Chapter 382 - 159: Celestial Patrol Bureau, Heaven and Earth as a Chessboard, Descendant of a Great Demon, Wang E Temple of the Underworld
Even if that being suddenly conjured up a Child of Destiny, a child of the world itself.
In today’s Da Yu, they wouldn’t be able to cause any real trouble!
And as it just so happened, of all the Great Provinces, Ling Province was the one he had focused on the most.
...
Yangshan Prefecture, the rear courtyard.
"So this is the sky at the very beginning of the Dayu New Calendar!"
Chen Shaoyou stood atop the eaves, gazing into the vast sky, his mood as clear and bright as the weather.
The body’s original owner had a solid foundation. Though he hadn’t reached the peak of the Divine Power Realm, he had the potential for a breakthrough.
With his own experience and insight, it had only taken him a short seven days to successfully break through.
An invisible Presence naturally formed around his body.
When a light breeze blew past, any dust it stirred up was repelled by this Presence.
Cultivators have no need to wash their clothes; their Magical Presence can ward off any approaching dust.
Unless they were injured, there was no need to change or wash their garments at all.
"Young Master, what are you doing up so high?"
In the courtyard, two servants exchanged wry smiles.
Their young master had changed drastically ever since he’d returned drunk that one time. First, he hadn’t left his room for seven days and seven nights. Afterward, he just stood on the roof for half the day as if he’d lost his mind.
"The higher you stand, the farther you see. What would you two know?"
"Go on about your business and stop bothering me!"
𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮
With a fluid movement, Chen Shaoyou climbed to the very top of the roof’s ridge.
Yangshan Prefecture—or rather, the Dingyang Marquis’s Mansion—was built to be extremely tall.
He was already at the highest point of the Marquis Mansion, so from there he could look down and see all of Yangshan Prefecture.
Yangshan Prefecture covered a vast area and was densely populated, so it was naturally considered prosperous.
To him, it was merely average, but the quaint, antique scenery was still a refreshing sight that made his eyes light up.
An entire epoch had passed; one could only imagine how much things had changed.
If not for the original owner’s memories, he feared he wouldn’t even be able to speak.
After watching for a while, he felt an itch to move. He leaped off the building, causing the two servants’ faces to drain of color as they screamed in terror.
"Tell the master I’m going out for a walk!"
He shoved the two servants aside, and with just a few quick shifts of his body, he was already out of the courtyard.
"Young Master, the master forbade you from leaving the mansion!"
The two servants were stunned for a moment before they panicked, shouting as they scrambled to follow him.
But with their mortal bodies, how could they possibly keep up with Chen Shaoyou?
Chen Shaoyou left the mansion with ease.
He walked down the street, finding novelty in everything. He would stop from time to time to touch this and look at that.
He bought things all along his route.
His successful breakthrough had given him a ravenous appetite. He had eaten his way down the street but still wasn’t full, so he found a tavern and strode inside.
He ordered several dishes and a catty of wine, then settled in by the window to slowly savor his meal.
Even now, Chen Shaoyou still felt as if he were in a dream.
In his past life, he had been utterly ordinary. Aside from his handsome face, he had nothing. His Martial Dao aptitude was merely average, and his Cultivation was considered quite low for the time—not at all noteworthy.
’How could something like time travel happen to me?’
’It just doesn’t make any sense!’
But over the past seven days, he had come to accept this new reality.
’In any case, I was all alone in my past life, with no ties or worries. It didn’t matter where I ended up.’
Now, as he drank his wine, he began to calculate what advantages he could gain from this transmigration.
His ultimate goal, of course, was to become a disciple of the Elder Celestial Master.
Nothing else mattered; when the apocalypse that would destroy the world arrived, only the Elder Celestial Master could survive it.
But before that, he had to become stronger himself.
Otherwise, he would never be able to compete with the Elder Celestial Master’s famously powerful disciple.
Wang Lingtian!
But separated by a gap of more than sixty thousand years, his knowledge of the current era was minuscule.
His only fragments of knowledge came from what he’d learned while desperately researching the Elder Celestial Master’s deeds and legends in a past bid to enter the Boxing Saint Daoist Temple.
’It’s currently the fifth year of the New Calendar. That means there are still ten years until the Elder Celestial Master’s first true public manifestation during the Netherworld Venerable Lord Sacrifice. Did any major events happen during those ten years?’
Chen Shaoyou racked his brain.
He wasn’t sure if it was because of his transmigration, but his memory had become incredibly clear, without the slightest detail missing.
Anything he tried to recall would appear in his mind with perfect clarity.
Unfortunately, he simply didn’t know that much. Beyond matters related to the Elder Celestial Master, his understanding of this world was worse than that of any random person on the street.
’The Netherworld Venerable Lord Sacrifice... the ten years leading up to it...’
Chen Shaoyou drank cup after cup of wine as he sorted through his memories. Gradually, he actually managed to piece a few things together.
His entire understanding of the Dayu Immortal Dynasty and the current era came from the legends of the Elder Celestial Master.
According to legend, while the Elder Celestial Master’s first public Manifested Saint appearance was during the Netherworld Venerable Lord Sacrifice, it wasn’t as if there were no other tales about him from before that event.
It was just that these tales were not strongly connected to the Elder Celestial Master, so they were not widely circulated.
Besides, they were all dismissed as mere rumors.
As it happened, he knew a few of them.
’Time truly can conceal everything...’
’If I hadn’t arrived in the twentieth epoch of the Dayu Immortal Dynasty, I never would have known that before the Elder Celestial Master achieved his Dao, someone had actually been able to suppress the Seven Heroes and Three Li.’
’Could it be that those two Venerables, Bai You and Hei Ming, were both in the Celestial Destiny Realm?’
The thought surfaced in Chen Shaoyou’s mind.
He truly had no idea that this era possessed such powerful individuals.
And yet, their Cultivation was so incredible.
Despite their impressive Cultivation, their role in the Elder Celestial Master’s legends was reduced to just a few words describing his first manifestation as a Saint during the Netherworld Venerable Lord Sacrifice.