cultivation Technique passed down by the Elder Celestial Master? Who in the world is this Su Bai!?’
’Could it be... that this is what was lost to history?’
After a long moment, Chen Shaoyou finally calmed down.
His era was a full sixty thousand years from this one. It wasn’t surprising that some things, or even some people, would be buried by the passage of time.
In fact, if the Boxing Saint Daoist Temple hadn’t survived into later ages, the legend of the Elder Celestial Master probably wouldn’t have been passed down for so long.
’But this still doesn’t make sense!’
’This man was actually the Elder Celestial Master’s master!’
’But why weren’t there any legends or records of him left behind in the Boxing Saint Daoist Temple?’
After he calmed down, a thought surfaced in Chen Shaoyou’s mind.
’The implications were terrifying!’
What could have caused the powerful Boxing Saint Daoist Temple to lose all records of its ancestral master?
Countless people had sought out the Elder Celestial Master’s traces—his whereabouts, his legends, his deeds—including the very successors of the Boxing Saint Daoist Temple...
And yet, not a single one of them knew that the Elder Celestial Master actually had a master.
Furthermore, this person was called the Boxing Saint Daoist. Clearly, he wasn’t just some childhood mentor.
He was a true master who had passed on the Dao!
The secret this implied was simply astounding!
Legend had it that the Elder Celestial Master was the strongest expert of all time, one who had supposedly shattered the shackles of life and death and reversed the cycle of yin and yang!
If he hadn’t wanted it, who could possibly have concealed information about his master?
’Or could it be...’
’Are my memories flawed!?’
As Chen Shaoyou’s thoughts raced, he broke out in a cold sweat and began to tremble uncontrollably.
He felt an invisible, terrifying pressure descend upon his heart, almost suffocating him.
’I can’t think about it. I can’t think about it anymore...’
𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶
Chen Shaoyou took several deep, shuddering breaths, casting all the distracting thoughts from his mind.
If a thought was too terrifying to contemplate, it was best not to contemplate it at all.
This was his personal philosophy.
He might as well start his Cultivation.
He had once been a Nine Tribulations Realm expert, so embarking on the path of Cultivation once more was treading a familiar path.
Whatever the truth was, he would only have a chance of learning it if he sought out the Elder Celestial Master, and he couldn’t do that until after he broke through to the Extraordinary Realm.
The original owner of this body had been stuck at the threshold of the Extraordinary Realm for years, but for Chen Shaoyou, it was nothing.
In the Future World, the Martial Dao was far more prosperous and advanced. He was well-versed and experienced, having studied numerous Cultivation Techniques and Divine Techniques.
Breaking through to the Extraordinary Realm would be almost trivially easy.
In fact, his own aptitude was only average, and he had started cultivating late, taking eleven years just to break through to the Extraordinary Realm.
Meanwhile, the body’s original owner—someone the Elder Celestial Master himself had praised for his excellent talent—had cultivated for thirteen years and still hadn’t even completed the Divine Power Realm.
His current Cultivation was at the Third Layer of the Divine Power Realm.
This wasn’t a disparity in talent, but a difference between eras.
It was said that in this era, the number of Cultivators who reached the Ascension Realm could be counted on two hands.
But in his era? There were at least ten times as many Cultivators in the Ascension Realm, if not more.
According to the records, a Dao Palace Realm True Master in this era could establish their own sect within a single province.
But in his time, one had to reach the Nine Tribulations Realm to even be qualified to establish a sect!
Only Cultivators at the Celestial Destiny Realm, one of the Three Immortal Realms, had the power to dominate the world!
EXHALE—
INHALE—
Chen Shaoyou’s mind grew serene as he cast aside all distracting thoughts. With each inhale and exhale, the surrounding Heaven and Earth Essence Qi surged, and he began his Cultivation.
...
’Hm?’
In the Da Yu Capital City, atop the God-Sealing Platform, Su Bai felt a stir and raised his eyes to gaze into the distance.
As far as the eye could see, the sky was a pristine, cloudless blue, and the great sun bathed the world in endless light.
His vision was so incredible that even in broad daylight, he could pierce the void and see the endless stars beyond.
’A new aura has appeared. Who could it be?’
’Is this a consequence of that rain of fiery meteors?’
Su Bai mused to himself.
His Dao was unlike that of anyone else in this world. Ever since cultivating two Immortal Grade Techniques, he found that even without practicing the arts of Divination and Deduction, the slightest stir in his heart allowed him to capture certain information from the void.
When the mind is a bright mirror, every speck of dust is revealed.
Every thought is bound to have an echo.
Within the range covered by his Divine Thoughts, any person or event that held enmity, killing intent, or even just significance for him would cause a stir in his heart.
And just now.
His heart had been stirred.
As Su Bai murmured to himself, ripples spread through the depths of his gaze.
A ray of light burst forth from between his eyebrows, and faintly, three pure flowers seemed to flicker into existence above his head.
Three Flowers Gathering at the Top!
This was a manifestation of powerful Divine Thoughts.
Immediately after, wisps of hazy Immortal Qi began to rise slowly around his body.
HUMMM!
In an instant, Su Bai’s consciousness seemed to soar beyond the highest heavens. It expanded infinitely, as if to fill the entire world between heaven and earth.
For a moment, myriad auras flickered into existence across the vast land.
Layer after layer of Spiritual Qi and Essence Qi were peeled back from the void.
Faintly, it seemed as if Su Bai’s Heart Spirit had been amplified ten millionfold.
It seemed that with a single turn of his thoughts, he could perceive the minds of every person in the world.
He knew this was an illusion.
Even with the enhancement from the 10th Layer of the Dragon and Phoenix Immortal Scripture, which had elevated his Divine Thoughts, they were still not powerful enough to bear the minds and thoughts of every person on this land.
What he could sense were all the people who, since his arrival in this world, had borne him malice, held killing intent, plotted against him, discussed him, speculated about him, or revered him.