Chapter 583 - 26: The Curtain Rises
South Sea, Putuo Mountain.
When Chi Songzi and Wu Luo found Fu Kui, he was standing on the cliff gazing at the South Sea.
This was the highest point of Putuo Mountain, and the only cliff not covered by the Purple Bamboo Forest. From there, you could clearly see the vast expanse of the South Sea in the distance.
"Are you Fu Kui?"
While Chi Songzi was still pondering, Wu Luo had already boldly walked up to the cliff.
The jagged cliffs and towering precipices were no different from flat ground for a Great Witch of Wu Luo’s caliber.
Seeing this, Chi Songzi could only sigh helplessly and immediately follow.
"Help me save someone."
Just as Chi Songzi was about to approach Wu Luo, he suddenly heard this sentence.
Before he could react, he saw Fu Kui turn around with a serious expression, gazing solemnly at both him and Wu Luo.
"I know the purpose of your journey."
"If you help me save someone, I promise to accompany you to Great Xia."
"Regardless of whether I eventually become the tenth Witch King, I am willing to assist Great Xia in the reform."
Fu Kui’s words were truly startling.
Chi Songzi and Wu Luo were stunned and speechless for a long time.
Until Wu Luo, with sharp eyes, noticed the Eight Trigrams Compass in Fu Kui’s hand and blinked in realization.
"That Tao Ancestor is truly remarkable..."
"Even though it was known that he spread the divination method of peering into destiny out there."
"But for you to divine such confidential information with just a simple Eight Trigrams Compass..."
"It seems your efforts and talent in divination are not inferior to Li Jingshu."
Chi Songzi also noticed the Eight Trigrams Compass in Fu Kui’s hand and immediately came to a sudden realization.
With Li Boyang continuously simplifying the Divination Method’s threshold.
Nowadays, in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, almost everyone can perform a bit of divination.
Especially after the widespread adoption of the Eight Trigrams Compass, even ordinary people without cultivation could achieve Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil.
Truth be told, if Great Xia could not carry out mass literacy like the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, Wu Xian would have already promoted the Eight Trigrams Compass internally in Great Xia.
"Who do you want us to help you save?"
Unlike the habitually daydreaming Chi Songzi, Wu Luo didn’t overthink it and asked directly.
But from his eager expression, it was clear that Wu Luo might not really care about Fu Kui’s answer.
He just wanted an excuse to unleash his suppressed fighting spirit.
"I want you to save the master of Putuo Mountain - Miaoshan."
Along the way, Chi Songzi and Wu Luo had already learned the story of the master of Putuo Mountain.
She was a benevolent God, seemingly born from a human Witch.
Just knowing this, Chi Songzi and Wu Luo decided almost without any hesitation to help.
"No problem, where is she now? How should we save her?"
Glancing helplessly at the impatient Wu Luo, Chi Songzi wanted to say that negotiations shouldn’t be like this.
But thinking about the experience in Gaotun Village, Chi Songzi felt he might not be much better, so he obediently kept quiet.
Anyway, their journey’s purpose had been achieved in one way or another.
"She should be near the Sea Eye of the South Sea now; I need to perform a detailed divination for the exact location."
"But time is pressing, and I’ve been waiting for you for quite some time; it would be best to get moving immediately."
"So we can discuss the specifics along the way, is that okay?"
Without considering the possibility of a trap, Wu Luo immediately agreed.
Despite seeming steady, the indecisive Chi Songzi also didn’t consider this issue and nodded in agreement.
Boom!
Thus, Fu Kui turned around first, transforming into a rolling thunder and leapt off the cliff.
Here, "rolling thunder" is not a metaphor but Fu Kui’s innate divine power as the Thunder Marsh God.
Sparks of electricity surged across the water’s surface, directly electrolyzing the seawater, and a burnt odor spread through the air.
From afar, a flash of lightning could be seen, quickly disappearing from everyone’s sight.
"Looks like he wants to test our skills!"
Immediately driven by competitive spirit, Wu Luo swiftly slit his palm and drew out a strangely shaped folding long knife.
In the next second, the blade’s surface projected the image of Fu Kui.
"Do you want to come with me?"
Turning to glance at Chi Songzi, Wu Luo received a shake of the head in response.
"Then I’ll go ahead first, remember to catch up!"
Without a moment’s hesitation, Wu Luo’s entire being seamlessly melded into the long sword, as if entering a realm distinct from reality.
——Qiluo Sword: Mirror Warp!
This oddly shaped folding long knife wasn’t initially a weapon.
It was the spine of an Evil God that Wu Luo forcibly extracted a century ago.
After a hundred years of forging and remolding, Wu Luo eventually transformed this spine into a weapon capable of traversing dimensions.
It’s a mirror dimension, a low-dimensional space akin to a shadow.
In that mirror dimension, the concept of time doesn’t exist, only reflections and projections do.
So once entering that dimension, time loses its meaning for Wu Luo.
Only when the corresponding reflections and projections reappear can Wu Luo escape the mirror dimension and re-enter the material realm.
Truth be told, this ability is well-suited for sealing and confinement.
But for the battle-hungry Wu Luo, he prefers combat over sealing techniques.
Therefore, this weapon, theoretically meant for sealing, became an instrument for freely slipping into other dimensions and launching surprise attacks.
At this moment, Wu Luo continuously warped through the mirror dimension, repeatedly appearing beside the thunder transformed Fu Kui.
By contrast, Chi Songzi’s methods seemed much more conventional.
"Whoosh!"
With a simple exhalation, the sound of wind and thunder surrounded Chi Songzi.
When he rode the wind into the air, his figure vanished within the raging wind, akin to those Celestial Gods, embodiments of natural disasters.
Where the wind blows is where Chi Songzi is.
This power of breaking the authority of Celestial Gods with a mortal body is the growth of Chi Songzi over hundreds of years of wandering.
Though not a Celestial God, he has stolen celestial authority with Celestial Human Technique.
More importantly, as Chi Songzi’s wind and thunder reverberated over the South Sea, the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi began converging abnormally.
This heralded the coming of a Celestial Tribulation, yet due to no target, the primordial qi was in disarray.
What should have been a natural Celestial Disaster became Chi Songzi’s advantageous battleground.
In an instant, Chi Songzi caught up with Fu Kui and Wu Luo, reaching them first even though he started later.
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